Hoarding - Springing Ahead

roundtuit

:hello: helloooo

Four weeks into my new job and I've weathered the challenges that brings whilst neglecting everything else. Yesterday I opened my eyes to the state of the house.....again :eek:. And went out

But today I am made of sterner stuff So far - laundry sorted into piles, underwear washed and now drying on radiators, second load (darks) ready to come out of the WM - airer cleared of dry clothes and awaiting said darks; one bowlful of pots and cutlery washed, dried and PUT WAY, bowl reloaded from ye leaning tower of potsa; 20 cola cans and 5 plastic bottles rinsed and recycled - I can now see work surface :T.

I was feeling more than a tad overwhelmed - hence the avoidance yesterday - but today I broke the 'jobs' down into tiny pieces that I could manage and we have progress.

Next I'm going to take darks out, put coloureds in and have some lunch. Not sure if this isn't more flyladying than decluttering - but I have to move the klutz to get to the clutter.

P.S. I know there's a pirate's eye patch secreted in this house somewhere - so ahoy shipmates! and yoho xx

GreyQueen

Leaning Tower of Potsa............most excellent. I shall probably steal this.

I once saw the Leaning Tower of Pisa in RL. My reaction was to burst out laughing; it's like a drunken oversized wedding cake. Gravity is being seriously flouted there.

I went to the lottie and got wet and muddy. I did what I said I would do; setting a course from the bean wigwams across The Rough, chiselling away with the mattock then forking the roots and carp out.

Until I got to the point where the mattock went KLANG!! Oh joy, another subterranean paving slab. Pried up and moved out, repositioned self and thwacked mattock down with extreme prejudice. BOUNCE!!! More joy; a wadge of hitherto unseen chickenwire. Cue much muttering and even cussing as I tried ripping that out of the ground.

Couldn't get it all but managed to peel some of it away and then grinned at the vulnerable ground, raised mattock and crashed it into something vaguely yielding but defiant. Ye gods and little fishes, it's the buried blue tarpaulin..........:eek:

It's never like this on the telly, is it? Plus I was getting rather wet and cold by this point, so I skirted the tarp and went across to join up the new cleared bit to yesterday's cleared bit. I shall need wirecutters to separate the peeled-back chickenwire from the rest of it which is well buried.

GQ; fighting the allotment one inch at a time............decluttering has never been so much fun - not!

nitnurse-not2

Hi GreyQueen:hello:
I have been reading with interest your savage attack on "The Rough" I am waiting with baited breath to find out if we are getting our very own "lottie" and hope to hear tomorrow.:D:D
My vision of this was to let DH do the digging etc and I would paint the shed some nice colour and maybe decorate it with painted flowers etc.:o:o:o
I have only ever grown beans, garlic and this year was given a courgette plant.....Tonnes of fruit from this :eek::eek:so will be wary to grow too many if we get the go-ahead tomorrow. My clearing out has been very successful over the last year but I'm concerned that my home will be swamped with seed catalogues, plans for planting, tools............the list is endless.:rotfl::rotfl:

Well....off to bite nails till I find out.:(

xx

GreyQueen

Oooh, fingers crossed for good lottie news later today.

I've had mine since March 2008. It was beyond derelict and The Rough is the last remnant of the hellish conditons which pertained over all 300 m of it, so tackling it is like going backwards in time, and not in a good way.

Allotmenteering is like having a secret lover; you're always wanting to be over there, thinking about it when you should be doing other things, spending too much money on inappropriate gifts and sulking when it doesn't do what you want........:D

Most of it isn't cutesy, although my shed does have gingham curtains as a nod to feyness and femininity. The rest is a bit like fighting in the trenches. Make sure that you have good boots (I have Doc Martens with steel toecaps), sturdy gloves, a sun hat or woolly hat depending on the season, and a GSOH.

The latter is the critical substance. I have a robust one ,but if that fails me, I have resorted to cussing.

Flasks of tea and chocolate also help.

This morning I am decluttering some YS pain au chocolate acquired yesterday for a trifling sum, then off to t'office to earn my living.

I plan to drop the rubbish at the communal bin on my way out, but that might well be the sum total of today's decluttering efforts.

Have a good one, lovely peeps.

calicocat

Hello........still lurking, just not doing much at the moment.

I have decided the pink room/dumping ground can wait for a while......I am going to have to de-richard the freezer a bit ready for winter I think. since moving it has become a tad unorganised and everything has just been thrown in. I have no real clue what's in 3 of the 6 drawers so the plan is to start having a look at this these days off.

Got a dentist appointment tomorrow though, so probably won't do anything today or tomorrow except staring into space worrying about that. I usually get medication from GP to get me through the door, but all friends are busy and will have to drive myself so will be meds-free this time. It's looking ok so far though....i haven't cancelled which I normally do......I have a total phobia of dentists. actually I need to de-richard my head of this somehow, don't know how though as been like it for 20 years or more now.

Good luck to those hard at it, I will keep lurking and doing little bits slowly.

MinnieMousesMummy

Evening all, I have not posted on here for a while and unfortunately during this time my house my house has reverted back to the way that it was. Things are a bit busy as I am now studying a diploma at college and looking after my 3 kids (including my 5 week old boy).

Despite being busy with family and study commitments I am committed to getting my house sorted, as it is so cluttered and badly needing decorated that I feel getting it sorted would help with other aspects of my life.

Unlike before when I was jumping from one room to another I have decided to tackle one room at a time and I'm going to start with the bathroom.

Tasks for this week:
Clean the bathroom ready for decorating
Scrub the tiles
Paint the walls
Paint the woodwork and door
Sort through the medicine cabinet and get rid of out of date medicines & rubbish
Order finishing touches for the bathroom (bin, dolphin decor as doing a sea theme)
Read and catch up with thread to gather ideas and get some motivation

I think that is everything that I need to do in the bathroom, I will come back each night and update what I have done.

ModestyB

I've just decluttered the tv part of my package which will save money and get me up doing stuff instead of sitting on my butt being brainwashed.
Could do with another shed to house DH's weightlifting gear and 12+ guitars. All his fishing gear inhabits one shed and tools etc the other. And he moans about my books!

Thanks to all who post on here, you're all an inspiration.

lostinrates

I've been thinking about drawers.

I'm not sure how many drawers we have in the house that aren't clothes or kitchen ones, but rather other drawers...and other drawers sadly have a risk of becoming clutter drawers.

In my bedroom, for example, my bedside table drawer is a clutter magnet( DH doesn't have a drawer) and we have a cabinet in the room with a clutter drawer. The dining room has drawers which I have differently assigned purpose for to DH..... ( DH loves a clutter drawer) and my desk is full of clutter drawers. I think winter is going to be full of de cluttering drawers.

GreyQueen

Evening all.

LiR, I feel your pain regarding the drawers. I have:

3 in kitchen - only one really usable, 3 smallish ones in wall unit in living room and 3 shallow useless ones under the sofa. It's enough to keep track of, frankly.

Hang on, just remembered there's an Argussy catalogue in the least-accesible sofa drawer. Just grabbed it and it's now in the recycling bag. That must be 1 kilo + of dead tree outta here.

Yesterday I came home to some voting guff from the Co Op. Big window envelope full of stuff. Business-as-usual would have been to say to myself Hmm, boring but worthy, really must do my duty and study and vote, not excited, will put it on the table or the sofa, kick it about a bit, finally open it after much visual irritaton and find date to return it by has passed. Oh dear, now I feel guilty.

New me decided that's too much mental static. Opened the beggar, read the candidates' stuff, made a decision, enveloped my ballot, laid it on doormat so I'd take it out to post on way to work, put the non-confidential bit of stuff in the recycling, shredded the bit with my name and address on and turned the envelope into scratch paper (I use a lot of this every day).

Sorted, off the premises and out of my hair. Feelin' good.

Now, if only I could carry that attitude into all aspects of my life, things would be just perfect...........

jfdi

Absolutely of no relevance to decluttering - but GreyQueen, some VII (Very Important Info!) for you - hope you've got an ASDA nearby? FB Pies are £1 for the big 'un! I've just added 4 to my overstuffed 'Tins' cupboard (tho' only 3 now coz we gave into temptation & had one for dinner!).