The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

lola34

I've been continuing to clear the loft, I had a load of stuff thats been backwards and forwards to the car boot so have startted listing them on ebay for 99p and have cleared about £150 since April.
1/2 bag of clothing went out for charity last week.
Yesterday I cleared the house from all the clutter that lays around, even OH commented when he came in from work- lets just hope it stays this way- though don't hold out a great deal of hope

cyclingyorkie

3 bags of clothes out to charity on Friday morning - and I am confidant nobody will realise that they have gone!

Penelope_Penguin

Good morning :j DH has jetted off for a week's business trip to the US, so we had a big clear out of the outbuildings yesterday :T I'm planning to deal with some boxes that we fetched out of the loft over the next few days

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. shredded paper to recycling
10. broken clay plantpots to the bin

Day 2; Saturday
11. old dustbin to be recylced
12. old panes of glass to the tip
13. sandwich board to the tip
14. instruction books (for items we no longer have ) to recycling
15. bag of damp cement to the bin
16. bike tyres to Freecycle
17. DS's footie goal to Freecycle
18.

Kaz2904

Not managed any decluttering this weekend. In fact have had lots of ins instead. They will all aid a reduction of clutter though so I can live with that for the time being.
In: 7.5L paint for downstairs loo, utility and hopefully kitchen. I may need to buy more but If I need more I will get a tester pot of pink and add it to some white paint so I can have a very pale pink wall to go with my brownish and green walls .
2 remnants of Laura Ashley fabric. These will be used to make roman blinds for my downstairs toilet and utility as they've not had window coverings since we redid them 4 years ago .
A cantilever sewing box. This will clear all of the rubbish away from my bookshelves in the dining room. It is going to be so very pretty when I have repaired the hinges and painted it.
So target for this week is to pull my finger out and paint the loo. I will then get on and do the utility. Then move into the kitchen.
If I do manage to do this, I can hopefully persuade DH to install the skirting boards in the loo and utility.
I'm back to work on Thursday night though so better get on with it!

debbiedeejay

Oh Dear- have totally lost my mojo - maybe I need my DD2 to hide her passport in my bedroom for another round of major hide and seek to sort out my bedroom.:cool:

Everyone is doing so well! It's great to read that so much de cluttering is going on - even if its not happening in my house at the moment - but there again I did de- clutter the piece of grass out back yesterday - shared yard with four other houses but the grass is outside mine but all use it - borrowed Dad's mower and declutted 3 sacks of grass for recycling:T but not before picking up neighbours dog poop from their end first- 16 big piles of it - but I left the bag near their end for them to get rid of;) - thats one thing I refuse to completely de- clutter!

mcculloch29

I've been looking at my bookshelves and realising that much as I love them, there are large numbers of books that will be never read again - or I could get them from the library if I really wanted to. I love biography and non - fiction so some will stay as they are reference for work-related things. Now to strengthen my resolve to say goodbye to old friends.

Sunny_Donny

hi
just thought I'd check in
listed 17 items on ebay
2boxes sorted from under the bed
sorted through DVD's for car boot on 30/5/11
sorted through CD's for car boot
all car boot stuff stored in front room out of the way

out
bed sold on ebay - paid for and collected today
2 bags of rubbish to bin

in
bogof toothpaste from Mr T's
free Dolmio sauce from Mr T, Thanks News oTW

loopychriss

Another few days' decluttering has unearthed:

1 inflatable pillow
1 empty Roses chocolate tin
Travel wallet
Aries keyring
Luggage tag
Sparkly wool
Disc cleaning set
1 old floppy disc (!)
Travel toothbrush case and soap dish
Old broken watch
Old passport (expired in 2001)
Old batteries
2 old mobile phones and chargers
Lidless baby bottle
Loads of craft stuff
2 more dead batteries
Old Sony Walkman
1 glass jug
Another portable cassette player
Jigsaw - back to mum and dad
Some fabric - 4 Morsbags made to give away in June

Gradually getting there, although the place is still messy - I think it's because neither of us ever puts anything away after us! Still, got till the end of the year to achieve minimalism - we'd like to move next year and I couldn't face sorting and packing it all in one go!

shelley_crow

the rain this morning/last night scuppered my plans to do a car boot, however:

1) sold a bag of baby clothes for £15, these were cluttering up my bedroom
2) sold a bag of books that had been cluttering up my living room
3) sold a pile of twilight books, they are off the chest of drawers.

I have a friend buying a huge wooden bookcase that I dearly love but have no room for, more pennies for the pot.

Fizzbitz

Day 3 of the 10 day challenge

1-3 Plastic bottles - recycle
4 Fridge magnets - charity shop
5 Walkman earplugs - bin
6 Torn book - r/c
7 Out of date skin care set - bin
8 Tatty old gift boxes - r/c
9 Old plastic coffee filter - bin
10 moulting blusher brush - bin
11-13 3 bin liners of dross from under furniture etc :embarasse
14 Bag of wool oddments - donated
15-17 3 beer cans - r/c

I think the bin men are going to have a heart attack this week!!! No idea where the beer cans came from as I never drink it!!

Fizz