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Decluttering your home

j*oono — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:16:37 GMT

Is Peter Walsh selling on ebay or something?

I just saw him convince an old bloke that he should declutter his books and the man wanted to keep a hard back copy of a James Bond book by Ian Fleming and he got him to throw it in the donate bin.

Does he know how much Ian fleming novels can sell for on ebay?

Hmmmm

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ecar3483 — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:27:43 GMT

The man obviously has no appreciation of literary classics.

Or he's got an assistant waiting to pounce on the bin the moment everyone's backs are turned...

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springyzone — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:14:40 GMT

I've never seen that show but I have seen others (such as selling houses Australia) where they have this enormous skip and the producers persuade the owners to put just about everything into it.

Fair enough, some people do horde a lot of junk. But I have sometimes seen things thrown out that could raise a few dollars at a garage sale or on ebay, and often it isn't as if we are talking about people who are wealthy either, they could do with the extra cash.

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serendipityricho — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:45:42 GMT

Ive got some good stuff from skips and dumpsters.

Havent put much in one......................................................Richo.

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j*oono — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:55:37 GMT

Peter Walsh even gets them to do the sorting. He has one box for rubbish, one for donating and one to keep.

Oprah Winfrey has a lot to answer for.

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debra9275 — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:56:49 GMT

I don't want him at my place Joono

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j*oono — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 02:00:52 GMT

He can come and sort out the boys rooms though.

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electric*mayhem*band — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 02:01:13 GMT

@serendipityricho wrote:
Ive got some good stuff from skips and dumpsters.

Havent put much in one......................................................Richo.

You're in good company, Richo. TV's Michael Hogben, (auctioneer and antique dealer), claims he's furnished most of his house from things he salvaged from skips. Well that's what he says, anyway.

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zanadoo_56 — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 00:47:35 GMT

@j*oono wrote:
Is Peter Walsh selling on ebay or something?

I just saw him convince an old bloke that he should declutter his books and the man wanted to keep a hard back copy of a James Bond book by Ian Fleming and he got him to throw it in the donate bin.

Does he know how much Ian fleming novels can sell for on ebay?

Hmmmm

First edition Ian Fleming books can fetch really high prices (according to Antiques Roadshow anyway). Maybe it wasn't a first edition, but that doesn't mean it's junk. I've got a house full of books and very few of them are worth real money but I like reading them so they would be staying.

I'd like someone to come along to my place and provide better ways to store what I have. That's not to say some stuff can't be thrown out, BUT, just because some celebrity cleaner thinks stuff should go because he has no appreciation of what other people have collected is not a valid reason to chuck stuff out on a huge scale IMO.

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cmcoins2000 — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 06:27:25 GMT

Could it be this show is just about decluttering.

The help of the show - is deciding - what to keep - and - what to go.

Doesn't mean what goes in the go box - goes to the dumpster.

Surely that decision is up to the householder inviting the help with the cleanout.

Perhaps advice is given on ways to economically dispose of & perhaps make a bit on the go things.

No time to include that in a declutter show.

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debra9275 — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 06:42:46 GMT

I would hope so Helen. .. I would be out at the dumpster getting my things back... Off camera of course 😀

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lloydslights — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 07:13:16 GMT

Uh-oh, someone found an old Kodak

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zanadoo_56 — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:30:03 GMT

@cmcoins2000 wrote:
Could it be this show is just about decluttering.

The help of the show - is deciding - what to keep - and - what to go.

Doesn't mean what goes in the go box - goes to the dumpster.

Surely that decision is up to the householder inviting the help with the cleanout.

Perhaps advice is given on ways to economically dispose of & perhaps make a bit on the go things.

No time to include that in a declutter show.

Hmmm.

That particular segment was certainly about decluttering (and the place was cluttered) however under the glare of the cameras the householders were told pretty firmly they can only have X amount of big boxes of whatever, X amount of small boxes etc, don't keep all your (deceased) mother's stuff etc. I'd like to think they looked like agreeing with the guy on camera....but also somewhere behind the scenes were all the momentoes they were going to keep despite him.

Those shows can be rubbish at times. Only recently these was a segment about a bookcase that was bursting at the seams with books so along came the experts to make a new one....which they duly did. At the end of the show there was the new bookcase in all its glory....full of nick nacks and not a single book on it. Absurd. I expect as soon as the TV people left the owners had to remove all the silly stuff and put back all their books. I hope they all fitted.

Many many years ago there was an Oz version of those two UK fashion type women who would get someone to throw out their old clothes and get a new wardrobe and makeover. In the Oz version I remember very well a woman who her family complained got around the house in an old 70s style (india print maybe) favourite dress when she was at home. The fact that the dress was very pretty and suited the lady was immaterial I suppose. The two experts rubbishhd her taste, pointed out the dress was fading, and in fact ripped it to bits and chucked it out along with some of her other stuff. The show went on, the lady got her new hairdo and wardrobe but there was a twist at the end. She had gone back to the shop were she had got her favourite house dress and had managed to buy an identical replacment. And there she was wearing the dress and beaming back at the camera in defiance of the so called experts. Good for her I reckon. I felt like cheering.

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azureline** — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 02:29:20 GMT

I am packing to move and decluttering as I go, I just found a box with stuff I have not seen since 2002, according to the newspapers they are wrapped in.

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imastawka — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 02:51:36 GMT

Anyhting still give you an OMG?

I love that - when you find a box of things that you loved (past tense)

and then realise you can get big bucks for it

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azureline** — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 06:00:14 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
Anyhting still give you an OMG?

I love that - when you find a box of things that you loved (past tense)
and then realise you can get big bucks for it

Oh yes!!! but the things that are worth big $ I don't think I can sell........yet.

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imastawka — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 06:17:30 GMT

Nah. I'm over the whole collecting bit for now.

I collected with the idea of selling in my twilight years.

I think I've arrived there now

I've hoarded stuff that has inadvertently become collectable, lol

Surprising really

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ooak3 — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:42:22 GMT

when we moved 3 years ago after 27 years in our first home i have been geting rid of EVERYTHING that we don't actualy use

It is a fantastic feeling the feeling of space and freedom decuttering gives you

we have so much space and empty cupboards and drawers!!

no more searching for a spot to put something new!!!! (only stuff i actualy need)

and i won't be leaving a big mess of stuff for hubby to deal with when i pop me clogs

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springyzone — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 02:11:08 GMT

I wish I could be like you. I clean out cupboards, only to see the space filled again soon after.

But you're right, if a thing hasn't been used in years it is probably not absolutely vital to keep it.

I still wish i had a spare storeroom though, just for some stuff.

My sister has a big home with 4 storage rooms on the garage level under the house. They use them all but at least her house is uncluttered.

My experiences with throwing things out has been I have often tried to sell off bits and pieces that don't raise much, only to find stuff I threw away or gave to the op shop was worth something.

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ooak3 — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 03:06:22 GMT

it has been hard to do at times our old place was decorated shabby chic and i have had to part with it all because it just does not match in a new house, i still love shabby chic but i also love the new modern look ( i must have a split personality lol)

its expensive also!!! changing everything but im just about finished still trying to get the art work but almost done