The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

Eltee12

Morning All

Day 5 - Wednesday 4th May

#36 - Duvet bagged and put in loft
#37 - 51 last of the Winter clothes bagged and put in loft
#52 'some' cans to recycling (as in a LOT of cans)
#53 'some' bottles to recycling (as in EVEN MORE bottles!)

El

Callisto

As promised, here are the pictures of the problem areas in the house - the spare room and the pantry - as of last weekend. We don't have a loft, so anything that needs to be stored has to go in here.

The spare room currently contains an exercise bike, stepper machine, weights, single guest bed, two chests of drawers, tall cupboard, writing bureau, clothes airer, stereo, damaged painting that OH doesn't want to get rid of (!), 2 seater sofa, boxes containing things to sell or still to be sorted and numerous other random things I don't quite know what to do with!

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The pantry contains food, medicines, food blender/mixer, recycling box, garden hose (?), three boxes of OH's tools and the xmas tree! I've done a two week meal plan to start using up the food we have, will only need to buy fruit, veg, bread and milk this week. I get a little worried if my food stores run too low, but realistically we're not going to starve in the next couple of weeks!

Hopefully in the not too distant future I will be able to post photos of both spaces looking a lot better!

Callisto

Totals for last week or so:

In

Bracelet
Three books (car boot sale)
Plant pots
Three packets of herb seeds
Six saucers (car boot sale)
PC game (car boot sale)
Two toolboxes for OH (car boot sale)

I don't go to car boot sales regularly, otherwise I would own more books than I could ever hope to read as it seems criminal to leave good quality books behind for 50p or less! I went at the weekend as I was specifically looking for saucers as having a go at growing herbs on the kitchen windowsill. OH was looking for a toolbox, so we managed to get what we wanted.

Out

Five tops and a sarong given to Mum
Various cardboard boxes recycled
PC game sold on Amazon
Box of weeds from rockery (made a start at last!)

Pending Out

Trousers, skirt, gift set of mini body sprays, shorts, four tops, belt, two books, hat and mousemat into charity bag.

13 items of clothing to list on Ebay.

Now have two drawers free in the spare room!

loopychriss

Reporting in on my 200 things in 10 days challenge. Didn't really start until Tuesday as we were away for the weekend but so far I have decluttered:

55 items of clothing (charity shop)
1 pair of shoes (charity shop)
2 pairs jeans (fabric cupboard, to make bags)
28 knitting patterns
1 carton apple juice that had been in fridge so long it had fermented into cider!
1 can squirty cream left over from Christmas
1 storage box - given to daughter
1 puzzle book - charity shop
4 paperbacks - charity shop
2 hardbacks - charity shop
1 squeaky toy - charity shop
Bag of approx 30 coat hangers - charity shop
3 baby toys - one given to my grandaughter, 2 for the charity shop
Tupperware animal toys - charity shop
Wooden toy box from the loft - given to youngest daughter
Learn to Crochet DVD, magazine etc. - charity shop
Sony Walkman - charity shop
Travel bag - charity shop
Gift bags from Christmas & birthday presents - given to daughter
Make your own cracker set - given to daughter
Wicker storage box - given to daughter
1 old battery toothbrush found in loft yellowed with age and minus a head - chucked into rubbish bin
2 glasses cases - charity shop


If I count all those separately it comes to 141 items already! They are all going to be taken to the charity shop tomorrow.

The house still doesn't look any less cluttered though.....

mineallmine

mineallmine wrote: »

Day 2 - of 200 things in 10 days
12. to 20. as above

Day 3 - of 200 things in 10 days
Targeting toiletries today...
21. Shower gel used up (bin)
22. Old (too old!) toothbrush chucked (bin)
23. Old shorts, torn (bin) I should have fabric recycled I know...
24. Old underwear, as above!
25. Perfume sample used up (bin)
26. Old eye product (bin)
27. Tube of unloved face cream used up as body moisturiser (bin)
28. Facial cleanser, small size used up (bin, sadly not recyclable)

Had long day at work so not done as much as I'd like but it's all stuff outta here! I should be up to 60 things by now to stay on target!

Well done everyone on your decluttering, it feels good doesn't it? :j

Penelope_Penguin

Good morning! Not been around here for a while, but DH and I have been having a major declutter. We took off the time between the two bank goliday weekends, and had nealy 2 weeks off work :j We spent mornings doing chores, and the afternoons out seeing people and having fun :j

We've been decluttering the garage, outbuildings, and have now started on the loft. So I'll be doing 100 things in 10 days, part 3

PenPen's 100 in 10 Challenge - part 3

Day 1; Friday
1. old TV to the tip
2 - 3. video machine and DS's go kart to Freecycle
4. lots of cardboard to recylcing
5. box of OU notes to recycling
6. box of notes from fundraising event to reclycling
7. glass to recycling
8. broken TV handset to bin
9.

Callisto

It's a free listing weekend on Ebay for auctions - 7th and 8th May.

I'm aiming to list a minimum of 15 things.

Sue14

I did nothing at all yesterday, apart from sending my great-nephew's birthday card, and taking some used envelopes in to work. I was going to tackle the shed, and put a few bits I have in there on freecycle when I got home from work, but I got roped into helping at a polling station, so I didn't have time between getting home from work and going to the polling station. I will be listing some things on ebay as it's a free listing weekend, but I'm working tomorrow morning and out tomorrow night, so I don't know how much I will get put on. Hopefully OH will take the latest CS stuff to the shop tomorrow morning, and he will take the recycling to the recycling centre as he usually does on Saturdays.

Mingle

So far:
6 Items sold on ebay
A load of paper work destroyed
Uni work filed into a big folder and small folders have been packed for the move
One pair of ballet pumps which were more hole than shoe thrown away
5 vest tops taken to little sister
Just finished my uni essay so a pile of books to go back to the library
One easter egg and 3 creme eggs decluttered
A pile of mini toiletries used up

LaDiva_2

I'd like to join The Great Declutter. Problem is little one isn't feeling too well so God knows when I will start the workload. Need to declutter the WHOLE house.