The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

minuettoallegretto

I've finally got down far enough in the piles of fish(!) to find the 2 broken laptops - I now need some advice please.
They'll both turn on, but the screens don't work. One's Windows, the other is Linux. I've used both in the dim and distant past to access things like internet banking, so ideally I'd like to completely clear any info on them, but don't know how without seeing what I'm doing! Hope that makes sense.
Thanks in advance for the help.

laineyc_2

I think I need to join this thread. It seems no sooner do I declutter than it builds up again. I will read through the thead after dinner.

BettiePage

I'm on a roll and feeling ruthless. A bin bag and a half from under the stairs. Car trip to the dump is gonna be packed!

Going to Ikea tomorrow for a replacement (bigger) chest of drawers for sprog and another shoe rack tomorrow.Need to keep things tidy.

feefeelalabelle

thanks for the welcome yorkielass, lovely weather in sunny yorkshire isnt it ? im fed up with it

so ..... made a lovely trip to the tip with the car loaded to the top

32-48 dds old clothes in recycling bank
49 large shoe rack
50 flimsy storage rack
51 pointless glass jars, 5 gone
52-55 rolls of wrapping paper
56 black bag of junk from kitchen drawer
57 black bag of play balls....which were all over the garden
59 black bag of bits and bobs
60 a non winning lottery ticket
61-67 bags of crisps no one likes
68 ebay parcel
69 ebay parcel
70 loads of shredded paper work

off to do some more in a bit xxxxx

2manybooks

Got Age UK bag today being collected on Monday so that means the 4 extra large refuse sacks of clothes and the bags of DVDs will be gone! Getting our new chest of drawers delivered tomorrow so that should sort out the clothes in the bedroom.

This weekend I want to sort out the filing and start moving the books around.

MoneyQueen

I have had a look at my list and if I don't go out this weekend, I should have my whole house de-cluttered at least once except the garden shed but I am not planning of doing that until April.

Only the following tasks are left

De-clutter under bed storage in the bedroom
De-clutter under stairs storage
De-clutter Utility room

I know I will have to go through all the rooms again as I am sure I will find more things the second time.

MQ

Penelope_Penguin

BettiePage wrote: »

Maybe I need to declutter my hangers now I've got rid of some of my clothes, lol.

Probably

BettiePage wrote: »

eta: The dog is off the Pedigree chewy sticks ad on telly.

Is it only me that finds that ad a little disturbing

minuettoallegretto wrote: »

ideally I'd like to completely clear any info on them, but don't know how without seeing what I'm doing! Hope that makes sense.
Thanks in advance for the help.

I did that when my laptop died (it was stil working, went to a local business for a repair and came back totally carked :mad: ). We managed to strip all sensitive data. Get over to the Techie Board and they'll help you :T

I offered mine on Freecycle, and got loads of takers. It went to a scheme for youngsters learning to do comuter repairs - they needed as many deap computers as they could , for them to take to pieces :T

Penelope_Penguin

For anyone with stuff to sell, it's Free listing on eBay this weekend :j I have a jacket of DS's, so first job today is to wrap, weigh and write the listing


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ellen75

Need to start decluttering again:o, been a little lazy in recent days due to working nightshifts but need toget back on track, we had been doing so well.
Roll on this time next week when i am on holiday, and can tackle the cellar . Anyway off to do 15minutes speed decluttering:).

GreyQueen

minuettoallegretto wrote: »

I've finally got down far enough in the piles of fish(!) to find the 2 broken laptops - I now need some advice please.
They'll both turn on, but the screens don't work. One's Windows, the other is Linux. I've used both in the dim and distant past to access things like internet banking, so ideally I'd like to completely clear any info on them, but don't know how without seeing what I'm doing! Hope that makes sense.
Thanks in advance for the help.

Nice to know I'm not the only one with the "fish" problem! My Computer Wizard tell me that you wipe data from hard drives by rubbing them against powerful magnets. I've only ever had an IT relationship with Fred, my 10 y.o desktop PC, so don't know if laptops even have hard drives, but I guess the principle is the same? In hopes this may have been of some help......;)