Your Guilty Cupboard of secrets..

OddjobKIA

Your Guilty Cupboard of secrets..

Well we know how well all of us on this board are at house keeping and what lovely sparkly kitchens we ahve and show home living rooms we sit down in in the evening;) SO....Do you have a cupboard that you would die of emmbbarreesseemmeenntt.(i know there is a double something in it)..if your neighbour happend to peer inside.

ragz_2

Yes but it's next to the bed and you'd all die of embarassment if you looked in there!

I do actually, my house may look tidy but everything with a door on hides a teetering mountain of many things scooped from floors and tables while "tidying"!

Olliebeak

What is it that our American cousins say? - 'I want to plead the fifth!' - or something like that .:o :rolleyes: :rotfl:

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probably the cupboard under my stairs, it gets almost everything hurled in there out of the way. Every so often I have a pal who comes to visit and she will go through it and I end up with three piles in the kitchen
1 Stuff, I really can't get rid of
2 Stuff for the charity shop
3 Stuff for the tip
She has a very minimalistic house herself, and is quite ruthless about 'junking stuff. her attitude is if you haven't used it in 6 months you never will.
I know next time she turns up she will say 'Right you don't use an electric drill so why have you got three ?' very true as I found one in another cupboard the other day and stuck it in to my 'glory hole' under the stairs .I am also wondering why I had two, unless my late husband bought an extra one.He's been dead over 5 years and I couldn't even tell you how to work one Looks like there will be two for the pile for the charity shop.

Olliebeak

I would so love to be able to live a 'minimalist lifestyle' - but I'm afraid I've inherited an 'it might just come in useful' attitude from my mother!

People KNOW that I am a hoarder and often ask me if I have something or other. Why do I always feel that I am 'duty bound' to HAVE to be able to help other people .

Hardup_Hester

I have one of those cupboards, but it's actually my spare room!!!

mudgekin

At the moment my whole house feels like that:eek: I'm just not able yet post surgery to get up and do all the things I need to. DH tries to help bless him but in reality he is the untidiest man alive and all he does is move stuff from one room to another. The vaccuming law according to DH is that only areas you walk on need vaccumed. I was talking last night how I have never had a house in a state like this in my life and with his usual pragmatic outlook he said if folks don't like it, they don't need to come. 6 months of not being able to do stuff has taken its toll

sunflower76

We have several spaces like this in our home! Shed, loft and pantry under the stairs. Evry six months or so I have a good clear out but essentially I can't bear to part with stuff that just *might*, one day, come in useful!

Olliebeak

At the moment, I've got Christmas stuff in bags/on wardrobes/on floors in the bedrooms - been there since September . Last week No.2 dgs (age7) and young niece (age5) were playing on my stairs while I chatted to their mothers. When I realised that they were gradually getting closer to the top AND that I'd left bedroom doors open, you've never seen such a scramble to get the little darlings back down again - thank God for open-plan living rooms - or I'd never have noticed where they were headed .

DianneB

Yep, but in our house it's the garage with a HUGE loft, thank goodness none of my friends ever go in there (although hubby is very keen on showing off the loft and stairs he put in to all and sundry). The oven is the place I keep my friends away from, it always needs cleaning.

belfastgirl23

I have a ROOM like that at the minute. Also one of the kitchen cupboards, the kitchen drawers and the wardrobe.

I have a busy christmas planned!