2014 decluttering thread (part 3)

luxor4t

Another 15 items listed on eBay, bids on 7 and 5 days to go I won't count them until sold.


3 birthday gifts and 2 baby gifts packed and delivered.


a t-shirt cut up for my rag rug


2 more hangers broken up and recycled


6 more items from the clothes mountain into the fabric recycling, plus a pair of trainers. I am still so very ashamed about the sheer volume of clothing we owned and did not wear, especially as a good 60% of the clothes actually in my wardrobe did not fit me. Everything in there now either fits or is 1 size larger. Every thing else is in the back bedroom ready for eBay, CS, friends or recycling.


Tidied the top of the dressing table - lots of dust, bent hair grips, odd buttons and 3 nailclippers ...I didn't know we owned so many!.... re-homed or binned.

kboss2010

Luxor, where do you take fabric to be recycled? I have about 4-5 shopping bags full of towels and old sheets that I doubt the charity shops would take (and, quite frankly, I'd be embarrassed to donate them!)

I donated about 12 shopping bags full of carp from my cupboards today and my cupboards are mostly still full, how I fitted it all in I'll never know!

luxor4t

"Recycled" is a loose term, sometimes I should say "re-used"
My local CS will take really tatty stuff and it is sold to the 'ragman' to be processed, I label the bags so they don't need to try and sort through for saleable stuff.
The animal shelter takes towels in any state as the dogs etc don't mind.

mrs-moneypenny

our council do a collection where if you bag up clothing bedding towels etc in a different bag to the paper collection (but same colour) they will take that with the recycling.

9. 12 bags of conifer clipping taken by council garden waste collection - the pile is getting smaller.
10. chipped plate - binned
11. bag of old plastic plantpots - taken to tip by neighbour

luxor4t

Three magazines, a paint chart and an out of date guarantee booklet recycled
2 pens binned
2 decorative 'rag rabbits' donated to a charity.


Some games, a book, two magazines and a badge returned to the correct places (ie not under the coffee table )

mrs-moneypenny

morning all
wet and miserable here, mother nature seems to have decided to declutter summer!!!

12. broken headphones - binned
13. bag of odd frayed and old shoelaces - binned
14. 2 tatty old shoe polish brushes - binned
15. ball of wool that was so weak it kept snapping when i knitted with it - binned
16. card from stash - sent to someone
17. bag of milk bottle tops - taken in for charity collection
18/19. used some fabric from the stash cupboard to make 3 new cushion covers - old ones went in the ragbag.

marmiterulesok

I used to post here,but stopped a while back.

I need to come back though,as things are piling up.

Today,what I want to achieve is

- doing the ironing and putting it away

- clearing the table of paperwork etc.

Wish me luck!

suzeesu2000

Long story short.....

Made homeless in June, rehoused into beautiful "forever" home.

Stuffed anything int boxes as we had to move so quickly and both hubby and i are unwell old crocs.

Whilst in emergency housing, got rid of 80 black bags of not needed stuff. Also had to get rid of massive pieces of mahogany furniture as we didnt know where we would be living and thought rooms might be the usual new tiny ones.

Since being in new home, we are constantly sorting through things to put away properly.

Currently there are about twenty black sacks waiting for the lovely dustybinmen to take away. Have also recycled an enormous tumble dryer to a new home but replaced with a very small one. Have also donated four boxes, two carrier bags, ten huge garden pots and four unopened bags of compost.

Have actually lost count of what we have decluttered but it feels so good to have a clear home. Still lots to deal with though as we still have the loft-full to go through eeek!

mrs-moneypenny

good luck with the table clearing and ironing today marmiterules, ill join you in tackling my ironing pile this afternoon

sounds like youve been through a heck of a lot suzeesu, i do hope your forever home is a happy one and life is kind to you from here on in.

suzeesu2000

Thanks mrs-m, as bad as it has been, we are still so much more fortunate than some folk and I count my blessings on a daily basis.

Good luck with the irtoning. As we now have a wardrobe, I finished ironing all our (much reduced amount of) clobber on Saturday. It is such a nice feeling to not have any hanging about although, I am sure, hubby will rectify that soon LOL.