Hoarding - Springing Ahead

gentleorange

I fixed our vacuum cleaner and cleaned the filters - and that's it.

The bathroom and kitchen are still clean and tidy.

I need to deal with the living room and my bedroom, but I feel like I'm mentally paralysed if you know what I mean by that. I know how to start, just grab a box or pile of stuff and start dealing with it, but I can't make myself start.

Oh, and my general use bin is full which doesn't help. I suppose I could restrict myself to sorting paper till Friday... and get going on those meal plans!

suzitiger

Hi guys,
Well done Knit witch, pig pen and tibawo for your decluttering! Tibawo maybe stick it on gumtree? I am looking for a tv unit and I am nosing on gumtree every few days for one

roundtuit wrote: »

:hello: Hi x I'm lurking :cool: Not much action here though - reasons/excuses being : shoulder impingement syndrome + toooo hot + black dog visiting + been told no budget to keep me at work = anxiety levels through the roof. Result is the house looks worse than ever as I haven't even been doing the things I was doing that were slowly helping turn the house into a home

Need to give myself a kick up the proverbial. Fling a fluffy mule please pigpen .... preferably one coated in mojo

Ahhhhhhh Roundtuit I am sorry to hear you are a bit down at the moment. Keep stepping little bits and bobs around your house so that it doesn't feel overwhelming but at least then you will get some sense of achievement from doing the little things It's what keeps me ticking along in the downtimes.

GreyQueen wrote: »

Dah-Dah da DAH! (hums the tune to The Stripper, peels off her holey black socks seductively * and hurls them into the waste bin).

Noticed earlier today that said socks were more holy than righteous, so decided they'd go in the bin not the washer. Worn very thin overall, see-through at toes and heels, so not a darnable issue.

Today, I went un-shopping, in that I left home with two carrier bags and dropped one at the c.s., and deposited an ink cartridge at another c.s. then the fruit punnets back at the Magic Greengrocer, so was shopping in reverse.

I came back with 5 litres of UHT milk and some paintbrushes, lol. Brushes are in the lottie shed awaiting use to treat the wood. Errmm, but not with the UHT, I was planning on creosote.:rotfl:

The c.s. bag contained TFP. Strange, but I swithered about this for yonks and managed not to feel a pang when it actually went. Sometimes I think I make heavy weather of things.

Hokay, time to put this ole pooter to bed. I've be re-watching The Matrix on DVD. Hooboy, but was the young Keanu a hottie......:rotfl:

* attach snort of self-mockery here to get the true effect.

GreyQueen you make me LAUGH so much :rotfl:
I love a bit of Keanu in the Matrix too shhh don't tell the OH.
I know what you mean about TFP, so many objects that I dither for SO long about and wrench them from myself to go to CS or sell I'm like 'meh'about afterwards, and I can't remember about 99% of the things that have gone, its the going through things that is the most difficult, as that is when I reminiss....*ahhh this is from when...* you know the rest lol
PS love the idea of reverse shopping, I will have to give this a go :-)

Well, today I have managed to get 3 bags of clothes of to cash for clothes for a £5, not much but they have been waiting for me to fleabay them for MONTHS, so I had to get real with myself, was I really going to list them all? I think not!
Next on my list is the pile of books that I think will be worth some cash...the rest have gone to the CS. Can anyone recommend the best places to get cash for books?
Kitchen has had a good scrub, 4 loads of washing done and all the recyling/compost/rubbish has been sorted.
Got some carrier bags ready to go to sainsbobs to be recycled there next time i pop in, put the potporrei (sp??!) into some recycled glass jars instead of the scruffy bag and dudsty bowls its been living in, which is nice :-D
Not much else done so far..I have lots of paperwork I need to sort, I wanna bake some biccies and have a general tidy of the spare room so cracking on with those whilst I await everyone's wisdom for book selling

GreyQueen

Un-shopping rocks, Suzi, the feeling of starting out heavy and coming back light really makes it all worthwhile.

When I've finished with a book, I price-check it on Am*zn and if It's worth money, give it to kid bruv the online bookseller. Lots of stuff is selling for a few pence plus postage so not worth his time.

Do you have independant second-hand booksellers where you live? I've sold stuff to them before bruv had his business, made a few quid. Funnily enough, one hardcover book rejected as worthless by one bookseller got me £2.50 from the other half an hour later. Good luck!

I was once watching Bill & Ted years ago when a housemate came in and expressed scorn that a woman of my intellect (LOL) was watching such dross.

GQ : (sheepishly) S'got Keanu in it......

Housemate: He's an idiot! Thick as two short planks!

GQ (even more sheepishly) Wasn't fantasising about talking to him........

Ahem. :rotfl:

Ches

Gingernutty wrote: »

It's nice to see people making progress - I'm not jealous at all......:p

At the rate I'm going, I'm going to declutter a sewing project about once a month.

This poppy is mainly pink. Very dark red, dark red, red (which looks like dark red), light red, dark pink (which looks like light red) and pink (which looks like dark pink which could be light red in the wrong light) - seriously, this red poppy is mainly pink.

AAARRRGH! :mad:

That'll teach me.

Next time, I'm buying black and white.

Thats exactly why I got rid of all my coloured kits a long time ago and just kept the blackwork ones. I still have them unfinished!!!

pigpen

I have a wool stash... I keep trying to knit my way through it. then find something bargainous I simply cannot resist!

I have banned myself from craft, wool and charity shops!

Gingernutty

pigpen wrote: »

I have a wool stash... I keep trying to knit my way through it. then find something bargainous I simply cannot resist!

I have banned myself from craft, wool and charity shops!

I've banned myself as well. Much good it's done me. :rotfl:

Even if I never buy another kit or pattern, I've got enough to keep me going until beyond retirement. And that's after I got rid of a mountain of magazines and kits. :eek:

pigpen

I'm does my best to knit it up.. Just doing a jumper for DD1 for Christmas.. its a bit fluffy!! Then the red aran that was supposed to be maroonish and is actually bright red I am doing one each for my smallest grandbeasts.. and I have 4 balls for the baby who is arriving next week at the very latest.. so that gives me 9 days to get this lot done lol.

I've thrown out a huge box of recycling if that counts? and some bath edging I was saving for Justin (Justin Case)

cyclingyorkie

I thought I was decluttering DS today. Apparently it's tomorrow that they get the keys! So he and g/f are here tonight - apparently because her bed is already in bits for the move.....

In anticipation of DD1 moving into DS's bedroom (all 6'6" square of it) the girls have been doing some sorting. 3 binbags crammed with c*** have already been binned and a load of stuff is destined for the charity shop!

I am hoping that much more will go before we have finished the turn around....

gentleorange

I'm focusing on my CD collection today. It was an obsession in my teens/twenties, I have hundreds. But I haven't touched a CD in a few years, I mainly use Spotify now - so I'm separating into a pile for Music Magpie - whic doesn't have great reviews but I care more about removing the stuff from my house than the money - and a pile for the charity shop (which I'm embarassed to say will probably include the played-to-death-and-should-be-thrown-out cases too...)

This is my big problem and I'm hoping it has been discussed a lot - when you don't have a car, what are the best ways to declutter?

My local council replaced our regular green wheelie bins with a slimmer version, to encourage recycling. So I can't use it for much more than household waste now. They also charge £18 to take any five items to the tip.

There is eBay for things I can sell, charity shop pick-ups for other stuff.

But what about the random stuff that no-one would want? Old VHS recordings, rusty kitchen things, bits of plastic toy sets, faded/ripped clothing? It's going to take me so long to get rid of all that via my little green bin!

GreyQueen

gentleorange, I don't have a car either, so can sympathise.

Most councils have waste sites where you can take stuff. Are any of these walkable or bicyclable? I'm regularly in and out of mine on the pushbike. At the weekends, when cars are queued back all along the road, I just freewheel past.

I got rid of some stuff on Freegle, some to on-street recycling banks (you have to shop around a bit to find what goes where, I make a special excursion once or twice a year with TetraPaks f'rinstance).

Big stuff can be reduced to small stuff, like a manky carpet I once cut up with a kitchen devil carving knife in order to get rid of it.

If you have somewhere suitable outside your home, the old Free Stuff Help Yourself! sign can work wonders. You could ask around at your workplace, if you have one, or in social groups that you use. I gave away an underused microwave to a colleague and he and his gf came to fetch it.

I'm sure the others have some great ideas that they can offer, too.