Decluttering

[KazzyK810]

Originally Posted by ilovejoel

Put everything in the garage.....that's what I do

Then where do you put your vehicles?

It seems silly to have my Caddy sitting outside in the elements, and junk stored in the garage.

[KazzyK810]

Originally Posted by MarkFromSea

My better half has been pretty caught up in this Buy Nothing group about the last year. Seems a bit time consuming to give things away but it has provided her with a huge social expansion to local people. If there is a Buy Nothing group near you it's worth looking into. For her, it started with giving things away now it's a total social club for her.
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What a great concept!

I have stuff id willing give away but don't know where to give it to, other than the local salvation army and goodwill stores, that turn around and sell it. I gave a couple of dog crates & leashes to a local rescue, because i know of them through a friend that is involved in transporting animals for them. But i have quite a few things that have never been used and would make great Christmas gifts to less fortunate adults, but i have know idea where to give them.

[MarkFromSea]

Originally Posted by KazzyK810

What a great concept!

I have stuff id willing give away but don't know where to give it to, other than the local salvation army and goodwill stores, that turn around and sell it. I gave a couple of dog crates & leashes to a local rescue, because i know of them through a friend that is involved in transporting animals for them. But i have quite a few things that have never been used and would make great Christmas gifts to less fortunate adults, but i have know idea where to give them.

One step would be to google your local area for charities, churches, community centers, a handicap org near by, cancer orgs are doing auctions and events seasonally in our area, cub/boy/girl scouts some times have fund raising events... it all depends what's in your local area, .... if I understand what you wrote correctly... you want to give your items to something that stands a little closer to your heart..

[chachi]

Im going to be doing a major decluttering and fixing up the house soon because Im going to be home all day starting in a week and a half. I cant wait to get started there are alot of projects I wanted to start but just didnt have the time while working. Im going to grow jewels hairr out too since Ill be home to take care of it

[celstu1]

DH & I put our house on the market earlier this year and in preparation to show it, we had to declutter. We are not done, we got burnt out and never really got back to it. I guess the best declutter for us is going to be when we have to pack to move! I don't keep a lot but DH is kind of a pack rat. He thinks he can repurpose everything or fix everything. I have to do a lot of going around behind him and cleaning up behind his back. He gets mad at me for a few hours, but gets over it. He gets overwhelmed by the stuff he had to clean out. I think he was actually surprised by how much STUFF he had around and after a yard sale, craigs list, about 20 trips to goodwill, the dump, with our trailer, he is starting to throw more away now.
I wish I had some tips & tricks for you, but just muddle through and you'll be so happy you did. Be realistic too, on what you are truly going to repurpose or not. I found that our good intentions of repurposing things from years ago didn't happen and I finally just got rid of those things.

Have fun and good luck to you!

[KazzyK810]

Originally Posted by chachi

Im going to be doing a major decluttering and fixing up the house soon because Im going to be home all day starting in a week and a half. I cant wait to get started there are alot of projects I wanted to start but just didnt have the time while working. Im going to grow jewels hairr out too since Ill be home to take care of it

Sounds like you will have plenty to keep you busy. Its nice is you can get stuck into something and spend significant time on each each day. Its hard piece-mealing projects around work schedules.

What kind of projects will you be working on? I love diy home improvement projects, but thats part of what kicked off my decluttering. I had odd tools scattered all around the house, and could never find what i needed when i needed it. So i built some shelving and a workbench in the garage and organized all my tools. I then loved knowing exactly where something was and being able to get my hands on it in seconds, rather than searching the house for 15-20 minutes trying to remember where id last used it.

[KazzyK810]

Originally Posted by celstu1

DH & I put our house on the market earlier this year and in preparation to show it, we had to declutter. We are not done, we got burnt out and never really got back to it. I guess the best declutter for us is going to be when we have to pack to move! I don't keep a lot but DH is kind of a pack rat. He thinks he can repurpose everything or fix everything. I have to do a lot of going around behind him and cleaning up behind his back. He gets mad at me for a few hours, but gets over it. He gets overwhelmed by the stuff he had to clean out. I think he was actually surprised by how much STUFF he had around and after a yard sale, craigs list, about 20 trips to goodwill, the dump, with our trailer, he is starting to throw more away now.
I wish I had some tips & tricks for you, but just muddle through and you'll be so happy you did. Be realistic too, on what you are truly going to repurpose or not. I found that our good intentions of repurposing things from years ago didn't happen and I finally just got rid of those things.

Have fun and good luck to you!

Hows the house sale going?

I bought my lil house first, and then put my big house up for sale about three months later. At the time, it was nice having somewhere to move extras out of the big house to, to get it show ready. But later i regretted moving stuff to the lil house to store it. I should have got rid of a lot, rather than move it to then go through it all. Luckily my lil house is less than three miles from my old house so i didn't have far to go, and didn't have to pay to move my junk, as i moved it all myself.

It seems i only see repurposing ideas on Pinterest after I've thrown things out. I threw out a round metal tub, that used to be by my back patio door that went out to the inground pool. I kept rolled towels in it, so the kids could just grab a towel as they went outside to the pool. Couldnt think of a use for it at the lil house, so threw it out. Then i saw a tub just like it hung on a garage wall, with the sprinkler and connectors inside the tub, and the hose wrapped around the tub for winter storage. What a great idea! Only now, no metal tub.