Hoarding...not just on TV

blossomhill_2

GreyQueen wrote: »

If not, I shall just go to the bank after work with a wadge of proofs of ID and say I know I have the account but the paperwork is AWOL and can they just put the money into my current account, please? Honestly, I'd never make the grade as a money-launderer or a crim, I'm too inept

GQ - do you have the account number listed elsewhere, that might help you feel a bit less inept?

SpikyHedgehog

GQ, I'd go in with my proof of id & details of the other accounts with them & say 'i want to check my other account as I think its due to mature but can't quite remember...' My local bank.are lovely & they can find a lot of details on their computer screens without you having much info to give them. This isn't advertised of course!

I'm waiting for the bus to work with 3 big bags - I know I said I had 2, but I bought some toys at the car boot yesterday that are washed & dried & in their way in.

I've cleared off the top of the top lego box on the landing & keep patting it as I go past ;-)

sjprmc01

Hey there I everyone I feel the need to join this thread! I've read through every single post (time consuming/wasting) and feel a little like I know everyone! I think I am a hoarder. I try to convince myself it's 'just clothes' (mainly). I have suffered no major 'loss' in my life to explain my hoarding it's possibly just 'greed' (too much stuff coming in). I have 3 young dds (5,6 and 7). And I think I spoil them far too much, add to that their granny also buying them far too much and there a problem is created.

Ok, ok, when I was a kid being brought up by a single mum who didn't work, with 4 other siblings I didn't have too much, we weren't in poverty by any account I guess I jut noticed I didn't have all the in-fashion branded stuff that everyone else had and was never in the 'in crowd'. So feel now that I have to buy everything that is pretty! I don't like shopping for myself too much as I'm rather large so it's a struggle to find things that do fit (although picked up 4 tops in mr Ts yesterday). I'm a 20/22 in tops!

On the plus side, sometimes I have no qualms in giving stuff away the kiddos are no longer going to wear but I HAVE to find the right person to appreciate it. In the past I've ebayed (can't be bothered with the hassle any more and tended to spend my earnings back on there) gumtree'd in bundles, given out to half the town (almost literally, I don't seem to know where the bags upon bags of stuff come from) sent the not-worth-giving-away to cash for clothes, charity shopped and yet still I am surrounded by piles of 'stuff'. As I've been reading through it has guilted me into going off and cleaning 'bits' at times but I realise I need to make a major move or nothing's gonna change.

On the plus side, I managed to avoid the next sale completly which is a major biggie for me! But I think I need to Chang my way of thinking or I am going to end up consumed by this stuff. One of my issues I have is that unless stuff is washed, ironed, folded to perfection I WILL NOT put it away. I did some pics but don't have the faintest clue how to get them onto here!

GreyQueen

blossomhill wrote: »

GQ - do you have the account number listed elsewhere, that might help you feel a bit less inept?

:o I shall just have to suffer - haven't got that either. I'm taking my passport, photo driver's license, utility and council tax bills and if necessary, can take my parents across there tomorrow to vouch that I am, indeed, me.:o:p:(

sjprmc01 welcome aboard.

The pixies have failed to cough up the paperwork and after I went offline last night I went thru everything again and still don't have it. Was so agitated I had to do the ironing to chillax. I iron for at least 5 mins every week, y'know. I have never done anything so utterly lame in my entire life. I'll have to go to the bank after w*rk and will report back later on how it went.

HannahIOW

whitewing wrote: »

HannahIOW,

I want to know what you did with the old doormat, now you have a new one!

I was hoping nobody would ask that errr well I rolled it up and stuck it in the corner... just in case the new one was too slippy... but it isn't, so will chuck the old one out when I get home tonight, promise

dragonette

GreyQueen wrote: »

:o I shall just have to suffer - haven't got that either. I'm taking my passport, photo driver's license, utility and council tax bills and if necessary, can take my parents across there tomorrow to vouch that I am, indeed, me.:o:p:(

sjprmc01 welcome aboard.

The pixies have failed to cough up the paperwork and after I went offline last night I went thru everything again and still don't have it. Was so agitated I had to do the ironing to chillax. I iron for at least 5 mins every week, y'know. I have never done anything so utterly lame in my entire life. I'll have to go to the bank after w*rk and will report back later on how it went.

Hey GQ - if you have a account with them that uses a card (current account, some savings accounts) then hand that over so they can bring up the account. Your other account should be linked to that in their computer system. If you know the name of the type of account that will make it a lot easier.

Wouldn't be the first time I've remembered to run into the bank without specific details - as long as they find an account they can find them all

wannabe_sybil

blossomhill wrote: »

"At least two" hmmm, come on own up - is that 2 or 10?

Best wishes to little bear

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Well, one sewing machine is mine, one my sister in law gave us, and I suspect that there is another one somewhere that may have come from my mother. Last year I threw out the sewing machine that had been in my uncle's bathroom (!) since at least 1987 when my grandmother died - untouched. It just went into the skip.

Hannah - I am really bad about keeping an old and manky item even though it has been replaced, 'just in case'. I recently got rid of three non functioning irons kept just in case the new one blew up unexpectedly

Little bear has been wonderfully sick and is now asleep. When he is more awake, I will do my token decluttering - knitting. That way I am at least running down my stash. I haven't done the things I was going to do - the 'finish up the odds' stuff. But I will. At some point. Honest.

sjprmc01

Hope little bear is better soon!

I used to hang onto things like irons too! Except got rid of the excess ones when we moved house (6yrs ago now) I normally like quite an expensive, powerful iron and when my Bosch manly looking thing packed up the other month I didn't have money for an iron let alone what I'd consider to be a good one! I bought an emergency iron from Argos for around £3.60-£3.80. Asi iron EVERY day (yet I'm the one with the hoardes of clothes lying everywhere). (amongst other items) to last me till the end of that month but you know what....it's still going strong, ok so it hasn't got a long cord and a big powerful steamplate but actually works better than expected

So a brand new iron can be bought for less than £4 if necessary

lostinrates

Just wanted to add late proof i did tackle that corner of my sitting room




The chest itself, and another upstairs, have richard in them, but we have agreed to sort through them and consolidate on the next rainy weekend.

PipneyJane

GreyQueen wrote: »

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I have been on my allotment with the sun in the sky and murder in my heart. 300 snails and 18 slugs met their maker today........fellow Discworlders, do you think there is a Death of Snails? If you don't do Disc, don't worry about that btw, it'd take too long to explain.

Wouldn't that would fall into the realm of the Death of Rats? I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that some rodents eat slugs and snails, hence my logic. Admittedly, they'd have to be pretty desperate but isn't that why humans started eating snails in the first place? (I think it was the Romans.)

Who else, here, is a Discworlder?