Hoarding - A New Start

Byatt

Well done GPG, :T be kind to yourself now, because it is exhausting and perfectly normal to feel like that.

Lazydaisy, also well done on being so brave to declutter the relationship, wish I'd had your courage many years ago. Onwards and upwards. :T

blossomhill_2

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

I haven't been on here for a bit. Two weeks ago I did a major bit of de-hoarding of something that no longer served me. I ended a relationship that was past its sell by date. So feeling a bit strange, but am actually feeling a lot less 'stuck' than I was.

well done, but be take care of yourself if you have a wobble as no relationship is ever 100% bad so you will have times when you regret moving on from the odd % that was good (soudns like my relationship with my discarded "stuff"!

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

So am feeling good today

That's what I like to hear!

GPG "Dithering about my tall wooden giraffe though" :rotfl:as you do! But at least you got rid of the short stumpty giraffe though! :rotfl:Or did you only have the one?

Stamp collection - my local stamp club will auction stamp collections for people, among their members, either for charity or for the donor, to make sure they get a good price and to keep the club interesting

Is the pole a keyhold fixing?

VJsmum

last week OH and I brought new cagoules. So 2 old ones have gone in the bin as they aren't waterproof and I think even a charity shop would discard them.

But also discovered 2 of DS from when he was younger that I think the charity shop will be pleased to have. I went through my jumper and hoody draw and still only managed to get rid of one item, but am contemplating a cardi which i don't really wear. i really have no excuse to buy any more jumpers, hoodies and cardies for some years.

So why did I buy a new jumper last week?:o

Goldiegirl

I've just been looking at mcculloch's 1960's shopping memories.

The 1960's seems a world away from our 2013 life.

It's prompted my 60's shopping memories,

My mum did all the day to day shopping at a little parade of shops which was at the bottom of the road. It seemed like she knew everybody, and she probably did. Our house was previously occupied by my mum's great aunt, and my mum spent a lot of her childhood there, so I think the shopkeepers had seen her grow up.

There was everything you could need in that little parade of shops - a butchers, a bakery, a post office, a chemists, a little general store, a fish and chip shop and a hardware shop. However, my favourite was a cobblers shop owned by a tiny old man. I used to love going in there, as the shop was full of dusty old STUFF, which I imagined ( and was probably correct) had been there since the days of Queen Victoria.

Once a week we'd go 'in to town', just a 15 minute walk. We'd always go to the fishmongers, where the live eels used to fascinate me.

On the way back, we might look in the pet shop window, where actual pets like puppies and kittens would be on show. I'm glad we don't see that any more, although I've been to Gibraltar a few times, where there is an old style pet shop.

I remember going into a supermarket from the mid 60's onwards. It was very small compared to today's mega stores.

I do enjoy a bit of history!

JayneC

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I've just been looking at mcculloch's 1960's shopping memories.

The 1960's seems a world away from our 2013 life.

It's prompted my 60's shopping memories,

My mum did all the day to day shopping at a little parade of shops which was at the bottom of the road. It seemed like she knew everybody, and she probably did. Our house was previously occupied by my mum's great aunt, and my mum spent a lot of her childhood there, so I think the shopkeepers had seen her grow up.

There was everything you could need in that little parade of shops - a butchers, a bakery, a post office, a chemists, a little general store, a fish and chip shop and a hardware shop. However, my favourite was a cobblers shop owned by a tiny old man. I used to love going in there, as the shop was full of dusty old STUFF, which I imagined ( and was probably correct) had been there since the days of Queen Victoria.

Once a week we'd go 'in to town', just a 15 minute walk. We'd always go to the fishmongers, where the live eels used to fascinate me.

On the way back, we might look in the pet shop window, where actual pets like puppies and kittens would be on show. I'm glad we don't see that any more, although I've been to Gibraltar a few times, where there is an old style pet shop.

I remember going into a supermarket from the mid 60's onwards. It was very small compared to today's mega stores.

I do enjoy a bit of history!

That sounds like the shops near me:) we have a butchers, grocers, little cafe, general store (OK a Spar;)), chemists (2 infact!), the hardware shop sadly closed last year though as the owner retired and no-one wanted to buy it. It's now a double glazing showroom:(, we have a fish & chip shop, a pub on the corner, a pet shop and a cobblers. I think modern ways struggled to make it through all the rural surroundings to this little town, it's like my home town in the 70s lol, but I love it - I think things will change back to this way eventually. Increasing oil prices will eventually make the supermarkets uncompetitive and small local producers will start to thrive again - I hope so anyways. I do most of my shopping 'on the lane' even though town is only a 15 minute walk and Tesco and Sainsbugs are both closer still.

Nothing much to report on the dehoarding front today. Have some watchers on my ebay stuff already so keeping fingers crossed.

catshark88

I live in the deepest, darkest sticks and have no shops within walking distance.

I have been pretty reliant on the big supermarkets, but our garage has just opened up a sp@r, at cheap prices, rather than usual "convenience store" rates. They also have a post office in there. It's tiny and only does basic Post office services (ie the things you usually need), but they are open 7 days a week, from v early, to v late. Now the shop as an off license, I am one chuffed little Catshark!

This_Year

Lazy Daisy, hope you're ok. It takes courage to end a relationship, it can't have been an easy decision to make. Glad to hear things seem to be looking up for you x

Mcculloch, that was a lovely piece about 1960's memories. I do enjoy that sort of thing, much like I enjoy poking around in CS's, auction houses to find stuff that I didn't know I wanted until I saw it. Hence the hoarding?

Minimoneyme, you may have a point about shopping in bulk, you tend to buy in bulk. I'm in town 5 days a week, we shop possibly once a week and always come home with more stuff because it's yellow stickered. I made OH put some mushrooms back today because we have nothing they will go with this week, already had mushroom soup for lunch due to Friday's yellow sticker-fest

If we went shopping daily, we would only buy for that day. Would be an interesting experiment.

Had a phone call today about a job, from an agency who found my CV on the jobsite I'm registered with. Job sounded up my street, much like I'm doing now and it's in my home town. Great. Pop along to discuss it this afternoon?

So we trundled off (OH drove me as the agency was in the middle of nowhere) get there and suddenly the job isn't in my home town but 20 miles away but there's maybe a bus an hour? Odd that the company managed to move all 170 employees and its buildings in the 2 hours since the phone call :mad: I may mishear things on occasion but I can tell the difference between my town's name and this other town's name! I told her I wasn't interested because I can't get to the location and she said "well let me know" err I just did!

Feel really miffed now (not that I was doing anything special this afternoon anyway, but had I been at work I might have taken time off for the interview) what a waste of time!

Decluttering - have sold parts of a dinner service on ebay today and keep finding stuff to put up at 99p which is ticking over nicely, lots of packages going out of the house! Not fussed about the amount I'm getting for them really, it's just moving them out quicker than I could get them to the CS as those bags seem to loiter with malicious intent and then unpack themselves. And as it's all small things I can pop them in a jiffy bag and walk them to the post box and they're gone for good.

guinea_pig_girl

Blossomhill - just the one giraffe, it was a strange shaped parcel to wander onto a flight with in 2004!
I gave it to the lady at work for the car boot, but I have a two week period to get it back. Dither, dither, I really wanted one and I just don't know.
Would anyone else like a tall, wooden giraffe????????????

I think I've gotten rid of stuff too quickly and can't find things that I may have wanted to keep but does it really, really matter?

Ebay prices not looking too great, will keep looking and thinking.

Decluttered a further 4 banana's from the freezer tonight into muffins.

I is guinea pig girl and I had a hoard of 16 banana's in mah freezer!!!
:eek:

Patchwork_Quilt

I love the idea of the wooden giraffe. Might go with my wooden rhino. But I couldn't, really ...

Managed to declutter the 2012 paperwork folders into the Cupboard of Doom (which is still looking unusually tidy and rather shocked) where it will wait to be put into the loft in December. Also cleared the paperwork from the top of the dresser in the kitchen and the receipts tin.

Also filled a bag with outside scarves (rather than the silky ones to wear with jumpers) and yes, wait for it, a kagoule.

I think we must all have a secret kagoule stash. They're just so useful. This one had been bought for my DD several years ago in case we were out for the day on holiday and it rained. It remained unworn. Anyway, some enterprising woman will now buy it at the charity shop for her daughter, who will not wear it, and the cycle will continue.

I am afraid to say I have kept my old waterproofs to wear on damp days in the garden. I rarely go out on damp days but I feel I ought to keep them Just In Case.

The denim jacket is going into the charity bag, though. According to Pr1ma magazine, they make you look years older than you really are.

Hugs to all fellow declutterers, hoarders, relatives of the same, and lurkers.

fpcat

I also think I've got rid of stuff too quickly. The CS manager rang me to say they had found a full photo album in the stuff I took last week. I fetched it, and looking at it, I can't believe I just put it in their box. I think I must have put it in a keep box, and I grabbed that box in a rush when I had the chance to get rid of several other boxes. If it was in a keep box everything has been sorted and distributed by the CS staff, so whatever I wanted to keep or at least reflect on has gone:eek: I have no idea if it was a keep box or donate box, the CS people have no idea what was in it, and neither have I! I suppose it's one way of getting rid of stuff - even if by accident. Oh well, hopefully there wasn't anything I really needed.:(