Decluttering 2012, this year, definitely ...

mineallmine

mineallmine wrote: »

So going to attempt a super charged declutter today. To get rid of 25 things today.:eek:

:T

1. Bath foam used up as part of attacking my stash (recycling)
2. Out of date tube of icing (bin)
3. Cardboard packaging (recycling)
4. Plastic packaging (bin)
5. Bag (charity)
6. Bunch of paperwork (shredded)
7. Gift bag (bin)
8. Magazine (charity)
9. Black bag full of rubbish (bin)
10.Cosmetic bag (bin)
11.DVD (charity)
12. Brochure (recycling)
13. Clipboard (bin)
14. Book (charity)
15. Cosmetic bag (charity)
16. Travel bits such eyemask, shower thing (charity)
17. Bag (bin)
18. Bag (bin)
19. Make up (bin)
20. More plastic wallet/packaging (bin)

Not quite 25 but that will do. A sack of recycling and sack of rubbish and a small carrier bag of charity bits will be out of the house.
:A

mineallmine

kraftykat wrote: »

Hi Everyone, can I join you?...
I actually felt delighted after I had finished that big cupboard. I kept going out and opening the doors to look at how neat and organised it looked.....how sad am I? :D

Hello kraftykat Everyone does things at their own speed. I used to post here lots and have recently re-started. A good idea to get your house sorted as much as you can. Many people set a target of say get rid of 100 things but you may want to attack like you have a cuboard at a time.
Personally I don't ebay stuff only because it became pure hassle and once I'd sorted the stuff I want it gone asap. But some declutters do ebay. It's a case of doing what works for you.
Have a think about post op when you're decluttering so if there's books/magazines/craft things/films you'd like to watch you could bag those up or place them somewhere within easy reach.
A warm welcome :A

cat04

It's been a week since I got back on here so thought I'd report back with my progress so far. Between us I've sold and posted a couple of bits on ebay and have 16 items on there at the moment. No bids but 3 items have watches so fingers crossed. Everything on there is stuff I've been given to sell so I'll only get the money for one item (from my mum) and if the rest sell it the money will go to OH's Nanna and mum.

I said in my last post that we'd been helping clear out OH's GPs stuff and selling/donating it for them. Well, his mum's house is being rewired next Monday and she's got to pack a lot of stuff up and so naturally she's been having a sort out. She's separated it into stuff for CS and stuff for us to sell. Some of that is on ebay, some will go onto facebook when I get the time to list it and the rest will go in an ebay bundle.

OH has some blu-rays, bundles and old toys on ebay at the moment. One blu-ray has a bid and the rest have watches so hopefully that will be a few more things gone

I sent in the Harvest Festival donations to school with the girls on Monday....a week early by mistake but at least it's out of the house!

A bag of DD2's outgrown clothes sold on FB as well as a children's torch. A bag of DD2's no-longer-needed-as-she's-at-school nursery uniform given to nursery as spares, DD1's long sleeved school shirts she's grown out of and that DD2 doesn't want to keep given to school for their uniform shop.

Lots of packaging and 'stuff' the girls had been collecting into the recycling bin

Several cards from the stash given out/posted and some wrapping paper used up.

Think that's it for the moment unless I think of anything else. I want to go through my kitchen cupboards as there are a couple (tupperware etc and glasses/mugs) that could do with a cull again.

Tiglath

My sister has once again performed a miracle as we tackled the diningroom today. 3 sets of dumbbells (put on the pavement and taken one by one this afternoon by passersby), an old Dyson, 3 cushions, a horrible picture of a kitten (snaffled within an hour by someone) and 10 black bags of utter rubbish gone. Don't even know how to quantify that as it was little things like old cassette tapes, floppy disks, crappy ornaments, old candles and leaflets, so I'm going to give a conservative guess of 300 bits gone today. It actually looks like a diningroom rather than the hovel it's been for the past decade.

happytails

Got my 4 items posted picked up the baby bouncer chair for my mums. Its going to get cleaned and then dropped off at my mums -hopefully tomorrow!

Didnt manage my sewing last night so hoping i will tonight. If i get the 4 half finished projects done then that will be 4 things i can put away

Still need to empty all my bins and try and sort out the stuff in the babys cot. Got 3 loads of washing to get away tonight. Husband needs to move 2 big sacks of chicken food and play sand out of the kitchen and into the shed. They have been there since September sometime! :eek:

Im obviously getting somewhere as im always selling or charity shop giving or going to the tip but im really not seeing any more space in my house yet! Seems i attack somewhere, get it looking sparce, focus on another area and the first area i de cluttered ends up getting cluttered again! :mad: kids and a husband really dont help with this challenge lol x

suzeesu2000

Hello Kraftykat and welcome to us!

Sarah you will find that, after a while, the stuff you are moving around becomes less and less. You are still doing brilliantly! Well done.

Have a nice evening all

kraftykat

Thanks for the welcomes

I'm going to start on DD's bedroom tomorrow. It's a tiny room, but she has so much stuff floor to ceiling. I need to make room for Santa's things and her birthday is just before christmas. I sometimes put some of her toys in the attic and bring down some bits she hasn't played with in a while.

Dd has Autism and she likes to hoard strange bits & pieces, so her room will probably take me a full day to sort out. I also need to put her summer clothes into storage boxes under her bed and check last years winter clothes to see if anything still fits :cool:

silentsister

Good morning declutters - and welcome to kraftykat, good luck with DD's bedroom today.

I love sorting things out early in the morning and find I am able to make decisions that have not been made for years! Today I sorted through a storage box of body lotions/washes etc and got rid of most and put the few left close to me where I will use them. Another storage box out. I put a bag of misc sewing items in the same area as the other sewing things - still to be sorted but at least in the right area. Another storage box out. I feel I'm progressing from 'gather together similar items' to 'look at them and deal with them'. Another thing I'm bad at is returning unwanted goods when I've ordered them online. I always leave it too late and both lose money and gain unwanted things. So three items packed away and the return arranged. Yesterday I finished dealing with the half-made knitted and crocheted things. Both had been attacked by moths so I was happy to ditch spoilt wool and have added the other balls to my wool pile. So now I'm ready to tackle other things I've been putting off, like filling in forms for the solicitor. I can't put that off any longer!

16 body lotions etc to bin
22 body lotions etc to cs
2 toilet bags to cs
1 briefcase to cs
2 vacuum cleaner brushes binned - cleaner long gone

happytails

Morning all. IF you are decluttering kids toys then read this - http://www.argos.co.uk/static/ArgosPromo3/includeName/argos-toy-exchange.htm?!!!!!ar:cat:gamesandpuzzles:gamesandpuzzlescontenteditorialblockone:slot3:promosbarnardos

Argos are doing a toy swap. Donate your unwanted toys to argos, which they then donate to barnardos, and you get a voucher for £5 off a £35 toy purchase at Argos. (thinking might be handy with Xmas creeping up ) I am going to do this as still have bits and bobs to get for Xmas and DS' birthday 2 days after.

Did some sorting this AM. Sorted DDs books and drawers, got 5 books going to the CS and a few Tshirts and a pair of tights. Managed to persuade her to give up a pair of her 'dress up shoes' and a teddy too :T shoes and teddy will be put aside for said Argos donation.

Going to fix DD's play dress now as im getting pestered for it didnt get any of my sewing done last night due to another late night with the boy (11pm he finally succumbed to sleep!)

Sarah x

short_bird

2 books via Amazon sales, another bag of shredding and a bag of paper to recycling which included notes for a course taken in 2004. Slow, but steady.;)