2016 - No Clutter To Be Seen

Gem-gem

77. Cleared out the rubbish from the basket in the cupboard in the bathroom.

GrannyKate

Only two things today
14 Children's clothes for CS
15 Cardboard boxes to RC

15/2016

Seaotter

Yesterday's collection was:

19+20 pants, in the bin
21 beaded belt, CS
22 dinosaur stencil, CS
23 ripped shirt, bin
24 book, CS
25-29 chargers, leads, earphones (bin,CS)
30 old digital camera, CS
31 old socks, bin
32 trousers, too big CS

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

19. Pair of trousers into charity bag
20. Pair of jogging bottoms into charity bag
21. Paper bag into recycling bag
22-24. Three Xmas decorations into charity bag
25-27. Three parcels posted, so two cardboard boxes and Jiffy bag gone
28. Plastic storage box to tip
29. Empty porridge box into recycling
30. Dregs of muesli binned
31. Polo shirt into recycling bag

32. Thermal top into charity bag
33. Small tumbler into charity bag
34. Blanket into charity bag
35. Out of date muscle rub thrown out
36-37. Old towels binned
38. Old duvet cover binned
39-40. Old pillow protectors binned
41. Old sheet binned
42. Beach towel to charity bag

Mumof2_2

So far today:

30. Christmas decoration - broken - bin
31. Broken football - bin
32. Paper - recycling
33. Old foot switch for dictation - bin
34. Old golf ball! - bin

WantToBeSE

Feeling a bit overwhelmed today.

I have loads of paperwork in various drawers and cupboards, and am trying to sort it all out.

What system do people use for storing all of their paperwork? I have spilt it up into categories (Sons appointments/medical info and DLA benefits, household bills, tax credit info) but no idea what to do with it. Any suggestions of cheap and easy ways to do this would be great.

I have 1 bin bag of rubbish so far today.

Wednesday2000

16. Broken furniture having to be taken away by council.
17. Baby blanket thrown away as it has gone into a weird shape and I can't straighten it out even after washing and tumble drying it again!
18. Unwanted old photos into bin.
19. Paperwork ripped up and put in recycling.
20. Potatoes used up to make wedges, yummy.:)

craftingmad

41. Argos Christmas catalogue - recycling
42.Create & Craft magazine Autumn 15 - recycling
43. Teaco magazibe Oct 15 - recycling
44. Which magazine - nov 15 - recycling
45. Craft magazine - oct/nov 15 - recycling
46. Lidl leaflet - recycling
47. Old Watch Box - recycling
48. Christmas card blanks (actual cards made into tags) - recycling
49. Old school newsletters from 2015 - recycling
50. Pile of paperwork from office floor -recycling

nicki_2

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Feeling a bit overwhelmed today.

I have loads of paperwork in various drawers and cupboards, and am trying to sort it all out.

What system do people use for storing all of their paperwork? I have spilt it up into categories (Sons appointments/medical info and DLA benefits, household bills, tax credit info) but no idea what to do with it. Any suggestions of cheap and easy ways to do this would be great.

I have 1 bin bag of rubbish so far today.

I use lever arch folders with dividers that I buy from asda. I'm self employed so need to keep 6 years of financial paperwork! I file everything "oldest at the back and work forwards" in date order from when I receive them. I have:

1. "Financial Year" - This is literally benefit letters (tax credit, housing benefit, exemption certificates), interest statements, and my tax returns. So all the important stuff I'd have to show the tax man if he asked. I keep this years paper at the front and add the papers to it as they arrive (in theory). Everything just gets filed under which ever year it relates to in date order with the oldest (currently 06 April 2009 until 05 April 2010, then 06 April 2010 until 05 April 2011 and so on) but there's always some cross over (with tax credit paperwork mainly) which arrives in March for the following financial year, in that case it goes under the divider for when it refers to not when it arrived. I have a print out stuck in the front of the folder which I made to keep track of which papers I can get rid of when after doing my tax returns.
2. "Reference" where each utility is filed separately, plus I have sections for anything admin rather than statement related for my credit cards and bank, and one section for all those A4 receipts I want to keep hold of (like for my mobile when I sign a new contract or email receipts for larger purchases like our new freeview box). I'm paperless for my phone (landline and mobile), internet, and gas/electric bills now, but I still get water & TV licence stuff. I keep those bills until I get rid of the papers from that year in folder 1 (if that makes sense?).
3. "Statements" has my 2 credit card & 1 store card statements in so I have a record of what I've spent on them. I tend to get rid of these when I get rid of folder 1& 2 papers.

Then I have a household notebook (The link takes you to an American website I've been visiting since 2001 and highly recommend!) but I don't use it as well as I should. It has been very handy to have it all set up, I just haven't managed to get some sections working for me (like menu planning or inventories ) but other sections I've bumped out into their own folder. I now have separate folders for our dog, school, house (We rent so its all the tenancy agreements and gas safety certificates plus random papers I need to keep hold of) and Christmas Planning. I'm hoping that some day I'll be able to reduce the number of files I have, but for now this is a system that mostly works for me :rotfl: HTH

donnajt

Ooh can I join, house is fairly clutter free but I've suffered with depression over last couple of years, I get a new interest .... get all the stuff I need ... then lose interest .... ie New paint bought in October for kitchen is hidden under my desk, my beautiful new blind fabric arrived today so ....

I am vowing that once kids are settled I will start clearing out my kitchen cupboards with a view to being ready to paint on Thursday