Hoarding...not just on TV

toerag33

Take care. It all sounds so overwhelming.

calicocat

Katep............wow ! And welcome to the 'chucksters' thred.

Anyhow just popped in to see if any carpet ideas.....and thanks everyone for the advice.

Byatt , I do this on my mobile so find doing a thread difficult to see everything and thank everyone as it often crashes on me.

calicocat

toerag33 wrote: »

Take care. It all sounds so overwhelming.

It can be......but this where this thread I'd great , if you feel overwhelmed by something (or just the day) you can discuss it among lovely people who want to help , and aren't sitting judging you or saying 'just get on with it' etc. I keep trying to get my friend to join this as I think she would find it very beneficial.

Well I have woken again at stupid o'clock , might get up now and try this vinegar thing. BYATT , I think they have gone sticky as have had any amount of products on over the years as used to be a bit paranoid about dog smells when had a pooch......and never really got the product out ? That's the ony reason I can think , and making carpet wet has made a 'product gunge'.?

katep23

Just to say I've had an email that it's free listing on eBay this weekend - perfect timing for me.

Thank you for the welcomes and Byatt I know exactly where you are coming from, it's good to know someone else feels the same.

I'm with everyone else who finds it difficult to let go of books but my compromise is to have authors who I will keep and then cull books from everyone else.

Since joining the library I don't really go back and read the books I have so I think it must be a link to my past (some I have had since my teens and I am 35 now) I'm having trouble with. Still, if I can at least get the number of books down so they are sitting single stacked and the right way up it will look a lot neater. OH hates them being stacked on their side!

blossomhill_2

Ok you lot! Which one of you has been hoarding Olympic 50ps? Hmm?

Possession

katep23 wrote: »

Just to say I've had an email that it's free listing on eBay this weekend - perfect timing for me.

Thank you for the welcomes and Byatt I know exactly where you are coming from, it's good to know someone else feels the same.

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I'm going to make it my weekend job to do an ebay list - I have lots of things stuffed into a big black sack that I've put off listing, and DD has nw decided Disney Princess is too babyish and is selling all her plush dolls. As soon as I've listed them I'm hiding them in case she gets upset!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I agree with water for the sticky carpet. When I had carpets and used too much shampoo in the carpet cleaner, I went over it again with plain water in the machine a few times. After all, that's what you would do if you'd left shampoo in your hair, keep rinsing. Mind you, when I moved, the size of this place meant there was no way I'd be getting carpets.

And once I get around to laminate in my bedroom and sisal runners up the stairs (£40 each from ikea, 3 should easily do the entire thing), I won't have anywhere with bare hardboard left. I've only been here two years in September. But I've been quoted three hundred as the
Minimum for carpeting and fitting the stairs, which is completely out of the question. These runners fit the width of the stairs perfectly and I won't feel bad about damaging any to try and get them to fit the ninety degree turn halfway up. Although using sisal does suggest I'm intending to clad the entire stairwell like an oversized cat scratching post.

Anyhow, cat number one is due at the v e t this morning for repeat bloods, so I have to retrieve the basket from the loft. The wicker one got colonised by the youngest cat as his bed when he was still tiny and even though he hangs out of it now when he lies down, I'm not turfing him out of it - a wicker basket looks better than a manky box in the front room, after all.


ETA. Yes, red clover is the ping pong sized stuff that has bumbles in it. Just pull the little trumpets off and scatter over with other edibles. Not sure if it tastes of anything, but it looks lovely

katep23

Possession wrote: »

I'm going to make it my weekend job to do an ebay list - I have lots of things stuffed into a big black sack that I've put off listing, and DD has nw decided Disney Princess is too babyish and is selling all her plush dolls. As soon as I've listed them I'm hiding them in case she gets upset!

There was a post from someone about when you are struggling to deal with hoarding the benefits of just getting it out of the house and not trying to recycle, charity shop, eBay etc as then you can change your mind.

I totally agree with the sentiment but must admit that the thought of chucking stuff into landfill which could be reused, resold or just passed on to someone else makes me panic. Probably all part of the same issue to be honest; by passing it on it's not really gone, just found a new home so is still out there somewhere :cool:.

When I split up with ex, I moved from a 2-bed house to a smaller than double room in a shared house and I Freecycled almost everything I couldn't fit in the room. Where we live now is very difficult to find so Freecycling every day stuff is not really an option unless I deliver it (which I am happy to do but people can be really demanding, wanting it delivered 10 miles away - not what I call local!)

I tend to only Freecycle big stuff now which would have some value to someone or small stuff I can take to work to have collected (but this is a different group to my home one so end up listing twice).

calicocat

:rotfl:

blossomhill wrote: »

Ok you lot! Which one of you has been hoarding Olympic 50ps? Hmm?

:rotfl: :rotfl:

I have got some £2 coins with the necklace on though .

Have txt everyone I know to get a vax........so I'm off again on the carpet-run. Wish I had never started this ! Watch me get flooded just when I have finished , nearly did on thursday.

Here goes..........

lostinrates

Right, i am back at it today. The three billies have taken all the cook books i can find ( i can see some have not been rounded up but hopefully not too many), plus our gardening books, some art books, a shelf of sheet music that had escaped other boxes. I dislike the way they look but i like that books are having some order. Atm we are concentrating on non fiction down stairs.

Sadly, i am not feelipng my best the last couple of days, but this stuff still has to be done.

Other benefits have been sorting out broken stuff. E.g. My mothers dog broke one of a pair of beautiful lamps winter before last. I tried to find someopne to mend it at the time but failed and it has been on a shelf worrying me. Now its due back from the menders in the next county (it had to go some way) next week! I like stuff, i am never going to not like stuff, but broken stuff..... That's silly. Fix or recycle it.