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The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

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  • Have a look out for the thread "Crazy 2011 clothes challenge"

    Lula Hula is one who keeps us all in check - all of us have a budget suited to each of us of how much we can spend on clothes each year - mine is as last year £100 - its a great way of keeping a check on more stuff coming into the house and makes you look at your wardrobe as your own boutique :)

    right "birthday blitz" - one thing out for every year - might be here for a while.....lol
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  • mollythewestie
    mollythewestie Posts: 1,929 Forumite
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    edited 10 February 2011 at 12:51PM
    Good morning,
    I haven't decluttered anything since well before christmas (The shame:o) apart from the usual mountain of packaging and wrapping that accumulates during the festive period. So really need to get back into clearing the house.

    Ok, I'll admit that what really got me moving was a programme about a hoarder, and I realised I could end up with a house like that, which gave me a kick up the backside :eek::o .


    So yesterday I decluttered the fridge of any way past its best veg and jars that had been open too long. - one bag full in food recycling bin

    Newspaper and junk mail - Straight into recycling bin

    EDIT: one old faulty laptop and mountain of computer bits and bobs. - on ebay and will sell on saturday (I can't wait to get these out of the house as it takes up soooo much room!)
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  • I've just decluttered a pile of clothes that have been there for sometime in order to get to the wardrobe :rotfl:.

    I now have a clothes pile for OH to sort through and a bag to be chucked once he's added his clothes.

    There are still some plastic bags left to clear out (old sheets etc) and my massive clothes pile.

    Still, it's a start :D
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  • Kaz2904
    Kaz2904 Posts: 5,797 Forumite
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    Well, I'm feeling meh so I've rung work to say I won't be in tonight. DS is off school again today as he's still not right. I might actually get round to listing my stuff on ebay tonight but I'll see how I feel later on. Really I just want to crawl into my bed and stay there for ever!
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  • ragnbone wrote: »
    Some of you have already mentioned that you have had similar experiences. Do you have an unexpected by product of all this decluttering? I'd love to hear about them.

    For me the main unexpected by-product is curing my shopping addiction as mentioned a few pages back, apart from that I'd say I am probably a bit happier - a cluttered house really does make you fed up!
    Have a look out for the thread "Crazy 2011 clothes challenge"

    Lula Hula is one who keeps us all in check - all of us have a budget suited to each of us of how much we can spend on clothes each year - mine is as last year £100 - its a great way of keeping a check on more stuff coming into the house and makes you look at your wardrobe as your own boutique :)

    right "birthday blitz" - one thing out for every year - might be here for a while.....lol

    That sounds like a good idea - I'll have a look for the thread and I might join in :)


    I've almost finished cleaning and de-cluttering the kitchen, got rid of various plastic tubs for recycling and empty egg boxes are now stacked up neately ready to be passed on to someone who will use them. Given my george forman grilling machine a good clean ready to be collected by a freecycler and done the washing up, quite tempted to have a lie down now and leave the rest till later...
  • Whoohoo "birthday blitz" done and dusted and in the bag

    1 Wine bottle
    2 wrapping plastic
    3 freebie napkins
    4 cd pen
    5 2 broken candy canes
    6 3 old cards
    7 2 light bulbs
    8 2 plastic bangles
    9 3 broken pencils chewed
    10 half a eraser
    11 3 batteries
    12 2 screws(loose.lol)
    13 1 button (keeping for craft)
    14 paperwork,various
    15 2 slices toast(well hungry work:o)
    16 1 empty bleach bottle
    17 broken ice pop mould
    18 dead coriander plant
    19 dead lime
    20 empty paracetamol packet
    21 foundation tube
    22 2 nearly full boxes candy canes(give to teams at footy training tonight)
    23 10 receipts
    24 pile of stamps(to Dad who collects them)
    25 2 pebbles(?)
    26 1 curtain ring
    27 The letter "P" (?)
    28 half doz sticky mc D's old monopoly stickers
    29 1 bell
    30 5 plastic flower tags
    31 1 odd earing
    32 1 glases cloth
    33 1 old credit card
    34 1 old bottle opener
    35 2 ood sachets of yeast
    36 1 girly hair grip
    37 1 box of balloons (to friend)
    38 1 broken zip
    39 1 piece of lego(of course)
    40 2 corks
    41 3 broken dog toys (of which has been taken out of bag by dog:o)
    42 1 broken key ring

    All either binned,recycled returned to owners or re homed.
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  • BettiePage
    BettiePage Posts: 4,627 Forumite
    edited 10 February 2011 at 2:30PM
    BettiePage wrote: »
    Didn't do any today. Instead I bought an easiyo and some new bedding. Will crack on with it again tomorrow. Promise!
    Ok, charity stuff dropped off at the local hospice shop (pork, stuffing, applesauce and gravy bap picked up from local butchers on the way back).

    Bathroom is all neat. I can almost see the dining room table too. Kitchen cupboards are next I think.
    Will leave the dark recesses under the stairs for tomorrow. :eek:


    Car also cleaned inside and out.
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  • Yorkielass
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    Great birthday blitz deebiedeejay - happy birthday!

    At lunchtime I posted out:
    1 book sold on Green Metropolis last night
    1 final ebay sale of the week
    17 items of silver to Hattons

    Tomorrow I have the day off, but then a Brownie sleepover tomorrow night/Saturday day so that's going to negate the benefit of the day off I think!

    Anyway before I go out tomorrow I hope to:
    Put the bits away in my childhood box that I meant to do at the weekend
    Tackle the stuff under my desk!
    Try and finish sorting the guiding related stuff which has taken over the settee rather a lot.

    Then going to attempt to take the books to the bookshop after I finish on Saturday again and find 5 more things for ebay that I don't mind starting at 99p!

    Need to do our accounts again too - trying to keep on top of them better atm.

    Happy decluttering everyone!
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  • GreyQueen
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    How lovely! A friend tried to give about 500 children's books in excellent condition to her local school & library and they refused! :mad:
    :) That's absolutely disgusting. I bet your friend was so p*ssed off.
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  • Eltee12
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    edited 10 February 2011 at 4:12PM
    Afternoon All

    On 17th January I wrote....
    Eltee12 wrote: »


    Am going to try the 50 things over the weekend this week, as suggested by mineallmines.

    ....oops, never got roun[STRIKE]t[/STRIKE]d to it. Will be having a go this weekend instead. Watch this space......

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