Finally Debt Free After 34 Years, But Still Need to Live Frugally

doingitanyway

Great idea about saving for emergencies £50 a month is good sum that will build up soon enough.

I agree re storage. Once decluttering has been done what's left needs storing well. If you have enough for CS they often come to collect?

You sound very motivated today

HairyHandofDartmoor

Thank you DIA I do feel very motivated . I want to put the events of the weekend behind me and do things that will improve all of our lives.

elizabethhull

HairyHandofDartmoor wrote: »

Thank you DIA I do feel very motivated . I want to put the events of the weekend behind me and do things that will improve all of our lives.

That sounds like an excellent plan, and will indeed improve your lives. Good work on the continued de-cluttering - my, you're a whirling dervish at the moment ! Better not keep still for too long in your house or you'll be thrown out!
My OH says he reckons if he kept still too long I would start a pile of stuff on his head !!!

jefferybright

Are you still facing the issue?

HairyHandofDartmoor

elizabethhull wrote: »

That sounds like an excellent plan, and will indeed improve your lives. Good work on the continued de-cluttering - my, you're a whirling dervish at the moment ! Better not keep still for too long in your house or you'll be thrown out!
My OH says he reckons if he kept still too long I would start a pile of stuff on his head !!!

Thank you Elizabeth . I do have moments in my life where I become obsessed with de-cluttering (every few years) and it does make a huge improvement to the house and our lives. I'm focusing on books at the moment, but after that who knows! I've only got this week to go full throttle so I may as well.

jwil

Sorry the weekend was hard. You are going great guns with the decluttering :T :T

HairyHandofDartmoor

Thanks Jwil .

HairyHandofDartmoor

We've managed to get rid of ALL of the books at one charity shop and we've bought a shed :T.

We estimated it was about 216 books in total :eek: but we went to a very large warehouse style charity shop and they were willing to take the lot :T.

Then we went to a large DIY shop to look at plastic sheds and ended up buying a wooden one :rotfl:. The plastic ones were quite ugly and a bit wide, whereas the wooden one looked lovely and was narrower but taller, which would fit the space better. As we'll be looking at the shed from the kitchen we preferred the wooden one as it looked nicer and DH said it would be easier to mend than the wooden one.

The plastic shed would have been £90 and the wooden shed was £125, so it was only £35 more. It was too big to fit in our car but they're going to deliver it free on Wednesday so DH can assemble it at the weekend. DS1 wants to help so he learns how to assemble flatpacks. I've been wanting a shed for years and now I've got one .

I will have a shed to paint now though :eek: :eek: :eek:.

I'm really pleased because we've got rid of 216 books and bought a shed in one afternoon . I'm looking forward to emptying the cupboard under the stairs of all the decorating/gardening stuff and putting them in the new shed, and then rearranging what's left in a tidy and organised fashion :T.

In the meantime I can look for more books, to de-clutter (I've filled another bag just since we got back :eek:) and re-arrange what's left. Hopefully I'll disturb the mice, I've given one a fright already :eek: and it will be easier to track down holes once we have less clutter.

HairyHandofDartmoor

Considering that I've just got rid of 216 books the house still looks quite full of books, but I think once I'd filled the obvious places with books, I got quite good at stashing them in clever and inventive places .

There are three large plastic boxes that are empty now and three drawers under our wardrobe had books in but are empty now. Also the books shelves are less crammed. I still have a lot of books though .

Willowtree222

That's a huge amount of books!! Wow!!

You must feel a lot of relief having got rid of that? I have been inspired by the amount of decluttering going on and have so far got rid of two bin bags of mine and little one's clothes and shoes. That is good. I think I will go to the tip this week too and get rid of lots and bits and pieces. x