Hoarding...not just on TV

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

:rotfl:

Well, another THREE pairs of shoes went out!

They all looked a bit tatty but were all technically wearable. But they weren't particularly supportive or comfortable, so -FLING!!!!!

Buffythedebtslayer

Byatt wrote: »

Spiky, your talk about the magazines and what to do with them, reminds me of a particularly humiliating situation I was in. For various reasons I won't go into now, I had a few ahem...sex toys...brand new in boxes (I was selling for a short while)...:o but what do you do with such things when they haven't sold? Thinking I didn't want to drop dead and my family find these things hiding in the wardrobe, I took them out of the boxes, dismantled where I could and put in to black bin bags. Didn't want to put them in the bin, just in case, so took them to the recycling centre and placed the bag in their landfill section. Walked back to the car, took out the cardboard and climbed the steps between two containers, glanced back towards the landfill and saw 2 men opening the black bag and taking out the contents.:eek::eek: I ducked down between the containers, but realised I couldn't stay there, so dashed to the car, grabbed some more cardboard from the front seat, and threw it in the container... along with my hand bag which had been on the front seat. :eek::o So from trying to be inconspicuous, I had to shout to one of the men for help and he had to climb into the container to get my bag. He didn't stop grinning. The last thing I saw as I left in my car was one of the toys on the wall near the entrance...for all to see. :o

I didn't go back there for a year!! :rotfl:

BEST story EVER.
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blossomhill_2

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

I have bought myself a pair of sensible shoes in the sale

...and what have you done with the shoe box?

SpikyHedgehog wrote: »

When Grandad died, mum & dad found his magazines, luckily before (as far as we know) Grandma found them... Dad was really stuck with what to do with them, didn't feel able to put them in the recycling bin as the binmen would have seen them, also didn't feel able to take them to the dump & put in the magazine bin there in case the workers look at the magazines there

Perks of the job!

Byatt - seeing you in a new light now!!

Byatt's story reminds me of what I see as one of DS's reasons for hoarding - as a child he was actually quite traumatised when he saw the binmen had a teddy tied to the front of their truck - obviously it's a bit of a tradition among binmen but to a child ...traumatic, especially as the weeks go by and each week it looks more and more unhappy. I saw a Woody tied to a workvan yesterday, all covered in cement dust ... ironic really that he was from Toy Story

Byatt

Blossom, that's so sad about DS. Yes the bin lorries often have something attached to the front. Like you said, they get to look sadder and sadder.

I was reluctant to post my story because it was a one off situation. Trying to make some money after ex left us with nothing and it seemed a good idea at the time. My American friend was so shocked, but when I told her the story over the phone, shortly after it happened, she was hystercial with laughter! :cool:

To this day, I still blush.

thriftwizard

Thank you for helping me start the day with a big grin on my face, Byatt! Lovely story. I'm still feeling a bit "slumped" here but again, if I think about it I took a huge load of completely random stuff to the Tip yesterday - nothing to make them laugh, sadly - to make room for my mother's old freezer in the garage.

A few months ago I "downsized" our big upright freezer under the stairs; I'd realised that it was mostly full of random home-frozen rubbish that had lost its labels & could have been there any length of time. A lot of it was freezer-burnt and unrecognisable - I'd been frozen food hoarding, in fact. We also have a biggish chest freezer in the garage - I'm feeding 7 most of the time and if I want to have any reserves at all, I do need that much space. Anyway, I bought a smaller upright one to keep frozen veg & ice-cream indoors in, sold the big one on & turned the rest of the space into a little home office area. No sooner had I done this than a smallholding friend offered me half a pig... loads of joints, chops, pork belly etc., all raised outdoors & free-range with no unnecessary medication, at a very advantageous price. So I had to use or chuck out half the contents of the big freezer very rapidly - not too much of a problem, it was mostly pumpkin, rose hips & elderberries, now bubbling away in demijohns - and realised that sometimes, I really did need the extra space! Anyway, Mum's little chest freezer was homeless after their move into a retirement flat, so that's come to live in our garage & will be used for freezing for autumn & winter but for dry food storage (flour & oats) the rest of the time.

So I have done some more stash busting, but the effects aren't really visible yet. Planning to tackle the porch today, as it's likely to be too rainy to rebuild the chicken run - thereby hangs yet another tale! - and the porch is utterly grim, but it's all eminently saleable stuff so I can't just sling it all...

lostinrates

Oh byatt, that is so funny, thank you for telling us!

Makes me wonder what ese we might hang on to to avoid embarrassment of bishing. I already panic about throwing away our bed which has horrid, horrid coffee stains that look like much worse than they are. We need a new bed quite badly...ours os in a bad way, but disagreeing over what to replace with and the odea of having to chuck ours put me off. Ours is a divan with the base that divides in half the 'wrong way' and i did wonder if i could turn the bases in to dog beds...topped with vet beds instead of matress. Thats the hoarder talking i guess?!

GreyQueen

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

I have, however, used the rubbish weather to put out more unused stuff from the kitchen. If I need to bake a cake, I'll put it in my loaf tin.

Yes! I had a revelation about 3 years aog that I hardly ever bake cakes and when I do, the bread tins will do a fine job, so I charity-shopped a couple of cake tins which made the pan drawer under to stove a lot more manageable.

Oh Byatt ! What a story!

A pal who was having the builders in to remodel her flat whilst she was still living there was so paranoid about them discoving her entertainment items that she boxed them up beforehand and transported them to a friend's house for safekeeping for the duration. If you think the tip men finding your offering was bad, imagine what her experience could have been like......:o:p

I'm glad the thread is back where it belongs. I have been decluttering but slowly as having to fit it around work and various otehr time-consuming things. A lot of stuff in the allotment shed is waiting for my parents' to come up via car and take it to theirs, mostly to exit via their recycling service but some items for re-use. Once they've gone I shall see real progress in there.

RIght, got to get on. Keep on keeping on, people.

alec_eiffel

SpikyHedgehog wrote: »

No, but the good thing is that you can get to enough of it to deep clean.

Believe me Spiky, I'm not complaining, I just meant it wan't really comment worthy! As I said before I started this 8 years ago and have had a "normal" looking house for 6 so although I've come a long way I am thankful on a daily basis to have not broken a toe or stepped on something I would rather not for a long time!

Speaking of toys, I have spent more time dealing with them than I would have liked - there were lots in the lost property cupboard of the hotel I worked at (people did ask us to return them too). when I was training at one of the charity shops another manager had just been sacked for making a display of them when they'd received a job lot of them from somewhere. Lovely stuff.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Well, last night, the box had a huge cat squeezing herself into it out of sheer bloodymindedness. :cool:

This morning, it went into the recycling.

short_bird

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