2015 - No Clutter To Be Seen

mandaguin

I've given up on keeping track of numbers, but OH and his dad took a large amount of cardboard to the tip earlier this week. I've just cleared fridge and cupboards of any part-finished and beyond use bits. My bday cards are all in the recycling pile, and our collected bottles and tins from this week are about to be put in recycling for collection tomorrow.

tooties

handbag, 2 purses and a few bits of jewellery and the jewellery stand to a friend and/or her daughter or the bin i don't care.

regards

PixieDust

Total for today......two black bags for charity shop, one bag of wool to friend, two boxes of fabric to friend and a box of fabric to a nursery. Shattered now, not doing any more today!

sarah182xxx

well done everyone. I love reading the thread - it makes me feel motivated !


I out together a full bag for the charity shop (one of their big ones) including books, dvds, clothes which are now too big and lots more


its become almost a sunday tradition - putting together things for charity shops !


hoping to be decluttered by the time myself and my OH move into our place


x

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

46. A few bits of bubble wrap and a cardboard box
47. Some toiletries sorted
48. Fridge rid of beer and prosecco
49. Paper and cardboard sorted

Very little done today, apart from
50. Tins of food for food bank

Saver-upper

After my very sluggish start this afternoon,I ended up doing nearly 6.5 hours of tidying :eek:.Kitchen surfaces completely cleared of cups,washing up,bits of random toys (though I have still got a crystal-growing set-up near the fruit bowl and a rock tumbler in the opposite corner ),dishwasher put on again (the only time my dishwasher competely catches up is when OH and kids go out for the day ),any hand-washing up done.Floor washed,tiles wiped down,windows cleaned.Kitchen is only small,but it took over 2 hours to do :eek:.

As much as possible,I tidied 2 of the 3 bedrooms,vacuumed them.Also cleared stairs of all clutter,top landing,front hallway,dining room (I had done a deep-clean of bathroom on Wednesday).

As far as actual get-it-out-of-the-darn-house decluttering goes,I emptied a magazine holder full of instruction manuals for assembling IKEA furniture/dishwasher manuals/old TV manuals/trampoline assembly instructions/pushchair manuals,etc....In amongst all that there was also instructions for kid's toys bought over the last 12years.Had lots of "awwww" moments with those memories.Even found instructions for a swing set we bought our nearly 13yo for her first birthday .

I think I still have another identical (empty) magazine holder in the loft,so I will declutter them both to one of the teachers at school.

I also spent nearly an hour decluttering a pretty storage box (A4 size,about 15cm deep,) of papers.So much stuff!!!School notes from 2012-13,lists of things to do ,appointment letters,receipts.Even found a £10 note in an envelope of receipts!! Who said decluttering doesn't pay,ha!!(Going to put the tenner in my sealed pot.)Unfortunately,the pretty storage box is not yet empty.

I am about to get school uniforms out of tumble drier and start ironing those.Hate ironing,grumble grumble.

So,if I don't count the 567,351,105 individual pieces of paper I seem to have got rid of today,I have also set aside for charity a few random soft toys that were lying around.

I might count items as they actually leave the house (over the last few weeks I have been chucking stuff into bags to be donated when I get a chance).
1: great swayths of paper

allybee101

Crumbs dND, that is drastic measures to get decluttering! Hope you get cupboards sorted, at least you caught the problem before any disasters.

Callisto, I should have used that maxim of not turning the spare room into a dumping ground! It's taken 2 years to get it nearly all sorted after moving from 1 bed house to 2 bed flat (finding furniture, decluttering etc). I'm on the last stretch now, I think.

Lots of decluttering done here but none has left the flat yet so I can't count it. Significant thing has been wardrobe where I have tried to create a capsule wardrobe. A big pile of clothes have gone into the charity shop bag which I hope to remove this week. I had to have a stern word with myself about letting go of some items. It is difficult some times but I know I'll feel much better when they're gone.

jillbe

Good morning, here is my list :j

158 tin foil containers - recycling
159 bookcrossing hardback - wild release
160 summer vest - charity bag
161 long sleeved tops - charity bag
162 t shirt - charity bag
163 assorted cardboard packaging - recycling
164 leaflets - recycling
165 plastic milk, fizzy drink bottles - recycling
166 plastic food containers - recycling
167 red purse and key fob gift set - charity bag
168 Xmas gift bag - charity bag
169-172 assorted dvds - charity bag
173-174 promotional ceramic mugs - charity bag
175 assorted glass jars, bottles, tins - recycling
176 filter coffee refill tetra packaging - recycling

that's all so far for today.......

115K

38. Annoying coat hanger that won't hang properly binned.

39. Old DVD case into recycling.

40. Old photo of my class from uni ripped up and binned. No idea why I was keeping it anyway.:D

ETA

41. I cleared through my drawer with all the plasters, cotton buds things like that. A chipped cup I was using as storage was put in the bin.

System

Out:

Two pillowcases

One tatty t shirt that belongs to my son.

Tunic dress that doesn't flatter me one little bit..... ok being honest I look like a flump in it.:o