2019 - A Clutter Free Life

milasavesmoney

Daisy, your last post where you said ‘things are just things’ is really helpful to my decluttering psyche.
Thank you!

Happy_Kitties

Not masses from me at the minute

*157 broken takeaway plastic lid-recycling
*158 Christmas card-recycling
*159 christening money box (in a right state)-recycling
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*58-62 neutral items x5 shipped out to charity. One box of neutral items left to send

Plodding on slowly

A_Frayed_Knot

Wanted to keep going after my break, so now feel I've done too much , but I just wanted it all sorted - in the kitchen that is (for now).

Think it's my imagination but when I look round the kitchen I feel it is tidier and cleaner (no actual difference - except a lot of the cupboards are now cleaner and tidier inside ) How strange, but must keep going.


Matched up all my containers with their lids, and threw the "no matches" and spares out (around 15-20), so now all in a nice neat shelf just for them and dug out one of my kitchen scales, (I have 2 sets, actually quite a lot of 2 of this and that ) will try new battery and if not working then will bin them.


Can't wait to see what I can get up to tomorrow

chupachups4

864-878: sold 2 swimming suits, 6 tee shirts, 4 jeans, 1 cardigan, 1 sweat, 1 dress; 110 euros in the travel pot.

Listed 3 items

leelad

Evening all, well Sunday morning is now becoming 'car boot morning' so daughter & I took our stuff and tried to sell as much as we can. Made £12 in profit, but no costs for turning up because of a mix up last week with the booking of the event. So that was a small win. Sold cuddly toys, phonics books, a jigsaw and lots of building blocks. £10 of the profit has gone in the sealed money bottle which will go towards a family activity of some kind I'm sure. Our 7 year old daughter likes being a sales person, arranging the stall and talking to the public. The wonder of youth, as one lady said to me �� onwards and upwards. Mrs SD, my wife has a job now, which I hope will help with her mental health. She is leaving the car booting and attic decluttering to me and our daughter. It's still early days yet, but I'm hoping for better times ahead... ��

leelad

PS: the question marks in my last post are supposed to be smiley faces, not sure what happened there!

Gem-gem

Uu body lotion (yes, the end of another one).
Uu blueberries, pears, apples, lard and tomatoes

Weeded garden - weeds in the garden bin
Recycled toilet roll, spice jars and lids
Binned old tooth brush and five eye shadows

Reused bread bag - wrapped cake in it - gone into the freezer

daisy_1571

savvy wrote: »

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!

Thanks savvy, at least we can walk away from the garage and go back home, sorry you are living amongst it. The only advice i would give is tell the 2 of them firmly that the stuff they have left with you needs to be moved by say, end April, then you will assume anything left they didnt want and you will arrange disposal. Yes it's a pain cos they should do it, yes it might cost you money and certainly time but... you will be happier knowing you are on a countdown to it going then that you are getting rid of it then that you have reclaimed your space.

Hopefully that works

Daisy xx

daisy_1571

milasavesmoney wrote: »

Daisy, your last post where you said ‘things are just things’ is really helpful to my decluttering psyche.
Thank you!

Hi Mila

Glad you like that, its lovely yo write something here that strikes a chord Mrs sd has a couple of my homilies which I think help us all keep them in mind. It's all stuff that's taken me 50years to learn/understand

Daisy xx

daisy_1571

leelad wrote: »

Evening all, well Sunday morning is now becoming 'car boot morning' so daughter & I took our stuff and tried to sell as much as we can. Made £12 in profit, but no costs for turning up because of a mix up last week with the booking of the event. So that was a small win. Sold cuddly toys, phonics books, a jigsaw and lots of building blocks. £10 of the profit has gone in the sealed money bottle which will go towards a family activity of some kind I'm sure. Our 7 year old daughter likes being a sales person, arranging the stall and talking to the public. The wonder of youth, as one lady said to me �� onwards and upwards. Mrs SD, my wife has a job now, which I hope will help with her mental health. She is leaving the car booting and attic decluttering to me and our daughter. It's still early days yet, but I'm hoping for better times ahead... ��

Lovely post ll

Good luck to Mrs ll for her new job, sounds like your 7yr old has found a job she enjoys !

Daisy xx