2015 - No Clutter To Be Seen

mamaninie

7. Some Tupperware without bottoms and a lid
8. Mug too far gone for cs
9. Another bag of paperwork
10. Gift set of famous grouse. Kept the miniature, glass and mat to cs

Also waiting to depart: the stairgate still!, 2 x old video players and the last 2 videos :laugh: will try them outside the house and then take to tip if they don't go

Skintmama

The numbering looks to be a good idea as it will help motivate me. I think I listed four lots yesterday.

5. Sizeable bag of books going to CS

6. Load of cardboard and packaging to bin and recycling.

7. Christmas cards to recycling.

8. 4 plastic bottles to recycling.

9. Pile of college and uni prospectus for 2013

10. Chicken carcass from fridge is simmering in the stock pot.

Also have eaten the last 3 mince pies from the cake tin but I don't suppose they count!

I am enjoying seeing what you all get rid of as it gives me ideas.

Apparently I need to cook a meal now - shame as this is more fun

Credit card statements in theory I plan to keep for 2-3 years; In practice, ahem!

DundeeDoll

Becky_2 wrote: »

I am feeling really pleased with my decluttering today.

I have managed to:
* Shred various credit card statement from 2007 and onwards. How long do you keep your statements?
* Recycle various instruction manuals, some for items we no longer have.
* Shred paid utitility bills for previous addresses.

Similar day as first box of stoof out of room of requirements so
55 various cc statements shredded
56 ditto bank statements
57 ditto old tax stoof
58 ditto old pay slips
59 ditto old car docs
60 old cheque books -> rc
Actually shredding stoof waiting in bag to do in work shredded - it'd burn our little domestic one out!

BettiePage

After being ill over the xmas break and back at work this week I have managed to start off another charity bag and thrown out a few things. I've been avoiding writing an assignment

CookieMonsta

85. Ebay parcel posted.

86. Sorted through my knitting needles and chucked some bent/unpaired ones.

Had a busy day of shopping and scrapbooking so not much decluttering done. I will try harder tomorrow!

littlebitbonkers

Hi everyone, totally new to posting on the forums (literally joined like 5 minutes ago!) but I've been reading them for a month or so, picking up little hints and I must say that I'm really impressed by the commitment you all show (and the support you give each other when someone has a not so good day) and I'm really looking forward to joining in and getting to know you all - so my first step is to ask if I can please join this challenge? A little late, I know, but I've actually made a start today, and now feel really proud of myself and thought that if I shared it then it will (hopefully) keep me motivated to get rid of all the other unnecessary stuff I seem to have accumulated! So here goes:

#1-90: books/cds/video games sold online (albeit not for ridiculous amounts, but every penny I make is going towards bringing my debt-free date forward, so I'll take what I can get). These are now sitting in a box in my spare room, all ready for the courier to come and pick them up.

#91-192: more books, again sat in boxes in the spare room, ready for listing/car boot/charity.

While I am aware that all are technically still cluttering up the spare room, I'm still counting them as for me this is a HUGE achievement - I'm a total book hoarder lol.

tooties

Evening,

Went through my knitting patterns today, it was very very hard but i cut my stash from 5 ring binders down to 1 and a half.
Ridiculous really i havent used that many of them but kept ones i love.
Patterns and binders went out the door really quickly before i changed my mind.

Everyones doing so well

regards

JIL

I have just realised this thread sums my house up to a tee. No clutter can be seen, its all hiding in drawers, cupboards, sheds and wardrobes.

Fiasco55

I managed to get tore in tonight so lots lined up in the hall ready to go tomorrow.

108. Red jacket - fabric recycling
109. Black coat - fabric recycling
110. Teal jacket cs
111-114. Framed artwork cs
115-117. Freebie shampoo minis binned as they were rubbish
118-119. Sweetie tins (empty) binned
120. 4 bags of recycling emptied
121. Book cs
122. 4 bags of bf stuff he has bought in the sales taken to his
123- 125. 3 large tiles returned to shop ( new bathroom here I come)
126. Last year's receipts sorted through and filed away.
127. Reorganisation of my spare room.
128. Lid from an old ice bucket - binned
129. Yet another pile of plastic hangers donated

Feeling very positive about the momentum I've build up over the last three months and I know there is something to this clutterfree home, Clutterfree mind.

DundeeDoll

61-62 2 old vacuum cleaners -> small electrics at dump
63 xmas cards sorted, notes made for new addresses etc,rc
64 handbag beyond cs bin
65 broken headphones bin
66 phd draft rc
Also decluttering 'books to read', aiming at on average one a week.
1) was color purple, library book, for book club, took a while to get into style of sriting but then couldnt put down
2) was casual vacancy, lent by dd2 2 years ago?, wept buckets, now forwarded to gbf
3) just finished mcewan's the childrens act. Very good, medical ethics. Fascinated by the judge's summings up
Next book, much lighter weight, xmas stocking pressie julia williams a merry little christmas