2015 - No Clutter To Be Seen

Guineapigsqueaks

Happy Friday All

Just surfacing and taking breath after usual Mon-Fri juggling act. No decluttering during the week except for 3 x pens gone, too pink for DD apparently. Only a few years ago she'd choose nothing but pink. Still, it's a bit less clutter, if only a little bit. Hoping to achieve a bit more out over the weekend, my bedroom is the target. There's definitely stuff that can go in there.

Everyone is doing so well. A cuppa and the sofa for me I think. Might have a couple of biscuits in the hope of an energy surge. I sometimes have a "second wind" about 10pm and can get quite a bit done. Sometimes.

Guineapigsqueaks x

Mumof2_2

30. 1 nightie to CS
31. 2 shirts to recycling
32. pair of trousers to CS

Frogletina

Last lot of decluttered items now numbered

78 Travel guides and books - CS
79 Radio - wanted ad on freegle, collected
80 Typewriter - I placed on freegle, collected
81 Old account books - shredded and binned
82 Notebooks and journals that I no longer wanted - shredded and binned
83 Another toothbrush - binned
84 Old pens - binned
85 Old travel leaflets - binned
86 A4 refill pad - to neighbour

Shredding the account books was a difficult decision. I've kept accounts for many years.

I've always kept household accounts. I've decided to keep 4 books, 3 old ones from when my youngest daughter was born and one from the last property I lived at. I also have current ones as well as having excel spreadsheets. Oh, I've also got one book showing annual expenses for each year. I do look at that from time to time and it is amazing to see what my costs were back in the early days.

I wish I still had the ones from when I was first married but for some reason they are not around. It doesn't seem long ago that I referred to them but it is probably years ago, and not at this address.

It took me ages to shred them all this morning, along with journals and notebooks. I've kept important ones, but these were either initial notes that I wrote up into other books or ones that I never wanted anyone else to see.

frogletina

littlebitbonkers

calleyw wrote: »

Even still have the valentines/xmas and wedding cards. we separated 3 years ago. Would have been married 15 years this march. Not sure what to do. I know I should chuck them but just can't. Stupid I know.

Calley - if it helps, I separated from my husband last year, and shredded/recycled all our wedding cards last week. I also gave away the artificial flowers from our reception - I'd stuck them all in a cupboard out of sight as looking at them depressed me, but it actually felt quite liberating to get rid of them. Just do what feels right to you.

lynnejk

Hiya everyone


I have decided that my home will never be KonMarie - or whoever as it's mine ! I like being clean and tidy but also like having some 'stuff'. I feel better now I've sorted that and I am just going to carry on poodling along and gently decluttering everything and everywhere. I think it probably starts easy and becomes harder but we shall see eh


So today the relaxing sort of the decorating cupboard. Don't feel attached to paint tins, varnish, brushes and rags so threw away eleven items that had definitely had a better day and were past their usefulness.


That puts me on 31 for the month.


Hope you all have a super Saturday


Lx

115K

52. I can't find a dog toy so I think I must have absentmindedly (is that even a word:p) put it in the bin.
I'm going to make a knotted toy out of a old t-shirt.

Mumof2_2

Lynnejk I agree with you - I have the Konmarie book on my Kindle to read but some aspects of it I don't agree with (not bulk buying if things are on a big discount etc) so I'm just going to take the bits of it I want to like only keeping stuff I really like instead of stuff that I may use again. I've got some stuff upstairs I haven't worn since I had my second child 8 years ago!!

Done some more decluttering:

33. Broken toy sword - bin
34. 2 x outgrown dressing up outfits - CS
35. past repair jeans - recycling
36. cord jacket - CS
37. birthday card - recycling
38. t-shirt (outgrown) - CS
39. broken coat hangers - bin
40. long sleeve top (outgrown) - CS

calleyw

well done a massive declutter in the living room

Got rid of 10 books and some photos to my mum as well as stock cubes from the kitchen :rotfl:don't ask

32 dvds boxed and ready to go to music magpie only £8.99 for the lot but better than nowt. A bag full of stuff and box of books out to the charity shop.

A bag of electrical carp to the tip as well as an old video recorder from my mums. My dad asked her why she had chucked it? She said it stopped working a couple of years ago and was just being used to put the TV on :rotfl:

Mind you it was the first one they ever bought. Cost about £500 in 1983 I know!!!!!

But very bad. 4 books in. Two for me and two to give away as pressies and a magazine. Once read I will then pass it on to someone else.

I have decided that I have netflix sub so no more DVDS unless they are very special films. And books are going to come from the library once I have read all that I have here first.

Oh and all the cards and stuff are going to be put in a box with a load of other things like pay slips etc. This will go under the bed until I am ready to sort it out properly. Yes a fudge of an answer. But will do for now.

Good luck people.

Yours

Calley

BrassicWoman

Calley netflix works brilliantly for me I haven't bought a box set in the 2 years since I have had it. And I had a BAD dvd habit!!! I hope it does the same for you.

calleyw

BrassicWoman wrote: »

Calley netflix works brilliantly for me I haven't bought a box set in the 2 years since I have had it. And I had a BAD dvd habit!!! I hope it does the same for you.

I have only kept the stuff that is hard to get or not on netflix. And at least once a week choose a film from the DVDS I have to watch.

I have decided that I am not going to keep for the sake of it. used envelopes, newspapers for dirty jobs and stuff like that is going.

Threw out 3 padded envelopes. Had to salvage a box for the DVDs to be sent off in from the cardboard bin.

Still had the boxes for my 2 hi-fi's that I bought 2 and half years ago. One was full of carp LOL!!!

Going to stop spending money on stuff I really don't need. I have way to much stuff. And most of it don't need.

Yours

Calley