The Great Declutter Part 3 - 2011

Mumof2_2

Hi Ellen and welcome to you! I'm only new here myself, but my advice would be to try to do little and often. When I declutter I have a bag for charity shop, one for rubbish, one for recycling and one for selling to ebay etc which seems to work for me.


Can anyone tell me if you can put National Trust books into the recycling? Just seen we have about 11 old ones (told you DH is a hoarder!)

Penelope_Penguin

Mumof2 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if you can put National Trust books into the recycling? Just seen we have about 11 old ones (told you DH is a hoarder!)

I put my old one in last week

ellen75 wrote: »

HI everybody,

Keep thinking about a yard sale, or having a stall on a second hand market, any advice would be gratefully recieved .

Welcome :beer: Ebay is obvious You might try Green Metropolis for books, or Freecycle for anything you don;t manage to sell

PenPen's 100 in 10 Challenge

Day 4; Fri

31. wheelie bin emptied
32 - 34. 3 items to Freecycle
35. 2 parcels in the post
36. cheques banked
37. OOD parish magazine to recycling
38. old operating system discs to the bin
39 - 40. 2 more books to ReaditSwapit

:T Mineallmine's Mini Weekend Challenge :T

41 - 60.

Day 7; Mon

61. recycling bin emptied
62. 1kg Seville oranges decluttered into Whisky Marmalade :beer:
63.

TheDoolallyDilly

nattyt wrote: »

I'm sure a pyschologist ( sp)would call this 'moving on'!! This is a huge step for me trust me. It feels bloody good! Feel like i've turned a corner. Maybe all this stuff about holding onto clutter and emotional reasons for it is true!!

I think so. I also think letting go of the past makes space for happy times in the future Well done, natty.

mcculloch29 wrote: »

BANG!. (bed base part 1) CRASH!, (bed base part 2) THWOP!.... ( rain-soaked king-size mattress), THUD! (punchbag), CRUMPH! (packaging for oven and dining set), SQUELCH! (rainsoaked quilts) and finally CLANG! (digital safe).

1.40 am Peace reigns....

Sorry, neighbours.

:rotfl:

prettypaula wrote: »

i noticed rymans had a rather cheap two drawer lockable filing cabinet in their sale window this week.

we got sick of folders and have a silver one from ikea in a built in cupoboard

That's a good idea - I'll finish off decluttering my files and work out what I need to store (and also where I would actually put a filing cabinet in my house - there must be somewhere it would fit ... )

Nothing new to report here - have spent the whole morning on the phone :eek:

Oh, but ...

Out

One gym membership (cancelled as I don't get time to go anymore)

In

One holiday booked for April

candygirl

Just decluttered 2 mahoosive bin bags of old bills etc, am now waiting for the motivation to sort them into catagories in my box files:j:jWill probs do that tomoz as am full of cold n feel crap:o

Yorkielass

Listed as out yesterday but posted 4 ebay sales and 1 amazon sale at lunchtime today, left it to the last minute to go out and then came back and the 5th had paid, back to the post office tomorrow for me!

tommyk

good afternoon!
isnt every one doing well? well done to all!
have been away from pc this week, (night shifts:() so not much decluttering or anything else done im afraid, however no "ins" either.
have found time to clean and tidy the bookshelf in my room and rehome half a dozen books, which is better than nothing at all.I keep refering to these threads to keep me motivated, so thanks to all :T

Billie-jo

100 THINGS IN 10 DAYS -

40 - More books - c.s.
41 - glass jars out of shed - recycled
42 - jigsaw - c.s.
43 - 2 belts - c.s.
44 - newspapers - recycled
45 - junk mail - recycled
46 - bits of old candles - bin
47 - general rubbish - out as bin day tomorrow
48 - old diary - burnt
49 - broken blood sugar monitor - bin

was hoping to make it up to 50 today but not to worry will continue tomorrow......

Juli

100 things less by end of Jan - part 5 - currently 76...

In no particular order -
rubber band, nail buffer, toiletries container
pile of old lists & receipts out a handbag
postcard, magazine, leaflet, pile of credit card receipts
13 cassettes, 1 CD
jumper, gift set to CS

In - 0 = 100/100

Right I'm off tomorrow to buy a pair of boots (I did throw 2 pairs out) that I promised myself if I hit the target.
Thanks to everyone on this thread for your inspiration!

SparklyClean

SparklyClean wrote: »

Next decluttering tasks are:
Various boxes in my room & under the bed
Top of the fridge - naughty just added more stuff to it!
The garden (too cold & wet at the mo)
Kids books
Those random electrical plugs and wires that just accumulate!
The garage
DD2 s room ready for her big girl bed!
Make old curtains into blinds
Make new cushion covers
Sort airing cupboard :eek:

Have done none of the jobs on my list:o!
But sorted my sewing box and the girls colouring/games/jigsaw basket and sorted a place for DD1s new DS and kiddie camera (never had stuff like that when I was 5!) and make some fairy cakes, so not a total loss today,

IN
HUGE Utility bill :eek::(
Junk mail - straight into recycling

OUT
Bag for charity shop - nearly out its by the front door!
Junk modelling for school - by front foor!
Bag of rubbish

Pending
Girls toys -I'm not sure who/where to give them too
4 giant cuddly toys - again not sure what to do with them


Everyone sounds like they are doing a fab job, I must crack on with my list!!

mummy2mygirls

I made a start today Got rid of 10 things towards the 100 in 10 days. So im happy - will keep it up (and then carry on for another 10 days etc im sure )

1. Big pile of old paper which has been used for colouring
2. Conkers - DD must have brought them in sometime
3. two blow up hammer toys.
4. Pack of playing cards - with some missing
5. Mcdonalds toy
6. Old make up boxes
7. Old shoe box
8. broken tiara
9. 4 old magazines
10. a old book.

All have bee recylcled/i the bin and im ready to do some more tommorow
Really didnt feel up to doing much today so im glad i got a little bit done.....every little helps...

Hope everyone is ok