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Enough is enough - the great declutter

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  • Clutterfree
    Clutterfree Posts: 3,679 Forumite
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    Hi Clutterfree, like you I have £100 for 7 bids.

    No serious bids for MBA materials, the sun must have put people off!!

    Look like most of the wedding stuff has gone though which is good.

    Well done Angela!
    What is MBA please? :o

    Well 2 of the 7 items have been collected already, so....

    OUT:
    Big Ikea Storage Unit
    Garden toys

    IN:
    Nothing

    EBAY:
    Still £2.99 on 1 item, 2 items no bids yet, 26 watchers overall.

    Off to clean the floor and admire the space where the unit used to be! :T :D

    Have a good day all!
    :heart: Ageing is a privilege not everyone gets.
  • missyg_3
    missyg_3 Posts: 1,451 Forumite
    Ebay total ended up being £16.79 which I am happy with! My goal was £20 but for a long time it looked like I was only getting 99p so can't complain:rotfl:

    Well done to everyone else, fine results, but I agree it was slow RMC :) Like you, I am down to the "dregs" now, I've done about £1,300 worth since January but there's very little left now. I have a feeling my ebaying in future will be cobbling a few things together and making a tenner here and there... but it all helps. I don't think I'll ever "buy to sell" because I'm not sure I have the midas touch that some people do ;)

    Gingababe, stick around with us and see what others are doing, it might help give you some inspiration? I started by doing a room at a time, or one set of things such as books, cds etc.

    Clutterfree - I know what an MBA is but I'll let Angela explain as she'll do it properly :D Wouldn't want to steal her thunder either!

    Hope everyone's having a nice day.
  • mary43
    mary43 Posts: 5,845 Forumite
    Well done all you ebayers..................(still miffed cos can't sell nothing:confused: )

    Being very good..............went into town this morning.........posted parcel for Mums friends birthday, went gingerly to the bank (bank statement not good!!|) popped into charity shops and came back empty handed !!!!!

    How good is that for me ????????? It's brilliant..........!!

    So..........In.......................nothing
    Out.....................nothing
    Mary

    I'm creative -you can't expect me to be neat too !
    (Good Enough Member No.48)
  • missyg_3
    missyg_3 Posts: 1,451 Forumite
    In: Nothing
    Out: 8 Ebay parcels, 1 pair of ancient broken flipflops (binned), 1 pair of kids old school shoes (shoe bank)

    Well done Mary! :D
  • tattycath
    tattycath Posts: 7,175 Forumite
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    Well, so far I've got 6 items to post and 5 still waiting to be paid for.
    GE 36 *MFD may 2043
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    Mortgage overpayments 2019 - £285.96
    2020 Jan-£40-feb-£18.28.march-£25
    Christmas savings card 2020 £20/£100
    Emergency savings £100/£500
    12/3/17 175lb - 06/11/2019 152lb
  • charlies_mum
    charlies_mum Posts: 8,120 Forumite
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    I love this thread!! Ive read the last half....there is 108 pages!!

    Good grief, 108 pages, I never thought when I started it over a year ago that it would still be going :eek: Some people have achieved fantastic results, but I'm ashamed to say I'm not one of them :o

    I have my own business selling collectables, and have loads of stock to shift. In addition, I have been buying boxes of greetings cards and selling them at a huge profit, so any decluttering I achieved is now full of boxes of cards.

    I'm on holiday at the moment, but when I get home I'm going to hit Ebay with a vengeance and try to shift some more stuff.

    Wish me luck, I'm going to need it.
    You're only young once, but you can be immature forever :D
  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    £36 ish for me from ebay.. 12 items gone though and 8 already paid for.. I'll parcel them up tonight.. I went to bed at 8pm last night.. think I had some catching up to do.. needless to say I am now on fire and cannot sit still...

    OUT
    1 binbag for charity shop
    1 binbag of rubbish

    IN
    Nothing.. as it should be

    and 2 more items listed on ebay so I have 3 on now and as we have the camera I'll get some more pics done tonight.. the girls sorted throug their stuf at the weekend and I sorted through a pile of mine looking for a top so there is a fair bit to get listed I hope! (ladies 14-16, girls 9-11 and girls 12-14.. not sure what it will be yet) a pile of ladies boden, joe browns and next I know that much!
    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)
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  • angelavdavis
    angelavdavis Posts: 4,714 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Well done Angela!
    What is MBA please? :o

    Well 2 of the 7 items have been collected already, so....

    OUT:
    Big Ikea Storage Unit
    Garden toys

    IN:
    Nothing

    EBAY:
    Still £2.99 on 1 item, 2 items no bids yet, 26 watchers overall.

    Off to clean the floor and admire the space where the unit used to be! :T :D

    Have a good day all!
    Hiya. MBA is a higher degree - master of business admin. I studied 5 years to get it. I had to do the under graduate study because i didn't have a degree already. All that on top of a full time job. It's a relief it's over and pushes the income level a bit higher. On the ebay side, some last minute bidders and a bidding contest for the strobe resulted in a total sales of £150! Lots of packing to sort out now.
    :D Thanks to MSE, I am mortgage free!:D
  • gingababe
    gingababe Posts: 1,040 Forumite
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    my whole house is a mess, I will not let anything go, I went into the garage to look for something & half of the garage fell on me.... so I have decided that I will need to start somewhere, how about my little girls room & then the office our room, nothing to sort in the bathroom or the hall & landing, then the front room under the stairs, kitchen & then the garage & lastly the attic... Hope I can keep going, I seem to have so much stuff, but I want to kep it all. oh someone please help, my mom said that if I haven't used or wore clothes for more than 1 yr I won't use it so I should get rid.... easier said than done....ebay last nite for me was shockingly rubbish, is it the time year???
    Thanks for motivation
    Ginga
  • missyg_3
    missyg_3 Posts: 1,451 Forumite
    2 people have yet to pay me - one of them has several feedbacks suggesting they are a late payer :rotfl: so I could be in for a wait :p Ah well. Everyone who's paid has had their stuff posted today.

    Hope you're enjoying your holiday Charlies Mum, you should be very proud at how you've inspired so many people! Livelihood stuff is exempt from decluttering by the way ;) Business is business.

    Angela, what exactly is this strobe because if I ever spot one in a jumble sale I want to buy it to sell! Good luck with the packaging... hope you have a lot of boxes!

    Ginga, not just clothes - ANYTHING you haven't used in a year you probably don't need ;) But if you really can't bear to part with stuff I guess the answer is to find a good, neat storage solution for it :) Good luck!
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