Decluttering 2012, this year, definitely ...

pollys

Recycling and wheelie bin have all been emptied today. We have some cardboard, clothes and shoes to go, hopefully tomorrow.
DS1 has put his clothes in his new chest of drawers and his loft room looks so much better.
A friend has put our handrails back on the wall so they are no longer taking up space in the porch.
The dining room just needs the new lightfitting putting up and new blinds then it is finished and decluttered.

I'm pleased with what we have managed to get done over the holiday. We still have stuff to do but have done what was on the "list"

There will be a few more "ins" but home is feeling much more organised and calm.

have a lovely evening.

Pollys

Sue14

black_cat wrote: »

Finally got rid of 3 chocolate / biscuit tins. I always think I'm going to use them, but there's a limit to how many empty ones I need to leave around the house!

I always keep the tins from the xmas chocs, as I can't bear the thought of just binning them if they could be used, but like you say there has to be a limit to how many you need, lol, so every now and then I do send some to recycling.

somerandom wrote: »

Is it too late for me to join in?

Feel good that I've made a start today.

Never too late, welcome, and well done on making a start!

LolaLemon wrote: »

I'm feeling a lot better in myself, I have had visitors and haven't been too worried about what they would say/think about us.

Good luck to all the other hoarders, keep at it, its a never ending job, but we can do it :-)

It's a great feeling isn't it? In the past my brother (who criticizes me at every opportunity) would sometimes ring me and say he would be visiting in a couple of hours, and I would put the phone down and tell DS and OH to stop what they were doing so they could help me make the house presentable. We'd be running round like loonies, tidying, cleaning and chucking things in the bedrooms, and then shut the doors so he couldn't see what was in there. Now it would only take a quick run around to get it looking perfect, although the spare room is still a no go area to visitors, lol!

Well I've not got rid of much in the past few days, but I did tidy the spare room, as we had DS and his GF coming to stay overnight yesterday. I did a bit of the ironing pile yesterday morning, gave DS a framed signed photo of one of his favourite bands, and also gave him and his GF their easter eggs, although I can't really count the eggs as they gave us some too, lol!

Hoping to do a bit tomorrow afternoon, but depends how I feel when I get home from work.

Ditch 100 in April 29/100

luxor4t

130 - 136. dead spices, all out of date & in some cases discoloured and stuck together. I only decluttered the spice box about three years ago :whistle:

While I was at it, I went through the tins & bottles shelves so we've got a veggie bean casserole for dinner tonight (and a few more nights by the size of it). MUST stick to my lists in future.

137 - 149. 13 garments to CS bag - not all mine, DD & DS1 have contributed! although it was sad to see some summer garments have def lost their va-va-voom over the winter

I need to go through the summer clothes carefully & still have DS2's room to 'review' with him when he comes home for a week-end - might make 200 items or even more _pale_
We seem to live in the kids' repository these days, waiting till they each get somewhere properly settled to live in rather than limited rentals.


Ditched in April 149/100

iQueen

Maintaining cleared kitchen - SO much easier to do a 10 minute tidy than a full-on declutter! :T

Now, while the rain holds off, I'm 'de-cluttering' the garden of brambles! (Also, helps me de-clutter some excess weight!:rotfl:)

Just going to burn 6 barrow-loads, to make room for more. :A

Rainy-Days

I have finished doing the kitchen. Yesterday I cleaned the dresser, polished it and put stuff back. Everyting on there has a purpose or beauty to it so there was nothing that needed to be done.

I have gone through the kitchen cupboards today. Thrown out some bits that needed to be binned and restocked/decanted all the condiment jars. The amount was quite big considering this is food based stuff but it hasn't been done in a while. Things on tops of cupboards have either been binned or charity bagged.

I need to get into the shed next as we have loads of old plant pots in there to get rid of - decorative etc. They are not being used so why keep them?

Oh forgot to add what are you guys doing with excess coat hangers - flipping loads in the loft ?

I am going to have another session up in the loft again as well, I did quite well on the first run up there so need to keep this up!

luxor4t

Rainy-Days wrote: »

Oh forgot to add what are you guys doing with excess coat hangers - flipping loads in the loft ?

I've put my 100% plastic pastel hangers into the plastic recycling.

Johnson's dry cleaners take back their hangers for re-use.

I've not done it myself, but M&S recycle their own hangers so they might take their own back too iyswim.

I never take hangers to a charity shop (except as a saleable 'set') as the local one gets swamped with all sorts of horrors and has to pay to bin them.

[STRIKE]Unfortunately, Tesco no longer have hanger recycling boxes [/STRIKE]. :o sorry, there's a hanger recycling container in the big Tesco near me, I walked past it today!

EndlessStruggle

I've been busy getting stuff onto eBay, 79 items listed, they are selling a few at a time but I'm just relisting everything that doesn't sell and it seems to sell eventually. Be glad when this stuff is all sold, then it will be tme for round 2 as I probably haven't been that harsh this time round.

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi everyone

I have had a whole week off work and have been doing some severe (for me!) decluttering; i can report

1 -10 children's clothes to charity
11 - 13 old duvet - tip (offered for free but no one wanted it) and 2 lumpy cushions
14 - 20 - random plastic tubs - tip
21 - grotty old wicker basket - tip
23 - 30 - out of date food from kitchen cupboard clear out - bin
31 - magazine to sister

I have 9 things on E**y, 2 with bids on 2 of them so hoping to finally reach 100 by the end of this month - first time for me on this challenge!!

keep up the inspiring work everyone
DDfD
xx

Ditch 100 in April 31/100

Igamogam

Rainy-Days wrote: »

Oh forgot to add what are you guys doing with excess coat hangers - flipping loads in the loft ?

luxor4t wrote: »

I've put my 100% plastic pastel hangers into the plastic recycling.

Johnson's dry cleaners take back their hangers for re-use.

I've not done it myself, but M&S recycle their own hangers so they might take their own back too iyswim.

I never take hangers to a charity shop (except as a saleable 'set') as the local one gets swamped with all sorts of horrors and has to pay to bin them.

Unfortunately, Tesco no longer have hanger recycling boxes .

Hmm the great hanger debate - they seem to breed. I take some to school for dressing up rail and other things we use to hang stuff from ceiling - especially the clip type ones. However if I know we dont need any in school than I insist they are taken off and left at the store:)

pigpen

Decluttered in April.. 23/100

5 binbags full to bursting with 'bits' from the girls room
1 pack baby bodysuits
6 binbags from the boys room
1 broken wooden spoon
1 TFT monitor
1 binbag full from the kitchen... otherwise known as the petri dish!
2 large cardboard box
1 binbag from the landing
2 partial rolls of wallpaper
1 top sold.. woot!!!
2 pairs of dead trousers in the bin

Made a start on binbag number 5 for charity shop.. must send the boys with those!

I also have a box to list for sale which I am about to photograph.. and a wooden dolls house going on ebay.. unless someone wants to collect it as a project???

and a wicker basket with a broken handle is to be repurposed.. am thinking of lining it and using as a planter.