Hoarding...not just on TV

lostinrates

whitewing wrote: »

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.

Wafting around the house is one thing. Smetimes i cut the lawn in one. .

Dh has a sheep suit and a sprt of...well, i suppose its a cardinal outfit (i was trying to make him a nightshirt but out of fleece so it would be wrong and it ended up floor length and i made a hat with the scraps. )

I guess we have one of 'those' reputations that keeps trick or treaters away...because we could be the sort of people whose treat is unpleasant and where the trick could be on you. (we aren't, and we wear normal clothes too, but left to our own devises we don't. Odd or nothing really)

Byatt

LIR, I was going to mention my singing and dancing as I shop around A$da...the other day, then changed my mind, but I feel at home now...:o:p

Jo-Jo, the first post is brill, you are so eloquent. :T

I have spent most of the day in the kitchen again, it's taken me hours (well I was washing up as I went along) to at last part with 6 largish items including a cast iron grill pan. I struggled over the cast iron, which was an aspirational acquisition about 4-5 years ago, and barely used as it's so heavy. It's useful as a lethal weapon but I would probably break my wrist if I tried to swing it! :eek:

Byatt

falady wrote: »

Byatt and JoJo, your posts speak to my heart. I have been lurking on this thread for a little while but reading the last few pages and your posts quoted above had made me post.

Thank you. You have given me insight.

Hi Falady, I am really touched that my posts have given you some insight.

Jo-Jo is an amazing writer and her post to me is just so helpful, plus I thought OMG, she's been in my house! But so inspirational and I go back and read it often, I must print it off and put on my fridge.

Contessa

I haven't posted on here recently as nothing to report but today I remembered the loft-how could I forget that it's full of stuff? I brought down 6 boxes of books. My local CS will collect them but I spent some time vacuming and dusting them. In fact I only managed a box and a half. Some were so old and tatty or out of date that I tore them up and they're in the paper recycle bin. I think the dusting will take a couple of days as it's not helping my asthma but I've made a start.

Byatt

whitewing wrote: »

For the third night in a row, I am having bad dreams. This time I dreamt I was back at Uni (the age I am now) doing my degree as I hadn't completed it (I did). I had left DH, DS and DD at home and moved 200 miles away to study and was missing them like mad. Then I missed a science lecture because I popped to the loo just before it, but every toilet I found was being renovated. By the time I'd found one I didn't want to walk into the lecture theatre 20 mins late but I had to hang around as my pens and notepads were in the theatre. Then I was panicking and thinking, why am I doing science? An English degree would be better. Then our i phones were bleeping as one of the professors on campus had shot 5 members of his family and was now roaming round campus being looked for by the police.

This is not making for restful nights.

I like the new OP, Jo. I am glad you didn't delete the original text, but I like the extras.

It strikes me as I read the thread, what a shame we aren't geographically close enough to have a 'declutter bring and share'. We would have to arrive armed with a list each of things we actually need, and this could be monitored on the way out by the Declutter Police. I would happily have BB's plastic pegs! And some tea towels, which are next on my hit list.

The dreams are so vivid too aren't they. I don't seem to be having so many, except for anxiety dreams. It must be the brain having the space/energy/room to process stuff we've buried.

I think the declutter bring and share would be a disaster for me, because I would want to "rescue" so much! :eek: And save the other person at the same time. :rotfl: But I would love to meet you all. :A

Today I visualised my de-hoarding like the windows in an Advent Calendar...they used to all open to reveal a picture, I don't know if they still do as no longer have small children, but my "windows" are being opened randomly, and I am having small glimpses of the bigger picture. It's still not clear and there's no clarity, but each smaller picture opened, brings a new dimension to the bigger picture.

lostinrates

Byatt wrote: »

LIR, I was going to mention my singing and dancing as I shop around A$da...the other day, then changed my mind, but I feel at home now...:o:p
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There is a parmesan advert in italy with a catchy tune. More than once i have seen people looking at me amused only to realise i am bopping along humming or siniong 'pa pa pa pa pa pa parmigiano, re re re re re regiano, pa pa pa etc etc etc. :o:o

Thank god they don't still have that body form advert:rotfl:

valk_scot

Byatt wrote: »

Today I visualised my de-hoarding like the windows in an Advent Calendar...they used to all open to reveal a picture, I don't know if they still do as no longer have small children, but my "windows" are being opened randomly, and I am having small glimpses of the bigger picture. It's still not clear and there's no clarity, but each smaller picture opened, brings a new dimension to the bigger picture.

I like that idea, it's very pretty. I shall keep it in mind next time I'm elbow deep in unwanted tat.

Contessa

A few weeks ago I donated 15 demijohns that had been in the shed to someone requesting on Freecycle. Sod's Law-yesterday my son rang to ask if he could have some of the demijohns as he's going to start wine-making! I actually felt I'd let him down as I'd got rid of them-but said new ones would be more hygenic. Anyway, one of the books I got down from the attic is called "Making wines like those you buy" (or could buy 40 years ago) so he can have that instead as a consolation prize.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

lostinrates wrote: »

There is a parmesan advert in italy with a catchy tune. More than once i have seen people looking at me amused only to realise i am bopping along humming or siniong 'pa pa pa pa pa pa parmigiano, re re re re re regiano, pa pa pa etc etc etc. :o:o

Thank god they don't still have that body form advert:rotfl:

I get all that nonsense out of my system when I go out on Sunday nights.


To give you an idea of the sheer horror of things, I usually sing tenor (in other words, songs recorded by blokes or a lower accompaniment to someone else singing soprano).

Yesterday, one of the songs we decided to try was On The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine.


Guess who ended up doing both of Stan Laurel's 'voices'? (and got only a mildly sarcastic cheer and round of applause for the Godawful semioperatic noise that came out of my mouth). It's hard to keep switching from very very low to upsetting assistance dogs for miles around - when you've got people you know well falling over in hysterics in front of you.

Jo_anne_2

I have been lurking on this thread but finally got the courage to jump in. I've struggled with Stuff: storing it, tidying it up, buying more 'storage solutions' when tidying up didn't work, but finding it near impossible to let go of Stuff.

The worst room in the house is my study/craft room (not that there's been any space to do crafts for a long long time) but I have made a start and emptied everything out into DS1's room now he has gone back to Uni. I just can't believe how much fitted in one small room!

With DH's help, I began to sort and discard a few things last night. It was hard and I was very jittery after just about an hour of sorting. There is lots more to do and we've only scratched the surface. Is it me or is making decisions about what to do with things the hardest bit?