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Emotionally attached to baby stuff

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MummaBubba123 · 21/04/2013 22:19

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.
Crap crap crap

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MarjorieAntrobus · 23/04/2013 07:19

Sadly, no more babies- had a molar pregnancy that scared me witless and now, thank gd,have a pink and blue one. Husband also says 'shop closed'... but I'd loooove another baby ;(

^^ That's why it is hard to let go of the baby stuff.

Messandmayhem · 23/04/2013 07:24

I'm going to declutter baby stuff, but I'm keeping the moses basket and stand, both my DC slept in it and I'm a bit attached to it. It's going to go in my DD bedroom with her dollies and teddies in it.
As for clothes, I am keeping the important things (coming home outfits, and a couple of expensive babygros I'm very attached to) and the rest is going. I had to get all of my daughters clothes from freecycle / charity shops / car boot sales as my hubby lost his job when I was pregnant and in a way that is making it easier to declutter now as I know how frantically worried I was about affording baby stuff and how grateful I was, especially for the three big bin bags of clothes a lovely lady on freecycle gave me. I am thinking of taking the lot to a car boot sale and just getting rid.
How much does a second hand bounce and spin zebra go for? Confused

MummaBubba123 · 23/04/2013 07:43

Lol
No idea about the spinning zebra! Funny.
I've used the 'completed listings' button on ebay though. Tells you the final price of things.
Yup - maybe I do want another baby so I don't want it all to go as couldn't buy it all again. I went totally OTT!
But in reality, I'm not going to have another.
Boo hoo!

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