Clutter and hoarding - help!

empfun

Read up on the Collyer Brothers, greatest hoarders in history and their demise.

savvy

empfun wrote:

Read up on the Collyer Brothers, greatest hoarders in history and their demise.

Brilliant, just read that to my kids!!! Fingers crossed

System

My kids say, if it aint nailed down, Mom will chuck it!!!:o

savvy

LMAO!! Just thought, the other extreme is my mate.............she's forever throwing everything out, so much so that it drives her husband MAAAAAAAAAAAD. Its funny cos he can't ever find anything, and yet it's a spotless house, he can't find it cos it's been thrown out!!! He's forever saying he daren't stand still too long cos he's scared he'll get thrown out too!

one-non-blonde

I don't buy newspapers for a reason...

Sofa_Sogood

empfun wrote:

Read up on the Collyer Brothers, greatest hoarders in history and their demise.

Good story, I enjoyed reading it so thanks for the link.

How poignant was the ending?

Did make me want to have a good clear out though. :eek:

mini

I started off pretending I was emigrating what wouldn't I want to pay to ship to Austrailia, that worked for some things, then I decided given I bring about 15-20 bags of shopping in per week the house wasn't shrinking & I had to get rid of sme stuff, did a car boot with a friend, made about £200 with my stuff:) listed videos & some books on marketplace at amazon. More recently in preparation for moving I have been trying to chuck out a bin bag a week of things I no longer need, i still had receipts for Christmas presents from the year before last:eek: now for electrical things I'll keep them but for the jigsaw from ELC I don't think I need it - but I might.

I'd also suggest even printing off what you have written about your hoarding to show your psychologist, sometimes we don't explain the depth of the problem in words, could be a really important step for you.

You are certainly not alone with this.

mini

aliasojo

mini wrote:

I started off pretending I was emigrating

Could I just stop at this bit?

The thought of sorting through my clutter and carefully hoarded items just gives me a headache!

Savvy_Sue

empfun wrote:

Read up on the Collyer Brothers, greatest hoarders in history and their demise.

HOW did the chap who raised the alarm know to do so? (I'm wording that carefully so as not to spoil the story!)

System

The worst sort of clutter for me is the clutter that my family have given me over the years. Like the boxed set of Star Trek videos that MrJudi bought me about 4 years ago. I am really grateful for them, but everybody hates science fiction in my house. I cant watch them, but i cant get rid either.