2017 - No Clutter To Be Seen

Frogletina

I went to the charity shop today but forgot to write down what I took so here are the things I remember

1723 - a flower pot, pretty, but I don't use it anymore
1724 - ornament, sand castle
1725 - ornament, pot
1726 - ornament, turtle
1727 - ornament, apple
1726 - 1728 books
1729 - 1730 keyrings
1731 - 1739 ceramic pots
1740 - dvd

I also sorted out postcards, photos, slides and negatives today

1741 - 1798 - photos/slides
1799 - 1924 - postcards
1925 - 2005 - negative folders
2006 - 2591 - strips of negatives

other items from previous days

2592 -2603 newspapers, finally read them all
2604 -2605 2 videos - I bought these via ebay, and expensive. They were recorded from the TV years ago. Finally have been put on sale for the first time on dvd, so I bought them.

2606 - cassette case

list completed for today.

One of my rooms is completely empty for re-decoration. Once I have a new carpet down, I will be very careful what goes back in, even though most things in there had been checked recently

frogletina

gemmajenkins0208

Was talking to mum yesterday, and we have agreed that all the stuff we don't want I will list on the facebook selling sites as a massive car boot job lot.

Not only do we have the few bags for the charity shop but we have even more bags out in the shed where we went through the house a few times and anything we deemed as useless to us went into a bag for us to take to a car boot to sell, but we have got so much going on this year now that we just aren't going to have the time to do a car boot.

Most of the stuff we don't want any more is lovely stuff - branded clothes, ornate glassware, unused car bits, kitchen items, but we are happy with what we have right now so this stuff is not needed by us

somerandom

somerandom wrote: »

174. Bedspread
175. dead rucksack
176. book

177 & 178 - 2 x necklace
179 - microfilter
180- calendar
181 - hat
182 - balaclava
183 & 184 - 2 x item for the food-bank
185 OOD vitamins

Saver-upper

Another very productive day today.
I spent about three hours today,sorting through papers.Dear,I am a bower bird when it comes to papers .

719:First I sorted out a plastic box full of papers: old brochures,old circulars from an agency I used to work for,brochures for banking,brochures for children's activities,forms for passport and visa applications,tax credit notifications,empty envelopes,gift tags for easter eggs (from the easter bunny) with the children's names written in disguised handwriting .............I shredded some stuff,recycled some, kept some to file,and kept some because I am not sure what to do with it yet

720:this job I have been itching to do for a week!Within the plastic box,there was an expanding folder which is nearly 17 years old.It was falling apart,stuff was spilling out through the split sides.It was filled to the brim with rubbish,that hadn't been added to,or looked at, for about 15 years :eek:.There were statements from an account with NSI that was closed in 2004.FOr now I have kept those,but only because they need to go through the shredder,and I didn't have that set up (was just cutting out personal info using "shredding scissors" (saw them called herb scissors on another thread-I had bought them to shred personal info with).
There was also lots of gumph to do with the government Child Trust Funds,more to do with work,banking,childcare,pre-schools,hobbies,advertising,household budget..................
(I really think taking an hour to empty an expanding folder like that deserves more than "1" on my tally today,but if I were to count every paper on its own,I would have already have decluttered enough paper on its own to complete the "10,000 items in 10,000AD" challenge,never mind 2017 items in 2017 :eek:.)
I will,however,add another point for the expanding folder itself (cos it is big and bulky),so that is 721.

722:tonight I continued the Great Paper Declutter.That was quite easy because it was about 3 collections of 3 different types of papers,and for now I have kept most of it .But I think some more of it will go when I actually get around to coralling all the "keep" papers and putting them in a proper filing box.

Got a busy weekend,so not sure how much decluttering I will get done this weekend.

tibawo

feeling positive today so once the chores are done I might see if the old laptop will boot up as i want to start going through the cds. In my youth i bought loads and can't remember when i last listened to them. We are talking 20 years plus! I am hoping to 'burn' the songs i like onto an ipod and copy on a usb stick as well. Then sell the rest as job lot on ebay.

Aberdeen5

Not much this last 2 weeks, hoping to get an hour each day next week

409. Bread mix which had been in the cupboard for months. Used up
410. Cinema gift box given to us at Xmas, tickets and sweets for a film. Used
411. 420. Sample/trial used up. Cream, shampoo, foundations
421. Coffee used up
422. 424. Hot chocolate sachets used from hotels
425. 428. 4 pairs of socks
429. Chipped glass out
430. 435. Household items to a friend
436. 438. Birthday cards used
439. 440. Gift bags used
441 445. Birthday gifts used up
446 Lipstick finished
447. 450. Receipts shredded

KitKatMum2

Just popping in quickly, lovely to see how well everyone is doing. Been busy this week and busy tomorrow as well so don't think I'll be able to do any serious sorting until next weekend which is frustrating. List for this week...


686. - 689. bibs (no idea where these are all coming from, didn't know I had so many!)
690. -691 hair accessories (still smuggling these out when my DD is not looking!)
692. ornament
693. top
694. -695. baby clothes
696. wax melt
697. baby oil
698. body lotion
699. -702 packs of beads
703. cardboard folder
704. book
705 -706. play doh

gemmajenkins0208

My grandads possessions have been put in the places we wanted them in our house and the old furniture is sitting around while we decide what to do with it

And last night i made good work of the 8 leftover from new year beers i had in my room :rotfl:

Even though they weren't taking up much space, I'm certainly glad to be rid of them because i hardly drink anymore now.

Also, a tiny handbag, a pair of cheapo dolly shoes and a shirt all in the bin as i was sick all over them... :eek:

Fiasco55

Cleared out some drawers.

331. Glasses case to cs
332-336. Candles to cs
337. Car locking nuts to bf
338. Book finished and returned to library
339. Box recycled
340. Paperwork sorted
341. Vitamins used up
342. Box recycled
343. Measuring spoons to cs
344-432. Books to cs
433-435. Dead pants
436. Antibiotics finished

Saver-upper

I have got a day off tomorrow,and one thing I thought I might start then,is decluttering the cupboard of doom in my son's bedroom.In preparation,today I pulled everything out of there to see what I will be dealing with :eek:.Mostly clothes and toys I would like to try and sell.So far in this declutter,I have only sold one item.The rest has been donated/given away.

So this afternoon I photographed a few items to sell,and tonight I started listing stuff on Facebook.But that has been a protracted affair because the wifi signal keeps dropping off of my phone.I have been jumping up every few minutes to reset the internet.I guess this is the sort of thing people are talking about when they say they dont need the hassle of trying to sell stuff-easier to give it away.I will give selling a chance.then will probably end up donating anyway.

Only a couple of odd-bods out of the cupboard this afternoon:
Binned:
723:old,thinned out pillow

Recycled:
724:box for dust-buster (which I think went to the tip a few months ago)
725:Argos catalogue
726:empty body-scrub tube

727:Yesterday,I had also binned an old Tangle-teaser brush.