2019 - A Clutter Free Life

Happy_Kitties

It's good to have this thread back.

Copying my post over from the other thread

95-109 neutral items x 14 out. Now is the time for one of the charities to use these bits for fundraising.

252-257 items x 5 to CS (boots, hand cream set, cuddly toy, trousers and toddler dress)
Have a good decluttering day everyonex

Gem-gem

Hi everyone,
I have been MIA for a while. It is a very busy time in the garden, picking berries. Also we have had three family birthdays over the past two weeks.
Have continued to declutter. Did a boot fair and made £60. Apart from one small box of stuff the rest has all gone- yay! Today, hubby and I took anything left to two local charity shops. I also have some books to a hospice charity, my mother and my brothers friend.

Finally, I gave my brother a bag full of rhubarb and my mother 3kg of gooseberries to use for jam. I have made four batches of strawberry jam, around 40+ Jam sized jars. I have kept 14 jam jars just in case we want to make another flavour of jam and have recycled all other jars.
Over the weekend, I am to catch up on all your posts.
See you then.
Gem-gem

sweetpea26

Hi mrs sd and all
So glad to see the thread reappear ... thought possibly a bit too much decluttering had been done and we had been dumped

Bit progress here
2 bits furniture now gone for ever !!!!!!!!!!!
delighted with this

been v busy at work today and looks like its going to be the same for the rest of the week. So hoping I might fill one bag of tat before Monday

Keep on chucking folks !!!!

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. SMALL TASKS WILL BE DONE ASAP
2. I WILL LEAVE A ROOM TIDIER THAN WHEN I ENTERED
3. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT
4. WHEN DEALING WITH CLUTTER I WILL USE ‘Daisy1571’s idea of ‘WHAT WOULD I DO WITH THIS ITEM IF IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE’S ?’
5. IF I WAS STARTING FROM SCRATCH, WOULD I BUY THIS?
6. BE LIKE A POSTAGE STAMP - STICK TO ONE THING UNTIL YOU GET THERE

Wednesday has been another warm day, but cloudier & the temperature plummeted after 8 p.m.
One thing I noticed when I received my MSE email is that our thread is OS thread of the week
DH has been the busy one today He has repaired a section of the decking, watered the garden - twice, buffed up a silver plated money box (birthday present for a one year old), repotted our peanut plant & started laying the foam underlay in the hall & cloakroom. He also found time have a session on the static bike :rotfl: DSis went shopping & I went later. I cooked Snorkers (sausages), mash & baked beans. On my walk to the sm I saw 5 baby coots - they are far prettier than their parents - as they have reddish brown heads - very cute After posting I will resume knitting the baby blanket I started last night.

2103 - 2118 Nine bits of cardboard packaging, plastic bottle, 2 food cans, 3 empty beer cans (2 of them were so disgusting that they were emptied straight down the sink:() The 3rd one is just about drinkable, glass jar & metal lid - Recycled

2119 Bag of kitchen detritus - Binned

Well Done Getmeouttadebt :T decluttering plus earning lots of pennies :T

Welcome back chocolatelover93 :j Sorry to hear about your troubles but well done on the ‘big declutter’ :T The rest of the decluttering will be far easier in comparison

Well Done Wednesday2000 & choille :T

You have been busy parsniphead :T I do like that Tip runs are cathartic for you

Now, now bit by bit the strimmer definitely belongs on this thread because a potential piece of clutter has been made useful again :T

See you all tomorrow :j:j

MrsSD
2119/4038

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Evening everyone,
When the thread disappeared I had decluttered a large bag of stuff to the charity shop and a load of paperwork which I took to work to shred.
Yesterday I had a gardener here who decluttered lots of weeds and overhanging branches and hedgerow; as he was taking all this greenery to the tip he looked pointedly at the garden and said 'want me to take anything else while i'm going??' So I gave him a plastic tub full of random c**p which had been outside my French doors for over a year and was the soiled and rusty contents of the cupboard underneath my sink that i'd thrown outside after my kitchen tap leaked all over the cupboard below covering everything in foul smelling water! Deni x

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Sorted a LOAD of old nighties and PJ's which made up 3 big bags and listed on Freecycle. One person responded but did not come but had a charity bag come so they will go outside front door on Monday for collection if no-one else gets in touch. Also had quite a few bras, some I am ashamed to say, never worn. I have had to start using easy wear ones as I can no longer reach around to do them up so its no good just hanging on to them so I have listed on Sh.. but no one has been in touch and at £3 for a new lacey 44+ size bra I do not think is outrageous, will keep them on there for a while, may try Eb.. later, if all else fails then will have to go to CS. Still working on freezers but not much sucess although have been making effort to use up herbs and spices so they are gradually reducing, it is better now I have a list of what is in cupboards to take with me when shopping so no duplicates. Not got round to freezer up to date lists yet - big job which keeps being a moving target.

never_too_old

Afternoon all

Trip to the tip this morning to sadly throw away things that were broken or sadly couldnt be recycled.Also took 2 boxes of bottles so i could recycle them.

Purchased a 12 hole Kalax unit a few days ago so slowly filling the boxes and cupboards so all those bits that never had a home now do :j

Rootle

26/52 - a big tub of expensive shower scrub used up at last. I've had it longer than I've been doing this challenge and this isn't my first year! :eek: its even moved house with me.

27/52 - 17 CDs to charity recycling bin.

28/52 - opted out of receiving junk mail from royal mail (i.e it must have our names on it) and I'm already seeing the difference.

TamsinC

Not sure where I got up too - but believe it was a measly 250. LOTS has gone since then

251 - 407 my daughters collection of Kerrang! magazines - 3 years worth - recycled
408 - 422 - CDs to CS box
423 - 432 - custom jewellery to CS box
433 - 448 - broken jewellery to bin
449 - glasses case to CS box
450 - 453 - jewellery boxes - to CS box
454 - 460 - detritus to bin
461 - 463 - soft toys to CS box
463 - 464 - to boxes of paper clips to CS box
465 - 466 - two packs of cards to CS box
467 picture frame to CS box
468 - 470 - two watches and a pencil case to CS box
471 - 488 - items of clothing to CS box
488 - 489 - ruined clothing to fabrics recycling box
490 - 511 - CDs to Music Magpie
512 - 521 - Playstation games to Music Magpie
522 - 523 - DVDs to Music Magpie
523 - 525 - Playstation games to CS box
524 - DVD to CS box

I'm sure there will be more - SO much paper recycling done too, and she is sorting fabric at the moment and most of it looks like it is going. I've also taken a load of photos of things to sell locally or on eBay etc. Phew.

Picklepot

Hi


Mrs SD You're too kind but i am very slow at this but getting better since ive been on this wonderful site:T with your fabulous cheerleading and you lovely people
It has taken me YEARS for the lightbulb to ping as to why i have a clutter problem. that isnt improving. Firstly i used to only think it was ok to ged rid of stuff if it were broken or bin worthy. Its taken a log time to realise its ok to admit it was a bad purchase and hanging on to it won t change that just adds to the guilt:eek:
The other thing i realised is that i was just 'churning ' stuff round the house, it goes in the CS bag which goes to the car and drives round with me for a month then i peer inside have second thought and its back in garage to reconsider!! Thankfully i have stopped all that but it took me a long time to realise that thinking about all the stuff was happening a lot more than physical progress. Added to this i am hugeley sentimental:mad:. I also like to send things to people who need it which gets me onto my list nicely

To CS bag in car:
159 - cloth bag for life
160 - 1 set of headphones
161 - Another cloth bag for life
163 - 2 mens trousers
164 - Another cloth bag for life
Box to friend who works in a school (shes looked at it and said they can use it all)

165 - 5 books
170 - 5 folders
175-packet of crayons
176 - book of plain paper
177 - Book of isometric paper
178 - paper plane set
179 - pile of drawing paper
180 - watercolour art pad
181 - pad of black craft paper
182 - pad art paper
183 - 6 phonicworkbooks
189 - Stapler
190 - pack of staples
200 - childs toy
201 - set of new 24 water colour pencils
202 - CD rom
203 - Tin of assorted pens and pencils
204 - tub of glue
206 2 books
207 - pack art pens
208 - set of 12 sketching pencils
209 - set of 12 soft art pastels
210 - set of 25 oil pastels
211 - lettering stencil
To CS bag
212 - 12 assorted gift cards
213 - gift bag