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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.....lolCrazy Clothes Challenge 2012 £57.20/£100,CCC 2013 £68.67/£100 ,CCC 2014 £94.32/£100
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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!)Value of prizes 2010 - 2017: £8374 Wins 2022: Magic set
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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 startCompetition Wins:
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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!Debt: 16/04/2007:TOTAL DEBT [strike]£92727.75[/strike] £49395.47:eek: :eek: :eek: £43332.28 repaid 100.77% of £43000 target.MFiT T2: Debt [STRIKE]£52856.59[/STRIKE] £6316.14 £46540.45 repaid 101.17% of £46000 target.2013 Target: completely clear my [STRIKE]£6316.14[/STRIKE] £0 mortgage debt. £6316.14 100% repaid.0
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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!debbiedeejay wrote: »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...0 -
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.Crazy Clothes Challenge 2012 £57.20/£100,CCC 2013 £68.67/£100 ,CCC 2014 £94.32/£100
*Frugal Living Challenge 2012, 2013, 2014*
GC 2014 Jan £154.14/£180;Feb £103.49/£180;Mar 117.63/£1600 -
BettiePage wrote: »Didn't do any today. Instead I bought an easiyo and some new bedding. Will crack on with it again tomorrow. Promise!
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.Illegitimi non carborundum.0 -
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!Initial Mortgage January 2024 - £160,000
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TaupeTortoise wrote: »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.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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Afternoon All
On 17th January I 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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