Decluttering 2012, this year, definitely ...

Sue14

Ditch 100 in January Challenge 67/100

Posted a Wii game today which was sold on ebay, so another jiffy bag also gone from the stash. Emptied the remains of a large bubble bath bottle into a pump dispenser and finished a jar of face cream, so bottle and jar have now gone to recycling.

celyn90

Florenceem wrote: »

Do you sell the buttons in collections/colours or how please? I have loads of buttons to sort through.
Great news on the kitchen - I like the stuff in IKEA - are they fitting the kitchen or is it a DIY job?

This one was just a collection of seventy plastic buttons in a variety of colours, some vintage, others modern. I just tipped them onto a white surface and photographed them spread out. There were some sets and some odd ones and no colour theme. They didn't sell the first time, but did when I relisted them (listed at 99p, finished at £1.99 plus the postage).

IKEA are fitting the kitchen as well (well, their contractors are) - I don't have the confidence to do it (we did the bathroom ourselves, but this is a whole different scale). It's a total gutting job - we are back down to brick in places we are taking the ceiling down tomorrow (we are doing the prep). All of the sockets need moving and the hob is gas (british gas disconnected it all for us when the fitted the boiler, which was kind of them). Because of the scale, we'd need minor works certificates for the electrics and the gas, so it's easier (and safer!) for them to do it all; plus we don't fancy cutting the worktops. It's a kitchen dining room knock through (which what sold the house really, as there was potential underneath all the grot - or so I keep telling myself). It looks better now it's gutted than it did when we moved in. Well, that was what I was telling myself when I was scraping dead birds out of the hearth *shudder*

Thank you for all the suggestions about the drum

System

For tea we have quiche, made from odds and sods out of the freezer.

Leftover pastry that was frozen cause i'd made too much.

Grated cheese bought cheap but didnt need it so i bunged it in the freezer.

Bacon. 4 slices left over from the weekend (i'm not that keen on bacon or sausage myself so any left over gets bagged and stored in the freezer.

Sweetcorn. Half a tin frozen rather than thrown out.

Onion. Half a red onion diced. Only needed half an onion so chopped up the onion, bagged it and put it in the freezer.

4 eggs

Three quarters of a pint of milk.

So apart from the milk and the eggs/herbs the rest of the stuff has cost me very little and ive gained some storage space in the side pockets of my freezer.

tiny_courageous

Well, the kitchen drawer is certainly more empty than it was! Found some post it notes that I'll take into work to use, lots of wrapping paper and blank birthday cards (very useful!) which can go in my gift bag (which has a place already), some jiffy bags that'll hopefully get used up when the ebay stuff sells (hopefully!), two old phones (that have no value on mazuma, they're that old!), and a load of rubbish that I have no idea why we were keeping (2010 diary? I should declutter a bit more often!). There's a bag full of stuff been put in the bin anyway, so I'm considering that a success.

clipperty

OMG I am hanging my head i shame have spent the aftern decluttering my handbags in my wardrobe which get used and everything left in them put away and forgotten about. I have decluttered the following from them :-

Half a black bag of receipts
£16.15 in loose change which weighed a tonne!! This is now in my sealed pot
£2 coin which is now in my £2 sealed jar
£10 x £1 coins which I have put in my sealed £1 a day jar
£5 note wrapped in a receipt and nearly thrown!
£20 note again wrapped in a receipt and nearly thrown!!!!! These are both now deposited in my secret notes box
£5 winning scratch card which I will cash in later and put money in my notes saving box
Brand new sealed packet of cigarettes!

So that is approximately £58 quid decluttered!!!:eek: Plus I will put £5 i my savings too to cover the cost of the cigarettes. Thank you so much for this challenge, although I have not actually done the 100 items I have probably exceeded that through your inspiration and loads of savings I did not even know I had

short_bird

Looks like it's one fridge freezer out and one in...:(

Unless there's some kind of magic fix on the internet:D

Possession

A good decluttering day at last. And I have tackled the Cupboard of Doom!
5 jigsaws to my nephew
17 childrens books out
SO much rubbish you wouldn't believe it from the Cupboard of Doom
Fixed the filing cabinet so the drawers are no longer cluttering the floor.
Loads of out of date work labels out
Decluttered my handbag
A portugese-english dictionary I bought while I was living in Japan and haven't opened since (I came back to the UK in 1994.)

Ditch 100 in January Challenge 72/100

parsonswife8

Before Christmas, I was soooooo enthusiastic to declutter, but as we have so far, experienced a mild winter here in the South East, I just haven't gotten around to it.:o

I need to be snowed in or freezing or to have storms outside to get started.:D

Oh well, maybe next winter.:rotfl:

We are well insulated here, mind.:j

short_bird

short_bird wrote: »

Looks like it's one fridge freezer out and one in...:(

Unless there's some kind of magic fix on the internet:D

There is a magic fix on the internet as long as you have a tame electrician. Which I do!:D

and he's also very frugal...

poohbear59

I am a late starter but have decluttered
1. sticky frying pan
2. broken dvd player
3. broken sandwich toaster
4. freegled a deep fat fryer
5, freegled a bag of packing foam
6. freegled a battery charger

94/100