The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

Yorkielass

Welcome Andrea - I love your posts on the toiletries threads and glad you've joined us here.

Mumof2_2

Welcome to the decluttering thread Andrea! It's great here and we all help to keep each other motivated

mcculloch29

Thanks for the welcomes! The books - c. 25 paperbacks and hardbacks - were gratefully received by British Heart Foundation (bag needed two ladies to carry it in the shop, I'd put it on the back of my trike). Also when I picked up the bag with the stilts in, I discovered about eighty wooden building blocks of varying sizes, shapes and colours. My grandson played with these for hours.

marmiterulesok

I've had a look back to itemize the things/groups of things that I've got rid of.So now it's at:

29. Ten key-rings for the CS.

I'm off tomorrow,so I'll be having a good look around to see what else can go.:D

This thread is a great motivator,thanks to everyone who posts!

CathWales

Hi everyone:)

Today I departed with the desktop computer, it is soon off to Africa for spare parts. My scanner is soon going to a neighbours kid and possibly the desk too (which is in storage elsewhere at the mo) and my new all-in-one printer is on top of the dresser. Tomorrow I will take the couple of books I meant to take before, to the library. Am feeling a bit stressed with all the rows me and mum always seem to have, especially as now the move of the dresser from one place to another has uncovered that the radiator needs painting, apparently along with the rest of my flat as it is 'looking grubby':( I have demolished 3 choccy biccies and will make a cup of tea and drink it while reading the No Toiletries in January thread as I am nearly there, but The Body Shop is calling me with discounts, especially on shower gels and I have about 10 I need to use up before buying any more just cos they are on a great discount!

FelinePrincess

Great work on the de-cluttering everyone!

I haven't done alot today as I had a bit of a busy day and not long got in. But oh has decided to do some tidying and de-cluttering - all my nagging and generally being miserable has paid off! He has cleared some shelves and taken them to the charity shop, patched up the hole in living room ceiling so we are one step closer to redecorating and taken some old shoes to recycleing. He has also (finally!) decided to get rid of his posters, they had all been kept rolled up together as I refused to allow them to be kept on the walls as I felt like I was living in a student house and he is 31 so really too old for posters! I have 3 auctions ending tonight, one has a bid on so that's one more thing pending out

elaine12022

Well done everybody, hello mcculloch. Hope you enjoy using all your toiletries up

Old carpet gone today, lady came as promised, which was great. :j

Put a few books in a box to get rid of ,when I picked up the box they fell through:rotfl:

New flooring now finished in living room, looks really nice. Carpet man left a tool behind again :rotfl:Just have to collect enough energy to dust and clean first before moving anything back in. Going to be a slow process, as very tired now after all the energy expended recently.

Put a file from the floor of the study back where it should have been.

fairy3

Hi everyone - loads of posts to read and everyone is doing so well. Am on day 5 of de cluttering and after a flurry at the weekend am settling into a bit of a routine of 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening after work.
Found out today by chance that my place of work has a once a week pick up of items for a charity shop in the city so now have 5 of their bags and don't have to wait for the bags to come through the door, so happy, will be able to put in car and just go!
Have another pile of paperwork to go through in my lunch hour tomorrow and have put 10 items in charity bag 1.

mineallmine

Hello everyone!

Great to see some friends from the toiletries thread here too!

Decluttered = 1 cold! woo hoo, feel so much better. Can now get back onto decluttering sharpish.

Was looking for some storage things to help (not clutter up the place) and found these - which may be useful for other people. A place for everything and everything in its place:

Argos:
2 Shelf White Finish Internal Wardrobe Shoe Rack.
928/2836
http://reviews.argos.co.uk/1493-en_gb/0176374/reviews.htm

Lakeland:
Brit Box
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/F/C/organising/C/organising-storage-containers/psi/1/pgs/15

So once I've decluttered the lounge surfaces (fireplace, 2 tables, phone cupboard, floor:o) then I can order these! :A

mineallmine

Mumof2 wrote: »

A bit more decluttered:

234. cardboard boxes - recycling
235. old papers - recycling
236. toilet training balls (unused!!!) - CS
237. 2 nail varnishes - CS
238. knitting patterns - CS
239. hooded top - CS
240. toy car - nursery
250. toy lorry - nursery
251. 4 books - nursery
252. 4 soft toys - nursery
253. 2 shirts - CS
254. 1 slip - CS
255. 1 waistcoat - CS
256. 2 skirts - CS
257. 1 doll - CS

So there you go, I wanted to do 100 things in 10 days but as you can see I've done 257 instead :j:j:j! Got another bin bag waiting by door for CS and one for nursery too.

Will keep going as this is so good for me, thanks for all the motivation and I'll keep on posting.

Wow 257 things. Amazing work :j:j:j