Episode 213 – 10 things you’re holding onto you will never use

When it comes to decluttering there are certain things in life that are complete no brainers. In this podcast we’re going to talk about 10 things we think you will never ever use and can be decluttered today.
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[00:00:00] Ingrid: When it comes to decluttering, there are certain things in life that are complete no-brainers. In this podcast, we're going to talk about the 10 things we think you will never use and can be decluttered today.

[00:00:16] Lesley: How much fun is that? The show notes Ingrid. And how much fun is it to talk about 10 no-brainers.

[00:00:22] It was not difficult to come up with this list. Let's face it, we literally, you know, we always prep our podcast, don't we, with a, some basic info. And this was a quick fire, 10 minute prep, wasn't it? Because there are tons of no-brainers, but we've chosen some gems hopefully for 

[00:00:39] Ingrid: you today. I hope so too. And some of them take up lots of.

[00:00:42] Space for others are really small, but it doesn't matter because you know they are there in your mind somewhere. You're like, yep, I've got this in my house. Hmm. 

[00:00:53] Lesley: I'd like to. I'd like to. Yeah, I'd like to see how many, I want people to actually pop onto the show notes, put a comment on and tell us. How many out of 10 things people have got and see if anybody's got all 10.

[00:01:09] That's a, yeah. That would be a good test, wouldn't it? Yes. Or leave 

[00:01:12] Ingrid: a comment in your podcast player. We would, I mean, I would love to know this. I'll go to the show notes and leave us a comment and say, I actually have only one and be really smug about yourself. Or maybe, yep. I've got all 10 hands up. I am the one.

[00:01:27] Lesley: But the problem is, if people have been listening to us for 212 podcasts and this is their 213th and they've still got 10 out of 10 things that we consider to be no-brainers, maybe we are not having the impact that we should in English equal to us. Well, Leslie. 

[00:01:42] Ingrid: Leslie, but maybe this is the first time they're listening in, so they're like, huh, what podcast episode been.

[00:01:52] For this loss. I know. Hello, four. Where have you been? All my 

[00:01:55] Lesley: life. I know, I know. Anyway, without further ado, we need to get cracking, so let's go for and number one on 

[00:02:02] Ingrid: our list. Yes. I and I, I'm sure lots of people have this list here. I think it's kind of a no brainer, but kind of I think something which is put in a drawer and think, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:02:12] We're going to deal with it. Sometime it's old phones. I mean old technology, but old phones specifically. How often do we swap phones these days it's like crazy. And then the the old one, we're not completely sure yet, and we haven't, we're not sure if we transferred all the information and maybe the battery is dead and we can't charge it anymore.

[00:02:34] And then, Or the screen's cracked and we think, yeah, this could be used by somebody else, but I need to do something else to get this repaired. Oh, I, it's, it's not one of my favorite things to do. Les. You can probably hear by me sighing. This is like the firmly I'm going to ask my husband to do this. 

[00:02:55] Lesley: I think the problem is that we're firmly focused on the new phone, the all singing, all dancing phone.

[00:03:00] And what we don't do is we want to worry about taking care of the old one. So we took it in a drawer, as you say, and we never get to it. And then by the time we do get to it, which might be several years later, it's. Kind of not very useful to anybody 'cause it's really, really, really old technology. Mm-hmm.

[00:03:15] So we are going to urge you to dis to declutter and discard or donate those old phones now because they're kind of used to someone else. You might be able to get some money for them, which is also really important. Mm-hmm. And let's not forget also Ingrid landline photos. There are so many people these days that are taking landlines completely out the house.

[00:03:34] I've not got a landline in my house at all. And so, You can let it go. You can let the landline phones go as well. So it's not just mobile phones that we're talking about. One little caveat, I think, which I think a lot of people do want to keep is if you've got the very first mobile phone that you ever owned, that tends to have sentimental value.

[00:03:56] So sometimes old phones do have a little bit of sentimental value attached to them as well, so, but. There's a lot of phones over our lives. Sadly, we moved through phones at a rate of knots, and so, I mean, I must have had. I don't know, 20 phones. What would, what would your guess be? 10, 15 maybe? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:04:17] I'm quite old. I would say so old. I'm quite old. 

[00:04:20] Ingrid: I remember my first phone. I don't remember a lot of the phones in between, but my first phone was like a fridge in, in a bright yellow cover. 

[00:04:30] Lesley: Nice, nice, nice. So yes. Number one on our list, do discard those old phones that are sitting languishing in a drawer somewhere.

[00:04:39] Yeah. 

[00:04:40] Ingrid: Well, I've got another really good number too, Leslie. I mean, we've gone, uh, like all out here. I think because it is incomplete board games and puzzles. I mean, how frustrating when you're playing, when you're actually putting a thousand piece puzzle together and you find out you're missing one or two pieces, it's like, ah, you just don't want that.

[00:05:04] Or if you're playing a board game and you're suddenly realizing actually, Whether it's Monopoly or something else, I'm missing like a couple of counters or I'm missing a couple of the cards. One of the streets is missing a monopoly or. Half of the money seems to have disappeared. You can't then play it properly.

[00:05:21] It's really annoying. 

[00:05:23] Lesley: The problem is that you don't know that it's incomplete until you play it. Yes, this is the thing, but what we need to do is when we realize it's incomplete, know that it's not fit for purpose. And that's the thing. 'cause what we will do is we will get it out, set it up, and then think that's not complete and then put it back.

[00:05:39] So what we need to do is discard it or try, and I'm pretty sure you can find these things on eBay. Bet you, you can find missing pieces on it. Let me Ingrid's chomping at the bit to say someone, 'cause she's an absolute board game fanatic. Yeah, 

[00:05:53] Ingrid: yeah, yeah. We love it. We love it in her house. And I'll tell you, we play Rummy cup, like fanatical.

[00:05:58] We love it. Like a family gatherings on holiday. Rummy Cup is the thing. It's except the stones with a number. So we were missing. The black two. So for ages there was a paper folded up which says black two, which of course everybody knew it was the black two. And at one point it's like, this is like crazy.

[00:06:16] I'm going to see if I can find on eBay a black number two Rummy cup. I. Piece and I did, and it looked completely the same until it arrived. And it's just that little bit different because of course it's not from the original set. So now still everybody knows it's the black two, but. It's working. So yes, I've made it complete together, which made me insanely happy because board games are expensive and I just don't like wasting things as you know, I, I'd rather try and make dual men, that's kind of my thing.

[00:06:50] So I was like, if I can get a Robbie Cup stone for like a couple of pounds, I'm going to do it. So, Yeah, but we still know it's the black two. But nevermind. If you can do it with a puzzle of a thousand pieces, I think it's a little bit more tricky. I 

[00:07:04] Lesley: know, exactly. You've kind of got to do the thing to know that it's not working as a thing, don't you?

[00:07:10] That's the thing. But we do believe in complete board games and puzzles, unless you can find those missing pieces. And jigsaws, let me face it, you're not, you are not going to be able to find the jigsaw piece, are you? So if you know that it's incomplete, it needs to go, sadly, doesn't it? 

[00:07:26] Ingrid: Well, let's move on to number three, one of your favorites.

[00:07:29] We've talked about it a lot, haven't we, Leslie? So let's keep it short because I think our listeners know this. 

[00:07:34] Lesley: Yes. Appliances boxes. It's like the bane of my life. They are huge. They are cumbersome. They are everywhere, and they are kept in lofts, garages, sheds, and basements for a rainy day because everybody thinks that you need appliances, boxes, and then everyone will go.

[00:07:51] But they're really useful when you move or, but you need them if you take 'em back to the shop. And that is potentially true. Of course it might be useful to have them, but you have to look at the compromise here. So what do you want? Do you want that huge box that is stopping you from doing something else in that room or that is cluttering up your space?

[00:08:10] You might be willing to forfeit the, the fact that actually you're going to have to box it up in a different way if you take it back to a shop. The shops are not going to expect the box when it's returned, maybe for a couple of weeks afterwards to make sure you get it outta the box that it's actually working.

[00:08:24] But after that point, it's time for it to go. Don't keep these appliance boxes forever. 

[00:08:30] Ingrid: Definitely, definitely. Good one, Leslie. Good one. Let's move on to number four then. Ah, we're going back to technology. It's the wires, the cords, the spaghetti that is in drawers that nobody knows what it is for. It might even be like a broken extension cord for all we know.

[00:08:50] I mean, it's just tangled mess and oh. It's one of my least favorite things to do when I love decluttering. You know? I mean, you can throw anything at me, but court spaghetti is like, oh no. 

[00:09:04] Lesley: Yeah, exactly. But there are definitely, I think that if you get the whole family involved, this is more than you at home.

[00:09:12] You can quite quickly work out what things are for. 'cause some people have more line of sight than others don't. Some people remember that that was their old laptop cable. Or you can have the conversation to say, has anybody got a Lenovo laptop anymore? Or whatever. And then all of a sudden people are like, no, no, that one went three years ago.

[00:09:28] Or whatever. And so you can get through these things quite quickly. Yeah. So obsolete chords, albeit a. Kind of annoying process to go through it. It detract it, it, it takes down that cord spaghetti allows you then to label what things are and to get them back into control. Yeah. If there's something that you need to get in control that is cords, it's really important for you to know what these cords are for.

[00:09:53] So if you can get in the habit of putting labels on them as soon as they come in, that's super useful. But like, have I got, have I done that? No. Have you done that 

[00:10:01] Ingrid: Ingrid? Uh, on a couple, because I, I was like, okay, I need to know what my laptop charger is. I need to know what my mobile phone charger is. So nobody takes it.

[00:10:11] It's like mobile, Ingrid. And, uh, so there's a couple of things, but not. Every court in this house is labeled, but I've got a husband and a son who are both quite like on it with stuff like that. And they can tell me, you know, with, I'm like, oh, what's this? And they're like, yeah, that's this, this, this, this.

[00:10:27] And I'm like, oh, okay, fine. So yeah, I have help. I have definitely help here. 

[00:10:33] Lesley: Okay, so let's go on to number five. Another one of my kind of bug bears, I'm not going to lie with, and that is curtains that you have. Already taken down and replaced with a new set of curtains. 

[00:10:48] Ingrid: Yeah. Yes. And they're, they're big, they're gigantic.

[00:10:51] You find these lumps of fabric and you're like, what's this? 

[00:10:55] Lesley: Yes, exactly. They take up loads of space. They're quite often dusty. They're quite often a little bit old and tatty, but because typically curtains cost a lot of money, we feel obliged to keep them, and we keep them longer than we need and we think, oh, we might put 'em up at a different window or, They might come in for somewhere else or something like that.

[00:11:13] The chances are they never will. And the, the reason why we can say this with sort of certainty, with clarity is that we've seen these curtains so often sitting in lofts, basements, and sheds at client's homes, and people go, I. Why have I kept those for the past seven years thinking that I'm going to put them up?

[00:11:29] You've made a conscious decision that you don't want them in your house anymore, that you wanted to replace them. So it is time for them to go, hopefully off to a new person that can use them. And the longer that they sit well languishing in your house, the less desirable they're going to be to someone else.

[00:11:45] So old curtains that you have taken down is our number five of no-brainers that you can get rid of today. 

[00:11:52] Ingrid: Yes. And you know, charity shops frugal free cycle. You know, if they're not absolutely falling apart at the seams, you can definitely try and give them away. If otherwise, you can always donate it to the charity shopper's ranks.

[00:12:07] Don't throw 'em in landfill because in is fabric that can be reused for something. But yes, I'm with you, Leslie. Old curtains can go. So let's take a break and let's continue with our 10 things you can. Easily, easily let go of, but you're holding onto them and nobody knows why. It's not the title. You just make 

[00:12:26] Lesley: it that you just literally made that title.

[00:12:28] That is not the title of the podcast. I'm like, whatcha talking about? You just made that. I just made it up. Try with the proper title of the podcast, 

[00:12:38] Ingrid: we're going to continue with 10 things you're holding onto you will never use after the break.

[00:12:45] 

[00:12:45] Hello everyone. Welcome back to your 10 things You're Holding Onto You, but you will never use podcast. And we have just discussed the first five and we, it's a 10 things. So let's go on to number six, which is, Old pillows, we hold onto old pillows, we buy new ones because the, they've kind of gotten completely like flat and a bit yellowy, let's be honest.

[00:13:09] I mean, it's a bit manky, isn't it? But we think, oh, but maybe I'm going to have a, uh, somebody staying over. Or maybe the, I don't like the new pillow, but then we do like it, but we forget. We get the old one in our drawer or cupboard somewhere. And then when you do a bit of decluttering, you're like, Ooh. Ooh, what's this manky yellow old pillow doing here?

[00:13:29] Yes, it can go. You've got our permission. 

[00:13:33] Lesley: You can see our face. Anybody who's watching on YouTube, you can see our kind of faces of disdain. 'cause we've seen these yellow pillows everywhere and we're like, Ooh. Do you know what I mean? There's something about the passage of time as well. You know when they're on your bed and got a pillowcase, you kind of let it go.

[00:13:46] But once you take them out and they just look worse, don't they somehow? Yeah. But yeah, it's time for 'em to go. The sad thing about pillows, the really, really hard thing about pillows and the reason why people keep hold of them is because you can't easily donate them. Yeah. When you can't donate them at all.

[00:14:00] The only places that you've got a chance of donating them to really, uh, the general donation. I'm not saying there are not specialists, things that you can, but typically are. Animal shelters, but they tend to then be overrun with these things because everyone wants to donate their pillows to them. So that's, you know, there's a barrier.

[00:14:17] There's a psychological barrier in there, which stops us from donating all pillows. But yeah, sometimes we've got to just bite the bullet, and we do. There are things in our decluttering life that we have to put into landfill, but as long as we are conscious about what we're doing, and we try our absolute best, Then something sadly are just going to have to happen in that way, aren't they?

[00:14:36] And we have to kind of move forward with it. Yeah. And get it out of our homes. So old pillows, number six. What do you think, Ingrid? Yeah, I think, you know, I 

[00:14:44] Ingrid: mean, we are, we are so about recycling here and donating and giving away and all of those things that it, it, it, it hurts us to throw something away, but sometimes it's just the only way.

[00:14:57] And you have to choose yourself and your space over, you know, Not throwing something in landfill, you know, and, and I think that's, that's a hard message sometimes, but we have to choose ourselves and we do the best. We, all of us are doing the best we can, and we always try to do a little bit more. And we talk about it a lot here.

[00:15:15] And I think it's so important. And that's why we talk about free cycle and Regal and charities and all of those things a lot because we care about the environment and we want, you know, to for, for, for you to give you all these options out there that you can go, you can donate it, but sometimes it's just.

[00:15:32] Not possible. And then you have to choose yourselves and that's okay. So, um, yeah. Okay. Let's move on to number, uh, seven 

[00:15:40] Lesley: then Leslie. That's another big one actually, Ingrid, isn't it? And this is one that I bet you, I bet you bottom dollar loads of people have got this in there, 

[00:15:49] Ingrid: especially here in the UK because 

[00:15:54] Lesley: we do love a cup of tea, don't we, here in the uk And we typically do that, um, through a kettle.

[00:16:00] And what we do is, 'cause we put our kettles on all day long in the, in the uk we love our cups of tea. Um, we have kettles and we, we replace them as well when we want a new kettle. There's just something about a kettle that makes us go, well, I just put the old one in the garage 'cause it's actually still working and it's fine and I might use it.

[00:16:18] And what happens if I, if my kettle breaks, my new kettle breaks, I need to have one. 'cause how could I possibly do for three hours till I go to the local Tesco to buy a new one? How can I possibly do without my kettle? It will be catastrophic. I'm going to keep it in the garage. And it's not just kettles, it's toasters.

[00:16:36] It's. Any kind of old electrical appliances we see all the time. Don't, we're like, you decided you wanted a new one, so you need to go. Unless it's a very good reason. Of course. Sometimes, you know, I, I kept a cattle here for ages 'cause it was a good kettle. But I got one of those, um, cooker. Uh, taps, you know, those hot water taps.

[00:16:55] So I had, I did have a really good kettle and I knew that that would come in for my son, uh, at university. And so I did keep it here for a while, but I had a purpose. I was intentionally keeping that because I knew that it was going to go to a good home in a few months where I had to keep it. But really think about all those appliances that you have got languishing in your basements, uh, lofts and sheds, and see whether you really, really need them.

[00:17:16] Ingrid: I know. I mean, the cup of tea has, has a whole life of its own in this country. Lemme tell you, I mean, the. The things you see as well over the summer always is people's like, oh, I can't wait to come back from holiday and have a home brew. I'm like, the first thing I'm going to do when I get home is have a cup, a proper cup of tea.

[00:17:33] And I'm like, okay. It makes me laugh. 

[00:17:37] Lesley: We love that. We love, but to be fair, you like a cup of tea as well? Yeah, every afternoon. So I don't know why yours. Saying that about Brit, you are Dutch and you like your tea just as much as the best of 

[00:17:45] Ingrid: them. Yeah, but I mean, I don't have like 12 cups of tea. I don't have 12 cups of tea every day.

[00:17:52] Lesley: Okay. I do like our tea here in uk. Yeah. But anyway, so number seven, do discard those kettles. Or old kitchen appliances that you have replaced? 

[00:18:01] Ingrid: Yeah, they can go and they can be, um, to the extent to the recycling center because they can use all the, the stuff to build other things. So, or 

[00:18:09] Lesley: donated, like if you're still in working order, donate it.

[00:18:12] You can definitely go free cycle ole or you can, um, you can sell it maybe even if it's a good quality cattle. Yeah. So it's different things that you can do. So definitely. 

[00:18:22] Ingrid: Right. Let's go on to number eight, Leslie Notebooks. That are the wrong size. Now, we did a whole podcast about notebooks, so if you want to know even you want to delve deep in your notebook situation, I can definitely recommend listening to that podcast and we'll put it in the show notes.

[00:18:40] So look on the clutter hub.com/. 2 1 3 and I'll put a link to that podcast in. But there are notebooks and notebooks and we get given a lot of notebooks. We buy notebooks, we pick them up at at work or a conference or wherever they come into our lives. I. We like a certain notebook, and that's either with, with lines without lines, with graphic paper, with a ring, or not a ring.

[00:19:07] Different sizes. So discard all the ones that are the wrong size because they're going to end up cluttering up your cupboard. You're not going to use them because you're always going to go back to your favorite notebook. 

[00:19:19] Lesley: Yeah, definitely. And so if you do have a notebook that you know is not one of your favorite types, the chances are it's just going to sit there.

[00:19:28] Sit there and sit there and never get used. 'cause you're always going to replenish your favorite type. And so it's really important to let those go. You know, if it's, if it is paper that's come from a conference, it's a very cheap notebook. It can just go straight away into recycling. If it's something that's a little bit nicer, then it can go straight to the charity shop, because let me tell you, in the same way that you do, People love a notebook and will lap those up.

[00:19:51] Uh, but there's no point in keeping notebooks that are the wrong size for you. And we see it all the time. Yeah. People ha regularly have hundreds of spare notebooks down the Ingrid, and that is no word of a lie. So if you are in the hundreds of notebooks category, you definitely need to listen to the, that's in the show notes because that will make you sit up and think a little bit about them.

[00:20:13] Ingrid: Definitely. Right. Let's go onto number nine. Oh, I like this one. Leslie Keys. You have no idea what they're for. We find boxes of them whole baskets, random piles stuffed somewhere. And you're like, what's this? Oh, those are keys. What are they for? I have no idea. Yeah, exactly. 

[00:20:35] Lesley: But you do have to do your due diligence.

[00:20:37] Yes. You know, so you can't just willy nilly go, well that's for, I'm just going to shook it in the bin. That's not useful. So before you randomly start throwing away keys that you dunno what they're, For do try and think about the keys that you might have. Have you got keys from work? Have you got keys from somebody's house that they've asked you to look after?

[00:20:54] Um, have you got, how many keys have you got back door, front door, uh, shed keys, blah, blah, blah in your house. Really do your due diligence and try these keys out and start to put some labels on on them. So if they're, if they're not often used keys, That's not, what's that? Is that right? Held used keys. Then do label them so that you've got an idea of what they're for.

[00:21:18] 'cause we do have like odd things, don't we, for like little cabinet or antique cabinets or suitcases sometimes or things like that. And we really need to know what they're for so that they are at hand when we need them. 

[00:21:30] Ingrid: Yeah, yeah, we've got keys for like, because we've got like a bike rack for our car and there's kind of these special fiddly sets of keys that we've got for that.

[00:21:38] So, you know, we've got labeled bikes because otherwise, or we've got a lot of bikes in this house because of course I'm Dutch, so we've got a lot of bike locks, so there you go. You know, so we've got keys for that, um, as well in, in a drawer somewhere. And then labeled for which lock they go with, because otherwise, You just never know.

[00:21:57] And I actually helped one of my clients ones when we found loads of keys and we actually walked around her whole house and tried on all the keys and we actually figured it all out. And we only had like a couple of random ones left and we said, okay, let's keep those to the side now. But in a year's time, if they still are not used, then we can let them go.

[00:22:17] But if you've honestly got piles of keys, It. It is a fiddly job, but very satisfying. Very 

[00:22:24] satisfying. 

[00:22:25] Lesley: Very, very, very satisfying. Yes, exactly. So key audit required. 

[00:22:31] Ingrid: Yeah, I like that. That's good. That's good. That's good. A key audit. Key audit, yes. Oh, tell us listeners in, tell us in the comments, in the show notes, we would love to know, are you going to do a key audit?

[00:22:44] Lesley: Exactly, that's, that's the kind of thing everybody else would be like, that sounds horrific. And we are like, how satisfying would that be to label keys and check keys and see what you've got and discard keys that you don't need? That's the kind of thing that would make us very excited. Yeah. And we hope that it makes you excited too when you do your key audit.

[00:23:02] Ingrid: Yes. Yes. Oh, it's true. It's true. Oh my gosh. Leslie number 10. Now let's do number 10. It's the last one of this podcast. 

[00:23:10] Lesley: Yes. Um, number 10 is it shoes that give you blisters? If those shoes give you blisters, they're always going to give you blisters that away, something that's not miraculous. You're literally going to happen to those shoes, which is going to mean that they're going to stop giving you blisters.

[00:23:25] Now, they're also, if they're brand new shoes and they need to be broken in a little bit, that's the exception that proves the rule, of course. But if you've had them for a while and they continue to give you to pinch you, to give you blisters, to rub, to hurt, too small, too big, all of those things, then let them go because they're not serving you well and they're just causing you problems that you don't need.

[00:23:45] Nobody needs to be hobbling around in their 

[00:23:46] Ingrid: life, do they? No, uh, I, I, I'm, I'm going to come clean. I've, I've got two shoe, two pairs of shoes on the radar that I've clung onto because they're really like, nice. But I think I'm going to have to kind of go, yeah, that was a mistake. Purchase. Can't, can't do this one, can't walk in it.

[00:24:05] It's too much too big. 

[00:24:07] Lesley: Me and my friend actually, we've got this thing where we call it summer feet. You know, at the beginning of summer season when you go from like wearing trainers or boots and socks and all that, and then you start suddenly wearing sandals or open toe shoes or flip flops and you have summer feet.

[00:24:21] 'cause you, your feet are not kind of tuned into Yeah, hardcore. Kind of bare feet walking, are they? And so there are summer feet, so you, you need to go through the summer feet phase as well, where you kind of just toughen up your, your feet skin. Is that a word? So, so there are some exceptions, of course.

[00:24:43] We're not saying just check everything out. If it, if it comes to be, you know, in June and all of a sudden you wave sandals for the first time, you get a little bliss. To give a little bit more time, but if it's a repeated thing that's happened, then it's time for those shoes to go. I feel very strongly about it.

[00:24:56] I think I've got the worst feet in the world. Oh, The in the May, maybe I'm exaggerate. I think I'm probably exaggerating actually. I'm sure there are people with worse feet than me, but I do get blisters all the time and it causes real problems with my husband who moans it. 'cause I, well, I. He moans at me moaning all the time about my blistered feet.

[00:25:19] Oh. And they've got plantar fasciitis as well, which I've had for nine months. And so those two things combined, the blisters and the plantar fasciitis don't lead to a great experience when we're out walking. That's all I'm 

[00:25:30] Ingrid: saying. Well, Leslie, I'm sorry to hear about your horrible feet because it's just terrible if you can't, uh, you know, walk.

[00:25:38] Properly because it's really annoying. So yes, shoes that give you blisters are definitely on the list to let go. So listeners, this was our 10 things you're holding onto you'll never use. So let us know in the show notes. We would love to know about your key audit, your summer feed, your wrong size notebooks, your.

[00:26:00] Dead phones. Tell us we'd love to know. Dec com slash 2 1 3. Now next week. We are preparing for the festive period, so we're looking forward to seeing you then.
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Franzi says:

19 August 2023 at 8:52 PM

You've got me already at the first one! 🙂 Even though I have been listening to all of your over 250 published episodes and consider my house hold to be reasonable decluttered, I found us holding on to a forest-green land line telefon with a dial plate which we inherited when we bought our house from my husbands grandfather. Holding no meaningfull sentimental value, my husband was willing to let it go and it even sold for some money on Kleinanzeigen, a german second hand market place.
Thank you for giving such pointed advise! I love to re-listen to old episodes while waiting for a new release on fridays and thereby focusing on your "10 things" series. Most of the time, I'll find at least one thing to give away to someone appreciating it more then I do by putting it into the attic. In addition, I love the back and forth between you both when chatting away!
Best, Franzi (from Germany)

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1. Lesley says:
  
  21 August 2023 at 9:03 AM
  
  Thank you so much Franzi. So happy that you love the podcast!
  
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Sharon says:

4 December 2022 at 9:25 PM

Hi. Thank you for this podcast. Regarding old pillows. Wash them then reuse the stuffing in new door floor draught excluders or sausage dogs. Upcycling not in land fill. Just a suggestion. Thank you.

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1. Ingrid Jansen says:
  
  6 December 2022 at 5:19 PM
  
  Hi Sharon,
  What a great suggestion. Thank you for sharing with us. Now I wish I was more creative and could do these things, since I'm all about upcycling if we can.
  Thanks, Ingrid
  
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