Hoarding...not just on TV

lostinrates

Well, here it's grim. My vacuum cleaner, brand new, was used by foolish patent to vacuum up some plaster and now has to go and be serviced. .

I have made no progress at all. And now looking to buy more stuff.....I need to buy fabric for my new kitchen blinds and cannot see the wood for the trees with that right now.

thriftwizard

LIR, I'm able to get on with things like blinds & quilts now that I have space to lay the fabric out properly, & I can just sit at my machine & stitch; it's not behind piles of random junk or buried in a landslide of semi-relevant half-done things any more. Doing a quilted Roman blind for DS2's ice-box bedroom as we speak; I've had the fabric for months but not had the space to lay it out & get on with it until now. What's so scary is that I found myself wondering what fabric to buy for the kitchen the other day; I already have plenty! It may not be what I'd buy this week (it was bought for another room, then superseded by finding the perfect curtains secondhand) but actually it'll look great dressed up a bit, and something else completely different would catch my eye next week anyway.

What a pain about your vacuum - hope you have someone reasonable locally to service it?

lostinrates

thriftwizard wrote: »

LIR, I'm able to get on with things like blinds & quilts now that I have space to lay the fabric out properly, & I can just sit at my machine & stitch; it's not behind piles of random junk or buried in a landslide of semi-relevant half-done things any more. Doing a quilted Roman blind for DS2's ice-box bedroom as we speak; I've had the fabric for months but not had the space to lay it out & get on with it until now. What's so scary is that I found myself wondering what fabric to buy for the kitchen the other day; I already have plenty! It may not be what I'd buy this week (it was bought for another room, then superseded by finding the perfect curtains secondhand) but actually it'll look great dressed up a bit, and something else completely different would catch my eye next week anyway.

What a pain about your vacuum - hope you have someone reasonable locally to service it?

It's a Miele, so it goes back to them, so will be gone weeks. We have a second not very good vacuum (upstairs and downstairs ones, since parent hated it and bought the miele). Next couple of weeks I will have room to sew, because the dining room (currently full of misplaced furniture from the part of the hopuse the builders are in) can be emptied into place.:j

I just don't fancy evenings in a room with window coverings/dressing......is that weird? It will probably be warmer than the rest of the house even without blinds/curtains because it has double glazing now, and is really well insulated! Hurrah!

I have fabric I am planning on using for two rooms (scullery and 'pantry' but the kitchen I will need stuff for. It's a lovely big room but it has three windows and two sets of glazed doors. So it's lots of fabric.

Is there a sewing thread/curtain making thread on mse?

decogecko

blossomhill wrote: »

Ah deckogecko, your circumstances are intriguing, as hoarding is so often linked to loss, but your loss led to what could perhaps, with respect, be called an enforced decluttering and you managed to continue with it and move on. I am glad to know that you were able to keep separate your feelings for your late OH from his things and not attach undue significance to them, in fact I envy you slightly in that aspect as it is something I struggle to do with people I have lost.

I think your insight will serve you well in dealing with your slight hoarding urge at the moment, so thanks for sharing

I do worry about the people who aren't posting at the moment those we know of and the lurkers ...

The phrase 'you can't take it with you' was never more apt and was my mantra at the time. The things I gave to CS when I downsized I don't miss and tbh I couldn't tell you in the main what I gave them. It was cathartic then and feels cathartic again on my current declutter mission, almost like I'm breathing fresh air when before I was breathing stale, if that makes sense.

Hugs to all trying to make improvements to their lives, baby's take small steps but grow and take giant leaps eventually.

Patchwork_Quilt

There's good and bad news - the good news is I bought a pair of black trousers, so the tatty pair have gone out. The bad news is I seem to be hoarding jars again. However, seeing this written down has inspired me to go and put a couple in the recycling bin.

Thanks chaps. If this thread didn't exist, I wouldn't have thought of that.

alec_eiffel

There's "The Sewing Room" thread in the Christmas and Festivities section of the forum. I usually look at youtube for tutorials like that though, very useful. Unless it's for buying fabric in which case it would be useless...

idristhedragon

Hi all
Im alive, decorating is finished, but as a response to the decorator stress Ive started buying again- food and clothes. DH JUST this second came in with an ikea bag full of Muller Light yoghurts that he found in the back room *cringe*
However on a good note there is a jumble sale at school tomorrow so I am going to sort the shoe heaps this afternoon and donate loads of stuff.

OH MY LIFE the painters just turned up to collect his money and is immediately being rude about some art we have just rehung in the hall. He is a muppet.

More to follow after Ive collected little madam...........have missed you all!

alec_eiffel

Hi Idris, good to see you back. Your mention of the yoghurts made me chuckle. I don't know if any of you watch the tv show "Friday Night Dinner" but this week the grandmother had bought 36 yoghurts as they were on special offer and ended up being locked in the boot of the car with them.

I would never make a comedian *shuffles off*

blossomhill_2

Look, you're all (mostly) hoarders, so you will understand how I feel right now if I tell you I have been up since 5 getting all the rads, boiler and external outlets pipes accessible for the heating work booked for today ... and the swines rang at 12 to say the engineer rang in "sick" this morning

I'd like to say "oh well the work won't be wasted" but lots of it is on the beds so I have a lot more work to do to get to bed tonight *SOB*

I've told them I want compensation, but that's not the point (and being freelance it is difficult to quanitfy my time anyway)

lostinrates

Haha blossom hill, that's what we are doing this weekend!

On the plus side, I am really looking forward to a little central heating! I am in fact, terrifically excited by the prospect!