Hoarding - A New Start

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Decluttered a dentist and optician appointment in the last two days. Unfortunately, in addition to contacts and normal, can't see much past my nose specs, I also need reading glasses when I have the contacts in. More glasses to add to the pair in every room. (Although that is purely because, if I drop a pair, I can't see them to find them again - so I genuinely need that many). I shall try and keep to just the one reading pair. I ordered Clark Kent lookalikes in the hope they would convey superpowers upon me.

In happier news, another year of perfect (nearly, only assorted small chips from a misspent youth) teeth. Is it actually that remarkable someone in my town has all their own teeth and no fillings at the age of 40? [thinks of friends and family]. Actually, scratch that. It is remarkable.


As TOTM means I really cannot be doing with the gym tonight, especially as its bitterly cold today, I have quickly blitzed the kitchen counters, emptied all bins for collection tomorrow and spent a good hour in the garden lopping sad scrawny bits off the roses, and dragging my mini cherry tree onto the cats' final resting place so I can see it from the kitchen window when it blossoms. I think, taking into account the amount of moving around I did today, I have probably done as much as in the gym anyhow.



As part of the day consisted of - gasp - shopping, I have also earmarked a couple of things for disposal. One tatty pair of trackies, replaced by some specially for the gym. Three vests in a smaller size are replacing five that look faded or tatty. And there is a pair of jeans waiting for me to get rid of another couple of kilos (one of which will probably be gone by next week when TOTM finishes) two pairs have already gone out recently, another three in the smaller size can also go.


Oh, and I cleared the fridge out of bits I had intended to finish, but didn't get around to, so don't trust them to be safe. Conveniently, they are also the calorifically dense things.


But I am soooooooo cold! Say here with the heating on full blast, jumper, warm socks, two foot from a radiator, and I feel chilled to the bone. But surely it's not that bad today?

mcculloch29

Didn't go to town today as DD & DGD landed, so charity shop bags are still in the Sholley-style trolley.
BUT DD went in the outhouse and decluttered a huge pile of bags - cloth, leather, re-usable plastic and some supermarket free bags that had been in there for so long they had started to biodegrade.
The good bags are now with the rest of the shoppers, I have a lovely waterproof bag to take shopping that is so much nicer than my battered backpack, and as it can rest on top of the trolley, is just as practical. I've also got a few more Bags for Life in use - I'd run out of these.
(The shed is cluttered with DSs stuff and with my poor sense of balance it was dangerous for me to root around in there.).
I found a brand new wheat bag that disappeared as soon as I bought it, in with some kids' stuff. DS must have thought it was a bean bag. Said kids' stuff mostly went home with DGD, the kipple went in the bin.
Also made pancakes and had an LBM when I came across two really worn frying pans and a worn wok in the back of the cupboard. They are now OUT.
DS bought some good ones when he moved in with a GF years ago, they came back with him and somehow my ancient ones stayed. I don't use them as DS's are so much better.

A duplicate piece of silicone bakeware also rehomed to DD. I got this when I was visiting Home B. weekly and had literally forgotten I'd bought it already.

Other rehomes: dry shampoo out with DD (had been put aside for friend in hospital who has just died) and a pair of lovely furry ballerina slippers bought for the fantasy me, who can wear such things.
The real one can't, as they don't stay on my dropped foot.
Keeping up nicely with the 40 bags in 40 days challenge - way ahead on today's 'outs'.

PudseyDB

guinea_pig_girl wrote: »

Aww, Bexim, I keep doing that, even though I went to visit my aunt to drop stuff off I had borrowed to make space, I came back with 2 baking trays, 2 jars of jam and a stress ball
I also have acquired a lovely pair of curtains, which are too long, and can't go up as apparently the pole we have can't be removed.

Why would you move the pole? Surely you can shorten the curtains?

bobble_hat

Hi Found you all again! :wave: :wave:

Not that it was difficult to, I've been procrastinating. The house is mostly clear, the garden and out-buildings are still a mess.

Downstairs is mainly clutter-free and easier to clean and Himself has started being more useful around the home since I went AWOL for a day one weekend, and left him with a list and a Toddler :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: So he hoovers and cleans at the weekends.

The one room I have always had trouble with, the 'guest' room, is next on my radar, stuff has been sorted into piles. But since I opened this thread this morning (I'm working at home, but having to re-install my portal into work, so cannot do anything). I have put 2 things up for sale on forums. Piled up the charity stuff to stick in the car as soon as I have a moment TODAY. Taken down the kitchen lampshades and cleared 3 years of dead insects out of them (is it ok that my dog got to them before I ha a chance to sweep? Bleugh!)

I've got someone coming to pick up an overly large bean bag that I put onto Freecyle, it's been moved around two houses now but never been sat on really.

My one big stumbling block is the loft. I went up there last weekend, with our lovely new, expensive ladder installed, to start boarding and I failed. Our house is over 100 years old and there is not a single loft board of regular height in the loft, so the lovely, uniform risers I have bought to board above the insulation are redundant, there are two layers of insulation, old between the joists, then new, randomly strewn around all over the rest.

However DH has a plan, and we have a week off coming up. I don't want to store rubbish up there, just seasonal items, everything else is going to be sold, CS'd or dumped. But I need to get the seasonal stuff out of the way.

Thanks for all the inspiration, I will carry on catching-up and hopefully comment on your challenges and successes. :beer:

Just nipped down to the Sally Army, dropped 2 bin bags of clothes and toys, a moses basket and stand and box full of nice, but no longer wanted kipple. I have a small clear space in the Room of Doom

blossomhill_2

bobble_hat wrote: »

My one big stumbling block is the loft. I went up there last weekend, with our lovely new, expensive ladder installed, to start boarding and I failed. Our house is over 100 years old and there is not a single loft board of regular height in the loft, so the lovely, uniform risers I have bought to board above the insulation are redundant, there are two layers of insulation, old between the joists, then new, randomly strewn around all over the rest.

However DH has a plan

Bobble! We have missed you too - glad to hear of your sucesses (and soon-to-be-wins) - has DH seen the things they sell in B&Q that sit on top of the joists and you can store things on them even if you have pouffeeee insultation - may be a solution to put your boards on (if you don't want to walk on them) - they are like a black stick with a gripper at bottom to sit on joist and a flat surface to prop boxes etc on top - well I can picture them better than describe them!

bobble_hat

Just scared myself stupid, also moved the dressmaker dummy downstairs to take photo and put on local site. Forgot, made myself a cuppa, and cleaned some stuff, walked back into my work room and only just stopped myself from screaming at the intruder! Hard work this De-Richarding!

bobble_hat

blossomhill wrote: »

Bobble! We have missed you too - glad to hear of your sucesses (and soon-to-be-wins) - has DH seen the things they sell in B&Q that sit on top of the joists and you can store things on them even if you have pouffeeee insultation - may be a solution to put your boards on (if you don't want to walk on them) - they are like a black stick with a gripper at bottom to sit on joist and a flat surface to prop boxes etc on top - well I can picture them better than describe them!

Thanks Blossomhill , yes, we have a bag full of those, but because all the joists are uneven I can't use them as the board on top can't sit level. We're going to make strutts with wood and carve notches out for the uneven joists, then board on top of those.

blossomhill_2

I put a beautiful tea tin into the recycling yesterday - been sitting around ... as they do ... little bit rusty round the base so I didn't think it worthy of CS - didn't look back

Do you think we maybe suffer from a sort of "retrospective deja vue" where we see something and think "oh I've always wanted one of those" when actually we haven't, the idea has just been created by the object we see ... just a thought!

blossomhill_2

bobble_hat wrote: »

Just scared myself stupid, also moved the dressmaker dummy downstairs to take photo and put on local site. Forgot, made myself a cuppa, and cleaned some stuff, walked back into my work room and only just stopped myself from screaming at the intruder! Hard work this De-Richarding!

:rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl:Oh no, I want a dummy now - always wanted one of those - or did I?

I had a feeling those fixings might look more useful then they actually prove to be - I am a sucker for "bright ideas" "design solutions" !

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Bits of battening would bring up the levels far cheaper without taking chunks out of what is holding the house together.