Monthly Archives: December 2017

another trip to the dump!

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Today was another productive decluttering day. We filled the van with old furniture and ‘stuff’ from inside the house this time. Included was:

  • a small bookcase
  • a queen size mattress topper
  • a ratty old doona
  • a large coffee/games table
  • a wooden chest – used to be my ‘glory box’ years ago
  • a broken office chair
  • a broken lounge chair
  • plus some other general rubbish
So it has created some space in the house which is great!  I’ll be back into it again tomorrow. 

more ‘stuff’ decluttered…

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The last few days I have been busy with more decluttering, interspersed with some sewing.  I’ve sorted a lot of the clothes and started working in the spare room.

I have a big fabric stash and its overflowed from the sewing room into the spare room, along with a heap of other ‘stuff’ that needed a place to live.  I had three big bags of fleece in there so I cut out some stuffed toys and some cuddle rugs – (I sew for some charities) and its been nice to sew when I need a break from cleaning & sorting. It will help use up my excess fabric as well.

We’ve planned another trip to the dump tomorrow and once the op shops open next week we’ll take a load of donations down to them as well. At times I feel like I’m making progress but then I have moments where it just seems like such a huge job! A lifetimes worth of stuff here, plus some of my mums stuff as well. But I’m making progress bit by bit!

I love it when I log in here and see the numbers on that retirement countdown going down- it helps to see an end date.

Decluttering has started!

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We’ve been busy for the last two days getting started with the decluttering.

Yesterday we filled a van load full of old broken stuff from around the house yard and took it to the tip:

  • old garden chairs
  • broken garden pots
  • broken plant stand
  • 5 large cardboard boxes from furniture
  • old bits of timber
  • some rubbish from the garage
I’ve been working on decluttering our bedroom and six garbage bags later I’m not far off being finished!  I think another full day should just about do it. I’ve done the wardrobes, almost all the ensuite where we had lots of ‘stuff’ stored and I’m half way through the drawers.
 I was pretty ruthless with the clothes. I tend to hang on to things far too long – like 15 years too long!  I feel like I have to get the wear out of them even if they are no longer flattering. I often upcycle clothes too. The more I put out, the easier it got!  I have a pile of clothes waiting to be altered which I’ll get to over the next few weeks.
 I had originally planned to sell a lot of my old clothes and pay the money off the mortgage. But by the time I was done I decided that I am just going to donate them and be done with it. It is easier and will take far less time for me to do some of this extra work that has been offered instead of listing them for sale and posting them out to people. 
Before we started work on decluttering I went around the yard and to each room and took photographs. I’m not going to post them here but I’m going to take new photos each month to see how much progress I am making, The house is a real mess and we’re in the ‘can’t have anyone over’ CHAOS that flylady talks about, so I figure photos will help me keep working on it.
well thats Christmas Eve almost over here, tomorrow we’ll have Christmas with the family and then back into the decluttering come Boxing Day.