Hoarding...not just on TV

savingqueen

Hello everyone!

I got rid of at least 20 bags of the bottom bits of cereal packets in the food waste yesterday. Been keeping to make cereal bars or something with - tried before and didn't taste great and was thinking how long have those bags been there? Might be stale so best chuck out.

I am realising that I find it far easier to get rid of things that can be recycled or donated to someone/some cause. Have some free time over weekend so will endeavour to crack on. Already found a bag of old toys to give to my friend (checked she does want them, not jsut overloading)

I will get there in the end....just hope the end isn't too far away :rotfl:

onwards and upwards everyone
sq:)

idristhedragon

sjprmc01 wrote: »

'I wish you would finish 'tidying' one place before moving on to the next'


Or. 'I wish you would stop buying clothes'

We must share a partner cos thats 100% mine too!

Hello all- just catching up with thread but had to "reply with quote" to that before I carried on reading!

WIll now catch up and do a proper reply :cool:

idristhedragon

Right hello! Blossomhill I hope you are ok after prang- scary stuff!

Well I now have new windows in my bedroom and the boys room I also now have a huge invoice to pay and a bed in pieces and a front room full of clothes, make up etc as we had to camp on the sofas for two nights/take bed apart to get windows in. HOWEVER I also now have a brilliantly decluttered bedroom and an opportunity to derichard it once and for all as we are shifting/replacing furniture/storage. As most of you know clothes/shoes/makeup etc are my personal Richard of choice so this is a big breakthrough.

HOWEVER the back room is now FULL of Richard BUT its DH's study so A) he has to live with it and he can see the Richard is not all mine- I really struggle with him being an unaware Richard. He professes that he is tidy and not a hoarder but thats SO not true. I have got rid of most of my books, he still has two enormous bookshelves full..........

Really busy at the mo- two kids with birthdays this week, christmas fast approaching, have started a course to return to a previous job that Im looking at getting back into.....
Oh and this morning we went to see the accountant and I am now having my tax return done by him, which means I need to start behaving like a grown up and keeping reciepts etc (am self employed) and I feel a huge sense of relief that I have to start managing my money like a grown up and in Jan I shall be allowing myself an allowance and sticking to it. Money for food, money for me, money for bills. I have been winging it for too long and need to get a grip. It feels good. Now this will be easier to implement if only I could see my desk...........

ellie99

alec_eiffel wrote: »

I've been wondering about the envelopes - how do you get them back if you've given the card to someone? Am I being really dense or something? But if you send something you don't have the envelope and if you don't send something why would you need an envelope?

I'm not being an oddity about it, it's a genuine question.

Yes, it does sound weird!
It's a family thing, so it's just for kids, granny, granpa, aunties. So if a card is handed over personally...and the envelope hasn't been written on...the recipient can re-use it. My mother started it, and has re-used a lot over the years, for competitions and the like. She's even got a system for christmas, when there's several cards to hand over at once - she writes our initials in the corner where the stamp will go!

Blossomhill - I think it's time to give them their wish, they're in their twenties now :rotfl: I've even heard them telling girlfriends "you're not meant to write on the envelopes!", and the poor girls are wondering "what, why, is his mother crazy!"

decogecko

Hi all

Glad you're ok BH, hope there are no injuries and it must have been gratifying to just be able to put your hands on the right documents.

Saw this https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fire-kills-tot-trapped-in-house-1465641

So sad

GreyQueen

ellie99 wrote: »

Yes, it does sound weird!
It's a family thing, so it's just for kids, granny, granpa, aunties. So if a card is handed over personally...and the envelope hasn't been written on...the recipient can re-use it. My mother started it, and has re-used a lot over the years, for competitions and the like. She's even got a system for christmas, when there's several cards to hand over at once - she writes our initials in the corner where the stamp will go!

Blossomhill - I think it's time to give them their wish, they're in their twenties now :rotfl: I've even heard them telling girlfriends "you're not meant to write on the envelopes!", and the poor girls are wondering "what, why, is his mother crazy!"

My family do that, too.

It means that whenever I get a card with my name scrawled across the middle I have a small frisson of horror at the profligacy of some people.............:rotfl:But I can Tippex it out and still use it again.

TudorRose, best wishes for a successful surgery and a smooth recovery. Must be very frustrating to be looking at a period of incapacity.

I'm getting ready for the folks coming tomorrow, which means wrapping their Xmas pressies so that they can take them back in the car, as I will be travelling to visit them late on Xmas eve on public transport which will prolly be mobbed, and the less I have to carry, the happier I shall be.

I have been sly and consolidated 3 x 6 m rolls of identical wrapping paper into 1 roll, simply by winding them around the same tube, then slitting one of the spare tubes from top to bottom and added it around the outside to keep it from getting ripped. The roll I'm part way through is now tucked into the centre (minus it's own tube), I'm expecting this one to be finished before Xmas as I wrap a couple of things for pals.

That leaves 3 unopened rolls which will go to family and one (yes, ONE) roll on the premises. Go me, that's manageable.

I'm getting very good use of the neighbourhood recycling banks and am making little deposits (snigger) on a daily basis. Why let it pile up indoors when it can be out there in a giant wheelie bin? I do adore a bit of recycling............

Yesterday, I went to a shop to buy a specific thing which was on offer. Only it was sold out. So I did what I do when I've walked a mile to get somewhere and have money itching to escape my wallet, and browsed the store.

Then I came to my senses and told myself it's not a competition where I have to bring back something, anything, to justify my time. If they don't have what I came for, tough for me and I'll get it somewhere else, some other time. No biggie.

So I admired a few items, told myself I had plenty similar at home, and walked out with my head high. It's a good feeling.

BB, I'm not going to tell Mum there's a woman on MSE with a loft hatch that size or she'll Get Ideas. And she owns circular saws and jigsaws and a bandsaw and could make good on that idea, and Dad would quietly do his nut.

katep23

I do the blank envelope thing too

We have de-Richarded two bottles of wine and a bag of crisps (bought for Christmas Eve - they lasted longer then the peanuts 6 hours) does that count?

GreyQueen

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katep23 wrote: »

I do the blank envelope thing too

We have de-Richarded two bottles of wine and a bag of crisps (bought for Christmas Eve - they lasted longer then the peanuts 6 hours) does that count?

Most definately counts, esp once the bottles are in the recycling bank.

Peanuts have a notoriously-short shelf life, almost as short as that of chocolate, so best to get it eaten before it goes off.

I have made a chilli which has involved 2 tins of tomatoes and 2 tins of kidney beans out of the stash, so that's a good thing, too. Tins will be washed and recycled, of course, and the cupboard reloaded from the underbed larder stash.

Onwards and upwards.

I have bought flowers today (at 3 bunches for £1 it would have been rude not to ) and have already de-richarded the wrapper. Not before I had a Conversation, of course, along the lines of I could smooth that paper out with the iron and store it to wrap something up, at some unspecified time in the future.

I managed to resist the urge but, by golly, 'twas hard.

blossomhill_2

Thanks for all the good wishes - stiffness, bruising, swelling and reaction came out last night so I went to bed with ice packs and woke up clutching plastic bagfull of very cold water! Luckily I'd knotted the bag

Ambulance chasers have been on the phone already, unfortunately I can't move my middle finger to wave at them!

I had been eyeing up our loft hatch lately wondering if I could get someone to create cupboards round the sides accessible from the landing; but now don't need extra space as kipple/bble is going down

I am managing to not buy stuff in shops too, thanks to dog who howls the street down if left outside - two nights in a row I've left him outside the post office while I dashed in to post eBy parcels then sneaked in to supermarket while he wasn't yet howling ... and left empty handed. I am beginning to see shops as somewhere I just buy milk, eggs and teabags.

I have been buying online though, so no halo yet

Peanuts have a notoriously-short shelf life, almost as short as that of chocolate, so best to get it eaten before it goes off

You've got me worried about these Reese's now GQ, I'd better eat them as I can't work out if they're choc or peanuts

alec_eiffel

ellie99 wrote: »

Yes, it does sound weird!
It's a family thing, so it's just for kids, granny, granpa, aunties. So if a card is handed over personally...and the envelope hasn't been written on...the recipient can re-use it. My mother started it, and has re-used a lot over the years, for competitions and the like. She's even got a system for christmas, when there's several cards to hand over at once - she writes our initials in the corner where the stamp will go!

Blossomhill - I think it's time to give them their wish, they're in their twenties now :rotfl: I've even heard them telling girlfriends "you're not meant to write on the envelopes!", and the poor girls are wondering "what, why, is his mother crazy!"

Ahhhh, ok, I get it. We don't live near our family so it's not something that's ever come up.