Hoarding - Springing Ahead

parsniphead

So a little bit of de-hoarding today and a bit of putting things which need to be kept in the correct place. At last I can see that progress is being made.

Anyway the other day MIL gave me a bag of pull up pants for my DS. They are for 4-7 year olds and very pink. I don't think if he suddenly starts wetting the bed when he is older (he is currently2) he will feel better by being made to wear girls pants. I feel that this may cause even more problems so off to the bin they go. Before you think that's a waste they also stunk to high heaven of smoke as she is a very heavy smoker. Pooh.

I till need to go and hit the corner from hell in the bedroom......how many times have I posted that. So in a moment I will log off and up I will go. I also have some washing to put away which I have been keeping on top of.

Later I want to sort sewing corner. I went to declutter my birthday money the other day looking for new clothes and was so uninspired I decided I need to make time for myself and make some stuff for me. A skirt first which will make the stash a tiny bit smaller.

Have a nice day everyone.

GreyQueen

I'm helping a friend declutter and have acquired several stacks of her magazines as a result. Piles all over my living room floor and more to come; what have I done?! :rotfl:

ETA; I have found the long-missing (as in about 2 months' missingness) kitchen scissors. They were in the kitchen drawer. I never put them in the drawer, they live on the magnetic wall strip. Except I obviously put them away and they got covered with other bits and bobs and it never even occurred to me to look in the drawer.

I feel a bit stoopit this morning.........

whitewing

You and me both feeling stooped this morning.

I ordered some books online as part of xmas shopping. I've managed to order multiple copies of the same book for some strange reason.

I also ordered some trousers from M&S for a relative but they are far too big, despite being the same label size as her existing trousers from the same place. I wonder if they have changed their sizing.

So, things to go back out of the house.

Went through my work cupboard and in tray. (I don't appear to have an out tray!) So, lots of bits and bobs gone from there.

DS is commenting on how many of his socks are missing. For missing, read 'have holes in and are consequently in recycling'. He has pointed out that you need a hole in the sock to get your foot in. Very droll!

kayester

Not posted for a while but I am still de hoarding...

New beds in mine and kids rooms have been put up. all rubbish bagged up ready to goto tip tomorrow. and council picking big things up a week on mondya (have put them outside) hoovered all round house today and looks nice and tidy.
Tasks for tomorrow and Sunday is clean out kitchen cupboards and make room to put all Christmas things in one cupboards so I can start stocking up. and clean bathroom. If I get it all done tomorrow then great, a chill Sunday

GreyQueen

Evening all.

Been visiting with my parents today and Mum was grumbling about The Knitting Patterns, a stack of 7 lever arch files on her bedroom floor right by the door. Toes have been stubbed on them many a time; poor Dad even lost a toenail as a result.

Soooo, whilst we were sitting chatting this aft, I got them down and we went thru. She's now down to one half-full file as keepers, with 4 files outgoing, some junk for the recycling and a lot of laughs about whyever she kept some of this stuff. We also found an invitation in there to a family wedding in London in 1967 which they didn't attend anyway.

That's being kept...........:rotfl:

Mum is postitively chipper about how quickly and enjoyably this much-postponed and dreaded task has been handled and 50+ years of hoarded knitting patterns de-richarded. We also had some nice Oh, you made me that one moments.

I thought those might lead to sentimental attachments to those particular childhood patterns but she was ruthless. Dad's toes will be safe from stubbing, at least on that particular set of clutter.

pigpen

I downloaded a pattern for drawstring bags and bucket bags to sew.. bye bye fabric stash... hello Christmas gifts... now... who else wants a bag for Christmas???

lobbyludd

sounds great pigpen - I have made some bags instead of wrapping in the past, and everyone has kept them!

a bag to the cs, another 2 in the boot to go to one next week. few more bits in the garden tidied away. Only bits in are tension rods to hang fleeces/interlining for windows to add another layer and bulk cat food (6 months worth - but they have all fitted in the larder which was not possible this time last year ).
kids have decluttered the screen from my tablet - again I am now a pro at replacing them but grrrr.

decided to have a doing nothing weekend, lazy and cosy, as it's been a hard week, called in to dd's class because she is so resistant to going to school, very difficult mornings because of it and nigt-times because of it, but I think we may be getting somewhere and then very long day at work today. however, my very perverse brain, having decided not to do anything much this weekend, has already had me picking things up and sorting things out and repeatedly doing just doing one more thing.... why?

why when I plan to do something does it fight tooth and nail with procrastination and when I decide to do nothing it rebels against that too?

I've cleaned some windows this evening - I NEVER clean windows, blinking contrary brain.

suzitiger

GreyQueen wrote: »

I have occasionally spread sedition among those devoted to the womanly arts of housewifery, such as the time when an acquaintance confessed her annoyance at the one-up-womanship of her neighbour; they were competing to get the wash out on the line ever earlier in the morning and at the point we spoke it had come down to clothespins at 6 am.

Is she ABSOLUTELY sure she is not living next to the slobtacular me and its probably the washing from 3 days ago still on the line because-it-rained-on-it-so-it-may-as-well-stay-out-there-until-it's-dry....

GreyQueen wrote: »

Been visiting with my parents today and Mum was grumbling about The Knitting Patterns, a stack of 7 lever arch files on her bedroom floor right by the door.
Soooo, whilst we were sitting chatting this aft, I got them down and we went thru. She's now down to one half-full file as keepers, with 4 files outgoing, some junk for the recycling and a lot of laughs about whyever she kept some of this stuff.
I thought those might lead to sentimental attachments to those particular childhood patterns but she was ruthless. Dad's toes will be safe from stubbing, at least on that particular set of clutter.

This is great stuff, it sounds like ur mum is doing well with her decluttering with your help
My mum went mad when I was last home and I was sorting out my stuff in the loft, I found a bag of jumbled up scraggly wool that i thought 'what the heck is this?!' and bunged it down to ask my mum if I could chuck it...no no, it was her wool for making rag rugs that she has had for 20years...any one got a round tuit I can give her?
I shouldn't laugh becuase she would wonder why i have some of my hoard too but sighhhhhhhh its hard sometimes.

Anyway, in other big news I found a charity shop that still accepts VCRs, YES you heard right, VCRs!!!!!!! So I took a bunch down that have been lurking after I posted them on freecycle to no avail. Also to the charity shop went:
1 summer dress (unworn in 2 years, I didn't take it on holiday either so out it goes)
2 belts (I liked these but hardly ever wear them so..FLING)
A Thai paper fan that i either bought as a souvineir or I was given in thailand
Some maraccas that were a joke present
1 German childrens book that i got with an ebay fluffy toy i purchased years ago. I re-sold the toy when i realised i have silly amounts of stuffed toys! (it was one of those 'oh i never had one of those as a child' purchases)
A Sylvainian families baby highchair BNIB (NO idea where this came from)
Freecycled were:
A bag full of part used and unused toiletries
some wooden carved bugs on a stick (also from thailand)
A fairy notebook I had been using as an address book (bought a nice proper address book recently so replaced it with that, tore pages out and freecycled )
Some notelets that were in the house when we moved in

Sorry for mega long post, it helps me to tell the story behind the items

lobbyludd

excellent progress Suzi

love that you have no idea where the sylvanian families highchair came from. I have stuff like that too.....

GreyQueen

Suzi, about 35 years ago on holiday in the Lake District, we spotted a Round Tuit (our first ever sighting) and just had to buy it for Mum.

It floated around the house getting in the way for the next 20 years until I took it to the car booty one day and sold it. Some of these items are sadly of improper manufacture and not infused with the decluttering virus and don't perform as advertised.

Know exactly what you mean about the bag of yarn bits. We do that; Mum's an ardent knitter and you always end up with with tiny bits of yarn which are too small to make much but too big to bin in good conscience. I've made hooked rugs with them in the past but we're currently out of floor and also made handknitted blankets (in strips) which was a great way to use up loads.

Imagine my astonishment when the lady who goes by the MSE handle of Pennypincher!! posted a pic of the "wool" blanket she'd been asking for laundry advice on and it was one I'd made! I was able to tell her it was nearly all acrylic btw...

Gotta go see my Nan now - laters GQ xx