Hoarding...not just on TV

lostinrates

My car used to be scarily clean and tidy. I actually had a car vaccums that lived in the car and was used when ever I had some spare time...e.g. To early to meet someone for a drink? I was vacuuming in pub car park.

I had strict no eating in car rule.

Well, along comes dh and the car is now a tip and fullof random junk, plus a very useful survival bag.

I am borrowing my parents car tomorrow rather than face a long drive in our dust bin.

365days

I have to admit i have driven past colleagues walking in the pouring rain too embarrased to give them a lift.

Byatt

I have a saloon car (do they still call them that!) and it's so full of carp I can't give anyone a lift.

Byatt

katep23 wrote: »

Well done with the weight loss, I really do think these things are all linked to our mental health and thus to hoarding.

Am taking some time to re-evaluate my life at present and expect some big changes to take place soon.

Things have / are coming to a head in a number of areas of my life and I cannot continue as I am so have to face up to it instead of burying my head in the sand. New, exciting, scary times ahead I think!

That does sound exciting and scary. Many positive thoughts going your way. :T

Patchwork_Quilt

Byatt wrote: »

PQ, why were you asking if we'd seen Witness?

Because the Amish doctor, after examining Harrison Ford, who has been shot, says "Rest, that's the ticket." Sorry. Just a random quote that popped into my head.

alec_eiffel

365days wrote: »

The older i get I care less and less of what people think of me. I know that everyday I am becoming more of the person i want to be so, for me, thats all that matters. I know that not everyone will like me just as I don't like everyone I meet. We are fed a diet of 'happy families' and 'great social networks' in the media, but don't believe the hype!

I agree with this. I think it's all part of the aspirational lifestyle stuff that does the rounds. Families are just groups of people and traditions are just something that nobody has ever refused to do.

Our car did used to be a tip. Weirdly it was the one place where it was DH's mess. I think he used the car as "his place" away from me and my mess. So the car was always full of coffee cups, crisp wrappers and papers. And of course it was the scene of the Scotch Egg Incident. Someone commented about what a mess it was once when they'd walked past the car on MIL's drive and it has been clean and tidy from that day on.

I think that you read "quilt" as "guilt" says quite a lot about the type of thing we're likely to read on this thread!

VJsmum

DS has gone on his hols for 5 days.

His bedroom is there, asking to be deRicharded and cleaned.

Cover me - I'm going in....

:rotfl:

Byatt

I agree about the aspirational family and my decision to stop having contact with most of my family was because it was less stressful for me, I was no longer going to "apologise" for living and if they chose to believe the lies without giving me a fair hearing than it was their loss. What is difficult is I seem to end up being dragged into their drama again through my DD who does not walk away and has a strange need to be in their company. She is auty so to some extent I can "tolerate" it, but when it affects our relationship because she is lying it is hard to bear. I will bear it (bare it?), and we have had a "talk"...

This is another layer, a shedding of skin. Hopefully, one day I will emerge as the butterfly.

blossomhill_2

Hello from shed no4.i have reached the back wall and filled one wheelie bin. Having to wear mask as smell of spilt oil reminds of ex eh (enginee :-/r hoarder). I may be some time

valk_scot

thriftwizard wrote: »

Yes. Mine currently looks relatively tidy, apart from the odd road atlas, bottles of water & card games for the teens for long journeys, but under the parcel shelf there's a bale of straw (it's a big car! and OH has filled my bale store up with damp wood) two dead sewing machines on the way to the dump & a big box of broken glass, also on its way out. Heaven only knows why OH had happily made a large pile of broken glass & tiles, behind one of the dustbins...? From the amount, it's been growing there for months! But what really worries me is the spider, a big orange beastie that likes to make a web over the passenger side of the windscreen. It's been evicted about 6 time so far, and moved anything up to 30 feet away, but somehow finds its way back in, probably through the air vents, & rebuilds the web overnight. So I have a car that looks like something out of a horror movie...

I had a mushroom growing in the footwell of one car I owned. There was a leak in the floor on the front passenger side that we couldn't find to seal so when it was wet the footwell used to get very soggy. It was an old car and en route to the scrappie once the MOT ran out so I wasn't that bothered but the mushroom was a bit of a surprise, must say. I've got a picture of it somewhere.