2014 decluttering thread (part 3)

Becky_2

A bit more decluttering done today:
* Dealt with the weed in the front garden today, hopefully doing the back garden tomorrow
* A bag with magazines and various crosswords given to MIL & FIL
* A sachet of body lotion used up
* An empty coal bag has gone in the recycling bin
* 3 x birthday cards has been posted
* Old insurance paperwork and leaflets have been shredded & recycled

Hope you are all having a nice bank holiday weekend

highlandlady72

To the charity shop: 2 blouses, pair of jeans, pair of shoes, 1 jacket & 2 hardback books.
Also did a bit of weeding & pruning a bush in the back garden. Garden bin now half full.
If it also counts: decluttering the liquid contents of a bottle of wine :-)

dizzy_lizzie

115K wrote: »

My hubbie has an annoying habit of keeping random computer bits, cables, things like that even though he never uses them.:mad: I'm tempted to get rid and deny any knowledge if he ever looks for these random items.:o:rotfl:

My hubbie is the same 115K. Cleaning out his shed last week he took out a basket overflowing with old phone chargers, cables, wires and other odd looking bits of electric cables. I said what are those? He actually said he'd no idea what they where all from.
I thought he'd took them to the tip when we took some other stuff but I've just asked him what he did with it and he said he put it back in the shed!!! :wall:
It must be a man thing.

Oh and hello to Sazzledazzle :wave:

Hubbie has been plastering the little room were the washer is and once it's painted I'll be decluttering all the bottles of cleaning stuff in there. I'm sure I don't need half of what was in there!

TheDoolallyDilly

Hello SazzleDazzle :wave:

SazzleDazzle1 wrote: »

I am finding the more I get rid of the easier it is becomming as the things I thought were needed are actually not (not sure this makes sense but basically once the junk is gone then the next level of stuff just looks like junk).

This makes perfect sense to me - I read on some other forum that decluttering is a bit like peeling an onion - a layer at a time, and it might make you cry!

I live in a pretty decluttered home, and yet still manage to find things to get rid of ....!

115K

I'm on a roll.:T

Used up the ends of a face scrub, shampoo, conditioner, hand wash and put in recycling and also thrown out a half empty bottle of sunscreen as it gave me a rash.

I've gone through my junk drawers containing lightbulbs, batteries etc... and got rid of anything not needed and reorganised the rest.

I'm going to have to get the council to collect some broken furniture I've rounded up or I will take them to the dump myself. Hopefully someone can use it in some way.

I've taken some toiletries from my bedroom drawer to the bathroom cabinet to make sure I use them up too.:)

I'm about to go through my food cupboards to see if there some stuff that I can find to start to make up a bag to take to a food bank and make sure everything is in date.

highlandlady72 wrote: »

If it also counts: decluttering the liquid contents of a bottle of wine :-)

Of course it counts.:p

dizzy_lizzie wrote: »

My hubbie is the same 115K. Cleaning out his shed last week he took out a basket overflowing with old phone chargers, cables, wires and other odd looking bits of electric cables. I said what are those? He actually said he'd no idea what they where all from.
I thought he'd took them to the tip when we took some other stuff but I've just asked him what he did with it and he said he put it back in the shed!!! :wall:
It must be a man thing.

It's so annoying!:mad::D

ravingandsaving

My husband hoards wires - he seems unable to throw a single wire away in case it comes in handy. Any tips??

SazzleDazzle1

We have boxes of wires too but I struggle to them away just in case .... Can never find the one we need though

I have cracked on with the playroom today, another 4 bags gone. Have thrown out and bought new accessories for our cloakroom toilet as the old were rusty and disgusting AND DH has dug out all the weeds from the front of the house ready to put new bricks down.

Happy bank holiday everyone

Tiglath

Popping in to say I've cleared out half the kitchen cupboards and drawers. I'm currently doing the pantry and throwing out out-of-date food and breeding plastic bags; the cats are unimpressed that I'm disturbing their nest in there. I've also thrown out all the old shoes I was keeping 'just in case.' I usually do all this in January but couldn't take holiday then so I'm running to catch up this year. I'm still at the decluttering stage before I can even think of cleaning, but at least I have a plan.

sillyme673

My OH keeps them too and he use to cut off the plug off things for the trip just in case. In case of what he doesn't know. I make him keep his stuff in shed. He brought home box of blank video tapes someone was giving away. Why?:wall::wall:
I have filled the house bin with rubbish the kids cleaned their rooms, mostly arts and crafts.
One day I will have a decluttered home:rotfl:

Tiglath

Scrubbed the kitchen floor after asking DH for weeks to do it. I'm too old to be on my hands and knees using a knife to scrape up dried catfood. I had to take my eyes off the housework for 3 months while I studied for an exam, so it basically didn't get done (apart from washing-up and laundry), and I'm paying for it now.