Hoarding - A New Start

franticflyerSue56

Byatt wrote: »

Hi there.

My suggestion? Just do one thing, be it washing a dish or picking up an item and putting it in its rightful place...just one thing...

Hi Byatt, thanks for your post! And, yes, I have done one thing!:T I emptied the w/m and hung the washing out! In this breeze, it might even dry! Yay!!:dance:

nightsong

Lots of interesting posts about using/not using ebay I've mulled it all over and decided not to be so rigid in my view in future (that often seems to be the bottom line with my thinking - goes with the perfectionism I expect). Anyway, I shall either ebay stuff, or send it to the CS as the mood takes me. As long as it's going out the door, it's good!

There seem to be several posts regarding selling jewellery. These are making me anxious - though I'm well aware it's none of my business what anyone else does with their stuff! However, here's my two pennies' worth in case anyone's interested.

I feel veryy pessimistic about the economy right now - and so does DH, who's an economist - and if there's one thing I AM hanging on to, it's anything hallmarked - silver or gold. We've got inflation of, in reality, about 5% per year and the Bank of England printing money like it's going out of style. If, as another thread on here has it, the SHTF, gold and silver will be money. Even if not, they retain value when few other things do in an inflationary environment. Sorry if that's too doom-laden, only my opinion of course!

Two bags of stuff left the house for the CS today and I suddenly felt like doing some housework too - must be the mild air, pretending to be spring. Long may it last.

lostinrates

Nothing doing here, I am checking in just to say keep it up everyone.

Dh is home this week and it's taking us forever to paint this wretched room. I am almost totally out of action. Tomorrow we are having a day off. Apart from its become a morning off as I had to arrange something for the afternoon. Dh is going to be a bit frustrated. It's very rare we take a whole half day 'off' and away from the place, a whole day was asking too much I think.

GreyQueen

Nightsong, I'm with you about hanging onto gold and silver jewellery as a hedge against inflation. For those who don't also keep company with the SHTF thread, I'll state here and now that I'm a regular there, and walk on the prepperish side of the street.

I tend to think if the world and it's wife is offering to buy your jewellery, they know (or strongly suspect) that the prices will keep on rising and that it is cheaper to buy it now than later.

Which would mean that it's in the householder's best interests to hang onto the stuff.

Of course, some people are in financial distress and aren't selling through choice but necessity. If you have to repair the car which gets you to the job which earns the money which pays the mortgage............ and you have no cash to pay that car repair bill, then it's a simple decision.

If you're not in immediate need, it may be best to hang onto the precious metals, but it's everybody's own business what they do with their belongings, whether jewellery or anything else.

I have one cheapish plain gold band which functions as a pretend wedding ring when I travel solo for long hauls, and I shan't be liquidating that. Just be careful of street robberies if you wear the stuff and burglaries if you leave it at home.

Have been out at work for most of the day so have decluttered nothing more than the recycling but at least it's tidy in here.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Goldiegirl wrote: »

A goldfish grows to fit the size of its bowl, in the same way that stuff will grow to fit the house.

I think of it as the goldfish principle

The actual truth about the goldfish is even more appropriate in this case, when the Stuff builds up and reduces the space for normal living.

They arent meant to be restricted. They get bigger, as is their natural process, until their growth is stunted by the confines and they end up having short, unhappy lives of pain. A persons life gets stunted when Stuff traps them.



(If anyone has goldfish in a tank, please give them a home in a proper pond. Their natural size (over a foot long) is far too large for a measly three foot tank or smaller and their lifespan should be in the decades, not two or three)


Having said that, I've just bought a secondhand guitar and brought it back on the bus. But I know where it's going to live.

Goldiegirl

JoJo, that is very true. I love seeing large goldfish in ponds. It's difficult to relate them to the tiny little fish in bowls.

I want to swim free in my large pond !

Some more interesting thoughts about jewellery. I must admit I've been thinking of the jewellery in terms of things, e.g. A bracelet to be considered for decluttering, rather than a piece of gold with a value. Maybe it'll be worth monitoring the price of gold before making any decision. Although all money is welcome, it's not as if I'm desperate for the money now this minute. I might need cash at a later date, when the cost of gold is even higher.

So much to think about!

Had an interesting little declutter today. There's a small drawer in my dressing table. When I buy new clothes and there's a spare button, it goes in that drawer. Of course the buttons and also sequins have built up, and most of the clothes are long gone. So I've put them all together as a small eBay lot, and they'll hopefully be bought by a crafter.

I know when this hoard started, as at the bottom of the drawer was my husbands 40th birthday badge. He was 40 in 1991. I also found my 1970's junior Red Cross badges. I haven't even thought about those for 22 years, so that implies they are not required. They'll be on eBay very soon.

eandjsmum

Hi just checking in to say that I have shredded all the checkbook stubs and sorted more things for despatch. Don't feel any better about it at te moment. Could just be tiredness but detemined not to be beaten. Stuff is not going to be allowed to swallow us up. I have asked DD to sort and tidy heroom and told DS that I will help him with his wardrobe over half term. He's not using it to store clothes just stuff.
His room looks tidy but he has the habit of storng boxes of shrapnel. It has to go:mad:

This_Year

Hi

Thanks for the hatton garden link, it occured to me today that I have my first wedding ring stashed away upstairs, along with a couple of other gold rings I had acquired over the years, and I may get rid - or may hang on to them. Undecided.

Frantic flyer - it takes about the same amount of time to put something away as it does to leave it out. Is what I tell myself, anyway!

Got home tonight, all the bags of toot have gone to the CS. All the bags of card have gone to the allotment. I can see the rocking chair!

Looking out of the window I can see our new neighbour (who hasn't yet moved in) is there for a while. And as usual, when he's only going to be an hour or so, he doesn't park on the drive, but across the pavement (sideways on) so any pedestrians/cyclists have to negotiate the muddy verge. I can see trouble ahead.

Not that it's even a drive, there's no dropped curb and only being a single gate/path to his front door but that didn't cause him any worries, he just removed the entire fence so he can drive straight in :eek: ey I don't like his style.

lostinrates

Oh, just remembered, i was out the other week with my mother and refused her offer of something as ' no thanks, it's just Richard, nice Richard, but Richard opal the same' and someone I. The shop looked up and looked around....


I am just wondering if anyone here has heard a mad woman in shops telling th e people she is with that the stuff is Richard?

Jo_anne_2

I've not posted for a while but have enjoyed everyone's posts. Two bags have gone to the CS today and some books to the book farm, so that's all good. I need some help though. Please tell me that I can throw out the lipstick that was a free gift with something, that I have never used and would be an awful colour on me. I keep looking at it and thinking ...but I've never used it, it's a good make....arrrghhh!!! :rotfl: