Hoarding...not just on TV

bobble_hat

JoJo - excellent update to front page :T

I've returned from holiday, the nicest thing was walking into a clean and tidy house as I'd done everything before leaving (except the pantry and the junk room). I bought 6 pairs of new knickers for the holiday, so threw 6 old ones away on my return, and the same with 3 t-shirts.

I unpacked and got 3 wash loads done on Sunday, and finally made my cafe curtains for the kitchen, they're ace. I also made the curtain for the downstairs loo, but the UPVC curtain rail will not stay stuck up. :mad: The curtain looks nice though.

I got all the clean dry washing sorted, ironed and put away last night too. I believe I am a reformed character, I hope I can keep this up.

I need to e-bay everything in the junk room now, it's an organised junk room, but 'Everything Must go' (I still need to board the loft to assist in this endeavour and have had a loft boarding 101 from my lil' Bro.

lostinrates

The bronze handbag

The bronze handbag was bought by dh for me in accesorise a large number of years ago...seven? Eight? It was seen as a great travelling handbag. Big enough for cabin when i was taking hold luggage, a few pockets for easy access to stuff. A good shoulder strap for cross body holding in cities and airports. I only have one other bag with the perfect cross body handling, which i also love but its, um, ten years older than me, and i am keeping it till i can find someone to make me a perfect copy in canvas.

Even that first few weeks the broze colour started wearing away (annoying) and this only got worse. But, its still 'useful'. Its got a sort of flaking look now too. And yet, somehow, i cannot seem to get rid of it. (Its too ratty for a cs, its too ratty for me really...but i still use it) but its functional, hardwearing, and all the fastenings still work. No holes etc.

What does one do with such an item?

whitewing

Aspirational me would take a tattered handbag and fabric paint it, and vajazzle it (if one can vajazzle a handbag) and lo and behold you would have a functional unique work of art.

Real me would have it so it was unsaleable at a jumble sale for the most worthy charity you can imagine.

My DH would require that I bin such an item. He gets upset with tatty stuff, partly as his grandfather was a tailor so clothes/fabric were kept in pristine condition.

lostinrates

whitewing wrote: »

Aspirational me would take a tattered handbag and fabric paint it, and vajazzle it (if one can vajazzle a handbag) and lo and behold you would have a functional unique work of art.

Real me would have it so it was unsaleable at a jumble sale for the most worthy charity you can imagine.

My DH would require that I bin such an item. He gets upset with tatty stuff, partly as his grandfather was a tailor so clothes/fabric were kept in pristine condition.

Dh and i look like a couple of tramps these days . It has to change. Today i am wearing a grey tracksuit and a wonderful monsoon cardi.......witha huge hole on the seam. I say hole.......well, um...its connected at the armpit and the hem.

I cannot say why i love this cardigan so much but i do. My hands aren't good opn this new medicine, otherwise i would sew up the seam. Instead i am shuffling round like a tramp.:o

Lazy_Liz

LIR The bronze handbag. When I was a young sales rep I was taught that apperances matter becuase they influence the opinions people form of you and ultimatly the way they treat you. It was re-enforced that, tie (if you wore one) shoes, watch, pen and briefcase were important to those opinions as they show attention to detail and most importantly if you value yourself.
Now personally I reckon a dazling smile, a friendly personality, charm and good manners go much further but a tatty handbag does not really say I value myself ( it might be interpreted as "careful with money" but could also be "a cheapskate") I am not saying you are in anyway but this is the effect it can have on other people and if you are trying to get someone to take you seriously it may be a distraction, one they may not even realise they are actualy acting upon.
I hope you undrestand what I am trying to say and that I am not "getting" at you in any way but perhaps you should have a think about finding a good replacement for that bag.

Went to look for all the bits for my Sony reader so I could sell it on flea bay, but guess what I can't find the user guide CD ROM anywhere....aagh! wonder if it will sell without it?

lostinrates

Lazy_Liz wrote: »

LIR The bronze handbag. When I was a young sales rep I was taught that apperances matter becuase they influence the opinions people form of you and ultimatly the way they treat you. It was re-enforced that, tie (if you wore one) shoes, watch, pen and briefcase were important to those opinions as they show attention to detail and most importantly if you value yourself.
Now personally I reckon a dazling smile, a friendly personality, charm and good manners go much further but a tatty handbag does not really say I value myself ( it might be interpreted as "careful with money" but could also be "a cheapskate") I am not saying you are in anyway but this is the effect it can have on other people and if you are trying to get someone to take you seriously it may be a distraction, one they may not even realise they are actualy acting upon.
I hope you undrestand what I am trying to say and that I am not "getting" at you in any way but perhaps you should have a think about finding a good replacement for that bag.

Went to look for all the bits for my Sony reader so I could sell it on flea bay, but guess what I can't find the user guide CD ROM anywhere....aagh! wonder if it will sell without it?

I do not feel got at at all.

I should perhaps say i am a bit....eccentric. I live in a house that from the outside looks 'posh' and am as likely to be in an evening gown with slippers as this tracksuit.

But i know what you are saying and i agree with it, I should replace the bag.

That bit is hard enough (perfect bags are hard to come by) but getting rid of this one is the hardest bit. It is tatty, but too good for landfill. I do not know what to do with it. I cannot reasonably put it in the bin and feel 'ok' with that choice as i have with some other things in recent weeks. I have wondered if i can use it for storage.....but not sure what it would store well...dog walking stuff maybe.....

But if i get rid of it ...where?

Lazy_Liz

LIR: IMHO find a replacment first. Then worry about what to do, it might take a while and by then you will perhaps know what to do.
BTW I would also be wandering around the house in oddments if DH didn't tell me off!;)

alec_eiffel

A charity shop may well recycle the bag. All the shops I worked at recycled shoes and bags as well as fabric.

valk_scot

I have decided which of the two pressure cookers to keep. My mum's old one has a auto-timer, all the dividers and a set of instructions so it's staying. The other one is a standard hi-dome one with three weights, no inside bits and I don't have any particular attachment to it. So it's getting the heave.

(No, I'm not putting it in DS's Uni box...)

On the garden front DS took the six foot stump of the pear tree out the ground today and carried it round to my neighbour who owns a woodburner. And DD helped me dismantle the last of the climbing frame so hopefully the friend who's taking it will come for it next week.

I shredded down a bag of old paperwork to put in the compost bin. I love shredding paper for the composter, it's highly useful stuff to mix with grass clippings and tea bags and weeds etc. Makes beautiful compost.

And DD has a box of toys ready to take to the school nursery tomorrow. It's a lovely set from the ELC with plastic fairy figures that live in a giant pop-up mushroom house, there's a play mat that folds into a storage box and a slot together wooden seascape with mermaids etc. I loved it all, the fairies and mermaids were all very pretty and it was one of DD's favourite things for ages. DD thought the nursery would like it though, there's enough there for several children to play with at once and it will be well loved. So I'm not discouraging her from giving it away.

whitewing

lir, I love the idea of you wafting round the house in an evening gown. Next time you put your gown on, have a look at bronze bag and see if you still feel like keeping it.

Alternatively, could you sill it with compost, and some trailing ivy and wintery plants and have it as a beautiful weathering garden feature. Aspirational me speaking. If I tried to do that it wouldn't look like feature, it would be a decaying mess.