Decluttering 2012, this year, definitely ...

RedLass

cyclingyorkie wrote: »

DS's car which failed it's MOT in March is still on the drive - how do you go about getting the thing scrapped? I don't drive and neither does DH so having a car has been a bit of a novelty.... However I want to put a skip on the drive so I can clear the garage...

We took my last car to scrap about 18 months ago. It was an old N reg Vauxhall Corsa. They paid me about £180 if I recall correctly, and within a few weeks I had all the proper destruction paperwork through. We drove it over just before the MOT ran out but they would've collected too. It was a fairly local company, recommended by someone we know but I have also seen adverts in the local paper on numerous occasions.

I'd suggest taking a look in the local paper first, around the classifieds, or even the second hand car section. You may have a company close to home that you've just never had reason to know about before. Failing that, yellow pages etc... call around, see what sort of prices they quote you, and if they collect.

By the way, we saw an advert on the TV the other day for a new "car recycling" company. Personally, I'd go to a local car reclamation yard/company.

This is the one we used, as an example:
http://www.whipstreet.co.uk/

pigpen

I have disposed of.. 92/100

2 carrier bags
2 boxes
3 huge plastic bags.. just doing a clothes/new school uniform reshuffle on the landing!
13 items flung from kitchen cupboard
7 kitchen earmarked for CS
5 items shuffled out to the shed
5 ebay bits posted
2 binbags to CS
2 binbags of stuffed critters rehomed
1 biscuit barrel
1 binbag of miscellaneous rubbish from the kitchen
1 binbag of rubbish from my room
1 binbag rubbish from girls room... I have no idea where it all comes from in there!
37 bits of stuff (and 2 spiders and a crispy dead slug) from under the sink and a bucket of mouse poo
5 pairs of manky shoes to recycling
2 boxes of mouldy KK doughnuts
1 empty perfume bottle
1 binbag of rubbish from middle room
1 carrier of paper recycling

I may go clean another cupboard!!

55 items on ebay.. 7 with bids!

squeakysue

A great lot of decluttering going on in my bedroom today, makes me so happy to see more floor and surface space appearing, still chipping away at it so will report back later but safe to say I have now smashed my target :j

short_bird

pigpen wrote: »

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2 boxes of mouldy KK doughnuts

How'd that happen? :eek:

pollys

Bank Holiday activity rained off (eventually) today.

Have spent time cleaning and washing. Not much decluttered.

3 pairs underpants
Contents of DS2's cricket bag - empty pop bottles, sweet wrappers, plastic bag, empty deodrant.

Everyone seems to be doing really well.

Pollys

tiny_courageous

Managed to get an hour's decluttering out of OH! Threw out

1. Drill with no plug
2. old lava lamp which no longer works
3. various car battery chargers which no longer work
4. various bits of tools
5. various files, folders and bits of paper
6. quilt and pillows (which are in the back of my car to be donated to a family in need).
7. some broken CDs
8. instructions for long-gone gadgets
9. boxes. Lots of boxes

He also agreed to a lot of stuff going in the loft, which is great. The loft is pretty well insulated and there's a ladder installed so it's quite easy to get to if necessary. The spare room will be empty before we know it.
I just need to get some cables to hook up my old video player to the laptop so I can convert a large collection of old videos to files and then get rid of the videos.

pigpen

short_bird wrote: »

How'd that happen? :eek:

because they are disgusting and smell like vomit.. and only OH and DD2 like them.. though they have so much chemical crap they weren't mouldy but after 7 weeks quite definitely inedible..

short_bird

Pigpen: Oh, right! I used to work in an office so all I remember was that sort of foodstuff being hoovered up, even by the dieters:D

bonnie_bumpkins

60. carrier bags to CS
61. green glass to recycling
62. t-shirt - must be 20 yrs old, and now stained - in bin
63. ill-fitting knickers - in bin
64. garden recycling - out for council collection (minus the stuff DS should have added :mad: and I'm not going out in the rain in my PJs to do it)
65. can/plastic bottle recycling - out for council collection
66. paper/cardboard - out for council collection

ETA cyclingyorkie my local garage towed away my old banger and took it to be scrapped; I collected the paperwork a couple of weeks later, with £160 or so profit, for a 16 yr old little peugeot. HTH.

ziggy2407

I'm back and looking forward to getting back on the Declutter wagon. Norfolk was fab - the weather was AMAZING and we all had a great and relaxing time. Didnt get online at all during the two weeks - sorry, but I did think of you all frequently and send positvive vibes your way. We came home to a wonderful surprise - a table full of goodies from my mum (she'd been in cahoots with a friend and arranged it all) - toilet rolls, kitchen rolls, washing up liquid, fabric softener, washing powder, a beautiful scented candle and a SLOW COOKER and then to top it all my freezer is full - we were overwhelmed and cannot thank her enough

Anyway off to bed now and will be back tomorrow to declare the de-cluttering I managed while away and catch up on the thread.

Night all, love you all

C xx