Hoarding...not just on TV

SpikyHedgehog

Mum & Dad's old springer used to squish herself into the tiniest of boxes, and as she was fluffy and fat, she just spilt out of the boxes in a very silly way.

Byatt... Oh dear! I think I'd have driven a long way to use a different dump after that!

Feeling unmotivated right now... DS1 has done no housework all week , so I need to either argue with him to 'Wash up so I can cook dinner now!' or go & do it myself... While making sure DS2 has every thing he needs for Cub camp tomorrow. What I want to do is sort out the cupboard in DS2's bedroom where there is lots of stuff hiding... But I will have to find enough room on his floor to get to it first. Fed up with boys who don't do as they're asked.

SpikyHedgehog

Well done thriftwizard! It does give you so much more energy when you don't have to fight so much with the stuff.

Right. I'm off the pc & off to do something. If I get the carrier bags & go down to MrM, I can at least get rid of them, & get the plastic cutlery DS2 needs for camp. Then I'll come home to find a clean kitchen with room for me to do dinner in. Trying to use stuff from the cupboards instead of cramming more food into them...

Byatt

Thrift, well done, :T:T it looks so organised. Very motivational. I might do a pic tomorrow, although I won't leave it up as so embarrassed.

Spiky, I didn't go back to the tip for a year! And when I did, it was in disguise, hat and dark glasses... :rotfl::o

GreyQueen

ivyleaf wrote: »

Thank you, ladies.....you have made me feel a bit better about the 1970s copy of "The Joy of S*x" that's on the high shelf in my wardrobe, right at the back, which I'm too embarrassed to get rid of :rotfl::rotfl:

I've seen this for sale in charity shops more than once, so don't be shy..............

thriftwizard, that is an amazing transformation. Well done!

I am currently ignoring the dishes and the ironing as was out until late on the lottie yesterday and am feeling tired and up to no more than pottering about on the t'intenet. Tomorrow is another day and another opportunity to do........something.

thriftwizard

Right - on with conquering the remains of Ghastly Piles 2 & 3 today! We have a big party in the house next weekend to say Bon Voyage to DS3, who's off to study in Chile for a year. I want it all to be usable & look vaguely welcoming, at the very least - a home to be proud of would be better still!

I'm quite impressed by the fact that the living room has mostly remained tidy since we reshuffled it two weeks ago. Even teenagers get the message in the end! And DS2 has finally tidied up his bedroom, aided by the acquisition of a very old (150, at least) gigantic chest of drawers from Mum's old house. Sometimes more storage IS the answer - he had nothing at all to put his clothes in, having demolished about 6 sets of B&Q fall-apart-in-6-months white chipboard drawers in quick succession - they may have looked good but they clearly weren't designed for actually storing anything more than 10 pairs of socks; the bottoms sagged, the sides bowed and the drawers collapsed down on top of each other as soon as he put his clothes into them. The old drawers, which are gorgeous BTW, are made of solid hardwood and are hugely capacious. You can actually see his floor now!

Order seems to be breaking out all over... now, must Ebay my second-favourite treadle sewing machine today. This will break my heart a little, but I really can't keep two...

PS - in this multi-feline household, we have a saying "For any given box, there will be a cat determined to fit herself into it" and DD1 & DS3, the twins, have an ongoing discussion about how anyone would ever manage to fit a vial of poison into the box alongside Schrodinger's cat - there wouldn't be room for it, surely?! Practical common sense trumps quantum mechanics any day...

lostinrates

Re boxes and cats, one of mine took a likeing to a cake box!not the square kind but a fancy italian one that was tall and octagonal and the eight sides became a sort of flappy top that twisted together to forma tall, secured box. Anyway, it lived ontop of the kitchen units (purely as richard) and the cat used to go up there and sit and sleep in the box. When we were too noisy you could see just a little paw, pulling the flaps down to shut us out, and if she herad something she liked she would pop out of it like a jack in the box.

blossomhill_2

wannabe_sybil wrote: »

I have decided - I will get the yarn for the cutest sweater for little bear (get the cute while I can, he's five and it will not be for much longer!). However it is going to sit in front of me until I finish the blanket I am knitting now, the sweater I started most recently, sewn up the sweater that has been half done for years and finished off the slip over that only needs for the armhole to be picked up and knitted and then one seam sewn. That list will take perhaps a fortnight, if I focus. It should take less than a month at worst

Personally I think you should start the little bear sweater before finishing the rest - priority-wise, what's more important, making the sweater in time for him, or finishing several tasks which could overwhelm you?
I (this is the new decluttery me, not the old hoarder) would put the unfinished away in a box with date on the calender and resolve to bring them out after that date and either finish or pass them on, once little bear is wearing his new sweater

beanielou

All sounding good thift wizard :j
No energy today for me so wont be doing anything.
Got a friend to dri9ve me to library and supermarket.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Stair carpet fitting today.

We're taking our time, tacking, stretching and cutting at a snail's pace. But it'll look really good when done, and for a fraction of the cost of one from one of those warehouse type places (or privately, going by the quotes I've had).



And I got to relax in the upstairs posh bathroom last night. Well, in between a shocked and confused cat trying to find out what I was doing by trying to leap in with me five times.

(I'm NOT dirty, by the way - its because I've pretty much only had showers in the downstairs bathroom instead, which is a wet room, so he's used to seeing that, not a bath)

mollythewestie

I've just spent the last 90minutes going through the underbed storage and sorted through most of my clothing in the chests of drawers too.

OUT: Large bag of clothes, countless bras, a bin full of clothes fit for the rag bag.

Under the bed we found loads of new clothes that replaced some ratty old t-shirts and jogging bottoms that were binned.

Found a few more bits to go on ebay. Also found a handbag that I had forgotton about, that I can use again now I don't have to lug around huge baby changing bag. So my old big satchel bag is going out also