Hoarding - Springing Ahead

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Gingernutty, I have rounded up all the most obvious kipple, I think, although there is stuff which is "passing thru" such as books to be read which are only intended to be temporary parts of my life.

Today is the second of my two leave days and I had all good intentions of getting back up to the lottie and treated the shed with creosote.

Alas and alack, even after 8 hours sleep, I still feel exhausted and wobbly so will have a day of pottering at home.

However, although it's still pleasantly warm, it's nothing near heatwave conditions so I have decided to start the candle-pouring project again.

This will cause de-kippling to happen indirectly as it's reconsituting new candles from the remains of old ones with Pr*ngle tubes as molds.

The candle wax had been prepared for melting by cutting it up with a knife into little curls and these take up a lot more volume than melted wax, plus I have half a dozen tubes floating around the place waiting for them to be molds. They're destroyed by the process of being peeled off the cooled candle so they'll be used and binned.

Because I have random quantities of different coloured wax, and I like stripy candles, I make them in stages and let each stage harden for a day or so before adding the next, so they'll be floating around on a tea tray for a few days before the project is completed.

Hmm, did someone mention tea? I thought there was something incomplete from this morning...........

parsniphead

Hello everyone

I have been dipping in and out of the previous two threads after reading this one and have been de-cluttering along the way. Anyway something I read jolted my memory about a flat bed thing on wheels which I borrowed from the basement of the shopping centre where I used to work and intended to take back after moving house, but I forgot.:o Anyway I have just gone into the cellar (a room sized space which would be very useful if not full to the brim of stuff) and brought it up and put it out with the broken greenhouse frame just brought back from the allotment we are having to give up. I hope the tat man takes it. I guess that's been de cluttered too, but I grow more in my garden and its a more productive space and soil.

Anyway sorry I'm waffling. I just wanted to say ta for the motivation.

What can I get rid of now.

Gingernutty

parsniphead wrote: »

I just wanted to say ta for the motivation.

:hello: You're welcome.

Two foldable crates and three CDs gone out. A lovely pair of virtually new, Clarks Springers in. They fit beautifully.

Every time I go into charity shops, I browse the shoe section.

I'm working on the coat dress/dress coat tonight.

EDIT @ 00:52 : I've done the coat/dress/thingy and I've got a !!!!!! denim lab coat to show for it. :doh: It's going to need a little more work, I think.......

lobbyludd

nowhere near as much done as I'd hoped. been trying to do diy jobs that are difficult when the small monsters are here, but all of them is taking longer/hitting problems so all half done and am now back to trying to clear up (stash things away) as they will be back before I finish work on friday and mum/step dad staying til monday.

car filled with another lot for the tip including the bed-end that was going to turn into vertical garden (it's been 2 weeks and I haven't), a broken TV, a set of drums for the wii that have never worked and a double duvet - i've bought a new one, wavered over all the things I could use the old one for, but I suspect there are 1 or 4 up in the loft in storage bags that I've never turned into anything. They can stay as loft insulation until spring.

the loft looks no better, it's breeding up there.
I'm crackered and having some wine.

parsniphead

A big load of privet hedge to declutter to the tip this morning. There will be about four car loads left to move on the grass after that.:eek:

I also have a couple of bits which I can use in my workshop at work so they will go when I return.

Need to get rid of more though.

Catriona_P

lobbyludd wrote: »

nowhere near as much done as I'd hoped. been trying to do diy jobs that are difficult when the small monsters are here, but all of them is taking longer/hitting problems so all half done and am now back to trying to clear up (stash things away) as they will be back before I finish work on friday and mum/step dad staying til monday.

Ugh I have that problem too - so hard to get jobs done with a little one around who wants to 'help'! How do you explain to a 2 year old that they can't use your gloss paint?

Hit a snag last night and could use some advice. I'm decluttering the built-in wardrobe in the dining room (The top half is full of stuff we never use and the bottom half is going to become the new shoe cupboard) and I have a small box of old school/personal things. I've cleared out a few of my old school books (but kept the odd one that I like) but I had a sticking point with (of all things) a couple of old football programmes. Only a handful - my first game I went to see, the first game I played in, a couple of famous wins and high-level games I saw.

Now, ordinarily I'd be telling myself to get rid, but I was sat reading them and really enjoying it. They're not useful, they're not beautiful, but they give me pleasure. So, I've kept a few. Binned a couple, but kept a few. Feel like this goes against the spirit of what we're doing here though

Oh, and a fake key from my 18th birthday? Binned that.

cyclingyorkie

If they give you pleasure then keep them. You've binned a load of stuff you don't need so be proud of that!

Purpleclutterbuck

I have been reading the posts and have suddenly realised that there are lots of other people who have the same fears and problems that I have.
At last, I can admit the struggle and turn it around by stop worrying about it and start doing something in very very small steps plod plod plod.....

I struggle with decluttering because of various health problems and lack of strength/stamina but as I slowly read through how well people are coping I wanted to say thanks for rekindling the flame
Thanks so much for lifting me up again -bit like a baby phoenix!
Keep up the good work peeps:T
PS. Please will you let me in and help?

MrsAtobe

You are welcome, Purpleclutterbuck! It's nice to know that you aren't alone, isn't it?

whitewing

We went for our first proper holiday since we've been decluttering. We went self-catering so spent a week in a place that was comfortably decorated but only had stuff we'd use in it. At home I have three bookcases -after decluttering, there we had just 2 small shelves of books. I didn't feel hard done by or empty either. It was so easy to unpack and pack and live in a minimalistic place.

On the way home (unplanned) we got rid of some stuff in the supermarket recycling bins. I was fairly organised on hols and stuck a load of washing in every other day. So we unpacked - for the first time ever - straight into the wardrobe. Within a couple of hours of arriving home, everything was put away correctly, including food shopping bought on the way home. Honestly, it was such a pleasure and we didn't get any post-holiday blues because we could chill out and extend our 'holiday' into the evening rather than trip over bags and cases and flump down tiredly.