Decluttering 2012, this year, definitely ...

Buffythedebtslayer

have two bags for the charity shop, room clearing is a work in progress but i can see a plan forming..

so yeah will be back tomorrow with more progress.

xx

happy_chick_3

Hi everyone I'm back from a month away and would like to give this a better go than I did in June!

Starting my 100 for September now as it's still the summer hols and I've got time before starting work again.

1 - huge bag of recycling from clearing desk and chucking out post
2 - 3 CD's sold on ebay
3 - moisturiser finished.

And I'm off to find some more.....

loopychriss

black_cat wrote: »

Once you get started and can see results it get easier, doesn't it? Well done for letting go of the craft stuff!

Thank you blackcat; yes, I can now certainly see results. I used to have the 3rd (box) bedroom as a craft room, and it was so packed with storage units and my craft stuff that I sometimes had only a 6" square clear on the table to work in! The beauty of that was that I could just shut the door on the mess and not worry about it.

I must have spent thousands of hubby's pounds in the past 20-odd years on the latest and newest craft stuff. Every new technique I discovered (i.e. rubber stamping, pricking, embossing), I had to have not just one or two, but about a dozen of everything. I even bought an Ikea display cabinet to display my wooden stamps in!

I never even used the rubber stamps; oh no, that would mean getting them dirty, so they just used to sit there looking pretty. I was the same when I took up patchwork - I had to have every piece of fabric that I could, but never used it as it 'was a shame to cut it up and spoil it'.

I definitely had a touch of the obsessive compulsive hoarder. Since having grandchildren (one of them disabled) I haven't been able to spend as much time crafting and sewing, so I might as well let someone have it who will use it. I can honestly say that I can't even remember a lot of what I've given away. I could have sold it on Ebay but the few bits I did list I got peanuts for. I'd rather local charities and organisations have them for fundraising.

So, I'm now left with about 10% of what I used to have. The 3rd bedroom is now a bedroom again (although the wardrobe in there is still hosting craft bits), and I feel a great weight is off my shoulders.

I do still feel guilty about wasting all that money, but hubby is very understanding and says not to beat myself up about it, it's all in the past. I now have no interest in craft shops or QVC or Ideal World, and have even stopped buying fabric. The New Me might even use up some of the hundreds of yards of fabric I have stashed in the next 20 years!!!

pigpen

Loopy.. I am gradually selling my fabric stash.. I just don't have time any more! I am trying to knit up my wool stash though

Kaz.. I always found DP sizes to be quite large.. maybe you got a rogue pair!

themull1

Kaz2904 wrote: »

No darwinsmum, that's not a problem. It's all good getting nice new clothes (provided that you have got rid of old scruffy ones first yadayada).
I had a bit of a fail last night, got a pair of trousers from thebay and they are a size 10. Can hardly get the darn things up and they most certainly don't look good on me. Cutting me to pieces and a lovely camel toe. I will have to relist these as I am never going to wear them. Are Dorothy Perkins sizes always small or have I just been unlucky here?

Camel toe - i love that saying!! :rotfl::rotfl:

pollys

Inspired by other posters who have tackled the cupboard under the sink, I did mine this morning.

4 plastic bottles to recycling
Card/paper to recycling

Declutterd a green bag of weeds in the garden but rain has stopped play.

DH decluttered a tin of paint by using it up (before it rained)

Apart from general household rubbish that's it so far today.

Pollys

Becky_2

Well done to you all for your decluttering.

I haven't done a lot this month but today I have sorted out our cutlery drawer. We have finally bought a set of twelwe and it will be great to only have one design rather than a mismatch of various designs that has been given to us. The drawer is now neat and tidy and I shall give all the old cutlery to the charity shop.

I have also managed to saw several branches that fell onto our side of the garden when 2 neighbours cut their trees. I managed to fill a whole banana box of kindlings that is now drying for the winter and also 10 logs for our log burner.

All ironing was done yesterday.

OH did some shredding today and the paper is now being soaked ready for becoming paper logs next weekend. I made 8 earlier this week and they are now drying in our guest bedroom.

Next weekend I am hoping to sort out our dry food cupboard and also write a list of what we have got in there. Next weekend I am also hoping to tidy up in our corner cupboard.

Have a nice weekend.

luxor4t

Wet Bank Holiday so I scuttled up to the attic:
135-137. 1 coat and 2 jackets belonging to DS1 to CS/ recycling
138- 188. 50 (yes, 50) old text books, novels, grammar books etc for CS (or recycling if the specialist charity book shop doesn't want them).

Good luck for the end of the month everybody!

dingdongsaving

I've been room by rooming it this Summer...and it worked! I did a boot fair and we made £135! I couldn't believe it as it was all little bits and bobs. Think I'm going to do another one before taking everything that's left to the CS.
It's such a long job when you're sorting everything, but so worth it. I have found myself sitting in rooms where the cupboards literally "feel" clean and it gives me a lovely fuzzy feeling inside. Te-he. I have 2 boxes of stuff to sort/find homes for/file or CHUCK by the end of Tuesday...
Clutter is the enemy of cleaning.

Chocolatedrinker

8 random items to CS and two old pillows into bin. 95/100