The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

mineallmine

Project master bedroom by end March - left to do:
OH sort his wardrobe.
Sort corner storage.
Reward = a superking set of duvet and covers

Mini weekend challenge to declutter 30 things.
1. - 14. As above.
15. Bag (charity)
16. M&S top that sticks cat fur to it like glue, brushed with a lint brush and off to charity shop (charity)
17. Polysterene Packaging, used to wrap around a picture off to charity shop (charity)
18. Toiletry used up as part of challenge (bin)
19. Odd carriers/packaging used to fill bag donated to charity above (charity)
20. Little clock to a friend who collects these (friend)
21. Cardboard, stuff emptied into another big bag of stuff to sort in spare room. So slight moving of things about but minus 1 cardboard box (charity, use to put the fragile stuff into)
22.23.24.25. Magazines (recycling)
26. Bunch of pens (charity)
27. PC mouse (charity)
28. Magazine (recycling)
29. Calendar to work (outta the house)
30. Another PC mouse (charity)

Right that's it. I am now officially beat! Shattered! But loads more bits gone. A good couple of carrier bags of stuff to go into the car boot shortly. Today for the first time I thought, if I want (or need) to move this is making that so much easier.

Hope everyone is doing ok :A

MsHalffull

Thought this was going to be a non-decluttering weekend as I was out visiting friends yesterday & a bit under-the-weather today - then I remembered there is a CS collection tomorrow so ready for collection are one bin-liner full of clothes & 3 boxes of books / bric-a-brac which is made up of the 40 odd items I decluttered last weekend + about 50 items I had stored away for a Boot Sale. It has really perked me up to see it all there waiting to be taken out tomorrow.

This week I will be ordering the storage I need - wardrobe, chest of drawers & garden storage. Also need to ask if anyone will do me the favour of taking doing a trip to the dump with the numerous half empty tins of paint I have hanging around in the shed / under the stairs. Plus I have a bookshelf to give to someone - will ask friends first then free-cycle if no-one wants it.

Have a good week everyone.

mfwin2019

DH has been away for 2 weeks with work (due back tonight) so have made use of the time to declutter.

4 extra bin bags put out & 4 extra recycle sacks & 2 big sacks of textiles to recycling bin.

Lots of other bits put in cupboards where they belong, I can now get into the study without risking live & limb or starting an avalanche.

There is also a big pile of his clothes that I think should go but I thought He ought to get a say!! (after all lots more have walked out the door already)

6 boxes ready for carboot - hopefully in a couple of weeks if the weather is good.

Bundles of other items listed for sale.

I am feeling much better after this sort & clear out & he is in big trouble if he makes a mess as soon as he walks in the door.

Well done to every one, it must be the good weather & spring being here that is making us all so productive

mcculloch29

Sorry for not updating you, but I've been busy!

1. Unwanted bath soak - bubbles - bottle emptied into pump bottle of useless hand gel, which was poured down sink. For use as hand-wash in kitchen to replace cleansing foam on last legs. Bottle in recycling.
2.Pot of Superdrug hair conditioner used up and in recycling.
3. -15. Kitchen drawer blitz. Useless items dispensed of - a thing for making garnish from peel, a gizmo to push in to a lemon to get juice without cutting a lemon, a 1956 ex Army carving knife that looked like a kukri, a rusty pair of nut crackers, a broken folding cutlery set, a half - broken potato masher I bought 34 years ago as a newly wed, a holder for a corkscrew, two elderly slotted spoons, a useless curved food 'lifter', a single chopstick, a bundle of plastic cutlery, a bottle opener shaped like a hippo, [STRIKE]cuddly toy[/STRIKE], gunky bag clip, loose wooden skewers, Tupperware spoon for lifting boiled eggs out of water.
16 -18 Broken or otherwise useless clothes hangers binned.
19 Glamour mag to friend
20 Samsonite case to friend
21-24 Various household bins emptied. (Bathroom, bedroom, office, lounge, kitchen)
25 Empty Swarfega bottle.
26-27 2 near empty multipurpose cleaner bottles used up - recycled.
28 -31 From under sink: Single rubber glove, mucky cleaning cloth, water damaged box of borax substitute, (all binned) kitchen roll put on holder.
32 Kalanchoe gone 'leggy' to bin.
34 2 pots of Vanish granules amalgamated. (one pink, one white) Empty one to recycle.

Shortly to do: Census form filled in online, paper to shredder.
I had hoped to do more, but I now have two kitchen drawers containing only things I use. That's a good thing.

Sue14

Not done much this weekend, as I was working in the morning yesterday and had no energy when I got home, but OH took all our recycling to the recycling centre, the bits I sorted out from the shed to the tip, and 2 boxes and a bag of stuff to the CS.

Today I've had another lazy day, just did a couple of loads of washing, a bit of tidying, and made some tomato puree with some whoopsied tomatoes.

I’ve also sold 18 items on ebay, including a pair of npower orbs, and a pair of sandals (which I bought in the 80’s and never wore), still in their box, only got £1.50 each for them but got some good bids on DS's playstation games, and I've got watchers on a few other items, so hopefully some more will go before they end on Tuesday.

Willow92

Really need to go through my wardrobe which has no clothes, just junk at the bottom.

mcculloch29

Around the country there will be mass shredding/recycling of census forms.... hopefully. It was so much easier doing it online. I can remember it took ages last time... and the time before. I was out of the country in 1981.

I hope someone will notice in 100 years time what I do now versus what I did before and wonder how I got there and wonder about my ethnic mix - I put Estonian/Latvian (which I am, thanks to Mum and Dad) just in case my descendants don't know about that part of their heritage and it has all been forgotten about by then.

Perhaps one of them will look at their high Slavic cheekbones in a mirror and be pleased to know where they came from ..... ah well! Flights of fantasy!

Minor decluttering this week, busy time ahead.

Kaz2904

mineallmine wrote: »

Kaz is our girl - like silva says we're all so glad you're ok.

*Snipped*
Erm, it wasn't me . I think it was feline princess? You are kinda right though, I did have a fire in my microwave but no need for the brigade as I was standing next to it as it started and turned the machine off when it happened.

Speaking of the mortification of others coming in, as many of you know, I'm a nurse and work nights. I originally went onto nights because it was the only way we could afford to extend our mortgage enough to get a house rather than a 2 bed flat with no garden and grumpy neighbours who didn't like living below children.
Even so, we still couldn't afford anywhere lovely. We were almost at the end of buying a not very nice house which I didn't like at all but DH didn't want to lose our buyers. The woman we were buying from had gone to Australia and actually vanished. Her selling agents in the end told me to strat looking elsewhere. I rang all the EA's in our area and got them to email me details. The details came through for one which we had driven past and discounted because it was too small. It didn't have a pic on the link so I read the details and then liked the look so opened it up. I then phoned DH at work to say I was going to go with the kids to see it because it couldn't possible be as big as they said. I saw it the next day and fell in love. The following day, as we were leaving to view it with DH (the kids and I knew it was going to happen anyway!), I was getting them in the car and DH came down, he'd taken ages and said it was because the phone rang as he was leaving, the woman had turned up and were exchanging on the Friday.
After lots of soul searching and talking to with his Mum, we phoned up the selling agents for the first house. DH explained what we had seen and the price and they told him to drop the purchase and go for the one we'd seen as those house NEVER go for that price.
So we did.
Unfortunately, our house needs/needed lots doing to it.
So the point of the story....
One day after doing a night shift, DD and I were asleep on the sofa (we had horrible colds) DS had been asleep. I awoke to a banging on the door (proper hammering) but only had my tights on so had to rush up and get my jeans on.
Answered the door and it was the police :eek:. DS (aged about 20 months) had woken up, climbed up and got the phone and rung them :eek:. Because it had taken me so long to answer the door, they wanted to come in. Our lounge hadn't been decorated at that stage and had hideous patterned everything which even when tidy and empty, looked a cluttered mess.
Only, it wasn't tidy. There was a blanket on the sofa and a pillow that DD had had her head on. there were sheets of paper on the floor. Kitchen units stacked up everywhere and a bath in the front room, blocking the sofa. Along with all the clean washing half folded and the rest waiting folding.
I was mortified. I almost want tem to have to come back for some reason now so that they can see how it looks now . *She says, ignoring the pile of washing not yet put away or ironing not yet done!*

A tiny bit more decluttering over the weekend. DH erected his plastic greenhouse on Friday evening so has put all the trays of seedlings outside. Another load of washing on the line, one in machine waiting to be hung out. Made another cushion yesterday and promptly left it at MiL's :mad:. Got some more to make today so I can get rid of the pillows which are lying around on my bedroom floor.

poorbutrich

MsHalffull wrote: »

Thought this was going to be a non-decluttering weekend as I was out visiting friends yesterday & a bit under-the-weather today - then I remembered there is a CS collection tomorrow so ready for collection are one bin-liner full of clothes & 3 boxes of books / bric-a-brac which is made up of the 40 odd items I decluttered last weekend + about 50 items I had stored away for a Boot Sale. It has really perked me up to see it all there waiting to be taken out tomorrow.

This week I will be ordering the storage I need - wardrobe, chest of drawers & garden storage. Also need to ask if anyone will do me the favour of taking doing a trip to the dump with the numerous half empty tins of paint I have hanging around in the shed / under the stairs. Plus I have a bookshelf to give to someone - will ask friends first then free-cycle if no-one wants it.

Have a good week everyone.

Not sure where you live but paint is very much in demand where I am! We've got a community furniture recycling project who sell paint that was destined for landfill, and I am sure if you put the paint on freecycle along with the bookshelf, you'll get plenty of responses from people who can give it a good home!

Sophy

Hello all, still taking decluttering baby steps. Eg, I turned out the smallest cupboard in the house, and managed to chuck 10 -15 things Also took a trip to the recycling centre with two electrical items I always intended to fix - forced myself to face the fact that I never would, and now they're gone, I certainly don't miss them