New year cleaning and declutter.

Norman_Castle

kimplus8 said:

I’m thinking of trying kon Marie but I am wondering if it’s really any good/ useful. 

I tried it. It made me think, do I really need instruction on how to tidy my home?

GDB2222

We have 20 boxes of books, and there’s a charity that will take them. Cost of transport to the charity  is £100. 

Or, the council will collect them as a bulky refuse collection for £50 less.

Would the charity prefer the books or a £50 donation?  I suspect that they would prefer the money. 

getmore4less

Never really got the 2022 declutter going.
Suspect 2023 will be the same.

Try not to do special runs to tip(6m or 8m) but need to have a pile ready for when we are going that way for other reasons.

First job make a space in the garage for that pile.


OH has made progress on clothes but has had some issues getting shops to take stuff.
Next town early morning weekdays has worked but 14m round trip

kimplus8

I’m quite fortunate that I live 5 mins from the tip so easy to book a slot and go. Tbh once I declutter I have to make it gone as it starts to really bug me. I tend to finish a couple of days declutter with piling it all into the car so it’s out of the house ready to go to the next available tip slot. Surprisingly the tip had all slots available so I booked in advance. I thought more people would have booked slots tbh to get rid of stuff for the new year.
I have the dining room, kids bedrooms and my other store cupboard to get through today. As well as cooking and watching kids etc. was thinking I can give the small ones a cloth and have them clean the window ledges and skirting boards 🤣🤣🤣

kimplus8

GDB2222 said:

We have 20 boxes of books, and there’s a charity that will take them. Cost of transport to the charity  is £100. 

Or, the council will collect them as a bulky refuse collection for £50 less.

Would the charity prefer the books or a £50 donation?  I suspect that they would prefer the money. 

Books, dvds and curtains seem really hard to get rid of, charity shops don’t seem to want these items. I get that people have Netflix now but many people would still buy dvds. Books are something I love to have a rummage through in the charity shop, probably why I need to declutter if I’m honest 🤣.

getmore4less

No booking required at our two locals.
Camera to check how busy if going past/near.

MACKEM99

Not sure if they are still around in your area, or elsewhere, but we bagged up  old clothes and took them to a place where they paid cash depending on weight you could then donate the cash?

Slinky

Have you got a National Trust property with a book shop near you? NT bookshops seem to do really well with shifting second hand books and appreciate donations.

Green_hopeful

GDB2222 said:

We have 20 boxes of books, and there’s a charity that will take them. Cost of transport to the charity  is £100. 

Or, the council will collect them as a bulky refuse collection for £50 less.

Would the charity prefer the books or a £50 donation?  I suspect that they would prefer the money. 

We took our books to an oxfam bookstore. We carried 8 full bags for life. Two trips from the car park. They were grateful and made £170 from our books. I think they will collect if you contact them. 

Green_hopeful

We checked cds and dvds on one of the resale websites, if they offered £0.50 or more we checked them on eBay and then sold them individually. We got an average of £5 per dvd. The rest we freecycled. 

Marie kondo is really good if you struggle to let things go.  We did kondo light. So for example we got all our mugs out and picked the ones we liked and got rid of the rest. We got rid of tonnes of stuff.