Hoarding...not just on TV

whitewing

I have stacked the dishwasher, grumbling to myself that it is always me that has to do that particular job. I also cleaned out the food waste caddy, and wiped the sides. It took me about half an hour of unscheduled time. I've hit a real downer now, I don't know why. I was a bit cross because I would have rather spent that time working or decluttering. So I need to be careful that I don't get obsessional about chucking stuff out.

Please can somebody provide me with a kick up the backside before I go all eeyore-ish.

mollythewestie

I had such good intentions this morning of staying at home to clear, clean and declutter, but sadly I have done very little indeed .

A handful of paperwork sorted into the various places it needed to go and a few empty paper bags thrown away. I can't get rid of anything else as our wheelie bin is full to the brim (Its emptied tomorrow though thank goodness!)


I really need to vacuum but I am putting it off by being on here

short_bird

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

First coat done on remainder of kitchen. Now everything looks messy, but highlighted by blue. My stress levels and blood pressure are rocketing.

You're decorating the kitchen and the bloke's been about the boiler. This is a natural and temporary state of transition which will, soon, be resolved.

And breathe....

And again....

One more...

GreyQueen

short_bird wrote: »

GQ: any 70's tupperware? Opaque and various shades of yellow, avocado and brown?

Yeah, as a matter of fact. A set of 3 bowls with snap on lids, one avocado, one yellow and one orange. Are they covetable in certain quarters? They're certainly well-made. Probably see us all out and be handed down from mother to daughter as priceless heirlooms of the industrial age.

Look! they'll coo in wonder. Real plastic, so smooth, so colourful. No one knows how to make them anymore, the ancients took the secrets with them to their graves.

sjprmc01

I remember as a small child getting a kids Tupperware playset when my mum got the real set. I remember a lidded jug and everything!

Contessa

This thread is really helping me-thanks! I've been able to see how my mother's death when I was a teenager affected me, making me worried about wasting money, spending too much etc -in contrast to before, when we enjoyed having nice clothes and things.
I feel I've made progress over the last two days. Yesterday I painted a door. Even better was sorting out stuff to take to the CS- my mantra is now "I don't care if it will be useful-it's holding me back!"
On a downside, while I was sorting things out I found about 4 plastic lids to match the containers I was about to throw out...!
Today I finished preparing for an Estate Agent who came round again. (I'll also ask another, very much cheaper one as well ) Although I may just be "rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic" it does seem that I'm making more room.
I recently had my bedroom redecorated and the EA suggested that I should not put anything in it at all ( as my stuff was old) What do you think?

blossomhill_2

sjprmc01 wrote: »

I remember as a small child getting a kids Tupperware playset when my mum got the real set. I remember a lidded jug and everything!

Well we've still got one of those - from 25 years ago!

The_Dragon

Contessa I thought with rooms the consensus was have some furniture in there so people can gauge room sizes as an empty room is deceptive. (Think House Doctor!)

valk_scot

I have a friend coming round this afternoon so I'm not going to have time to do much around the hose by way of decluttering. However I have emailed a friend who keeps chickens asking her if she'd like the chicken run I bought two years in a sale, and which has been sitting (still in packaging) in the shed ever since. I've always fancied keeping chickens but realistically I don't think I ever will, so why own a chicken run?

Sometimes I think I buy things because they're part of this alternate reality I'd like to live in. I'd like to live in a Country Homes & Interiors house, you see, with two labs and Buff Orpington chickens and three kids dressed in Boden clothes and a craft studio in the garden, converted from a summerhouse or gypsy caravan. The reality is somewhat different! But I still buy things for this other woman whose life I'd like, lol.

Anyway, hopefully the chicken run will find a new home. And I'm now wondering what else I've got in the same sort of category that I could move on.

SpikyHedgehog

sjprmc01 wrote: »

OMG! The annual gas check up guy turned up This morn. Que me looking very uneasy at the doorway! Then he says if it's not convenient he can come back in an hr! YES! Please! So I rush to lift clothes piled up in the kitchen to create a walkway and attempt to get the mountain of dishes in front of the boiler done.............he returned in about half an hr stating no one else was in. So I had to let him in, oh, the shame! . I then preceded to take a pile of towels and undies and socks and start folding them so it looked like the mess was in the kitchen for a reason!

He is returning in 1-2 weeks with a part that is needed........I have a feeling the kitchen may be in much the same state! So anyways, no decluttering as such, but the majority of the laundry folding is now done! And half the dishes, the other half piled onto another side of the bunker

I find it so frustrating that I can't carry on de-richarding each day, but have to deal with the daily clutter of washing up & cooking & washing, etc. But it is something we all have to deal with. Think how proud of yourself you'll be when you post in 2 weeks to say 'I cleared the kitchen enough so it was easy for the boiler man!' & we're all going to be jolly proud of you too.

Are your girls old enough to start washing up? Even if its just their breakfast stuff? I find I'm so much more motivated to start work in the kitchen when its that bit clearer to start with.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

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.

Totally agree about getting Little Bear's soft toy hoarding under control. I've said up-thread that I paid DS1 20p per soft toy he sent to the school fair just before we moved, he was then in Year6, or 11 yrs. Having had to get everything out of the bedrooms for flea spraying, I've discovered he still at 16 has 2 million soft toys. He's asked me to get vacuum bags for sorting them in..

Contessa wrote: »

This thread is really helping me-thanks! I've been able to see how my mother's death when I was a teenager affected me, making me worried about wasting money, spending too much etc -in contrast to before, when we enjoyed having nice clothes and things.
I feel I've made progress over the last two days. Yesterday I painted a door. Even better was sorting out stuff to take to the CS- my mantra is now "I don't care if it will be useful-it's holding me back!"
On a downside, while I was sorting things out I found about 4 plastic lids to match the containers I was about to throw out...!
Today I finished preparing for an Estate Agent who came round again. (I'll also ask another, very much cheaper one as well ) Although I may just be "rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic" it does seem that I'm making more room.
I recently had my bedroom redecorated and the EA suggested that I should not put anything in it at all ( as my stuff was old) What do you think?

I know the House Doctor says to only put stuff in that someone could picture themselves in, but don't buy anything you don't need!