2018 - No Clutter To Be Seen

stellata

151-175 books to DD for her class
176-180 mugs ditto
181, storage jar to cs
182 shelf rack to cs
183-185 plates ditto

stellata

185-226 baby items to pg relative.

Ginmonster

Another 2 bags to the charity shop on Friday. I was particularly happy to get rid of a bag full of peppa pig toys which my son has grown out of as they were such annoying badly-made tat. The little figures didn't fit properly into anything and broke easily which was really frustrating for a 3 year old to play with. Thankfully they'd mostly been hand me downs from a kind friend so we didn't spend money on them in the first place!

The second bag was some books of mine that I'll never read again - I struggle giving up books so that was a little win as well.

I'm up to 12 bags gone in total now. Lots still to do but I'm making progress!

Rootle

8/52 - another one that doesn't seem like much but I'm very pleased with. Shirt sold and posted.

Had a bit of trouble with this and somehow I'm not convinced it's over but at least it's out if the house.

Fiasco55

Been very busy this weekend.

106-110. Jumpers sold online
111-112. Jewellery sold online
113. Jewellery box sold online
114-131. DVDs donated to cs
132-133. Jackets donated to cs
134. Jumper donated to cs
135. Cardigan donated to cs
136-147. Candles and candle holders donated to cs
148. CD case donated to cs
149. Book donated to cs
150-159. Wii donated to youth club
160-165. Books returned to owner
166-170. Clothes gifted to family
171. Shredding done
172-173. Boxes used
174. Reciepts filed
175. Large box recycled
176. Deodorant used up

stellata

227 cuddly toy (unsuitable gift)
228 travel iron

Both to cs

229 230 old filing cabinets out to my work.

villagelife

329-332 laptops and desktops computer in DH car ready him to take to a place that wipes the data of them and recycles them.
333-342 and more buckets of stones/rubble from the garden to form base of new greenhouse.
343 Finished a shower gel (another one( of DS2 which he had stopped using.

Uncluttered_unicorn

Uncluttered_unicorn wrote: »

840 to 842 Shower gel -used up and bottles recycled.

Slowing down a bit as been busy, but still marking down bits as we go along.

843 1/2 jar of beetroot, well out-of-date and yucky, contents disposed, and jar kept for safe disposal of cooking oil.
844 Travel-size shampoo
845 to 849 5 books sold on Ebay
850 to 860 11 books to CS
861 to 863 Nail polishes
864 Fitbit bands - looked a bit grotty so bin
865 Box - bin
866 to 867 2 mini shower gels
868 to 870 Bits of fashion jewellery, nothing special - bin (probably more than 3, but didn't count up properly.

Everyone's been doing so well :T:j:A Fantastic efforts all round.

stirchleygirl

Hi All

Thanks for everyone's lovely welcome.

My lovely PA Sonia has today helped me put 5 shelves into my 2 bedroom bookcases. I assembled the frames with a friend last August when I had annual leave but have not had the energy since then to actually start using them. Hopefully we will get to finish putting the rest of the shelves in them tomorrow and will be able to unpack and sort a few more boxes and display more of my collections on the shelves. This will declutter my home in 2 ways the shelves will no longer be propped against the lounge wall and boxes will be emptied of stuff at long last.

So now the large plastic washing full of my snow globe collection and other bits n pieces has been emptied and now 1 shelf is proudly showing them all. I found loads of pretty candles (displayed on another shelf) and I'm determined to use them (1 lit now) as I don't want a repeat of the pen scenario - talking of which 1 decorative butterfly which I've never used was found broken in the basket :-( I wonder how many other things I'm going to find in my sorting that will have to be binned without ever having had the enjoyment of using them. My 2 health/medicine baskets have got a proper home on the bookcase and the pen that I dropped (that started this all off) has been retrieved and works :-)

So 3 bits of paper into the recycling bin
1 empty box (why do I keep hold of these things it was too small to be used to store anything in) into the recycling bin
1 child's toy 'mirror' that was very ratty and missing decorative bits which I remember buying about 20 years ago to give as a gift to a friend's child (who is now an adult) that obviously I forgot about - had to go in the waste bin - are we all spotting a pattern here!!!

Total now 20/2018

Ginmonster

Yesterday I messaged to bin a few items : old suncream and make up I don't use. Today I took another bag of kids books to the cs so I'm up to 13 bags full now.

Along the way I've been finding loads of bits of tat that have come in party bags when my son's been to parties and they've been binned. Ditto a lot of his artwork - he brings some home every day from school and produces loads at home too so I had to get tough.

Feeling positive - every thing that goes is a tiny bit of weight lifting off my shoulders.