Decluttering 2012, this year, definitely ...

hollysmum22

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Happy New Year, declutter-ers :beer:

Does anyone wish to join my Ditch 100 in January Challenge That's about 3 things a day

1. bag of video tapes to recylcing
2. turkey carcase (from the freezer ) made into stock and the bones to recycling bin
3.

I'm having a clear out of my tall cupboards next to the chimney breast, so will report back later.

It'll be much easier once I declutter DD back to Uni at the weekend :rotfl:

i would love to join please

Hermia

I have been decluttering for the past year, but definitely need to step things up. I live in rented accomodation and I spent a fortune on moving last time and yet I could have probably lived without half of that stuff.

I got burgled before Christmas and it made my want to declutter even more. I definitely want to cut my attachments to things. And it would also have been easier to work out what was stolen if I didn't have so much stuff.

Recently I have taken 5 large bags of stuff to the charity shop. I actually went through my cookery books and gave a third of them away. Many of them only had a couple of recipes I liked.

I took several sacks of rubbish to the dump and a MASSIVE pile of magazines to the recycling.

I also sent a box of DVDs to MusicMagpie last week.

VJsmum

Mine for today

1. Manky old facecloth that had gone to holes - cleaned loos with it then chucked it.
2. A pair of slippers someone gave to DD a while ago. We doctored them for her to use in a show and they aren't fit for anything now.
3. Really old pizza base mix - too stale to risk now and would taste yuk, I think.
4. Pair of cords consigned to charity bag (does it count if bag not gone yet? THey won't be coming out of it in any case!)
5. A toy gun that is broken and DS grown out of in any case

:T

Penelope_Penguin

SavingJane wrote: »

Thanks, havnt had time to fully catch up on topic, thought someone would of asked.....6yrs WOW thats a lot of paperwork to store :eek:

The Inland Revenue can ask you to prove your affairs back that far, so anything relating to tax needs keeping that long You don;t need to keep bills or credit card statemtns, though

celyn90 wrote: »

Edited to add: Oohh oh a challenge! please may you add me - current score is 6 (a computer game, a shower quadrant, evil evil aduki beans (don't ask!), museli from 2006 (I know, I know), a knackered pair of sandals and a dead pot plant (OH was insisting it would grow back, I disagree and he's in Frankfurt :rotfl:).

Excellent - 7 Challengers ......... so far

Mumof2 13/100

Pudsey DB 1/100

Yorkielass

Butterscotch 2/100

celyn90 7/100

hollysmum22

PenPen 2/100

Remember, it's a challenge not a competition

ellanutella

Been reading this thread with interest Am quite good at keeping things minimal but the OH isn't and since we moved to a 3 bed place there are so many more places for the clutter to go!

I'm quite happy if I can't see any clutter on the surfaces so my usual trick is to stuff things out of view. Today I have de-cluttered the kitchen drawer, the spare laundry basket I was dumping things in and a big plastic box I forgot to unpack from the move... back in Feb.

Also took pictures of clothes to put on eb*y whenever the next free insertion day is (have a feeling it won't be for a while though) and got a whole bag of clothes ready for a doorstep collection tomorrow. And I found a pound in change whilst tidying :j

pavlovs_dog

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

2. turkey carcase (from the freezer ) made into stock and the bones to recycling bin

did you prep the carcass in any way before freezing it? It had never occurred to me to freeze a carcass before (not that I could fit one into our mini integrated freezer without seriously mutilating it first :eek: :rotfl:)

Byatt

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

The Inland Revenue can ask you to prove your affairs back that far, so anything relating to tax needs keeping that long You don;t need to keep bills or credit card statemtns, though



Excellent - 7 Challengers ......... so far

Mumof2 13/100

Pudsey DB 1/100

Yorkielass

Butterscotch 2/100

celyn90 7/100

hollysmum22

PenPen 2/100

Remember, it's a challenge not a competition

I'd like to join in Do things in the car count? I've had to store stuff there. :eek:

Going through everything and being ruthless, I hope... :rotfl:

Penelope_Penguin

pavlovs_dog wrote: »

did you prep the carcass in any way before freezing it?

No We went away a couple of days after Christmas, so I just stripped the meat of the carcase, and froze that. I then wrapped the carcase in the foil in which it had been cooked, and put it into the freezer until I had time to make stock and soup

You could mutilatre the carcase before freezing, but I'd not recommend if you meant that you'd have to mutilate the freezer

Penelope_Penguin

Byatt wrote: »

I'd like to join in Do things in the car count? I've had to store stuff there. :eek:

They do

SavingJane

I'm going to start on the bookcase tomora my number of items out will hit least 10 if not lot more it's about to burst

I'm going to count the shower curtain as 1 to get me started even thou I put 1 in it's place I've been meaning for it to go for over a week lol