Hoarding...not just on TV

short_bird

Xmas Wrapping Paper: Do you know, I felt a bit embarrassed when y'all started discussing this.:o
Reason being, 5 years ago, I bought a special hanging bag, designed to take rolls of wrapping paper, bag cost less than £3. It hangs on the back of a cupboard door using one of those over door hook thingys and has a pocket for tags and stickers. Doesn't get in the way, makes sure I know where the paper is all year when it's time for pressie wrapping, has a selection suitable for all occasions... room for an extra roll come January:D

I know it's a solution and it works for me but I think it was the "I've gone and bought something specific to store wrapping paper all year" that caused my blushes:D

Have just been to check it: I don't think I'll need to buy any paper this year: either that, or we need to buy bigger presents:rotfl:

Kate: Wow, what a larder! It's brilliant!

whitewing

Inspired by byatt, I decluttered my emails, but I knew there were some important ones I needed to keep so I stuck them all in order of sender and deleted those from particular senders.

I found a voucher for wine and glasses that I'd got when I switched electricity supplier, so am now 8 bottles and of wine and 4 wine glasses better off. As well as having far fewer emails. (I thought I deleted as I went along but still had hundreds).

alec_eiffel

short_bird wrote: »

Xmas Wrapping Paper: Do you know, I felt a bit embarrassed when y'all started discussing this.:o
Reason being, 5 years ago, I bought a special hanging bag, designed to take rolls of wrapping paper, bag cost less than £3. It hangs on the back of a cupboard door using one of those over door hook thingys and has a pocket for tags and stickers. Doesn't get in the way, makes sure I know where the paper is all year when it's time for pressie wrapping, has a selection suitable for all occasions... room for an extra roll come January:D

I know it's a solution and it works for me but I think it was the "I've gone and bought something specific to store wrapping paper all year" that caused my blushes:D

Have just been to check it: I don't think I'll need to buy any paper this year: either that, or we need to buy bigger presents:rotfl:

I don't think there's any need to blush. I've looked at those before but they wouldn't work for me as virtually all of the door in the house are sliding doors so a hangy bag would still get in the way. If you have a solution that works for you then it's something to be celebrated!

I know I've spent money on things in my house that help me a lot that other people would think I was bonkers for having but if it works, it works.

lostinrates

Blossom hill..we are outsider artists I guess. Unsound mind, certainly according to fil, in spates reclusive, but sometimes a bit manic.

We have a really 'spilt personality' life. It suits us, and dh espeially compartmentalises well.

I don't think he will keep the grotto unseen though....I think he will show it off. It's a few years down the line yet, though he has identified the corner of the he wants it in. We call our 'pond' Lake Cake (and dh's canoe to get to it is the Icing ..the icing on the cake) and we will need to boat to the grotto as I understand it.

lostinrates

I buy our cards a year or so in advance, and have wrapping paper. The bottom draw of my desk is wrapping paper and posting paraphernalia (jiffy bags etc)

I don't feel it's hoarding for me to buy them a year or two in advance, so long as I use them, not hoard them. Dh doesn't like to send corporate cards to people he has built a relationship with, so we get through a lot that way.

Our Christmas card list used to be massive, literally hundred long. Then I just stopped because of a specific circumstance, And ......the world didn't end. I am trying to keep our list low now. Primarily because of postage costs and the horror of wastage. I miss writing them, because it felt like the first big organisational chore of winter done.

alec_eiffel

I agree with you LiR, I don't think it's hoarding to buy stuff like that in advance, it just doesn't work for me as there really isn't anywhere sensible to store it and it just does my head in to try to make it work when it just doesn't. Feels good to let go of it.

Getting rid of a desk was a similar experience. A desk is one of those things that in theory is good but in reality doesn't work for me/us. It was just another place where things could pile up and I could keep things I didn't need because it was the type of stuff that went on a desk, if that makes sense. Got rid of the desk, got rid of "home office" clutter.

This isn't about hoarding, it's about organisation but it all helped me to get and keep the house tidy.

bobble_hat

Me to DH: "I wish you'd take the rubbish to the tip instead of just throwing into the man-space" - 55' workshop which hasn't been 'worked' in since we lived here and is full of recyling/rubbish!

DH to Me: "I wish you'd stop chucking stuff in the Manspace! And stop putting stuff away in drawers/cupboards to make the place look tidy, 'cos I can never find it again!"

I think some teamwork is required in the Bobbly household. Although he is starting to 'get it'.

blossomhill_2

Do you know those moments of stress when your whole life passes before your eyes?
Well someone drove into the back of us today and my immediate thought after checking my passenger was in fact ok after seeing them fly towards the windscreen was "it's lucky I sorted out the filing because I now know I have a little card in my purse with my insurers' details on"
We are both shaken not stirred (and cars okish) but very organised unlike the other driver who had a job to remember what their insurers are called

lir - here's a grotto we discovered and loved near Hampton Court Surrey
LINK1 LINK 2

TudorRose

I have worked hard this year to try & de-clutter the house.

I started by sorting out my clothes & recyled 9 bin bags worth & I'm by no means running around without anything to wear. Have bought a few items of clothing this year but nothing compared to what I chucked & it is stuff I now wear.

I have been sending items to the CS shop & I have been taking items with any value to the local auction house. This resulted in getting some money for stuff that was no use to me & not wanted by any of my friends or children.

I always used to buy wrapping paper when it was cheap in the January sales but this year I resisted. I have already wrapped all my pressies using only stuff from the hoard & I still have enough for next year as well as having given a couple of rolls to a friend. I shall resist buying more after Christmas.

I am not going to be able to do any more this year as I'm having an operation on my hand tomorrow but the goal for next year is to finish of tidying the house and starting on the garage. The garage will be a mamouth task but I am determined to do it as I can't stand having all the clutter any longer.

imataloss

Hello all, no decluttering done here for the past few days. We went away for 24 hours and had a lovely time. Managed to come back without buying any more stuff. Popped into a few CS earlier today and they were asking for donations. Will have to do some decluttering and get the things to my local ones.
It seems as though everyone has been very busy while I have been away. We are off work tomorrow too and hoping to take some of the rubbish to the tip. Well done to everyone for their acheivements this week.