Enough is enough - the great declutter

floss2

You need to come up to Blackpool - there's been carboots for a few weeks now.....

giddykipper

Ohhh hi Floss2 - I'm from Blackpool too!! Have you been to many of the car boots? I haven't yet but reeeaally need to get rid of some things, my house is FULL of stuff that I'm sure someone will have use for.

Cheers, Jo

earthmother

pigpen wrote: »

exactly!!! .. And how upset would the boys be if you said sorry guys you can't have the money because I gave all your stuff away..

Positive thinking..

Can it be restacked somewhere less 'in the way'?? Just until you are all well again and can manage the car boot.

Do you have a friend or family member who could watch the children while you do a car boot with another friend ??? I absolutely would NOT do a CB on your own.. some people get really aggressive and pushy and of course there are the thieves sadly.

You'll get there.. focus on getting yourself and your family well first.. their health is of utmost importance!... I'd possibly be asking the LL to wait and delay his visit because hubby is ill and you wouldn't want him to catch anything (and if you do.. don't tell him!!)

It's been restacked and resorted so many times, lol - I don't think there's any way to make it any less conspicuous. Unfortunately the garage and loft are full too, so this is it.

I couldn't do a CB on my own - hubby is the driver. Unfortunately, his main problem isn't going to get better, so they're off the agenda for the foreseeable. There's no-one else around who could help out either with the kids or the driving.

Unfortunately I already have delayed the landlords agents - they were supposed to have come Tuesday last. They weren't too happy about delaying - got some spiel about them having a duty to the landlord. I'd have some sympathy if they weren't doing this inspection three months late because of their own failings - but that's another story, lol. Needless to say, if they have a pop when they're here, I shall set the record straight with them and the landlord. At this rate, we'll be moving into adapted housing within the year anyway - unless the LL is willing to let Social Services rip the guts out of this place (which I doubt).


Anyway - I'm going to have a delve through the boxes and pick out the good stuff to stick in the free ads for next Thursdays paper (I can submit them online any time until Monday), and there's a lady on the Tuesday market who sometimes buys toys and kids clothes, so I'll fill a couple of bags for her too - won't be as good as selling myself, but better than nothing.


We'll get there eventually - it just seems to have been one hell of a slog this year and we're not coping brilliantly - how's the saying go 'Infamy, infamy ...

earthmother

essexgal - I have been considering the possibility of a yard sale - we're on one of the main roads into town, so plenty of passers by. Not sure if the landlord would go for it though (very conscious of how things look), and there's the added issue of not being able to have the kids out with me (no gates, and youngest is a mini Houdini) so they'd be going mad indoors (and driving hubby potty) watching me outside having all the 'fun' (the elder two like doing CBs - they're better salesmen than me, lol.

I shall have to keep thinking on that

pigpen

OMG... I just sold a phone for £40 on ebay.. BONUS!!!!!!!!!!!

pigpen

right.. 60 items.. all relisted but you never know!! Something might just shift!!

I will locate my camera and get this last bunch listed.. whatever is left can then go to the charity shop so I can have my room back!

angelavdavis

Hi all,

Pigpen - sounds like you are doing well!!!

Just got back from a trip to Belfast tonight, the house is as full as ever!

Freecycler collecting tree didn't turn up! I have reoffered it.

Have got a pile of ebay items to wrap up. Bids of other items up to over 15 pounds.

zarazara

earthmother, i thinka card in the newsagent window etc for the kids stuff would be goodides. having experienced some car boots recently compared to some i did years ago i just get depressed at how little people will pay, i really hope you get to a decent car boot sale and do well.

bonsibabe

In - Nothing!!!

Out - flip flops, kids pjs (both to next door), old schoolbag (to a neighbour moving whose kid is going to DD1's old school)

Ebay - 5 items will sell, 1 hasnt reached its reserve, 28 still to go!

but if they don't go, i'll pack them and get shot of them when i have my own house!!

earthmother

Well, there may be a little light at the end of the tunnel. In eldest's bookbag last night was a request for fete donations. They take in one type of item a day for a week - today it was soft toys, so that's one box empty (was never going to make a fortune out of that one anyway).

I'll have a dig through the rest over the weekend and see what I can't send that way over the course of next week - can shift some books and videos at least, and some of the lesser valued toys. Only problem is, last year when I did that, my parents took the boys round, and half of what they bought, we'd sent (argh!). Will have to make the instructions clearer this year, lol.