2017 - No Clutter To Be Seen

Saver-upper

Oooooohh,lots of stuff out of the house today.I love it when so much leaves the house at once :j.I just feel so much lighter.
Out of the house today ,to charity for sick children:
1983-1988:6 kid's books
1989-1990:2 pairs of elbow pads
1991-1992:2 pairs knee pads
1993:Pac-A-Mac
1994:novelty drink bottle
1995:shoe hanging storage unit
1996:wet nappy bag
1997:child's top
1998:Mad Science free gift,unopened (not even sure what it is!)
1999:pair of baby socks
2000-2013:14 plastic toys,animals mostly.
And passed the 2000-mark :j:j:j:j
2014-2015:2 training bras
2016:1 pr leggings
2017:1 kid's t-shirt,and passed the 2017 mark :j:j:j:j
2018:1 pr girl's tights
2019:1 pr baby boy's shorts
2020:toy wombat
2021:red school jumper
2022:squidgy key-ring
2023:baby outfit
2024:collection of Moshie Monsters cards
2025:skipping rope,barely used

Donated to Salvation Army:
2026-2037:12 general fiction books
2038-2040:3 valances
2041:old necklace
2042-20432 satchels
2044:1 backpack
2045:aquamarine handbag
2046:mobile phone screen protector

Donated from the loft:
729:unopened box of Christmas cards
Halloween Bits:
730:tiny gift bag,cross-stitched with a ghost
731:paper pumpkin
732:bag of halloween skeletons
733:bag of Halloween spiders
734:gift bag
735:Teddy Bear from Oxford University,tags still on
736:pashmina,never worn

Phew!

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Tonight I have been sorting through boxes of paper.I definitely keep too much .
Hard to know how to count papers,but I will count these as 2,so 2047-2048

Also found some folder dividers which my 15yo will start using again (she gave them to me a few months ago to get rid of,but I never got around to it )

Saver-upper

Have had a busy day decluttering bags of kibble-toys with missing bits,puzzles with bits missing,random bits of tat that once belonged to toys and games.Yesterday I decided that I really need to be strong,and start chucking alot more stuff that has been waiting to find missing pieces,etc.

Out of the house and loft today:

From house:

Binned:
2047:novelty flag

Donated to charity shop for rags:
2048-2135:88 rags,including 4 very old nurses uniforms which I have held onto for 16 years :eek:

Also donated:
2136:1 quilting/patchwork book
2137-2138:2 patchwork magazines,years old
2139-2142:4 cross-stitch books,I had got off Freecycle many years ago
2143:Manic Martians game
2144:manicure set,unopened
2145-2150:6 jelly cups
2151:pair of Wellington boots,given to a little girl that lives around the corner.She was thrilled with them,bless her :A

From the loft:
737-742:another 6 jelly cups
743:plastic cereal container
744:VTech Bright Lights baby ball.My 15.5yo had this when she was a baby,and finally I was able to let it go....
745:1 kid's CD

Got to go,more to follow............

Saver-upper

Back again.......
More donated from the loft today:

746:notebook,still in packaging
747:leather wallet
748:Jungle Book book

Recycled:
749:Muddle Farm cardboard magnet book
750:bundle of 6 Bindeze cards
751-752:Bindeze trays
753:chocolate box
754:envelope containing grocery receipts from 2014 !!

Binned:
755:magnets from above-mentioned Muddle Farm book
756-757:2 bags of Bindeze,never used
758:length of string
759:not-very-nice chocolates,18 months out of date.Must have been accidentally put up in the loft at some stage when I was tidying up

I also sorted stuff to go to the tip,which I will list when I drop it off.

ALso found a few items to start re-using again : a plastic container and it's new-found lid,a take-away container and lid (I use these as lunch-boxes and for food-storage),3 trolley tokens,and camera instruction booklet.

greent

Saver-upper wrote: »

I spent this afternoon sorting through bags of school uniforms I pulled from the loft when I was sorting it out the week before last.Sooooooooooo many uniforms collected over the years with the intention to sell..Of course,when the time comes,I can never find them .
Not sure what I am going to do with them.I would donate to charity,but I don'tthink many charity shops would appreciate being loaded down with 8 years worth of school uniforms,3 weeks after school has started back :eek:.I have offered them to a couple of friends who work with vulnerable families,so hopefully they will still be used.Otherwise will list on freecycle.
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Donate to the relevant schools concerned? - primaries could use as spares for accidents (whether toilet related/ paint/ falling over in playground) or sell on (Our local primary sells on logo-ed jumpers etc at around £1.50 a go - bargain) Secondary schools often (around here anyway) have a PTA type thrift/ second hand uniform 'store' where they can sell on the items towards much needed school funds

greent

1405 – 1407. 3 art projects (DD) – binned
1408. dice (DD) – shoebox appeal
1409. fabric storage box (tatty) (DD) – binned
1410. more paper from DD’s room – recycled
1411. Duplo – sold – ebay
1412. Toiletries set – sold – ebay
1413. Packaging from stash used on above
1414-15. 2 books – CS
1416 – 18. 3 phone holders (new in packs) – CS
1419. book read and passed on
1420. nasty plastic rat toy (DD) – binned
1421 - 22. 2 nail varnishes (DD) – binned
1423 -26. Gloopy/ dried up lip glosses (DD) – binned
1427. broken colour changing pen – binned
1428. fluffy pen (DD) – binned
1429. trailer (large) – sold – ebay
1430 – 35. Octonauts toys & book – sold – ebay
1436. packaging – used on ebay parcels
1436. stained shorts – fabric recycling
1437 – 48 Broken/ freebie promotional fridge magnets – binned
1449 – 75. Fridge magnets – CS
1476 – 78 bag, paper, card & tag from stash for gift
1479 – 1482. 4 items from gift stash used as gift
1483. more paperwork (DD) and old school stuff – recycled
1484. broken clock ☹ - binned
1485 - 87. 3 cereal box freebies which have been loitering still in their packs for months – shoebox appeal
1488. – 1490. 3 more freebies (in packaging) – shoebox appeal
1491. book read & passed on
1492. broken plastic step stool - binned
1493 – 94. 2 holey tops (DS2) – fabric recycling
1495 – 1500. – 6 bars of soap used to make laundry gloop 😊
1501. shower gel used up from stash
1502. about 10 freebie sachets of shampoo used up
1503. worn out shorts (DS3) – fabric recycling
1504 -1507. 4 sets of Duplo sold on ebay
1508. Packaging used in above
1509 – 1518. 10 pairs of outgrown shorts & trousers to school for ‘spares’ or sale
1519. outgrown underwear (DS3) to school for spares
1520. lots more paperwork (DD) – recycled
1521. lots of old calendar stickers – recycled
1522 - 25. Small random toys (DD) – shoebox appeal
1526 – 28. Holey clothes – fabric recycling
1529. bottle of windscreen wash – used up (still have more than half a dozen…) – bottle recycled
1530. Academic diary (DD’s bf) – recycled
1531. yet more paperwork (DD) – recycled
1532 -33. 2 books read and passed on
1534 – 38. Old school art projects (DD) – recycled
1539 – 1546. Old notebooks and diaries (DD) – recycled
1547. holey socks (DD) – recycled
1548. old, falling apart trainers (DD) – recycled
1549. holey school jumper (DS3) – fabric recycling
1550 – 52. Cardboard boxes (from DD’s room) – recycled
1553. More shampoo sachets used up
1554 – 1563. Cans of shaving foam – foodbank donation
1564 – 1575. Toothbrushes – foodbank donation
1576 – 1590. Various foodstuffs – foodbank donation
1591 – 1593. 3 airline combs (sealed packs) – shoebox appeal
1594 – 1597. 2 hats & 2 scarves – shoebox appeal
1598. Drawer from old fridge freezer – sold – ebay
1599 – 1600. 2 Octonauts toys – sold – ebay
1601 – 1603. 3 boxes, heaps of polystyrene packaging, bubblewrap & scrunched up paper used in ebay sales
1604. old nailvarnish (DD) – binned
1605. gloopy lipgloss (DD) – binned
1606 – 1609 – 4 fridge shelves which I had thought about ebaying but which weren’t in good enough condition when I inspected them in good light – binned
1610. freezer door tray – sold – ebay
1611. shoe box, packing paper & bubble wrap from stash – used on 1610
1612. too small school trousers – donated to school
1613. torn school polo shirt – fabric recycling
1614. book read and passed on


I'm not sure I'll get to the 2017 items by the end of the year (am missing out on a NNS this month where I'd usually easily get rid of 100-150 items alone in the one day) - but I'm trying my hardest to get there!

Saver-upper

greent wrote: »

Donate to the relevant schools concerned? - primaries could use as spares for accidents (whether toilet related/ paint/ falling over in playground) or sell on (Our local primary sells on logo-ed jumpers etc at around £1.50 a go - bargain) Secondary schools often (around here anyway) have a PTA type thrift/ second hand uniform 'store' where they can sell on the items towards much needed school funds

Aww,thank you for the suggestions,greent.I wish my children's school would organise some sort of "uniform shop"-the amounrt of uniform that must go to landfill each year doesn't bear thinking about :eek:.I will ask the school if they want afew donations (sometimes they do call-out for,say,trousers for the really young year groups).
I know their school has a big problem with children losing school uniforms,and they are not named.So the poor school ends up with a room full of unidentified/unclaimed unifrom.

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My decluttering efforts over the last few days have certainly resulted in a bit of a messy house :eek:.
So I spent today tidying up my "little messes".I had had a few piles of paper sitting on the front room floor,waiting to be dealt with (file,shred,read and deal with etc) for about the last month!Lovely to see my carpet again :rotfl:.
I also went through the uniforms I had divided into piles according to age.They had been sitting in piles on our bedroom floor for a week :eek::eek:.I have bagged them up and put them back into the loft until I can get them rid of.(Last week I did ask a social-worker friend of mine if she knew of any families that could use them.She was going to get back to me.I think she has forgotten.......)
My hallway was full of all the rubbish I brought in out of our old banger of a car that doesn't work and we are going to sell for scrap.Mostly plastic shopping bags, and a few small items waiting to go to the tip.I sorted through that mess.
Also got rid of a few things from loft.
House almost back to normal .

Out today:

Recycled from loft:
760:board book (a jigsaw farm book,missing pieces)
761:bag of unused postcards and travel guides.Given to me about 10 years ago,with the thought (by the giver) that my kids might use them for cutting and pasting.school projects,etc..Never used.....
762:Peppa Pig card game (think it was a "free" gift on front of a kid's magazine)
763:gift bag

Binned from loft:
764-766:doll's bed mattess,pillow and sheet
767: driving theory CD(2009/10 edition :eek:),was still in shrink-wrap
768-769:ripped vacuum bags

Recycled from around the house:
2152:2014 Paperchase diary,Christmas present for daughter,hardly used.
2153:assorted kid's drawings.I do hate throwing out kid's artwork ,but I am a woman on a mission at the moment,so am just getting rid!
2154:DVD case
2155:box that daughter's mobile phone came in.Originally I think she was going to keep it,but has decided to let go

I also
2156:emptied a pretty storage box of tat
2157:sorted through a box of papers for long-term storage in the loft
2158-2159:had a "first pass" through 2 different boxes of stuff
2160-2161:decluttered another 2 piles of papers

Binned from the house:
2162:handful of kipple
2163:dirty Pudsey Bear bag fob.Felt a bit bad throwing the poor thing out,but it had been on a child's school bag for a year or two,so was abit yucky
2164:Drayton Manor key-ring from when one of the kids visited
2165-2166:one bag and one plastic container full of shells from holidays

purplevamp

purplevamp wrote: »

146) Pressure cooker (ebay)
147) Video (ebay)
148) Whole heap of unopened junk mail (recycling)

149) Shoebox
150-151) Ukelele boxes
152) Bootea teagbags (work)
153) DVD (back to work)
154) Cat food sample (colleague tool this off my hands)
155) Runnerbean Chutney (took to work but no takers :eek::rotfl:)
156) JML brochure
157-158) Mineral foundation tubs (used up)
159) Loads of old receipts
160) Books (Amazon)
161) Bracelet (ebay)
162) Item back to JML
163) Book (ebay)
164-166) 3 x porridge pouches (very bleurgh and ood)

I've also got rid of lots of envelopes, boxes and bubble wrap from selling bits and pieces but haven't included these as the pile keeps being "topped up".

Really don't think I'll make the 2017 target by the end of the year. I'm too much of a hoarder and find it hard to part with things

Sa1sysoo

1029-1031 - Books - read and donated
1032-1035 - Ebooks - read and deleted
1036 - Handouts - binned
1037 - Perfume - UU
1038-9 - Nail Varnish - donated
1040 - Orchid - dead
1041 - Facial Scrub UU
1042-55 - Mugs - donated
1056 - DVD - sold :j
1057 - Photo frame - donated
1058 - faulty FitBit cable - binned
1059 - Kinder egg - binned
1060 - Dead Torch - bin
1061-6 - Notebooks - donated
1067-9 - Pots of pickles - binned
1070 - Pen - UU
1071-4 - Bits out of wallet
1075-6 - Hubby's Transformers - Sold :beer:
1077 - Harry Potter Mechanical Norbert - Sold :T
1078-9 - Bags of Sweets - to FiL
1080 - Cool Bag - back to FiL
1081-2 - Boxes - recycled
1083 - Jumper - donated
1084 - Expired Membership Card - bin
1085 - Card Holder - bin
1086 - Bath Sample UU

Slow going atm, what with holidays and stuff. But as it gets darker, it incentivises to get bits moving! :rotfl: