The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

freyaluck

Please could I join you all.I am in the process of decluttering, as my husband and I are in the process of going our separate ways. I am ok about this its been a long time coming.
I have worked for the last year while he had been a stay at home dad, which was great but house work and de cluttering were not his thing. So I have a lot to catch up on and on to the house needs re decorating to the way I want it. A new start a new fresh house lol.today I have started the kitchen cuboards and have a fair few cookery books to go to the charity shop and a fair few bin bags grrrr. I will be at work for the next week so won't get a great deal done but that's ok. I need to go slow and steady so I can do a good job. Unfortunately I have a tendancy torush and not do things properly lol.
Frey

PudseyDB

BettiePage wrote: »

Photos would be good. Wish I'd thought to take some. Especially under the stairs.

I took a photo of the bathroom the other day!!!! havent finished clearing it yet though so havent got an "after" picture yet.

LondonDreamer

Evening all :wave:

I haven't been in this thread for a while because I put everything that needed sorting into our spare room as my MIL was visiting last weekend. Which is great for a quick tidy, but I then just shut the door and haven't looked in there since.

Was going into eBay tonight to check on an auction (I was outbid - probably a good thing) and noticed it was free listing again. So I bit the bullet and listed our games console. Might remember a few weeks ago that I traded most of the games in, so it feels great to have it leaving the house. Just hoping it gets a bid, they've really plummeted in value lately! :eek:

Have to go back and catch up on posts, but hope everyone is doing well!

Kaz2904

Whoever it was who wanted to see pics, have a look at my cupboard under the sink pics from 4/2/11.
I have managed to list 31 items on ebay since Friday. 2 items have bids on.
I now have a huge pile of stuff in front of my telly so I hope it manages to get sold and shifted quickly!

shelley_crow

I've neglected this thread a bit, I've had a productive weekend though.

I've got rid of:

Our 5 old recycling boxes, the council gave us a wheelie bin for recyling and we haven't used them since, they've been clogging up the driveway. Freecycled.

A homemade sledge that OH and DS used in the snow of January 2010, has also been sitting on the driveway since. Recycled

A bag of curtain lining material, I overestimated how much I'd need and had a few meters left, has been sat on my bedroom floor for ages. At 50p a meter, I wasn't fussed about not using it. Freecycled.

A british gas energy monitor, freecycled.

Baby clothes my son has outgrown, given to friend

Eldest son's outgrown clothes, given to neighbour.

Swinging crib, outgrown and clogging up my living room. Got no room to store this in case of number 3 Going to a pregnant friend. Ditto a baby bouncy chair.

Two big bin liners of boxes/cardboard wrapping, recycled.

There are two bin liners of documents to shred/burn, they are mocking me now. I must see to them this week.

I'm quite impressed with myself, I hit the house at random and this is what I came up with

GreyQueen

Well, it is small stuff compared with the large-volume exoduses reported up here, but I only have a tiny flat not a whole house and a whole family to police (respect to you, sisters) so every little helps. Here goes;

1. Broken umbrella (minus cloth) into metal recycling at dump.

2. Toothpaste tube and deodorant used up and in the bin (replaced from the in-house stores).

3. Caught up with the shredding and it and the rotables are now in the lottie's compost Dalek.

4. Finished typing my trip notes from December 2003 holiday. Need to read thru, pick a nice font, print off and settle down to a few hours with photos and paper bumf from same trip to make a sort of scrap-booky type thingie. Then the roughs are thru the shredder.

5. Bag of pernicious weeds from lottie to dump; couch grass, docks, bindweed roots and other things too nasty to have in my own compost pile.

Came in:

7.5 kg of small potatoes, Kestrel seed spuds, now sitting in egg boxes on trays on my table, chitting. They'll be here for 4-5 weeks until the great annual planting ritual.

Keep up the good work and keep posting, it's motivating me to keep going. Thanks to all.:)

2manybooks

juliebunny wrote: »

500 books!!! How many do you have left now then?

Probably about 1200 - hence the username! I hate getting rid of books so I am quite proud of myself for giving away so many. I am a big reader and will usually have at least three books on the go at any one time - 1 an old favourite that I am re-reading for the umpteenth time, 1 something light (normally a mystery/thriller) and the thrid one something a bit more challenging.

I have tried going the e-book route - but I really do prefer real books and you can read them in the bath!

So I am trying to limit getting new books to the following:
1) presents - got loads of books for Christmas off people
2) bought with vouchers - I always ask for amazon vouchers for presents
3) bought by me with actual money - either for my birthday, I "give" myself £50 to spend on books or a specific (real) reason e.g we are going for a long weekend later in the year and I need a guidebook for the place we are going.

I haven't bought myself a new book for about 4 months - so I think I'm doing OK.

funnyflipp

OUT
More Hangers
Box of Rubbish
Recycling
Knitting Needles
4 Pairs of shoes
Dog bed

Penelope_Penguin

Off to a good start today :j

PenPen's 100 in 10 Challenge - part 2

Day 3; Mon
21. DD's craft box tidied and old stuff chciked or recycled
22. OOD Argos catalogue recycled
23. cracked plate to DD for her textiles project - she told me enigmatically that she's intending to "sew it" :rotfl:
24. OOD holiday brichures to recycling
25.

PudseyDB

OUT - bag of clothes for the charity shop collection (has been picked up). I sorted out my tops over the weekend and put 6 on ebay (3 still with tags) and put the rest I dont wear into the bag. DP then added a couple of things.

I figured since I feel happier in my favourite tops, I might as well just wear them and be happy