2015 - No Clutter To Be Seen

mrs-moneypenny

Seriously no wonder my house looks untidy
I have just put two recycling bags full of old papers and magazines out!
Culled 3 files of pages I'd taken out of mags for sewing stuff, Christmas stuff and recipes they must have been untouched for at least 3years so have all gone.
A bottle of tippex that rattles!
An old mouse with no ball
A pair of mini speakers the cable has been cut off
A mini digital camera from when they first came out but it has no cables with it
A broken calculator
A load of biros that don't write
Some rubber stamper blocks that are congealed with ink and starting to perish
3 pairs old headphones
6 plastic files that are old and splitting
6 scratched pairs of 3d glasses free from cinema
A few pieces of one of those wooden dinosaur skeleton puzzles
8 half filled with shopping lists old note books
That has all been binned
I now have a pile of old cheque book stubs receipts and stuff to shred abd I've not even mentioned the CS pile!!!!

It feels really good to be clearing all this

I have about the same again to go through

mrs-moneypenny

Shredding has been done and put out, amazingly the shedder behaved and let me do it all with cutting out and needing a 45 min break between pages!
Found a scratched CD so that's binned
10 years ago the fan packed up in our tower so we got a new one to replace it - I've just found the old fan neatly boxed and put away in he sideboard!!! It is now in the pile of small metal bits for DH to take to be recycled at work this afternoon.
Plastic box washing powder tablets came in put in recycling

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321. Card someone sent me into recycling.

322. Loo roll holder into recycling.

323. We got a lot of post and flyers today, most went into recycling.

324. Bleach bottle binned.

325. Wine bottle binned.

326. All bins and recycling out out.

327. I have half a white baton that I will use to make garlic bread later.

328. Another tennis ball binned. I'm going to stop buying them for my dog as this is getting ridiculous.:rotfl:

329. Bicarb sprinkled into cat litter tray and binned.

jillbe

Good evening all, I have been busy in the garden today......:j

725 plant pots, broken watering can rose - binned
726 bunch of faded daffodils - compost bin
727 general garden debris - compost bin
728 bag of green potatoes - compost bin
729 plastic packaging - recycling
730 cardboard packaging - recycling
731 faded hyacinth bulbs - replanted in garden
732 plastic milk container - recycling

mrs-moneypenny

4 pairs of trousers either too small or scruffy going down clothes bank
Cushions covered ready to donate to DD2 next weekend
Mending pile cleared so
DD1 can have her jeans back next weekend
Reel of cotton used up

Edit
DD3 has just popped round to pick up the mermaid top I made her and post that was deliver for her, and I gave her a spare memory stick while she was here so that decluttered

lynnejk

Hiya everyone :hello:

Well I am still in the cupboard of files and paperwork - about a third done now so the end is not in sight yet :rotfl:

It's our 5th wedding anniversary today but we are not going out as I'm working and DH is on earlies. So we will probably go for a drink at the weekend and then put the monies to our holiday meals-out as we go on Monday

It's also my last day at work as we have decided I should take early retirement. I am starting to find it a bit too much now working five out of ten every fortnight.

It seemed a good time to give my notice as only have to work this week and then away for the other three weeks anyway. So not really decided what I will do after my holidays but will worry about that when I come back and just enjoy the time away.

So there is hope that I will get the clutter eventually sorted but think it will be after the hols now before I'm finished.

Back laters
Lx

mrs-moneypenny

Hi Lynne, happy anniversary to you and your DH, hope the holiday is lovely and you get a nice meal out then.
I'm sure you'll find stuff to keep you busy when you get back.

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Found some more stuff to clear
An unused still boxed cast iron double table heater - CS
Added two tea lights from the stash to the above -CS
Pair unworn black cord trousers too small for DS2 - CS
5 paperback books - my mum
8 DVDs - my mum
Bag of candle wax and almost used up candle ends - my sister will reuse them
Bag of old used postage stamps - CS
Three bags of bedding throws and cushions - DD2

All this has been bagged and will leave the house at the weekend
Nipped down the clothes bank this morning with the stuff I'd bagged up for that.

Also have two more filled Cs bags to take down with this stuff


Edit - added
Just found a folder of about36 photos one of the kids must have taken ona school trip, mostly scenery and I don't recognise any children in the photos so they are from a few years ago. All binned.
Stash of paper napkins have been put with the kitchen roll to use up.

mrs-moneypenny

Big heavy box of Ds2s old school books he'd asked me to put in the attic last year have been halved and all unused books put in drawers for using all scruffy or not worth saving books have gone in the recycling.
Pair of shin pads and a boot bag - Cs bag
31 little pin brooches from rspca are going to school today for 'my' class
Two bits of free from cereal boxes tat are also going into the school treat box.

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330. The last tennis ball binned.

331. I used a serviette I got from a takeaway to clean the porch cupboard. Binned.

332. Vinegar put in a bowl of water to clean front path. Binned.

333. Recycling out.