Hoarding...not just on TV

elona

DD had an echocardiogram or is it graph yesterday but probably won't hear anything till middle of next week. Ironically she is feeling fine and does not seem worried at all which is good in a way
but a bit disconcerting.

Managed to shift dd's desk from her bedroom into DH's potting shed, got rid of AF boxes and did a load of laundry.

Hug to all

Jo_anne_2

whitewing wrote: »

Have a folder to be scanned and chucked. Quite important stuff that I may need to refer to again.

What a brilliant idea. I've got some paperwork I ought to keep hold of, but I can scan it and chuck it so it takes up only virtual space! Thanks!

VJsmum

VJsmum wrote: »

Yayy - I have just sorted through a huuuuge bag of packaging from various am*zon parcels to use for ebaying. But I have had it a year and not used it.

So I have kept back 3 items which I may use and recycled the rest. :T

Been meaning to do that for about 6 months.

Bu88er - just found another huge basket of the stuff

katep23

Hi all, been finishing up in my job after 11 years, start a new job on Monday. Been v stressful (the amount of things I do which are not written down or based on intuition/knowledge...) so not been doing much de-richarding at home but have cleared 11 years worth of accumulated rubbish from the office. Unfortunately some of it has made its way home...

wannabe_sybil wrote: »

Not doing too bad in getting stuff out. Now need to beat my conviction that there will never, ever be as good a deal as x again and must order a shedload. Or that it will be ages before I need to order from x again so while I am there, to make the shipping worthwhile, I need to order a shedload (can you tell I do most of my shopping on line)

Oh I so get this, Costco do their special offer on toilet rolls every 2 months or so... so why did I end up with 120 "in case we run out"! Down to less than 80 now and the urge to buy more is over-whelming :eek:.

I also managed to almost break our dexion racking with the weight of baked beans and tinned tomatoes so everything has been shoved in the larder and is even more of a muddle. Time to eat out of the cupboards for a while, but I can't stop buying YS food for the freezer. There is prepping and there is hoarding and I know which one I fit into!

Let's not mention the AF order at my mum's waiting for me next time I go to Somerset :cool:

lostinrates wrote: »

Re jam i have not made any tjis year...too ill and too much building going on.

But, i tend to make the odd and unbuyable treats, our own family christams conserve recipe, and things like peach and honeysuckcle jelly, or proper bramble jelly, hawtorn jelly etc, but buy stuff like strawberry and black currant, using the we grow in pies, pudds and cooking and occasionally for the freezer. I want to bottle more of them, but thats maybe aspiratioal.

Hi LIR, I made hawthorn jelly last year, we have opened two jars of which one went mouldy and have about 14 in the larder :rotfl: You're welcome to have some!

Byatt wrote: »

I don't deserve a nice home because I don't feel I'm a nice person. I know this is totally based on past abuse and therefore my self image is very skewed, but even though I can see that, I can't as yet not feel it. I'm always suprised when someone likes me. I belittle my achievements. I always think I could/should do better.

Why do I feel I have done something so bad that it makes me bad. It's the little, niggly voices, again from past abuse that I will get what I deserve, so life has thrown some carp at me, so I must deserve it. The latest thing with my sister has tipped me over the edge, dredging up the silt on the bottom of my mind and emotions. It's probably good it has because I am now trying to deal with it.

What am I punishing myself for? For not being perfect, not the perfect daughter, the perfect wife, the perfect mother.

Now I *know* all this stuff is irrational, I don't need to be perfect and flawed people (my family, and ex) forming an opinion of me that is pretty low, shouldn't be taken seriously. But the emotions are not catching up with the intellectual side and are so powerful.

I am also very much alone and whilst I'm very independent and insular (?) I don't have anyone to nurture me and that seems to take its toll.

Ah hon, we all think you are wonderful but that doesn't help does it? Why is the voice in our head so much louder than what everyone else says? And why do we believe the negative thing someone once told us when we can't believe the positive thing?

I was deeply affected by a comment made to me when I was a young child (say 6 or 7 I guess) and it's only as an adult I can see it for a crass attempt at humour and I reckon if I spoke to the bloke who made the comment he wouldn't even remember it. But it has shaped how I have viewed myself my whole life and it's only now I am beginning to change how I feel about myself.

I really do sympathise with you Byatt :A at least you are facing up to your demons; I really hope you can beat them. If you ever need a shoulder or an ear, PM me. x

Patchwork_Quilt

blossomhill wrote: »

Ref old jewellery - I took mine to a gold dealer this week and got nearly £2000 - one 2" bag of loose bits of chain link and squashed earrings was £60 (I nealry fell over!) One chain link alone was £140, even earring backs got nearly £2 each, so I hope the church is taking it to get weighed rather than selling it as bric a brac PQ otherwise you might be better off selling it to a gold dealer and donating the money instead

Thanks for this, blossom. This is why I'm just going to check what they're doing with it before I donate it... I think they seem fairly switched on though.

Got a new battery for my 'best' watch today - only £5 - so that I can actually wear it instead of it sitting in the box when it should be on my wrist. I also left a favourite earring with the jeweller to see if he can match it. He's a lovely man and never makes me feel as if I haven't got enough money, which I suppose is why we go back. So although these items haven't gone out, they are being properly used.

As to things we have been given that we don't really like, I'm afraid the answer is quite a lot. I'm beginning to realise how fussy I am, and that seems churlish when people are only trying to be kind. My Mum bought me an ornament from the local vintage shop because she said it looked just like me - a tall willowy woman with a hat on an a flower in her hand. Except I'm not. But the comparison was pleasing.

D&DD

VJsmum wrote: »

Bu88er - just found another huge basket of the stuff

lol I so know how THAT feels

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Evening!

Been shopping for some more paint to do the living room, and some steel wool to clean up a roughly 80 year old dressing table/vanity that was put outside a house being refurbished round the corner from home a couple of days ago. It's solid wood, has a mirror and is almost exactly what I have been looking for.

So, once it's been cleaned and waxed, it's going where the cruddy £30 IKEA CoD is currently self destructing after a whole 4 years. (which has the happy side effect of meaning it's not hoarding or saving for the sake of it, it's a stroke of luck where a planned purchase turned out to be free).


I also traded in some vouchers and got a steam generator iron, which was delivered during the week, and I've just tried it for the first time. I think I might be a convert, as it took a lot less effort and did a much better job. So, the bed has been remade with crisp sheets and the shirts are hanging up in the wardrobe.

However, I did spend about 3 hours this afternoon cleaning the living room, taking stuff out of shelves, checking the magazines/paint charts I have kept to see if I still need them (I get home decor mags to help me plan the house) - and putting them straight into recycling, along with all the old catalogues. Plus sorting out some storage for the little bits of gibble that I haven't got anywhere else for yet - an old carved mahogany box. Oh, and polishing the furniture. I like polish.



However, I have had a lovely dinner, a couple of ciders and I am now going to go to bed sooner rather than later, as I am shattered.


I hope everybody has a good evening/night!

valk_scot

Apart from a run to the CS to drop off stuff I'd sorted out previously I didn't do any dericharding today. I did have a look round the CS while I was there but nothing tempted me. I came home and had lunch and went and did some work in the garden instead. I'm still dithering and swithering about what to do about the greenhouse, I really do feel I want and need a new one as the old one is small and starting to fall apart. But there's really only one sensible place to put a greenhouse in this garden re sunlight and if I get a bigger one I'll have to take out one veg bed.

Decisions...oh well, no spare cash atm anyway. Even a cheapie small one will be about £150. The last one was a cheapie too but it's lasted for 14 years.

charlies-aunt

Reading this thread has got me all fired up for a full day of decluttering!

I have a houseful of "stuff" inherited from long dead relatives - old and interesting things but I've had most of it for 20 years plus - boxed up or crammed into cupboards just cluttering up the place.

Keep having half hearted attempts to sort and sell on ebay but finding it very, very slow progress.

I'm having counselling at the moment and have come to realise that I have to stop clinging to this stuff so I can move on. So deep breath and big cardboard boxes at the ready!

shelley_crow

I've sold quite a bit on ebay over the last few weeks without any problems, sales are a bit slow compared to normal. I have a buyer of a large item giving me grief and messing me around, trouble is I really need the item out of the way.

My house is shaping up, still a long way to go though. Must resist the car boot this morning! x