I've started to declutter. It's like an addiction (hoarding). I buy too much and then cling onto it as if it were a raft at sea. Old boots, fake bags... and baby things: toys, clothes, a bouncer, etc. I'm scared that now I've started to declutter, I'll fall off the wagon and into cluttering again. I really was depressed. It's as if my clutter lives inside my head!
I was wondering whether there is anyone who lives near me who'd like to be de-clutter buddies. I'd come to you one day and you'd come up me another (children/ child care permitting). Or someone who'd just take pity on a person who has no idea how to declutter without hanging onto 'rafts'.
I have now organised my 'rafts' into a section called 'My Ebay Pile'. I've booked a lady to come over to take it. Doubt she will want it. I've even put stuff on selling FB groups but changed my mind when people contacted me about items. Hopeless!
Please don't tell me to just dump it all.
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MummaBubba123 · 21/04/2013 22:19
My Mum kept all my baby clothes as she couldn't bear to part with them. It has meant that DD has a very vintage look to many of her clothes 
. I'm not planning on having any more DC yet we put everything in the loft 'just incase' 
My mum keeps producing mine and my siblings old clothes for DS. Some of them must have looked pretty dodgy in the 80s and are always mysteriously 'in the wash' when she comes round! So keep them and provide entertainment for your children in the future
Ha, Reastie, your grandchildren will be so grateful to wear clothes which are a couple of decades out of date 
Although looking at some of my old photos, I quite like 80s baby wear, lots of knitted dresses etc 
Not nearly so much pink sparkly shite! 
OP, whereabouts are you roughly? I doubt very much that you are in my neck of the woods, but I'd love to help if I could
I meant generations whispers trends will come around again . I think it's fine for baby clothes but I'm not sure what DD will say when she's 8 or so and I'm trying to get her to wear my tatty old clothes
Ah, that's a shame, if we'd been having this conversation 6 years ago, I would have come to help as I was living in Beds and working in Herts! No help to you now though 
Have you thought about doing an nct sale for the toys, not nearly as much work as ebaying, although you do risk bringing some (and more 
) home again.
OP, I like your idea of "declutter buddies!" I'm on the far side of the world so no use to you, but I hope someone will turn up.
I hung onto baby stuff until youngest DC was five when we moved abroad and put all our UK household stuff into storage. I really didn't want to pay more money than necessary for the storage (every cubic metre adds up etc). That really concentrated the mind and I gave away bagloads of clothes, bedding and toys to friends and charity shops. If I hadn't had that decluttering deadline I think the moses basket full of tiny clothes would still be wedged under the bed.
Regarding the toys that you haven't time to ebay but can't just give away because they cost too much, I would say just give most of them away anyway. You have got your use out of them and they are now taking up valuable space in your house. They are also taking up valuable space in your head because the ebay pile is another huge job on the to-do list. So maybe just let go of it? Console yourself with the thought that, as your DD is only two, there will be loads more toycrap pouring in through the door for years to come.
One final point, it is hard to get rid of baby clobber if you feel your family is not complete yet. I remember a friend selling me her pushchair then changing her mind a day later in tears, because the presence of the pushchair in her house represented the possibility of a third baby, and selling it kind of destroyed the possibility in a way, so she wanted to hang onto it. That was the gist of it anyway. (She did have another baby some years later). Emotions trip us up when we are trying to be hard-headedly sensible about possessions.
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Aha. I thought the fridge comment was something very wise about storing textiles for years, that they had to be kept cold and dark! Maybe they do, actually, but it seemed like a waste of your kitchen fridge, filling it up with old babygros when you could have lovely things to eat and drink in there.
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