Decluttering 2012, this year, definitely ...

basketcase

short_bird wrote: »

Under the Dome. Bought 30th December 2011, finished last night. If you liked The Stand, you'll probably like it! And it's on Kindle.

Basketcase: yeah, books the size of housebricks need to have a fast turnround, especially in our flat:D That reminds me, due to previous decluttering, it was really easy to find a space to hide some:beer: on 1st January when Him Indoors stopped drinking for 6 weeks. The only stuff not hidden is the Baileys (still in the fridge)which I need to crack on and finish. What a chore, eh?:D

Reading AND drinking as decluttering tools... I am now seriously impressed. :T

Have you thought of becoming a professional decluttering guru? I'd buy the book. And immediately put it into practice! :rotfl:

Mumof2_2

Major progress here as DH has started to sort out the Room of Doom (our extension) - he's even said I can put a couple of cardboard boxes in recycling :eek: *thud*! He's got all the plastic milk lids he was saving (don't ask why) and is taking them into work for someone who does something with them; again don't ask me what. I got rid of some old poster paint which had been left open and dried and a few little tubs of again dried up paint. I did ask if we could get rid of the National Trust books from 1998 - 2011 as I think that's sensible but no, we can't do that as he likes to collect them .

I also paired up some socks for us and put 15 odd socks in the clothes recyling bag for the material to be recycled. All steady progress methinks.

Everyone is doing really well; let's all keep at it!

short_bird

basketcase wrote: »

Reading AND drinking as decluttering tools... I am now seriously impressed. :T
Have you thought of becoming a professional decluttering guru? I'd buy the book. And immediately put it into practice! :rotfl:

What can I call a self help book of that nature?
Drink 'n' Declutter?
Tipple and Tidy?
Rum, Read and Recycle?

CompletelyLost

mummysaver38 wrote: »

I have mentioned it on here before, reluctant to mention it too many times in case you think I have some sort of shares in it LOL:rotfl:
It is called "No more clutter: how to clear your space and free your life" by Sue Kay. V interesting as it goes into great detail about the psychology of hoarding, looking at different types such as the frugal hoarder the trophy hoarder etc as well as the practicalities of how to go about decluttering your place.

Ooh I actually have that book... haven't read it though :rotfl:

365days

31. Bag od cardboard/plastic - recycling bin
32. 2x bags of mixed recycling - dump (what do you call your local recycling centre?)
33. bag of carp - bin
34. 7x dinner plates (chipped,worn, knackered) -rubble bin at dump
35. cracked wooden chopping board aka scientific experiment to see how much bacteria can be bred in one place - bio fuel bin at dump.

Not bad....going to take some bags of rabbit bedding and poo to the allotment compost in a min. This isn't in the house but in bags in thethe garden. I'm going to count clutter that comes out of the garden too if you don't mind.

Have a good day all.

Has ANYONE got a fool proof way of NOT getting odd socks?

Catslovelycats

Byatt wrote: »

Keep meaning to ask, is that lovely cat on your avatar yours?

Haven't done a lot today, felt even more blah than yesterday.

Ha. Thanks Byatt, yes the 'ovely cat' is mine. It was she looked like in August 2010. She is now an enormously huge British shorthair who's on a diet to try and lose some weight! I've never had a cat grow so fast as her and I've never had to deal with an obese cat either! So it's a learning curve! (She weighs just over a stone...!)

celyn90

Ditch 100 in January 42/100

36. Pine sideboard - a very lovely ebayer came to collect yesterday
37. A pine chest of drawers - very lovely ebayer came to collect this morning
38. A large piece of left over carpet underlay - given to ebayer to put under chest of drawers in the van
39. Half a recycling bin of paper (not kidding, and it's a wheelie bin) - spent yesterday doing half of my self-assessment, so needed to go through the boxes anyway. Curse of having three employers and being self employed. Mainly envelopes and stupid leaflets - why OH doesn't ditch them when they come in, I'll never know. Buckets of work stuff that needed to be destroyed too.
40. A pair of Doc Martens I bought, because they were wonderful. but couldn't wear them as they are the wrong shape for me (ebay)
41. A set of motorcycle handlebar ratchet straps - no longer have the bike, no need to keep these (ebay)
42. Knackered pair of motorcycle boots - badly scuffed from one of many pavement kissing incidents (bin)

I also filed all the house purchase stuff and made a new folder for all the building regs compliance certificates and minor electrical works certificates. As the house was a repo we bought it, we need to keep a very solid paper trail of every bit of work we do on it as it has no history prior to us moving in.

The kitchen is coming out next week; we have family help to gut it as it's going right back to floorboards and brick. :eek: We will take the units out tomorrow though - as we have a hire car so can take some stuff to the tip. That's quite an epic declutter

More ebay things finishing today/tomorrow

calleyw

Right I am going to join the ditch 100 in January, a little late but never mind

Friday/Saturday

1-20 Books to CS
21-23 Candle holders to CS
24-26 Picture frames to CS
27 Cake topper to CS
28-30 tapes to CS
31-33 Ornaments to CS
34 Lemmings Game to CS
35-40 assorted supermarket magzines dating from June Last year:eek:in to the recycling.
41 Bag of shredding

That is just over the last few days. That does not included more bags of shredding few days ago.

I have even started my own little diary every day with items in, out, pending and what money I have spent. Only be going a few days. So we shall see how long I keep it up.

On wards and up wards.

Yours

Calley

CompletelyLost

Ditch 100 in January Challenge

49. Used stamps, in an envelope ready to send to charity
50. 1x Old vinyl, binned
51. Bag of misc rubbish, binned
52. Lots of paperwork shredded


52/100

Done more tidying, but not really parted with much. I've just been organising things into folders and making the place look generally neater.

mummysaver38

365days wrote: »

31.
Has ANYONE got a fool proof way of NOT getting odd socks?

No but I try and make it easier by making everyone pair up (by turning the top over) their socks before putting them into the washing bin. Then pairs should go through the wash together , should come out together and get put on the airer together. Before I was wasting huge amounts to time (and cluttering up my dressing table) with odd socks waiting for their partner to make it through the wash.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: