Hoarding - A New Start

mrsmumbles

RAS wrote: »

Most of mine are ex-pesto jars or ex-gherkin or ex-olive jars.

Like the small ones best.

i had a bit of a jam jar hoarding issue. I started dish washing them and liked how shiny and clean they came out, then stashed them...bad! do I painted the lids in posh farrow and ball or chalk paint heritage colours, they look so nice, and now use them to store sewing things like buttons. Also they make great presses, but the painted lids make all the difference! :T

Granny28

Lostinrates - I do admit to starting lists with one thing I can cross off straight away:
1. Make list

Brighton_belle

GreyQueen wrote: »

:eek: Not the candles, blossomhill!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG, getting a bit anxious about that and they're yours not mine.

LOL, me too - palpitations BH; amazing the power of the 1970's miner's strike memories and how candles sold out.

blossomhill wrote: »

I mentioned once that my dd's school never seemed to do trips and she laughed and said she never gave me the letters because she knew we couldn't afford them - hmmm, maybe if we hadn't been spending a couple of £ a week at jumble sales ...

Thanks for sharing his memory tinged with sadness BH. Just think, that £5 we could spend per week at a charity shop = £250 a year which is easily a weekend break away for us.
Or a pension contribution to make our retirement years a little easier. How many of us women on here do not have a pension, yet keep buying stuff we really don't need each week.

Welcome to the thread momofmonster:j

Whitewing - you reminded me, in my childhood memory box, I've still got the boxed kit I got for my 8th birthday for make a whole range of wool pompom animals (plastic rings of various sizes rather than cardboard).

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

mrsmumbles wrote: »

i had a bit of a jam jar hoarding issue. I started dish washing them and liked how shiny and clean they came out, then stashed them...bad! do I painted the lids in posh farrow and ball or chalk paint heritage colours, they look so nice, and now use them to store sewing things like buttons. Also they make great presses, but the painted lids make all the difference! :T

Are you sure of that - or, to other people, do they just look like used jam jars with some paint on the lid?

mcculloch29

Big bag of non-fiction books (all published in the last year, none of which will be read again) went to the local library. They have had as - new books from me before. I like the idea of lots of people being able to enjoy them.

I suspect that if they went to the CS, they would be bought by someone to sell for more on e-B or carbooting.

whitewing

RAS wrote: »

Most of mine are ex-pesto jars

I am having a good giggle at a houseful of sauce pots.

Yes, pom poms - could not for the life of me remember what they were called. Must be me age.

blossomhill_2

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Are you sure of that - or, to other people, do they just look like used jam jars with some paint on the lid?

Bit harsh there JoJo?;)

Does anyone else have what I call the "mass-production gene"?
I can make something nice then something short circuits and I find myself planning to mass-produce, not to make a second and maybe a third but thinking how I could production-line and end up with 100s

I also find that if I make a one-off, usually quite expensive-to-make item, anyone who sees it immediately says "ooh you could sell these, you could do craft fairs" instead of encouraging me to appreciate the fact that I have actually managed to finish one

[Pom-Pom Pets]

littlegreenparrot

Ever since I've seen these I've been coveting them

http://www.aplaceforeverything.co.uk/home-storage/jam-glass-jar-tops-x5

But then I would get into buying the perfect jar.....

lostinrates

I never have a enough jars. I have cut down on preserving because we really don't get through all that much. We don,t put many out for recyling...

And we have a whole shelve ful in the fridge of things in jars, it's just those jars seem to last for ever!

sjprmc01

Not much decluttering success this week at all for me but I have been (barely) keeping on top of the day to day stuff

I find I'm best at it when 'bored' with the kids getting back to school This week and me starting my diet I've had other things on my mind!

STILL have to get youngests room to a state where she can keep it reasonably tidy too! And have had some ins as I bought the kids trainers, a top, a hat, a jumpsuit and another top and a top for myself in the sales online . Well, the trainers WERE needed the rest were just, errm, nice!

I am learning but I cannot bring myself to stop spending completely I wish I had kept track of everything I've bought since 1st Jan or even since 26th Dec so I could SEE the scale of it and I know it's only a third of the way into the month but I've no idea what I've really bought bits and bobs of sale things, a pizza express jar, a lip salve set....I've kept track of the clothes coz they are more memorable and they are my danger zone but wish I'd written a list of EVERYTHING!

Off to do some dishes before picking the kids up from school!