Enough is enough - the great declutter

Olliebeak

icandream wrote: »

....... I just peeped into the kitchen and my 7 and 9 year old are happily emptying my tin cupboard, and are writing down everything they find! What a help! This de-cluttering is spreading! :j........

What a great idea - now where are those darn dgk's when you need em the most :rolleyes:!

charlies_mum

We're having a brilliant day here today - I have just decluttered the kitchen, and DH is upstairs tackling one bedroom. He is sorting things into boxes, and apparently we are doing a car boot tomorrow :eek: - all keep your fingers crossed for the weather

We have just poured away two dozen cans of lager and bitter which were at least 12 months out of date :eek:

pigpen

In the girly room so far...

1 binbag of rubbish
8 loads of washing!!!!!!! and I haven't even stripped the beds yet!
1 box of toys.

Under the bed there are 7 boxes of books.. that is why they are unpacked.. we don't have shelves for them.. I'll rememdy that when I decorate the middle room.

Best go sort through the wardrobes!.. my favourite task!

missyg_3

The old hoover has left the building!!! :j

My crate of 1980's photos has been reduced to a single 10cm stack!!! :j

I'm now down to 2 last crates of pictures to go through from the 1990s and 2000s (pre digital). If it wasn't for this thread I probably wouldn't have started this awful job that I've been putting off for years... it feels brilliant to have done so much this week!

Olliebeak, in all honesty I think you will struggle to sell cassettes on ebay unless you have some rarities. Even CDs from popular acts are going for pennies these days. I have my very last cassette on ebay right now which is an old album from an artist with quite a loyal following, which never made it onto CD. It has a starting price of 99p with no bids yet but 6 watchers.

When I did my kitchen sort out I freed up an entire row of 3 overhead cupboards! I am planning to have a new kitchen next year so those won't need replacing, which will make it cheaper, and make the room seem much bigger I hope! I still have a little more I can do in the kitchen, for example I have two china dinner sets (I didn't buy two, one was inherited)! I'll be taking one complete set to the car boot sale.

Having a break for lunch now and then I'll decide if I'll do more today. Great to hear of everyone's progress! :T

pigpen

WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!

Another binbag for charity shop and I am about to embark on my third!!!!

Tiddles has a whole new wardrobe so Jb will have to wear the stuff she hasn't worn before so she'll think she has a new wardrobe too.. DD3 doesn't put her things away so she now has had her wardrobe streamlined so everything that won't ever sell is in the charity bag. We are on to the second binbag for rubbish too.

Off to reload the appliances.. I'm having FUN!!!!!

taffy1969

Everyone is having a really good day today. My girls have gone for the night, about 1 hour ago. Thought I would have a bit of a break and surf for an hour. THis morning cleaned kitchen ( I mean really cleaned not just wash and go!) 4 loads of washing (including girls bedding) Went to bedding centre to buy dd2's bed, ordered both dd's bed furniture off littlewoods direct, just got to decide if I like bed dd1 wants, prob should order as normally give in!!!!
Anyway, I'm making a coffee, getting my bin bags and boxes and I'm braving their bedroom. Much more positive about it since reading all your posts today. Will report back later, much later hopefully on how fantastic I have done!!!!!!!

icandream

pigpen wrote: »

WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!

I'm having FUN!!!!!

Brill Pigpen. :j And Charliesmum, and Missy, and Ollie, and Taffy. Thank you! What a day... I've achieved so much. (Though it's all piled up in the hall until I decide whether it's worth trying a car boot or ebaying or just taking it to charity shops - probably a mixture, but that's for another day's clearing!).
I feel so good about it all today. Thanks for helping to get me going (and keep me going!).
Stopped to pick up dd from a party, and now I'm going to tackle a bit more.
Well done everyone! :T:T:T

tattycath

I am just sooooo proud of myself!!! I have finally got of my lazy backside and sorted the loft out!!!. I have emptied at least a dozen boxes. I have 10 binliners of books to send to charity!!! (amazingly no rubbish-worrying really!!!) I found my long lost breadmaker and the loft is really tidy and I know where everything is!!! (that is a first)

vivw_2

taffy1969 wrote: »

Everyone is having a really good day today. My girls have gone for the night, about 1 hour ago. Thought I would have a bit of a break and surf for an hour. THis morning cleaned kitchen ( I mean really cleaned not just wash and go!) 4 loads of washing (including girls bedding) Went to bedding centre to buy dd2's bed, ordered both dd's bed furniture off littlewoods direct, just got to decide if I like bed dd1 wants, prob should order as normally give in!!!!
Anyway, I'm making a coffee, getting my bin bags and boxes and I'm braving their bedroom. Much more positive about it since reading all your posts today. Will report back later, much later hopefully on how fantastic I have done!!!!!!!

Well done.....sounds like a productive day

That link you wanted for the Good Enough thread:http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=497777&page=61

charlies_mum

Well done everyone.

I am so proud of my kitchen, I just keep going to have a look, pathetic isn't it