Hoarding...not just on TV

Brighton_belle

blossomhill wrote: »

Brave move! I do the opposite, I leave transparent fishing line hung up above the picture rails all year round - it gets used for brithdays and bunting too - it is so invisible that this year I had to feel around to check it was still there!
I have disposed of a whole working life's employment records, bar certificates of service, training certs, awards, P60s and pension bumpf - scary!

This makes good sense to me - but wouldn't work for us as our sitting room walls are 'floor to picture rail' bookshelves. Only wall space is the small chimney breast and I like to leave that uncluttered. With birthday cards (generally fewer than xmas cards) I tend to tuck them in between the books so the front 'page' is showing.
Well done with the big working life disposal:T
Had a very productive today to day getting final ingredients for xmas baking plans and to make a new chutney I'm trying out for pressies. Not decluttering I know but all ways of sharing at xmas with out buying material goods. I love the simplicity of it.

DH also had an out of the blue frenzy in our very small back yard and now has umpteen bags of green stuff to take to the dump tomorrow. He also wants to get rid of an excess of pots and shelves out there that have mounted in number over the years that we don't use or the plants are well past their best and I am delighted:j. Feels exciting to have a complete change out there as he has new 'what to grow' plans.

decogecko

Hi all

Brighton belle sounds like your DH is onboard with you on your dericharding journey.

Decided over the weekend to put my crafts materials in the cupboard in bed 2 (recently vacated by my cousin) as there were balls of wool all over. I almost brought some baskets and then remembered I already had some, so saved money and richard! I have made a promise to myself not to buy more wool until I've used up most of what I've got. I am determined to learn to crotchet over the xmas hols (work break up Friday and I'm not back until 2nd Jan :T) and make myself a blanket for the lounge.

Without sorting my bedroom out the other week I wouldn't have emptied the baskets, which in turn have been reused to tidy things away.

I did have to give myself a stern talking to today concerning a notebook. Inside people who I went to school with signed just before we went off to do our GCSEs and then on with our lives. Some of the people who signed the book won't even accept me as friends on faceache :rotfl: so I've decided to ditch it. School could be horrendous at times for me and I'm not sure why I've carted this notebook about for the last 15 years!

Brighton_belle

decogecko wrote: »

Hi all

Brighton belle sounds like your DH is onboard with you on your dericharding journey.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: He's a total horder. Today is very very very unusual and is just a (happy) by product of him wanting space to play. Which is fine by me:D.There is no attachment to anything being got rid of as most was inherited by me when I moved here.

decogecko

Brighton_belle wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: He's a total horder. Today is very very very unusual and is just a (happy) by product of him wanting space to play. Which is fine by me:D.There is no attachment to anything being got rid of as most was inherited by me when I moved here.

:rotfl: It's something I suppose! You never know it might be the small step he needs (being very optimistic for you!!)

Brighton_belle

decogecko wrote: »

:rotfl: It's something I suppose! You never know it might be the small step he needs (being very optimistic for you!!)

Thank you:D Appreciated.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Anyone seen my bank card and bus pass?

No? Bah.

[cancels card]

blossomhill_2

No sorry JoJo, hope they turn up though
GQ - no I am not the long-lost sister - I couldn't use yarn, it would suck all the cat fluff up to ceiling level, fishing line stays clear. Thing is with my lines, January birthday, then come Feb 14th, weighed down with Valentines cards! LOL

Quick question- does anyone else find lamps particuarly difficult to decide to dispose of? I am more or less sorted in terms of lighting but still have some stray lamps in the spare room, which I like very much, and don't want to get rid of, but don't fit in with current decor - even though one is 1930s, one is 1940s and my house is a modern twist on that era. I think if I only had ground & sofa-living cats I may have one of them out on display, but one of mine likes to do the wall-of-death round the walls or perch on the dresser and try to hook the heavy mosaiic mirror off the wall if I doze off at night

lostinrates

Blossom hill,

We don't have enough lamps, but I find them very hard to buy. There are few I like. We have very modern ones in our bedroom and they don't go at all, but I rarely see any I like to replace with, certainly not ones I can justify the amount asked for them. .


Staling badly here now. I cannot clean (let alone sort and dispose) as quickly as I/animals/ workmen make mess.

This sounds totally pathetic, but the plumber left the front of the will it won't it work new boiler and I almost dissolved into tears at trying to lift it and put it back on myself.

I have spent six unplanned days or significant part of days with workmen or site meetings last week, SIX. Six days that would have been better spent doing sorting or prep for dh having time off, or Christmas prep (not doing huge amounts but still...)

It's seriously getting me down.

lostinrates

Ok, kicked myself in the bottom, and had a spurt of energy.

Dh called to say he has flu and might try and head home rather than suffer alone in London.

I am also going to start the herculean meal planning, I don't want to think about this too much over dh's time off.

Oh, and I have dericharded the Christmas menu, We decided to take off all the old family things and plan afresh. Because we would miss things like pigs in blankets if they disappeared totally I plan to have them in other meals, and the stuffed veg we alwats have? That with the left overs or in the days between Christmas and new year.

It's amazingly liberating in a way, but A bit scary!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Found them this morning. Having cancelled the card already. But at least I don't have to worry about replacing the bus pass.


Bought a new oven today, thanks to the wonders of the IKEA sale and the extra 10% family card discount, which is currently being installed. So, technically, the £19.90 of new santoku knife, magnetic knife rack (with compulsory disposal of rubbishy old knives before it comes out the packet) and 4 tea towels were free.

The old, uneconomical to repair oven (a whole two and a half years old :mad:) has been dismantled and is outside waiting for the scrap man to drive by in the morning. He's welcome to the spoils.

Have bunged a few sad looking bulbs in the ground as it's not actually frozen and they weren't going to do any growing in the cat food cupboard, were they?

Other than that, the futon is no more, due to its self destruct capabilities and I am looking forward to having something resembling a nice living room and kitchen again.


Just wish it was slightly quicker.