Hoarding...not just on TV

Cat501

:rotfl::rotfl: ah Mark Twain - now there's some books which have been sitting on my shelf for years and are as yet unread - the thing is, with most of my books I really think that one day, when my concentration is better, I'll get round to reading them all. If I live to be 217 that is.

Very occasionally I'll come across a "classic" that I actually enjoy. I think you've inspired me to chuck the Jane Austens though:p And will I ever read "A History of Michigan" ?? The problem is, I tell myself I just might - Michigan might have a fascinating history! It might just turn out to be one of the best books I've ever read! Aaargh!!

Currently reading "Eleven Minutes Late" (thought it was going to be a rail travelogue, turns out to be history of British railways. Still, the cover is lovely:o), the abridged diaries of Tony Benn (1940 - 1990), rereading an Inspector Wexford, and just finished a book about maps called "Map Addict" which has tempted me to start on a new collection, namely OS maps. I am a hopeless case....:o

eta I like comfy clothes too. I was shocked to discover recently that jeans and trainers (worn together) are the ultimate fashion faux-pas. I am currently wearing jeans and trainers.

Mayflower10cat

I keep stealing myself to 'declutter' the secondary winerack. That's the one in the shed, full of 'questionable gifts' and a large quantity of our experimental homemade concoctions. (By large I mean about thirty bottles.) All should be vintage by now, sadly all are pretty revolting. Some are probably illegal. It's just they took us so long to make and we can't quite make ourselves pour them down the drain...... But I will, I keep promising myself!

Gingernutty

GreyQueen wrote: »

4. I once wore shocking pink leopard print jeans and thought I looked good. I must remember this when tempted to laugh at fashionable yoof. I must also remember to locate and destroy those photographs...............:rotfl:

I was a teen in the Eighties - I remember wearing a black and white [STRIKE]horizontally[/STRIKE] EDIT: sorry, vertically striped shirt dress, black belt and black suede pixie boots with a horrible side parting hairdo.

I looked like an Everton mint crossed with Busby :eek:

I embraced the whole stone washed jeans and white stiletto look as well :eek:

I'm starting to feel sorry for my local CSs as, in the past two weeks, I've collected and given random toot including Royal Mail stamp year packs, commemorative coins, unused/barely used stationery, corporate gifts from a well known bakery chain where I temped (a toy lorry in a box, dead useful) and storage boxes.

Yep, I've cleared so much stuff that I'm able to get rid of the storage boxes. Including cute little containers that might come in handy for putting stuff in. :huh:

I've also given away all my blue pens - who uses blue pens anymore? Filling in any form, the first thing it asks you (after USE BLOCK CAPITALS) is USE A BLACK PEN. That's all I use pens for now lists and filling in forms.

I've got more to give away this Saturday coming - another storage box, jeans I'll never wear as I'm now an office worker (:(), clothes that I'll never wear again (if I ever wore them at all), throws, bags and other accessories and lightbulbs.

I'm wandering round the house casting a critical eye over everything I own - and it's all found wanting in some respect.

Christ, I've collected together some cr!p over the years. Some of which "might come in handy", some of which I felt I ought to keep and some of which I bought as a passing fad - "ooh that's cute!"

An old cheap woven plastic bag lost it's handles, so I kept the bag as a magazine holder - it held it's corner in my bedroom for years holding magazines and catalogues I never read more than once, leaning against a wall, as it was too soft and unstructured to stand up and actually be useful and Saturday I saw it for what it was.....a useless space invading piece of !!!!!! holding stuff that I hadn't needed since I bought it all.

The magazines are on the coffee table at work and the bag and catalogues are in the Recycling Bin.

I've scrapbooked the little momentoes I wanted to keep, kept the useful addresses and I don't miss the stuff in the corner as I never used it when it was there.

whitewing

Mayflower10cat wrote: »

It's just they took us so long to make and we can't quite make ourselves pour them down the drain...... But I will, I keep promising myself!

Sounds like excellent drain cleaner - a bottle a day down the shower and the sink!

GreyQueen

Cat501 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl: ah Mark Twain - now there's some books which have been sitting on my shelf for years and are as yet unread - the thing is, with most of my books I really think that one day, when my concentration is better, I'll get round to reading them all. If I live to be 217 that is.

Very occasionally I'll come across a "classic" that I actually enjoy. I think you've inspired me to chuck the Jane Austens though:p And will I ever read "A History of Michigan" ?? The problem is, I tell myself I just might - Michigan might have a fascinating history! It might just turn out to be one of the best books I've ever read! Aaargh!!

eta I like comfy clothes too. I was shocked to discover recently that jeans and trainers (worn together) are the ultimate fashion faux-pas. I am currently wearing jeans and trainers.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a bookcase of classics will probably be reading something with vampires in it.:)

Have you seen the recent wave of lunacy attendant upon certain classics (inc J Austen) coming out of copyright? A perfectly sane professional friend of mine is wildly-enthused by Jane Austen with Zombies. And I have seen a few others in the same vein. My English Lit teacher (mayherestinpeace) would be spinning in his grave if he hadn't been cremated.

Shocked at the news that jeans-n-trainers are not to be worn together. Millions of people are doing it wrong. Excluding specialised items like flipflops and hiking boots, I only have 3 items of footwear which are 2 prs black flats for w*rk and a pair of trainers for everything else. I shall be going straight to fashion hell in a handbasket, fer sure.

Byatt

Cat, don't throw out the Jane Austens! :eek: I am a huge JA fan, started late though as I wouldn't touch her books with a barge pole...now...I lurve them! I was loaned the zombie version and just couldn't read it although I am a fan of zombies, so gave the book back and pretended I'd read it.

I'm always in jeans and trainers.

I'm trying to put pictures up on stone walls; all I've managed to do is bend all the pins/hooks and and knock off the plaster. Sigh.

GreyQueen

Byatt wrote: »

Cat, don't throw out the Jane Austens! :eek: I am a huge JA fan, started late though as I wouldn't touch her books with a barge pole...now...I lurve them! I was loaned the zombie version and just couldn't read it although I am a fan of zombies, so gave the book back and pretended I'd read it.

I'm always in jeans and trainers.

I'm trying to put pictures up on stone walls; all I've managed to do is bend all the pins/hooks and and knock off the plaster. Sigh.

Prop them up on the shelves and call it a "design feature". When we were doing our design degrees and there was a discrepancy between the original design drawing and the outcome, this was our excuse.

You need a kick-!!! electric drill with hammer action for stone walls. And it's a wee bit late to be using one of those.

I'm off to my pit as have to go to the orifice tomorrow and pretend to be a responsible adult for a few hours. The things I do to earn a crust............

Thanks for the laffs, ladies, catch up with you tomorrow.

Cat501

Byatt wrote: »

Cat, don't throw out the Jane Austens! :eek: I am a huge JA fan, started late though as I wouldn't touch her books with a barge pole...now...I lurve them! I was loaned the zombie version and just couldn't read it although I am a fan of zombies, so gave the book back and pretended I'd read it.

I'm always in jeans and trainers.

I'm trying to put pictures up on stone walls; all I've managed to do is bend all the pins/hooks and and knock off the plaster. Sigh.

OK you've convinced me, the Austens will stay! (how fickle am I?:D) I just don't seem to have the concentration for them - in fact the only one I've even started reading is Northanger Abbey because the name appealed to me:o I think I managed about two chapters before my interest drifted away but I'll give it - or one of the others - another go!

Having said that, I'll be down your neck of the woods in a week or so, no doubt I'll do my usual trawl of the charity shops in various towns and go home with another couple of dozen new books:o

eta luckily I have no interest in zombies or vampires, so there are SOME books I won't buy....not many though!

blossomhill_2

Byatt wrote: »

I'm trying to put pictures up on stone walls; all I've managed to do is bend all the pins/hooks and and knock off the plaster. Sigh.

Have you tried this kind of hook? LINK

Possession

I couldn't ever get rid of a Jane Austen. Or a Bronte. But then I have an entire wall of classics so I'm not reall the person to be advising anyone on either clutter or books. I'm totally sick of publishers showing me zombie titles (vampires are so last decade dahling!) angel books and 'paranormal romance'. And, post-Hunger Games, dystopian fiction. Or even steampunk dystopian novels. Although that one was actually quite good.

Cat501 wrote: »

OK you've convinced me, the Austens will stay! (how fickle am I?:D) I just don't seem to have the concentration for them - in fact the only one I've even started reading is Northanger Abbey because the name appealed to me:o I think I managed about two chapters before my interest drifted away but I'll give it - or one of the others - another go!

Having said that, I'll be down your neck of the woods in a week or so, no doubt I'll do my usual trawl of the charity shops in various towns and go home with another couple of dozen new books:o

eta luckily I have no interest in zombies or vampires, so there are SOME books I won't buy....not many though!