The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

phizzimum

ok progress report

1-4 naff fridge magnets binned (the less magnets I have the less bits of paper will clutter up fridge door)
5. thank you card from friend (bin) sounds heartless, but it's been on windowsill for a while now and it's not the sort of card that needs to be kept forever
6. packet of pencils found in bedroom drawer (put in pencil pot and packaging binned
7. instructions from hair styling gadget (bin(
8. random bit of cardboard (bin)

nearly there!

GreyQueen

whitewing wrote: »

Did anyone watch CSI last night? That was enough to put you off clutter! (The CSI team actually stepped on a decomposing body as they couldn't see it in all the mess in the house). It was interesting too.

Ewww, that's nasty, glad I don't have a telly (dejunked it in 1987). There was a little old lady in my hometown when I was growing up who had a cottage right on the pavement in the town centre. Evereyone could see that she was disappearing under mounds of rubbish; there were piles of things like biscuit wrappers creeping up inside the windows. Well ,the inevitable happened, and she had a house fire. She got out unhurt but the place was demolished and is still an empty lot over 30 years later. It was the talk of the town; they found 800 empty milk bottles in her tiny back yard, she just used to hurl them out the back door when she'd finished with them.

(insert small meditative pause) Never ever let me go the same way PLEEEEESE !

charlie-chan

We tidied the living room and the cupboard where the tumble dryer is yesterday. We can finally see the top of it .

phizzimum

9. old sweets (bin)
10. nail files to appropriate place and packaging in bin
11. old receipts from purse (to burn)
12. bit of paper with voucher code (used)

yay! feel like I've actually achieved something today!

TaupeTortoise

Well done everyone.

I sold a DVD on amazon the other day and sent it off in a jiffy bag that a parcel for me had arrived in that morning.

I am also trying to file my admin on the day it arrives.

Cuts out having a huge pile of it.

candygirl

Decluttered my dressing table and hung all my jewellery up, on my new mirror hook:j:j
This and the flylady thread, are really spurring me on these past 2 weeks:D

NicNocs

TaupeTortoise wrote: »

Well done everyone.

I am also trying to file my admin on the day it arrives.

I remember reading in a decluttering book once that " you should only ever handle a piece of paper once".....ie: deal with it as soon as you receive it and then file/shred/recycle. If only I could follow this excellent advice!

BettiePage

Didn't do any today. Instead I bought an easiyo and some new bedding. Will crack on with it again tomorrow. Promise!

candygirl

NicNocs wrote: »

I remember reading in a decluttering book once that " you should only ever handle a piece of paper once".....ie: deal with it as soon as you receive it and then file/shred/recycle. If only I could follow this excellent advice!

I've read that too:D.Fab advice but hard to stick to;)

TaupeTortoise

NicNocs wrote: »

I remember reading in a decluttering book once that " you should only ever handle a piece of paper once".....ie: deal with it as soon as you receive it and then file/shred/recycle. If only I could follow this excellent advice!

If you are guilty of handling paper too much put a little red dot on the top corner every time you touch every sheet. If it looks like it has measles you have an admin process problem!