Not quite a horder - decluttering

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • Mandy1313
    Mandy1313 Member Posts: 1,692
    edited December 2012

    My kids were home for the holidays and did me a huge favor--they went through their closets and removed the clothing that has been sitting there since they went away to college. I never knew what they wanted to keep and what they did not want any more.   I now have a closet with room in it rather than one where the doors could not be shut. 

    Wishing us all a wonderful new year of heath, happiness and serenity and with a less clutter than the year before.

    Hugs,

    Mandy

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  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited December 2012

    Good one, Mandy!

    Several years ago, DH and I packed up all the adult kids' stuff and trucked it off to their houses. They each owned homes, so it made no sense for them to keep using our house as a mini-storage!

    We unloaded the truck at each of their homes, and let THEM decide what they wanted to keep!

    Diabolical, but it worked...Wink

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited December 2012

    DS has always made fun of us for having so much stuff. Imagine how much fun it was when he came for a visit and we were looking for an extra blanket--we found 3 boxes of his stuff and made him take it away. I do have to say that he's doing well avoiding clutter at his own home.

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  • dunesleeper
    dunesleeper Member Posts: 2,060
    edited December 2012

    I took a bag to Goodwill.

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  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 2,859
    edited December 2012

    Yea Dunesleeper! Go you!!

    Ginger

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • ptdreamers
    ptdreamers Member Posts: 1,080
    edited December 2012

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited December 2012

    Teka - Been working on my "edible clutter". Those Mexican sauces have gone in everything couple of tablespoons at a time. More edible clutter - have leftover buttermilk from making scalloped potatoes. Have to get that used up soon. But have been working on magazine clutter. At least they are mostly in one place now instead of scattered around 3 rooms. Now to get them read.

    Sorted thru a million pairs of white socks. Going to DD if she wants some but then on to Goodwill. Have 2 bags out in the car ready to go Friday.

    I agree. We all need a gentle 2013.

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  • BUNKIE10
    BUNKIE10 Member Posts: 733
    edited December 2012

    I am glad I am not the only one with mgazine clutter. I only have 1 year left of A Taste of the South and all of Paula Deen to go through. Yeah!!!

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited January 2013

    I went through my Taste of Home mags before Christmas and found some duplicates, gave them to DIL.  It is tempting to invest in one of those scanners they advertise on TV, you know the one that organizes everything you scan?  If it worked, I could get rid of all my magazines that I have saved for some reason or another.

    We were gone out of town after Christmas, and the decorations have to come down.  I took the ornaments off the two big trees yesterday and packed most of them up.  I am trying to only put away ornaments I actually used.  It doesn't help that I had a bout of stomach 'flu' on New Year's Day.  What was worse was the 11 hour drive home the following day.

    Today I plan on getting the rest of the decorations ready to go in the attic.  

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  • BUNKIE10
    BUNKIE10 Member Posts: 733
    edited January 2013

    I took my recipes and taped them into a spiral notebook for each magazine group. I now have 4 notebooks.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited January 2013

    I need to do that.  I keep the whole magazine just in case.  Just in case...right!

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  • BUNKIE10
    BUNKIE10 Member Posts: 733
    edited January 2013

    Meece that is how I ended up with 250 saved magazines. I now keep the previous year only. Of the 200 magazines I went through I only cut out about 30 recipes. I was keeping the entire magazine...just in case. That is only 30 pages of the notebook instead of all those magazines. I could recycle them but I prefer to take them to my Dr apts, beauty salon etc. That way people can enjoy and take them home.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited January 2013

    I went through a magazine I had subscribed to and only found 2 things I wanted to save. Obviously, I cancelled that subscription. My Mom saved recipes, but I'm not sure she ever made any of them. DH cooks and we have an entire bookcase full of cookbooks. Of course, he now goes online for recipes.

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  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited January 2013

    A few years ago, I bought a Kindle. Didn't matter...I still shopped at thrift and used book stores, bringing home books by the sackful!!!

    Last year I got an iPad. How wonderful that would be, I thought...I could transfer all my magazine subscriptions to electronic versions and not be stuck with stacks and stacks of old magazines!!! WRONG....I still renewed my subscriptions, so now I have BOTH - print AND e versions. 

    I did notive that a mouse chewed into a box of old - I mean ANCIENT - magazines in a corner of the garage...now THAT was enough incentive to trash several boxes!!! Undecided

    p.s. The good news is that I never keep the used books I buy - I read them, then donate them back to the hospice thrift store where I get them, so they can sell them again.

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  • Wonderland
    Wonderland Member Posts: 3,288
    edited January 2013

    Hey everybody, this is Wonderland. In the original post, Suzwes posted the decluttering rules that I found. Sounds like everyone has discovered the joy in cleaning out the clutter in your homes. I work on it daily/weekly/or monthly. Dh likes to accommulate so I have to overlook his stuff. Eventually he goes through it, which makes me happy!

    This past year I really went through the house decluttering. I really don't know how more things show up to take up space! Tongue Out Some days it's overwhelming and I wish I had the guts to get rid of half the stuff I have. One day, maybe. Now it's a little at a time - that's better than nothing!

    My new project is wondering what to do with my grandmother's dishes that have been boxed up for 29 years (according to the newspaper I used to wrap them in). It just never stops, does it.

    Keep up the good work ladies! We're all in this together!

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited January 2013

    I love dishes, and have two sets of china, two sets of daily dishes, a set of crystal dishes, and a set of Christmas dishes.  I love changing up the dinner table.  I actually cleared out a cupbaord in my laundryroom to put one of the sets which has settings for 20.  When there's a will, there's a way. The way I see it, they were made to use, so I use them.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited January 2013

    I find it easier to just go online and search.  Much easier than pulling out one recipe book after another trying to find the recipe you are looking for.  When I like a recipe, I put a Post-it on the page, so at least I can tell which books have something I've used.

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  • ptdreamers
    ptdreamers Member Posts: 1,080
    edited January 2013

    After forty eight years we have too many cook books and everything else. Trying to get up the energy to just give it all away.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
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  • BUNKIE10
    BUNKIE10 Member Posts: 733
    edited January 2013

    Ok so I have lost my mind but I just bought another cookbook. I had to order it from QVC and it is a crockpot one. I use my crockpot a few times a week. I did dump 2 more today so 1 in and 2 out.

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  • lilylady
    lilylady Member Posts: 1,079
    edited January 2013

    Came to get inspired and I see some kindred souls-especially the cookbook thing. Not only do I have my own collection 2 of my mom's friends gave me their mothers when they died. Iam bringing a stack in every night to look thru and have hauled of quite a few. I am a sucker for church fundraiser ones and anything that has handwritten notes in it. My goal is to fit what I keep all in one bookcase. The ones going in the donate box seem to be more of the "coffee table" type.

    I did get thru the entire bathroom-since I haven't had hair in so long the hot rollers, flat irons, hair dryers and all the kindred products ect all went bye-bye. Amazing how much space it was taking up. Also went thru the pill cabinet-lots of outdated vitamins, supplements, and assorted cancer drugs. They are having a pill disposal thing next saturday so I am ready for them. Makeup???? What's the use really? Don't need mascara or eyeshadow for sure. NowI have room for extra toilet paper-since every drug they put me on gives me Big D. So it was all to the good.

     Christmas stuff by the attic full but it will have to wait for a while-too cold up there.

     Thanks for spurring me on ladies

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2013

    I've been lurking..looking for inspiration. What I really need to do, is rent a bulldozer!!!



    Blessings

    Paula

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