Hoarding...not just on TV

HannahIOW

On second thoughts...

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3243840

thriftwizard

Fell off the wagon over the weekend

Saturday: Came home from the charity shops with another 4 books and another book waiting for me in the post that I had won.

Well, there are books, and books, aren't there?! I have to admit to somehow acquiring an omnibus edition of The Raj Quartet this weekend. Technically it's one book, surely? And I've sorted out an entire box of other books to go, which is now out in the garage, so it's 1 (or 4, depending on your viewpoint) in, 20 out, as far as I'm concerned.

DS3 is now on his way to Chile - party over & done with, airport trip safely concluded, tears all mopped up now - so now I can get cracking with Stage 2 of the Great Clear-Up! But it may be necessary to take his sisters to the beach whilst the going's good...

idristhedragon

Aw thriftwizard I hope you are ok after the Grand Chile Send Off. We'll look after you x
Oh yeah I forgot I needed to confess my CS sins from Saturday- a pair of jeans (River Island- £4) and a top (Topshop £3) and a necklace (£1.50) and aleatherhandbagfromavintageshopfor£35butdonttellmyhusbandpleaseasI
haveanenormouspileofhandbagswaitingtogoonebay BUT it is A) leather, Red, C) Gorgeous and D) replacing my current leather handbag that I have actually used SO much the strap is about to break.

I will turf out the equivalent number of items to the CS tomorrow, I promise Oh fellow hoarders

sjprmc01

I've managed to pick 3 x tops for the cash for clothes to make up for the ones I bought yesterday

I didn't really like them/they didn't. Fit right ..........so why do i feel such a sense of loss?

Brighton_belle

idristhedragon wrote: »

I will turf out the equivalent number of items to the CS tomorrow, I promise Oh fellow hoarders

No, it needs to be at least one more item than you bought other wise you are maintaining the status quo. Preferable try and make it two out for every one in.:D

Byatt

sjprmc01 wrote: »

I've managed to pick 3 x tops for the cash for clothes to make up for the ones I bought yesterday

I didn't really like them/they didn't. Fit right ..........so why do i feel such a sense of loss?

Hi Sj, it's not the items per se, it's the connection we make to the item as individuals. My battle of the measuring jugs yesterday was eventually won by me, but not without an emotional cost to me. They had no sentimental value, jugs are easy to procure at very reasonable prices so in plain terms, my difficulty in moving them on was just ridiculous to me...

this prompted a dream which involved me going back to my home city, my ex yet again, and zombies...:o whereby I was telling everyone I can cope with zombies I watch The Walking Dead,...:o:eek:

I took a large plastic box full of kitchen items to the CS this afternoon.

Thrift, I hope you're okish?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Afternoon, all.

Been to the MIL today and took the opportunity to sneak a teeny declutter in. She had specifically said that she wanted to move/dispose of some stuff that was stopping her from using the terrace on her bungalow.

So, popped in to her work, she handed over the door keys and in the hour before she got home, I had;

Disassembled the mini greenhouse

Removed the broken bin she used for coal in the winter

Emptied some plant pots that had no plants in them

Uncovered a better tub/crate for coal and discovered the lid for it

Removed some old rotting bits of chipboard

Put the potting compost against the wall instead of on the floor to trip over.

Reclaimed the table from under some pots

Broke a pot :eek:

Planted out her hollyhocks exactly where she said she had wanted them

Cleaned the table

Filled the bird bath

Washed the windows and French windows


When she got home, she was delighted, as she can sit out in the evening sunshine now. And I didn't do anything 'wrong'. All though the fella reckons I am the only person that could get away with breaking a pot, he would never have heard the end of it

I must admit that breaking it spurred me on to get the terrace looking finished, though, distraction and all that....

MIL has tendencies, but she does try and keep on top of them - but her childhood home was terrible, dirt, stench of cat and dog mess, fagash dropped on floor rather than in an ashtray, that kind of thing. But when she got married, FIL's mum taught her loads, as she shad been a maid in service and travelled down to London with the family she worked for in the 1920s. She was the sort of person I would have loved to know, the front doorstep scrubbed every Monday morning by 9, fresh baked bread, that kind of thing. Rough as a badgers bum with a broad mancunian accent, but her house sparkled, according to the fella.

So, in all, a successful day. I'm now sitting down with an ice cold weak lager and hoping I don't have to get up again until about 9pm!


Keep it up, everyone - before you know it, you'll be spreading the unhoarders gospel.

GreyQueen

dumpy wrote: »

delurking to say

What would you see for the death of slugs, as bones are somewhat....... missing :rotfl:

Maybe just mysterious slime trails from a short black robe.......

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: LMAO, now there is an image to conjure with!

I was Ms Nonchalance in the bank this afternoon. Went to take some money out over the counter instead of via the ATM then oh-so-casually remembered that I had a saving bond maturing about now............? Upshot is, account closed and spondulicks into the current account where I intend to spend it.

Phew, what a relief. That's two bank accounts I've decluttered in one month, which will make life simpler, in the long run.

And, and, get this; I have a file in a bog-standard A4 ringbinder which has grown too big for its boots (warranties etc, not richardable stuff) and thought I had no lever arches free and was going to have to buy one. Except I found 2 housing things which need to be kept but can be bundled up tightly in plastic and archived which is GQ-speak for stashed neatly where I can get my hands on them if necessary but not in active usage.

Double-points; repurposed stuff and not having to make a purchase, so it's all good. I'm feeling pretty darned satisfied with myself.

Tomorrow should be a great day for the decluttering. I have persuaded Daddy-O to take me to the tip in his car so I can get some awkward stuff off the lottie and out of the lottie shed. Have decided that I don't want the place looking like Steptoe's Yard. Plus the lottie-shed-stuff going to them. Oh yes, we're on a roll.

LiR covetousness is a sin and I am coveting that treasure chest trunk like mad............

Oooff, need food! Laters, GQ x

sjprmc01

Well looks like its going to be another dull, rainy day here today so may manage to make more headway in the kitchen although will have to try spend some time doing something with the kids (two of whom are walking around in my heels atm, lol)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

sjprmc01 wrote: »

Well looks like its going to be another dull, rainy day here today so may manage to make more headway in the kitchen although will have to try spend some time doing something with the kids (two of whom are walking around in my heels atm, lol)

Oh dear, it's hot, bright and sunny down here. Forecast says up to 30 Celsius. It didn't go below 26 all night, which is high seventies.