Hoarding - A New Start

This_Year

sjprmc01 that would make me so mad too! Hope you're feeling a bit happier today. I can understand how you want a break once you get in from work, I had to point out to OH many times that I have been at work for 8 hours, and am mentally exhausted, he's been looking at MSE or the football for the afternoon and is bright as a button so give me a little while to wind down with a cuppa without him hovering in the corner! I know he's pleased to see me home but give me space!

LIR Thinking about it, I use the grill when I'm making toast for us all (and in my opinion I think it tastes nicer?!) so maybe we should be using that and not the toaster. But he was eyeing the up sandwich toaster in asda yesterday "only £4.54, bargain" I had to virtually drag him away...

goldiegirl, am giggling @ your husband's Y-fronts from the 1970s!

Being domesticated (ha!) I've a load of washing on as the sun is out and it's feeling really warm here in the conservatory, will be putting the washing on the line outside in a few minutes! Love that feeling. It'll smell all lovely and fresh, brilliant.

JellyBox

OH an I are clearing out books. We have amassed quite a pile - aspirational travel books (will be out of date before we can afford the holidays!), old uni books (neither of us managed careers in chosen field - again, will be out of date soon) and a hefty collection of cookbooks with stuff in that I'd love to cook, but haven't in the last 5 or so years of owning them! Now stuck on the best way of shifting them... We don't want to let them all go for nothing, and many aren't really CS friendly anyway. We know of Amazon trade in stuff - but just wondering if there's any other thing similar to this for if they're not suitable for that, or Amazon will only give us tiny pennies. Any ideas?

GreyQueen

Bexim wrote: »

OH an I are clearing out books. We have amassed quite a pile - aspirational travel books (will be out of date before we can afford the holidays!), old uni books (neither of us managed careers in chosen field - again, will be out of date soon) and a hefty collection of cookbooks with stuff in that I'd love to cook, but haven't in the last 5 or so years of owning them! Now stuck on the best way of shifting them... We don't want to let them all go for nothing, and many aren't really CS friendly anyway. We know of Amazon trade in stuff - but just wondering if there's any other thing similar to this for if they're not suitable for that, or Amazon will only give us tiny pennies. Any ideas?

Hi Bexim, my first advice would be to run their ISBN numbers thru www.abebooks.co.uk or similiar to see if they have value. Often, what we imagine is valuable, because it was expensive new, doesn't hold it's value. There's an awful lot of good stuff out there which sells for pence.

If you identify that some of it is worth £££ not pence, you might try to sell it, or even take it to a secondhand bookdealer. Are the academic books still in use on the courses you did, and could you sell them to the Uni or wherever those courses are offered? Some wily souls I studied with sold their textbooks before the ink was dry on their degree certificates and if I had my time over again, I think I'd do that, too.

Good luck!

JellyBox

GreyQueen wrote: »

Hi Bexim, my first advice would be to run their ISBN numbers thru www.abebooks.co.uk or similiar to see if they have value. Often, what we imagine is valuable, because it was expensive new, doesn't hold it's value. There's an awful lot of good stuff out there which sells for pence.

If you identify that some of it is worth £££ not pence, you might try to sell it, or even take it to a secondhand bookdealer. Are the academic books still in use on the courses you did, and could you sell them to the Uni or wherever those courses are offered? Some wily souls I studied with sold their textbooks before the ink was dry on their degree certificates and if I had my time over again, I think I'd do that, too.

Good luck!

Good idea on Abebooks - have discovered Amazon will pay quite a lot for some of my textbooks - despite their age! Will check the ones that aren't saleable on there though, good times! I kept my textbooks because I enjoyed learning the stuff so much, some of them I still can't part with, but I do wish I'd sold some of them earlier now.

In addition to this though, I've also cleared out a load of paperwork which I've been avoiding, so that's 5 cleared out cubbyholes in the shelving, just got to resist the temptation to put them all back in now. Corner of doom has not been touched though, and the room itself looks messier than ever, but I know what has changed.

This_Year

Fairly good day de-cluttering. I've been putting anything remotely sellable on ebay for 99p, got them all in a box so once they end I'll either pack them off or take them to the CS. Big box of old keyboards was returned under the bed in case we need them. :wall:

We all have laptops.

This morning was so nice, we said lets go for a walk. I was ready, he was in his dressing gown. Every 40 or so minutes he said did I want to go out or do something as it's such a nice day (I'm beginning to think he has a mental block!) and I replied yes, lets, as soon as you're dressed. We then decided to walk to homebase so I could spend a gift card that's been in my purse since whenever. Have lunch, he finally gets dressed. Did I want to go to homebase? Er yes, it's 15% off today too and I have my gift card.

OK. So we go out the door and he gets in the car. Er - we're meant to be walking? So he snaps that he wants to buy compost and did I want to carry that? This was the first time he mentioned buying compost. I bit my tongue and got in the car. He then started a rant about not being able to carry compost walking a long way so I retorted that he had not mentioned getting compost until he got in the car, and the point of the exercise was the WALK and spend MY giftcard.

Silence and he then touches my knee (I'm like you can sod off!) and he totally changes the subject. I am really beginning to think he's losing the plot!

So I said in homebase that I wanted to have a browse and made him walk up and down every aisle with me. Opened every cupboard, drawer, touched cushions, picked up glasses, you get the picture

Nice Sunday walk I had. Next week I'm going for a walk by myself!

At the moment I'm looking forward to going back to work on Tuesday!

Florenceem

This_Year wrote: »

Fairly good day de-cluttering. I've been putting anything remotely sellable on ebay for 99p, got them all in a box so once they end I'll either pack them off or take them to the CS. Big box of old keyboards was returned under the bed in case we need them. :wall:

We all have laptops.

This morning was so nice, we said lets go for a walk. I was ready, he was in his dressing gown. Every 40 or so minutes he said did I want to go out or do something as it's such a nice day (I'm beginning to think he has a mental block!) and I replied yes, lets, as soon as you're dressed. We then decided to walk to homebase so I could spend a gift card that's been in my purse since whenever. Have lunch, he finally gets dressed. Did I want to go to homebase? Er yes, it's 15% off today too and I have my gift card.

OK. So we go out the door and he gets in the car. Er - we're meant to be walking? So he snaps that he wants to buy compost and did I want to carry that? This was the first time he mentioned buying compost. I bit my tongue and got in the car. He then started a rant about not being able to carry compost walking a long way so I retorted that he had not mentioned getting compost until he got in the car, and the point of the exercise was the WALK and spend MY giftcard.

Silence and he then touches my knee (I'm like you can sod off!) and he totally changes the subject. I am really beginning to think he's losing the plot!

So I said in homebase that I wanted to have a browse and made him walk up and down every aisle with me. Opened every cupboard, drawer, touched cushions, picked up glasses, you get the picture

Nice Sunday walk I had. Next week I'm going for a walk by myself!

At the moment I'm looking forward to going back to work on Tuesday!

Is hubby of a forgetful age? Mr F always keeps me waiting when we are going out.

GreyQueen

I have decluttered some manky old pallets off the allotment whilst singing Def Leppard's Pyromania. Bonfire, natch.

Hello, my username is GQ and I used to be a rocker...... decluttered all the trappings many moons ago and most of the witnesses have disappeared so I can pretend to be a perfectly-normal 40-something office wallah. If they but knew........ good job there wasn't such a thing as FB back in the eighties.

Have decided that some of the hoarded bits of metal on the lottie will have to go to the tip. Mostly lengths of what would have been gas pipes back in the day, heavily corroded. Think I'll have to walk them down as some of them could cause Monty Pythonesque accidents if carried when cycling. Sort of jousting in traffic, prolly not a good idea.

I have to accept that some things classified as might-be-usefuls are in fact unlikely-to-be-used-and-make-the-lottie-look-like-Steptoe's-yard. With the lottie officer on the prowl, this isn't a good look to cultivate.

Actually, as I was typing that I realised that the rag & bone man had passed the lottie today and I missed a trick. Damn. Mebbe he comes by every Sunday afternoon and I can catch him next week......... He had a recorded cry which was hard to decipher but could have been AnyOldIron.

blossomhill_2

GreyQueen wrote: »

Actually, as I was typing that I realised that the rag & bone man had passed the lottie today and I missed a trick. Damn. Mebbe he comes by every Sunday afternoon and I can catch him next week......... He had a recorded cry which was hard to decipher but could have been AnyOldIron.

But will you choose a goldfish or a balloon in exchange? Both used to last a similar length of time in my experience ...
Maybe his cry was "bringoutyourdead" ?

ThisYear - were you in "my" Homebase? It would have been quite a nice browse except for all the couples having aggressive conversations under their breath, left me puzzled why they go there when they could spend time apart with one at home and one getting the DIY bits and save the aggro

I was there as I've finally got a handyman coming tomorrow to help me with some half-baked projects - I promised myself when I started this that I'd get tidy enough to get help in ... well I've realised :idea:that until I get help in I will never get tidy enough ... and he's not someone I am invested in so what do I care what he thinks? I'll tell you later whether I managed to brazen out the mess or inwardly squirmed!

He seems quite excited about it all, doesn't usually get to do things with people who are "wonderfully creative" apparently (ok, flattery worked, you got the job!) but I've warned him that creativity has a downside (outbuildings full of parts for future projects)

sjprmc01

Oh, I HATE the dryer I have been using as much as I can lately though, so this was all stuff that couldn't be tumbled! I hung it up myself this morning before heading out to work again! So, doesn't look like he had had any major household faux pas today! He is off work tomorrow, I am only working evening so maybe we can finally put up the two youngest girls' new wall border that was meant to go up 3/4 weeks ago when their bunk beds were built!

mcculloch29

Got washing out on the line for the first time this year, I think someone on the nearby allotments had a bonfire, but it wasn't too bad. Faint whiff on the washing.

Decluttered at least a dozen pairs of ankle/mid calf socks to DGD - DD mentioned buying them, which was my cue to supply!

Most of mine were new or barely worn.
I have swollen ankles now and tight socks are a no-no. I bought almost every pair from Primarni so most were perfectly suitable for her, and many pairs suitable for school. Pleased now that I hadn't binned them. I kept them in the hope my swollen ankles will improve but it's been 10 years now, so I guess not!

Moreover, every pair was under 10 years of age, so I was continuing to buy unsuitable items, and wearing some of them.
DD also took some books that had been put aside for the CS - I'm pleased about that.