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happystuff
8-8-20, 10:12am
New month, new chances to purge!
Sold the last spare tire on FB Marketplace the other day. My back deck is now cleared of old shed stuff to get rid of!!!
Teacher Terry
8-8-20, 3:24pm
That’s great happy!
Nice work, Happystuff. Sounds like you've hit a great milestone!
Had "emergency" plumbing yesterday ($$$ Ouch!!!), but did give the plumber (nice guy!) our unused rain barrel off the front porch. So... another item gone. LOL
Congrats, Happystuff on your progress.
So one big source of my clutter is that I buy stuff online then forget to return what I don't want or need. But yesterday I returned 5 things. Baby steps!
Thanks, everyone. The "one at a time" seems to be working for me. LOL.
my husband decided in July to start getting rid of a whole room full of collectibles. We have hauled these things around for over 20 years. He is selling most on Ebay and all the profits are being donated. So far maybe 50 boxes have been sent out and the shelves have empty spots. Even found two tubs of misc. stuff that I have to go thru and dispose of. My thought is if I dont know what is in the tub, it has been stored for years, then I dont need it.
Not a purge, but we went to two estate sales this weekend, and all I took away were two books and two games for Christmas presents for the grandchildren.
Was very tempted by an old sled to restore, but did not get it--went back a later day to buy it, and it was gone, so that turned out well.
Not a purge, but we went to two estate sales this weekend, and all I took away were two books and two games for Christmas presents for the grandchildren.
Was very tempted by an old sled to restore, but did not get it--went back a later day to buy it, and it was gone, so that turned out well.
I definitely find that purging makes me much more hesitant to acquire more stuff. Good for you!
After my daughter and I purged her dress-up rack yesterday, I posted a bunch of pictures of the stuff we had to give away on the neighborhood moms Facebook group. Got rid of 17 items so far that way!
I also passed on a bike I can't use to some friends.
New total for month: 23.
Passed on one more thing to a neighbor and returned two more items to stores. New total for month: 26.
Passed on one more thing to a neighbor and returned two more items to stores. New total for month: 26.
Wow, and so early in the month! I have to up my game as have been kind of stalled. Maybe today.
happystuff
8-11-20, 8:49am
Wow, and so early in the month! I have to up my game as have been kind of stalled. Maybe today.
Yes, I need to get motivated again as well. Finally got a box for the donation corner, so need to start filling it. lol.
I have promised a bookstore out of state a lot of boxes of books! This will, I think take 1/2 or less of the storage unit, but it will be a large chunk. Hurrah! Gave a bag of books to another bookstore this afternoon. Meeting a 3rd bookdealer Friday... I am determined to get out of the book business and the storage unit!
rosarugosa
8-12-20, 6:13am
That's great, NewGig!
Sold a portable air conditioner this morning. I had bought it used from a friend a couple of years ago for $100 to use in one of our bedrooms. Son moved out. I am using it for a guest/craft room now and ended getting darker curtains which has helped keep it cool. I never did use the air conditioner! Posted it last night on Facebook Marketplace for $125. Got lots of responses. Sold it this morning for $125 and have a nice empty space in a closet, too.
Teacher Terry
8-13-20, 3:53pm
Great Becky!
I took four items back to the store. New total for month: 30.
I have many, many items to return to stores, and I'm a little embarrassed to have you all see that, but ... it really motivates me to count them as part of my decluttering!
rosarugosa
8-16-20, 7:04am
It's great that you're doing that, EJ. Less clutter and money back in your wallet.
Got rid of a lot yesterday. A giant table that we had picked up free from a bakery, that took up so much space in the shed. A very nice dresser, an office chair, a red shelving unit, and a couple of small heaters. Put it all out in front of the house and all gone except some pallet wood and a piece of exercise equipment. Will take that to Goodwill today with two bags of small stuff and a box of canning jars.
The boxes of books go in a week. Found more flea market items and put them up for sale. Sold 2 baking racks. Not much space or $ gain, but it counts.
It’s dump day, always good.
DH is working on a customer demo, so he’s basically unavailable this weekend.
So, dump for me today and more fridge/freezer clean out. Started that yesterday.
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Also this week: shipped a large box of books to a customer in CA and donated a box of books to a local bookstore. Gave someone I met the wire bangles and 8 mugs I’d pulled from the booth. In addition to the wire cake racks, I sold a scale, some serving pieces, and bone/horn from an auction lot to be made into pens at the @ntique shop.
Teacher Terry
8-16-20, 12:26pm
Threw away a old comforter and pillow. Also have a box for the thrift store.
rosarugosa
8-17-20, 6:19am
DH and a friend cut down some dead hemlocks. They cut the wood into small lengths and we put it on the street corner. Two different people came along and took it for firewood.
iris lilies
8-17-20, 11:21am
Sigh. flaky FB people.
Someone ran a “wanted” ad for heart backed vintage chairs. Well how’s about that! I just happen to
own two, and while I am fond of them (they spark a wee bit of happiness tho not joy) I could get rid of them since in my new abodes, Victorian furniture is not the deal.
Person was enthusiastic and wanted to come to see them after Li sent photos. Then dropped off face of earth. I suppose my firm price of $75 each might have turned her off. I think market price is $60 to $85.
I am also trying to find a home for gallons of organically grown red grapes from our
hermann house. Free! You would think home wine makers would respond, but am not getting queries but for one person who said he would take them but has not shown up to get them.
Here are heart backed chairs, they are sweet:
3395
Teacher Terry
8-17-20, 12:45pm
Cool chairs. I always ask more than I want and then come down in price.
DS took a sofa to my DD for her college apartment about an hour away. I did buy a replacement reclining loveseat for that space. However, same DS is moving to a new apartment next month with a new roomie. I asked if he needed a sofa. Yes, he does. So, I'm offloading my other 3 seater to him. That one will NOT be replaced.
I've been on a bit of a de-cluttering kick lately, and making a little side money: on our locals FB page sold my old Thermarest camping pad the other day for $25, I just sold K's backpacking Thermarest today for $20, and I am giving away a pair of new jeans that K bought online but got the wrong size (I would have sold them but he insisted on giving them away to whoever they fit).
I just basically did a trade on a beautiful, handmade travel guitar that was gifted to me by my employers a few years back. The guitar never really worked out for me (it's kind of impossible to pick out a random guitar for a guitarist, as we have specific wants and needs that a lay person wouldn't really know about). My goal was to sell it on consignment and use that money to get the travel guitar I really wanted. The guitar (which was originally very expensive) never sold at the shop in Santa Fe. I then put it in an estate sale my friend was having but it still didn't sell. I finally took it to a Guitar Center in Albuquerque and they took it in and now I am getting a Taylor GS Mini with electronics and a gig bag, which is exactly what I always wanted!
My friend who owns an estate sale service also sold my 52 piece mid-century modern Towle set of sterling flatware that was my parents wedding set from the 1950's; it's beautiful but I have absolutely no need for such fancy silverware, especially in a rural place that has a lot of sulphur in the water. I was also able to sell a bunch of old jewelry that I have had for a long time that really isn't my style,. Part of me feels pangs about some of the stuff I let go but then I turn it around to how much joy it brought the buyer and that they will use it and wear it. It doesn't do any one any good when beautiful stuff is kept hidden away in drawers and jewelry boxes.
So the cash I have made will go towards house stuff. I also just bought myself an exercise bike with it!
So many flaky people on CL. I placed a freebie ad for a window blind and received a dozen "I want it; please text me" replies. I put the alley location in the ad so if they really wanted it, they would have picked it up. I have better luck with FB Marketplace as at least buyers aren't quite so anonymous.
62 boxes of books gone! It was about 1/3 of the unit. The sad thing is that means there's another 120 or so boxes I have to go through, still.
Sigh.
62 boxes of books gone! It was about 1/3 of the unit. The sad thing is that means there's another 120 or so boxes I have to go through, still.
Sigh.
That is fantastic progress!
iris lilies
8-25-20, 10:14am
I negotiated a complex little deal with one of our friends/neighbors that netted $625 for the fence fund of our park conservancy and got rid of glassware that is a burden to me.
He had always admired my St. Louis crystal stemware, he has money, so I researched sale prices on eBay and offered him a smokin’ deal:$125 per stem, he gets the tax write off, and I even threw in a couple of zucchini’s (which he did not take.)
Later today I will deliver his check to the park conservancy treasurer.
win/win
Deliver it in a basket of zucchinis. If he can take the money, he can take the squash.
iris lilies
8-25-20, 10:27am
Deliver it in a basket of zucchinis. If he can take the money, he can take the squash.
Oh he is gone with the glassware. He and his wife were over .sunday night to have drinks and snacks on our patio. He brought his own box and packing material for those stems, I didn’t want anything to do with packing them up.
Teacher Terry
8-25-20, 11:50am
Well done IL! I cleaned out a closet and filled my trunk with stuff for the thrift store and my garbage can.
happystuff
8-25-20, 7:07pm
The old SUV, that for safety purposes only went no more than 5 miles from home, just got sold (basically for scrap) and was removed today. Yay!
I have a number of items(DH's tools) for Habitat for Humanity. I must phone for an appointment under Covid rules to meet someone there to donate the items. That is today's project.
happystuff
8-26-20, 10:34am
I have a number of items(DH's tools) for Habitat for Humanity. I must phone for an appointment under Covid rules to meet someone there to donate the items. That is today's project.
Very nice! It's a perfect match - tools and house-building.
Thanks!
another box getting ready to mail, about 60 book this time...
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8/31:started going thru the boxes in the living room. One is obvious going away stock. And one, sigh, was for the bookstore delivery, last Monday. Ah well, start another pile.
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