2016 - No Clutter To Be Seen

Soozii

I'm in. Just given a load of old coats and hats, gloves, scarves and boots to a homeless group. My target will be to declutter 2016 items but at least half are to go to be reused somewhere else. I'm not going to count paper

Soozii
De clutter 21/2016

DuranGirl

Wow! Lots of good work going on. :TGoing to be slow and steady at this end, but I'm definitely noticing the difference around the house.


3 - board game no longer played with - CS
4 & 5 - non-fiction books - CS
6 - unused Baby Memory Book - found just in time to give as a gift
7 - baby wrapping paper and matching tag from my stash (used sellotape to make the paper fit rather than buy more!:)
8 - another board game - CS
9 - DD old school blazer - CS
10 - DD old school suit - CS
11 - old video game sold on Ebay - posted

Mumof2_2

Been doing some cluttering in our room - did I ever mention that my DH is a real hoarder?!!

39. 2009 diary - pages torn out for recycling, cover in bin
40. 2 x plastic spoons - bin
41. very old trousers - recycling
42. underwear - recycling
43. pens - didn't count them all this time but at least 30 that don't work so in bin. Going to send lots to Pens for Kids - thanks for link in first post. I think I have about 50 to go.
44. really old foam ear plugs - yuk! - bin
45. cracker toys x 2 - bin
46. hotel soap - bin (we've already got a drawer full - don't need more)
47. salt and sugar sachets - bin
48. old out of date cereal bar - bin
49. old out of date nurofen tube - bin
50. face paint crayons - CS
51. old thermometer - bin
52. leaflets/booklets and various notebooks with just a couple of pages on - recycling
53. scarf - CS


Apart from the scarf this was all from a plastic storage box on DH's shelf .... see what I'm up against!

I didn't count all the stuff in it, but an hour ago decluttered big Ikea bag full of stuff. Feels good but lots lots more to go!!

FoxFace

Another decluttering morning this morning Finally got all of the stuff that was under the stairs sorted... we moved last June and kinda threw a load of cardboard boxes under there "to sort later"... 1 bin bag of rubbish, some more recycled and a trip to the CS with a huge box full of (complete) board games and a massive bag of books that the boys have grown out of

So that's two declutters today, we just have the boy's bedrooms to go and have set aside tomorrow and Friday to sort them as they will be all day jobs!

Larumbelle

The past few days have not been especially productive for me, but I did get a shelving unit thoroughly decluttered, and some more items up on Ebay. This morning I took another trolley-load to the CS and the bin men have been - so my incentive is to fill both my trolley and my bin with stuff to get rid of again!

I am also counting up the change I find on my travels - over £6 so far, which may not sound like much to most of you, but makes a big difference to me on my current tiny budget!

Dizzy_Imp

Wow! Loads of decluttering happening and some lovely newbies too :hello: welcome to the gang x

Larumbelle - you should be on the wombling thread! We call change found on travels "roadkill" £6 is not to be sneezed at for sure :T

I'm liking the idea of donating my unwanted items to charities who collect such things - the pens one was new to me, and I've got enough stationary to start my own shop, so I'll be looking into that rather than just chucking it all away. And I'm a big fan of "recycling" unused/unwanted pressies too DuranGirl - I just have to label things with the name of who gave it to me originally, so as to avoid embarrassment

No flingage to report today, but I have sorted things into piles to go through thoroughly and ruthlessly tomorrow when I've got a bit more time.

Fiasco55

A bit more progress yesterday and today.

50. Jeggings with a big hole
51. Christmas tree down and boxed
52. Christmas decs boxed and reorganised
53. Christmas cards stored away
54. Card out of card stash
55. Blister pack binned
56. Bottle recycled
57. Packaging recycled

embb

Hiya

Day 6. 10 paperback books to CS, I really need to start saying no thanks when people offer me their cast offs.

Hope everyones well xx

Sa1sysoo

6-8 - Jars of out of date food.

The return to work has really slowed me down

GrannyKate

Busy couple of days so not much decluttering done.
14 Spare children's clothes RC
15 Cardboard boxes
16-17 Two bags of plastic to supermarket recycling bin
18-20 Miscellaneous bric a brac to charity collection - 3 bags