De-cluttering, the never-ending process

I took photos of ours calendergirl. Using my phone the magic of the cloud added them to our Mac which is backed up to a hard drive. It took a couple of months over a winter. I could access at any time on the phone from cloud. The reality is I don’t. I hadn’t looked through the cards for over 20 years. Mr C had no interest in them at all. The same approach was taken to other cards. From three large boxes and one small one I’m down to one small, pretty box. This has a few with our parents and my grandparents writing in, some our children and grandchildren made for us plus a very few that have special meaning. Before tackling it I asked the family if they were interested to see any. They weren’t, but then we have very practical sons. It worked for us, not for everyone I know.

Photos of some things weeded out are in a small album. Bits and pieces from family homes, some ornament type things we bought and moved on from, a few toys. I do glance at this from time to time, memories are triggered which make me smile. It works for us, again it’s not for everyone.

Thanks cornergran.

Good advice.

I also have a scrapbook with DS’s birth congrats cards and his early birthday cards. (He is now 48!).

I shall ask him if he wants them but suspect what his reply will be. 😂

More for the recycling, but oh, it so takes me back.

^What have any of you done with your own engagement and wedding day cards?
^

I had been thinking, "what had I done with mine"?
Then remembered I havent done anything much with them up until now.
I started emptying out the large drawer. Managed to empty out about 1/4 of it, then moved onto something else.

I shall be keeping them.

fancythat

Well, I have sorted mine neatly, put them in separate plastic folders.

They are now in a large plastic storage box, alongside my wedding day ‘lucky’ tokens, given to me when I came out of church, (Are they still a thing?)

I intend to put any other wedding day memorabilia in said box, at least it will all be together and ready for disposal when I have got some more pressing ‘stuff’ sorted.

Should add, I have disposed of spare invitations, order of service cards etc. They are now residing in the drawer where I keep scrap card for shopping lists.

Waste not, want not.

I had to buy new printer cartridges for my printer. I spent hours recently trying to copy something only to eventually realise that it was because one of the cartridges had run out. What’s annoying is having to download instruction manuals instead of having a paper version, as I had to keep leaving the page I needed to copy to find out why it wasn’t working. I decided to buy a box of new cartridges so I know I always had them. I’ve had old cartridges floating round the house for ages and I knew that if I bought new ones from Rymans they would take the old ones. I did hesitate once in the shop, thinking that, maybe, some of them were still usable ( they were from another printer that isn’t wireless free) but then said, ‘right, take them all’. I felt quite proud of myself for doing it. Mind you, I went to a picture framers to get a couple of pictures framed, only to buy a sweet little oil painting that I have no wall space for and also needs framing. It’ll end up in the archives with the other wall less pictures.

Woman’s Hour today - all about decluttering.

That could be interesting. Thanks,

DH and I off to ‘sell’ at a local car boot sale today, first one of the season.

Sun is shining at the moment, so that’s always good.

Debating what to charge for my ‘treasures’, difficult.

Ask too much, sale lost. Ask not much, quick sell, then wonder if too cheap?

All depends on whether you want to bring certain items home or not.

Will post later how we got on.

🤞

Good luck!

Home from the car boot sale.

We did well, made £100 or so, less £5 pitch fee.

DH had sorted a lot out from the garage, including ‘vintage’ tools that had belonged to my dad, and some of them went.

Today was different to some we have done, several items went for £5, instead of 50p and £1, which has often been the case.

One particular chap bought quite a bit, no doubt a dealer, but he wasn’t pushy or rude, he was a pleasure to deal with.

Of course not all the stuff went, some will go to the charity shop, but certain bits I will keep to have another go next year.

It was a lovely sunny day, there were a lot of booters and a lot of buyers, but it had the feel of a traditional car boot sale, not heaps of commercial stalls which is so often the case,

All sounds good.

I started a continuation thread

www.gransnet.com/forums/house_and_home/1347134-De-cluttering-still-at-it-still-no-end

and yes, I am still at it

Ah yes. Forgot that.