Dejunking the garage

[SpiritualKnot]

Aargh...really want to de-junk the garage. I work full time, back late and knackered most nights and have no time to do these things. 2 kids, hubby with broken arm. Just want to throw it all away. There's foot spas, old tents, watches, lamps, clothes, books...so much stuff.

Feel that a person should take pics and put them on ebay and earn a bob or two. But would be totally happy to pay someone to take it out of my sight. SERIOUSLY do not have the time to do it anyway. Want to get a big skip and just chuck. Hubby refuses to let me get a skip..even though it'd be me paying for it. Says he can put it in my car and take it to the tip, several trips. But then he starts on and on about how none of it is his....what's wrong with me...I'm a bag lady really...you can't throw this away..etc etc.

Have others had this predicament..has anyone ever just chucked stuff away coz it's just too much for them?

SK

yep- I have been known to chuck stuff away just because I find it's presence annoying.

Our council do this great thing annually whereby you can leave out up to 15 large (or small) things and they will take them away gratis.

great was to declutter.

Freecycle?
Then they collect it fo ryou.

I'd get a skip. How much are they? Last time we moved, we took about 10 car loads to the tip without even looking in the boxes. Haven't missed any of it!

If you've not used something in 2 years, then you don't ever need it again I find.

I've been sorting mine out for about the tenth time since we moved in 6 years ago. It took me about an hour to fill a skip once and there was still loads left.

This time round we've done the tip, charity shop and freecycle, which although a bit of a PITA has meant that people have come and taken stuff away. I leave it out for them to pick up once we've agreed that they are having it.

If I were you I'd get everyone doing it one weekend.

Pile of stuff for Ebay that you know will sell well in time for Christmas and decide that any money made will go for a family treat.

Books, clothes, lamps & watches to charity shop.

Tent, foot spa etc on Freecycle

Then the rest off to the tip, it is amazing how much space two carefully packed car loads leaves behind in the garage.

We need to do this.
What can I do without about a 200 plant pots accumulated over the last 6 years? The nursery won't take them back to reuse. Do I have to chuck them?

See if your local school/nursery would like some for planting runner beans/sunflowers etc in the spring. Then put the rest on freecycle.

i would just take my time going through what can be sold or donated and then dum the rest. that way hubby will be satisfied that your not binning good stuff and you may have some money to wave under his face and pay for a skip. i have a load of stuff like that knocking about and ive promised to get it all out by xmas, one way or another. today i begin.