2017 - No Clutter To Be Seen

Had a read of this thread and the Konmari one over the last week or so and it's inspired me to start doing some decluttering. So this week as I've had a few days off work I've managed to -

• Finally take the bags of clothes and bits on the spare room bed to the charity shop.
• Sorted out the husbands pants and socks drawers. Reduced 3 drawers into two as he had loads of pairs of thin socks which he doesn't like. Most of them were still brand new in the packaging so have gone to the charity shop! Plus this is a big deal as hubby struggles with letting go of stuff.
• Sorted out the airing cupboard and took a bin bag of sheets, curtains and bath mats to the charity shop as we never use any of them.
• Took an old broken tv, computer tower and laptop to the tip along with the box from the new tv and the blinds we took down when we moved in nearly 3 years ago.
• Listed 3 decent dresses I won't wear again on eBay.
• Tidied all the drawers in our bedroom and folded them the Konmari way, looks great and so much easier to find things! Hopefully we can keep it up.

Feeling good that I've achieved all that in a couple days. Really need to tackle our loft though, it's groaning with all the boxes!

The party went well

Lots of alcohol and food consumed/used up so the food wrappers/packaging and the glass bottles and cans from the alcohol gone in the bin/recycling

Some of the alcohol was what we had here left over from previous celebrations(Christmas/new year) so a bit of space gained back that's had stuff in it for a while

Watching mum put the bins/recycling out last night for collection this morning after a full bottle of baileys was rather funny :rotfl:

Three bags to charity shop. Still got two bags! A couple of DVD's to cex shop. Daughter bag of rubbish for bin( it just grows in her room)
Have bag of clothes sorted to take to H&M for voucher.
Bag of recycling from bathroom.
Have sorted bag of Home magazines, just need to drop at Charity shop( pleased they take them , as felt guilty putting in recycling bin).

I thought while kids were doing their own thing,I would have a quick declutter of their under-bed,and maybe tops of chest of drawers.To be fair,all the kids have been keeping their rooms really tidy (cos I am constantly nagging ),but the two littler ones do seem to have alot of "tat" sometimes: old drawings all over the place,dried out marking pens with no lids,odd socks,shoes overflowing .......

I had to ask my 10yo to crawl under the bunks and drag all the tat out,because I would have been wedged in there forever if I had tried :eek:.With that,she offered to help declutter and sort,which was lovely.

Binned:
574:multi-coloured marking pen
575:packet of 32 gel pens,dried out
576:bag of "fun snaps"
577:bag that a mac (now lost) came in
578:half an egg timer!
579-582:2 Melissa and Doug wooden sticker puzzles plus stickers
583:cheap plastic bracelet,falling apart

I also set aside a few items for the next tip run,will count when they leave my life.

On Wednesday evening I found 2 packs of Christmas themed fudge that I was going to give to my granddad for Christmas.

He passed away before I got chance to

So I have spent the time since then slowly making my way through it, savouring each and every bite, as I knew he would have as he absolutely loved fudge.

About to eat the last bit once I finish typing this up

Went into the city yesterday as my aunt wanted silk flowers so she could make buttonholes for everyone for my cousins wedding in 3 weeks :eek:

I also managed to get some supplies that I will run out of before I get paid again so that's alright