Hoarding...not just on TV

GreyQueen

:coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee:


OMG byatt, I'm having the horrors reading that post and I don't even know your ex!

Have some tea- have lots. Add sugar. Dr GQ prescribes emergency biscuits and a visit to something cute on the interweb like pictures of kittens. What a nightmare!

calicocat

G.Queen,
:rotfl: yes , I get surprised at people just throwing stuff out and not 'finding a use for it'

The opportunity yes is deffinately a contributing factor these days.....well since the 80's consumerism.....this I think is partly why I have so much Crap , it's more a buying thing , I was always wanting something else for some reason. My mother is stunned at the amount of clothes/boots I have.


Also , maybe today laziness is also a factor , years ago people seemed to have an inbuilt need to be tidy and organised and seemed to be always on the go , now we are playing play station games , watching tv/movies.......going on forums:eek: so it is a lot easier to not bother tidying that pile right now. I know laziness is also a factor in my life nowadays.

I still think some of it is down to a different social climate these days , which also manifests in other things (but not to be gone into on here) , I was discussing this with a lovely old man I used to look after many moons ago when I worked in elderly.

Maybe the answer is for us all to have a real fire again.......I love real fires , and miss mine , the smell of burning logs.:)

thriftwizard

Calicocat, I have a real fire & I love it, and I also have a little garden stove we fire up on summer's evenings to cook outside, and I'm afraid it really hasn't done much to stop me hoarding stuff - in fact I now hoard wood too! No broken pallet is safe around me...

Slug-wise, we have some friends who hunt through their garden at dusk, pop the little monsters into their freezer, then bring them round to my chickens once a week or so. Seems limace gele is chicken gourmet heaven, and said friends pick up half-a-dozen eggs for their trouble - mutually beneficial!

GreyQueen

thriftwizard wrote: »

Calicocat, I have a real fire & I love it, and I also have a little garden stove we fire up on summer's evenings to cook outside, and I'm afraid it really hasn't done much to stop me hoarding stuff - in fact I now hoard wood too! No broken pallet is safe around me...

Slug-wise, we have some friends who hunt through their garden at dusk, pop the little monsters into their freezer, then bring them round to my chickens once a week or so. Seems limace gele is chicken gourmet heaven, and said friends pick up half-a-dozen eggs for their trouble - mutually beneficial!

:eek: OOOohhh, approve the virtuous use of slugs but appalled at the thought of having them in my home, even on ice in the freezer.......yeuch.

A lottie neighbour used to keep chickens and when I was digging I had 4 receptacles nearby; good weeds (compostable), bad weeds (i.e. horsetail), one for non-organic items such as glass and one for bugs. The bugs was for things like leather jackets and cutworms and every hour or so I'd stroll down to her chicken run. The used to come running with that lovely little aniticpatory warbling which they do. I was sad when she gave up on keeping them.

She told me they wouldn't touch the caterpillars of the Cabbage White butterfly, though. Which was a darned shame as we had a plague of them that year, even on the Shepherd's Purse plants growing in the trackway.

calicocat

Sorry Byatt...was that a bit heavy for a sunday morning !.

I bumped into my little old pal yesterday . I was really surprised he is still alive , he was calling himself a 'coffin-dodger' 9 years ago. He is fantastic , I wish he was my grandad. Anyhow I ended up telling him amongst other things about this thread , so he went into the whole social structure debate , and why he thinks certain things happen now. He's fantastic to talk to.

Anyhow , woke up thinking about what he had said.:o

thriftwizard

Conservatory update:

We had the party for DS3 last night. I'd stalled a bit in the week; those last few bits are much harder, because many of them really are needed for what we do. But we got from this:



to this:



in under a week. And a fair proportion of the house looks more like picture 2 than picture 1 now. Now to move on to stage 2, which is to install some more appropriate storage for the things we actually do need to keep. And next time (not that I ever intend going through this again) I won't buy the "storage solution" 2 month before getting to the stage where I stand half a chance of actually having enough space to put it together!

Byatt

Calico, that's OK, not heavy at all, but for my foggy brain right now, it's hard to think and I so want to respond, but GQ said it so well...:A

My dad, back in the very early 70's and suffering from depression, (I used to phone every lunch time from work before my baby brother got home from school as I was scared he would kill himself) started to collect old wooden fish boxes from the fishmonger down the back lane from us. We had a double garage, and he used to wash them down to get rid of the fishy smell and stack them. When we were going to move, yet again, the whole garage was full to the rafters (we had a car which of course couldn't get in) with these boxes, and even though we had coal fires, I'm not aware that he used many, if any of them for kindling. I do remember him saying he couldn't think why he stords so many of them. I was 17/18 at the time and had anorexia at a time when it wasn't acknowledged or discussed.

ETA: Well done Thrift!! :T:T Wow, it looks fab (I do love your baskets though ) Very inspirational. :A

Gingernutty

Hoarding isn't that new.

There have been stories about mad collectors whose entire collections have formed the basis of museums for hundreds of years.

This story about the Collyer Brothers from America in 1947 is still notorious.

Okay.

I have a sewing machine, loads of my Dad's old shirts, loads of cut up scraps from my old jeans and they've been sitting there in bags and boxes in my bedroom for over a year.

I really, really want to learn how to use the sewing machine to make quilts.

I'm really going to have to get my fat behind into gear and take lessons....or get rid.

Realistically? Really?

I'll book some lessons after pay day.....

Brighton_belle

Wow Thrift wizard!! Fantastic work in a week. And as you say, approriate storage is ok.
I am just off to A DIY store for anti mould paint, emulsion (mould discovered after removal of stuff) and wood and brackets to cover a bare wall with bookshelves and will be putting them up over the next few days.
I have several such DIY jobs waiting to be done but I am just buying enough for one job at a time rather than loads and then it never gets done:A.
The shelvingcounts as appropriate storage as it will enable us to completely empty another room of books and get books in our front room off the floor that my DH will be keeping. The wall is blank as I have dowsized a lot of my own stuff including furniture that wasn't making best use of the space:A.

Greyqueen, oh soul sister of the screws , I also confess to not just screws, but also two of those plastic storage boxes of 'useful' nails, fixings and odd plumbing bits and a cornucopia of raw plugs. Comes from v long time on own and having to be practical me thinks. And to think I thought acquiring a DH would mean I would no longer need to be the shelf putter upper:rotfl:.
Oh, and thanks for comprehensive reply to calico cat as you said everything I wanted to but didn't have the energy for:D (But interesting thoughts calico)

Byatt - :eek: Not good. But may well be due to you dealing with your clutter now, which you know is connected to your trama.

whitewing

I was thinking about laziness from the posts this morning. I do agree about that. I also think a lot is to do with being at work. I certainly don't know my neighbours as well as my grandparents knew theirs. So things don't crop up in conversation and get passed on that way. My grandparents were regular churchgoers and they had regular jumble sales and fetes. So things got moved on that way too.