The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

tattycath

2/100

6 items posted to a friend
6 magazines for recycling
4 newspapers for recycling

18/100

savingcaz

Hello

back to join in, we are on the major de clutter, yesterday we did the kitchen, (i de cluttered 3 carrier bags full!) we've also done H's wardrobe Over a bag full for charity collection i did mine a few months back but need to do it again!
Today we have began tackling the back room,
We've done 2 bookcases got a HUGE box of books to try and sell and got rid of a bin bag full of rubbish that was lurking there, old receipts, bits of notes etc etc.

My question is, has anyone used green metropolis and is it any good? i see you don't get much for your books as u have to pay postage etc but is it a quick turn around? As have them in a box for and make on average 90p per book i'm wondering if it's worth just taking them charity shop?

However when i think we have around 60 or more books to get rid of then it's £60ish which would be nice? Just worried it takes forever?

Any suggestions?

Many thanks

PudseyDB

Oh the shame........................:o

Just been decluttering the kitchen cupboards and found a pack of cup a soups.....dated Dec 2009!!!!!!!!!!!:eek:

bonsibabe

Hello again, its half term and i now have 5 days off till monday and am determined to shift the rest of the items we no longer need by friday if i can. So here goes with the up to date list of what has happened:

Day 1

1-6 - bags of carp for the bin
7 - bag of newspapers and mags for recycling
8 - one pile of shredding from hubby
9 - box of cardboard for recycling
10 - broken tv to recycling centre
11-13 - another couple of bags of plastic for recycling centre

Day 2

14-15 - 2 bags of carp from car
16-19 - 4 big envelopes of junk mail for survey company

Day 3

20 - christmas tree finally back in attic
21 - spare tv in attic
22 - bag of carp for bin from DD1's room
23 - bag of carp from my bedroom
24-30 - 7 baskets of clean washing put away (finally)!
31 - bag of carp from living room/hallway/stairs:D

Day 4

32-34 - another 3 bags of carp from the car
35-37 - 3 bags to the charity shop
38-40 - 3 bags of carp for the bin

Day 5

41 - bunny decluttered into a new hutch in the garden and out of the living room!:j
42 - all bunny related stuff decluttered out of living room and into the kids summer house in the garden to now be used as storage


Right! Am off to get some more decluttering done in the bedroom ... i have a box full of wires that havent seen the light of day in months! So might just butcher them and keep the copper wire until i have enough to sell to the scrap merchant! Either that, or all the wires are going in a box which will get listed at the next free listing on ebay ... haven't quite decided yet as i'm rather miffed at myself for missing the last free listing weekend:mad:

PudseyDB

bonsibabe wrote: »

41 - bunny decluttered into a new hutch in the garden and out of the living room!:j
42 - all bunny related stuff decluttered out of living room and into the kids summer house in the garden to now be used as storage

LOL - we currently have a bunny living in the bathroom (his cage wont fit anywhere else!!! The other two share a cage in the dining room.
Sadly I wont be rehoming them to the garden as there's been a few thefts and we'd be devastated to find them gone!


I do need to sort out their stuff though! :eek:

silvasava

Sunny day here so did some de-cluttering in the garden. Old woody Rosemary went out & in its place lovely climbing rose that I did from a cutting (been trying for nigh on 20 years for this! Its a lovely old bourbon rose with the most incredible perfume & my next door neighbour does nothing with it & its crying out for some tlc - grrrrr!:() Sorted out & tidied some pots c***py ones going to the tip.
I've also had an email to say someone's interested in my table top oven - whoopee - hopefully that will go this weekend.
Just loaded the programme onto my PC so I can copy all the Video's to DVD - hmmm not too sure about this but I'll give it a go - if its raining tomorrow I'll have a play with it!

juliebunny

Hello,

How awful that your rabbits aren't safe in the garden - rabbit rustlers at work! I have my neighbours 2 cats living in my old rabbit hutch cos she has de cluttered them from her house :mad: grrr.

I have been poorly off work but soon get bored at home so cleaned the fridge and tidied up the 'hmmm don't know what to do with this' area - athough admittedly some of that pile has just moved to another 'hmm' area. Have got a few old mobile phones - must find somewhere worthwhile to give them to.

Pulled out the water filter and 6 filters that I have been meaning to start using for ever and must get that on the go or give up and chuck it. Does anyone know how many times you are supposed to run through a new filter before you can drink it?

Happpy decluttering and ebaying - all this talk of ebay made me go and have a browse around it! No purchases though!:rotfl:

The_Dragon

juliebunny wrote: »

Pulled out the water filter and 6 filters that I have been meaning to start using for ever and must get that on the go or give up and chuck it. Does anyone know how many times you are supposed to run through a new filter before you can drink it?

They recommend 2 or 3 - I used to go for three to be on the safe side

Kaz2904

I got my lovely new pandora bracelet last night. It seems that I might have made a f*** up with my decluttering and decluttered the charm that MiL got me for Christmas instead of a monstrous necklace which I was given too. Both were in blue jewellery boxes and I've found the horrid necklace but can't find the charm. I was getting a sweat on about it as I was on my way to work and DH said don't worry, we'll find it at the weekend. I really hope we do. I'll be gutted if I've got rid of it by accident. It was very pretty (and expensive) and in my efforts to have a nicer home I may have deprived myself of something lovely

mcculloch29

Kaz2904 wrote: »

I got my lovely new pandora bracelet last night. It seems that I might have made a f*** up with my decluttering and decluttered the charm that MiL got me for Christmas instead of a monstrous necklace which I was given too. Both were in blue jewellery boxes and I've found the horrid necklace but can't find the charm. I was getting a sweat on about it as I was on my way to work and DH said don't worry, we'll find it at the weekend. I really hope we do. I'll be gutted if I've got rid of it by accident. It was very pretty (and expensive) and in my efforts to have a nicer home I may have deprived myself of something lovely

Oh blast, Kaz, how horrible for you. Fingers crossed that DH is right. I'm sure we all have similar stories -it's on nowhere near the same scale, but my cleaner found some vouchers yesterday that I was convinced I'd binned accidentally. :j I'd rather not bring memories back of the precious things I HAVE binned.....