2019 - A Clutter Free Life

Onebrokelady

Also been missing but I have still been decluttering
The spare room is now done and we took the last lots of things to the charity shop on Thursday this included
A hold-all
A lamp
A chandallier
Some bookends
Costume jewellery
An umbrella stand
I also binned lost of broken bits and recycled lots of bits too

The next area to be decluttered will be the kitchen but I'm also decorating the bathroom so it might not be for a week or so

Gem-gem

Uu body lotion - container given to hubby to put his cream In When travelling.
Uu soft brown sugar.
Uu compost bag - have planted second batch of Charlotte potatoes

Recycled - envelopes and receipts, four glass jars, toilet roll, medicine boxes & food peelings.
Cleared out bathroom cabinet. Soap wrappers in recycling.

Bagged up three pairs of shoes and a bag to sell. Leaving the house on Wednesday.
Washed up bread bag and peas bag to use again.

Binned used tablet wrappers

Received glass jars from Neighbours - three types.when I make my jam I'll be able to have all the same flavour in one type of jar.

Poppy_Golightly

If I ever find I'm becoming complacent about clutter I watch an episode of Hoarders and before the programme has finished I find I am up on my feet and decluttering in banshee whirlwind mode

chupachups4

Good Morning,

Welcome Savvy

MrsSD, I can't see any difference. I mostly sell clothes, not big items. Everything is in the basement and the room of doom and I can harldy walk in there. A long raod to go.

806-810: 5 items sold, 32 euros in the travel pot
811-814: 4 items to scool
815-825: 11 items sold, 91 euros in the travel pot
826-863: socks , bin

[Deleted User]

Managed to sort Win10 out but had lost my photo software which has now been taken over by a pay for version, fortunately I am a hoarder and found a cd with original on so yipee, have now got that working aga De-clutter is good but have to be careful. Also lost internet on laptop but in with the box of cables not collected, found an ethernet cale so thats now sorted. No time for proper de-cluttering but thanks for the "non nag" Mrsd. xx.

savvy

Poppy_Golightly wrote: »

If I ever find I'm becoming complacent about clutter I watch an episode of Hoarders and before the programme has finished I find I am up on my feet and decluttering in banshee whirlwind mode

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I do that too, IF I get time to watch it

chupachups4 wrote: »

Welcome Savvy

Everything is in the basement and the room of doom and I can harldy walk in there. A long raod to go.

Hi chupachups, thanks for the welcome Love the room of doom.......have had a few of those here over the years!!! :(:o Also have an eratic attic that was once very organised until I could no longer get my knees up the ladder :mad:

daisy_1571

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

Back again :rotfl:

817 - 819 Packaging, 2 damaged plastic bags - Binned
820 Uu glass jar - Recycled

Well Done daisy :T You get a Gold Star ⭐️ & not just for thinking of me :rotfl: Helping a friend to declutter - :A & then finally becoming a postage stamp :rotfl: It is sooo easy to get distracted, especially if the new pile of clutter looks more interesting :rotfl: Is your friend being brutal in the Decluttering Task? & are you finding it easier to declutter your friend’s clutter rather than your own? Please do not forget I am a nosey c*w :rotfl:

See you tomorrow

MrsSD
820/2019

Thank you for my star.

Yes its much easier to declutter stuf that there is no emotional attachment to. Trouble is EVERYTHING my friends husband ever touched he is emotionally attached to. Lots of stuff was proper rubbish - spark plug boxes, light bulb boxes etc with item removed, flap neatly closed and box put back with unused ones or in plastic bags/boxes. Every letter that came to him, his sister, his parents, his ex wife, his girlfriends, his ex mother in law all nearly put back in the envelope so there were piles as high as your shoulder that all had to get taken out the envelopes, read, considered then sorted. (Dont think we will need leccy bill's from the 80s for a house they dont own any more.) Birthday cards, valentines, xmas cards both to him from someone else and from him to others all neatly taken back when the recipient threw them out and stored in yes more plastic bags, boxes and drawers in amongst invoices, old newspapers, unopened mcn papers which were still in the plastic as they had been sent to someone else and presumably he thought he had enough time go one day read all 400 of them. Old news (suzi Perry reveals she is leaving motogp etc :rotfl: breaking news indeed) probably even when he got them let alone now.

Everything stored in such a jumble, proper sentimental stuff just as preciously kept or carelessly kept depending on your point of view in amongst used oily rags and broken electrical stuff.

It's hard physical work sorting, dragging, undoing, dismantling etc and hard mental work making thousands of decisions on is this rubbish, recycling, scrap metal, copper, brass, lead, paperwork to be kept, paperwork to be burnt, can this be used, is it broken, is it dangerous ie ancient old metal drill so likely to electrocute if we plug it in to test, is it sellable, is it worth more selling as is or as scrap metal, is it autojumble if so which category is it in to know which corner to pile it in. Is it car-boot stuff, is it worth checking Ebay. Everything is filthy, dusty, oily,

It just feels endless when you open another small box with 30 things inside that need sorted or unearth a huge box that had been at the bottom of a teetering pile to find it has 3 plastic bags with a few screws or an empty crisp packet and a small broken toy previously thrown out by my pal 20 years ago and now we need to throw it out again.

Anyway, we are making progress.

And it reminds me people will pick up the stuff in my attic or drawer and think what on earth were they keeping this for? Without the emotional attachment, things are just things.

Dxx

savvy

daisy_1571 wrote: »

It just feels endless when you open another small box with 30 things inside that need sorted or unearth a huge box that had been at the bottom of a teetering pile to find it has 3 plastic bags with a few screws or an empty crisp packet and a small broken toy previously thrown out by my pal 20 years ago and now we need to throw it out again.

My eldest has done that, we've been pushing to sort his boxes as he moved out to new gf's flat......and left his stuff!!! :mad: And my ex has left tons of that in my broken car on the drive too :mad::mad::mad::mad: Guess who's left to live with it and sort it all out
Having said that........your job sounds a LOT worse than mine though, do not envy you one bit!

A_Frayed_Knot

Popping up again. I have realised I will be here a while, just doing bits and bobs,

Another couple of cupboards cleared/sorted, so;

8 pkts of biscuits - out for the birds or foxes
4 cocktail glasses for CS
Masses of out of date medicines - yes - again
3 boxes oxo cubes - binned
2 spray oils - binned
2 lots of syrup - binned
1 tea pot - CS
1 tea cosy - CS (once washed) - a nice forever friends one
1 coaster -I don't skinny dip - I chunky dunk CS
2 big bags of paper out for paper bin
1 big bag out for rubbish
1- empty ice cream tub for recycling (there will be more - a lot more)
3 - insulated lunch boxes/bags CS
1 - water jug CS
1 - thermal flask CS

Now having a break, decluttering a large glass of juice and topic.

Barny1979

Barny1979 wrote: »

262-265. Cardboard boxes into recycling
266. Ikea bookcase built and item sold shelved
267. Cd into charity bag

268-272 cardboard boxes from ikea into recycling