Who is destashing in 2010?

[mrsklamc]

Busy week- I've been trying to do just ONE small thing every day, beyond normal cleaning, to stay in the groove!

Hopefully tomorrow night will kick off another full weekend of destashing!

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

to Mrs. bornkuntry

Look on Fly Lady.com . They have a good, easy read book called Body Clutter. It is exactly that -destashing your body. Great read.

No ideas for storage of bikes and scooters. My kids are now gone.

Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into that book.

I found instructions for making your own bike rack online and I think we have enough material to do it, I just have to get Dh motivated to help me since I'm not comfortable using his saw. That will take awhile.

 

[thebigkahuna]

me me me! I'm in! I'm a newbie, but I'm all about streamlining! I have ditched two (TWO!) huge garbage bags of clothes that didnt fit (all to goodwill or family that can use them) and my current focus is on paper!
bills, receipts, magazines, i seem to hang onto EVERYTHING!
thanks for all the inspiration!

 

[tracyz]

I am soooo in for this! DH just deployed a few days ago, and I've been waiting for my packrat to be gone to clear things out! It's my goal over the next couple of months to declutter.

 

[kristinw3girls]

Well, I didn't get my bedroom closet done this weekend as hoped. I got sidetracked but I intend to finish the bedroom by Sunday night. I did the 2 nightstands and computer area. Took 6 large bags to goodwill, and many, many bags to the trash man I does feel really good to get a handle on my home and life. I'm really trying to teach my girls the 15 minute rule. You can accomplish anything in 15 minute intervals. Once my home is totally done, I hope to maintain it with the good habits I'm trying to teach myself! Keep it up everyone!!

 

[acsprack86]

I'm coming out of lurker-dom to join this thread. I just got engaged during my Christmas Disney trip and am going through the stuff in my parent's house with the thought of "will I move this with me when I'm married?" If the answer is no, then I'm going to get rid of it. I'm going to try to list things on CL or eBay if they are any good, but a lot of it will probably be donated.

My family is full of pack-rats. I thought I was good at getting rid of things, but then they show back up a year later--apparently my mom decides that I didn't want to get rid of them so she kept them for me. So, I have to go through them a second or third (etc) time. Now that I'm getting married, I told her that if she wants to keep it in the house permanently when I'm gone, she can keep it but otherwise, let them go.

I got rid of my stash of dance magazines from 1998 or so to today this past week. I saved the really neat/sentimental articles and all of the things I saved don't even take up a whole magazine box. If you add up all of the magazines I got rid of, it would total over 40 years of magazines. I felt so accomplished!

Good luck to everyone!

 

[mrsklamc]

I'm coming out of lurker-dom to join this thread. I just got engaged during my Christmas Disney trip and am going through the stuff in my parent's house with the thought of "will I move this with me when I'm married?" If the answer is no, then I'm going to get rid of it. I'm going to try to list things on CL or eBay if they are any good, but a lot of it will probably be donated.

My family is full of pack-rats. I thought I was good at getting rid of things, but then they show back up a year later--apparently my mom decides that I didn't want to get rid of them so she kept them for me. So, I have to go through them a second or third (etc) time. Now that I'm getting married, I told her that if she wants to keep it in the house permanently when I'm gone, she can keep it but otherwise, let them go.

I got rid of my stash of dance magazines from 1998 or so to today this past week. I saved the really neat/sentimental articles and all of the things I saved don't even take up a whole magazine box. If you add up all of the magazines I got rid of, it would total over 40 years of magazines. I felt so accomplished!

Good luck to everyone!

I've been in your spot. You have to take the stuff AWAY from your mother's house. Take it to goodwill, take it to wherever you live to put it in the dumpster, whatever.

 

[Piglet18]

I just found this, and I am totally in! I am in the middle of working on my paper. I have taken 3 big boxes of magazines to recycling and now I went through more paperwork and have 2 more boxes ready to go - and I'm not done yet! When I finish the paperwork I am moving on to my bedroom... My family and DBF's family (who I live with) are all packrats. So we not only have OUR stuff, but also lots of handmedowns from them!

 

[delmar411]

Sold about another 100 comic books yesterday (still have about 2500 to go) and awaiting more paynments totaling another almost 200 dollars!!!

All of this money goes towards our 2011 WDW trip as I have the 2010 trip already paid for from stuff I sold last year and the summer job I took last summer.

wow great job!!

If you don't mind me asking, where are you selling your comic books?

 

[delmar411]

I like the way your phrased that "destashing my body" I am working on that since New Years, too, and am also down 5 lbs .

We had a warm front go through with some beautiful spring-like weather so I worked on my garage today. I listed a bunch of stuff on CL for free. I have to wonder, if they aren't worth anything to sell why on earth did I keep them for so long . I hope the lady that's supposed to pick them up shows up soon.

The main problem I have in there right now are all of the bikes and scooters. Does anyone have a good budget storage solution for those where the kids can still get them out? The bikes especially are a pain because some of them don't have kickstands (the little ones) so they lay down and the ones with kickstands fall all the time. I don't want to fold up the scooters because it's too hard for the kids (and sometimes me) to unfold them.

Have you seen those racks that attach to the garage ceiling? You lower and raise the bikes on them. Your bigger kids are old enough to work them I'm sure and can help out the younger ones or to simply just be in charge of storing them all at the end of each day, yk?

 

[delmar411]

I have a few goals this week:
get all the school supplies/office supplies put away where they belong (I have a dresser in the front room that holds it all and the TV sits on top of it)

finish sorting the paper clutter

deal with the art bins ~ pull them out of ODD's room, organize by use/type of craft, find a better home than DD's closet since she's getting into them and making a mess,

I have not gotten to my list this week but I did:

get all the too young/not using books donated to the kids schools. Also got all the wrapping paper tubes brought over to the preschool.

and I got 4 fleece blankets made for GAD. I have 4 more of those to make before Tuesday night plus I have a 2page paper to write for school plus 3 chapters in various books for several classes plus a saturday morning class for a few hours plus some homework to work on. Time is something I don't have a lot of! LOL

and I wonder why I'm so tired at night??

 

[OceanAnnie]

I donated a bag of Spring clothes (kids & adults) today. That was the tip of the iceburg. I have bins to go through and I'm trying to work up a momentum.

 

[comicguy]

Sold another 25 comics for 30.00

 

[Vickibean]

Another van load of stuff sent to the thrift shop here.....clothes, xmas and other misc.

DBF will be moving in over the next 6 months and we have to combine 2 houses into 1.

 

[neatokimmo]

So I've been slacking. But tomorrow I am taking a truck bed full of stuff to Salvation Army and setting up a pick up time for the big stuff. I've got 175 line items on my itemization list so far and I'm sitting here looking a pile the size of my recliner still to do. Oh ya, an I still have a 2 car garage to work through.


Yikes

 

[OceanAnnie]

The kids and I did lots today. They sorted through videos to keep, and to donate. I have a good size box to donate. I have a ton of stuff to donate from our laundry room. For some reason parts of that room have become a catch all. Not even done with that room yet. Did clear off some counter space.

I found some stuff to just throw away and also to recycle. Nooks, crannies and top shelves were cluttered. Looking better now. We also worked on a closet. Tired!

 

[neatokimmo]

I took in 19 trashbags full to SA today. They'll be coming to the house next Sat to pick up the big furniture and appliances. Woot!

 

[dtr_angel]

I'm coming out of lurker-dom to join this thread. I just got engaged during my Christmas Disney trip and am going through the stuff in my parent's house with the thought of "will I move this with me when I'm married?" If the answer is no, then I'm going to get rid of it. I'm going to try to list things on CL or eBay if they are any good, but a lot of it will probably be donated.

My family is full of pack-rats. I thought I was good at getting rid of things, but then they show back up a year later--apparently my mom decides that I didn't want to get rid of them so she kept them for me. So, I have to go through them a second or third (etc) time. Now that I'm getting married, I told her that if she wants to keep it in the house permanently when I'm gone, she can keep it but otherwise, let them go.

I got rid of my stash of dance magazines from 1998 or so to today this past week. I saved the really neat/sentimental articles and all of the things I saved don't even take up a whole magazine box. If you add up all of the magazines I got rid of, it would total over 40 years of magazines. I felt so accomplished!

Good luck to everyone!

I've been there too! I've been married for almost 2 years now, and I still haven't completely moved out of my parents house. We lived in an apartment for about 6 months before we bought our house last year, so when I moved out I left a lot of stuff at home. My dad is a serious pack rat, and I keep finding stuff at their house that I thought I threw out a long time ago. It's a long process, but since my house is de-stashed and clutter free, in my free time I go there to work on the stuff I left behind. I got a long done over winter break, but my destashing project is on hold now that school has started again for me. Good luck getting it done before you get married, and congratulations on the engagement!

 

[Jennia]

Gotten quite a bit done this weekend, I even made my dh take a "before" photo of our playroom so I could show progress once it's done later this week! WOW it was SO awful! For a while, we were using it more as a junk room and it was so bad dd couldn't even play in there. =( But now it's mostly clean, and I've taken a few bags of stuff out to get rid of/sell at the consignment sale in April.

 

[bigtinklover]

Just started destashing...got rid of 2 huge bags of clothes and 1 bag of shoes...next.......the office...I should be in there for DAYS!!