Hoarding...not just on TV

blossomhill_2

Do NONE of you have a shoe box with workboots on your bedside table? And a doll from childhood?
Do none of you have to get up and turn out the light after reading because you haven't got room for a bedside light?
Maybe it's just me then ...

alec_eiffel

My favourite childhood doll (a baby beans) is in the drawer in my bedside table. He is very much the worse for wear as I ripped off his denim cap and put him in a Barcelona football kit in 1984. But he lives there and I believe him to be happy.

lostinrates

blossomhill wrote: »

Do NONE of you have a shoe box with workboots on your bedside table? And a doll from childhood?
Do none of you have to get up and turn out the light after reading because you haven't got room for a bedside light?
Maybe it's just me then ...

Well, i shared mine but looking across to dh's side.....

Two bedside lamps.....one is battery powered, just in case. A torch. Just in case. Three candles and two boxes of matches. Just in case (getting the idea here?) a headache thing that sticks on the head and stinks of menthol, some piriton, oh, another battery powered light missed that one, a glass, some super flue, some massage oil .

He doesn't have a draw he has one shelf...its full mainly of boxes, ornate boxes whoch Re full of other stuff....one has business cards in a messy jumble.....i dunno about the others.

Ours look equally bad. He is safer in a power outage.

thriftwizard

Do NONE of you have a shoe box with workboots on your bedside table?

No workboots here, I'm afraid... probably because I took them to the tip this morning; they had holes in the soles, as did my walking boots & my indoor winter shoes. I'd hung onto them all for far too long... when the budget allows, it's new shoes & boots time! But I do now have some room in the shoe drawer under the bed.

17 cookbooks went off in the end today, and just one small book came in. And I was pleased to see the ladies in the charity shop cooing over the books I'd just donated - looks like they stand a good chance of selling them on (some of our local charity shops have stopped accepting cookery books, they get so many) so hopefully they'll do both the animal shelter & their new owners a good service.

GreyQueen

blossomhill wrote: »

Do NONE of you have a shoe box with workboots on your bedside table? And a doll from childhood?
Do none of you have to get up and turn out the light after reading because you haven't got room for a bedside light?
Maybe it's just me then ...

Sorry, but no. Am feeling a little underdressed in the bedside table dept as my bedroom is only just big enough to take a standard double and have the door open without smacking into it. Gosh, there's at least 2 inches clearance.

My bedside table-a-like is a small corner shelf which holds a travel alarm clock 24/7 any my specs at night-time.

I dust it at least once a year...............:rotfl:

Have de-richarded the jamjars, retaining only one especially comely one to be my ready-cash-burglar-distractatron jar. It is apparently sound psychological sense to have something readily nickable to stop any burglar feeling the need to dig deeper.....such as under the bed where the tinned tommies live.

I once spent a fascinating half hour quizzing one of the Met's SOCO who spent all day going from burglary to burglary and it was educational. Have come to the conclusion that any burglar in my gaff would be very p*ssed off indeed by the poor pickings, since most of my worldlies have entered the negative value part of their cycle, as in you'd have to pay to have them taken away.

So, they can have a jamjar of pound coins as a distraction. And I can always find a use for them at the corner shop if necessary.

I can remember macarame too. Owls were very popular, as were hanging plant stands full of spider plants. The 1970s; The Decade that Taste Forgot.

short_bird

A reading light.
A SAD light.
A vintage Noddy jigsaw and box.
Medications.
Remote for the radio alarm clock on t'other side of bed.
[STRIKE]3 books[/STRIKE] 4 books.
A pack of make up removal pads.
2 notebooks.
A Doctor Who Christmas Card.
An Adipose floaty pen, BNIB.
A sign that says "Gone To Norfolk".

Hmmmm.:rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

blossomhill wrote: »

Do NONE of you have a shoe box with workboots on your bedside table? And a doll from childhood?
Do none of you have to get up and turn out the light after reading because you haven't got room for a bedside light?
Maybe it's just me then ...

DMs are taken off when I come in, then put on the second step to be taken up the very next time I head upstairs, where they go into the bottom of the wardrobe on the shoe rack.


Dolls? Definitely not my sort of thing. There are two teddy bears and a Bagpuss on the top of the wardrobe in front of the hatbox that contains a lot of miscellaneous gibble. I will never breathe a word to my girls that I actually detest stuff with MUM emblazoned across it. They are my exception to the rules. Bagpuss is fine - he's cool.


The light is one that actually plugs into the socket like a nightlight, but with a bendy stalk and small glass shade.

That frees the top of the mini filing cabinet that serves as my bedside cabinet (and holds important paperwork) for my glasses, my phone and my CPAP machine. And assorted cats on their way to and from the windowsill to the bed.


I have a lot of trouble getting to sleep in the first instance of a night. So I am very fixed in terms of good sleep hygiene - no tv, no radio, no clutter, very rarely a book, as I could read until it's finished and it's 7.05am.

It took a long time, but I'm at the stage where my clothes go on the tub chair, I put on my night things, get into bed, put my phone and my glasses down, shift the cats around to ensure I get my space and take my neckcare pillow back from one of them, put on my CPAP mask, switch it on and within about ten minutes, I'm falling asleep.


And eleven minutes later, one of cats usually hurls himself onto my ribs as he gets off the windowsill the 'easy' way. :cool:




My nice man has never been happy with my refusal to have a TV in there, and is quite horrified at the thought of not reading until he falls asleep - but he has to admit that I'm the one who sleeps better overall, despite the sleep apnoea treatment.





Anyhow, he is back with fish and chips (it was his turn to cook tonight :cool:, so I'm off!)

whitewing

With the exception of ragdolls, there are no dolls in our house. Evil, creepy things.

Out went 1 hardcopy email, 1 basket and contents, and 2 outgrown clothes that had gone out previously but came back because DD had been out and got her clothes dirty.

My bedside cabinet has a new lamp, pile of books and kindle, and space for my glasses. I also found out that my mobile charger works for my kindle. That is really useful.

lostinrates

We are not doll people either BUT, we have a group of non pc toys sitting on a windowseat upstairs.

Gingernutty

blossomhill wrote: »

Do NONE of you have a shoe box with workboots on your bedside table? And a doll from childhood?
Do none of you have to get up and turn out the light after reading because you haven't got room for a bedside light?
Maybe it's just me then ...

The steel toecaps sit in the triangular dead space behind the bedroom door.

The normal work shoes, once dry, are put in their boxes and sit in the bottom of the wardrobe.

The drying shoes sit on top of their box on the chest of drawers across the bedroom.

They have to be left to dry because I have hyperhidrosis and if I put them back in their box before they dry, the next time they come out of the box they're hairy. :eek:

The top surface of the chest of drawers also contains a Primark vanity case which holds all my orthotics - they also dry out before I put them away.

The bedside table is an Ikea kitchen step stool. I've got a 'phone unit, the mobile 'phone charger (the mobile 'phone is a back up alarm clock), a small battery operated light and a radio alarm clock.

The cables trail through the hole at the top.

There is a folding chair I use to hold my clothes which I lay out the night before, a cushion, a semi circular neck pillow (useful for migraines) and my Rabbit.

Rabbit is a cuddly toy I've had since I was a baby. My late Dad had to rescue Rabbit from the rubble after the roof caved in at a house my parents rented rooms in when I was a bubby.

The skincare and medicines sit in the vanity section of an old Schreiber chest of drawers along with a box of tissues, a bottled drink to wash the tablets down with and a small trinket box.

There is a small side table covered in wrapping paper which holds a air ioniser - it gets very dusty in that corner.

The wardrobe holds clothes and shoes only - on top, there is a small collection of Christmas presents, the Autumn weight quilt and three rolls of wrapping paper.

And there are two big vacuum storage bags under the bed - containing quilts, pillows and bed linen.