Hoarding - A New Start

This_Year

Welcome Penguin! Please don't overdo it though, you must put your feet up if you can!

Pitlane I think men just do not listen. Full stop. Sometimes, anyway!

My OH has been doing his "you're photographing something for ebay, I'll come hang over your shoulder and give you advice on what you're doing even though you have been selling on ebay for over 10 years now and so just might have an idea of how it works by now" routine. Two words. One beginning and one ending with F.

Said it nicely though, as he then packed a parcel for me

I find my urge to declutter comes and goes. Maybe it's a hormonal thing! I know that at certain times I would cheerfully throw everything out into the street so I can have minimalist rooms, other times I want to sit among my stuff and feel secure. Sad!
I just know that if I fall over that blo ody loft ladder that I have to move so I can get into my knicker drawer, one more time I will hit the roof! :mad:

mcculloch29

Good luck with your urge to "tidy the nest" before the birth, Penguin83..

I would follow the urge as much as possible as it's a very basic instinctive need that you are following, and you will feel happier if you do it, but please be sensible, no falling off loft ladders or lifting heavy weights.
I am a natural messy but recall the same urges very strongly with my (now adult) children.

Just gave a friend a personalised gift I bought c. 3 years ago, (it was v. small). I could never find it at Christmas and her birthday is Boxing Day. It's out! Hooray!
With the departure of my cleaner just before Christmas, she is coming round next week to help me clean and tidy. It's not bad at the moment, but will be better for her touch.

JayneC

Hello all,

Have been away visiting parents this weekend, so no dehoarding, no table top sale-ing and came back with more stuff:o oops!! One thing was a wooden crib that my dad made for my dollies when I was little so I'm keeping that, my DGD can play with it when she's a bit bigger. Some other stuff I can sell and some stuff I did need, so not all bad:p
And some stuff I listed on ebay last weekend has sold so that will be posted off in the next couple of days.
Finally managed to get the shelves up in the bathroom cupboard so will move the baskets that are currently on top, to the inside and all my bathroom bits n bobs will be stored in there out of sight:j
Dad has said he will come for a few days after Easter and help me to paint my hallway, which has not been done since before we moved in (nearly 10 years ago) so desperately needs doing. That will inspire me to get the hall and landing cleared.

idristhedragon

Hello all. I've been really poorly this weekend
I think it was a bug but it kicked off my Crohn's so yesterday was spent in bed, clutching a hot water bottle and downing peppermint tea. At least I only vomited once :j (last time I had this I vomited about 100 times and ended up in ambulance/hospital for 48 hours so Yay!) I now have a delightful cold to round it off with drippy tap nose and blocked sinuses. coupled with the most extravagant belly noises you have ever heard (while my tummy gets over its strop) I really am quite a catch right now! Luckily (and I know this sounds awful) Le Prof goes to USA tomorrow for the week so I can lounge around a bit more in my own filth and recover (well in between my 4 kids and my 2 renta-kids!)

My decluttering appears to be presenting itself in a strange obsession with tuppaware and all other plastic storage. My fridge is now FULL of lock and lock boxes of saladdy stuff, in neat rows, my Tefal cheese box from Lakeland is pride of place, all my dried fruit and nuts (I follow a vaguely clean and lean/paleo type diet and am wheat free to control aforementioned badly behaved guts so have lots of nuts etc) and now all my spice jars that lived higgledy piggeldy on a shelf are also in plastic tubs! as is all my cereal on the shelf above.

I have hauled my massive ebay stash down to try and get on in the next 48 hours. I am going to London next week as a Science WAG (lol- Prof has a meeting) so I would like to raise some money to spend on ME guilt free. Also the declutterer lady struck a deal with me that I do the ebay stuff before she comes on the 18th - I really need to be beholden to someone!! im such a child
Im not sure how she works- her website comes up if you google "sort your space" and the before and afters are very inspiring. Its mainly my playroom I want help with which has become a room of doom/dumping ground. We live in a Victorian terrace and all my friends down my road also refer to their middle rooms as this!

idristhedragon

Oh and we went to a car boot this morning and I only bought a pair of slipper socks (the Tibetan style knitted ones with leather soles) and 4 books ( 3 for a friend and 1 for me). I am also planning to sell all the stuff that doesn't ebay at a car boot in 2 weeks time with a friend

whitewing

I've had a great day. I pulled an all-nighter doing some work stuff so didn't get to bed until 6am but I've finally got to grips with something that I have been struggling with for over a year.

Did a bit more of it this afternoon while DD napped.

Got the work decluttering still in progress. I am having to phone around to make sure I don't need to keep some stuff, but am relieved that there is no actual time limit for the stuff I have kept slightly longer than I feel I should.

Anyway, I can sort that all out tomorrow.

Did a bit of housework too today. Place is a bit end-of-weekendish messy but should straighten out in about an hour tomorrow.

Off to watch Call the Midwife. I love it. Great end to the weekend.

decogecko

Hi all

For anyone with Freesat or Sky on cbs reality +1 is a programme about hoarders - it's american but very interesting so far. One couple brought another house as there first one was full of 'stuff'. They have 2 mortgages on both houses and their mortgages total $7,000 a month. They are going to lose one or both houses.

Deco x

Patchwork_Quilt

Just popped in to say that I was surprised to find one of my tops from the "rags" bag I took into 0xfam was hanging on the rail, with a reasonable price tag, next time I went in. At least I know that they search through everything, just in case.

Wishing peace and tranquility to all busy posters, lurkers and friends.

mcculloch29

Some books centred around psychology/human interest/mental health went out with my friend who runs a mini - library at our local MIND drop - in. Good to think of them going to a 'targeted' home.
The friend brought some toiletries round with her. I've had such a lot from her lately, but I do use them, nothing is hoarded. One bottle of body lotion she gave me proved to be carp, so that was thrown out today. Previously I'd have put it to one side to use as leather cleaner.. well, now I have perfectly good commercial leather cleaner, so it CAN be binned!

idristhedragon

Well done Mcculloch! I am currently dericharding toiletries to pass to a local project that works with ladies that work on the street and their children. We have quite a large red light district and it is a brilliant charity so I like to donate to them. There was a tv thing about them in the last couple of years- one25 project........