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23 Jan
8:19pm, 23 Jan 2025
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GordonG
thanks all for your suggestions
24 Jan
7:32am, 24 Jan 2025
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TeeBee
Sorry if I've missed it, but have you tried freecycle (trash nothing) or Olio. I find just about everything I put on those sites goes.
24 Jan
7:37am, 24 Jan 2025
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Diogenes
Kittenheels Kath wrote:Speaking as a former head of museum collections (and librarian), please do give local history groups first refusal on things like diaries and photographs. They will be best placed to make the disposal decision without rendering such things 'lost to the nation.' I'm thinking of the fabulous Victoria Wood film based on an 'ordinary' woman's diaries, but the name escapes me.


Housewife 49, Kath
24 Jan
11:03am, 24 Jan 2025
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Kittenheels Kath
That's it! Thanks Dio.
24 Jan
12:03pm, 24 Jan 2025
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GordonG
TeeBee wrote:Sorry if I've missed it, but have you tried freecycle (trash nothing) or Olio. I find just about everything I put on those sites goes.


yeah thanks TeeBee, i did try Freecycle and was surprised not to get any interest. They're all "fully working" chairs and I'd have thought someone could have made use of them.
24 Jan
12:15pm, 24 Jan 2025
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jdawayinamanger
After trying freecycle I feel no guilt taking things to the tip. Though depending on the item, we have some good charity shops too. But dining chairs seem the classic example of an item that everyone has and no one wants!
24 Jan
1:06pm, 24 Jan 2025
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Welshpoppy
What about next door neighbour App?
Or drop off at recycling shop if you have one
25 Jan
8:53pm, 25 Jan 2025
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Lizzie W
Today my aunt & I opened my late mum's box of family history info & photos & items. Anything from congratulations received on my birth and her engagement, my brother's 6th form report and my school photos, to a letter from the air force to bereaved parents in war time, my great great grandfather's book of common prayer, medals, many partial family trees, diaries, receipt from an auction late 50s, birth/marriage/death certificates, note that a distant cousin died on the Titanic, and the one I did know about: a relative was a chef to Queen Victoria (and published recipe books).

It's fascinating, but how do you organise & store it! I might have to get someone in to sort out the family trees.
25 Jan
9:20pm, 25 Jan 2025
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EvilPixie
Wow that’s amazing

I took my box of stuff to charity today
25 Jan
9:25pm, 25 Jan 2025
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Night-owl
I decluttered a box of shortbread.
Was a Christmas present and while l love shortbread I knew I wouldn't eat it all before it expires so gave it to an upstairs neighbour

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Help advice and support for declutterers

Special May Challenge

theminimalists.com

".... This month, each of you must get rid of one thing on the first day. On the second, two things. Three items on the third. So forth, and so on. Anything can go! Clothes, furniture, electronics, tools, decorations, etc. Donate, sell, or trash. Whatever you do, each material possession must be out of your house—and out of your life—by midnight each day."

Spreadsheet (thank you mad4purple)
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