Hoarding - Springing Ahead

wisterias

calicocat wrote: »

kipplization...!!!! :T:T:rotfl:

bet this is what i have in my house.

"Kippling" came from earlier pages on this thread, when I was looking for de- hoarding inspiration.
Enjoying reading sloblady pages:rotfl:

My winter wardrobe is in The Realms of Imagination. I put more layers on.

I have a different take on the washing roundabout subject. DD stopped ironing at uni. LBM - I stopped ironing too! Straight onto a hanger from washing line (Weather always permits in the end).
Sometimes a quick tumble dry to get the pet hairs off:eek:
Hang upstairs - on windows or doors, then after a couple of days, into a wardrobe or door hook. Doesn't work so well if you have a large family/ children. I iron a bare few items a year for work or special occasions. "Sloblady thread " - must be my true home:)

Thank you all for the inspiration you are giving me:T W

sweetpea26

hi everyone

don't post very often but am always reading aka stalking

I feel very overwhelmed by my house at the moment. We have someone who is a long term patient in hospital and I am there twice a day. Before I could stuff everything into cupboards drawers out of the way now I am experiencing an overload of washing, ironing and clothes hanging everywhere. I long for the day that I don't have to change out of my 'houseworking clothes' into something suitable to wear into the hospital. In all honesty I feel exposed as I enjoy being at home and my own company whilst everyone else is at school, work. I sound selfish but I know I am not as I intend to care for the patient in our home soon. It would be great to get them home in the future and get into a routine.

My energy levels are low and the 'big black dog' creeps in and out. I need to rest but how can one rest in a house that is a tip.

Tomorrow I am going to start with the kitchen and our bedroom. Wish me well.
take care everyone.

Florenceem

Still decluttering wallpaper off the walls. Smallest bedroom is newly decorated now - apart from a mark on a wall - I blame Mr F - it will have to be touched up.
The next size bedroom is finished apart from needing a coat of paint on the woodwork.
Plus I have started to strip the office - aka - 4th bedroom today. Mr F has got rid of some bits when we have been emptying the office.
I have to admit - I love to iron.

GreyQueen

Florenceem wrote: »

Still decluttering wallpaper off the walls. Smallest bedroom is newly decorated now - apart from a mark on a wall - I blame Mr F - it will have to be touched up.
The next size bedroom is finished apart from needing a coat of paint on the woodwork.
Plus I have started to strip the office - aka - 4th bedroom today. Mr F has got rid of some bits when we have been emptying the office.
I have to admit - I love to iron.

Pssssttt!!!!!!

Wanna be my new best friend?

cyclingyorkie

I have done naff all today except declutter a migraine.....

I am feeling slightly dodgy and the lack of a functioning washing machine is making me miserable.

Engineer coming tomorrow - fingers crossed....

pigpen

Decluttered money .. *cry*

DD2 cleaned the middle room so a bit decluttered and vacuumed.

off to declutter some food down some children I forgot to feed lunch too. OOOOPs.. I did feed them once I realised of course.

lobbyludd

Gingernutty wrote: »

You put washing away? :eek:

not usually - no
and I haven't ironed anything for 28 years (as a 13 year old I was paid £3 to do the whole families ironing, no matter how much it was so I stopped doing mine, I never restarted).

summer/winter wardrobes? what? extra jumpers and leggings under the skirts - ta dah!

I have an interview for that job! have to give a presentation and do a half hour test as well as a panel interview, but right now I'm just happy to know I can fill in an application form!

bins out later which will be the full extent of the dehoarding (there's a lot of them)

and I have not bought a lovely leather magazine rack/log basket. despite how perfect it is, because I have no log fire and I don't want to have magazines hanging around do I?

it is lovely though.

GreyQueen

:T Well done on the sideboard, Catriona_p . It's great when something really big which has been sticking finally moves off the homestead, especially when you'd almost given up hope.

Well done on the interview, Lobbyludd, and best feet forward with preparing for your presentation.

Well, the candle-making project has slowed again (has been hot, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it ) but I will aim to have a little sesh again after work.

I batch-cooked yestereve, which will mean tea tonight is sorted and the extra time which would have been spent on prep can be spent on other things.

Yesterday morning I cleared the clothes airer and took it down. Then yesterday evening I twigged I had enough for another load and up goes the airer again. Oooh, the extra wear and tear on the mechanism, me bad housekeeper.

Right, need to go declutter some grub into my gullet and get on with the day. Have a good 'un, everyone, and be careful when wading ankle deep in kipple.

parsniphead

Morning all

Busy morning so far. The little one has been de-cluttered to kindergarten for the day (a chance to do jobs which are impossible when he is loitering) and the car de-cluttered to the garage to be fixed.:mad:

I had a good day yesterday. As well as the pile of clothes for the charity shop I grabbed 12 books to take as well as I was leaving. I can even remember what they were to be honest. I love my books but get annoyed with the amount of money spent on them which added to the debt. I do use the library lots now but this was in the days when a career got in the way.

Also two tins of EMPTY paint (why do I keep them when there is no paint I them) and a tub of dried up adhesive/grout thrown out.

I have been thinking lots about why I got into this state and its bringing up a lot of difficult feelings going through the de-hoarding process. So many if onlys and what ifs but there is no point in that I guess. I'm sure we will all get to the point we need to be its just a hard journey at times.

GreyQueen

parsniphead, I think that a lot of de-hoarding is in the head.

I know that can seem crazy when you're getting hot, dusty and tired wrestling with physical Stuff, but I'm convinced it's true.

Look at those cases where chronic hoarders are decluttered by others, inc the original media "star" Mr Trebus. And how quickly they recluttered. Their mindset hadn't changed so any improvements to their environment were only going to be temporary.

To declutter, you need to pause long enough to listen to the soundtrack of your own life, filtering out the workaday static, and questioning they whys and wherefores of your beliefs and habits.

I once heard an anecdote about force of habit. There were three generations of a family whose wimminfolk used to cut the top off a joint of meat before putting it in the oven. They'd always done it, never thought it odd, until an outsider questioned it.

Grandma was still alive, so they asked her, she thought very hard, then recalled that she'd once had a very shallow oven and had needed to cut the top off so the joint would fit.

How many things do we do, because we've always done them, because we were raised to do them by people who'd always done them?

Interesting, IMO. And I must shortly head off to work. GQ xx