Decluttering 2013, the saga continues ...

marmiterulesok

I've finally got a few things to declare:
-my old television
-my old dvd player

both taken away by the delivery man

-plus all the packaging
-2 dvds to the cs

That's 5/365.

A start at least.

flyingmamma

decluttering bug has taken over ....about time! house is looking much better but i think i need to be more ruthless i am still holding on to things ...under the sink is tidy for the first time in 7 yrs and p333 is taking over the clothes situation! we can now all see and find things in our wardrobes! was thinking if buying 2 new chest of drawers before p333 now we dont need too so it has saved us money too!

DawnW

Freecycled a greenhouse heater which was not looking particularly decorative in the garden

DD took a pile of non-fiction books related to the subjects she teaches :T

pigpen

I am so very cross....

Decluttered about £300 of non-frozen freezer food after my oldest son raided the freezer while we were away for the weekend and left the door open...

He WILL pay me the money back if I have to sell his body!

mumlady1

Hi everyone, thanks for the welcome
I think you're right cte1111, I do need to ask myself why I struggle to give things away. Hmm, only child, not good at sharing, influenced by granny who wasted nothing, lol.
Ok, have had a good think and have decided to do the job in 10 or 15 minute chunks, 1 room at a time until its clear!
Right, I'm going in... If I'm not out in 15 minutes, someone come and rescue me (preferably with a cup of tea and a biscuit :rotfl: )

TheDoolallyDilly

Just popping on to see how everyone's getting on. Hello to all the newbie declutterers :T

flyingmamma I'm definitely on my third or fourth 'pass' through my house in two years. There are some things I'm not ready to let go of yet - for example, it took me nine years to get my degree with the OU, and I still have my books and notes. I only graduated last summer, and it's too soon, I worked really hard and that's the evidence. It'll go when I'm ready, and that's ok.

No decluttering done here, ad we were in Somerset visiting DS1, and have only just got back!

DundeeDoll

hannerrbabes wrote: »

DundeeDoll, what does it mean in your signature by "road kill jar"?

Money found on the pavement / road and saved up over the year
Well done all. Just got back from church (morning service then shared lunch then pub then singing at friend's house so a long but very enjoyable day) but have managed to do 13
1) biology textbook -> school bag
2) 1/2 size violin to friend whose daughter is 2
3) english textbook -> school bag
4) BMAT books -> school bag
5) standard grade past papers -> school bag
6) higher grade past papers ditto
7) advanced higher papers ditto
8) revision questions ditto
9) pass higher english to mum who's coaching
10) magazine to mum
11) old journal RC
12) grotty socks
13) more grotty socks
Dd bought me 9 new pairs of socks which were on special offer pus she then got 10% discount.

wik

>>>> staggers into the thread exhausted!!!
what a few days I have had!!
I have had such a clear out, and no where near finished!
I started on my bedroom, 2 banana boxes of old papers to be burnt - I dont have a shredder, so they get burnt on chimeria in the garden
also found a black sack of my DS old clothes and he left home 2 years ago!! so apart from one jumper that fitted my dad the rest is of to the clothe recycling bin at local firestation.

also 2 banana boxes of books, bits n bobs and oddments for charity shop

there is a toy box full of odd socks!! that is a task for another day - a matching party..lol

today I have tidyed out my craft cupboard and have sorted 2 boxes of odds n ends to be given to a friend who does crafty things with kids... wooden pegs for making dolls, stamps for fabric etc...

A dear friend has been staying for a few days and she is being sent home with some crafty things as well as some of my cookery books, my mum and i tended to use the same books and we had 2 of each, and I dont need 2 now so I am sharing the books we loved.

also the above friend is having a 40th bday party in may and its fancy dress, youngest DD wanted to get a dress from a site she had seen - the theme is victorian period!
Well I got my wedding dress (why i have kept it after 19 years and a divorce i have no idea!! ) any way... with some minor alterations we can make it look victorian - with addition of a bustle...
So today we got a red dye and put it in machine, It has turned out amazingly!!! the dress has a lace overskirt which took the red, the rest has gone a deep pink..
DD is so so happy ( and so am I!! as will save many £'s)

Pours a glass of wine and breathes deeply!!
wik x

MadamMim2013

mumlady1 wrote: »

Hi everyone, do you mind if I join your merry band? Please? My problem started approx 10 years ago when we moved to the slightly bigger house that we live in now. Somehow all the stuff that fitted in our old smaller house was overflowing in our new house! It still is overflowing but not unbearably untidy and somehow I just can't get a handle on it:mad:
I've tried the fly lady thing but sometimes I struggle for time. I run 3 businesses & work a couple of nights a week as well as daytime.
My biggest problem is that I HATE throwing or giving good stuff away! I give as much as I can to charity shops but still have loads to get rid of! I have great intentions for eBay but find it time consuming and annoying when something BNWT sells for pennies, literally!
Another problem I have is the that-might-come-in-handy-someday syndrome! I often find that even though I haven't used something for ages, years sometimes, as soon as I throw it out I'm looking for it! Aargh! Lol
Is anyone else the same or is it just me?
How do you deal with this?

Sounds like you could benefit from reading "Banish Clutter Forever" by Sheila Chandra, a link for the website was on here somewhere!
I've loaned a copy from my library & I'm hooked... the DH is busy tomorrow & the kids at school so it's gonna be look out house I'm coming to get ya! :rotfl:

loopychriss

Had a good day today, sorted out chest of drawers in spare bedroom and got contents down from 5 drawers into 3, so now got 2 spare drawers. Also sorted all the sheets, duvet covers and pillowcases. Keeping 2 quilt covers for our bed, 3 fitted sheets and 3 flat sheets. We don't have a spare bed, only a sofa bed which is rarely used. Only other bed is a single, and I've got 1 duvet set and sheet on that. No one sleeps in it, it's just for show as we had to make the small room look like a bedroom for selling purposes.

So.....

141. 13 pillowcases
142. 3 sheets
143. Duvet cover
144. Old greetings cards
145. Very pretty box I am loath to declutter, but have no use for
146. Half a dozen costume jewellery bracelets
147. Snuggy wearable blanket thing: far too long for me and I have a fleecy dressing gown now instead
148. 4 pairs of coloured tights that are too small (all new)
149. Spices for mulled wine
150. Fabric collapsible box for fat quarters
151. Scarf
152. 2 notebooks
153. Money bank in shape of £ sign
154. Cola bottle shaped tin
155. 8 pairs hair bobbles
156. Box from double blow up mattress that was living under spare bed
157. Assorted altered jigsaw pieces from when I was a crafter and did swaps
158. Jigsaw that I finished put away and will be taken to mum & dad's
159. Empty sweet containers and wrappers that I hid in the drawers (me? a secret eater? Never!)


Pleased with what I've achieved today, the chest of drawers was where I shoved everything a couple of weeks ago when we had viewers due and I hadn't got around to sorting them out. Nice and sorted now. [STRIKE]ready for me to buy more things to put in them![/STRIKE]