Hoarding...not just on TV

blossomhill_2

blossomhill wrote: »

PS the “tent” behind the wardrobe turned out to “just” be a deckchair – we’d somehow managed to build a bookcase around it though but it is now OUT!

If anyone is following the tent saga I tried to bin the tent/deckchair without looking but was puzzled as I didn't even recognise it, so took it out of its canvas bag - it's actually a camp bed! I think it is might be ours

(unlike the men's smart trousers and shirt in a suit bag I found in the wardrobe - never seen before in my life - but have never found my black dress coat so think I brought someone else's suit carrier home from the function and just put it away. Bet there's a man somewhere who had a real job convincing his wife he'd no idea where the women's clothes came from!)

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GreyQueen

blossomhill wrote: »

If anyone is following the tent saga I tried to bin the tent/deckchair without looking but was puzzled as I didn't even recognise it, so took it out of its canvas bag - it's actually a camp bed! I think it is might be ours

(unlike the men's smart trousers and shirt in a suit bag I found in the wardrobe - never seen before in my life - but have never found my black dress coat so think I brought someone else's suit carrier home from the function and just put it away. Bet there's a man somewhere who had a real job convincing his wife he'd no idea where the women's clothes came from!)

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I've gotta ask - is the camp bed dark blue cotton canvas? I lost one on a trip in 1993.............:rotfl:It was only a cheapy so wasn't too distressed just always wondered where it went...............

I am now bathed and clean but cream-crackered. Be a good thing to go back to t'office tomorrow and rest my weary bones.

I did have a thought this afternoon, as I was gingerly extracting things from the corners of my shed (with a stick in case there were you-know-whats - and there were) that at least I knew fer sure that there wouldn't be any dead possums in there.

I always thought possums were Australian? Have I got thoroughly-confused by that Dame Edna?

Ooof, my aching back. Might have to have a medicinal glass of wine with supper but suspect that it would send me right to sleep.

blossomhill_2

GreyQueen wrote: »

I've gotta ask - is the camp bed dark blue cotton canvas? I lost one on a trip in 1993.............

...errr...yes! Ever do BTCV?

GreyQueen

Nope, I was working the festivals as an entertainer. I am a woman who has worn many hats in her life. Some with bells on. Think I lost it in Bedford..............expect that there were tens of thousands of them about........

kandfs_mam

Wow, I have just read this thread right from the start. I am a clutterer with hoarding tendancies I think

My earliest thought of hoarding was when we were moving house when i was 16. I had kept all of my birthday cards that people had given me since I was 5 and when I came home from school my Mam had thrown them all on the bonfire. I remember trying to pick them out of the flames - crazy! Then when as an adult we were moving house, DH and I were clearing out the loft - there were boxes up there that I had brought from home when we got married and in them was childhood trinkets etc. I made myself bin loads of them but it was so hard.. then a year later a childhood friend died at the age of 31 and all I could think about was the fact that all the birthday cards he had ever given me had been burnt and that I had thrown out the plastic snoopy pomander that he gave me for my 13th birthday. I could still cry thinking about it

mollythewestie

The understairs cupboard has been decluttered :j

I had to persuade DH to get on his hands and knees to get the stuff right at the back, but it is done.
It was one of those cupboards that was so full to the brim that you couldn't open the door without it all cascading out .

It is now organised, tidy and, most importantly, I know what's in there now.

managed to get rid of: 3 large bags of rubbish, 1 bag of things for the charity shop and a few bits to put onto ebay.

blossomhill_2

kanfsmam - hi and welcome! you are allowed to sound crazy on here, there are levels of crazy and we are aiming to be the ones who recognise it and pull ourselves back in time

So sorry to hear about your friend - one part of grief brings guilt and maybe the sorrow over the material loss was guilt

Byatt

kandfs_mam wrote: »

Wow, I have just read this thread right from the start. I am a clutterer with hoarding tendancies I think

My earliest thought of hoarding was when we were moving house when i was 16. I had kept all of my birthday cards that people had given me since I was 5 and when I came home from school my Mam had thrown them all on the bonfire. I remember trying to pick them out of the flames - crazy! Then when as an adult we were moving house, DH and I were clearing out the loft - there were boxes up there that I had brought from home when we got married and in them was childhood trinkets etc. I made myself bin loads of them but it was so hard.. then a year later a childhood friend died at the age of 31 and all I could think about was the fact that all the birthday cards he had ever given me had been burnt and that I had thrown out the plastic snoopy pomander that he gave me for my 13th birthday. I could still cry thinking about it

Oh wow, that reminds me of my mum. In particular, when Robert Kennedy was assassinated, I collected all the newpaper articles relating to it. I was into politics even though I was only a teen, and was a huge follower of RK...anyway, I was devastated over his death. All the newspapers I kept in a bottom drawer of my chest of drawers, only one piece was under my pillow. I came home from school one day, went to the drawer and they were all gone. :eek::( I had kept thme hidden. (no idea why)...my mother told me that she was not going to have that kind evil in the house and I was never, ever to do something like that again. Have no idea why she responded harshly or what the evil was. But I was devastated.

It still upsets me because I have no idea what the problem was.

Goodness me, the things I'm remembering...

edit: Well done Molly! :T:T and GQ :T:T

lostinrates

Possession wrote: »

The children loved Snowshill, as DS (10) is already rather a collector. Obviously he now aspires to collect samurai armour!
Some of the posts on here make me wonder if I am a hoarder or a collector, eg cookbooks. I have about 170 and they are all confined in a bookcase bought especially for them by the kitchen. If I add to them, which is rare, i make myself get rid of one. I have no intention of getting rid of them otherwise! Does that make me a hoarder or a collector? I'm not sure it matters as long as they don't get in the way. I guess the key is to keep it under control.

I am tickled by t,he fact someone called possesion is talking aout collecting and hoarding in any case:D:T

So,the next four days my mission is books from the garden room( clearing short term for builders) out onto the gifted shelves, arriving tues i think. Friday we start again with emptying rooms, Kitchen, garden room mainly.

blossomhill_2

Can anyone find some keys in their house that they don't know what they belong to? In pots, on hooks, in drawers. Paraylsed with fear that if you get rid, you won't be able to open something?

Why not put them all on a ring with a key fob and label it "2012 Unknown".

That way you won't keep going back wondering what they are for, will know where to look when you find something you can't open, and won't pass that fear on to your offspring - they will be able to just ditch them when you are gone

In 2013 you will be able to look back and think ... well I haven't needed them in the last year, so do I actually need them?