Hoarding...not just on TV

Sue14

short_bird wrote: »

Like this?
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2011/10/10/funny-pictures-if-it-fits-i-sits/
Or more like this?
http://cheezburger.com/6397493248

Those pics are just like our old cat, sadly no longer with us, but he had a thing about cardboard boxes (I think he got high on the smell of them or something, lol!), and no matter how small it was he tried to get in it to sleep!

wannabe_sybil wrote: »

JoJo - when malevolent cat was still with us, she liked to sleep in an old crisp box, the sort with the hold punched out of one side. She would slink into that, nap and occasionally glare out. One day she was just too fat - she had been stealing cooking oil - and she could get in, but she couldn't get out. She was stuck with the dratted thing around her hips. She actually reversed back and then tore bits of the entrance off with her teeth, all the while glaring at me as if to dare me to say anything. I didn't say anything, I couldn't, I was laughing too much.

I would have been the same, just reading about it made me :rotfl:!

cyclingyorkie wrote: »

OH has 3/4 of the space, but it is full of stuff other than clothes - I can't hang his shirts up properly at the moment - there is so much stuff in the bottom of the wardrobe that they don't hang properly.....

Our wardrobes used to be like that, I had a couple of boxes of vinyl records, and a storage tub overflowing with all kinds of rubbish in the bottom of mine, and OH had 2 holdalls full of old electrical leads, about 4 coats that he'd never worn and about 3 old video recorders (amongst other things), in the bottom of his. The clothes both of us had in the wardrobes were never worn, and the ones we did wear were piled up all over the bedroom, or hanging on a hook over the door (or in one of the 3 laundry baskets waiting to be ironed when needed) because we couldn't fit them in the wardrobes. Now all our clothes are in the wardrobes and drawers, (although old habits die hard, and OH still piles some of his clothes on the floor in front of his wardrobe, instead of putting them away) and he just has his golf shoes and snooker cue in the bottom of his wardrobe, and I have a storage tub with some of my shoes, boots and a couple of handbags in.

Unworn clothes were taken to CS, things in the tub were taken to CS or binned, video recorders were taken to the dump or given away on freecycle, and my vinyls are now stored in 'the cupboard of doom' which is a lot less 'doomy' these days, although I have to keep an eye on it, to stop too much being put in there that should be dumped.

moneysavingmumofone

katep23 wrote: »

Hmm, well I didn't manage to clear the bottom of the wardrobe (did a bit more lurking on here )

BUT I managed to unpack my overnight bag and put clean clothes away (can't put bag away as it lives in the bottom of the wardrobe ), clear my desk so I can work in there tomorrow (mostly involved moving things out the way but managed to chuck several things away in the process), put a loaf of bread on, put a load of washing on, make OH's lunch, tidy the kitchen a bit and hoover the kitchen floor.

The last one is the best in some ways - you enter the house through the kitchen and it always drags me down when I come in to the kitchen being a mess and the floor needs hoovering. So hopefully that will help the house feel more welcoming when I get home

Well done, you have done LOADS! :T

Byatt wrote: »

Well done Katie. For unpacking your overnight bag. I still haven't unpacked (all clean clothes) my case from a holiday in April.:o

However, I am adding more things to my kitchen pile for the CS...I am actually now using my lovely Portmeirion set.

Plus I have a clear pathway, through the kitchen and into the utility/bathroom area. :T
Really tired now though, so off the bed!

xxxxx

Erm snap from a holiday at beginning of June. The holdall is somewhere in the depths of my room, I think most of it has spilt out now after rummaging in it for something.

blossomhill_2

Byatt wrote: »

I am actually now using my lovely Portmeirion set.

And why not! ...because you're worth it!
It was quite a big day for me when I switched back to using glasses for drinks - had previously had to have unbreakable patioware beakers due to all the desperate leaps from the overstacked draining rack

I wrote my new signature a couple of days ago off the top of my head - and was amused last night to hear Richard saying something along those lines ... we are all so similar!

calicocat

Hello everyone ,

BLOSSOM......thank you for putting that post out for me , and you have made me think I should pop in for a quick read and say hi.

BYATT.....thanks for noticing I had gone !.....and for the hugs ,kind of you.

I have rather a lot of things going on at the moment and am finding it hard to really concentrate hugely on anything for any lenght of time , but as Blossom posted for me I have been thinking about all of you are doing. However due to Blossoms lovely PM I am going to make an effort to try and pop in a couple of times a week , even if it's just lurking and keeping an eye on you all

Quick up-date......carpet cleaner I borrowed is still standing in lounge from what ? Two weeks ago ?.....not in the mood to do it at the moment , and to be honest when all my current carp is over reolistically I think I need to just get new carpets.
I am still de-richarding in small bursts....I have a huge bag of clothes that I am cat-flapping to a friend thursday...(Actually I think it's the clothes I last spoke of on here last time that I had sorted)

I reolise that this is almost like a swear word on here.........but I am going Shopping today :eek: , over the last 3 weeks I have been winding down my smoking to zera (probably not the best time to be doing this , but I am stickng with it)...and so am treating myself to something , probably clothes again...replacing the bag I am getting rid of ?????...but anyhow I am doing it for a 'cheer-up'. However I am not going to buy anything if I don't really like it..I am getting much better with this . Also going for lunch:beer: ......the friend I am meeting is a heavy smoker too....but I am determined to stay strong !.

So good luck all with the cat-flapping and chucking out , well done to those doing well , and keep at it to those stuck , we will all get there eventually I am convinced with the help on this thread. Also get well to anyone not feeling well.

I'll be back ........as they say


Blossom......your are a trooper.
:A

katep23

Calicocat, good luck with giving up smoking, it's hard but worth it in the end, and definitely make sure you treat yourself with some of the money you save as it keeps you motivated!

katep23

moneysavingmumofone wrote: »

Erm snap from a holiday at beginning of June. The holdall is somewhere in the depths of my room, I think most of it has spilt out now after rummaging in it for something.

That's why I love this thread, all those things I thought I was the only one to do and it turns out other people do to

And everyone is so encouraging and kind :T thank you x

SpikyHedgehog

Now, unpacking the bags when we've been away is something I'm ok at. &i get all the washing done as quickly as I can, so it can sit all over my bed till I pile it on the floor next to the bed so I can get in...

Well, that's what I used to do - I am determined it shall be no longer!

Byatt

Morning, just been to the tip with my old oven and a few cardboard boxes and ink jet cartridges for recycling. Then after breakfast will take box to CS with around 25 kitchen items! They are not all big items, but still, 25!! :eek:

edit, Just got back from CS and because I deliberately parked in an "unloading only" zone, I couldn't actually hang about looking at stuff! CS was really grateful to get kitchen stuff too.

offloaded a hospital crutch that I had hanging about at the Dr's too.

now to start another box...

seven-day-weekend

I know someone who has moved house three times in ten years and each time taken the same boxes out of the old loft and put them in the new loft without even opening them. She does not know what is in them. I said, throw them away, you will never miss them, but the thought seems to fill her with dread.

We also had a lodger who had to remove everything off the floor onto his bed to sit at his computer, and then move it all back onto the floor to get into bed. When we helped him move, in that 9 x 12 room, amongst other things he had dinner sets, about three computer monitors, TWELVE rucksacks and plenty of junk. My husband threw away a rusty frying pan with a broken handle, he was upset by that.

Don't understand it myself, although I understand that it is a mental illness.

Jo-Jo, don't go back, let others deal with it (or no-one).

idristhedragon

Mornig fellow soon to be ex hoarders
Well I am furiously polishing my halo as I have done the le crueset cupboard (including cleaning it- SPIDERS!!) , done the bottom drawer (baking stuff) and the next drawer up (saucepans) AND I have a whole wheeled plastic tub of kitchen stuff for the CS!! So so proud of myself. I even had the drawer liners out and scrubbed the actual drawers. DH came in and found me in marigolds and an apron and thought Id been replaced by a proper wife! I am going to finish the kitchen this afternoon (broken slow cooker anyone?) and then do the ebay this afternoon/evening. Husband is out so as good a time as any. THis will also go towards paying off my evil credit card bill (why I arrived at MSE) in the first place but the spending, the hoarding, the comfort shopping, the noyt being comfy in own house/skin is ALL linked and I finally feel like Im slowly unravelling it! Ive been a parent for nearly 15 years and have ALWAYS had a baby at home my entire adult life (had my first at 21) and my last is starting pre school (half days) in Sept so I finally finally have the time to do the house/keepon top of it/feel able to breathe!! I work One mnorning and one evening and husband is happy for me to carry on with just these hours as the kids still need before and after school care, holidays, illness so it would be ludicrous for me to get a FT job and then pay childcare so thats a relief and has spurned on my desire to Have A Lovely House.
Right Im sat writing this on my 3 year olds little stool, hunched over a table that has my laptop on top of a half done jigsaw, and a Disney Princess magazine (torn) and next to an overflowing bin so I have a way to go yet LOL but I reckon with this thread I can do it.
I promise to only quickly *browse* the CS when Im dropping stuff off..............:p