Hoarding - Springing Ahead

whitewing

Oh I love Christmas.

DH went and sorted out the wrong trousers today, so now we have the right ones, and they fit. I think they must have the wrong size labels in the other. Anyway, the good thing was the internet order had a voucher in for greetings cards. As my 'card box' was organised, we've been able to get family cards for next year. So, saved some good money in the end on things we would have bought anyway.

Am going to probably pass on some of DD's bigger outgrown toys to make way for new stuff for xmas. They are in excellent condition but slightly on the small size now. It still feels strange contemplating getting rid if something that has nothing wrong with it. But I know the joy if having space to play in, and space to organise things will also give us a lot of pleasure.

So, what will you be decluttering for Christmas and why?

GreyQueen

Whitewing, I plan to declutter quite a bit of food for Christmas......and some part-used packs of Chrissie cards. Have consolidated all my wrapping paper onto a singel uber-roll for compactness and vowed not to buy any more until it is gone.

Today I have been bullying my kid brother, as you do. Well, he is a very small-scale online bookseller and his packaging materials, most of which are recycled materials, had got thoroughly out of hand. I consolidated lots of stuff and we had the room about knee deep in a maelstrom of jiffy bags, poly bargs, cardboard, bubble wrap, more cardboard and paper paper paper.

I has been whittled and re-boxed by type and he should be able to see at a glance what he is running low on, and what he has an excess of. We broke off just before supper as we had re-found the floor and decided to quit when ahead.

I have a sense that there are more packaging materials somewhere needing to be sorted and will set my spidey-sense searching for them tomorrow.

Going off to turn some random paper into easily managable scratch pads........laters, GQ xx

lostinrates

Christmas? Oh goodness....

Last year we de cluttered a lot of the Christmas menu and had a simpler meal and day. It was really scary. Things I have had almost every year and .......

It was great.



We had those things we loved as other meals over the season.


I feel like an interloper as I cannot commit fulltime to Dericharding ATM, I thought I was in for winter a few weeks back when it was cold, then it warmed up and we went back out in the garden.

This weekend we have been tackling our bedroom (lifting a hideous carpet and a chipboard floor that protected us an old original floor in a terrible state. We have a floor rug down instead now, the room is feeling much more 'us' and we are taking out time this evening putting this back, doing a declarer as we go.

DH (who usually sabotages clothes throws of mine) is being really great and I have a bag of stuff for the clothing bank, and one skirt that needs a new zip. All my shoes and one of our clothes rails (what are wardrobes? ) have gone into the 'dressing room'. (An alcove off a corridor ATM, we're not really sure how to best lay it out and I don't want to do a rush bad job its as important as planning kitchen storage at least.


My husband seems to have really turned a corner. While not throwing a tremendous amount his attitude is very much less clingy to stuff. Its more supportive of me getting rid of my stuff and more prepared to consider things of his going.

I find dealing with stuff, the limited amount we've done over summer, much less arduous, because its less challenging for him. Today I have the feeling he's really enjoying clearing the decks and he's really taken the lead as I have been unwell and lying down in bed just sort of being encouraging while he worked around me.

MrsAtobe

Hope you feel better soon, LiR xxx

lostinrates

MrsAtobe wrote: »

Hope you feel better soon, LiR xxx

Thank you

I just had a bad day. I'm seeing a new consultant next week which I always find trying and its in London, so a long trek, so I'm probably reacting in advance to how sore I'll be then

roundtuit

suzitiger wrote: »

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?

Me xx You could wrap me first of course - I don't mind so long as I can breathe xx

roundtuit

GreyQueen wrote: »

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.

That wasn't me- only time I've been to the Lake District was 1974; must have been a relative of mine. However, I think I was immunised against the decluttering virus at a very young age, and am therefore unable to perform as advertised. Or perhaps I was not infused in the first place - or maybe I have a natural immunity :rotfl:

Either way suzi you'd best not give me to your mum - I don't work

I love this thread :rotfl:

Rxx

roundtuit

Had to get my dear old dad to house-sit last week as the Council wanted to perform an energy survey on the property and I was at working earning a bean or two.

Apparently said surveyor brought two trainees with him and dear old dad gave them permission to enter too. Three people in my house :eek: _pale_ . Hardly anyone is allowed in my house! And then the surveyor took photos :eek::eek::eek:_pale__pale_ of light fittings, electrical appliances, boiler - I really did _pale_ when told.

On the plus side though, dear old dad said he could see 'gaps' where I've been busy. What he meant was he could see the floor, 'cause (a) I have been busy and (b) I'd cleared a path for him as he's nearly 80 and I didn't want him to trip :A.

Have a good day folks
Rxx

pigpen

Yesterday I flung 3 binbags of gubbins and today I aim to fling 5.. any chazzer ones will be evicted tomorrow but they will in essence be gone.. this is my pledge for today!

Suppose I should get out of my chair!

lostinrates

Is this a corner in a hoarder house I ask you?