Hoarding...not just on TV

cyclingyorkie

sjprmc01 wrote: »

Oh, I think I spend the majority of my life ironing! If only I could catch up with the mountain under/over my kitchen tables (which creeps across the kitchen from time to time) then I wouldn't have to devote so much time to it

Once again the 'cannot put anything away till its sorted' adds to my clutter

It's more than a weeks work, although to be fair, I don't do it solid I do a few hrs a day usually with a nosing-on-the-interweb-break

Today the sun is out but think one of my dds is a bit Ill (sounds it she won't tell me yet is still half asleep) so looks like catching up with the washing (once again, whee DOES it come from?) and MORE ironing. OH has lost his bank card somewhere in the house. He says he's looked but he can miss something in front of his face so may have to do a bit of sorting/chucking in the process of looking for that. Oh and my clothes I ordered from Mr A will probably turn up today!

Well somehow I have caught up with the ironing backlog! i have emptied a pine chest full of the stuff and done the rest of the stuff that wouldn't fit in!

Of course now there isn't room to store it all ( well except my stuff, which all fits in 1/4 of the marital wardrobe!;))

We are about to go on holiday, but before we go I have had a charity bag through the door - and some of the ironed stuff people have decided no longer fits/they don't want anymore. In addition to this my sister took a large carrierbag full of unwanted stuff when she payed a flying visit on Sun/Mon...

So all in all the decluttering is going quite well - considering I'm only a week into the 6 weeks holidays.

Lets hope i can keep going when we return....

short_bird

Everybody ready for 9pm, Channel 4 tonight?:D

HannahIOW

Oooh, will record that if I remember

wannabe_sybil

Just coming on here to admit to second AF order delivered in a week. I now have eight Fray Bentos tinned pies, but that will keep me afloat for a bit.

And tonight I am definitely putting in the Lakeland order.

And yesterday in Scarborough we came home with three pieces of tat from the slot machine place that my brother, his friend and little bear really enjoyed winning but we will never be able to prise from little bear (did I mention the long, angst ridden discussion when I found he had two copies of the same book and wanted to get rid of one of them?). Do not talk to me about the four foot tall panda that little bear will never, ever, in the world, part with. I loathe it with a passion - and it's three foot six inch buddy.

And don't talk to me about men and spatial awareness. I fell downstairs and dislocated both shoulders in 1997. I think it was 2010 when I finally got a hand rail on the stairs put up by my brother. OH wouldn't put a hand rail up because he thought there wouldn't be enough room to go up our normal, standard width stairs if we had a bannister. We now manage, thank you!

And I don't even want to think about the ironing - I have just spent most of a morning catching up with washing up.

But, another big thing, I got rid of an unopened box of cereal that I thought little bear didn't like (and the one he had had some out of and rejected), got rid of the cardboard boxes from the deliveries straight away even though they 'could come in useful'. I also bagged up a load of glass jars and bottles for the next time I go near a bottle bank.

Little bear goes to to out of school club on Monday and although I will spend the afternoon at the dentists I think I will allocate the morning to some dericharding - so I need to prepare the ground over the next few days (with a bit of help from little bear)

Byatt

Thanks Short-bird for the reminder, I had forgotten!

Sybil, did you only buy 8 FB pies???

I went out to post a parcel for soemthing I sold on fleabay, and which has cost me more in fees than I actually received. But 3 items gone now, although I did buy a bright red washing up bowl to brighten my kitchen a bit.

I had a panda toy that my mum got rid of (no idea why) and I still haven't got over it.

Still very hot here, and I'm melting.

thriftwizard

I had a panda toy that my mum got rid of (no idea why) and I still haven't got over it.

You too? I had a raggedy Looby-Lou that vanished under mysterious circumstances, not long after a major house move. I asked her recently what had happened and she maintained it was months after the move before she threw it out, that it was completely disgusting by then and I'd never mentioned missing it at the time! I do wonder what horrific unspoken traumas I've inflicted on my own kids sometimes...

Not doing the chicken run, I'm still too coldy & bubbly & wobbly. I got some way, shifting logs etc., then had to come in & sit down because my legs were shaking like mad. I'll try again later...

whitewing

Went to the clothes agency shop to see if my trousers had sold. They hadn't, so I was very good and gave them to my mother rather than take them home.

Went to the children's shop and took some stuff in for them to sell. Hopefully that will go. Bought a couple of bits for DD - one thing was a very good price so a good saving. The other was a book/figurines so wasn't really needed but made hubby feel good to let DD have it.

I am really looking forward to that programme tonight. DH is at work so he won't be chatting through it, lol. Why do men have to give a running commentary through TV programmes. I swear DH thinks I didn't know anything before he came into my life, bless him.

wannabe_sybil

Byatt - pies, dammit, were limited to four per customer :mad::D And I lost a tiny panda when I was little, and was heartbroken. However it was around six inches, not so big that when we brought it home from my darling uncle it took up a whole seat in a car. Thank goodness we weren't stopped!

Brighton_belle

Bit quiet here, as I am not too well and no energy to do more at the mo. Sitting looking at the can of paint and wood and willing them on to the walls by themselves:D.

alice-mary

Afternoon people, I've been reading this thread with interest, acknowledging my own tendancies more and more with each post (have only read the first 8 pages too). I am a hoarder in the making, although if I am honest, I'm 95% there:o.
I try on a regular basis to clear out my paperwork (I'm a teacher so have thousands of worksheets etc from the last 20+ years) but I get disillusioned very quickly. My nephew has said that I play TETRIS with my bags and boxes of paper as things just get moved around, creating space for extra layers and I have to admit that he is spot on.
I have decided that instead of emptying the contents of my study (if only I had room in there to use it for my marking etc) into the spare bedroom, ready to sort out, I am removing one bag or box at a time and am going through it.... shred?recycle?bin?keep? So far this week I have managed to clear 6 bags/boxes of cr*p and have only kept about half a carrier bag of things. :T
Also, this morning while hanging out my washing, I deliberately looked at the mess that is supposedly my garden with the eyes of a visitor and wondered why I have 30+ terracotta pots that I haven't used in years. I bought them after I had a miscarriage and although I did use them that first year, after all my efforts were destroyed overnight by an army of slugs and snails:mad:, I haven't bothered since! Those pots and about 30 garden canes are now sitting outside my front door with a sign saying HELP YOURSELF! The people where I live often recycle in this way and usually things are gone within 3 hours.
I will keep plugging away, a bag or box at a time and I'm sure I will get there! The thing that has stuck with me the most from the posts that I have read are the ones about your loved ones having to deal with your hoarding when you pass on... I have no children of my own so this task would be left to my sister and her children and I do not want them having to deal with that!

Anyway, I think I will do another bag this afternoon. Thankyou OP for this thread, I think you are helping people more than you realise!

Alice
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