Hoarding...not just on TV

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

scaredy_cat wrote: »

is there a nursery school nearby who might find them useful?

Peanut allergies.

Not worth the risk, just bin them.

KAT44_2

smileyt wrote: »

I need help!

I have started buying peanut butter in 1kg plastic tubs (a lot of peanut butter is eaten in this house ....). I'm sure you can guess what's coming next.

I only have two tubs saved so far because they might come in useful but I have nowhere to put them so they are living on the work surface and I can see this getting out of hand.

I need to throw them away, don't I?

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. I've been doing so well ....

I have these deliberations all the time, the only way round it for me is when I'm on the "they should go" side of the dilemma I damage or snap up the item in some way. This way it then becomes rubbish instead of an item with a thousand possibilities. Still waiting to do this with the AF boxes that are still living in my hall . In fact challenge you bin them and I'll bin my boxes.

smileyt_2

KAT44 wrote: »

I have these deliberations all the time, the only way round it for me is when I'm on the "they should go" side of the dilemma I damage or snap up the item in some way. This way it then becomes rubbish instead of an item with a thousand possibilities. Still waiting to do this with the AF boxes that are still living in my hall . In fact challenge you bin them and I'll bin my boxes.

*Quivers at the thought of throwing something so useful away ...* OK you're on. I will post back on here tomorrow when I have done the dread deed .... :A I have a load of recycling to do so they can come to the bins with me and if they are recycleable they will go with the rest and if not *gulps* they will go in the bin.

Now your cardboard boxes should be easier to deal with because they can definitely be recycled!

Am going to bed with my loins girded by all you good people's support and a fresh resolve to deal with the peanut butter containers in the morning ...... :rotfl:.

KAT44_2

smileyt wrote: »

*Quivers at the thought of throwing something so useful away ...* OK you're on. I will post back on here tomorrow when I have done the dread deed .... :A I have a load of recycling to do so they can come to the bins with me and if they are recycleable they will go with the rest and if not *gulps* they will go in the bin.

Now your cardboard boxes should be easier to deal with because they can definitely be recycled!

Am going to bed with my loins girded by all you good people's support and a fresh resolve to deal with the peanut butter containers in the morning ...... :rotfl:.

I was dreading you accepting, because it is our green bin (i.e cardboard, garden waste, etc) collection in the morning which meant I've had to put them in there now . What is wrong with me I have happily given 2 expensive items away today, but getting rid of cardboard boxes hurt !!! I shall stalk this thread tomorrow to ensure the peanut butter containers meet their doom :rotfl:.

smileyt_2

KAT44 wrote: »

I was dreading you accepting, because it is our green bin (i.e cardboard, garden waste, etc) collection in the morning which meant I've had to put them in there now . What is wrong with me I have happily given 2 expensive items away today, but getting rid of cardboard boxes hurt !!! I shall stalk this thread tomorrow to ensure the peanut butter containers meet their doom :rotfl:.

Hurray! Now you can celebrate the empty, uncluttered space left by the cardboard boxes!

I will sort out the peanut butter containers, honest!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

smileyt wrote: »

Hurray! Now you can celebrate the empty, uncluttered space left by the cardboard boxes!

I will sort out the peanut butter containers, honest!

Get them out!


If nothing else, you're protecting some poor kid with a peanut allergy from coming across them if they're safely ensconced in the rubbish disposal system - or an innocent rat family from setting up home in the kitchen due to the lovely scent of nuts all over the place......

KAT44_2

smileyt wrote: »

Hurray! Now you can celebrate the empty, uncluttered space left by the cardboard boxes!

I will sort out the peanut butter containers, honest!

I must admit the hall does look better and dh face was a picture when I jumped up and dragged them out at this time of night , saves him saying what the **** are you doing with these boxes like he has done for the past 4 days, he does'nt see the "beauty" in things the way I do :rotfl:

TM6

Hiya :hello:

I would love to join this thread but first I have to play catch up and read all the posts.

See you later

blossomhill_2

smileyt wrote: »

I need help!

I have started buying peanut butter in 1kg plastic tubs (a lot of peanut butter is eaten in this house ....). I'm sure you can guess what's coming next.

I only have two tubs saved so far because they might come in useful but I have nowhere to put them so they are living on the work surface and I can see this getting out of hand.

I need to throw them away, don't I?

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. I've been doing so well ....

smileyt
You could keep ONE.

It may be useful, it may not.

But when you are faced with other new ones, you will be able to think "I don't need to keep this, as I have one in case I need it"

If it does turn out to be useful you have a constant supply of them so can keep the next ones (few) and put them into immediate use for whatever use you have found for them

If it doesn't turn out to be useful you could still keep it, to keep you "safe" from alll the others - don't even wash them out!

Part of the danger of things like this is that they stack well so several initially take up the same space as one, until the stash grows mwahhah! :rotfl:

TM6 wrote: »

Hiya :hello:

I would love to join this thread but first I have to play catch up and read all the posts.

See you later

TM6 Just jump in and join - if you repeat stuff we may point you back to any good earlier discussions - but lots of us repeat ourselves on here anyway, repeat ourselves anyway, sometimes we do the same thing repeatedly until our lightbulb moment

valk_scot

Anyone find their enthusiasm flags now and again? Last night I was raring to get on at the thought of a full week of time to declutter, this morning I got up, walked round the house and just felt depressed at the thought of how much more there was to do.

I mean, it's not that the house is at the stage of not being able to get into rooms except by crawling, or that I can only walk down a narrow passage in the middle. I'm not at the Richard stage, nowhere close in fact. Apart from three rooms (utility room, attic and the study) things don't live on the floor here and in the case of the kids rooms I had a major pre-reshuffle clear out of both of them during the summer holidays. A great deal has gone out between both that and my sudden realisation that the squirrelling had indeed got out of control.

And I'll say now as an aside that this lightbulb moment is entirely down to this thread and what people have been sharing about their thoughts and how they view their possessions. I always rather thought of myself as some sort of thrifty make-do-and-mend sort, always an eye for a bargain and great at finding ways to avoid buying new because I wasn't wasteful of what I threw out, I always had what I might need to hand. And I'm also crafty and a great home cook and preserver and gardener (there's a whole new potential hoarding area when you've got an allotment, belive me) therefore I need all this stuff....raw materials, tools and equipment, storage... But then as I read through the thread some of the things people said started to niggle. I started off thinking it was nothing to do with me, then I started to think that some comments sounded just like me, then there was this moment of ohmygodthisisme..... I'm definately the aspirational sort of horder, yup. Which was fine when I had a small hoard and lots of energy to do all of this stuff. Now I've got a hoard that will last me the rest of my life and beyond tbh.

And having realised all of this I think I'm fine about it, I do want to get rid of all the unnecessary things. I'll find it harder to stop the CS shopping because I really enjoy that (and in fact I've got a whole post about that to write one day) but I will, or at least reduce it to a reasonable level. But it's tiring doing this dehoarding thing, both physically and mentally. I do have a very big house (it looks like a breeze block, it's not some fancy Victorian villa or country farmhouse I may add but it is huge compared to the average suburban semi) and it has a lot of storage, all of which is full. Access to the road, car and bins is awkward and down a long flight of stairs and I can't carry stuff down stairs thanks to my spinal problem and bad balance, so I'm dependent on the OH to do this and he gets narked at being constantly nagged. No, he's not decluttering, he really doesn't care about the junk! And I can't just spend a morning of moving things around, it !!!!!!s up my back too much plus I've got other things to do. So it is going to take a long time and atm I'm at the stage that I feel I've been slaving away but there's not that much to show for it.

As I said, my enthusiasm is flagging.