Hoarder needs help.

1sue23

I just kept a few things that belonged to my mum ,things like her bus pass 'she loved to travel by bus 'and two cards one birthday the last one she sent to me and the last Christmas card ,her tried and tested cookery book all cut out of magazines and hand written .
I have my sons baby grow ,a pair of booties my daughters , and a small teddy ,and the feeding chart and maternity notes , silly little things like, a bar of chocolate a gift from my granddaughter wrapped with a ribbon ,an empty bottle of perfume called Sukina memories of my teen years a few treasured hand made cards off the children a childs reading book my sons favorite and that is about it really .
The way I look at it if we all kept everything we and previous generations had been given then imagine what the house would look like and knowing my children all my stuff would just end up on the tip so I am saving them a job .

nearlyrich

I had to laugh when that ad came on with the plastic boxes a few mins ago it's a well know fact that if it's in a plastic box it's no longer clutter (NOT) LOL

belfastgirl23

For the sewing machine, you could try these guys (assuming it's a treadle machine)

http://www.tfsr.org/

We have a similar org called Tools for Solidarity in NI and they do a fantastic job of refurbing old machines for use by craftspeople in Africa (think it's mostly uganda these days). They might well take the material as well.

Ditch the dress, ditch the cutlery, ditch the teaset (charity shops obviously) - why hang onto something you don't need when it might make someone else happy? Your 'they cost money' argument doesn't actually work unless you USE them and at least this way someone else will get the good of them.

Dump the mirror, you have the photo.

Records and books are judgement calls but there's bound to be some c**p in the middle of the useful stuff so go through it and get rid of at least half.

Good luck.

Course I say all this and DH is an inveterate hoarder so our loft is groaning with his carp plus one box of mine

1sue23

aliasojo wrote: »

I want to be like this.

But your post has just reminded me of an old brown small suitcase that belonged to my Father during the war...that's up there too. :rolleyes:

treasure the suitcase and just put some very special things in it wrap them nicely with tissue paper and ribbon and they are then there to be treasured and enjoyed .

belfastgirl23

PS Crutches? What are you? Pollyanna? Get rid

aliasojo

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

For the sewing machine, you could try these guys (assuming it's a treadle machine)



Records and books are judgement calls but there's bound to be some c**p in the middle of the useful stuff so go through it and get rid of at least half.

It's not a treadle it's electric.

I have a copy of 'The Sound of Music'. :rotfl:

aliasojo

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

PS Crutches? What are you? Pollyanna? Get rid

I might fall and hurt myself.

:rotfl:

Valli

I knew I was storing up trouble for the future when I started to tell my kids THEY couldn't throw out/get rid if it had been bought for them by someone else ('you can't throw that XXX bought it for you')...
Did we REALLY need BINBAGS full of soft toys?
But I have seen the error of my ways now.
I have declutttered and it has helped enormously...

Spirit_2

When we moved here (1994) the first weekend Mr Spirit boarded out the loft and put all the boxes we had moved from the loft of our previous house into it. We had lived in that house for 10 years and some of the boxes had come from the loft in our first home.

All of the boxes are still up there..........we have never got around to sorting them out. We have added further junk to it and now feel we would have to be being very strong willed even to make a start. It does'nt bear thinking about. This thread is making me anxious.

I think you have been very brave:T Well done.

Edinburghlass_2

Like Spirit I moved boxes from my old house to this house 18 years ago, they are all at the back of the attic, now I have new stuff from my niece before she left for Oz, I thought all of these had gone for good and was pleased to discover she thought I might want them.
My Dad's file contained all his school certificates, further education certificates, all his army papers, the letters from Buckingham Palace when he got an MBE, his retiral letters and finally all the letters my Mum got from when he died.


It also included the little rocking horse my Grandpa made for us as kids which surprised me it was still about as my sister chucked everything when she sold the "family" home.