The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

Yorkielass

I found a really random CD on the 'stuff to be got rid of' at work and Music magpie offered me a good amount for that so it boosted the rest of the 30ps! I went through quidco but thanks for the tip about using a jiffy bag much easier.

In today:
Red magazine, just treat myself to a magazine once in a while and used up a WHSmith gift card, so that's out I suppose, got the Hobbs voucher with it so look forward to spending that and a few pounds at some point.
A few bits for my music group
Valentine's day card for OH

I went to the retail park on my own didn't even go in Boots or any clothes shops - that wouldn't have happened a few years ago!

FelinePrincess

Yorkielass wrote: »

I went to the retail park on my own didn't even go in Boots or any clothes shops - that wouldn't have happened a few years ago!

Isn't de-cluttering also a great way of saving money?! I have completely cured my shopping addiction as a result of realising how much stuff I have that I don't need, and fear of bringing any more things into the house! I used to have a constant need to shop and now even if I see something I like I just don't have any desire for new things.

Only managed to declutter various empty bottles into the recycling this evening but have listed our tv stand on ebay this evening which already has a few watchers - will be putting the tv on the wall when the brackets arrives in a day or 2.

GreyQueen

ragnbone wrote: »

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

Thanks for the reminder, Ragnbone; I've got the mini cartridges which came pre-installed with my new printer last March and were long since used up and replaced with full-sized ones. Can get them into a c.s recycling bin today. Wonder what else can go (casts wandering eye round a very small flat.....)

Anyone else have things like this; rough notes from a once-in-a-life-time trip which I haven't finished typing up, which are due to be combined with paper bumpf from same trip into a scrapbook? Once I've finished, the notebook can be shredded and fed to the Compost Dalek and the non-used bits of bumph recycled. Trip was Dec 2006 btw.

Plus I have 9 plaster cherubs and several sewing projects.....

GreyQueen

FelinePrincess wrote: »

Isn't de-cluttering also a great way of saving money?! I have completely cured my shopping addiction as a result of realising how much stuff I have that I don't need, and fear of bringing any more things into the house! I used to have a constant need to shop and now even if I see something I like I just don't have any desire for new things.

UOTE] That is soooo true. Normal people go "up the city" empty handed and come back with shopping bags, and I'm doing the same but in reverse. When I drop a bag of useful-but-not-to-me stuff at the c.s., I feel as if I am physically lighter and also that I've just got away with something, almost as if I expect them to run up the road after me, yelling "Oi, you can't leave that here." :rotfl:I'm selective, wouldn't give them anything which wasn't good enough to sell, but still have this feeling. Mind you, carboot season will be upon us soon and that's never good. Have reached the point where there are more things I don't want than otherwise. I think a lot of people are feeling likewise, realising that being on the consumer-go-round is ultimately unsatisfying and that it isn't a case of who dies with the most toys wins.

funnyflipp

Reporting in for the weekend

1 box left over from Christmas!
1 Jacket
1 bin full of makeup from DD room
14 old magazines

Not much on this week for decluttering as I'm manically busy may do some more on Thursday

phizzimum

GreyQueen wrote: »

When I drop a bag of useful-but-not-to-me stuff at the c.s., I feel as if I am physically lighter and also that I've just got away with something, almost as if I expect them to run up the road after me, yelling "Oi, you can't leave that here." .

I know I feel that way too! It was so lovely when I dropped a bag off at a CS the other day and they actually thanked me for it!

GreyQueen

This thread is inspiring me. After my earlier admission that I still hadn't turned my Dec 2006 trip notes into typing so I could make my souvenir scrapbook and discard the roughs, I decided that I needed to get a grip on this. Got the kitchen timer on for 15 minutes and typed notes until it rang and am determined to keep at it until I have finished and can then discard the roughs.

Slight confession. I've had the notebook on my desk for ages and was sure it was the Dec 2006 trip but it was actually the Dec 2003 one. The shame. The shame. Seven years and counting is serious procrastination. And it also means that Dec 2006's trip notes and bumf are awaiting the same treatment.........It'll be such a good feeling when this is all done and I have my lovely scrapbooks.

Off the premises this morning will be;

2 printer cartridges for charitable recycling.

1 dead biro, in the bin.

20 sheets of scrap paper, into a scratch pad for work, which will then go out via their confidential shedding.

morganlefay

Greyqueen you do cheer me up, thankyou ! When I first (ages ago now) decided to take stuff to a carefully chosen CS ( a charity I liked and far enough from home so I wouldn't see my stuff ever again) I called in and asked if they welcomed donations. I had done my hair properly and put on makeup ( I can look a bit scruffy without those things) and the woman looked me up and down and snootily asked 'What sort of things ?' down her nose at me. (It was nice unworn clothes, a v nice unused handbag, books etc etc - ie really nice, clean stuff I could probably have sold very easily on e bay) I was so cross I just left. HOWEVER I sent OH ( a good-looking 'older' bloke) with several bags of stuff and the ladies in the same shop positively FAWNED on him (I bet they fluttered their greying eyelashes and simpered) so now I always send him lest a snooty woman asks me what I think I'm doing leaving them stuff. It works well - he LOVES taking stuff out of the house and I don't have to run the gauntlet of those ridiculous women any more.
After I posted yesterday I filled two more binbags with out of date food - SOOOO wasteful, but, like you, resolve not to hoard food in case of nuclear disaster (would one want to eat a ton of rancid nuts anyway) and to store my spare food in the shops.
I feel good today and have resolved not to lurk but to play nicely with you cheerful declutterers if you'll let me join your gang.

imataloss

Good Morning All

Well I managed to empty one carrier bag yesterday. It was stored on top of my work storage drawers. Can`t believe I found so many receipts which have now been shredded and ticket stubs from 4 years ago. Why do I keep them? :eek:

Was hoping to do some of the ironing mountain before work today but have been having problems with my right hand. It`s been very painful for a few days so didn`t want to put any more pressure on it.

Have this afternoon off work but am going out to my sons graduation so no decluttering for me today. Will have to make up for it tomorrow.

Yorkielass

FelinePrincess wrote: »

Isn't de-cluttering also a great way of saving money?! I have completely cured my shopping addiction as a result of realising how much stuff I have that I don't need, and fear of bringing any more things into the house! I used to have a constant need to shop and now even if I see something I like I just don't have any desire for new things.

FelinePrincess wrote: »

That is soooo true. Normal people go "up the city" empty handed and come back with shopping bags, and I'm doing the same but in reverse. When I drop a bag of useful-but-not-to-me stuff at the c.s., I feel as if I am physically lighter and also that I've just got away with something, almost as if I expect them to run up the road after me, yelling "Oi, you can't leave that here." :rotfl:I'm selective, wouldn't give them anything which wasn't good enough to sell, but still have this feeling. Mind you, carboot season will be upon us soon and that's never good. Have reached the point where there are more things I don't want than otherwise. I think a lot of people are feeling likewise, realising that being on the consumer-go-round is ultimately unsatisfying and that it isn't a case of who dies with the most toys wins.

Glad it's not just me - I do reverse shopping quite a lot at the moment, leave the house with more stuff than I come back with be it returns, recycling, charity donations or things to post from ebay etc sales.

I used to buy odd bits and pieces all the time whilst killing time at this retail park in between work and my rehearsal, but now I'd rather have the space at home and the money should we actually move to buy the best new house possible.

1 little out today so far: mini tube of conditioner used up!

Also rounded up all my silver this morning and so tonight will go through it all and work out what I want/don't want - may do a bit of swapping with chains and stuff and then hopefully I'll end up with some jewellery I want to wear and some bits I can send off and get a few pounds for.

The clear up is catching at work now too - oldest thing found in clearout today at work from 1996!