Decluttering 2013, the saga continues ...

lucy_lemon

I'm exactly the same! I have two massive storage boxes in the cupboard full of stuff that I need to list on ebay, but I can never be bothered to do it. I'm currently sat on the sofa surrounded by stuff to list but I've only done about 2 things in an hour. I would love to give it all to the charity shop, but I actually do really need the money at the moment. Things do seem to be a lot slower on there, but I just relist everything until it goes.

You can do it! (But if you don't need the money, you would prob feel a lot better just getting rid of it at your nearest charity shop - I know I would!)

loopychriss

mineallmine wrote: »

Take it easy loopy

Thank you, I have been!!! Not much decluttering gone on here again, as we've been out a couple of days and I've not been in the mood when I was here!

Still, a couple more things went:

306-310 Out of date medication taken back to pharmacy
311 Keyring given to my mum. My aunt in America who died last Christmas had it in her sewing box and my uncle thought my mum might like it, as it had a picture of her (my mum) in it
312 Toy shopping trolley
313-315 3 collecting tins opened, counted and tins in recycling

I've still got loads of tidying up to do, but don't think there's much decluttering, it's mainly putting things away in their proper place as neither of us seem to worry about putting it straight away any more!

Friends aren't moving in with us after all, so all my furniture moving and decluttering last week was in vain!!! (Well, not the decluttering as that needed to be done, but now I've got to move all the furniture back again!)

mrs-moneypenny

morning all
hope everyone is well and avoiding storm damage
310 more gift boxes and toiletry packaging - recycled
311 broken RC boat - binned
312 broken star gazer lamp thing - binned
313 broken rocket toy - binned
314 box full of old magazines posters and newpaper clippings - recycled
315 new tshirt DH got last christmas but never wore - school christmas fayre
316 load of old unrechargable batteries - recycled
317 bag full of unneeded personal papers - shredded and recycled
318 broken garden ornament - binned
319 little bits of wood offcuts that are no use - given to someone with woodburner
320-321 2 big cardboard boxes - given to someone whos moving house
322 used a candle - thats one gone from the huge stash
323 load of governors paperwork - sorted shredded and recycled
324 yellow pages - recycled
325 phone book - recycled
326-327 2 paperback books - school christmas fayre
328 boxed forever friends ornament - school christmas fayre
329 3 ft black christmas tree - giving to local hair dresser for her shop
330 french skipping elastic - donating to local school
331-335 5 small games for wet play cupboard - donated to local school

180 things left to clear and only 4 days!!!! thats 45 things a day:eek:

Yorkielass

Made some progress sorting yesterday:

80-154 Cardboard boxes to recycling bank (mainly from new cupboards plus a few others, garage a lot emptier now
155-454 - Went through all the greetings cards, postcards etc we've kept as we sorted things into our new dining room furniture, turns out I haven't had a sort out for 3 years so a lot of greetings cards gone and then postcards went back further but I didn't even know I'd kept them so they can all be recycled, (kept the ones we've sent each other, special ones like the last from my Grandads and the most recent lot of Christmas, Birthday and Anniversary ones but after each event will go through last year's and recycle those). A lot of recycling there.
455-458 - packaging for table mats and coasters, a bit battered now and don't need the packaging in the drawers.

The cardboard is a massive thing, the other items less so but now they're all either recycled or stored away there are no longer the pile of boxes being slowly moved around the living and dining rooms like there has been for the past year.

So I might get to 500 by Thursday after all!

mineallmine

We need to crack on mrsm! :j
Wow Yorkielass :j

Not much decluttering. Been busy doing winter/storm prep. We sustained some damage sadly but nothing could have prevented it.

So back to decluttering:
315. 316. Canisters
317. OOD food
318. 319. 320. Odd/drabs of old cleaning products used up
321. Unloved shampoo used up as a cleaning product

Yorkielass

Thanks mineallmine - hasn't made a big difference in the house stuff wise but I'm pleased with our efforts.

I would have rather tried to do some ebay/gumtree listing but OH and I are at home together so infrequently at the moment this was more important.

niftythrifty33

Do you all set yourself a target of items to get rid of? I'm not sure I have the patience to list everything but I like the thought of setting a certain amount of items to get red of.

I just took loads of spare wood and some toys and a bin bag of rubbish from kids rooms to the skip, also 1 full bin bag to charity...it feels sooooo good

Gers

Final things going out - some shoes to CS along with a large saute pan which will be of no use at the new house and another pan I used for boiling eggs. New hob is induction.

Gas cooker going tonight.

Desk going tomorrow.

Us going on Wednesday.

Just been cleaning the fridge out and clearing the desk drawers (WHY do I have so many pens and pencils?). Soon I will have hardly any possessions left!

Hope everyone else is doing well too.

Rummer

After a great start I have been too unwell to declutter however my hubby seems to have gotten the bug and has been listing things on Gumtree :j it is great to see things go to new homes.

Goldiegirl

niftythrifty33 wrote: »

Do you all set yourself a target of items to get rid of? I'm not sure I have the patience to list everything but I like the thought of setting a certain amount of items to get red of.

I've been doing de-cluttering for the last 3 - 4 years, so I'm not wildly cluttered now.

However, this is the first year that I've taken part in this thread, and I have found it is really helpful to set a target, and to list what has been achieved. It has kept me focussed throughout the year.

My target was 365 for the year

With that in mind, my recent de-cluttering is


350 Perfume atomiser – eBay
351 LP – eBay
352 3 jigsaws – eBay
353 Expired tube of hand cream – bin
354 Base unit of old computer – to specialist recycler
355 Capri length jeans – eBay
356 Linen trousers –eBay