The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

Savvy_sewing

lovecrafting wrote: »

mooloo i am right there where you are hun, my house resembles a jumble sale, i think its safe to say we willnever be minimilistic. im working on it tho, the trouble i have is parting with stuff. i just seem to want to keep it because its shiny/cute/may be needed one day.

My problem is also that having lost everything several years ago, i hang on to everything incase. Then I tend to make things, and my motto is to use things I recycle, so the friends and family are always bringing things around/giving me things that I can use in my creating. Which is great. But the problem is that I am not making things as fast as the materials are coming in. Or getting the things I have made out of the house fast enough.
I have only just learnt the mysteries of selling on ebay! Plenty of buying but not much selling. Although my sewing is starting to sell, so it has given me an insentive to sew a bit more, but even my speedy fingers will be sewing for a very long time to use up all the stuff i have!.

Right this morning, my tast will be to attach the chest of drawers at the end of my bed. (On top of it as well as in it, and under it_:rotfl:)

Rummer

I decluttered the garden and greenhouse yesterday and put loads of items on freecycle, I can now move in my greenhouse and I have only kept the things I know I use every year (been hoarding things for 3 years just in case). Today I am going to go through my daughters clothes and get rid of anything that is too small.

short_bird

Lovecrafting
I can think of one incident in the last 8 months when we have regretted getting rid of an item, and that was a 2 minute "oh dear, that's a shame":D All the rest of the items we've disposed of haven't been needed.

Mooloo
Ah. The acquiring of all sorts of crafty stash because it may be useful some day. I know that one, I'm really good at that!:D There are other selling sites such as Folksy and Etsy and I'm sure there are threads on these boards about selling; both sites are also useful for getting rid of spare materials.
Are there any craft fairs in your neighbourhood??
Is there a charity close to your heart that might require some things to sell to raise funds?

lovecrafting

craft stash, oh my days my dining room is one entire craft stash.. then there is all the wee hiding places for bits i got off ebay. i was looking for 3mm needles last night, couldnt find them, brought more on ebay, i know i have about ten pairs of that size but i think i am addicted to spending money

silvasava

Well I didn't manage to put anything on Ebay yesterday or Saturday because the weather was so good I spent time in the garden instead! BUT I did manage to de-clutter (with DH) about 5 bags of horse 'Doofers' Got rid of 4 French bean plants out of the utility & into the garden & dug up about 4 carrier bags of Bluebells (gone on Freecycle) This morning I've also cleared out a carrier bag of unused & part used nail varnishes, moisturisers, shower gels etc (must have been about 30+ items in there) all gone to Freecycle too - as the ads say 'every little helps'

Yorkielass

Mixed success this weekend, it got overtaken with stuff for my music group as I had feared, and then in law issues last night but I did some of the things I wanted to do:

1. Find and list 10 things on ebay - no
2. Empty all the bins and recycling bins in the house into the bins/ recycling boxes outside/in the garage. yes
3. Iron and put away clean clothes yes
4. Get washing up to date. did one more load not quite there but getting closer
5. I currently have piles of stuff on each end of the sofa and a pile on the living room floor - these need to go - I never quite manage it and then they get bigger so my job for tonight as well as a bath is this. Pile gone off the floor (some of it into the office to sort) and one off the settee too.
6. Have a small pile of charity shop things - will bag them up ready for when I next go into town. Not done.

Have decided that I will take Friday off, either as holiday or flexi not sure what yet, and try and have a really productive day at home then, cleaning and sorting wise, especially as the inlaws have decided they're coming to us for Easter now, including grown up daughter so I need to find space for them all to sleep etc which is all a bit of a pain atm. (you can get to the single bed fine, but that's where I'd put some of the stuff from the living room where the settee that makes a double bed is if I had a choice).

elfen

This week's tasks:
Sort through clothes and find ones I don't want/need - put them in the clothing bank at the end of the road - they go to charity so it's good
Sort out shoes in bottom of wardrobe - done and done!

Also I have:
Sorted out the crockery and put the new matching stuff in and took the old to the charity shop
Made a list of freezer and cupboard contents to meal plan off of.
Sorted books to go to charity shop tomorrow

MsHalffull

MsHalffull wrote: »

1-6 - videos
7 - video recorder
8+ 9 - Xmas Card Holders
10. Novelty gift - new
11. Candle stick
12. wind-up penguins
13. Xmas wreath
14. Book
15. stamp set
16. Bracelet
17. Decorative box
18. Old Fileofax

19. Scarf - CS
20-23 - dead bras to bin
24 flowers to sit on reception in work - where I can still enjoy them in passing but far enough away that my allergies don't kick in.

.. dropped all CS off

OUT - ALL OF THE ABOVE
+ Running jacket & vest- bought 2 for sizing) (returned to Lidl)

exchanged for...

IN-
Fleece & 2 X Trekking socks (Lidl)

What a lovely feeling getting rid of this stuff - I'm so relieved to see it going out of the house - i'm so glad just to give it away & not save it for a bootsale that may never happen.... :A

Kaz2904

I pledge tomorrow to make the other cushion covers before I go out. I will then know if I "need" more fabric to make another one or whether I can cover all 3 from the fabric I have. MiL trimmed DS's curtain a while back and I found the excess in a bag in the hallway earlier so she must have brought that round yesterday. I will endeavour to use this fabric in my cushion making follies too. Waste not want not. I know it will go because we have the same curtains throughout the house so it's the same material as we already have. Just not sure how much there is.
As I want to pop into town later tomorrow, I will drop littlies at schools, comme home, iron, sew, put away then shoot off. Hopefully be back for lunch with DH. I am sure I'll be all fired up to get housework done with my lovely new pinny he's bought me .

mcculloch29

A huge out today - a complete set of Encyclopaedia Britannica plus two yearbooks. It took up nine bags of varying sizes, so they went as well. My cleaner has offered to re-home stuff for me, so she took a jacket, jeans, top, trousers, fur scarf and 2 handbags that were otherwise CS bound. I presume she car-boots it.