The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

GreyQueen

I have sort of decluttered a badly -injured fish slice by chucking it out of my flat and replacing it with one from Mum's; sort of outsourcing your decluttering. As a lifelong hoarder, my Mum has everything you might possibly need in triplicate and gladly shares (she's a lovely Mum).

Have also given her my Yellow Pages, which arrived 2 days ago and which I never use and begrudge giving house-room to. Mum lives on the cusp of 2 areas for the YP and mine covers her other area so is potentially useful. Does anyone know how you can opt-out of getting these and the phone books, btw? I would like to pre-junk rather than de-junk......

Other than that, I have decluttered myself from my own flat for 48 hours, can I get marks for that?

Ahem, unless it is raining cats and dogs, I will be browsing my first bootsale of 2011 this Sunday (slight trembling of hands at prospect). I'll be gooooooood.

Kaz2904

4 items sold on ebay, 3 relisted. I've got more things finishing over the next few days so hopefully I'll be able to get rid of the ironing basketfull of ebay items.
Still not found the charm. I've been in bed all day and then trying to work out combining shipping on ebay this evening.
DH has promised to help me get some stuff in the loft tomorrow so he better had!
IN: new laptop charger £7.50 on ebay works a dream as opposed to the £54.99 upwards wanted by those robbing *insert favoured expletive* at PC w*rld.
Kids finished for 1/2 term now so hopefully we'll have some fun time next week.

LauraMac_2

Marmiterulesok - not sure if it's a roll or sheer desperation! I run a business from home, plus we have a three-bedroomed-house-worth of furniture in a two-bed flat plus garage. To cut a long story short I accumulated a lot of stuff when my mother decided to downsize, and I hadn't fully moved out of her house yet (I did get rid of half my stuff when I packed up what I had in her house, and since then have got rid of at least 30% of what I kept).

OH and I both have hoarding tendencies, though I've gradually learned not to hoard. Most of the stuff we have is 'mine' but I'm better at being ruthless. I'm very aware that when we next move we probably won't be able to afford anything bigger than the flat we're in currently, so every few bags I give to charity is another box I won't have to pack/move/unpack/cram in when moving time comes.

It feels like I'm skirting round the edges at the moment - I'll merrily sort books and CDs, but dread tidying my desk (a 2 hour task), and that's a priority as I'm planning adding an over-desk shelf.

Poorly people - hope you all feel better soon, and don't give me what you've got!

Penelope_Penguin

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
24. OOD holiday brochures to recycling
25. Greenmetropolis book posted :j
26. bunch of droopy tulips to compost
27 - 28. 2 items listed on Freecycle
29. last week's newspapers to recycling
30. OOD seed catalogues to recycling

Day 4; Wed & Thur
31 - 40. At least 10 items from my work desk

Day 6; Fri
41. basket of assorted paperwork gibble recycled or filed
42.

bonsibabe

Good morning All, well yesterday was a bit of a flop! I got absolutely nowt done apart from 2 loads of laundry which are now awaiting decluttered into wardrobes and drawers!

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

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 and out of the living room!
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
43 - another box of assorted papers for shredding (they will come to work with me next week and added to the shredding box!)
44-46 - bags of assorted carp for the bin

Day 6
47-50 – another 4 bags of carp for the bin!
51 – big box of paper to the recycling
52 – box of tins for recycling (can you tell the recycling bins were emptied today lol)
53 – bag of magazines off to recycling
54 – bag of veg for composting
55 – bag of stuff from fridge freezer that was well past its best
56 – asda delivery decluttered from living room and hall into proper places in kitchen
57 – bag of plastic asda bags for recycling
58 – bag of other plastics from delivery for recycling
59 - both hoovers emptied and the contents put in the bin
60-72 – eleven chef knives and a sharp cheese grated taken to the police station for disposal
73 – another bag of newspapers and magazines to recycling

Day 7

74-79 - 6 items listed on ebay for the first time in ages! Goodness I hope they sell!

silvasava

Hi all - had a busy few days so not much decluttering done. Looks like I've sold my Table Top oven on Preloved - being collected today & DH found an empty box in the loft (dont ask!) that is just the right size so hopefully 2 things gone & a bit of dosh. I spent a whole day loading the programme on my PC & connecting all the cables to transfer VHS video's to DVD - & it didn't work - GRRRR! Will have to go over to the Techie thread & get some advice as I'm DETERMINED to get rid of all the VHS tapes! Going to Kent tomorrow to pick up a woodburner - fingers crossed that its all OK but sounds good so far
Happy decluttering weekend to all - esp if the weather is going to be c**p!

nattyt

Hi everyone. I am starting another 100 in 10 days starting from today! My kids are at their dads and while i can do stuff without them seeing i have to take the opportunity!! So here goes:

1) Spotlights that will never get used (car boot box)
2) More lights as above!
3)Outgrown coat of DD1's (toying with ebay as its in excellent condition?)
4&5)2 out of date herb jars
6)old reflector(??!!)
7)Phoneline extension cable

Ok so its a start! x

silvasava

WooHoo - oven & box gone!! Now to hunt for some more things to declutter & maybe sell

Yorkielass

Well yesterday I didn't move from the bed or the settee - shows how ill I was as I'm rubbish at just lying there normally and watching tv.

Today I've done a few bits like putting washing away and putting another load on with lots of breaks and I've done our accounts for the week so some receipts shredded and now I've got OH to scan my docs in for me so I can finally get money out of my paypal account - not decluttering but I'd rather have it in my bank account than sitting in paypal!

Haven't been very good at keeping up with ins this week, have mainly been badges for the Brownies & Guides, all envelopes recycled & stamps collected for charity, a couple of different carpet cleaning solutions which OH is trying out and food so nothing that will take up space etc which is good.

Had a letter to say the theatre I volunteer at is having a bric a brac and book stand in 4 weeks time for fundraising in the city centre - I've done pretty well at getting rid of stuff already to charity shops but that's an incentive to find them some more things and to review the books I've got on GM/Amazon then and give them some of the more general unsold ones.

Horrid weather here so the slow and steady decluttering will continue here all weekend I think.

nattyt

8)old tupperware box-no lid
9)Recycling