Hoarding...not just on TV

Calluna

elona wrote - I have just got an AF delivery.

Everything going well till I realised the size of the bag of batter mix! !
I have over half a stone of the stuff! :eek:

Anyone got any good ideas?

I made these the other day
http://www.riverford.co.uk/feed/wash/in:recipes/sweetcorn-fritters/
I liked them hot (with sausages & dahl) or cold next day for a snack/lunch
It's basically batter with added veg, I reckon you could add all sorts of cooked veg to that and they were really quick.
Calluna

Brighton_belle

wannabe_sybil wrote: »

Brighton Belle - I lurrrve Lakeland and the catalogue has just arrived :eek::eek::eek::eek: But you do absolutely need everything there, even if you didn't realise it before. Actually, I would be lost without my Remoska.

I :heart2: Sybil . Yes, I love my remoska too.

Byatt, hope you are doing ok and rejoin us when you are ready and able.

Well done whitewing! A good haul. I hate boxing but got totally sucked into that fight,lol.

I have just taken a large bag of cuttings from our new vinyl flooring in the kitchen to the communal bin...emptied the bag out into it and found myself resucing 'useful larger bits' and bringing them back home...useful if you have a room 2ft x 1 ft that is:rotfl:. Going to have to make myself get rid of it somehow...

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Take it all back out to the bin again, BB. You DO NOT NEED this rubbish.

short_bird

Really, BB, you can bin it.
You won't need the vinyl.
You are not my Nottingham landlord who would patchwork vinyl to cover a floor...
and no, that is not a good idea in any room.:D
Just in case anyone thought it was inspirational.

sjprmc01

No, DUMPY, I didnt think that.

I guess just my inner shopaholic/hoarder. Is always defending purchases/keeps

Another day with nothing coming in (to me that is more of a plus than stuff going out). I was at bingo with a friend to it and during the break we popped into Sains next door as she wanted to pick up some school bits for her dd, I was tempted to buy a 2 pack of shortie pjs for my eldest. That were in the sale, I had picked them up and walked around. A bit then decided she didn't really need them!

Nothing went out as have been out of the house literally all day!

SpikyHedgehog

Lazy_Liz wrote: »

Thanks for all the suggestions, we use up any "vest" type carrier bags for cleaning up after the dog, the stuff in the recycling is plastic covers from the post, non usefull kinds of bag and torn ones. I could take them to Mr T's but its 12 miles away and I have my shopping delivered. I know the delivery men will take unwanted bags away but not sure they want to take all the odds and ends we have. So into the bin they go.

I also have a shredder that overheats, often with a sheet stuck in it, nothing to do but wait for it to cool. Then it usualy gives me a fright when it comes back on again!

Errant husband would only let me give the delivery driver bags for recycling if the outer bag was for the shop we were getting a delivery from. They don't mind, & will take any old bags. I do bin ink cartridges usually, as the ones for my printer can't be refilled, & I can't often be bothered to take them to my local cartridge refill place for them to recycle.

Took a load of new envelopes I'd got from MrM for work down there earlier, but still not got rid of CS bags. We're away for a few days, & Errant husband is in to feed the animals. So I'm going to ask him to take the bags & drop off at the hospice shop near him instead of waiting till I can get them to the mind shop.

I've sorted through the pile of clothes on my bedroom floor to find clothes to take, & realised I had more to get rid of than I thought... So am filling up another textile recycling bag to go out with the recycling bin in a fortnight.

I've been putting all the fabric trimmings from sewing straight into the bag, instead of keeping them for something useful...

sjprmc01

So far today, an old, broken house phone (we no longer have a landline). And the broken tumble drier clip which we kept to take to the shop so we got the right new one. Ad then kept in a box in kitchen ever since


Don't think I will see anything else leave the house today as am going to be out most of it again

SpikyHedgehog

sjprmc01 wrote: »

So far today, an old, broken house phone (we no longer have a landline). And the broken tumble drier clip which we kept to take to the shop so we got the right new one. Ad then kept in a box in kitchen ever since


Don't think I will see anything else leave the house today as am going to be out most of it again

Just remember not to bring anything more in ;-)

I'm sitting having breakfast before packing & giving the house a quick clean up before we go. & feeling oddly chilled! Yes, the carpets need a good vacuum - the doors have all been open while the HA was painting front & back doors, & the bins need emptying. & the house is still a work in progress of de-richarding, but I can get it clean enough to go away & have someone come in to feed animals & come back to a clean house with room to dump the bags.

sjprmc01

I don't think anything else will come in bar some groceries probably as the girls have the hair dresser today and the optician....ooh I also made them throw ouT about 4 or 5 unused glasses cases yesterday too!

Had a look back and couldn't see if it was hols you were going on Spiky, but presume it is! Have a good time!

valk_scot

My house is pretty full. It's a big old house with four bedrooms, a huge attic, utility room and big cupboards. Great, eh? Well, the downside of that is that I've spent the last 13 years since we moved here slowly filling it up. I love jumble sales, car boots and junk shops and I love a bargain. And we've all got hobbies, and the kids have toys, and we all hate throwing things out. I'm fine on keeping on top of magazines and papers, packaging, old clothes and things like that but it's the excessive amount of lovely old things I have problems with.

Within the last few years we've had to clear out my late FIL's, my mother's and my SIL's houses so I've inherited a lot of really good household stuff. I've been good and use this as an opprtunity to get rid of much of my older, tattier bits and bobs but still, that's four households worth of stuff in one! And add to that my increasing health problems which are all very well controlled re pain and such, but which make me a lot less active and energetic than a few years ago. I can't do a full day of decluttering for example, I could do a half day but I'd be wrecked the following one! And we've had several close family bereavements and illnesses over the last few years, periods of depression for me and Hubby, two kids....

Anyway. On the plus side, the rotten summer has meant we didn't go off on our usual camping holiday and OH has done some painting instead. When I tell you that the kitchen was refitted 4 years ago and this is him just getting round to painting the bare plaster, you'll see it's something of a miracle that he not only painted the kitchen, he also painted the dining/sewing room, the hall (all 30 feet of it) and the bathroom. I didn't want to ruin the impetus of this so I had to strip down the rooms at the speed of light to get them ready for him (the kids were dragged in to help!) and as a result the rest of the house is in chaos, with boxes of stuff in every room from the shelving in the hall, boxes of craft stuff from the sewing room, bits of furniture in all the wrong places. Oh yes, and before this all started I managed to promise both kids that we'd do a revamp of both their rooms over the summer holidays and we were getting started with this when the Painting Alien moved in. So really, the only rooms untouched by DIY atm are the lounge, study and our bedroom and they're a swamp of boxes instead. Oh yes, and the attic. Did I mention we've got an absolutely VAST attic? And it's full....

So I can't help feeling this can go two ways. I could go and find a corner that's not full of boxes, curl up in a ball and gibber to myself, or I could use this as a golden opportunity to get rid of some of our less wanted things. like about half of them? One thing is certain, I'm not moving all this stuff back into the piles from whence it came. I've made a star on DD's room last week, the two of us evicted five bin bags of junk and there's three shelves of good but unwanted toys sitting ready to go to the charity shop, after her two slightly younger pals from over the road have a pick through it. And the kids go back to school next week (we're in Scotland) so I'll have more spare time.

All very positive. I hope I can keep it up! I've been reading through all this thread again and am finding it very motivating. I really don't want my kids to inherit this vast task, nope. Not when I can get it under control now, and enjoy it a bit myself.