The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

funnyflipp

Hmmm
So I have decluttered a present from my present cupboard
and sorted and photographed another load of stuff for e-bay
apart from that a few t-shirts and some old jars are all I can speak of!!

wilf55

in

nothing

out

boxes from golf bags
empty bottles etc
newspapers
bag of clothes - cs

short_bird

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

: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

PP you have a PM

short_bird

keggie wrote: »

Sold an old coat on Ebay today. Bin liner filled with shredded paperwork gone to be recycled. Car boot filled with rubbish from loft and taken to tip - hardly a dent on the loft though. This could be slow and painful!

It's still a dent. However small:D

ellen75

Been a productive day:j so far, Dad called up early on so did the tip run also got rid of 2 tv stands, old wicker chair, a cd rack, bag of glass jam jars and the computer desk. Have stripped the wallpaper off DDs wall (not doing the whole room just the one wall which needs re-doing, have found matching paper:j)

keggie

Eventful afternoon chez moi. Hubby decided to try and reduce the shredded paper mountain by burning it. Hmmm cunning plan apart from fact that the fool put it in a plastic container and then put container on plastic patio table against the garage...:eek:

What on earth possessed him to have such a moment of madness I will never know. Anyway have now decluttered a perfectly good patio table and garage guttering.

Fortunately, garage is still standing and still awaits a more sedate decluttering later in the year.Can't wait til he moans about the people he works with having no common sense!

Kaz2904

keggie wrote: »

Eventful afternoon chez moi. Hubby decided to try and reduce the shredded paper mountain by burning it. Hmmm cunning plan apart from fact that the fool put it in a plastic container and then put container on plastic patio table against the garage...:eek:

What on earth possessed him to have such a moment of madness I will never know. Anyway have now decluttered a perfectly good patio table and garage guttering.

Fortunately, garage is still standing and still awaits a more sedate decluttering later in the year.Can't wait til he moans about the people he works with having no common sense!

Oh, I'm really, realy sorry but :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. Men, what are they like!

mcculloch29

keggie wrote: »

Eventful afternoon chez moi. Hubby decided to try and reduce the shredded paper mountain by burning it. Hmmm cunning plan apart from fact that the fool put it in a plastic container and then put container on plastic patio table against the garage...:eek:

What on earth possessed him to have such a moment of madness I will never know. Anyway have now decluttered a perfectly good patio table and garage guttering.

Fortunately, garage is still standing and still awaits a more sedate decluttering later in the year.Can't wait til he moans about the people he works with having no common sense!

:rotfl::rotfl: ... thank goodness one CAN laugh and it wasn't more serious!

Such moments of madness are rare, one hopes... Great ammo for future "absences of sense accusations" against you. "I wasn't the one who nearly set fire to the garage..."

A small part of me thinks that his being lectured by the fire brigade would have been a good one, but I'm glad for your sake that it didn't come to this.

We had our bulk rubbish collected without incident. (KS Bed, mattress HUGE load of boxes). We have to leave it against our wooden fence, which has always struck me as being dodgy. Son usually puts it out around 2 am though...

Now that my outdoor storage alcove is clear again- used to be a coal bunker when house was new, 45 years ago - I am hoping that the local furniture recycling scheme for persons in need will pick up a leather armchair, headboard and pine table from there.
They can only collect when I'm at work, which is a dagnabbed nuisance.
I don't want to Freecycle it, I would like all items to go to families in real need, not possible free-loaders who may well re-sell the goods.

PudseyDB

keggie wrote: »

Eventful afternoon chez moi. Hubby decided to try and reduce the shredded paper mountain by burning it. Hmmm cunning plan apart from fact that the fool put it in a plastic container and then put container on plastic patio table against the garage...:eek:

What on earth possessed him to have such a moment of madness I will never know. Anyway have now decluttered a perfectly good patio table and garage guttering.

Fortunately, garage is still standing and still awaits a more sedate decluttering later in the year.Can't wait til he moans about the people he works with having no common sense!

OMG :eek::eek::eek: Thanks for sharing though - the sheer stupidity of it made me :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

He wont forget that in a hurry I'm sure

mcculloch29 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl: ... thank goodness one CAN laugh and it wasn't more serious!

Such moments of madness are rare, one hopes... Great ammo for future "absences of sense accusations" against you. "I wasn't the one who nearly set fire to the garage..."

A small part of me thinks that his being lectured by the fire brigade would have been a good one, but I'm glad for your sake that it didn't come to this.

We had our bulk rubbish collected without incident. (KS Bed, mattress HUGE load of boxes). We have to leave it against our wooden fence, which has always struck me as being dodgy. Son usually puts it out around 2 am though...

Now that my outdoor storage alcove is clear again- used to be a coal bunker when house was new, 45 years ago - I am hoping that the local furniture recycling scheme for persons in need will pick up a leather armchair, headboard and pine table from there.
They can only collect when I'm at work, which is a dagnabbed nuisance.
I don't want to Freecycle it, I would like all items to go to families in real need, not possible free-loaders who may well re-sell the goods.

Hope your recycling scheme is better than the one here. Being a church based organisation I thought it would be good, but I was shocked when I discovered how much they were selling things on for :mad: ,

I now cut out the middle man and offer things on freecycle/freegle. Luckily ours is a nice group and most are genuine people. Hopefully I've become good at weeding out the ones who only want to sell on.

FelinePrincess

Haven't checked in for a while as I've lost motivation and hit a bit of a rut

It's all because I'm waiting for shelves to be cut for the living room alcove, have been waiting a few weeks and can't proceed with the living room re-decoration and re-arrangement until they are up and there are a few pieces of furniture in the living room which can't be de-cluttered until it's done. I have a pile of coats in the living room which are waiting for coat hooks to be put up in the porch to hang them on, they can't go up until the porch has been re-plastered which will be done at the same time as the hall and landing, which can't be re-plastered until the outside of the house has been re-rendered to stop the damp coming in

I have de-cluttered various items in the past few weeks - although I can't remember what!

Some progress in the kitchen... Our freezer use to be kept in the porch but we had to move it while the porch was replaced and it was so nice having room in the porch we decided to keep it in the kitchen, we have had to sacrifice a kitchen unit to do this so I have one kitchen unit pending out. I will need somewhere to put the contents of the unit we are getting rid of so there will no doubt be some de-cluttering to be done there!

There is de-cluttering which could be done in the bedroom but I just can't get in the mood knowing that I can't make much progress on the house for the time being

On a brighter note, oh has finally moved the cupboard on the kitchen wall from one wall where it was in the way (I never wanted it there but ohs mate who helped him put kitchen in thought it would be better there then on the stud wall I wanted it on), anyway, finally convinced him it would be ok on the stud wall aslong as he attached it to where the studs are and he moved it yesterday and now the kitchen looks much better and I have more space as where the unit was before was really in the way

Glad to see everyone else is still doing well