Hoarding...not just on TV

katep23

Thanks Blossom, one cat is on weight control food, another one will starve herself if she doesn't like what you give her, one only eats dried food which only leaves one who would possibly eat it.

Just as well I love them!

Picklepot

Hi All

Permission to throw out old wage slips please?

I went into my side of the garage of doom. DH side is lovely and organised which makes my side looks worse.:eek:

I peered into a scary bag filled with old wage slips. Am i right in thinking that as long as i keep P60's theres no reason to hang onto them ?

whitewing

Maybe it is the aspirational romantic side of me, but I keep thinking, how can you all throw out old love letters? Shouldn't everyone have a pile of them tied with ribbon?

(My own of course are actually very boring to read).

I am terrible with throwing away wage slips etc. I keep thinking, what if I need to prove I worked somewhere? I have never had to in all my years.

jfdi

Picklepot wrote: »

Hi All

Permission to throw out old wage slips please?

I went into my side of the garage of doom. DH side is lovely and organised which makes my side looks worse.:eek:

I peered into a scary bag filled with old wage slips. Am i right in thinking that as long as i keep P60's theres no reason to hang onto them ?

I only keep current TY ones (once P60 is in) - & dispose of old ones in my annual (cough!) de-richarding of the filing cabinet. That's the theory anyhow! :rotfl:

lostinrates

whitewing wrote: »

Maybe it is the aspirational romantic side of me, but I keep thinking, how can you all throw out old love letters? Shouldn't everyone have a pile of them tied with ribbon?

(My own of course are actually very boring to read).

I am terrible with throwing away wage slips etc. I keep thinking, what if I need to prove I worked somewhere? I have never had to in all my years.

Dh has a whole ream of texts I sent him in the early days which he sat and copied out.

He is a bit upset that I deleted mine from him. His we're lovely, but I have him so don't need old texts or billets doux and from lovers gone I really do not need them.

Cards are harder, and what we have now done (thanks to mse tip) is buy valentines cards we both love and have been swapping them back and forward. Far more meaning ful as we get to remember previous years.

Patchwork_Quilt

lostinrates wrote: »

Cards are harder, and what we have now done (thanks to mse tip) is buy valentines cards we both love and have been swapping them back and forward. Far more meaning ful as we get to remember previous years.

This is an excellent tip. I have friends who do this at birthday and Christmas too.

In other news, someone told me last night that it costs 50p to send a Christmas card second class this year. Can it be true? If so, all those cousins that have never bothered to send me any in twenty years will be one card short this year. Why do I bother? How about decluttering our card lists?

Managed to declutter four pillows yesterday. They were cheap ones that had not stood the test of time and I felt we were worth some new ones. I went to find some nice ones, mindful of the new policy of only buying decent things in the first place and couldn't find any locally so came back with nothing. I did wonder how we would sleep but then I looked in the upstairs cupboard. The one that usually only shuts for three days of the year. Of course, there were two 'spare' pillows in there.

So I can buy some nice ones over the internet at my leisure. I like this new 'I'm worth it' policy.

Also managed to declutter the houseplant that was someone else's overflow. I thought |I heard it scream as I took it to the compost heap. I do hate throwing plants out. They're living things. However, it is gone. Unfortunately, DH's comment was only, 'What about the rest of them?' Hmph.

I like the idea of defatting, by the way. Hoarding can apply to all areas.

GreyQueen

There must be something in the air, PQ; I've purchased a new pillow and will be de-richarding the old one. I only have one pillow in service and one spare in the airing cupboard in case of visitors needing the sofa. I lucked out and found a handsome duck feather and down one reduced to £17 in the sale which I regard as very reasonable.

Regarding potted plants, I once had a job which involved delivering leaflets to several hundred homes each day, and have separately been a temporary summer post-person calling at 600 homes a day. I can say that you only see a healthy-looking houseplant in one windowsill in fifty in my experience.

The vast majority were slowly dying and surely not having a great time.

Perhaps it's time to put the dying ones out of their misery and be honest with ourselves in that our homes may not be suitable environments for potted greenery.

Or take the route of least resistance. After condemning many houseplants to an untimely death by giving them to my Mum, I lit on the idea of a very good fake one (sort of a dangly-creeper thingy, so convincing one visitor wanted to take a cutting ). Once of twice a year we swish it around in a bowl of water to dislodge the dust and drip-dry on the line and back it goes.

Brighton_belle

IDRIS - that's great news about the metho:T
Doing nothing here, as not so good. Managed to put two lots of washing on and that seriously is the days achievement.

I have sold a 2nd book on amazon today though, that I put up for sale earlier in the week:j.And the only new things that have come into the house this month have been afew clothes..I'm up to 25 items for my winter capsule wardobe now. That is pretty much my limit. Very happy with that.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Ugh.


Side effects are vile. But I now have, thanks to the walk in centre, some anti emetics.

The Fella came to visit and the first thing he did was complain that his feet hurt from walking a quarter of a mile, then mutter that I hadn't done much in the house overnight when he realised I hadn't touched the dishwasher or tumble drier.


:cool:

Did anyone work out how simple a prospect it is to declutter bodies under patios?

GreyQueen

You have to be sooooo darned careful or the slabs never lay level afterwards.

Apparently it is traditional for gangsters to make organic additions to concrete in large building projects, perhaps this may be a viable option...............?

Or a smack upside the ear with a wet teatowel if The Fella is a keeper.:rotfl: