Clutter and hoarding - help!

Edinburghlass_2

Sofa and Currie Queen, I need your help! Come out, come out wherever you are.

Today is the day I am going to start decluttering so I have started by re-reading some of this thread and am going to keep reading Judi's post until I get there. Car boot on Sunday and Freecycle the following week for whats left.

DD has started with her bedroom but unfortunately all that means is she takes out what she doesn't want and dumps it in the hall, then starts rifling back through it and decides maybe she does want to keep it after all :rolleyes:

aliasojo, three lots of ironing are lying around but unfortunately I am too much of a perfectionist to just put it into the wardrobe unironed so eventually it will have to be tackled...

Sheel

Edinburghlass wrote:

DD has started with her bedroom but unfortunately all that means is she takes out what she doesn't want and dumps it in the hall

That sounds like both of my daughters Trouble is , I have to go through it before it's chucked out or given to charity as they've been known to throw things out that belong to me :mad:

Funny you should resurrect this thread as I was meaning to because I actually did some decluttering last weekend :eek:

I was quite good and threw out a lot of stuff , some that i'd been harbouring for many years , such as some 20 year old tennis magazines Mr Sheel was doing it with me and he made me throw out items I was dithering over , although I kept a beady eye on what he was throwing out :rolleyes: To show how bad I am , I even keep stuff like boarding passes and car parking tickets from holidays but i've chucked them now! I wouldn't chuck my younger daughter's hair that i've got in a plastic bag though or both my daughter's plastic armbands from the hospital when they were born

aliasojo

Hello again all my friendly messy people.:rotfl:

I've been very good lately and I'm much better at just chucking something out these days rather than keeping it. I also file as soon as statements etc come through the door which means no more messy piles of paper all over the place. (Having said that though I still have boxes of past papers that need sorting and filed etc that I can't face.)

I too need to car boot..........but I just dont want to. I've got loads of stuff but I wish someone would do it for me. I've decided we need to raise cash so I'm going to flog loads of my bargains that I've aquired over the last year along with my books. :eek: I said in a previous thread that I would never part with my books but needs must now I think.

Like someone said (snowy I think???) I've got stuff that gets given to other people.......I've spent hundreds on stuff for others! I'm going to keep the stuff earmarked for the kids Xmas pressies but the rest I'm going to car boot......I will!

Btw.....good luck with your clearing E.......but I don't believe you'll make it past the computer desk! :rotfl:

Savvy_Sue

Edinburghlass wrote:

DD has started with her bedroom but unfortunately all that means is she takes out what she doesn't want and dumps it in the hall, then starts rifling back through it and decides maybe she does want to keep it after all :rolleyes:

Am I confusing you with someone else, or did this happen once before and you tripped over a rabbit hutch and broke your ankle?

Edinburghlass wrote:

aliasojo, three lots of ironing are lying around but unfortunately I am too much of a perfectionist to just put it into the wardrobe unironed so eventually it will have to be tackled...

Well you could put it in a separate bit of the wardrobe just to get it out of the way. It can't hurt to hang it up unironed - as a non-ironer I always used to hang wet shirts and blouses onto hangers to dry and got away with that. Now I have a tumble drier I just try to get stuff out and hung as quick as possible. There is no need to iron!

Edinburghlass_2

Sadly it was me but it was guinea pig cages and a broken wrist

I'm not a fanatical ironer but I do admit to the fact that I have to do my own myself as no-one can do it as well as me and I don't iron everything but today I did manage to enthuse my daughter to iron her own and put it away.

That to me is the worst bit about ironing, like shopping I hate the putting away :rolleyes:

Savvy_Sue

Edinburghlass wrote:

Sadly it was me but it was guinea pig cages and a broken wrist

Right body, wrong bit! But it was in the hall, wasn't it? Can't she pile it up neatly in the corner of her bedroom for now?

Edinburghlass wrote:

I'm not a fanatical ironer but I do admit to the fact that I have to do my own myself as no-one can do it as well as me and I don't iron everything but today I did manage to enthuse my daughter to iron her own and put it away.

That to me is the worst bit about ironing, like shopping I hate the putting away :rolleyes:

I stopped putting my kids clothes away some time ago. It means the younger two usually have piles outside their bedroom door, and the eldest now transfers his laundry from his body, to a bag, to the washing machine and drier, and back to a pile of clean clothes on his chari. When he's out and I want to watch his TV, the clean clothes move to the bed, and he moves them back to the chair. His chest of drawers is empty apart from old clothes I doubt he'll wear again! They either don't fit, or they're just not 'him' any more, relics of the days when he would wear almost any colour, as long as it was plain, and it was the same colour from top to bottom! So red pants and socks went with red t-shirt, trousers and sweatshirt. Now it's any colour as long as it's black, navy or white, never mind the pants, and the socks with days of the week on can only be worn on the 'right' day! Sorting that lot out is another job for before he disappears to Uni!

1sttimer_2

I think you all sound great at de-cluttering :T . When we moved into this 5 bed house from a 3 bed house 25 years ago it looked very empty - in the intervening years we aquired 2 children (1 left/1 back from uni) and 1 dog - and in all that time I think we just brought things in and not replaced so now 5 bed house feels smaller than 3 bed house :eek: . Some very serious de-cluttering needed (perhaps starting with OH!)

Sofa_Sogood

Just taping a programme about storage called "Making Space" on Discovery Home & H

Not sure if it's any good (got busy on the forum ) but might be worth a look?

Curry_Queen

OMG!!! I'd forgotten all about this thread until I just got an email in my inbox from where I'd subscribed to it ... cheers Sofa

Well, I made a start on my de-cluttering last month and ex took away a van load of stuff to be trashed/burnt in his big skip

As some of you know, I should be moving any time soon so I really need to get my a$$ into gear and get some of this stuff sorted out! I have 3-4 big boxfuls of stuff to sell on Ebay, but still not got around to listing them, and time is running out :eek:

My only saving grace will be that I'll have a spare room to stash stuff, possibly for a few weeks/months, when I move but I really don't want to be taking anything with me that I don't need/want, and I'll have enough on my plate with unpacking and organising everything to be dealing with Ebay stuff, so I NEED TO GET IT ALL SOLD NOW :rolleyes:

Someone kick me please

Sofa_Sogood

Curry_Queen wrote:

OMG!!! I'd forgotten all about this thread until I just got an email in my inbox from where I'd subscribed to it ... cheers Sofa

Well, I made a start on my de-cluttering last month and ex took away a van load of stuff to be trashed/burnt in his big skip

As some of you know, I should be moving any time soon so I really need to get my a$$ into gear and get some of this stuff sorted out! I have 3-4 big boxfuls of stuff to sell on Ebay, but still not got around to listing them, and time is running out :eek:

My only saving grace will be that I'll have a spare room to stash stuff, possibly for a few weeks/months, when I move but I really don't want to be taking anything with me that I don't need/want, and I'll have enough on my plate with unpacking and organising everything to be dealing with Ebay stuff, so I NEED TO GET IT ALL SOLD NOW :rolleyes:

Someone kick me please

No problem C_Q .... I'd lost this one too so did a search .... it worked for once (I can't usually search properly lol)

Well done on last months decluttering

NOW GET TO E-bAY

P.S. From what I saw of the programme it had some good ideas .....

..... but some really naff ones.