RealFastFoodie I think selling is for maintenance decluttering. When you've cleared the excess and you've room to store the odd thing until it sells.
Time to place the advert (if you haven't reached maintenance decluttering yet I think the time is better spent on clearing the excess).
No urgency on it leaving the home, so a bit of messing around from buyers is more tolerable (when you need things to leave so you have room to get on with the next phase of decluttering, selling slows you down)
A while ago I tried to sell a nearly new coat, from a current collection still sold in the popular high street shop it came from. It was a little too small. Couldn't even sell it for £5 on Facebook (the only app I had at the time, I've since deleted it). That was when I started focussing on just getting rid
Especially with the kerbside recycling here. The majority of things are made from one of those materials.
It does feel sort of wrong putting almost-new books I've read once into the paper recycling but it means the book is gone as soon as the decision is made, unless a friend happens to be there and wants to take it.
I've put old mobile phones, broke appliances and obsolete tech into the electrical collection. If it's in full working order I stick a label on it just in case anyone wants it for personal use or the rubbish tip second-hand shop.
Plastic toys, small containers and DVD cases into the plastics bin and bin the DVD disks (because I'm not sure what they're made of!).
I forgot to mention glass, they take that too, so glass vases can go there as well as unwanted drinking glasses.
I'll break down a picture frame if I'm getting rid - the glass to glass, the back to cardboard, the picture to paper and the wood to the bin. Again, feels kinda wrong, but I don't have time to search for someone who wants the cheap print in a cheap frame for £10.
Worn out saucepans and unwanted cutlery can go to metal recycling, chipped crockery gets binned.
There's also plastic bag recycling and battery recycling at the local supermarket.
Usually though, I'm using the plastic bags to bag up the donations for the clothes bank. Wrecked clothes for kerbside recycling also have to be bagged up so even the small bags from online orders are useful there. I don't bother washing these clothes for recycling first.
I've gone over to rechargeable batteries so when the last lot of non-rechargeable ones are gone I won't have to worry about that any more
Gold and silver jewellery I sell at one of those cash-for-gold places locally. Cheap stuff goes to the clothing bank donation bin
Toiletries, makeup and cleaning products I use up even if they're old or I don't much like them. As long as I'm not allergic I don't see the point in being precious.
Any kind of soap or detergent will clean the loo or the floor.
Shower gels you don't like can be used as bubble bath.
Soaps for handwashing and any moisturizer can be hand cream.
Conditioner can be used to shave legs if it's no good for my hair.
Any perfume smells better than BO on cleaning day! So a quick spritz when I break for food makes me feel more human.
Your face doesn't disintegrate if you use old makeup, as long as it's not separated or growing mould it's fine, I think.
Too dark bronzers make good eyeshadow.
Lipsticks in the wrong shade can be dabbed on cheeks and blended out with fingers as blusher instead.
Useless concealers make ok foundations, just put in the middle of your face and blend out so their slightly-too-pale-ness is less obvious.
Even rubbish nail polish lasts the duration of your day out.
I wear a little makeup daily, makes me feel good and uses the stuff up. I have no makeup skills really, it's just 5min of me-time at the start of the day to remind myself I'm human before I start rushing round doing all that needs doing
I started decluttering at the beginning of this year. I found it difficult at first deciding how/when/where to part with things but I feel I've found my groove now
One empty box from this morning's reorganization efforts. Total is 1145