Hoarding - A New Start

MrsAtobe

Consider yourself nudged!

PudseyDB

I've spent the morning sorting out dog insurance!!!

I need to get myself organised - my mission this week is to get the christmas stuff sorted and packed away into the eaves of the attic. At the moment there's too many boxes to fit! So need to do an edit of what to keep.

Last year I'm ashamed to admit......it all stayed on the landing for the whole year :eek:

lostinrates

This_Year wrote: »

I need a nudge! I've done nothing yet but look at the snow and drink tea. I must do something!

Today it'll be the toiletries, shoes and sort the airing cupboard.

You know, sometimes it's worth looking at the snow. It's beautiful, and it's not like we get it that often.

It's interesting that the beauty of it is it's clean white minimal simplicity.....for those of us who like stuff:D

A carrier bag full of watch boxes ( dh) and perfume boxes ( me) out yesterday.


I have quite a bit of glass recycling to do, old scented candle jars. I have more than enough to melt down for 'new' candles of left over wax, do these have to go.

Jazzyj_2

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Last year I'm ashamed to admit......it all stayed on the landing for the whole year :eek:[/QUOTE]

hello and I did the same but this year my DD and myself sorted and threw out some decorations that come down every year but don't get used. We chucked out god knows how many sets of lights that never get used.
I put the newly organised boxes back in the loft this year but managed to leave various bits out.........Arghhh

On another note I joined the declutter thread last night but found this today!!! Jesus now I don't know where to go. Am I a hoarder, YES i accumulated tonnes of stuff and find it hard to let go.
I also thinks its clutter.......I need to let go. I will post on both threads I think.

A few years ago I read about throwing photo's out...........The pure horror that filled me when I read it but one year later I finally convinced myself to do it and sorted a bag of pictures. How many landscapes of places that looked great on holiday but could I remember them all now and in honesty most were pants!! I threw out all the doubles or similar and kept the best one. How many pictures have people that you can't even remember from social gatherings etc. I threw the blurred ones out (yes there were loads (develop pictures, look at and leave in envelope). I threw out the ones that didn't do the people in them any justice. The hardest was throwing out photo's of my Dad who passed away many years ago. But I had quite a few that I didn't like of him so gulping as I did it I threw them. They weren't nice ones, I have much nicer ones to cherish.
I never went on from there but today I got four boxes and bags of pictures out to take to my lounge and sort out over the coming days.

I am sitting decluttering a drawer at the minute. Full of paperwork and no doubt hoarded items. I will crack it, I must for my health, my well being and the good of my family. xx

tattycath

Ok, so even thopugh I've started my own diary...I still need this thread to keep me sane? give me a fiik up the a&$e i need to get things done. This morning-apart from trying to sort ourt my camera I've... drank tea and not done anything else. I so need to get some more stuff on ebay-I got over 20 items up by the end of yesterday and have about 1,000 more items i need to get rid of.
Off to the loft I go.

Ok so I actually meant i still have thousands (plural) of items to get rid of-it's a wonder the floor hasn't given way as there is so much stuff up there.

blossomhill_2

tattycath wrote: »

Ok, so even thopugh I've started my own diary...I still need this thread to keep me sane? give me a fiik up the a&$e i need to get things done. This morning-apart from trying to sort ourt my camera I've... drank tea and not done anything else. I so need to get some more stuff on ebay-I got over 20 items up by the end of yesterday and have about 1,000 more items i need to get rid of.
Off to the loft I go.

Ok so I actually meant i still have thousands (plural) of items to get rid of-it's a wonder the floor hasn't given way as there is so much stuff up there.

Hi Tc - have you thought of trying to sell as joblots? I see even "box of car bootable stuff" sells, may not get the best return but it depends what you are aiming for


JazzyJ - welcome! Rough dividing line between hoarding & clutter is

• hoarding = stuff to which you have attached an unusual significance (which others probably wouldn't understand if you explained it or why it has a hold over you)
• clutter = rubbish you haven't got round to disposing, too much everyday essentials in too small a space, general disorganised housekeeping, slovenliness, too busy-ness, stuff passing through (eg groceries you've not yet put away)

Many of us straddle the line, and it's a happy day when we realise we have slipped from hoarding into cluttering, as decluttering usually has a simpler non-emoptional solution

Florenceem

tattycath wrote: »

Ok, so even thopugh I've started my own diary...I still need this thread to keep me sane? give me a fiik up the a&$e i need to get things done. This morning-apart from trying to sort ourt my camera I've... drank tea and not done anything else. I so need to get some more stuff on ebay-I got over 20 items up by the end of yesterday and have about 1,000 more items i need to get rid of.
Off to the loft I go.

Ok so I actually meant i still have thousands (plural) of items to get rid of-it's a wonder the floor hasn't given way as there is so much stuff up there.

My loft is full too!

tattycath

blossomhill wrote: »

Hi Tc - have you thought of trying to sell as joblots? I see even "box of car bootable stuff" sells, may not get the best return but it depends what you are aiming for

The thing is... although I'm aiming to downsize my possessions, I have also set myself crazy financial targets to meet-as per my sig... and then some. So although it's very appealing to just get rid-I know I can recover some money back if I get my rear in gear and get on with it.. I am listing more stuff on ebay today-even though it's not free listing, if I start at 99pence for some of the stuff (the - under £1 - listing is free for up to 100 items a month for a private seller) and hopefully it will find it's own value. If, after it's been listed, it still doesn't sell I shall charity shop it.
I shall report back later and say how many listings I achieve. (this should spur me into action-that's the plan).

mcculloch29

My DS has told me he's been using the Geo Foreman (good job I asked) so it's not allowed to go. Also, thinking about it, it wasn't me that bought it, it was him. Strictly speaking, it's not mine to dispose of.

I am hoping I can persuade him to declutter the attic. I can't get up there due to arthritis.
We have a travel cot up there that could be Freegled, it was last used for childminding c. 1996. Thinking about it, the last child to sleep in it started Uni in September.... ahem.

This_Year

MrsAtobe wrote: »

Consider yourself nudged!

Nudge worked! Airing cupboard sorted and odd things that don't belong there rehomed back where they should be.

Went to sort out my shoes and my phone rang - I've got an interview tomorrow with an agency Am nervous now.