Hoarding...not just on TV

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Thank you, everyone.



Didn't have a great night, but have played music for ages, pretty much since I got up. My fingertips are beyond sore, they're numb from the strings.

I've been invited to see someone play live tonight, the person I got my cello from, so I might do that. It's only round the corner, so it's not too far to go.

In any case, I've been more or less successfully distracting myself for much of the day.



The dressing table looks good now I've got all the drawers upstairs (solid wood and weigh a ton) and into it, and I hoiked out the less scraggy bits of jewellery I own - the rest will be dealt with at some point - and put it into one of the little top drawers by the mirror. And I have just realised that it has a little pull out shelf, presumably for writing or makeup or something, so that'll be useful as a desk as well.


I keep looking at the tub chair in the bedroom and thinking it needs the addition of [STRIKE]casters[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]castors[/STRIKE] wheels and recovering. (Which is it? One relates to fly larvae as fishing bait, one relates to a plant. Which one is little wheels?).

lostinrates

Well, i stood at the clearance section in tesco picking up a file and a pencil case and putting them back, files had peacock feathers on (very fitting in my house) and flamingos (dh love, love, loves flamingos) they had peacock magazine storage too, but they were cardboard and i want wooden ones.

Anyway, i walked out stationary free. But there was a bit of toing and froing.

RAS

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 ...

You really do not want to know the full list; editing is on-going.

There is a bed-side light but I often use an LED one clipped into my little puter. There is a very old teddie - given me by my grand father. And an alarm clock. And some seeds .... and ....and

There is also some space as well, so getting there.

valk_scot

My bedside table?

Five books, all of which I have read and need to go back onto the bookcase.

A basket of soaps made by a friend, I like it when I get a faint whiff of them when I'm in bed. I'm using them one by one of course.

Lamp.

Reading glasses. (I usually wear varifocals.)

Alarm clock.

Pot of hand cream, currently a shea butter and avocado oil one scented with lavender, also made by friend and the best hand cream ever.

And a pile of magazines on the floor.


I don't tidy it up much other than the occassional dust, the books and magazines change of course but the rest stays much the same.



I have been feeling a bit bleah about the decluttering lately though, I've gone off the boil a bit due to being busy, not feeling too well and generally depressed at the weather. But I've still been following this thread so decided to clear out the inside bits of the bedside table. Little drawer at the top revealed some chocolate wrappers, a very worn out emery board and an empty tube of hand cream that all went in the bin. I kept the lip salve, the other jar of hand cream and the indigestion tablets. Also the small Ikea plastic box that I take camping and which contains my travelling bedside essentials...lip salve, small torch, spray of glasses cleaner, emery board, pony tail elastic and...yes, you guessed it, hand cream.

In the little cupboard underneath I keep my make up bag (a small and uninteresting collection), a locked box that contains all my spare prescription drugs, a grubby empty make up bag which I binned and two out of date hair dyes which I will never use so I also binned.
There was also an open box of individually wrapped panty pads which I put on the bed, meaning to take them through to the bathroom. I remembered about these later when I saw Mad Kitten run past me in the hall with a small purple plastic wrapped package in his mouth. He'd clearly had a great time chasing the little purple things all over the bed and floor and I'm sure I've only found about half of them. He's probably hidden a few away so he can bring them out when we have visitors.

blossomhill_2

valk_scot wrote: »

There was also an open box of individually wrapped panty pads which I put on the bed, meaning to take them through to the bathroom. I remembered about these later when I saw Mad Kitten run past me in the hall with a small purple plastic wrapped package in his mouth. He'd clearly had a great time chasing the little purple things all over the bed and floor and I'm sure I've only found about half of them. He's probably hidden a few away so he can bring them out when we have visitors.

Love it! We had one that did this with undies from the hamper, would come downstairs trailing them just as visitors were in the hall saying goodbye

And RAS, who has seeds on a bedside table - I have them on every available surface and worktop but never thought of putting them on bedside table! ((trots off to get seeds))

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Well, I made it out to the gig. And I'm expanding my musical horizons from A to T. T being T for Tinnitus, apparently.

I shall be home fairly early, I suspect.

And I must remember to put the recycling out this week before lots of rude words are said at 7 tomorrow morning as the bin crash and clatter down the road with everybody else's crud except for mine.


By the way a) I'm glad that rabbit wasn't the first type I thought of and b) I really should remember to being my earplugs instead of leaving them in the bass case everytime I come out.

whitewing

I haven't done any decluttering today. I have made myself do little jobs in every set of adverts as I've watched TV tonight. And the house is looking very tidy indeed. So I am still reaping the benefits of all recent declutters.

I've been thinking a lot about Jojo's comments to byatt about living in a nice place. And it made me realise that I still do hang on to things too long, especially when they were given to us in the first place. So I have things that are tatty when getting new wouldn't be that expensive and would give a lot of pleasure. So this weekend I think we are going to make a list of those sorts of items. Things like net curtains to replace those that shrunk slightly in the wash. They came with the house.

Keep going everyone.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Well, I'm home.

But the idiot cat is destroying the house.

I bought him a wind up mouse/rat thing a couple of weeks ago and he has decided it's his favouritest toy tonight. He's sprinting around at warp 10, crashing into walls, windows, furniture and battering seven bells out of the hapless clockwork rodent, picking it up by the tail and throwing it around three foot in the air.

Heaven help the first real one he meets under the shed. And heaven help my house.

scaredy_cat

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Well, I'm home.

But the idiot cat is destroying the house.

I bought him a wind up mouse/rat thing a couple of weeks ago and he has decided it's his favouritest toy tonight. He's sprinting around at warp 10, crashing into walls, windows, furniture and battering seven bells out of the hapless clockwork rodent, picking it up by the tail and throwing it around three foot in the air.

Heaven help the first real one he meets under the shed. And heaven help my house.

vid please!!

Byatt

I've been working on the living room hoard. A table has been hauled into the car after I made the decision that having never used it except to pile carp on it plus it was blocking the door to the garden (I have a front door and a back door in this small living place). I have gone through the paperwork, that has been lying on the floor for ages, and have decided to make a small list of to do things as one of the reasons I have piles of paperwork is because I forget to deal with it when I put it away. I am very aware that out of sight is out of mind with me.

Going to be even more ruthless with some books tomorrow and a few items that are lurking.

I'm off house sitting from tomorrow but will be coming home to continue as it's not far away. I will however have the luxury of heat! My income has dropped drastically from this month, and now it's a case of heat or eat. Health is still not great but it seems according to the govt I am miraculously fit and well. Wish it was so.

Jo-Jo do you have a blog? I would definitely read it, and I love your cat stories. You are a natural story teller.

I don't have a bed side table, but do have a shelf thing which has been tidied so has a lamp, two baskets for bits and pieces, a canvas print of a rose, 2 candles in holders and the bits of a 60's bi-plane mobile whose string got all tangled and in my attempt to fix it, now have bits of plane and string and dangly bits over the shelf.

Well done Whitewing. :T