Hoarding - Springing Ahead

mcculloch29

Hello friends in hoarding, just posted some of this over on the Messies thread.

Sorted out a bag of crafty and stationery bits I used to use with teaching learning difficulties groups. Gov't cutbacks mean that type of work is gone forever I think. All such jobs now in the hands of non-educational professionals.
It's hard to accept that when you liked the job so much, but sorting took place and a huge bag of really not useful bits went out.
The good stuff will be mostly rehomed. There are a few things, like bottles of PVA glue, that come in handy round the house and these are keepers. Though I will put all the glue in one bottle. I've discovered PVA can be used instead of polystyrene glue, so I will use it to put up the radiator foil.

I also discovered a couple of pairs of scissors, which pleased me, as I gave away a few pairs, and binned some useless poundshop snips, then was searching for something to cut with.

whitewing

We have a couple of family birthdays this week. I am more excited about the space it will free up in the house (they have themed gifts so lots of presents wrapped separately) than the birthday!

I also passed on a fancy dress costume.

3 bags of clothes to a relative (they weren't ours but DH had to bring them back in the car).

lobbyludd

that's no good Whitewing: I had to get the csa to collect in the end (I know they only pass the money on, so you might already be doing it) but it stopped the lateness and discounts for stuff the children broke whilst in his care, and general withholding if I displeased him in any manner. bless.

the broken airer has gone, hurrah.

I tidied the house as both littlies had play dates (both are struggling with friendships at school in different ways), a friend popped over whilst I was in the middle and said it looked really tidy (yay! my friends know what I'm like, but I don't want to add to the kid's difficulties by people not wanting their children to come round because of the state of the house), and both kids were happy playing with their friends, and have invites back, so successful day.

also glad to have found a little girl who is bossier than mine! to the extent that dd got cross with her for "ordering my mum around" and told me to go and have some relaxing time (it was her friend's first time here and I tend to let them just get on with it with some activities in the wings if things get tricky, so I was feeling my way with her friend in terms of reactions to boundaries, but I got the measure of her quickly lol! and she was much more settled by the end ) was also very proud that dd managed to get through a tricky patch without going into meltdown and hiding under the bed which happened on the previous playdate with a different friend, for 40 mins. DS just had a great time with his friend, they've both been having the same problems at school with a certain group so it was lovely for them just to have fun time together.

dktreesea

guinea_pig_girl wrote: »

Tin of Christmas gift making stuff, untouched, large bag of lavender still hidden in wardrobe to make gifts with, and this is November. Can't keep hiding stuff in the loft, but stuff is still incoming but need to get Christmas presents ordered and have them stacked up.
....

And breathe.

Lavender! Maybe keep some and make sachets for drawers?
Lavender is great for keeping silverfish and moth larvae at bay. As good as moth balls, if not better, certainly not as poisonous, and can be refreshed with lavender oil from time to time.

I loved your "And breathe." at the end of your post. Says it all really!

guinea_pig_girl

Thank you, dktreesea. Lavendar bags were the plan but alas not made any yet, good intentions and all.........

lobbyludd - happy festive knitting and yarn using up-ness to you. 1 scarf made and delivered of the new wool stash - out of the house, and new owner seems pleased!

greyqueen - I did think you had actually tried the archaeolgical kit kat, well done for binning. Boxes are hard to dispose of, such useful things. Have a tin from the yeast I finished up, a small one, so nice, so useful, must keep, mmmmmmmmm

suzitiger - thank you, it does seem worse in the dark, but you are right, slowly, slowly. Paperwork piles are nasty things. can you get cream for them?

kayester - kitchen cupboards sorted here too! Well done!

Out
1 knitted scarf, 1 bottle mulled wine, 3 paperbacks, 1 bit of earring - lost, 1 beaded dress that is shredding and too small for me, 1 handbag, 4 plastic spoons, 8 chopsticks, 2 glass ramekins, 1 pair shorts, 1 pair socks, 1 bag assorted paper, 1 pair too big breeks given to cos, 1 t shirt, 2 bags old, solid dried herbs, 1 tub wierd tasting honey, flour and yeast in open bags converted to bread, mmmmm.
Gifts - 2 child coats, 1 book
Nearly out
1 small ball yarn converted to crochet decorations, 1 wrist warmer made, 2 half done crochet decorations.
3 paperbacks and 1 pkt razors to be delivered on Saturday.

Shame about the 2 jackets, 1 pair gloves, new cosy hat, and new socks that have moved in, hmmm. It's cold.

Keep going everyone, your updates here are much appreciated!

whitewing

I don't quite know how I stumbled on this, but http://www.monkeyworld.org/frequently-asked-questions

monkeyworld accept clean bed linen, towels, duvet covers, pillow cases and blankets. Not crocheted though. Not actual duvets or pillows either.

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Been on the allotment at the weekend where I am facing another hell-hole; the feral strawberry bed.

I've had this particular plot for 5 years, and a share of someone else's plot on the same site for 2 years before I got my own. The strawbs were donated by a lottie pal and moved down with me. I fetched 6 of them across the site and, hoo-boy, do those things breed!

Every 3 years you're supposed to re-do stawberry beds as they get very congested and this is the third year of this version, but I was very slack and let it get out of order in the autumn of 2012, thinking I'd catch up and get the couch grass out in the Spring of 2013. Only there was always something more urgent to do, and they got left, and left, and left.....

Well, we've all been there, whether it's gardening, the garage, the loft or the whole house. Soooo, I have an area of tussocks of couch grass and docks with strawberry plants loitering in the roots.

Have decided to have two long beds of the new strawbs, but a goodly distance from each other so I can grow other things between them and not have them link up into a great sprawling hard-to-weed mass. Stawberries will rule the world if we let them.

Only, I've clipped about 1 square meter out of the strawbs and have already planted out one of the two beds, which are the width of the lottie minus the path. I've promised to pot some on for someone but I am still going to have an awful lot.

If I had a car, I'd be tempted to pot them on and carboot them in the Spring but that doesn't seem an option. I may well decide to pot a lot on as I have a shed infested with stacks of small flowerpots and plenty of compost, and leave them at the foot of the lottie with a "Free" sign.

I gave several large bags of clean flowerpots away but then ran out of takers, as there are a lot being offered on Freecycle, so this would be a good way of thinning the herd in the shed.

Shed on lottie is a hellhole too, one of those ones which make you quail at the mere thought of tackling them. I didn't trust the showery weather enough to haul everything out, which was wise, but I decided to follow my new mantra;

Just because you can't do it all, it doesn't mean that you can't do SOMETHING.

As a result, the somethings, inc getting a bag of rubbish out of there, have made it look a lot better and I feel less daunted.

Keep on keeping on, lovely peeps. GQ xx

sweetpea26

morning all

Haven't been able to get anything done at all. Though the place is falling down around me and all bathrooms are in need of cleaning, I have cleared out my walk in larder. I dumped so much bits of pieces that I 'was going to make use of' and sorted all items.

I have shelves that hold my printer excess electric items and that is sorted too.

Floor is washed, main fridge clean and almost empty which is simply due to me disposing of items that I have not used. What a waste of money.

So am now going to continue and start in the kitchen ... intend to clean worktops and kitchen floor.

Thank you for all your inspiration.

whitewing

I have to say that a clean and uncluttered kitchen is one of life's greatest pleasures!

guinea_pig_girl

Just because you can't do it all, it doesn't mean that you can't do SOMETHING.

As a result, the somethings, inc getting a bag of rubbish out of there, have made it look a lot better and I feel less daunted.

Keep on keeping on, lovely peeps. GQ xx[/QUOTE]


So true! So very, very true!
1 small bag of shredded paperwork out of the house today, and another small pile of paperwork sorted last night, posted and gone this morning!
And decluttered one helping of tea leaves too.