De-cluttering flow chart.

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Anybody use a de-cluttering flow chart?

As in, Do I use this YES NO, Does it have a home YES NO.

Or am I just looking for another way of stopping myself from just getting on with it and having 2 boxes keep and chuck.

List wsill do skribb.
(Pref on piece of used paper)

What do you need to do?
Tell me,am the queen of decluttering.
My sisters call my house 'the laboratory'.

I have 3 boxes: Keep, Toss and Charity. Everything in the keep box must be put away immediately. Nothing that hasn't been used for 3 months (unless it has REAL sentimental value) must be tossed or given to Charity. Tackle one area/room in full before moving on.

ooh Moondog..I need you. I am the queen of clutter!!

moondog: Quick question if I may...(sorry for hijack)

A piece of (chewed) gum went through with my last load of laundry. All of the clothes in said load are covered in white bits of gum. Some of the clothes are mine and DHs but most of them are children's. We move to Austria in 7 weeks. Should I keep the clothes or toss em?

I need to have a total clearout as I want to get the house valued. At the moment I would value it at £12.79 .

When I do get going I just go round in circles and end up with loads of stuff I need/ want to keep but can't put it away until I clear up everything else.

I am not stopping myself from doing it I am just not getting myself to start doing it. Lack of enthusiasm, but I just can't be arsed trying to fit it in between all the other demands on my time, I hope to get a full time job soon so I need to do it soon.

As another queen of decluttering I am thinking to myself - Hmmmmmmmmm could I set up a business sorting out other peoples tat!!!!

I enjoy decluttering :o Its very liberating!

The move is relevant for 2 reasons:

1. I am up to my eyeballs in things that MUST be done before we move so I cannot see myself picking the gum off the children's clothes (would take hours!)

1. Will they even fit by the time they are shipped there?

Cadmum - Id toss'um in the circs and buy new when you get there :)

Are they good clothes?
Put them in the freezer if so. Gum will go hard and yuo can chip off.
Even if ruined,never throw-put in your council's textile recycling schemme.

At the risk of sounding like a terrible prig,Iam trying not to be a flagrant consumer,so remind myself that hoarding is selfish when someone else could make good use of things.

I give stuff away if I don't need it-friends,charities,organisations.

I buy a lot of second hand furniture and am so well known at the place that we do trade ins.

I just gave loads of baby equipment and clothes to local women's aid centre.
They were so grateful and said that all centres are desperate for such things.

bear it in mind,girls.

The clothes are mostly hand me downs. One pair of new trousers for ds1 (the ones that had the gum in the pocket). I will try the freezer. Thanks!

(All of our stuff is second/third hand too.)

Am in US right now so unfamiliar with possible textile schemes. Will investigate...