Hoarding - A New Start

mcculloch29

Ex registered childminder here Idris... well done!
One of my childminding colleagues had a cleaner years ago, when not many people did - I've since had one myself but my earnings dipped this year.
My cleaner never passed comment on the cleanliness of my house - which was MINGING when she started as I was working both at home and out in the community and literally had no time to clean. So for yours to comment was a bit unprofessional, imo, but here's hoping she proves worthy.
Enjoy the childminding - I taught the Diploma in Home Based Childcare for a few years after I stopped, I just didn't want to let go of it! (Good luck with OFSTED... you will be fine...)

Re the unwanted free gift.

Today I saw that I could have a free Ryvita storage tin with two packets in Mr T's.
Except that our Ryvita is eaten too quickly to go soft, so the storage tin is superfluous on that account.
There would be the hassle of opening the tin and putting the packet back, which someone would probably not do.. leaving the tin to get a grubby base off the worksurface or scratched as it got moved around.

I didn't get the free tin. YAY!

idristhedragon

Really! You missed me!! Awwww. I feel warm and fuzzy now.

I too have been popping a bit here and there on ebay- I was devastated to get £1.04 for a Mothercare coat that I paid £30- it was in perfect condition BUT it was something and its now out of my house so bonus. I have also been trying to sort out the kitchen and I had shoved an expensive but RUBBISH kettle in a cupboard and everytime I opened the cupboard I thought "Oh !!!!!! that Blithering kettle again- I must get rid. But it was so expensive" *cue 20 minutes of beating self up about spendthriftery, hoardery, anything else I can think of.....* As I have mentioned before we live on a street with a fab culture of "stick it on the wall and someone will take it" so I did just that. It now has a happy new home, I don't feel bad everytime I see it and am reminded of the £££. I have also emptied the tuppaware drawer, bought some more that has matching lids and whittled down a drawer full of mismatched oddities to a few matching ones. I also just bought my much coveted tefal filtered cheese box from Lakeland. I am fed up with the cheese going crusty/soggy so I have finally put my £16 where my mouth is and bought my box
I am slowly getting there but its definitely a huge mountain to climb.

My goal (as discussed with declutterer) is to get my ebay stuff on ebay (and out if it doesn't sell) by the time she comes (3 weeks) I just gave a load of fat fighters stuff to another consultant- once again it was bits Id spent on, that I *could* have got a couple of quid for (maybe) but Im happier for them to be out of my house and used by someone I like!

Ooh its lovely to be back

Patchwork_Quilt

Sorry to hear about your Mum Pudsey.

Decluttered a lot of work stuff a couple of weeks ago, using some of our old plastic crates from the garage. I took it into work, where someone else kindly shelved it in one of the rooms. Now I see our plastic crates floating around the place with other people's stuff in them. Some of them even have our surname scrawled on the side. I suppose I didn't want them but I can't quite get used to the idea that they're gone ...

Did a ten-minute tidy of the cupboard under the stairs today too, but I can't get rid of all the cardboard boxes and bubble wrap that seem to have washed up there until DH eb4ys some of the hi-fi waiting in the spare room ...

However, have resisted buying a copy of Skyfall, as we have a new policy of only renting DVDs. It was an excellent film but we'll only watch it two or three times and then have it cluttering up the living room.

Finally, decluttered a copy of my CV to a local organisation I've been wanting to work with for a while. I'm wondering if they will take me as a volunteer now I work much less at the old place. It will be good to see whether I can survive outside my cosy little bubble and it might lead to paid work in the future. Here's hoping.

Hugs to all who need them.

idristhedragon

Ooh Hello Mcculloch! I have a couple of units of the DHC and am currently doing CYPOP5 as mine was pre 2012. I am hoping to do the level 3 qualification at the end of the year and join the network, become accredited and be able to take the 3 year olds on grants as ALL our local preschools are shutting one by one and theres a massive need for 3 year care.
I gave up 2 years ago when my youngest was 18 months. Im really glad I had the break as my lot are now 15,9,8 (in 2 weeks) and 4 and its so much easier now they're all older! I am surprised how much my youngest is struggling with it though! She keeps launching herself onto my lap proclaiming "I LOVE you, Mummy" and the little girl I'm minding is close in age to her (theyre at nursery together) and we had a few "its not YOUR house, that's not YOUR mummy" etc. Bless her. Ive been doing a lot of conflict management wit uber diva 3&4 year olds!!! Exhausting!

lostinrates

Idris you sound SO MUCH happier!

JayneC

Brighton_belle wrote: »

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/23307/Lakeland-Steam-Mop

Shouldn't have looked. Now I'm coveting the mincer....:(

idristhedragon

Go on Jayne make it a hat- trick!- Brighton Belles mop, my Cheese Box and your mincer he he he!

Lostinrates thanks! I feel it! I hadn't realised HOW desperately unhappy I was at fat fighters. There were loads of things about it that didn't sit well- the whole diet industry, taking money off really vulnerable people, the whole way the franchise stuff worked......Interestingly I am back on top of my own weight loss journey and am feeling a lot more positive, eating well and seeing personal trainer once a week.
I'd forgotten how much I enjoy working with kids- I have a 1 year old 3 days and she's just lush! today my job consisted of making banana cake with the older ones and then we had a disco! Tomorrow we're going to soft play and I cant WAIT for the weather to improve so we can go to the zoo, the city farm, the park, the seaside
Hopefully my new better mental health will enable me to tackle the house (or as I said earlier my new income will enable me to get the help I need so desperately!)

ModestyB

So sorry for your loss Pudsey, hugs to you and your sister. Please take care of yourselves.

PudseyDB

Thank you for all the lovely and supportive cmments.

Luckily we won't have to empty the bungalow quickly as my parents owned it rather than renting - which takes the pressure off us a little. The biggest problem is that I live 70 miles away so its not like I can just pop over for an hour. My sister lives just 5 minutes drive away, but its not fair to leave it to her to sort it all out.

Luckily its not the home I grew up in and I never lived there, so don't have that emotional connection to the building itself. But thinking about it....there's a lot to go through and rehome.

Catriona_P

Really sorry to hear about your Mum Pudsey. Maybe you and your sister could get together to tidy, so you both have each other to lean on? It's good to hear there's no rush anyway. Take care x

I hit a sticky point in my tidying last night. In 2006 I was accepted and ready for an MA at one of the big London universities (no mean feat), but due to lack of money and pressure from my then-boyfriend now-husband, I backed out at the last minute. I kept the paperwork in a bag, hoping I would reapply one year, but never did and we've since moved too far away (and I have even less money now so could never afford it). I've avoided looking at this bag for years, but last night I emptied it and chucked the lot. I'm almost surprised by how painful it was to look at the correspondance, the fees letters, the course material etc, and I ended up feeling very melancholy and a bit bitter about what 'could' have been. How different life would have been, and all for the sake of £2.5k

It shouldn't be this hard to get rid of pieces of paper.