Hoarding - Springing Ahead

GreyQueen

Evening all.

I'm sitting gingerly due to having a sore back from fighting with The Rough. That's the scruffy bit at the top of my allotment, not a bad lad from the wrong side of the tracks, in case anyone gets the wrong idea.....:rotfl:

Last Sunday, I split The Rough into two sections and this week I decided to add to my whimsy by naming them. They are islands. Bramble Island and Tarpaulin Island. Both have buried chicken wire so can't use that to diffentiate. I saw a suspiciously-regular shape on Tarpaulin Island and prodded it with the garden fork.

Yup. The fourth subterranean paving slab. :mad: Hopefully, there are no more than four. I'd already spent 45 mins hoeing at this point and didn't feel up to wrassling the slab, so turned on Bramble Island with a fierce glint in my eye and a mattock in my gloved fists.

Thwack! And double-thwack. Then going in with the digging fork to get the brambles and the couch grass out. Trouble is, this stuff rooted on top of the 2011 manure pile and has had two happy years growing freely through not-quite-fully composted material. Today was bone dry and I was grinding clumps of stuff between my hands to get it off the couch grass roots. Slow and tedious stuff.

Due to having needed to spend time on the hoeing (I have half the lottie as bare earth atm and annual weeds are trying to re-colonise, but the hoe sorts that out) I only cleared about a meter of The Rough today, nibbling around the edge of Bramble Island. There's some more brambles (they have looped over from the derelict lottie next door, dammit).

I forgot to take up some snips to cut away the half-buried wadge of chickenwire, so will aim to take them up tomorrow, although I have to fit in some archery in another part of the forest at some point. Prolly do that first, before I get too grimy to be seen in company.;)

Molly, you're on a roll. And you two, kayester. One thing I think we've all discovered it that decluttering and de-richarding can be a bit addictive. Dunno what that says about clutter or about clutterers' personalities, but there you go.

I was pleased to finish up a bottle of shampoo which has been lurking for ages so there's that off to the recycling bin outside.

I really like the recycling bins. How sad am I?

Going off now to declutter a chunk of lasagne with some h.g. runner beans from the allotmentino. Keep on keeping on, lovely clutter bunnies.

Florenceem

Decluttered a black sack full of garden weeds today.
Plus cleaned windows and brass so dirt decluttered. :rotfl:
Gave Mr F a haircut and beard trim so lots of grey hair decluttered.

penelopedee_2

Back in the swing of it today Two paperwork clutter spots completely cleared, all recycling out in the bins and a small pile of shredding to be done.

I've also had a good clear up of the boys stuff as I've gone along (I can't believe how much of it ends up in the main living area as they are a bit older now and out most of the time!). So the living and dining rooms look calm and peaceful for 5 minutes.

The ironing mountain and clean washing island has been cleared from the bottom of our bed, our bedding washed and drying on the line and the fresh set on straight away. Almost looks normal up there too. All I need to do now is talk DH or oldest to put the cases in the roof for me - they've only been sat on the landing since August. The landing is a small square at the top of the stairs so I don't quite believe their claims that they didn't realise they had to be put somewhere :cool:

Onwards and upwards, I'm off to raid all of the empty bottles and tins out of the bathroom next.

Have a good Sunday all.

kayester

ok my bedroom COMPLETE!! :D:D i feel so much better doing a bit at a time....and feels so rewarding being able to hoover the whole room.

i had a pile of socks in one corner, with odd socks or outgrown baby socks...just threw them all in a bin liner!!

school uniform ironing to do then kids bedroom to start sorting, think it will take me a few weeks to do both rooms a bit at a time, but its a start

have updated my signature accordingly (i love challenges)

lobbyludd

yay Kayester! does feel so much better when you can see rewards of your efforts

have fixed a broken drawer on dd's chest or drawers, so can hopefully put the washing away in her room, has made my back hurt again though so very much doing the minimum today. have sorted a few clothes from the drawers to go to cs. This back thing - which hopefully is temporary has given me a small insight into those who cope with pain/mobility problems all the time, my mum is riddled with arthritis and step dad has it in his spine. Has also made me realise just how poorly designed the traditional domestic set-up is: the washing machine, and all white goods are on the floor and involve bending, lifting and dragging heavy loads around, why aren't they designed to be at waist height?

anyhoo, that's not for this thread! kids much better so can go back to work tomorrow and hoping to enlist them into helping with some dehoarding activities (for cash reward probably).

lostinrates

Kayester....

Welcome., I've been away all summer and am only starting to pop in now for autumn/winter, but I just wanted to say I sometimes do pictures. Mine are before and ongoing rather than before and after! But also I find posting a 'why am I keeping this?' Often clarifies that something should go in the bin. When other hoarders say 'bin it dear' you know its time to say good bye!

GreyQueen

I'm chuffed as have chiselled the last lump of the humungous bowl candle into chips and have started melting them into a new candle.

I started on this particular candle months ago, but stalled when I'd removed the outer layer and been left with a "ball" of extra hard wax, the size of a child's football. Could barely get my two very large hands around it. Had the darned thing, double-wrapped in carrier bags, floating around for months, most recently in the living room.

I set at it with a kitchen devil and chipped it down cm by cm, thinking just a little further......grapefruit size, orange size, egg size and bingo! All done.

Suspect my fingers will blister but there's nothing new about that. Have started making a candle in the last of the Pr*ngle tube hoard, so something of a landmark there.

Feeling good. Didn't go to the lottie today so The Rough has had a restbite from my attentions. I have annual leave next month, so it'll get savaged then.

Glad to hear of others' truimphs. Onwards and outwards, my lovelies.

mcculloch29

For those who are enjoying finding chuck-outs in the bathroom, and want to stop hoarding there is a lovely, supportive No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries thread. It's a new thread every month. This used to be one of my worst areas for hoarding.

Reporting what you have used up in pampering yourself is fun; taking time to look after yourself with what you have in the bathroom is brilliant for your self-esteem. You are telling yourself that you are worth looking after. (Also see my sig.)
I haven't had any dry skin problems since I started doing that challenge in 2010 as I ploughed through my lotions and body butters.
Some of the ladies (and one or two gents in the past) post lists of hoarded products, I don't do that, but whatever helps.
Today I washed out a 7/8 empty body scrub tub that I'd grown to dislike using and got rid of that. I have a much better product to use now .
Previously I would have hung on to the near -empty tub for no specific reason other than hating 'waste'.

GreyQueen

Good thinking about the toiletries.

I'm a pretty modest consumer of this class of stuff but was pleased to find two small but rather special bars of soap in the airing cupboard a few days ago when having a wee tidy.

They are left from last year's Crimble, one being from Loosh, and I'd forgotten I had them.

Didn't want to use them on just handwashing but will have a good old lather up in the tub tonight.

I'm also disciplining myself to finish stuff before buying new, as in the case of the two bottles of deodorant on the windowsill, the one I'm using and the one I'm using up after that, and only then can new ones come into my life.

I was sorted with shampoo and conditioner then was gifted with some more, and am probably good for most of 2014, too.

Today's supper will involve some leftovers then a fruit salad, from the good bits of some slightly-bruised fruit which I bought for pence. I have grapes, peaches, plums and kiwi.....yum.

lostinrates

mcculloch29 wrote: »

For those who are enjoying finding chuck-outs in the bathroom, and want to stop hoarding there is a lovely, supportive No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries thread. It's a new thread every month. This used to be one of my worst areas for hoarding.

Reporting what you have used up in pampering yourself is fun; taking time to look after yourself with what you have in the bathroom is brilliant for your self-esteem. You are telling yourself that you are worth looking after. (Also see my sig.)
I haven't had any dry skin problems since I started doing that challenge in 2010 as I ploughed through my lotions and body butters.
Some of the ladies (and one or two gents in the past) post lists of hoarded products, I don't do that, but whatever helps.
Today I washed out a 7/8 empty body scrub tub that I'd grown to dislike using and got rid of that. I have a much better product to use now .
Previously I would have hung on to the near -empty tub for no specific reason other than hating 'waste'.

I loved that thread. It dealt with our hoard on that front very quickly.

In fact, made the way I buy toiletries change. ( DH though, god help me.......). Right now I am on the last bottle of hair stuff I have. That would never have happened before. I'm going to buy some a the supermarket between now and Christmas, but get dh to get a few bottles of the stuff I prefer mail order for Christmas for me to last me most of next year....:)