Enough is enough - the great declutter

Little_Miss_Magic

Hi all,

In ; Nothing yet.

Out ; Black bin bag to charity shop
9 Ebay parcels posted.

Ebay;
19 items listed (going to list more today)
Bids of £15.35 with 21 watchers

Paypal Total to date £111.05 (£50 banked):D

floss2

pigpen wrote: »

hi bonsi.. I think most wedding dresses go really well on ebay.. I can't sell mine.. I was 7.5 months pregnant when I got married.. and HUUUUUUUUUUGE!!!!! lol.......

Pigpen, you never know, somebody else may be blooming just as you were!

Uniscots97

In: nothing yet

Out: bin bag full of stuff for charity shop (collection thursday), 2 rubbish bags of junk.

Diane_239

Well I'm off work today so am going to sort loads of stuff has never seem to have any time.

In: food shop

out: four bin bags waiting for charity shop to pick up,
one computer monitor,
four e bay parcels,bag of videos waiting for free cycler to pick up.
still sorting so will update later.

pigpen

In

nothing!

Out

2 ebay parcels
2 carriers of empty boxes to nursery
1 carrier of recycling

Ebay

54 watchers on 25 items
9/55 selling £29.78

maltesers_2

Is ebay the only way to declutter?

newlywed

maltesers wrote: »

Is ebay the only way to declutter?

No, some use freecycle, there's often mention on here of bags of stuff donated to charity shops (got some more to go there soon) and of course there's always the bin - if it's stuff no-one will want

It's just that with ebay you might make a little bit of profit on the stuff you get rid of

zebedy

I ask round friends and family to see if they can make any use of what i want to declutter first.
Then i ebay it if i think it'll make some money
After that it's freecycle or charity shop
or last resort is the bin.

floss2

zebedy wrote: »

I ask round friends and family to see if they can make any use of what i want to declutter first.
Then i ebay it if i think it'll make some money
After that it's freecycle or charity shop
or last resort is the bin.

That's my chosen route too

I cleared a whole house via family / freecycle / charity shops about 2 years ago, when I moed into DF's home.

maltesers_2

Sorry, I'm trying to get inspiration to dispose of long term treasures and 'useful stuff (aka rubbish) but this thread seems to mainly be about selling stuff on ebay.

I guess it is all relative if you have a lot of stuff I suppose you could get rid of lots of stuff every day and still be cluttered.

This thread started well over a year ago and it is difficult to know who of the original posters and any along the way managed to declutter and how long it took.

One of my main problems is that I come from an OS family who saved everything beacause it might come in useful some time(war mentality) this is why it is difficult to part with things (like boxes of bits of old lace???). I would rather keep stuff than see it chucked away like most charity shops do with most stuff they are given (I speak from experience).