The Great Declutter Part 2

chuggingtongirl

IN
Food shopping
some gifts bought for my children

OUT
Wrapping paper
birthday gift delivered to a friend
some ebay parcels
the recycling for collection next week
a few bin bags of rubbish
Loads of old paperwork which needed sorting!

beautiful_ravens

In-
Paper electric bill saying Ive paid off the debt and am £50 in credit - hurrah, finally! :beer: :jturning the immersion heater off really does work!!:money:

OUT-
2 children! [temporarily]
Now decluttering under stairs -
Eight pairs of shoes/slippers in bin [might burn the burnable ones]
Bits of rubbish
Old and useless kite
Plastic bags to be recycled

Found a mouse trap and about 15 pairs of shoes which dont fit anyone [ebay] also found loads of coppers - money, not policemen.

JayneC

In only food today

Out managed to find the floor in DS2's room today!!! So all sorts of rubbish from the floor...

Finally took 3 bags of non clothing stuff to charity shop - that nobody on freecycle wanted - think they only want fridges and TV's these days!

Big bag of clothes went to charity collection yesterday too.

Getting there slowly

jtb2412

Been AWOL a bit lately but working hard so not really had much time to do anything.

2 more weeks of work and I'm a lady of leisure :j so there will be lots of decluttering then !

We've been in the loft today (I had to find my old tax return as IR sent me a letter saying I have to file a return even though I've not been self employed for 4 years :rolleyes: - they keep telling me I don't have to do a return but then send me reminders and threaten me with the £100 fine :mad:). It didn't take long but a bit of a hassle. Anyway, turned a negative into a positive and got down our old bike leathers and will be listing them on Ebay tomorrow - 1 box of clutter gone from the loft :T. There was also some old paperwork up there that will be set alight tomorrow - 2 boxes of clutter gone from the loft . An old teaset was found lurking at the back so that's box number 3. Only about 20 more to go .

Nothing 'in' today other than a bit of post but duly dealt with and filed where appropriate.

Enjoy your evening guys n gals :beer:

Spendaholic_Chick

More ins and outs!

IN:
- temporary wardrobe collected from fellow freegler - I thought it was a wardrobe tidy which I desperately needed, so not sure if I'm keeping it
- pound shop visit - tripod for camera, rechargeable batteries, maltesers (will be on 'out' list tonight!), annual for DS' birthday, shower hose and pasta.


OUT:

- Old work laptop (put in car ready to take back on Monday)
- weekend suitcase collected by another freegler

mavvysmum

Great thread, can I join in please?

IN
Box of locusts for our leopard gecko Tony
Letter from swedish penfriend I've been writing to since I was a teenager

OUT
Old newspapers and magazines in recycling - got some more gossip mags to have one last flick through then will take them into work on Monday for the girls in the office to read.
Sorted through box where I keep all instruction manuals/receipts for appliances we own, and got rid of anything relating to things we no longer own.
Some fake flowers that were looking naff - bin
A broken rifle scope - hubby sold his air rifle a while ago - bin
Two broken socket multipliers - bin

Next plan of action - the dreaded kitchen cupboards!

SugarSpun

Hello

I've been a bit rubbish about decluttering recently but here's today:

In:
post (all dealt with)
groceries (mostly needed)

Out:
8 ebay parcels
2 letters
1 mountain of unnecessary paperwork

Pending:
5 bags of rubbish (CBA dragging it all down the stairs)
1 bag books (sold locally)
1 bag baby clothes (also sold locally)
1 broken pressure cooker
1 broken electric fan

mineallmine

In = clothes, so immediately started sorting out the equivalent numbers of clothes to go. Just need to find a casual top and a jacket/coat that need to go. Its a strict one in, one goes basis!:cool: So I've not counted these towards my target, as stuff had come in. Firm but fair.:p

Today I used up and got rid of:
- 3 toiletries: body lotion, shampoo, eye drops (recycled packaging)
- 2 bare essentials brushes (charity)

So 5 things gone. Hurrah! Am behind on my target to getting rid of 300 things. But have got rid of nearly 150 things so far this month! Not running out of things to get rid of, running out of energy! I have 3 bags of stuff to get rid of in bedroom/spare room.

mineallmine

Hey loopychriss, I know what you mean, as I dont count every single thing as an item gone either. So a batch of papers counts as one item that sort of thing. Pushes us that bit harder eh.

Good to see so many being able to donate stuff to people who need it.

Well done to the person who posted their pics above. Great after shot too.

MsRed1

Decluttering going well. I really need to be honest about the stuff I need to keep: I've got loads of DVDs taking up a lot of space. I will sort out the ones to keep and put the rest on Freecycle. I found some cassettes:rotfl: :rotfl: Haven't had a cassette player for years.

My latest fetish is usb cables. Why? I don't know.The only appliance I have that required a usb cable is a printer.:rotfl::rotfl: