Hoarding...not just on TV

alec_eiffel

Good work valk, bonus cash!

lostinrates

Well done Valk!

whitewing

inbox slightly less cluttered!

valk_scot

As to the perfectionism thing re Shabby Chic, I firmly belive it's cheating to buy Shabby Chic ready made! I like old furniture rescued from relatives houses or the junk yard, I like painting things to make them nice again, I like recycling textiles etc and repurposing things. I do like to look around shops like Cath Kidston of course but the prices make me faint tbh!

Byatt

Well, as the big tv went yesterday I started on turning the room around today. Found myself struggling to put the tiny tv somewhere, and thought, what am I doing? The point is not to have a tv. Can I do it? I hope so. It's not like I watch much tv, although I always had it on as background. Will set up the radio and watch catch up on the laptop. Anyway, I'm now facing the inglenook. Still surrounded by mess but at least the room appears bigger.

lostinrates

valk_scot wrote: »

As to the perfectionism thing re Shabby Chic, I firmly belive it's cheating to buy Shabby Chic ready made! I like old furniture rescued from relatives houses or the junk yard, I like painting things to make them nice again, I like recycling textiles etc and repurposing things. I do like to look around shops like Cath Kidston of course but the prices make me faint tbh!

some years ago I,ea did some cath kidston type fabric, and I for d really nice quality new white towels somewhere inexpensive, and I sat there sewing on strips of the fabric as trim.

I heard my guests oohing and ahhing over the 'wonderful quality' and 'obvious expense' of my towels, and that they were quite the nicest they had ever used. I felt so proud. Each bale of towels cost pounds, not tens of pounds, and an afternoon of hand stitching!

VJsmum

blossomhill wrote: »

I love smelly senior cats with rheumy eyes, gnarly old oak trees, mismatched bedding, old people's hands, cracks in the pavement, people who wear eccentric mismatched clothes, Greece for all its sunbaked old doors, unfinished extensions and broken down walls

Oh my word - that is pure poetry. Beautiful, thank you.

My friend and I are poles apart in this sense. She prefers a tidy house to a clean one and I prefer it to be clean even if it isn't tidy. Not that she lives in a hovel but will prioritise tidying, whereas I always think "even if it isn't tidy at least it's clean". She has a place for everything and her idea of untidy is a few dirty dishes on the side or a pile of paperwork on the work top. That would be extremely tidy for me.

Additionally if she decorates then pictures, ornaments etc have to be bought to match the colour of the room whereas I tend to buy and put up things i like. I might have a small amount of interest re colour schemes but it wouldn't affect me buying something I liked - blossom we have a picture of a greek doorway in our lounge. Her children were stripped and redressed at the slightest sign of a mark on their clothing. I would have been forever washing if I'd done that. Mine were clean in the morning and clean when they went to bed, what happened in the middle happened - unless we were going out. Consequently (or maybe coincidentally) one of her, now teenage, daughters is extremely concerned about her appearance and her clothing. Ironically she is the prettiest!

It is handy when we've gone away together though - she clears up after me :rotfl:

2 school sweatshirts and 4 t shirts gone to the school second hand shop and kitchen and work bag are clean and decluttered :T

idristhedragon

Hello
Been at work this morning covering someoneelses class- its like American Werewolf in London when you walk in as a "supply teacher" or supply "chubby checker" as someone affectionately refers to my job!
I know the second the perm consultant walks through the door next week theyll all say "ooooh SHE didnt do this! SHE did that not that" etc.
Its hard work and there was 48 of them! I now have a headche of doom and a school run in ,ooh 14 mins and I took my meds last night (same ones Jojo is starting ) so I feel CARP!!
ANyway I have managed to pay cheque to window men, send a pair of boots back that didnt fit, and do work stuff that needed doing (lots of maths- yikes)
The clothes swap rails, however are STILL up in my back room. THats heading for a fortnight now....................

valk_scot

Currently heaving boxes of (possible) crap around DS's room. He does that wargaming/Warhammer thing and has dozens of boxes of things I don't understand about. Oh well, I will stack it all back neatly and he can rearrange it if/when he likes. We did have a major declutter of his room a few months ago thank goodness otherwise I'd have more than Warhammer to annoy me.

I am however going to have to deal with ten or twelve really huge Lego sets, of the kind that costs megabucks when new but are now worth sod all unless I take the time to build them up properly and check all the bits are right. This is not perfectionism btw, this is double checking your sales patter for Ebay to get the best price! No I can't rely on DS's word that they're all present and correct, we all know what Lego is like for losing bits out of sets.

Have to get OH to carry the boxes of bed frame bits up for me so I can make it up and then shove a few bits and bobs underneath.....nonono, I don't mean that do it? It's just that the room is now at that point of maximum chaos and I'm getting fed up with it. It's very tempting just to shove said chaos out of sight tbh.

Picklepot

Hi All

I think i need to change my name to churning queen :mad:
I could cry with my frustration at the inability to get my stuff out of this house.
Anyhow cutting long story short Dr has sent me for loads of scary tests. I am never ill so have worried my self silly not about my symptoms but what????
It goes like this.. what if im ill, people have to come into the house or even worse sort through my stuff and organise my stuff and make decisions about my stuff AND what if i have something sinister or have to have a big op, precious time will be wasted sorting all this stuff what a waste of time when i could be doing important family stuff.

I know i am being completely neurotic but have managed to send:
2 bin bags of paper shredding into compost bin,
2 further bin bags are waiting for recycling
1 bin bag (14 items) out to CS today
1 bin bag of textiles (21 items) to CS today

Why oh why does it take panic to spur me into action? I think i have been happily filling charity bags in the past knowing that i will probably not ged rid of it any time soon!