Hoarding...not just on TV

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I'm painting again. Well, cutting in, anyhow.

I had to cease activities because I finally remembered that the boiler man was coming and he wouldn't appreciate blue paint over his clothes. And I wouldn't appreciate boiler man damaging the fresh paintwork with the boiler cover or suchlike.


Anyhow, everything is filled, masked, sanded and ready to go.

And the kitchen looks terrible, stuff all over the tumble dryer, dust over the floor. I'm stressed just walking through there.



So I'm off up a set of steps.

I may be gone some time.

Gingernutty

Out : A crate full of books. Space on the upper shelves of the glass fronted bookcase now stores my photograph storage boxes, photo albums and the folder holding the negatives.

In : A couple of vacuum storage bags. In breaking up the wardrobe which was held together with staples, I accidentally punctured one of the storage bags on a shelf.

It blew up like a balloon filling the open shelf. The second bag can store the Autumn weight quilt that goes with the Summer weight quilt in my bedroom.

Tonight : I'm tackling a mystery plastic storage box, the contents of which I've forgotten.

Edit : A broken portable record player :huh: - one more for the small electrical items bin at the dump and a series of containers for calcium chloride chemical dehumidifier.

They can go in the plastics recycling, I think.

whitewing

Tell little bear that his kids are being adopted. (Joke).

We have got two 35 litre boxes for soft toys (plus a few that live around the house). It was much easier to get rid of loved soft toys if we restricted ourselves to those that fit. Mind you, it was easier for me, DD is too young and DS is older plus away from home. But again, it was only the thought that the toys could go to someone else who would enjoy playing with them that spurred me on. Perhaps little bear would help you make up some shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child or whatever it is called. That could help with dejunking children's stuff. Bound to be some practically new stuff that could go into shoebox presents.

DH is out this afternoon and DD going to play with a friend. I should be dejunking paperwork. But I have got DH to pull down the blue and green plastic boxes from on top of the cupboard, and I will go through them, once the dust is off. I already found my graduation photos in them so they definitely don't contain what I thought they did. I thought it was craft stuff.

blossomhill_2

wannabe_sybil wrote: »

Little bear has just announced that his soft toys are his kids. How the Jeff am I supposed to derichard them now? There are hundred of the things

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::T:T:T:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Wait til they expand expotentially and he's a Grandad! Love it! Would he like an honourary auntie?

whitewing

Just managed to persuade DH to clear the top of the wardrobe.

jigsaws, DVD and monopoly game going to the local hospital

2 airfixy type models being binned as incomplete, old mobile phone box for recycling.

2 empty cardboard boxes going to relative for her auctionable goods.

Also found a blouse I'd bought for my aunt's bday last year that I had not been able to find and had convinced myself I hadn't bought. It's lovely, so I am sure she will like it this year.

Microscope and telescope will go to the charity shop, or maybe my friend for her grandchildren.

Kept one tenth of the items on it.

sjprmc01

Today im getting rid of 6prs kids socks.....this may not seem great in the scheme of things but to just be able to go through the laundry pile and say to myself 'they really don't fit anymore' or 'too discoloured to use' is a major change in thinking for me

Also going to hand into the school a 2 pk green tights, a green cardi, a green check dress, a grey pinny and a pr of grey culottes to hopefully be of use to someone.

Forgot yesterday I binned an old mobile phone, again, it's the change in thinking. It is of no use and not worth anything we don't have a charger for it any longer so just chucked it straight in the bin bag!

The_Dragon

erm things like mobile phones and laptops etc can't just be binned normally! They have to be taken to a re-cycling centre/tip

valk_scot

I am on a roll....I was intending to do some bulk cooking this afternoon and spend an hour in the garden but instead I'm cleaning the lounge. It was the sight of this little row of bottles of cleaning materials in the kitchen that did it. Each one has about half an inch of cleaner in it but I can't bear to throw them out till they're empty. Once they're empty then fine, I can dump them, but to use up cleaning materials you've got to clean, yes?

So I am cleaning. I've also fished a binbag full of general clutter out of the lounge and...wait for this...I have removed one lamp, one footstool, one picture and a small desk from the lounge too and OH has taken them down to the car. I will take them to the furniture recycling warehouse tomorrow, together with a small chest of drawers from DD's room. All of the above came from one or another deceased relatives houses and I was sort of keeping them because they belonged to Mum/SIL/FIL...but we've got too much of this stuff. Hubby agrees, so out they go.

And amazingly the sky has not fallen in....;)

I think I'll do some of the bookshelves tomorrow.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

The_Dragon wrote: »

erm things like mobile phones and laptops etc can't just be binned normally! They have to be taken to a re-cycling centre/tip

In which case, having mobile phones that don't work anymore is illegal in my area unless they are carried in a 4-5 seat motor car - you aren't allowed through the gates of any tip on foot - and they patrol the gates to ensure you don't try to get around it.



I'd be inclined to remind Little Bear that people only have one or two babies. I do think his own tendencies need to be nipped in the bud - or there could be a fully grown man in twenty years time squealing that he can't throw away his 3000 teddies.

By 'walking away' or going 'I can't touch them now', he learns that he can keep everything - that as long as he says he cares about something, whatever it is, he gets to keep it. If he were to become attached to a sewer rat like that, you wouldn't walk away if he wailed it was his baby.




First coat done on remainder of kitchen. Now everything looks messy, but highlighted by blue.

My stress levels and blood pressure are rocketing.

sjprmc01

I wouldn't say they HAVE to be sent to the recycle. They aren't toxic or Dangerous waste. I'd say the battery is the most dangerous part and I believe folk have been chucking batteries in the bin for yrs!

Tbh. I generally DO recycle stuff like that (or sell) but I'm sure it isn't the end of the world if one gets through the net.

Oh and I'm sure our bin men would take anything that you can squeeze in to a wheelie!