2016 - No Clutter To Be Seen

Gem-gem

Sorry for your loss Rossi.

Gem-gem

Headed for the bedroom tonight.

77. Old toothbrush
78. Empty toilet cleaner bottle
79. 8x pencils
87. Bits of paper
88. 3x old underwear (bin)
91. 5x socks
96. 3 other bits
99. Brown jeans
100. Brown trouser x2
102. Brown white company dress
103. Red dress
104. Monsoon skirt
105. 4 x tops
109. 5 x t-shirts

Gem-gem

114. 2 x shirts
117. 1 x jumper
118. Man tank cardi
119. T-shirt (bin)
120. Pair of jeans - cut up - main part binned.

Itsa_Longshot

Went through a small two-drawer unit used as a dumping ground for all manner of things.

45-46. Christmas coasters x 2 - not wanted - recycling
47-51. Blank CDs and cases x 5 - not needed - recycling
52. Mobile phone case - not needed - bin
53. Key-ring - not wanted -bin
54-55. Wallets x 2 - not needed - bin
56. Address book - old, out of date - shred/recycling
57. Old mobile phone documents - not needed - shred/recycling
58. Exercise band - not needed - bin

Happy with the progress so far. :j

Seaotter

My DH has been busy today....

35 leather belt, now too big to CS
36 large pile of paper - 20% acted upon, 20% filed, 60% recycled

tooties

Sorry for your loss Rossi, you are in my thoughts.

Rossi4658

I'm overwhelmed by all your kind wishes - thank you. I hope tomorrow goes well Dizzy Imp give your Grandma a lovely send off. I will be thinking of you x

craftingmad

I was on a roll yesterday:-


72. cath kidson Christmas catalogue - recycle bin
73. local magazine nov/dec 15 - recycle bin
74. Old receipts - recycle
75. EDF junk mail letter still in envelope - recycled
76. Burger King paper bag (not a clue!) - recycle
77-79. Large care home packs from mystery shopping assignments in early 2015 - recycled
80. Glitter tattoo catalogue - recycled
81. Pile of paperwork - recycled
82. Ripped jiffy bag- recycled
83. Sewing magazine - recycled
84. Ripped carrier bag -bin
85. Glitter glue packaging (lrg cardboard box) -recycled
86. Lrg cardboard box from delivery - recycled
87. toilet roll tubes - recycled
88. out of date After Eights (gutted ) - bin
89. Pick me up mag July 15 - recycled
90. real people mag July 15 - recycled
91. Asda Mag June 15 -recycled
92. OK mag July 15 - recycled
93. Reveal mag July 15 - recycled
94. Best mag July 15 - recycled
95. Your Norfolk mag Autumn 15 - recycled
96. Old toothbrush - bin
97. packaging from Infinity set - bin and recycled
98. large feather son collect at start of 2015 - bin
99. panto tickets from 2014 - recycled
100. broken wallet - bin
101. Aldi's Christmas mag - recycled
102. bagful of sweetie wrappers -bin
103. out of date coupons - recycled
104. Makro offers mag - recycled
105. candle packaging - recycled
106-108 - out of date crisps - bin
109. Another feather - bin
110. another pack of OOD crisps -bin
111. windmill instructions - recycled
112. another feather - bin
113. Large bag of used glitter tattoos -bin
114. jiffy bag - bin
115. old balloon - bin
116. build a bear certificate from 2013 - recycle


Phew - I'm glad its recycling bin day today. Its full to the brim with all this decluttering! On the plus side I have found the floor in my study

MallyGirl

Hi
I'd like to join you
I have a large house (with OH, DD, 2 big dogs and a cat) but it is still full to bursting and it is starting to really annoy me. When I was younger I felt comforted by being surrounded with my own 'stuff' - maybe because I had very little growing up. Now I feel oppressed by it and a lot of it simply must go.
The top floor of the house is a single room (35'x12') with eaves loft storage down both long sides. It is full Every time I go up there it raises my blood pressure just looking at it. We have lots of office furniture type storage but the sheer volume of paperwork we keep is ridiculous so I have started to weed. I have every credit card & bank statement, wage slip, bill, tax code note, major item receipt, instruction manual, insurance doc, etc ever received. Some date back to the 80s!!! I know you need to keep 6 yrs worth for tax (I had a sole trader business on the side for a while and OH had to start his own company as an IT contractor this year) but we just hoard everything. It has to stop.

Having lost some weight last year I made a start on the rest of the house and sorted through the first section of my wardrobe. I removed anything that was too big (so I can't slip back into it), unflattering, or hadn't been worn in living memory:
3 prs trousers to clothing bank
5 prs jeans to CS
3 prs trouser, 3 tunics, 3 skirts, 1 gilet to list on eBay as good brands. Some brand new

DD (now a teen) got in the swing and found 10 kiddie CDs for the CS. Next she needs to go through the DVDs with the same eye.
Around 100 videos went in the bin as even the charity shops don't take them now.
Next step is the paperwork and books. I got a kindle last year and have taken to it really well, even buying some kindle books that I already have in paper form as they are really big and uncomfortable to hold and I do re-read them.
Gardening books are a challenge - I probably have over 100 plus years worth of magazines as I studied horticulture and garden design and then had a small business for a while. A lot of the books were gifts. Maybe they might eBay in job lots but they are all heavy. Will have to have a hard think about them.

Onwards and upwards - I have visions of the house rising from the ground as we shed the weight of stuff.

Greenqueen_2

Mally I have just sent some books to webuybooks.co.uk They took gardening titles. I`m really pleased because I posted the parcel on Monday and the cash was in my account by Thursday! They dont give you a lot per book but they pay the postage so I effectively got more for them than if I had taken them to a carboot sale and stood in the cold for 5 hours.