Hoarding...not just on TV

GreyQueen

mollythewestie wrote: »

I can well believe that, I once spent 1 day working in a dairy filling milk cartons for the major supermarket (It all comes from exactly the same tank just goes into bottles with different labels on - Tesco, Co-op etc.)
When the tanks came in from outside they were covered in slugs & snails and I was disgusted when the workers started throwing them at one another! they were being thrown over the machinery so Im not surprised if one got in a bottle.
I refused to go back there to work and quit on the spot .

:mad: That's so gross.

Back when I was a student we had some interesting lectures and one of them was about the case which established in our law that the manufacturers had a responsibility to the consumers of a product for its quality.

Can't quote the case name as am not a legal eagle but it was about 100 years ago (I think) and the issue was a woman found a snail in her bottle of ginger beer. Or something similar. And now we're going backwards.

I used to work in a meat packing factory and after what I've seen, all I can say is that it's a miracle there isn't more food poisoning that there is already...........

:j JoJo all the best with your job application. I rejoinded the work force p/t after 7 years on disability benefits and I know how uncomfortable it is to try to account for the gap in a positive way..........tell them about this thread, you're our heroine and you've helped a lot of people.

Gingernutty

Donoghue v Stevenson

One of the first cases in British law establishing that the manufacturer of a product had a duty of care to the customers who bought or consumed said product

Byatt

Molly, GQ's post reminded me about yours, and I really appreciate it. Poor dad, it was some years ago, in the late 70's (that makes me feel so old!), and the milk company just denied it, said it wasn't possible and he didn't follow it through. Of course then without the internet you didn't have the information or clout.

I must admit after Calico's post about the kettle I checked mine before I filled it, and then realised there was a net thing across the spout so couldn't have got in, or could it? :eek:

recently, someone local said they found a lizard in their loaf of bread bought from Mr T. :eek:

edit, to get back on track, I have decluttered some of my paper work. Letter to HB people (why does it take me so long, as when I actually get down to doing it, it takes me just minutes to write!)...form regarding DD sent off and updated my voting thingy online.

GreyQueen

Gingernutty wrote: »

Donoghue v Stevenson

One of the first cases in British law establishing that the manufacturer of a product had a duty of care to the customers who bought or consumed said product

You are clever!

I heard that mentioned once, in passing, about 30 years ago and it stuck in my memory. We're so accustomed to the idea that there is a responsibility on behalf of the manufacturer to us as consumers that it's hard to comprehend that this was ever a novel idea.

Some great progress being made on individual de-richarding here. I am slowing down slightly but there is a good reason; I am tackling the Unread Books. You know, as a book lover it is entirely possible to buy them a lot faster than you can read them, esp at c.s. prices and that way lies madness.

Or at least, big heavy piles of repurposed tree. My unreads number less than a dozen but some have been loitering for years and I am determined to get them read and given away. I don't know what to do about the 3 inch deep hardcover fantasy novel borrowed from my brother tho; I have it balanced on the top of my computer tower to stop a very annoying vibration problem!

Anyone else hanging onto something because it is serving a completely-random purpose in their lives?

Brighton_belle

GreyQueen wrote: »

Anyone else hanging onto something because it is serving a completely-random purpose in their lives?

I am so tempted to put my DH:D.
Well, can't believe this, woke up this morning and thought, I'm getting rid of the the shoes I don't feel good in, even if ther is nothing wrong with them. I've just put 6 pairs in a bag, 2 of them good enought o try and sell at the nearly new shop.(But had for 15 yrs and 4 years respectively and both worn once:o)
They have yet to make it out of the house, but I am like the feeling so far.
This leaves me with a total of 12 pairs of footwear (including all boots/trainers sandels etc, but not 1 x wellies or 1 x walking boots stored with outdoor gear). And another pair of sandels are on probation: if not worn 4 times between now and end of Sept, they need to go. Yes, I will need a couple fo new pairs of shoes and 1 x boots this winter, but there is room on my shoe shelf now for them. My rule, since putting up the shelves in february, is all footwear has to fit on the shelf, so from now on it is a one in one out policy.
This is where for me, everything in the open works: our shoes and clothes are all 'on dispplay' on open shelvs and hanging space in our bedroom (no room for doors). In does avoid the 'out of sight,out of mind' that I find I am very prone to.

Byatt

BB, I do that, wake up and find I've made a decision. I am sure we process it all as we sleep.

My plan is if it doesn't have a home it goes, although I make it sound easier than it is. I still struggle, but realise the only way I can get a grip on things here is to have a place for everything, and if there's no place, well that's it. By that I don't want cupboards/shleves bursting at the seams.

Lazy_Liz

Cookery books need sorting, several I have not ever used even once and some I have only ever made one recipe out of, better off photo-copying the reciep and letting someone finde a nice practicaly new cooker book at the CS. Also a lot of free booklets from supermarkets and manufactures, I've got one from an Italain rissoto rice company, lots of risotto receipes, I can make risotto with my eyes closed I hardly need a book of 30 odd different varieties of the same thing-each one written out fully.
Wardrobe also needs sorting- I read somewhere that you should rehang worn clothes on the right of your wardrobe then after 3 months get rid of the lefthand half as you are not wearing those colthes, was that on here? Only problem is I have thinkgs like pretty summer dresses but non worn as too miserable this summer, they fit and I like them so they can't go.

Was thinking about finishing things, well done to those people who are making progress with why they don't finish things but then you stilll need to finish the projects. I think this takes real practice, finshing is hard. I improved my finished project score by taking one thing, working out a suitable timescale to get it done then doing that one thing, I found it helped if I could think of a good reason to finish it and a perhaps even more compelling consequence if it wasn't finished. In my case it was essays at college so I had the reason of getting thrown off my course which is pretty drastic and not likely to be the case for finishing a jumper but it still took a lot of will power to get to the end, I had handed in a few not properly finished with a sort of scrawled "conclusions" paragraph on the end. I still got reasonable marks becuase the rest of the essay was good but of course the last bit let me down. Once I got into the habit of finishing the things my marks improved but mainly I found I felt better about myself as I wasn't letting me down any more. I try and apply this two reasons, one good one bad to other projects in my life now and it really helps.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Afternoon everybody, and well done on your choices today!


I actually bought two things today. One was a new pair of PJs, so I have 2 pairs that I find comfortable (chucks tatty vests and misshapen trackie bottoms that had been sufficing - sort of).


The other was a set of poultry shears. Because I have started buying a small chicken and portioning it up, rather than getting pieces. Much cheaper, but it was getting a little risky for me (and too enjoyable for the cat) when I walloped the things with a cleaver and sent bits of chicken flying across the kitchen.


Oh well.

susyrosy

I'm not a hoarder, though of course I do have a home full of things I like having around - but they have to do the William Morris thing, and be useful and decorative. I've found that the more storage space you have (that thing so beloved of wardrobe makers and designers) the more stuff you ram into it. Remove excess (value judgment here) storage - in my case, a campervan and extensive shelves - and you can't keep things.

I have to boast a bit - I went to France for 9 days with one small carry on pocketed bag (Ryanair) and had three rolled up dresses, underwear, small toiletries, swimming costume and flipflops, and wore trousers, t shirt, cardigan and trainers - no problem. Didn't get to wear the swimming costume

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

susyrosy wrote: »

I'm not a hoarder, though of course I do have a home full of things I like having around - but they have to do the William Morris thing, and be useful and decorative. I've found that the more storage space you have (that thing so beloved of wardrobe makers and designers) the more stuff you ram into it. Remove excess (value judgment here) storage - in my case, a campervan and extensive shelves - and you can't keep things.

I have to boast a bit - I went to France for 9 days with one small carry on pocketed bag (Ryanair) and had three rolled up dresses, underwear, small toiletries, swimming costume and flipflops, and wore trousers, t shirt, cardigan and trainers - no problem. Didn't get to wear the swimming costume

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I worked in travel insurance for a while. Since then, I never pack more than one small bag, as people lose thousands of pounds worth of stuff when cases go missing.


Unfortunately, nobody I have ever gone anywhere with has been able to cope with less than about five cases, three bags and filling a car boot to overfilling. So I have never benefitted from this.