Decluttering in 2016!

[wimbly11]

I am determined to declutter our home this year. Our unfinished basement is overrun with "stuff".

We have a problem! My finance has boxes and totes and piles of things, that he has a hard time sorting through. I'm trying to convince him if we declutter his things and organize it will be so much easy on him.

I'm not innocent either. I have more clothes and shoes that have sat in my closet forever and have never been worn. The babys clothes are out of hand. Our office is a disaster,

It's time to purge!

Who's with me?

I'm starting this thread for motivation. For tips and tricks to make this process either. For general organizational talk!

Who's with me?

[Darth Penguin]

count me in...-

[walkonby]

I will cheer loudly from the sidelines for you @wimbly11
I just do not have the gumption to start anything on my own, in the past it has always been me who has initiated and done all of our declutterings, however, I have no more upper body strength and weak knees ( and now pinched nerve ) gah!!
but Lord knows it is something we need to tackle too!
I keep telling myself that when DH retires in 2...or 3 yrs ( fingers crossed! ) then I can have his undivided attention and support to start.

Best of luck!!

[lilo0003]

count me in. So far 100 items are gone from the clutter this year. my goal is 100 a month.

[Linda Evans]

YES YES YES!!
why not make some $$ while decluttering. ;-)

im filling up a box of yard sale donations. my sis is having one in june.

[macw1960]

I think we are almost decluttered here now as we moved almost two years ago. So I have been selling online and donating.

[Darth Penguin]

I think we are almost decluttered here now as we moved almost two years ago. SoI have been selling online and donating.

laughs..I still have uncluttered boxes from when we moved in 2000...

[coupon girl]

-I always have a bag to donate going at least one every 2 months-like to donate to value village as I get a stamped card and when its full I get 30% off -wish my grown kids would take some of their stuff they left behind from my basement
-plus I am selling on kijiji -sold 148.25 last year

[luvthefree]

i always have a box on the go for value village and in the past every time i dropped things off i would always end up buying things to take back home. now my goal is to drop off and come home with nothing but good feelings from the purge/good deed.

[wimbly11]

Started boxes last night, one to donate, one to try and sell. Organized two bins of baby's clothes into sizes.

Hauled one bin of finances things upstairs and told him he needs to start on it tonight. He looks skeptical. But I need his help with his things because I can't sort his paperwork etc. How do I motivate him? lol He would rather spend his free time watching Netflix. We need downtime but we need to get this moving. We moved almost two years ago and he has boxes he never unpacked. Boxes that he just threw everything into and they are in the basement taking up space and collecting dust.

He came home from driving my step daughter to dance last night and I was into my closet, sorting and throwing things away. He couldn't understand why I wanted to declutter 10:00 at night lol

[bluerose]

My old man is a hoarder of car parts he has a garage and a basement full I will not go there but I will de clutter my own stuff soon kind of putting it off a bit for now and its mostly toys and dishes.

[Mia001]

i'm with you Wimbly,
i had to do it at mom's so i postponed mine and have now lots and lots of boxes of work to do

+ i imported some of my mom's boxes....but listed everyting in them....but still need to throw some as i wan't to keep our things at the minimum....

you know we learn a lesson when we need to do this for someone else....

[lecale]

I called CP/Value Village and scheduled a pickup and they didn't show! Arrrgh, another month with boxes!

[wimbly11]

I called CP/Value Village and scheduled a pickup and they didn't show! Arrrgh, another month with boxes!

Oh no!!

[wimbly11]

I'm going to make a goal list for the weekend. Nothing too ambitious as we have so much else happening, but perhaps we can get a few things done at a time. It will all make a difference!