2014 decluttering thread (part 3)

mamaninie

Hello! I'm in for the remainder of the year

I have been very inspired by some of the writing on this site http://www.becomingminimalist.com/becoming-minimalist-start-here/

1. Pair of kids shoes for cs

skeeter93

Thanks for the link mamaninie... I have been reading minimalist sites lately and they are inspiring...

As for me, I have got rid of too much stuff to count, and there is still too much to go. But we are getting there.

luxor4t

Changed our clothes over this weekend, partly due to weather and partly because the weight losses continue and DH can't keep his trousers up :shocked:


I am now up to 6 bags of clothing to take to recycling, having added 30 garments and discarded assorted underwear. I have turned some of DH's t-shirts into strips for my pending rag-rug and cut down some of his long cotton PJ bottoms into shorts.


I have another pile of garments for eBay, but shall count them as they are sold.


Binned 5 sachets of hot chocolate (OD) and put aside in-date tins/ food items for the Harvest collection for the food bank.


DH has nearly finished repainting our 30 year old dark oak dresser with F&B Dimity paint so I have added 19 items of china etc to the CS box.


Printer cartridge recycled to Tesco for points.


Assorted packaging, receipts etc recycled.


Still have not made much progress in the attic room, beyond sorting out what will go - shall probably need help to make it all happen .

AlwaysHappy

5 more today:
356. wine bag - damaged - bin
357. duster - bin
358. catalogue- bin
359. coolbag - cs
360. pens - bin

luxor4t

I must be crazy, it is a lovely afternoon and I spent it with my head in the kitchen cupboards....
7 mugs, 5 glasses and a box for CS
6 more OD sachets/packets binned.
Oven tray seems to have got damaged so recycled and replaced with an oven proof dish that was taking up space.
Sorted out the 6 part used boxes of matches into 4 and recycled the empty packets.
Two biscuit tins recycled.
Jam jars into a box for the garage.


Cupboards emptied,wiped down and the stuff we use replaced.
Halo polished

mamaninie

2, 3. Two pictures to cs
4. Pair of slippers with holes - bin
5. Bit of small greenhouse to allotment for use as netting support
6. Had a fling out in the bathroom, lots of empty/1drop left bottles etc to the recycling

:j

mrs-moneypenny

had a good clutterbusting session in one of the rooms yesterday
broken sky remote - binned
carrier bag full of old envelopes that had stopped being self sealing and started going yellow - recycling
pair sandals that hurt - clothes bank
tub of OOD muscle drink - binned
some old empty boxes - recycled
pair rattyu old boxing gloves - binned
pair ratty old kick pads - binned
broken garden windchime- wood skip at DH works
load of offcuts and small bits of wood from garden projects- wood skip at DH works
did some more knitting so slowly using up wool

luxor4t

Spent part of yesterday replacing the paper on top of the kitchen cupboards with pink, fairy printed gift wrap :money:
Decluttered:
- another biscuit tin recycling
- another glass recycling
- a cupcake baking machine CS
- a wire cupcake stand (from DDs wedding three years ago) CS


Went through the herbs, spices and baking bits - 3 rather OD items and some crumpled cake papers binned.


I took everything off the top shelf whilst I was up the ladder. Oh dear , stuff gets pushed to the back and it is out of sight and usually unreachable as the cupboards are high, I am not and DH does not notice. 5 more opened packets into the food waste. I changed the layout of the cupboard to prevent this happening again.


A small basket, three dead biros and a pencil stump in the bin.


Two OD toiletry items emptied and the packaging recycled.


One book and a bag to CS box.


DH's giant shirt to fabric recycling.

mrs-moneypenny

huge load of chopped wood given away on freecycle. we are swapping our conifers for a fence so have logs and branches for locals with fires. just needs dying out for a while so if they are happy to store they get free firewood.

tatty old facias soffits and guttering all down and taken away along with the battered ariel that served no purpose other than for gulls and starling to roost on, it was so loose and wobbly i was convinced if a fat pigeon sat on it it would fall down. anyway soffits people took it down and the tv still works through the sky dish without it so its gone to the tip in their van
shiny new gutters facias etc are almost all fitted the end ones just need to be finished off tomorrow morning.

mrs-moneypenny

set of 8 wimpy kid books given to the school library (we had them twice)
a book id done some folded book art with gifted to the school