Enough is enough - the great declutter

melvis

pigpen wrote: »

and I've just thrown the hubby in the recycle bin and all the children in the wheelie bin!

AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rotfl::rotfl:

I try to give as much to friends/charity shops/freecycle as possible but with OH not working and bills mounting up I'm currently having to Ebay as much as possible. It also encourages me to declutter the spare room and get rid of anything I haven't used or thought about in years (it can't be needed if it's spent that long unused!)

Ebay today: 8 items sold totalling £51.90 without postage but before fees :j
1 item unsold
2 items ending tonight, 1 with a bid of £0.99.
2 items ending tomorrow, 1 with a bid of £1.99.

Lots more to list, just need to take photos etc first

bonsibabe

well my ebay pile is ever growing! cleared out DD2's clothes and have 3 washing baskets full! Shame there aren't any kids in our area that are smaller than her! But I will get it all put together and photographed and bundled up tomorrow, and list it all in turbolister pending the next cheap listing day! DD1 was much easier, her old clothes got split between the 2 little girls that live either side of me. Have gotten rid of a pair of DD2's shoes. Next door has 4 girls and a boy, youngest girl being younger (although bigger) than DD2. But she has smaller feet so DD2's old trainers (old but in good nick) were donated there. But have found 3 pairs of baby shoes that are definitely girls ones so they are going in the ebay box!

Still have to go thru my stuff and DH's so that will make for a bigger pile. Have also found some toys that are still servicable but no longer used so they are going for ebay as well. Anything that is broken is put for recycling here, but i think my bin will be overflowing lol.

Hubby decided to cut the grass, he did the front garden and now my green bio bin is full to the brim! And I have to wait for a week and a half to get it emptied. So he can take the bin out back and dump some of the grass over the verge. Makes better sense because then it will compost down and make for better soil!

Anyhow, am rambling on now so am off to do DW etc and try to have a semi-early night.

See you all tomorrow!!

VickyA_2

I've got some clothes that are beyond repair eg jeans with holes in very embarrassing places. I asked at our local Oxfam shop (the only charity shop in our town) whether they would accept them as rags and they said that they don't. However, on the way back from work I drive past a "clothing bank". Do you think that they'd be wanted there? Admittedly I could just "dump and run", but I don't want to donate something that is useless. It could be my first step in the declutter race.......

pigpen

The ones here accept 'rags' .. mind you so do most of our charity shops apart from Oxfam.. I hate that shop.. they are overpriced and so rude.. they only ever seem to want new stuff.. they should be glad of anything and sell the stuff they don't want as rags.. bit of an issue there for me.

3 ebay parcels ready to post in the morning and a cheque on the way for £22.50..

Ebay so far this month..

6/45 selling £9.70
total sales this month.. £42.79

Diane_239

Today i have had a mass clear out filled a few more bin bags for char tie shop so got rid of ten in the end all gone this afternoon,also out computer monitor,guitar amp,bag of videos five bags of rubbish,at last the teenagers have taken the hint and started to clear there room 50 items so far to list on e bay and I boot sale,a pile of books listed on Amazon.you can also list items for sale on free cycle cafe.

angelavdavis

VickyA wrote: »

I've got some clothes that are beyond repair eg jeans with holes in very embarrassing places. I asked at our local Oxfam shop (the only charity shop in our town) whether they would accept them as rags and they said that they don't. However, on the way back from work I drive past a "clothing bank". Do you think that they'd be wanted there? Admittedly I could just "dump and run", but I don't want to donate something that is useless. It could be my first step in the declutter race.......

I think the clothes from the clothing bank are sorted to saleable and the rags sold on - so its definitely somewhere you can put recyclable jeans, etc.

whatatwit

My name is Mrs Twit and I am a Clutterbug..... phew, that was difficult.

I've been reading though the thread for a while, but I'm going to join in and try to find my house under all this [STRIKE]junk[/STRIKE] treasure.

We've just got back off holiday and Mr Twit has now gone working away until next Friday.....so, I've got over a week to try and make a difference.

So, here's my tally....

In....Nothing

Out ....bits and bobs to the recycling bin and.....1 large and messy husband. :T :j :beer: :eek:

floss2

whatatwit wrote: »

My name is Mrs Twit and I am a Clutterbug..... phew, that was difficult......

Hope you feel a bit better now you've admitted it to yourself!

pigpen

In

Nothing

Out

3 ebay parcels
1 binbag to charity shop
1 binbag of rubbish

ebay

9/45 selling £15.40 so far.. loads ending today though
Waiting on 3 payments.
40 watchers on 20 items

Uniscots97

In: nothing

Out : 2 bags rubbish, more stuff for charity bag being collected thursday