Hoarding - Springing Ahead

Florenceem

Rest of the furniture sold via bay of E - has been collected now.
Out of house - bedroom unit + dining table and 6 chairs. :j
In - cash. :money:

GreyQueen

Florenceem wrote: »

Rest of the furniture sold via bay of E - has been collected now.
Out of house - bedroom unit + dining table and 6 chairs. :j
In - cash. :money:

:j Yippee!!!

Well done, you.

The advantages of cash over furniture; it's flat, it's lightweight, you don't have to move it to vacuum under, you don't have to dust it and......and.........there was something else about cash, wasn't there...........?

Oh yeah. You can spend it and have even more space on the premises............

Florenceem

We don't need the 2 kitchen stools - was a breakfast bar in the kitchen. No breakfast bar in my new kitchen.
The dining table and chairs belonged to Mr F - I never liked them. :(Much too big for us now. I have a large table we can use to have our meals. May be in the future - I will get some odd chairs to shabby chic but they will not be expensive buys.
Re bedroom unit - again was Mr F's. We got a FREE real wood chest of drawers from a neighbour.
I am going to paint the chest of drawers - probably decoupage the knobs.
So furniture gone - cash in plus no need to buy any furniture. :money:
Cash on collection - no pay friend fees. :money:

pigpen

GreyQueen wrote: »

Oh yeah. You can spend it and have even more space on the premises............

That depends what you spend it on!!!

ETA.. I decluttered a whole packet of shortbread!.. it all helps so they say

MummyBobble

DS was 13 yesterday so a small number of birthday presents in (all clothing or edible ), plus money which he is saving to add to Christmas money gifts to buy an ipad mini. Very proud of him for, at 13, being happy to save and wait for what he wants and not demand it now. Plus an ipad creates very little additional clutter (well, apart from yet another charger to add to the mahoooosive number of chargers we already have, most of which are probably for things we don't have anymore...Hmmm, I feel a charger cull coming on :think: ) Is there anywhere that recycles chargers? xx

GreyQueen

MummyBobble wrote: »

DS was 13 yesterday so a small number of birthday presents in (all clothing or edible ), plus money which he is saving to add to Christmas money gifts to buy an ipad mini. Very proud of him for, at 13, being happy to save and wait for what he wants and not demand it now. Plus an ipad creates very little additional clutter (well, apart from yet another charger to add to the mahoooosive number of chargers we already have, most of which are probably for things we don't have anymore...Hmmm, I feel a charger cull coming on :think: ) Is there anywhere that recycles chargers? xx

A few years back I needed to recycle a defunct mobile charger and there was a bin for them in one of the high-street phone chain shops. It's name escapes me (it's since closed down here) but mebbe try asking in one of those kind of shops? HTH.

Something I've found helpful is to corral accessories to electronics in labelled plastic bags, or to stick a label on them if they are free-roaming items. This helps keep them together with the item they belong to, and to add them to the declutter when appriopriate. There's a category of electronic accessory junk which is I dunno what you are, what you fit, if you work or not but you might be Important so I better keep you forever.

If you know what they fit, they may also be freecyclable. I even freecycled a non-working printer, with all its bits and bobs, driver disc and manuals. Even tho it was advertised as spares or repair, I still had people clamouring for it.

Many years ago when I bought this PC (dinosaurs roamed the earth, it's putty-coloured FGS) I carefully assembled it all and still had a fistful of cables which I didn't know what to do with. So I took them back to the shop to get a teen saleslad to ID them for me. Each and every one of them was to attach the PC to a TV in some way, shape, manner or form.

Didn't have a telly then, don't have a telly now, don't intend to get one in the future and so was able to declutter them immediately.

Pigpen, all decluttering is good, and those of us who are willing to sacrifice our model-type figures for the greater good of cupboard space deserve to be awarded a medal.

Preferably gold foil over chocolate.

kayester

hi i have not read the whole of this thread, but i am subscribing as i will read when i have time.

I am Kaye and I am a hoarder.
Seriously have things form years ago 'just incase' and have draws and cuboards 'stuffed with items' thinking one day ile use it and i might be able to sell it.
i dont know where to begin. looking at my house you wouldnt hting this as i am clean, its just things shuffed and hidden away, i dont know where to begin

pigpen

1 binbag and 2 carriers of 'stuff' flung in the bin..

Off to sort some returns.

Knit_Witch

kayester wrote: »

hi i have not read the whole of this thread, but i am subscribing as i will read when i have time.

I am Kaye and I am a hoarder.
Seriously have things form years ago 'just incase' and have draws and cuboards 'stuffed with items' thinking one day ile use it and i might be able to sell it.
i dont know where to begin. looking at my house you wouldnt hting this as i am clean, its just things shuffed and hidden away, i dont know where to begin

Welcome kayester - can you start with one small drawer? have three bags/boxes for keep - bin - charity shop, do one drawer and let us know how you got on.

MummyBobble

kayester, our mess isn't even hidden away but it's been there so long most of the time I don't even see it. It's only when someone's coming round I panic, but then most of the time I just shift it from one room to another... Getting better though, having seen the catalogue comments I've just lobbed the 2010 Ikea one into the recycling bin. Just now need to find the 2011, 2012 and 2013 ones and do the same with those The new phone book has also gone straight into the recycling bin.

Does anyone else find that their children seem to have an aversion to actually putting stuff into bins? Mine can bring it into the kitchen but just dump it on a worktop near the back door. I'm thinking of holding an awards ceremony and giving them both a certificate saying that (because they are so wonderful) they are allowed to open the back door, lift up the bin lid and drop their rubbish in. Alternatively I might start taking it upstairs and putting it in their bed :rotfl: