Hoarding...not just on TV

short_bird

valk_scot wrote: »

the Playmobil end (which I'm just intending to ignore for now tbh),

I've read your previous posts on the Playmobil so will hastily add I'm not saying sort it now! Do you think it might be worth checking that area just to see that it's all OK and maybe kept in something to keep it and the packaging dust free?

blossomhill_2

My aspirational woman eats lots of veg - so I buy it, grow it and show it but rarely eat it and it sits around my kitchen in various stages of decomposition

skipsmum

blossomhill wrote: »

My aspirational woman eats lots of veg - so I buy it, grow it and show it but rarely eat it and it sits around my kitchen in various stages of decomposition

My aspirational family eats lots of veg. Unfortunately my real family don't, so I also buy, grow, show and watch it decompose

whitewing

I ended up going out for 3 hours in a strop.

He has done 1 job while I was out that I am really pleased about. (Was a job that I would have messed up). Looks much better there now.

I am impressed with your aspirational veg stories, mainly because I always add an extra step of freezing it in. My family will eat some veg (but not with roast dinners, which is annoying) but they can't seem to see the 20 bags of home blanched veg in the freezer even when it is on top of the pizza, lol.

Think we have fallen victim to 'bank holiday expectation' here, where I feel that we have to 'do' things on the bank hol because it's a bank hol, whereas DH has been working hard and is just plain tired. (Still could communicate though).

D&DD

Hellooo I'm a hoarder good and proper and I've decided to actually take the hint from my children and start to have a bit of a sort out..Val are you sure we weren't seperated at birth your attic sounds just like my loft
I've only just started reading the thread but have already decided to let my James Herbert book collection go *sob* as I can get it on my Kindle,I will warn you now though I'm likely to fill any space made with packs of Plenty,Andrex or other such stuff :o but at least it'll be more useful :rotfl:

valk_scot

My lot like veg. Not all the same veg, nope, but they're not bad. By the time I've grown it, harvested it, scrubbed it and cooked it I'm bloomin' well not going to let them off with not eating it...:rotfl:

Anyway, today's sucess story of letting things go that you were keeping "because" but were really long, long past their useful lives? A tree. Specifically the pear tree in my back garden. It was quite small when we arrived here 13 years ago buit despite many severe prunings it has grown, and grown...and not in a good way either, it's in the middle of the garden, gets hopelessly in the way of all activities, shades my flower beds in turn over the course of the day and it doesn't even have a decent trunk to tie the washing line to. Pears? Oh yes, it does pears all right, every second year. At least a hundred bullet hard, sour, misshapen nasty objects that even my friend's goats won't eat. I usually try one every cropping year just to see if it's as bad as I remember. It always is.

But it's a tree, you know? As a bit of an old hippy-tree-hugger I felt reluctant to just get rid of it, which is really all it deserved.

But today I was in a different mood and I felt like action, lol. And the green waste wheelie bin goes out tonight...so now the top growth is in the wheelie bin and the trunk is lying on the grass, waiting to go round to my neighbour's woodpile for her woodburner, once it has seasoned a little. The garden is looking...big. Open. Decluttered even. Much better.

I feel positively uplifted. Thirteen years that tree has been bugging me and now it's gone, yeah! Who know it was possible to hoard trees?

blossomhill_2

skipsmum wrote: »

My aspirational family eats lots of veg. Unfortunately my real family don't, so I also buy, grow, show and watch it decompose

whitewing wrote: »

My family will eat some veg (but not with roast dinners, which is annoying) but they can't seem to see the 20 bags of home blanched veg in the freezer even when it is on top of the pizza, lol

My DD rang me at work one day, as she got in from school, to say there was no food in the house

I said "there are apples in the fruit bowl"

She replied "we are both speaking English but we're not talking the same language" :silenced:

HannahIOW

Hi everyone, I've been lurking on this thread for a while now, but don't think I've posted until today. I'm a bit of a hoarder (tho it mostly has it's own designated room that I can shut the door on, so I don't have to look at it), so is my OH (mainly car stuff - "but I might need that one day, and the day I throw it out I will wish I hadn't!"), my mum and dad both have hoarding tendancies, and I've decided I want to nip mine in the bud before it's too late.

It's just so hard though... everything either has sentimental value so I feel guilty getting rid, or actual value (except any time I advertise everyone is too tight to buy it seems...). I have countless clothes which are new with tags but too small, I can't even seem to get a couple of quid for them may try ebay tomorrow though seeing as it's free listing. I always get stuck at how much to put for postage though?

Fed up of living in mess and clutter! We don't have enough storage which doesn't help, and living in a little flat doesn't give much room for storage items anyway. Any advice gratefully received!

cherie1122

My husband went through boxes of computer bits and pieces and chucked out a load of power leads. I decided to salvage the fuses from them and now have a total of 19 spare fuses.

3 amp, 5 amp, 10 amp and 13 amp. I had to buy some a few months ago and know they're not cheap.

What on earth was he doing with 19 power leads? :rotfl:

HannahIOW

That's actually a really good idea about saving the fuses, very MSE and not something I would have thought to do.