Decluttering 2013, the saga continues ...

northern_star

mineallmine wrote: »

Morning



Who's up for a mad 15 minutes of decluttering today? :j

Me - or at least I will be when I can get myself out of my dressing gown and off this thread .

Boiler is due its service today and I have to empty the pantry for the engineer to get access, which is an ideal opportunity to sort the bizarre collection of paraphernalia in there and declutter, declutter, declutter.....

(though I think it will take more than a mad 15 mins!)

cattyboo

mineallmine wrote: »

Morning

Who's up for a mad 15 minutes of decluttering today? :j

I'm feeling a bit sluggish today but you've made a bit of effort sounds much more manageable than I thought it was, I reckon I can manage a 15 minute declutter spree :j

Little and often is best

TheDoolallyDilly

Managed to get to the CS this morning, so dropped off four large carrier bags full. When I got home I realised the scarf I was wearing didn't keep me warm, so I've started a new CS bag and the scarf is in it!

donna thank you for the good wishes for the job, and well done on finishing decluttering half your house:T I'm interested in the Project 333 thing - a lot of the stuff I declutter on a regular basis is clothes - I'm not buying the right stuff, obviously, need to work out what I need!

donnajt

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Wow donnajt you have done brill. I was thinking P333 sounded impossible but you've shown it can be done. I was thinking i need a plain navy jumper for work, then starting to go through my drawers guess what i found :rotfl:1 nice marks and spencer cotton jumper with a gentle cable. Absolutely ideal! So defo going to get through those drawers see what other treasures I have lurking. Like the airing cupboard before they're so jammed full i avoid delving! I reckon the airing cupboard now has a quarter of what it did and is lovely to use (and i now know what we really do need)
Also thought i needed a new hairdryer but guess what i found!

Morning DundeeDoll...I was surprised how easy it was tbh! I started by keep, maybe, chuck. I am luck I have two wardrobes, so I took all the stuff that is too small (but hopefully not for much longer!), summer stuff and coats and put that in one wardrobe, I then had what was left and chose from there..however I have just done my mahoosive ironing of 3 items and forgotten my fav top - so am going to have to swap one of my other tops for this one :mad:

Its amazing what you find in your drawers isn't it!

Stew on....living room, cleaned ... just needs hoovering, just had a nice cup of tea...gonna shoot upstairs and clean the bedrooms/bathrooms and bring hoover down - the floors downstairs are desperate for a hoover

donnajt

northern_star wrote: »

Me - or at least I will be when I can get myself out of my dressing gown and off this thread .

Boiler is due its service today and I have to empty the pantry for the engineer to get access, which is an ideal opportunity to sort the bizarre collection of paraphernalia in there and declutter, declutter, declutter.....

(though I think it will take more than a mad 15 mins!)

Me in the kitchen I think

donnajt

TheDoolallyDilly wrote: »

Managed to get to the CS this morning, so dropped off four large carrier bags full. When I got home I realised the scarf I was wearing didn't keep me warm, so I've started a new CS bag and the scarf is in it!

donna thank you for the good wishes for the job, and well done on finishing decluttering half your house:T I'm interested in the Project 333 thing - a lot of the stuff I declutter on a regular basis is clothes - I'm not buying the right stuff, obviously, need to work out what I need!

Hi DoolallyDilly,

I have two ways of shopping:
Don't buy often but then buy lots of similar items or
Go out for something specific but can never find it!

I have two wardrobes and a deep 3 drawer chest of drawers, in all honesty I probably up to yesterday was wearing 10% of it.
So of the 100% of my clothes,
40% has been binned/given away
40% wearable
20% that I don't currently wear

I think by having all the clothes hanging up together including the scarfs/jewellery (got a beautiful scarf hanger for xmas) it will (a) make finding an outfit each morning much easier (b) save precious time each morning (c) make me more stylish (well a girl can dream :rotfl:

mineallmine

mineallmine wrote: »

Who's up for a mad 15 minutes of decluttering today? :j

Well I started off doing a quick whizz around. Then thought I wonder if I can find 10 things today from each room...

Then I got the bug! I managed to declutter 80 things today! So pleased. I needed to get back on track and in fact get ahead as some busy days ahead.

Just goes to show that just getting stuck in gets you motivated as I felt I was beginning to struggle. There's still mess but that I don't know where to start feeling.

1.2.3.4 Toiletries dregs used up
5. Reed diffuser to CS
6. Hair colouring bowl
7. More toiletries used up
8. Old disgusting soap!
9. Old envelope and contents recycled
10.-20. Old meds!
21.22. Fabric eye masks to CS
23.24. Hangers to CS, the ones with numbers of that they like in particular
25-28 Unused make up to CS
29. Notepad used up (to note things I've decluttered!)
30. Dead pen
31. Wooden hanger
32.33.34. Newspapers from before xmas...
35. OOD food
36. Another wooden hanger to cs
37. Old toiletries, too old to use
38. Bunch of papers to shred
39. Another dead pen
40. Bag of rubbish.
41.42.43.44.45.. Stuff regifted including a bottle of wine, a bag, gift bag, unusued make up
46. Brooch to cs
47. Trouser hanger to cs
48. Packaging
49. Old nets to CS (they can rag bag them if they want to or sell them then)
50. Plastic bags used to wrap CS stuff carefully
51. Plastic packaging
52.53. Mags
54.55. Cardboard boxes recycled
56. Unused cloakroom rail to cs
57.58. books
59.60.61.62. More old meds/packaging
63. Old yellow pages recycled
64. Old newspaper
65. Hair clip
66. Plastic packaging
67. Nail brush, yuck
68. Cosmetic bag to cs
69. Dead hairband
70. Old kfc wipe used up and binned
71.-77. Old bills, credit and membership cards
78. Old puzzle book recycled
79. Hat to cs
80. Old post its crumpled and so binned

:j

Hope everyone else got on ok. I don't normally do such a big declutter in one hit. Now up to 293 things decluttered this month

I can definitely recommend the tactic of I'm going to find 10 things to declutter in this room
:T

TheDoolallyDilly

donnajt wrote: »

Hi DoolallyDilly,

I have two ways of shopping:
Don't buy often but then buy lots of similar items or
Go out for something specific but can never find it!

I have two wardrobes and a deep 3 drawer chest of drawers, in all honesty I probably up to yesterday was wearing 10% of it.
So of the 100% of my clothes,
40% has been binned/given away
40% wearable
20% that I don't currently wear

I think by having all the clothes hanging up together including the scarfs/jewellery (got a beautiful scarf hanger for xmas) it will (a) make finding an outfit each morning much easier (b) save precious time each morning (c) make me more stylish (well a girl can dream :rotfl:

Yes, I think I'm buying because I want to be stylish :rotfl:it's not working

I just don't want to waste money buying things that I wear a few times, then send off to the CS (or to the second hand clothes shop we have, to try and get some money for them) because I don't look like I thought I would I might need serious help!

A year or so ago, when I thought I had nothing to wear, instead of buying anything, I 'made' myself wear a different outfit (based around all the pairs of trousers I had - 5 pairs) every day for two weeks. It was easy, which made me realise that (a) I did have something to wear and (b) I quite liked my clothes and could make different outfits out of them. I think I might be a bit lazy, need to do that again ...

museumworker

Battling the laptop battery, just wanted to record the following (numbers to follow):
126-160. 35 items from DDs wardrobe to charity
161-165. 5 items from DDs wardrobe to recycling.
Learnt the secret to clearing a child's wardrobe. Just do it when they're not around! The number of years we've battled over it - and I just got on with it by myself and she thanked me when she got home!!!

cte1111

Decluttered today:

Wellies
4 pairs of shoes
3 pots / ornaments
Empty bubble wand
Insoles
Pan