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Hoarding...not just on TV

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  • I have a problem with starting to get organised then tailing off. Just this week i purchased a file, a refill pad, dividers and spots (stickers) My theory was to print out calender months and work out my finances once and for all in the new year. HOWEVER the printer has decided to stop working, the file and spots etc are still in a bag going pillar to post round the kitchen (churning) and have just become kipple. My finances are no closer to being sorted as I cant print the bloody calenders. I go round in circles. I have managed to clean the bathroom and the front room (which was then trashed by 3 small people this afternoon) and and vac and mop the kitchen and make my xmas cake! Bedroom still an epic disaster BUT may persuade the Mr to Ikea sooner rather than later to rectify that because of the state ;)
    Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

    £117/ £3951.67
  • Oh and if anyone wants to make friends with my dog on facebook he is
    Elvis Lechien and he is VERY witty..........
    Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

    £117/ £3951.67
  • GreyQueen
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    :) Thanks, VJsMum. Brother and I are exactly 2 years apart (to the week) and she lost a baby between us, nearly lost Bro several times and had to take to her bed, couldn't do the same for Number 3 due to the move, 2 young children and just losing her own (foster) Mum to cancer. These things have a way of happening all at once (the move wasn't planned, it was a case of finally getting an offer from the council). Heaven knows where we'd have put Sibling or how there would have been enough money to go around, we were v. poor back in those days.

    Goldiegirl, it's hard with photos, isn't it? They've often been in the family so long and no one knows who they are anymore. About 15 years ago, after a gap of nearly 50 years, Mum tracked down her family of origin, only to find the the woman who was her bio mum's SIL in the 1940s and 1950s had recently decluttered the only photo of bio Mum known to exist. All we know is that she had black hair, brown eyes and was pretty, like Mum.

    :o Needless to say, that particular pic would have been priceless to my branch of the family, but I think when the time comes I shall be able to release pix of the family dogs from the immediate post-War years. It's a case of thinking is there anyone who might want these and the answer is often going to be nope.

    We have an old Mrs Beeton with some handwritten recipes, on old envelopes, with Grandma's writing on them. They're not festishised, they just live in the pages of the cookbook, but it's nice to bump into them from time to time. Grandma was well OS; she thought Mrs B was a bit overpriced for everyday cooking.............:rotfl:

    LiR, I love it that you cherish and keep your old horses. It says a lot about your quality. As a teen, I learned to ride on an old lag of a riding school horse (29) who was a fly old so-and-so. He was gently used but used to specialise in heaving the most enormous put-upon sigh when his rider mounted, so much so that you felt you should apologise and dismount immediately.

    He also used to amble along with his neck virtually-horizonal and a suffering mein until we got into the woods and then he'd take off with horses a quarter of his age and run like the clappers. Stagey old s0d, I loved him to bits.:D

    I have been very whacked out for days, due to being out around friends' places socialising. Not boozing, not late hours, but with ME even hanging out can take the stuffing out of you. I have been gently sifting through the kipple-layer on my small table. Tis mainly comprised of paper, mostly small bits with memos from me to me on it. There may be recipes and receipts in there, I have to be sure before trashing stuff.

    When I hit paydirt, or tablecloth, I shall try to not reload it so that the surface is instantly usable not a de facto shelf.

    Ooooohhhhh, isn't breaking the habits of a lifetime hard work?!
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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    Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • Jojo_the_Tightfisted
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    edited 5 December 2012 at 8:42PM
    Oh and if anyone wants to make friends with my dog on facebook he is
    Elvis Lechien and he is VERY witty..........

    Which one of the eight on FB is he?

    :)


    The one currently employed as the Dark Overlord of Canine Deviance?
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  • sjprmc01
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    I've been trying to think about why I 'hoard'

    I don't make a conscious effort to keep stuff, I'm good at throwing away packaging and knowing when stuff needs getting rid of, however I have a serious amount of disorganisation in my life!

    I think I must have felt deprived when young, even though I technically wasn't, I didn't have all the 'in' things like all the kids I aspired to be

    I've never been a tidy person, never ever!

    I don't actually like mess and clutter but when I do something it has to be done to perfection however when I try to sort the place out I flit from thing to thing and never actually finish one thing I've started

    Smetimes I just think there is more to life than housework (I know what I have to tackle is so much more than just 'housework' but you know what I mean)

    My mess however does get in the way of things, it means I can't find a lot of things when I need them (despite them supposedly having places to be) and means a lot of the time I'm rushing around and chasing my tail


    Today I've done no de richarding I wrapped some Christmas presents (after pulling all of them out) and then had to find hiding places for them again!
    No more unnecessary toiletries Feb 2014 INS: 24 UU: 13. Mar 2014. INS: lost count, naughty step for me! UU: 8
  • suzitiger
    suzitiger Posts: 947 Forumite
    edited 5 December 2012 at 9:56PM
    Yes, one of them does. Pink Whistley has a penchant for sparkly evening bags with long chains or straps. She drags them around the house, sometimes even takes them outside. She has been known to carry her toy mouse in them.:o. She is a particular creature. She also answers Skype or the old Amstrad phone we used to have if she could see it was my mother. Which was especially annoying if I had also seen it was my mother and was not answering!

    OmGeeeeeee your cat sounds amazing and I want her! :rotfl:
    Plus i want your kitchen, if you ever need a cat/house sitter i will bring round some evening bags :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    8 items put on ebay, bathroom cleaned, sitting room being cleaned, oven on for xmas cake, fruit been soaking overnight for cake, dog walked, list written for the rest of todays chores. House in chaos due to furniture shifting BUT I feel very in control. One item I puton ebay that has been in a carrier bag in the back room for OVER A YEAR has 17 watchers within 12 hours of listing it!!! I need to go to Ikea and buy some storage boxes so at least all the piles of stuff I turfed out of the drawers will be hidden in neat boxes, and not where they currently are which is in hideous piles all over my bedroom that are making me hyperventilate everytime I look at them! Also on list CS run this afternoon........
    IM ON A MISSION :)

    Woooooo go Iris the dragon, its great once you get started isn't it? :-)
    GreyQueen wrote: »
    We have an old Mrs Beeton with some handwritten recipes, on old envelopes, with Grandma's writing on them. They're not festishised, they just live in the pages of the cookbook, but it's nice to bump into them from time to time. Grandma was well OS; she thought Mrs B was a bit overpriced for everyday cooking.............:rotfl:

    LiR, I love it that you cherish and keep your old horses. It says a lot about your quality. As a teen, I learned to ride on an old lag of a riding school horse (29) who was a fly old so-and-so. He was gently used but used to specialise in heaving the most enormous put-upon sigh when his rider mounted, so much so that you felt you should apologise and dismount immediately.

    He also used to amble along with his neck virtually-horizonal and a suffering mein until we got into the woods and then he'd take off with horses a quarter of his age and run like the clappers. Stagey old s0d, I loved him to bits.:D

    Greyqueen the cookbook sounds great, my mum has my great great aunts cookbook and the recipes are priceless, it is just one my gg aunt had compiled herself and I love looking through it.

    I am loving all the stories about the lovely old horses, keep them coming, they are chicken soup for the soul :)

    Today I have done a bit of decluttering, I put a few things on freecycle and one person even brought me round a box of chocs to say thank you, how sweet! Much better than having clutter!

    Oh...btw do we not say clutter on here, is it kibble or richard that I should be saying? :p Where does richard come from?
    Don't turn a slip up into a give up:D
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  • sjprmc01
    sjprmc01 Posts: 917 Forumite
    I normally say clutter but used the term Richard I think, for the dirt time today.

    Clutter sounds like a mess, and whilst my house is a mess, it's more than just clutter if you get what I mean.

    Richard is the guy from the ch4 documentary who is an extreme hoarder and can barely move in his house, who couldn't bear to get rid of ANYTHING
    No more unnecessary toiletries Feb 2014 INS: 24 UU: 13. Mar 2014. INS: lost count, naughty step for me! UU: 8
  • lostinrates
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    You can say Richard, kipper or clutter.. Or anything else ypu like!

    My animals are cards, I will give them all that. Cat sitters are welcome, but there are the dogs and the chickens and the geese and whatever else is passing through too ( no hedgehogs this year though, phew!)
  • Goldiegirl wrote: »
    There's lots of photos. I will keep all the family ones, but there's photos of friends that I have no knowledge of. But I can't just throw them out, they are images of people who had a life! I've noticed on eBay there is a market for old photos, so I may put them for up for auction, so at least someone will appreciate them
    As a minimum please at least write "friend" in soft pencil (always pencil) lightly on the back, in case you don't get around to disposing - this will save anyone in the future from anguishing over which family member they might be

    DD has old photos of B/W people she has bought at bootsales - she "rescues" them and keeps them cherished

    Well done on the listing idris! I was shocked at my 3-figure Paypal balance, then realised it was in credit - too used to bills!

    Watched an auction end tonight for a tatty old rare item - went from £28 to for £47 in the last second - I'd just managed to list one of my own so it was suggested to the unsuccessful bidders and got an immediate bid of £20 - PS thanks for the tip of doing 5-dayers

    suzitiger - choose whatever word suits you - carp is quite popular too - to me clutter is something in use/recent like unpacked shopping after a supermarket trip, my hoard is say my un-disposed-of-because-I-may-repurpose packaging or bargain toiletries while kipple is the layer of catfluff that descends on either of the above/pile of small objects that prevents anyone sitting on the sofa :rotfl:the important thing is to let it see daylight, not worry what you call it
    You never know how far-reaching something good, that you may do or say today, may affect the lives of others tomorrow
  • [PS, proud moment, DD solemnly gave me an empty box today. I think she trusts me to use it to send off eBy goods and not hoard it!]
    You never know how far-reaching something good, that you may do or say today, may affect the lives of others tomorrow
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