Hoarding - A New Start

Goldiegirl

Picklepot wrote: »

• Financial advisor advised i do not need to keep my pension stuff from 1990's from a company i'm no longer with! Thats gone in shredding pile which i do in TV ad breaks (any longer the shredder konks out.):rotfl:

I've been de-cluttering my husbands bedside cabinet today. He had copies of the application for a pension that has now matured and he's in receipt of a monthly pension.

That'll be shredded tonight along with another load of papers I pulled out.

sjprmc01

I've been rubbis, I'm failing at achieving much at all. I have no idea how parents can juggle a family and full time working and have spotless houses. Everything has fallen by the wayside since I've been doing so much OT at work!

Tomorrow I have no plans but I can't even begin to think of a bit of tidying/decluttering I could tackle. And it's NOT coz there is nothing to do!

VJsmum

sjprmc01 wrote: »

I've been rubbis, I'm failing at achieving much at all. I have no idea how parents can juggle a family and full time working and have spotless houses. Everything has fallen by the wayside since I've been doing so much OT at work!

Tomorrow I have no plans but I can't even begin to think of a bit of tidying/decluttering I could tackle. And it's NOT coz there is nothing to do!

Don't worry, you are not alone. i am doing additional work at the moment and my house has gone to the dogs too. I am maybe fortunate in that i should be done by the weekend so i will tackle the house then. if necessary i will clean the hygienic bits and the rest will have to wait.

This_Year

Blossomhill - I can bring my christening cake topper which is 42 years old and some balloons (probably perished) saying "Happy 1st Birthday" from DD.

sjprmc01 & VJsmum

I'm the same at the moment. I'm so exhausted once I get home that it takes me forever to get anything done, I could cheerfully sit in the chair all night. So any decluttering or tidying has to wait until the weekend.

Today I bought home (won prizes in a work's raffle) a bottle of wine and 2 xmassy bauble tins with soap in. As soon as I got in the soaps went in the charity bag and NOT my bedroom, and I have a feeling the bottle will be in the recycling bin tomorrow!

Someone mentioned birthday cards etc. The dressing-table bottom box has a huge stack of cards, so does my second drawer of my bedside cabinet. The bottom of my wardrobe has 2 boxes of old photos which I shoved there 5 years ago to make room. :eek:

Too many things to do if I let myself think about it, so I'm trying to stick to what can I clear away in 15 minutes without creating another hotspot. So I'm deciding keep (find a new home for it now) CS (put in CS bag now) or bin (bin now) and not putting anything "there for the time being" as I know I'll remember the "time being" stuff later and just put it back where it came from.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I could bring alcohol. And musical instruments with a bunch of really easy chord charts.

GreyQueen

I could bring some decorations which I made out of yoghurt pots and tinfoil in about 1976. My Nan kept them and now they're with her daughter who never throws anything away. She has wedding gift towels from the 1960s. The very early 1960s.....

Yesterday I defragged this pooter, after having to look up how on the microsift site as I couldn't for the life of me recall how. Then I decluttered the scanned receipt for the Item which went via freecycle - it's physical receipt and instruction booklet (and box!) went with it. It's good to let stuff go.

Today I have finished up a bottle of shampoo, a bottle of cooking oil and the last dregs of a 5 litre container of vinegar, leftover from aspirational chutney-making. That's a lot of plarstick hitting the recycling bins tomorrow.

:hello: Hello and welcome in, zzzLazyDaisy, Mrs Atobe, Lavender Rose and lozzy88. We'll offer you a cuppa as soon as we unearth the virtual kettle and wash the virtual mugs.

Oh, here they are: :coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee:

Now thinking about what else can be decluttered. I have old utility bills from my previous home. Neatly filed in envelopes, labelled. I'm not sure why I have them, they were on DD and the DDs are recorded on my bank statements. Dunno why, perhaps a nagging feeling that Authority will come to my door one day and dispute that I lived at that address between those dates. And Terrible Things will befall unless I can prove otherwise..................

Whereupon, I will produce the utility bills in my name and go ta dah! Evidence! So there! And be saved from Terrible Things. :think:

Yeah, writing it down does make it seem totally irrational, doesn't it? I think I maybe need to get hold of those bills and introduce them to Fred the Shred, the fastest crosscutter in ole Lunnon Town.

Here's a little exercise for the desperately-cluttered; one in, one out.

Yup, you get the new Argus catalogue/ Yillow Pages/ Thomson Directory/ bus timetable and you immediately seek, locate, assault and destroy the obsolete one. Yeessss, that very same day, into the recycling or the wheelie bin, but it's outta there.

It won't make huge inroads into a clutter mound but it will slow the rate of increase.

Goldiegirl

I've just caught the end of a hoarding type programme on the 'Blighty' channel. It's called Gutted. It seems to be the usual type of format. They sell their hoard at auction and make a small fortune!

Unfortunately Blighty doesn't have a +1 channel, but it's on for the rest of the week at 8pm.

Being a bit of an eBay addict, selling and making a profit at auction is an aspirational thing for me, so I'll watch tomorrow for entertainment value.

GQmentioned thinking about the next thing to be decluttered. That's always on my mind. I've got more work I intend doing in our bedroom and the spare bedroom, not to mention the cupboard under the stairs, then it's up into the loft.

Considering I've been doing this decluttering lark for about three years, it' astonishing that I'm still find so much that can go. It does make you understand how things can build up if you don't take steps to shift the stuff.

lostinrates

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

I could bring alcohol. And musical instruments with a bunch of really easy chord charts.

I am very tentatively thinking about having guitar lessons. This is a big deal for reasons I don't want to go into the minutie of, but I know longer play the instruments I was trained in due to my illness.

Dh suggested the guitar might be easier for me. I pick it up and look at it every now and then and think I should be able to make it do something, just something, woth no tuition really, but it doesn't happen. I cannot do teach yourself books and I really do not want dh or a friend to try and teach me. It could all go horribly wrong you see, and I nok now this sounds stupid, but it might be tremendously emotional. Losing a skill like playing instruments, or sight reading (or reading much at all) and the coordination or a part of your identity is very unsettling. Years and years of my education went into it, and I don't know what I am now. A musician who cannot play anything really? A non musician? Anyway.....the guitar might work, or it might not.....so I circle round it sometimes.

Lozzy88

GreyQueen wrote: »

:hello: Hello and welcome in, zzzLazyDaisy, Mrs Atobe, Lavender Rose and lozzy88. We'll offer you a cuppa as soon as we unearth the virtual kettle and wash the virtual mugs.

Oh, here they are: :coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee:
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thank you we have 5 kettles one quick cup and one normal one for bottles and 3 for no reason!

Lol I think I am going to start using free cycle as I say I am not a hoarder but the 3 pink pushchairs in the loft when my dd is now 4 and I have 2 little boys would tell you other wise, same as her baby clothes, shoes, coats, toys.

Also I think I should invest in a paper ripper upper machine (I have totally forgot the name of them) but I keep paper work, I have tenancy agreements, bills, recipts, warrantys that are now defunked also list, oh dear I do love to write a list.

My problem is I just don't have the spare energy at the moment but I hope if I few weeks I should pick up my game a bit.

Yellow_One

I hoard toiletries. Badly. This weekend I am going through my box of doom and getting rid of the stuff I never have used and never will. Hopefully to friends who can use it.

I also have more shoes I need to re-visit that I cannot wear anymore due to my permanently swollen foot due to me breaking it six months ago.

AlsoI need to review my wardrobe and really get rid of the things I have not worn in the last year at least.

I have boxes upon boxes in storage and I really need to get over there and sort through them as I know there is loads in there I do not want or need anymore. It is just finding the motivation to do it. I am lacking motivation at the moment