Two bags to the charity today. I keep ‘helping’ the parents de-clutter by taking some things from them to sort. If we say that will wear/keep for gardening clothes then the offerings are more forthcoming. I think it’s a mindset of “too good to throw out” combined with thinking taking to charity is that. I feel good about using the charity shops as it makes them a few bob.
Slight issue though… I always seem to BUY something in the charity shop. To be fair, jigsaws are good value and then I take them back.
The hardest thing at the moment is about a dozen unused glasses cases. Specsavers gave them out like sweeties. I can see why they charity shops would be leery about taking them but they're clean. I'll bin them next week but it's hard.
I With all the stuff I've taken to the charity shop, I only ever bought a book there. I never finished it. However, I do buy books from the second hand shops, and clothes off eBay, so I save some money. Then I return things to the charity shop. When I was working, I bought all my clothes new. Now I've retired, it is part and part.
I can't abide the smell of old books. It closes up the tubes . Unfortunately my husband is a book hoarder. I don't find this opposite remotely attractive. I'm decluttering my stuff - or trying to. His stuff is a battle for another day.
A colleague who was a bit of an odd ball let slip he regularly went to charity shops. His explanation was that it was cheaper to return a stack of clothes he had previously bought to be replaced by another stack as it saved on washing and ironing as that had all been done before going on sale.
Crikey! I make sure what I take to the charity shops is clean and in reasonable repair. I don't believe they have the facilities to wash and iron everything, so anything dirty or otherwise not in saleable condition will be sold on for rags.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I can't abide the smell of old books. It closes up the tubes . Unfortunately my husband is a book hoarder. I don't find this opposite remotely attractive. I'm decluttering my stuff - or trying to. His stuff is a battle for another day.
I love old books. Old prints and engravings too. Decluttering is a process I cannot abide, and dread facing.
I can happily declutter for my wife (and she for me). But will I let her? Not a chance!! She has learnt not to push it now. But if I find there is no room for my stuff, then . . . . I have choices to make. Either some of my collection goes, or, ..... I build an extension!!
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However, I do buy books from the second hand shops, and clothes off eBay, so I save some money. Then I return things to the charity shop.
When I was working, I bought all my clothes new. Now I've retired, it is part and part.
I'm decluttering my stuff - or trying to. His stuff is a battle for another day.
I can happily declutter for my wife (and she for me). But will I let her? Not a chance!! She has learnt not to push it now.
But if I find there is no room for my stuff, then . . . . I have choices to make. Either some of my collection goes, or, ..... I build an extension!!