Hoarding - Springing Ahead

tibawo

Grrrr. Dad rang last night to say dd2 free football session is now this morning not afternoon. I was hoping to clear the storage under her bed with her so will now have to do a plan B.ni would have also not drunk all that wine as well if I had known!

I watched that free cycle programme last night (whilst drinking said wine) and have decided that where I was going to save and buy some oak furniture to match my table that would take me ages I am going to use my wicker drawers etc.

Don.t know what to do with books though, I might make a book tower to go either side of hi fi. Can't decide wether it will look good or just like a pile of junk!

calicocat

Well I sent my friend son who I call little ferret (because he gets into everything) up into the loft yesterday for a good look as I had only poked my head up there. There were lots of "Ooos" and "Aaahhs" coming out so I went up.

It really is mahoosive! All the middle is boarded out with loads of shelving at either end....but I AM NOT PUTTING STUFF UP THERE. we found a clothing rail up there, which I have left in case I ever got round to doing a car boot or did a come and help yourself to clothes i'm chucking evening.

Sorted out another box of books onto bookcase after last post, off to but a really cheap bed from B and M this morning, cant believe how cheap it is! , and a friend coming to re-point a bit of house to see if it stops leak. Got the two bins needed yesterday (and a dress...*sigh*) and dismantled another box of mainly rubbish magazines I don't need so put in recycle bin.

If I get bed built today that will be spare room half organised, so will go get some curtain hooks and open a curtain box to find something that will suit or do for now.


At the other end there are 3 suitcases or material from years ago when I did quilting, don't know as yet whether to get rid or go through them to see what is what...if I keep them they will end up in loft I know as nowhere else for them. That will be something to look at next week though as back on shifts tomorrow.


The loft was boiling hot, in the winter would it pay to leave hatch open for the heat to drift around upstairs? Or is that just inviting a load of spiders to join me....i don't like spiders....or would it mean more heat just went into loft quicker..?...having just woken up my brain can't work this out right now.

Hope everyone manages to crack on with whatever they are planning to do today.

calicocat

tibawo wrote: »

Grrrr. Dad rang last night to say dd2 free football session is now this morning not afternoon. I was hoping to clear the storage under her bed with her so will now have to do a plan B.ni would have also not drunk all that wine as well if I had known!

I watched that free cycle programme last night (whilst drinking said wine) and have decided that where I was going to save and buy some oak furniture to match my table that would take me ages I am going to use my wicker drawers etc.

Don.t know what to do with books though, I might make a book tower to go either side of hi fi. Can't decide wether it will look good or just like a pile of junk!

You could try freecycle to get something for your books for now whilst you save?..then re-freecycle it later?

GreyQueen

calicocat, if you left your loft hatch open in the winter, the warmer air from the house would rise up into it and be lost through the roof, and the cold air from the loft would fall down into the house.

You'd be uncomfortable and waste a lot of dosh on your heating bills.

My folks have a very small terrace and the loft isn't even tall enough to stand in. Even so, if the hatch is opened in winter, you feel the temp change in less than 5 minutes.

Best times to loft-forage/ organise are spring and autumn, you're brave to do it (or send the ferret ) with the temps like they are atm.

Gingernutty

Gingernutty wrote: »

I've done loads of decluttering, but there comes a point when the stuff lying around are the projects that......actually need *gulp* work done on them!!

Cross stitch poppy anyone?

The stuff lying around needs hemming, trimming, stitching, framing, sanding, painting, varnishing, scraping and all manner of other things doing to them.

Having disinterred them from under the clutter, I s'pose I have to stop procrastinating and get on and do stuff.

GreyQueen wrote: »

Are you my evil twin?!

Right now my sitting room harbours the following;

A corner shelf unit still in its packaging to be sanded slightly and stained before going up on the wall.

A candlemaking project, elements of spread around. Do I want to melt candlewax in 29c heat? The hell I do......

Random bits of kipple (TM Philip K !!!!!! - kipple is random small clutter which ususally multiplies on all surfaces when your back is turned and will one day consume the planet).

A tensioning block and cord from Mum mending my chair which I could have given back to her on Sunday if I had my wits about me and will now have to wait until mid-month.

A shirt which needs mending before it can be worn again hanging on a hanger from the door handle and

various other bits of random carp inc a tiara (don't even go there ).

How about a little comp for the oddest thing in your sitting room? I advance you one silver plastic tiara, what's your bid?

Dining room
hanging from the top of the door to the kitchen: top still requiring lace trim to be sewn around hem and sleeves and a large denim dress I have dreams of using for a coat (needs some inspiration/adjustment) - I have an over the door hook for them .

on the table: a cross stitch poppy, a cross stitch kitten playing with a very expensive ball of variegated thread 'wool', a couple of magazines and folder of stuff for my OH assessment for a new job next Monday.

There are numerous other stitching projects all carefully boxed up on a shelf so I can kid myself they're not actually clutter .

on the back of a single chair: a jersey cardigan needing stitches to stop the hem fraying, a nice handbag for job interviews and a little, over the body purse for those hot days when I go out without a jacket with pockets to put stuff in (spare keys, bus pass, MP3 player).

On a folded dining/kitchen table next to the desk: a mountainous pile of training files and papers from my previous job and which would be useful if I ever go back into that industry (looking increasing unlikely ), a bottle of nail varnish remover (useful for removing ink from my wall planner), a little Ferrero Rocher box holding my spare Ventolin inhaler and spacer, a pile of cds for CashConverters/Music Magpie and some old medicine tubes and inhalers for the pharmacist to get rid of.

Under the folded dining/kitchen table next to the desk: a lidded box containing a variety of envelopes and packing/wrapping items, greetings cards, spare folders and folder dividers.

So far, I think you win, with the tiara Grey Queen.

Florenceem wrote: »

We had an electrician working here this week. Today Mr F asked me if I wanted to keep a length of wire he had left here.

:rotfl:

Sorry. You have an uphill struggle there, don't you?

gentleorange

Kitchen is done I have identifed a few DIY projects for the future, but as far as cleaning, tidying, purging and organising goes - I'm done.

Books are a real weak point for me GreyQueen. I always charity shop the chicklit type books and celeb autobiographies, but I have been collecting special editions of fiction since I was in my late teens. I have at least four copies of Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but they are all editions I want to keep:o I will go through shelf by shelf and see what I could part with, but I don't usually shelve a book I don't want to keep. I have a Kindle, but I only use it when I'm out. I know it's environmentally irresponsible to keep buying paper books, but I love them, and I do re-read my books. I've just taken out a monthly subscription with Persephone too!

Today I'm focusing on getting all random clothing into the wash, or put away upstairs, then I'll start on the floor mess. I used to obsessively buy magazines and tear pages out to keep. I stopped that, but I still have the piles of paper everywhere.

Talking about 'random books' in my last post was a bit misleading. When I say random I don't mean Katie Price biographies, etc, I mean that I have no catagories. I could scan 20 shelves before I find what I'm looking for. I think I'll leave the books till everything else in the living room is sorted out.

calicocat

Yes GREYQUEEN....once I had engaged brain that was the conclusion I had come to too, I think I had been dreaming about the loft. I was only up there about 8mins yesterday and was dripping wet! The little ferret (who is 11yrs old) has him bedroom in a loft conversion....poor little mite has had to either sleep with his mum or in his sisters room when she's away as he couldn't cope with the heat....and i'm not surprised after yesterday. his mum calls him Graham Norton.....good job he has a good sense of humour.


Friend came round to do a little pointing and to see if that fixes hole, but I suspect whole side of tiling needs doing...anyhow got him to show me how to do it...the spent the next half hour going round the outside of the house filling in any cracks or holes...it's quite therapeutic....and I may have got a bit obsessed, he just stood there laughing at me.

Have built bed....jezze...that took an hour and hopefully half a stone of sweat. I think in one of my more zealous moments I may have chucked all spare double duvets so will have to go get one. I have. 8 single ones....but no single bed...must have thrown wrong ones. anyhow although bed was really cheap I think it will be fine as a spare..seems solid enough...so another job done, and have managed to cram packaging into recycle bin.

I'm utterly pooped and sick of it again now, but will open a box of curtains and see what's in there to put up.

Then after that i've had it for the day and i'm going to chill and contemplate what to do/where to put the 4 sewing machines I have.

GENTlEoRAnGE...I had to prioritise my books, I just had too many, I hated doing it but had to.....and well done with the kitchen.

GINGERNUTtY...I also threw out lots of old projects...I knew they would still be hanging around in 5 years time and still not done.

short_bird

GreyQueen wrote: »

How about a little comp for the oddest thing in your sitting room? I advance you one silver plastic tiara, what's your bid?

A dentist display model of teeth with braces. Life size. :rotfl:

calicocat

short_bird wrote: »

A dentist display model of teeth with braces. Life size. :rotfl:

That SO wins hands down above a tiara. Don't throw it out it sounds really cool, does it come with a head part to it? If it comes with a head you could turn it into a lamp. Weird lamps are very in right now, and if the tiara is unwanted you could have that, and put it on head on special occasions?.......lol.



Now do you see why I collect so much carp...always a use for it somewhere.

I can't enter the comp, as I haven't got to the random boxes yet so haven't got anything funny to share, but will love hearing of others. Might look in coffee table later as that reminds me it came from old place 'as is' with all contents still in. Forgot about that.

pigpen

OH is the strangest thing in my living room.


Pink fluffy bunny ears
A plastic sparring short sword
a Skull shaped candle... from Halloween 3 years ago!