Hoarding...not just on TV

Patchwork_Quilt

I feel for you Blossom. Could you declutter as you put stuff back?

It reminds me of the time we were decluttering Mum's house and I stayed over to get the job done (ha ha) and woke up at five in the morning to start again. Just couldn't stand it.

lostinrates

Quick check, though sure I know what the answer is...(cringe)

New bird feeder: I have not attached the water bowl (they always blow away in high winds, and dry out quickly, we have plenty pod water for the birds when it's not frozen, and they can use the water we put out for our own poultry and the farm yard waterers which we defrost when it is. One day I will even consider a bird bath for them in the garden.

This makes the water bit Richard, doesn't it?.....bin?

Byatt

BH, how infuriating. I know when I get everything organised for someone to visit, I bloody expect them to turn up and see all my effort!

BTW, did anyone watch Kirstie last night? It's about people with lots of clutter and transforming their rooms into the vintage style they want. The trailer for next week showed a house which was very cluttered and the woman getting very emotional. Kirstie irritates me no end, making out everything is easy and cheap, but it may be useful for the rest of us to see the befores and afters. As long as we don't all go into aspirational mode. Channel 5 I think.

lostinrates

Byatt wrote: »

BH, how infuriating. I know when I get everything organised for someone to visit, I bloody expect them to turn up and see all my effort!

BTW, did anyone watch Kirstie last night? It's about people with lots of clutter and transforming their rooms into the vintage style they want. The trailer for next week showed a house which was very cluttered and the woman getting very emotional. Kirstie irritates me no end, making out everything is easy and cheap, but it may be useful for the rest of us to see the befores and afters. As long as we don't all go into aspirational mode. Channel 5 I think.

I watched it.

I thoght things like the concrete lights were out of reach for peoe like me, but I did cringe a little that I could be quilting and the furniture painting and I think the idea of doing with less and surrounding ourselves with what we actually like and find attractive was timely for many of us here . That I didn't like the stuff is neither here nor there.

Gingernutty

blossomhill wrote: »

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)

:mad: That's happened to me this week.

My phone and internet were cut off by some insulation workmen and there was a temporary repair done.

The work has been finished and I arranged for the telecoms engineer to come on Wednesday (my TOIL, as I'm working tomorrow).

I got everything ready. Milk in the 'fridge in case he needed a cuppa, bathroom cleaned and tidied and furniture pulled away from the wall so he could have a clear run to the 'phone socket.

As I only had a "morning" appointment (08:00 - 13:00), I was on 'best behaviour' from 08:00 on a day off.

No lie in. Boo! :mad:

When he did show up at 11:00, he didn't even switch the engine off, as he explained that as the work's scaffolding was still up, health and safety meant he couldn't put up his own ladders and he'd have to come back when the scaffolding was down.

:mad:

I decided that the day wasn't going to be a complete waste. I have reduced my stationery stash from one storage box and two drawers to one storage box.

One drawer now contains a pencil case (pencils and black pens), all my internet banking gubbins, three calculators (personalised, so I can't just throw them out), a filofax thingy with all the cards I don't usually carry around with me and a pair of scissors.

The second drawer now contains 'technology'. One portable DVD player, its extension lead and a Kindle.

It's so empty in there that stuff slides around as I open and close the drawers.

All the stuff I decluttered, the charity greetings cards, postcards, notelets, rulers (five), display folders, a book and a DVD all went to the CS that day. :j

I felt very pleased with myself until Talk Talk texted me to say that the engineer had reported the fault fixed. :mad:

alec_eiffel

How frustrating that the appointment was cancelled. For me it's the dealing with the person, the smalltalk and all that stuff that's as stressful as dealing with the stuff so they can get in in the first place.

I did indeed watch Kirstie last night, I was undecided whether to watch or not but then I found out it was a 1960's house so thought it might be full of things that I like. I can appreciate that not everyone likes the style but I'm a huge fan of Brutalism, concrete, plastic and teak but it's all the stuff I have in my house. I loved the block the couple lived in and liked the idea of some of the stuff if not the implementation. Mid century is not a great style to go for if you can't/don't want to keep a house free of piles.

Kirstie did seem to be fixated on the String shelving though!

The_Dragon

Gingernutty wrote: »

I felt very pleased with myself until Talk Talk texted me to say that the engineer had reported the fault fixed. :mad:

I hope you told Talk Talk that the engineer didn't touch it and you had taken a day off work special like and what are they going to do (did they tell you the scaffold needed to be gone?)

idristhedragon

Sorry just whizzing through again BUT I have just done some UN shopping and took £47 worth of comfort shopping from last week back so am VERY proud of myself!
I need to do another big ebay shift so am hoping to do that next week while DH is away instead of drinking red wine on my own and being a useless mofo! You have my permission to kick my rump, in fact please do! I tend to get hung up on getting things on ebay so they finish on the "right" day and time but being on there at all is better than festering in a heap in the back room.
I am going to the gym this eveing- have done proper exercise every day this week and am fully intending to keep it up- it helps my mental health SO much not to mention the physical bonuses. have done a run (starting C25K again) a 5km walk, another run and a personal trainer session. Im bored of being a "happy" size 14 as Im not totally happy, its just a LOT better than my prior size 20

Jettycat

idristhedragon wrote: »

I need to do another big ebay shift so am hoping to do that next week while DH is away instead of drinking red wine on my own and being a useless mofo! You have my permission to kick my rump, in fact please do! I tend to get hung up on getting things on ebay so they finish on the "right" day and time but being on there at all is better than festering in a heap in the back room.

I do that too. So much so that today I actually took a couple of bin bags full of stuff that I could have sold to the CS. I have realised that actually it is more important to me to get it out of the house than to make a little bit of money from it.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Whilst they didn't make a song and dance about it, I think I noticed great mounds of Stuff being skipped in that programme. And we never saw the other rooms, which were most likely heaving with more.

I feel quite rough, so have been laying low and sporadically snapping at people in other boards. Blunt is all very well when the recipient deserves it, but not here.

Keep going!