The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

Yorkielass

Got rid of all my pending bits today and also bought in a pile of cds to check online at lunchtime - works out almost 50p each from music magpie so just need to find a box (have one at home) and send those off soon.

Read bits on here about selling silver and so as I was getting ready this morning I found a few old chains and such and will have a proper look tonight - I don't wear gold gold (even my rings are white gold) so thought I wouldn't have anything to sell but it seems I do - will have another look this week and try and get a little lot together for Hattons as read good things about them here.

So my targets by Friday afternoon are:

1. Find box and send cds off to Music magpie
2. Find any more silver and decide what I'm going to send off and do that
3. Put away the stuff on my bookshelves - or if I need to find more storage for it all try and sort that
4. Stuff under my desk!
5. Try and get books to book shop - not sure this will happen though.

Then I'm away overnight on Friday and will start my weekend tidying on Saturday afternoon!

cat4772

I really need to join this; we used to store things in the attic but when we had the attic converted we did a little decluttering and moved everything else into the garage... SIX years ago:eek:. We then ignored the converted attic until we finished the decorating and had carpets laid in 2009. I went up there this weekend and was dismayed at the lack of visible floor space in either bedroom as there is so much stored up there, as well as in our bedroom and the garage. Thank goodness for stone steps otherwise I'm sure the cellar would be filled to the brim with things to be stored.

As I'm expecting baby #2 in July I'm going through DDs old clothes. From just the 0-3 month boxes, we managed to half fill a bin bag with clothes for fabric extraction / binning. I also went through my wardrobe and have binned 3 bin bags of clothes that have seen better days and are too tired to give to charity. I have a suitcase filled with clothes to keep and another suitcase of clothes for the charity shop (still good condition but I'll not want to wear post-baby).

I also went through some paperbacks and managed find 60 for giving to the charity shop... strangely the number of books doesn't seem to have reduced so I'll be decluttering some more of those next weekend.

The finished result is still VERY cluttered (and I didn't even go near the garage) but I'm determined to get at least one bag of books and one bag of clothes to the charity shop each weekend until I can actually see carpet again.

Cat.xx

mummyroysof3

Hubby has taken a black bag upstairs....im not if i should be worried or excited :eek:

yesterday i cleaned behind the raidiator in our room and the tops of the wardrobes, i am hoping he sorting a box of stuff that was up there and his bedside drawers i dropped hints about:D

FelinePrincess

GreyQueen wrote: »

FelinePrincess has made my mind up for me; the salad spinner shall go today with the other stuff. Had a dither as Mum gave it to me but I told myself that she did that because she didn't use it either, and she doesn't even need to know it's not on the premises...

:T

Yorkielass wrote: »

Got rid of all my pending bits today and also bought in a pile of cds to check online at lunchtime - works out almost 50p each from music magpie so just need to find a box (have one at home) and send those off soon.

Read bits on here about selling silver and so as I was getting ready this morning I found a few old chains and such and will have a proper look tonight - I don't wear gold gold (even my rings are white gold) so thought I wouldn't have anything to sell but it seems I do - will have another look this week and try and get a little lot together for Hattons as read good things about them here.

So my targets by Friday afternoon are:

1. Find box and send cds off to Music magpie
2. Find any more silver and decide what I'm going to send off and do that
3. Put away the stuff on my bookshelves - or if I need to find more storage for it all try and sort that
4. Stuff under my desk!
5. Try and get books to book shop - not sure this will happen though.

Then I'm away overnight on Friday and will start my weekend tidying on Saturday afternoon!

Your cds must be better then mine - mine went for an average of 30p each! I just put mine in a jiffy bag to send them which. Still waiting to be paid, although they emailed to confirm they have received them. Btw, not sure if you aware but if you go through topcashback for music magpie you get a bit extra

Decluttered 4 ebay parcels today but I am going to collect my first ever item received off freecycle in a bit - a wooden curtain pole so better get on with some de-cluttering tonight to balance it out! Have listed a george forman fat grilling machine on freecycle and will box up all the books off the bookshelf later ready to paint one section of the living room

elaine12022

morganlefay wrote: »

[Just going to read a few pages here first as encouragement, I always feel a lot more motivated when I see how well everyone else is doing

(Whispers) 'Hello !' I have such a lot of clutter that I can't read this thread very often because I get depressed by all the things people have done and not motivated at all, but we have a builder coming to rip out our disgusting shower room and to get in and out he will have to go through my utility room which WAS full of boxes and bags of out of date food, spices, disintegrating shop poly bags etc etc. I have spent all morning hurling nasty food and stuff into binbags and OH has just taken THREE to the tip. I have scrubbed floor and found an empty cupboard which was obscured by bags of old stuff. I feel so very pleased with myself I had to go to sleep for a bit but am now going to go back and scrub the filthy floor and clear the sink for builder to use. You have no idea (or perhaps you do !) how proud of myself I feel !!!!:T[/QUOTE]

Welcome,morganlefay. I think we do know how proud of yourself you are, you have done really well. :beer: I hope the building work goes well, that will make a difference after it's done to how you feel. Our living room is now so different I can't get over it. Still a lot of sorting to do though..

OH took a bag to the CS today, I've caught up a bit with the washing up, and brought a few more things from the dining room back to the living room. Debating whether to vention out tonight. Do I enjoy a couple of hours home alone or go down the road to Cross Stitch club? (if it's not pouring with rain, i might give it a go, even just to see people)

Penelope_Penguin

PenPen's 100 in 10 Challenge - part 2

Day 1; Mon
1. DS's old wallet to charity bag
2. jar of bitter nuts to compost and jar recycled
3. droopy flowers to compost
4. tulip bulbs that were forgotten planted - they're sprouting so I'm hoping for the best
5 - 6. 2 items to Freecycle
7.

ragnbone

and the little things count - posted an empty printer cartridge to a charity. It'd only been sitting around for a year...

phizzimum

Hi everyone! just checking in to see how you're all doing - better than me I think! Got a busy few days ahead and also have a bad cold (need to declutter that asap) so don't think I'll get much done till Friday, but trying hard to do little bits and bobs on the way - sachets of toiletries things like that

bonsibabe

Day 1

1-6 - bags of carp for the bin
7 - bag of newspapers and mags for recycling
8 - one pile of shredding from hubby
9 - box of cardboard for recycling
10 - broken tv to recycling centre
11-13 - another couple of bags of plastic for recycling centre

Day 2

14-15 - 2 bags of carp from car
16-19 - 4 big envelopes of junk mail for survey company

Feeling rather pleased with myself!:j

mineallmine

Wow, everyone is doing really well!!

2 x carrier bags are by the front door ready to go into the car boot, ready to be dropped off.

Finally beginning to catch up with the clothes mountain of washing.

I've done an exceedingly good job of decluttering a tin of Cadburys chocolate biscuits - a christmas pressie. Yum! It's hard work but someone's got to do it...