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Enough is enough - the great declutter

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  • melvis
    melvis Posts: 6,006 Forumite
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    I'm gonna spend tomorrow night and thursday night listing things on ebay ... we're desperate for cash now so going to have to be ruthless!
    Small business owner 🧵 Ex MSE comper 🏆 Student loan repayer 💴 Romanian dog rescuer 🐕 Hopefully a cost of living survivor 🤞🏻
  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    £11.17 in bids so dar.. another item sold on BIN :D.. I'll get that ready to go in a minute.

    7 hours left of todays items so I can't even say this month I made X amount until tonight! I might just scrape £250.. but my fire is paid for and here and working so all is well there..

    Tiddles is off nursery until Tuesday after today due to polling & bank holiday... ggrrr... so I'll get nothing done.. plus I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon and another on Friday morning so now I need childcare for that time! *scream*.. wonder if my sis will take her to work with her (she is a nursery nurse!)
    LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14
    Hope to be debt free until the day I die
    Mortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)
    6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)
    08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)
  • missyg_3
    missyg_3 Posts: 1,451 Forumite
    I need to get description writing for the ebay stuff for tomorrow. Hopefully it won't take too many hours :rolleyes: This is the bit I really wish I could speed up but I get a bit paranoid about it - think it's all the ebay horror stories I read on MSE :D

    I don't think the stuff I have this time will fetch much. Perhaps £20 if I am lucky! But it all helps!
  • nicki_2
    nicki_2 Posts: 7,321 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic I've been Money Tipped!
    Well all my too big clothing is now listed on Turbolister, the 2 pairs of boots I won but don't fit me properly are also listed. Now I just need to tackle the 3 boxes worth of DD's clothing and Sega stuff! I think one bundle can just be a relist, but I'll have to check as I can't remember! :o
    Creeping back in for accountability after falling off the wagon in 2016.
    Need to get back to old style in modern ways, watching the pennies and getting stuff done!
  • slowlyfading
    slowlyfading Posts: 13,429 Forumite
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    Wow, I've just read this thread from start to finish (well, i started reading last night, i finished reading just now) and you lot are AMAZING and really inspiring. When I go home at the end of term, I'm going to have a mega clear out of all my room - I'm sure I have way too much stuff.
    Thanks for posting such interesting stories :)
    sf :heartpuls
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  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    missyg wrote: »
    I need to get description writing for the ebay stuff for tomorrow. Hopefully it won't take too many hours :rolleyes: This is the bit I really wish I could speed up but I get a bit paranoid about it - think it's all the ebay horror stories I read on MSE :D

    I don't think the stuff I have this time will fetch much. Perhaps £20 if I am lucky! But it all helps!

    I do one of 2 things..

    1.. I browse through finished listings for the same item (with high finish price ;)) and nick their description...

    2. I put basic info and if they want to know anything else they'll contact me... ie.. what it is.. what size and condition.. item specifics cover most of it!
    LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14
    Hope to be debt free until the day I die
    Mortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)
    6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)
    08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)
  • northern_star
    northern_star Posts: 434 Forumite
    Morning fellow de-clutterers

    I'm feeling pleased with myself this morning as I 've resisted the urge to go shopping for new T Shirts for work and knuckled down to some washing and cleaning instead. I really don't need more clothes if I keep on top of the washing :o and we definitely don't need more clutter :eek:. Have finished reading a couple of books and watched a video last night that I intend to put straight into a bag for the charity shop. I'm thinking that if I keep a bag near the front door I can add things to it as I come across them and then get them out of the house asap. We have two charity shops within walking distance so I can get some free exercise too. Plus, if I take the dogs with me, I won't be tempted to spend time browsing in them and bringing back more than I donate!

    Have a great day everyone.


    'Live simply so that others may simply live'
  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    OUT
    recycling
    1 carrier ebay parcels
    2 carriers of carriers to nursery
    1 binbag rubbish
    2 hands full of papers.. junk mail mainly

    In..

    nothing so far!
    LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14
    Hope to be debt free until the day I die
    Mortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)
    6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)
    08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)
  • Mogkat
    Mogkat Posts: 39 Forumite
    pigpen wrote: »
    Do you think empty tins would go on freecycle?? Roses/quality street tins etc?? I know they'll go in the recycling but do you think someone would actually have a use for them?
    Just to toss an idea into the pot, I use my old Quality Street one for a first aid tin of sorts. It's got all the odd paracetamols packets I've found in the sort out in it as well as plasters, other medicines, bandages and creams. It's great because now I don't have to go and buy umpteen more packets of pain killers cos I can't find the ones we have. Obviously it needs to be out of reach if you have kids.
  • Lizzieanne
    Lizzieanne Posts: 476 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Craftyscholar wrote: »
    You're not hopeless - just normal
    We all do it:rotfl:

    :D

    I got my finger out in the end and filled 3 huge black sacks (wheelie bin size) with shredded paperwork, old catalogues and other stuff, which I'll whisk off to the recycling centre at the weekend. I also filled 2 cardboard boxes with stuff for the charity shop.

    So can someone tell me why the cupboards and drawers are still full? Where did all that stuff come from?! :confused: :rotfl:
    Mortgage Free as of 03/07/2017 :beer:
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