2018 Decluttering Thread

[disneysteve]

I got a bid on one of my ebay items so that will be leaving the house by the end of the week. It's actually a decent size box so will free up some shelf space in the basement.

[comicguy]

Some more stuff has left the house!!

2 contractor size garbage bags (hanging around) - used up for weeds from flower beds
13 comic books - donated
11 DVD’s - donated
1 printer - recycled
1 cardboard box - recycled
1 X-Box (w/ all the extras) - to son’s house
1 poster tube - to son’s house
1 laptop - to son’s house
1 small box of misc small stuff from dresser drawers - to son’s house
1 reusable grocery bag - to son’s house
1 lightsabre - to son’s house
1 threaded rod - to son’s house


35 items left the house

1149 items of 2018 or 56.93% of goal

[disneysteve]

Some more stuff has left the house

Great job but I can’t help but wonder if your son actually wants all of those things.

[comicguy]

Great job but I can’t help but wonder if your son actually wants all of those things.

Yes, this is stuff he actually wants (at least for now) for some projects that he has going on at his house. He has a "working lab" at his house so a lot of the stuff will actually be used, of course his fiance not so happy about the working lab, but as she said, at least it is all kept upstairs. He does a lot of 3D designing/modeling and 3 D printing plus some electronics work as a side from his regular job.

He has told me some of the stuff can be donated/trashed so we have been getting rid of "his junk". It is amazing what is now considered junk when he now has his own place

[PierceFerdy]

Finally decided to enter * gulp * the dreaded storage room today and wow, i hadn't realised how many boxes i still have from my last move that are still chock full of...stuff. Time to sort through this stuff, methinks. After moving so much these last few years i'm pretty dedicated to the 'less is more' lifestyle these days and it feels gooooood. Now, i wonder if any of this stuff might fetch a pretty penny on ebay. Fingers crossed!

[disneysteve]

My wife decided she wanted a bar area in our sitting room, so we basically got that set up a couple of weeks ago. Of course, she isn't happy with it the way it is and wants to rearrange the room. The good part of that is that today it involved decluttering. We have a sectional set of shelving in there filled with various collectibles and decorative items and she decided it was time to thin the herd, which was totally fine with me. One item went in the trash. 6 or 7 items got packed for donation. Two things that aren't ours but we can't get rid of (they belong to my mom) went into a basement storage closet. And 4 or 5 things got added to my ebay pile. I'm working on listing a couple of them right now.

Two of the ebay items are things that I know we have the original boxes for but it is way too hot here for me to spend any time in the garage or attic looking for them. So I'll park those for cooler weather. I know they will sell better and be easier and safer to ship if I can locate the boxes.

I was also just in the basement to take some photos for ebay and while I was down there, got a few more things in the trash and found a few others that need to go on ebay.

[Gailete]

While I'm not decluttering on the scale that you guys are, I have come to the conclusion that I actually have enough stuff in my sewing room with the exception of thread, that I can happily keep busy crafting for the next 50 years. Considering I'm already in my 60's, that isn't going to happen. I have found so many neat things at thrifts stores in the last few years that pretty much any needlecraft that I have ever wanted to do, I have the equipment. I even found a beginners tatting kit on one of my last forays.

NOT bringing stuff into the house is as good as getting rid of it isn't it?

But before I can go lock myself in the sewing room for the rest of my life, I do have to bind a baby quilt for my little princess. Her folks are visiting this week and I want to send it home with them so they have it when she is born. Their being here means that a lot of baby stuff that I have collected since Easter will be going out of the house as well. Their Christmas/New Years visit got cancelled due to the awful snow and I haven't seen them in almost a year!

[disneysteve]

Over the weekend, I listed 11 issues of an old collector magazine on ebay. Someone message me asking for the combined shipping price if he bought them all. I wrote back and he just made the purchase of all 11! I just need to find a good shipping box and I'll get those out tomorrow. And I made about $30 on the sale.

[disneysteve]

I listed 2 items on ebay. I'd like to shoot for listing 1 or 2 items a day 5 days a week (the days I don't work 12 hours). That should get me some decent sales without getting overwhelming.

I also packed up the magazines I sold yesterday. I'll get them to the post office on Friday morning.

Hopefully I'll get to spend a little more time in the basement tonight.

[Gailete]

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[comicguy]

7/5

1 portable CD player - donated
8 packages of elastic launch glider rubber bands - to son’s house
3 rolls of Lego tape - to son’s house
2 cell phones - robotics center
2 cell phone chargers - robotics center
1 20 ft phone extension cable - donated
1 5 ft phone extension cable - donated
5 phone jack 2 way splitter - donated
1 phone jack 3 way splitter - donated
2 usb patch cords - donated
1 3 ft ethernet cable - donated
1 digital step counter - donated
1 clipboard - donated
1 cordless mouse (missing the usb attachment) - recycled
1 bag of misc screws and hardware (been sitting in a box for 5+ years) - trashed
28 pins - donated
10 ink cartridges - recycled (staples only takes 10 per month to put towards rewards)

69 items left the house

1225 items of 2018 or 60.70% of goal

[disneysteve]

I just listed 2 items on ebay. They are small items but if they sell, it's still items out of the house and money in my pocket. Plus, I have duplicates of both of them so if they attract attention, I can likely sell the others.

[Thrif-t]

Boy you guys are kicking butt, keep it up

[disneysteve]

Sold one item on ebay last night. Just waiting on payment and will ship that on Monday.

Got a bid on another item today so that will go out by the end of the week (and another $20 or more in my pocket).

[comicguy]

After doing all the flowerbeds on Friday, I did a bit of relaxing yesterday but I still did manage to get rid of a few things.

7/8
1 pile of outdated event stickers - trashed
2 rolling/folding tables - given away
14 pieces of used trim work - trashed
2 curtain rods - trashed
1 laptop (pulled hard drive) - recycled

1315 items of 2018 or 65.16% of goal