Hoarding - Springing Ahead

whitewing

lobbyludd,

Buying new stuff to replace the old, hung-on-to-for-years stuff was one if my greatest pleasures that kept me motivated during the dehoarding.

I only bought new when we needed it though. There was plenty of stuff passed on but not replaced because we no longer would use that particular item.

calicocat

De-hoarded grass, so the folk round here will be overjoyed, not sure it's the required height, but it looks good....lol

Spent hours trying to work out why electrics not working in conservatory, and was having a panic, to eventually find I had switched off the fuse button for it. This house has those fuse switches all over the place. I had read on some thread ages ago it might be MSE for the leccy.....but not MSE for BT usage phoning everyone I know to work out what could be wrong when you had forgotten about said fuse switch existed.

No in a total rush for getting organised for work so i'm off......

lobbyludd

Thanks Whitewing, was feeling a little guilty about bringing new stuff in.

Have done some long-on-the-list plant things: the wisteria is finally in the place I bought it for, I have hung a hanging planter that has been on the top of the fridge-freezer for at least six years in the kitchen and put some creeping jenny to over-winter in it. The front window pots have been filled with house leeks that were over-running plants in the back.

in other news dd has not inherited my tendencies the littlies cannot get their pocket money if they don't do their chores. for dd this is mostly tidying her room, and whilst dd was doing hers she came to me with enough toys for a bin bag she doesn't play with any more to give away. her mother (me) is wobbling over giving away a wooden carry case dolls house that paternal grandparents gave her, that she really doesn't play with.

i won't put it in the loft......

calicocat

lobbyludd wrote: »

Thanks Whitewing, was feeling a little guilty about bringing new stuff in.

Have done some long-on-the-list plant things: the wisteria is finally in the place I bought it for, I have hung a hanging planter that has been on the top of the fridge-freezer for at least six years in the kitchen and put some creeping jenny to over-winter in it. The front window pots have been filled with house leeks that were over-running plants in the back.

in other news dd has not inherited my tendencies the littlies cannot get their pocket money if they don't do their chores. for dd this is mostly tidying her room, and whilst dd was doing hers she came to me with enough toys for a bin bag she doesn't play with any more to give away. her mother (me) is wobbling over giving away a wooden carry case dolls house that paternal grandparents gave her, that she really doesn't play with.

i won't put it in the loft......

Don't put it in the loft!......I still have about 40ish soft toys/dolls up in my mothers loft 30 years or more later. I will have to go and de-richard her loft of my things soon too.....i have furniture and plant stands, and all my dog stuff up there. The toys .....it's about time they went to a CS. (except the koala bear). Actually I may google them to see if they are worth anything, last time I tried to look up and old teddy, it looked like it could be worth a few hundred.


Buying new stuff is allowed, we have to be able to have new things in life too.....out with the old, and in with the new. it's just balancing what and how much isn't it.

GreyQueen

:j Bramble Island was completely decluttered yesterday (and I spent the afternoon and evening nursing my back with Alexander Technique exercises and HWBs, but it was so worth it).

Today I decluttered about an inch of hairdo and then went to the lottie and indulged my love of all things pyromanical - use the chickenwire bogie as the heart of the fire (it needed stuff burned out of it so it would flatten) and have caught up with all the nasty stuff I have excavated and dried out.

I now have two packets of folded and squashed chickenwire to take to the tip, plus the one in the heart of the fire which I shall retrieve tomorrow. I advanced on Tarpaulin Island whilst minding the fire but couldn't work much due to the smoke, but did lever the third and final slab out, plus removed a broken plastic flowerpot and some more glass. I got the broken pot away, packed with more non-rotables.

I have clay pipe fragments also, but have actually found a couple of the bowls as well, something we never got a home. I always think of them as Victorian (or older) ciggie butts.

Tomorrow I have a blood test circa mid-morning then will go to the lottie, slip into the shed and spring out in a red and gold bustier and blue satin hotpants. Oh wait, that was WonderWoman, not me.........:rotfl:

I will take a beanie hat as well. I was well-on in painting years before I twigged it's easier to wash a hat than get glue/ gloss/ tile adhesive/ creosote out of my barnet.

Keep on keeping on, my lovelies.

Molly41

I have always followed your progress but will now join in again as I have something to write about.

Today I have been dealing with my daughter's bedroom who is now 21 and just gone to uni. To say I am horrified is an understatement and I realise that I share many of her hoarding ways.

T that end I have set myself a personal Christmas Challenge :xmastree:. I will be having relatives visit and need all the space available and would like to finally and once and for all get on top of my clutter. Now the pace will be slow as I am fairly limited in how fast I can move - although that is getting better with physic:T

GreyQueen

More power to your elbow, Molly41. A lot of us don't enjoy the best of health and have to temper how much and what kind of stuff we do. But steady and thorough gets you there in the end. All the best with your challenge and pls keep posted.

Today I went to the lottie and treated the front and back of the shed. I didn't have enough charge in my personal battery to do the sides, but I expect that they will still be there later in the week.

After I'd done the ends of the shed, I dragged the chickenwire bogie out of the bonfire. It was stuffed with great tufts of couch-grass roots and I couldn't pull them out to fold it for transport to the tip, hence building the bonfire around it. They're all gone and once it had cooled, I folded it up and stood on it until it made a neat packet.

I now have 3 ex-bogies neatly folded and awaiting a spin down to the tip. Think they may be more than the bike can handle in one trip, but we'll see. I would have taken one today but had about 20 kg of onions which I wasn't leaving in the shed once I had treated it.

I also reached a decision re the half-a-shed which I accepted from a lottie neighbour who was giving up their plot. It was minus roof and floor, and the panels needed some bits replaces and I'd spent quite a bit of time measuring up the wood I needed to buy to fix it. It had also been laying around on the ground for some years and the wood had decayed somewhat. Even the bits which didn't need replacing were in far from good order.

Once I did the sums, I realised that I'd be pushing £100 in timber, sterling board, felt and slabs to stand it on and that this would make this freebie an expensive hobby. Add in the complications of sourcing unweildy materials when you're car-less. Plus there was the moral aspect of involving my ole Mum in my escapades as she's the one with the tools and the talent, and I rethought it all and decided not to go there.

Plus, having re-felted the lottie shed a few weeks ago, I realised that I would be spending money and time to create something which would have "on costs" in terms of felt and wood treatments which exceeded the pleasure I'd get from having a small shed devoid of tools to hang out in.

I have a flat, I can hang out at home. Or hang out with friends at their homes. Heck, I can even hang out at the public library.

mummyyof5

I have to go into town tomorrow so will be filling a carrier bag for CS to take with me...wont take long lol.

Decluttered my bedroom windowsill today...OH is on tour lol....well you can guess it...everything I got rid of from there was his...thing is I know he wont miss any of it...windowsill is so lovely now...even cleaned the windows x

mollythewestie

Just a keep update from me : I'm still managing to get rid of more than is coming in. :j

Rather proud that my daily walk for the school run takes me past at least 4 charity shops, and I have managed not to buy a thing in them since the summer - although I have been dropping in a few bags of donations each week.

My shed is full of bin bags ready to go to the tip, hopefully DH will get a chance to take them this weekend.

I'm still selling things on ebay, but quite a few things on freecycle have gone either unclaimed or claimed by people who haven't bothered to collect, so they will also be going to the tip.

Our house move is not going well - we lost someone in the bottom of our chain, so we have to wait for the new people to do all their searches/surveys now, so we won't be in the new house this month like we had hoped.

However I'm still cracking on with clearing the junk out before we go.
Whenever I'm feeling low, I take a look on this thread to give me some inspiration from the fantastic people on here. How far we have come from the start and what we have achieved is phenomenal :kisses3:

GreyQueen

Sorry your chain broke down, but on the bright side, it gives you a little more time for your decluttering. Sounds like it's going well.

I'm not in the position to have binbags full of stuff but have lots of niggly little things which need actioning, and the action will remove the clutter.

In the past few days I have stained the corner shelf I bought about 6 months ago, and it'll go up on the wall when Mum is next this way with her drill which may be some point this month. Have pulled the rawl plugs from the 3 holes already in the wall where the shelf is going (never in the right place, are they?) from the wall-mounted telephone I replaced in February.

Am working thru my salvaged candle project and tackling the pile of books which I bought to read and haven't yet got a round to reading. One is finished and in the charity bag, the one I'm on now is worth a few quid and will go to my online bookseller brother. I also found one book I've had for about 2 years, have started to read twice and abandoned twice. It's a good book but not a good-for-me book, so brother can have that one, too.

Today, apart from a little trip out later for an airing, I'm having a catch-up day at home and pottering about doing some chores and tidying things away. Badly needed. Bagful of recycles and bagful of rubbish ready to leave the premises when I head out after luncheon.

Keep pecking away at it, and it'll shrink. The old eating an elephant analogy.