Decluttering 2012, this year, definitely ...

Sue14

minuettoallegretto wrote: »

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Heard yesterday that we have been accepted for the new house - we collect the keys on Friday 17th! So, the next week is going to be full-on packing and chucking - and the kids are off school, so they WILL help, or I won't move their toys!
On the downside, I left my kitchen scales on the cooker top yesterday. Half an hour later there was the most dreadful smell - I thought it might be something to do with the tumble drier, but the smell was further on. Looked at the cooker, to see the scales melted onto the hob - the ring had been left on after cooking tea, and I hadn't noticed. So they've gone in the bin, and I will have to get new ones today - I won't count it in my total, as it's an immediate replacement. But please everyone - if you going to put anything on the hob, check whether it's switched on first!
Back to the packing and chucking - this will take some time.....

Congrats on the house, and good luck with the move. I have a gas cooker, so a bit harder to leave things on the top without realising it's on, but I have had a couple of things I've left on the top with the lid down, while using the oven, and they've melted because I've left them too near the back vent, oops! My worst mistake of this type was when I was staying with my sister, and made some toast on her eye level grill. She had a habit of leaving tea towels on top, and because I didn't move the one she had there it caught on fire:eek:! When she came home she could smell that something had been burnt and I had to admit that I'd burnt her tea towel, she was not amused!


Yesterday morning I took 4 more used envelopes in to work, along with 8 used batteries for recycling. When I got home I tackled the cupboard under the sink. I took everything out, washed the cupboard and got rid of:-

3 tatty scourers - binned
5 broken clothes pegs - binned
washing liquid dosing ball - binned
2 empty spray bottles - recycle
air freshener finished - recycle
bird peanuts (which I didn’t know I had) put out and bag binned

Also put a metal clip thing, which is supposed to go under the sink, in metal recycling. This has been under the sink for about 3 years, since we had the kitchen refitted, because I didn’t know where it had come from. Yesterday I had a proper look, and found that it should fit under the drainer, so I tried to fit it back on, however a plastic bit that I’d taken off, to clip onto the bit already attached to the drainer, fell down behind the back of the unit, which can’t be accessed without taking the whole unit apart, and that’s not going to happen, so I decided to get rid of the other bit. The cupboard is now tidy again!

I did have a little ‘in’ (well moved from the shed to the house), as I want to start saving any £2 coins I get and needed a tin to put them in, and I found a nice one in the shed so brought it in and cleaned it up ready to use.

Free listing weekend on ebay so hopefully get a few bits listed and sold, I didn’t sell anything last time which was very disappointing, as I had a few watchers on some items.

Ditch 100 in February 35/100

Mumof2_2

Just popping in to update my totals following my sort out of DD's room:

Bin
43. scraps of wool
44. old ring case
45. old mostly broken plastic necklaces/bracelets from when she was a toddler (now 9)
46. broken badge
47. worn out scrunchies/hair bands
48. old sheet of stickers
49. battered old cosmetics bag of mine
50. worn out sock
51. broken pen

Recycling
52. 2 x magazines
53. shoe box
54. large paper bag she'd been using to keep her precious toy okapi in (never used - she always snuggles him into her bed during the day time and hugs him close at night :A!)
55. cardboard box

Pending - will go to Charity Shop (I'll add these to my total once they've actually left the house!)
MacDonalds Top Trumps cards
2 books
blow-up space rocket (one of DH's presents for her - never been looked at!)
pair of sandals
plastic basket


She was so pleased when she got home and saw her bedroom all tidy - she knows I've slung a few bits but luckily (so far) nothing precious to her so I'm not in trouble ...... yet :rotfl:

nomi01

Ok, I have been meaning to list e*ay stuff for over a week now and not got round to it. But this weekend is free listings, so I am definately gonna get it done.
I have 5 things listed on there to end tomorrow. I have only got a bid on 1 of them:(. No interest in other items, but I will relist them straight away if they don't sell as it's free:).
Hopefully I will sell some stuff as I have done no decluttering other than general vtidying this week.

hollyh

I haven't done a lot but am planning on decluttering my book case that holds all my stock this afternoon.

25-26 2 cracked mugs
27-28 2 pks of beads sold

Ditch 100 in feb 28/100

short_bird

105 + 106) Sold 2 books on Am@zon when I've sold next to nowt for weeks:D
107) A large picture (mounted on wood) of Colin and Justin, the home interiors chappies, decluttered to neighbours who will pass it on to a friend of theirs.

Ditch 100 in February 107/100

hollyh

Well decluttering has it's advantages. I just found a wad of reciepts when i was sorting the shelves. I was going to just sling them in the recycling but thought i'd better check for business reciepts first. I found £5 folded in a reciept :j.

29 Broken Bracelet
30-35 Broken rings
36-37 Broken organza bags
38 Lots of price labels that had come off
39-41 Junk mail
42 2011 Calender
43-47 Paper
48-52 Magazines
53 New home card

Ditch 100 in feb 53/100

angelavdavis

Great result on the fiver hollyh!

Have been keeping busy, almost finished the dressing table refurb (photos to follow).

I have cleared the following:

- 7 large boxes to recycling
- 1 box of computer stuff to charity
- old mirror - fc
- pallet - chopped up for kindling

Have also listed some books on greenmetropolis.

I am going to sort a couple of things out to put on ebay this weekend, I have a 5ft column fishtank, sun-pipe rooflight, granite hearth and usb turntable that I need to sell. I have advertised them locally on the free ads, but had no luck.

bossymoo

Me and the children have decluttered a box of fairy cake mix my mum brought to do on a rainy day!

One less thing in the cupboard but a potential 12 more things in our tummies...

Think that gets me to 24. Also recycled 2 loo roll inners and 'encouraged' mum to take her bag of paperwork back to her own house...

27/100

susan946

angelavdavis wrote: »

Hi,

I came across this article - it isn't a new article but I thought it might of interest to some:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1211647/How--declutter-home.html

thanks for this Angela. I'm not too sure that heaving everything out would work for me, though. I'm afraid if I did that I wouldn't be able to get in the room to sort it!!!!!!!! I just work shelf by shelf. How do other people work?

Having said that, I've had a really good day, today. I sorted the bottom half of the cupboard in the front bedroom/craft room and found 60 old magazines to go, a pile of old holiday brochures, some old freebies from magazines I shall never use, and various other bits and bobs that 'might have come in useful some day'. Well, as that day never came and I'm on a roll, out they went. Have a heap to go on ebay, a heap for the cs, a heap in the recycling bins and a full bag for the dustbin. I also found statements for 4 credit cards for 2008 so those are now shredded.

Not sure how to count these as different people have different systems. It could be well over the 100 today alone. I have to confess, though, I'm more interested in getting the job done that in counting.

I also had dh put up a rail on the back of the wardrobe door for my necklaces. That sorts one of the bedroom drawers and I've ditched 4 more necklaces to go with the six I sent to a table top sale last week.

I asked dh for a piece of dowel but he decided to use net curtain wire as he (super hoarder of nuts, bolts and all things our menfolk hoard) said he had a short length of wire left over and also the hooks and eyelets in his hooks and eyelets drawer. Bless!!!!!!!

Kaz2904

Brilliant, thanks to whoever posted about free listing weekend! I shall relist my unsold items and have more sitting here ready to be listed. I will take the photos tomorrow when I get home home from work in the morning. I don't know if I'll list them straight away or if I'll go to bed and do them when I get up later on but I will list them.
I think I'll put the trousers back on ebay that I bought because they are really tiny and I'm never going to fit into them. I might as well get some money back from them hadn't I?
Have a relaxing evening all