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Enough is enough - the great declutter

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  • Hi All,

    Not done that well with the de-cluttering this week as OH has been doing loads of jobs round the house, so I've had the little 'un most of the time this week.

    IN - 2 Baby weaning/recipe books from Freecycle - baby has started solids this week :beer:
    Food Processes from Freecycle - to make purees for him

    OUT - Bag of rubbish from kitchen
    Lots of paper for Recycling

    Hoping to work through the spare room over the next couple of days.
    Also - someone is coming to pick up the running machine on Saturday, sold it on Ebay and only lost £20 on what we paid for it :j
    Debts May 09 [strike]£100 Od[/strike], [strike]£1550 boiler[/strike], [strike]£1750[/strike] £400 credit card :mad: Goal - to 3k of savings by Oct 2009 in time for Baby num 2 :j Total so far £1200
  • angelavdavis
    angelavdavis Posts: 4,714 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    In: Nothing

    Out:
    • Washing machine sold for £40.
    • Old Christmas decs are ready to be taken to the tip
    • Wooden blind gone to a freecycler this morning
    • Packing up OH house contents today ready for move tomorrow.
    eBay:
    • Have set up an ebay box ready for the next cheap listing day! I will add these to Turbolister once we move tomorrow.
    • Listed 30 more items on ebay this morning
    :D Thanks to MSE, I am mortgage free!:D
  • bonsibabe
    bonsibabe Posts: 1,055 Forumite
    Hi Everyone

    In = Nothing

    Out = Bin full of paper for recycling

    Ebay = 34 items listed (eventually) with 2 watchers already! (and I still have 2 boxes of clothes to get rid of! but will keep them for the next cheap listing day, or i might list them if one of my bigger items sells)
    LBM - August 2008 - Debts then - £33390 :eek:- 2nd LBM - November 2009 - Debts then - £18500:mad:
    Current debt levels: OD £3860, Loan 1 £6091, Loan 2 £5052, Parents £260, Total £16133 :eek: As at 01 May 2012 - 51.69% paid off :j
    Aiming for a No Spend Christmas 2012!
  • Got 3 items loaded onto Ebay last night for the 5p listing, and am going to try and do some de-cluttering in kitchen now while LO is asleep
    Debts May 09 [strike]£100 Od[/strike], [strike]£1550 boiler[/strike], [strike]£1750[/strike] £400 credit card :mad: Goal - to 3k of savings by Oct 2009 in time for Baby num 2 :j Total so far £1200
  • Uniscots97
    Uniscots97 Posts: 6,687 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    In : nothing


    Out: pile of old credit card statements, they got burned in an old drum in the back garden (don't like getting rid of something like that any other way!)
    CC2 = £8687.86 ([STRIKE]£10000[/STRIKE] )CC1 = £0 ([STRIKE]£9983[/STRIKE] ); Reusing shopping bags savings =£5.80 vs spent £1.05.Wine is like opera. You can enjoy it even if you don't understand it and too much can give you a headache the next day J
  • mary43
    mary43 Posts: 5,845 Forumite
    Out - small chest of drawers )
    set of dinner plates ) all to freecycle
    box of pint glasses )

    Royal Wedding Scrapbook.)......Belonged to my son - he's taken Teddy Bear ) home
    Slection of LP's ) Son took them which thinned out ours
    Dads ID Tag &Musicians ) Given to my son
    Union Badge )

    Not exactly a de;clutter but now got a less things to worry about..........lol:T
    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
    Just popping in to read the latest posts and see if everyone's still OK! Keep it up peeps! :D

    I also consider myself 'finished' with ebay for the time being. Luckily I did the bulk of my stuff before the new rules came in, but I'm put off from listing my odds and ends now. One non-positive in a month can get you suspended now, unless you have 20 positives in the same month to go with it?!!! Unbelieveable.

    Feels quite liberating to let the cheap listing days come and go! I don't need £3 here and there that badly :p Back to local Free Ads for anything with a higher value :)

    Having said that - good luck to those of you who have listed this week!
  • zarazara
    zarazara Posts: 2,264 Forumite
    IN nothing :-)
    OUT bucket of stuff for the compost heap
    and I have 3 items a freecycler is asking for so I hope they can come and collect them.
    "The purpose of Life is to spread and create Happiness" :j
  • Oh I do like freecycle - long long list put on and 6 items asked for within 5 minutes!

    I will get rid of some of this stuff...

    Moam
    Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.... life is a WIP.


    Snowball says too far away, working hard to bring it forward.
  • melvis
    melvis Posts: 6,006 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    IN (the garden): Lots of wood to go on the bonfire at my birthday party next week :j

    OUT: 8 Ebay parcels.

    Been at work all week so had no chance to fling anything (that's all going on tomorrow!) but have relisted 6 items on Ebay and listed 16 New items.

    Current Status: 1/18 with bids totalling £4.99, 4 watchers. :p
    Small business owner 🧵 Ex MSE comper 🏆 Student loan repayer 💴 Romanian dog rescuer 🐕 Hopefully a cost of living survivor 🤞🏻
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