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October Declutter - Day 2, 9th October 2008
Day 2 turned out a load more stuff that had been hanging around making the place look untidy for months.
Clockwise from left hand corner:
A cross stitch kit that had been given as a free gift with a magazine. It wasn’t a design that I would usually stitch and had been stashed away in a drawer. Thought it was about time I let go: this was Freecycled to another crafter.
A white padded cot bumper. This was acquired when I got a cot from Freecycle for my grandson. I didn’t really want the bumper but took it as a favour. Maybe I should learn to say no! This was given with the bag of clothes to a Freecycler who was giving it to the National Childbirth Trust for one of their sales to raise funds.
A 3kg box of biological washing powder. Nothing wrong with it, it’s just that I changed to liquid tablets when I bought my new machine so the powder wouldn’t bung the pipes up. I Freecycled this too.
A Happy Birthday gift bag. My daughter gave me my birthday present in this last weekend, and it is too nice to throw away (not that I would anyway). It is one of my friend’s 50th birthday next week, and this is the ideal size to put her present in, so I am going to re-use it.
A quarter tin of baby milk. This was left over from when my grandson was first born. He was on this milk until he was put on a higher calorie milk by the hospital. This was left over, and I didn’t think anyone would use an opened tin of powdered baby milk. I kept it for about 3 months but couldn’t think of what to do with it, so I tipped the powder into my green cone food digester, and my mum will have the empty tub for her craft room.
A china teapot. I used to collect teapots and had them all on top of the kitchen cupboards, till I got bored with dusting them! Most of them were given to a charity earlier in the year, but this one I found hiding in a box in the garage. I am going to give this to the Oxfam charity shop.
A burgundy furry hat and gloves. I rescued this from a jumble sale way back in February. It was brand new and had been given to a local school’s jumble/boot sale. Anything not sold at the end of the sale goes to a dealer who gives the school a pittance for it. I thought I could use it for something, but as I never wear hats and the gloves are too tight, I am going to give it to a lady who collects clothes for a homeless shelter in London.
A pile of magazines that I had read and cut bits out of for my collages. I could put these in the roadside recycling bags, but I offered them on Freecycle and another crafter is taking them.
Two letters addressed to the previous owner of our house. We moved here in April 1998, so I reckon after 10 ½ years they should have told everyone that they’d moved! I re-addressed these and put them back in the post.
Finally – a big bag of boy’s clothes that I received from another Freecycler for my grandson. They advertised them as age 6 – 12 months, but most of them were older, and far too big. My grandson is tiny for his age and will take a year or so to grow into them, so I gave them to a Freecycler who is going to take them to a National Childbirth Trust sale.
And that was Day 2’s offerings. This is easy! I still have loads more places to look for stuff so I am confident that I can do 10 days’ worth of decluttering.
October Declutter - Day 2, 9th October 2008
Day 2 turned out a load more stuff that had been hanging around making the place look untidy for months.
Clockwise from left hand corner:
A cross stitch kit that had been given as a free gift with a magazine. It wasn’t a design that I would usually stitch and had been stashed away in a drawer. Thought it was about time I let go: this was Freecycled to another crafter.
A white padded cot bumper. This was acquired when I got a cot from Freecycle for my grandson. I didn’t really want the bumper but took it as a favour. Maybe I should learn to say no! This was given with the bag of clothes to a Freecycler who was giving it to the National Childbirth Trust for one of their sales to raise funds.
A 3kg box of biological washing powder. Nothing wrong with it, it’s just that I changed to liquid tablets when I bought my new machine so the powder wouldn’t bung the pipes up. I Freecycled this too.
A Happy Birthday gift bag. My daughter gave me my birthday present in this last weekend, and it is too nice to throw away (not that I would anyway). It is one of my friend’s 50th birthday next week, and this is the ideal size to put her present in, so I am going to re-use it.
A quarter tin of baby milk. This was left over from when my grandson was first born. He was on this milk until he was put on a higher calorie milk by the hospital. This was left over, and I didn’t think anyone would use an opened tin of powdered baby milk. I kept it for about 3 months but couldn’t think of what to do with it, so I tipped the powder into my green cone food digester, and my mum will have the empty tub for her craft room.
A china teapot. I used to collect teapots and had them all on top of the kitchen cupboards, till I got bored with dusting them! Most of them were given to a charity earlier in the year, but this one I found hiding in a box in the garage. I am going to give this to the Oxfam charity shop.
A burgundy furry hat and gloves. I rescued this from a jumble sale way back in February. It was brand new and had been given to a local school’s jumble/boot sale. Anything not sold at the end of the sale goes to a dealer who gives the school a pittance for it. I thought I could use it for something, but as I never wear hats and the gloves are too tight, I am going to give it to a lady who collects clothes for a homeless shelter in London.
A pile of magazines that I had read and cut bits out of for my collages. I could put these in the roadside recycling bags, but I offered them on Freecycle and another crafter is taking them.
Two letters addressed to the previous owner of our house. We moved here in April 1998, so I reckon after 10 ½ years they should have told everyone that they’d moved! I re-addressed these and put them back in the post.
Finally – a big bag of boy’s clothes that I received from another Freecycler for my grandson. They advertised them as age 6 – 12 months, but most of them were older, and far too big. My grandson is tiny for his age and will take a year or so to grow into them, so I gave them to a Freecycler who is going to take them to a National Childbirth Trust sale.
And that was Day 2’s offerings. This is easy! I still have loads more places to look for stuff so I am confident that I can do 10 days’ worth of decluttering.