Join me in getting rid of at least one thing a day decluttering challenge?

[SandSnakeOfDorne]

I am trying to declutter, starting with our loft and garage both of which need some work doing so need to be a lot emptier! After they're done I want to declutter the rest of the house. I've already got rid of loads of stuff but I'm starting to lose motivation alone!

We have quite strict rules for what we can put in rubbish so I'm selling, free cycling, taking stuff to the clothes bank etc. At least one thing a day. I'm hoping to be done by Christmas!

Anyone want to join me?

Condensed two piles of stuff into one today . My bedroom is looking better apart from husbands mountain of crap

Still making headway. Signed off work for at least another 10 days (minor bowel op). Not feeling up to major tidying today so I'm burning favourite cd's to my laptop and I'll drop them at the charity shop later. Don't have the patience to sell them for pennies, just want the storage space back.

A whole bin bag is excellent sand 👍.

meg I've tried quite hard to sell stuff but no one wants it. Good quality baby things and also horsey stuff. It just prolongs giving it away imo.

Am putting off writing another bloody report, so just did my airing cupboard. A bunch of things (torn sheets, etc) into the clean rags bag for the charity shop, and another bag of good things (duvet set, brand new pillowcases, brand new flannels) also to go to the charity shop. Plus my airing cupboard now doesn't look like an explosion in a rag factory.

You're all doing so well. Meglet I hope you're recovering nicely after your op.

Archery I did my airing cupboard a few months ago and I still get great joy from opening the doors. Why did I feel the need to keep old samples of material and dirty and torn sheets for so long?

It isn't a great week. I am doing little bits that don't seem to make a difference - in fact they make things look worse! We have a unit of furniture in the kitchen with a drawer for each daughter to keep immediate school things in (pe kits, homework, dictionaries etc) but they are full of junk. I have just emptied dd1s drawer - shredded some stuff but I need to find room for old school books. I have also put her ballet kit in the charity shop pile and that took up quite a lot of space. I used to love watching dd1 do ballet but she gave up a year ago so there's no need to store it.

I also put 3 cookbooks in the charity shop pile. I gave away a load about 10 months ago but each time I chip away a bit more. I could probably give them all away but that seems to hard a step.

stealth I'm a bit like that this week. I'm keen to carry on but short of child free time so it's all got a bit random. I chucked a few things out of the freezer and pantry and tea pot and coffee pot out of the kitchen today. Still, it's stuff out of the door.

StealthNinja I keep on opening the airing cupboard door as I go past, just to have a little hit of pleasure and satisfaction.

I am a great saver of things Just In Case, waste not, want not, and all the rest of it, and the discovery that the Red Cross actively want my (clean) torn sheets and worn out old t-shirts, and it will make them money has been such a delightful discovery, and has got so much shit out of my house.

I’ve just booked a charity furniture collection, had no idea you could do that!! 🙌🏼

I have also bought the Marie Kondo book and got the app...

DH sorted out some old clothes yesterday and I took them to the clothes bank today. I really need to stick to getting something out of the house every day as then it is something I have to get done that day! Really going to try and keep to it this week.

I've been peeking at the Kondo Twitter page for inspiration too.

Took some kids books to the charity shop earlier. Want to fill up a rubbish bag before bedtime as well .

There’s a really charity shop near me that just sells kids things. Now I know about that I’m taking the kids things there from now on.

I sold £9 things on eBay and got charged almost £7! £5 of that was advanced listing charges which I didn’t see ( must have been free then added onto a Re list) then tried FB but for the sorting, photos, asking for £5 for a bag full of next bits, then people asking for yet more photos and then ignoring you I can see the charity shop gets way more than £5 per bag full.

I have been selling and giving things away on Facebook all year. It's odd the things that people buy. I chose a week in June to stay at home and sold about 30 things. Some really lovely things like unopened toys in boxes remained unsold and yet I sold potties and a plastic toilet seats. I am intending to stay in at the end of the month and try to sell another 30 or 40 items. If I don't sell them then they're going to the charity shop or bin.

I sorted out a load of shoes and boots and donated them. V proud of myself because they were things I liked but I was honest with myself about whether I was ever going to wear them again!

I've found Facebook selling pretty odd too. You really need to be in loads of different groups and choose the right one for that item, but even then it's hit and miss.

Dropped off a box of unused white tiles to our community furniture project today. They said teachers buy them for art projects.

sand FB selling is odd isn't it. I've seen some real that have lots of interest but other stuff is ignored.

That was meant to say 'tat'.

Nothing today but it's a struggle when husband is around

I get less done with dh and dc are around. I think he is a hoarder like his parents and has passed this on to dc.

Today, however, dh let me throw away a pair of his trousers only another 15 to go

I have to sneak stuff out when DS isn't around. He develops sudden emotional attachments to everything. My old dressing gown was a particularly strange one.

sandsnake lol! Dds are exactly the same. Dd2 developed attachments to toys that she never played as a baby and when selling them I had to hide a few in the car and then take the buyers to the car to retrieve them! In my charity shop pile was a photo album that was a leaving present from a job 14 years ago that I liked but never used. Dd2 found it last week and announced it's a spy book with invisible ink on the pages and she has been playing spies with it. It'll be too scruffy to give away!

Sometimes it is easier to let my dc's destroy an unwanted item by using it for creative / garden play than sneaking it past them stealth. They're very much den builders who nearly turned the back garden into a mud bath this summer.

Another big bin bag went today. I've been clearing out the back porch. Turned out I had a huge array of cleaning sprays and potions tucked away .

I'm using the cleaning stuff by the way, the binned stuff was just clutter.

Marie kondo’d all my clothes today!! Feeling so good about it. Got rid of all the stuff I didn’t LOVE. Now it all fits in my drawers and I can see what I have. 1 bag for charity and 1 for my sister (the really decent stuff that i just don’t wear). So pleased! DH clothes I have not done.. but will encourage him to do it too.

Books I did a while back. Papers also, but could do with another sort / shred.

The 2 big problems / time consuming areas will be (1) “sentimental life” so putting all photos into albums, creating scrapbooks of precious letters, framing things. And (2) the general household items like tools and electrical equipment... this is DH area and he is a messy hoarder!