The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

misshighlander

Haven't posted on here for a while. The following has been over the past few of weeks or so:

In
1 Amazon Kindle
Mail
Food
Downloaded half dozen or so free books to Kindle
New digital camera

Out
Green bin (general rubbish) emptied after 2 weeks (away on hols last week)
Brown garden bin emptied this morning
Paper/cans into recycling bin
Shredded paper given to animal rescue centre
Few sales of dvds on Amazon

Pending
Growing pile of items to go into charity shop bag (books, clothes, couple of bags). Being picked up on Monday morning

boultdj

mineallmine wrote: »

Gave away 2 things today to friends. Both were happy. And less clutter for me. Yay Need to blitz the lounge and kitchen. Both look dreadful!

Anyway up for a mini challenge? To get rid of 20 things this weekend. To recycling, freecycle, charity, friends, ebay or at a last resort bin.

I'm in seeing as I'v just had a charity bag put through the door.
And I'v been going through the cd's and dvd's [all freebie's from paper]

OUT
4 CD's
8 Dvd's

And that's just going through 1 pile of stuff, got another 2 to go:eek:

MoneyQueen

mineallmine wrote: »

Gave away 2 things today to friends. Both were happy. And less clutter for me. Yay Need to blitz the lounge and kitchen. Both look dreadful!

Anyway up for a mini challenge? To get rid of 20 things this weekend. To recycling, freecycle, charity, friends, ebay or at a last resort bin.

Count me in. I have already done the first round of decluttering the whole house so let's see what all I can find this time

juliejim

I'll join in mineallmine

luxor4t

I read this and persuaded DH to go to the recycling centre - we looked like hillbillies as the 'stuff' had almost taken over by the back door :
2 sacks of tetra-packs ,
a dead pedal bin (metal skip)
2 dead IKEA standard lamps (they seem to have a limited life & can't be repaired
a bag of garden stuff from November :o
the bits from the boiler Homeserve left behind :mad:
a split washing up bowl etc etc

If I get a wiggle on we can make it to the charity shop with the collection from the last 2 months

It's got to be 20 items worth all together

ellen75

Hello Ziggy and welcome
count me in for the mini challange 20 things in a weekend.

Sue14

This week I finally sorted the pile of paperwork which was on the dining chair (been there a few weeks, but forgot it was there until I pulled the chair out earlier in the week, lol!), most of it has been shredded/recycled. I've put two boxes (which contain paperwork/software from both our computers, and were stored beside the computer desk) in the spare room until I have time to get the contents sorted. I put some old batteries in the recycling box at work, OH took the rest of the recycling to recycling centre this morning, and I've sorted out another bag of old Christmas/birthday cards, and put most of them out for recycling.

Posted a small ebay parcel earlier in the week, only some postcards but every little helps, and I've also got bids on 2 other items which finish on Wednesday. Finally sorted out my used stamps ready to be sent to charity, hopefully I'll get them put in the post box tomorrow and they will be out of the way.

I'm out tonight, but count me in for the mini challenge, I'll see what I can find tomorrow, good luck everyone!

Kaz2904

2 more of my ebay items have bids on them. Once this lot of auctions runs out, I will be listing a lot more with a delayed start date so that I can just throw them all on together next time there's a free listing day. I aim to keep things togther in a lundry basket because I worry about things getting lost or damaged between listing and posting.
DH has spent the day planting seeds ready for the summer. We need to sell lots of plants to fund raise for DS's school to build new classes. They need £125000 from the parents of 147 children we've had harrasment for this for 2 years already and DS has 18 months left there. I can't wait for him to leave!

Penelope_Penguin

short_bird wrote: »

In: copy of Radio Times with Professor Brian Cox on the cover?:D

:T My FIL wouldn't let me have the magazine from his newspaper with Prof Cox article, as he collects them all. I think he has more need than me of a declutter.

Here's a completely gratuitous pic of the lovely prof, for those of you not acquainted

PenPen's 100 in 10 Challenge - part 2

Day 6; Wed
51. empty deodorant to recycling
52 - 3. two wastebaskets of miscellaneous to recycling
54. weekend papers to recycling
55. miscellanous gibble from car boot rehomed
56. Yellow pages to recylcing
57. Parish magazine to recycling
58. 12 jars of HM jam and marmalade labelled and into the pantry
59.

mineallmine

Right getting rid of 20 things mini challenge:

1. Hair styling product, I didn't like, hardly used (to a friend)
2. Magazine (friend)
3. Bag of toiletry bits (friend)
4. Grout pen, bought in wrong colour (charity)
5. Bag of DVDs (charity)

Right that's a quarter of the way there! woo hoo!