Hoarding - Springing Ahead

pigpen

Right.. DD2 having a flingfest in her new room.. and I am shifting the minimal amount to the girls room... The babys room needs a massive amount of flinging though.. and cupboard shifting.. it is most overwhelming and demotivating! I've flung 7 binbags full already and you can't tell!

decogecko

pigpen wrote: »

it is most overwhelming and demotivating! I've flung 7 binbags full already and you can't tell!

I found that too when I first started. I live on my own! But I still managed to fill the car up with black sacks full of clothes, pictures, ornaments etc to the cs. It looked like I hadn't touched my room of despair but then the next weekend I had another look around the room and was able to get rid of more rubbish/stuff for the cs.

Gradually the room became much clearer. The room is not perfect, there is still some items on the bed that I have deferred decisions on but I no longer call it my room of despair. All the paperwork has been filed away or shredded if out of date (I managed to fill 3 black sacks of shredded paper). The bed has clean bedding on it and I can easily get in there to dust and vacuum.

It took 5 months (mainly at weekends, and not every weekend) to get it like it is. It has been well worth it.

Deco x

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Today, after the obligatory bacon roll after last night's gig (and going back to bed again ), I've pottered around, mostly.

I wonder if flylady is scary for some people because of an assumption you have to do all of it now?

Or could it be because 'polish the mirrors' doesn't mean 'go and polish the mirrors'?

- it means 'do I have a specialist mirror cleaner? Is it a bit old, could the bottle be dusty? How does it compare to the five other glass cleaners also under the sink amongst fifty other bottles of various cleaners? Is it a spray? Does it have the pretty flowers on it? Where's the special cloth I bought to go with it? No, not that special cloth, the newer special cloth. I should go out and buy some more cleaning products. I'll do that now. [crash] Oh, spit, now everythings's fallen out of the cupboard under the sink and I can't close the door properly.'

[goes out and spends three hours and £30 on new cleaning products including soap powder, fabric conditioner, cloths, sponges, a new improved mop with associated cleaning spray, a fancy mini mop to replace the job a sheet of kitchen towel would do (plus associated cleaning spray) and a whole bunch of other new! improved! products to add to the collection currently spilling out of the cupboard. And a new set of plastic baskets to hold the cleaning products outside of the cupboard]


'Right, I've got the Perfect Cleaning Solution for the mirrors.'

[now realises that there's a ton and a half of stuff on top of the dressing table, on the bathroom shelf and in the hallway, so it's going to take at least an hour to actually reach each mirror and it still won't look like the ones in the adverts because of the stuff around them].

'I'll just sit down for a minute and watch a little television whilst I have a cuppa. Ooooh, QVC are doing an offer on steam cleaners. I'm sure that would sort it out much more easily. It's such a faff, this cleaning thing.'

Well?



I know a simple 'wipe the worksurfaces down' or 'clean the sink' would involve hours, if not days, of work in my mother's house, whereas, with mine, it genuinely is 'get a cloth/kitchen towel and the spray from under the sink, squirt and wipe', so Flylady isn't intimidating for me.


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ETA: Piggers, just think how much space seven bin bags takes up - it would cover your bed, for a start. So that's a lot already achieved. There's seven fewer to do now.

sjprmc01

People POLISH mirrors?........maybe that's why I'm scared of flylady :rotfl:

Today I clothes shopped for middle DD. she DID need some things, though! and then we bought 'moshi monsters' borders for the sharing girls room then after buying them, youngest reminded me we had already bought butterfly borders for the room! Oops!

I DID put a huge pile of youngests clothes in the giving away pile and put 2prs of shoes and a carrier bag of (mainly youngests again) clothes in the cash for clothes stash

Ooh and actually I chucked 2 x first aid/doctors (toy) boxes and an elc 'checkout' as we have a Minnie Mouse one anyway and our bins were only emptied yesterday and one is already almost full!

Nowhere still looks organised in the slightest, bar the kitchen sink and dish drying rack, lol! And that's only because obsessive-compulsive-wash-in-the-loosest-possible-meaning-of-the-word-OH is off work

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

sjprmc01 wrote: »

People POLISH mirrors?........maybe that's why I'm scared of flylady :rotfl:

Yup. I find it's easier to get my contacts in without a layer of dust and dubious smears over the glass making it impossible to see and likely to deposit gritty bits against my eye. :A

pigpen

sjprmc01 wrote: »

People POLISH mirrors?........maybe that's why I'm scared of flylady :rotfl:

Not in my house... they are covered in mascara, eye liner, toothpaste splashes.. though I do insist whoever the spot belonged to goes and deals with their bodily fluids on the mirror.

Polish the mirrors in here means you remove that from your list of to-do's before you start.

I have 2 or 3 cleaning products.. if it is greasy.. washing up liquid, if it is the toilet.. harpic and if it is just grotty/grubby/dusty/newly discovered... bleach... I am a sloth

pigpen

oh.. 2 more binbags gone, DD2 has sorted 2 binbags of stuff she no longer wants.. most looks like binfood too but some can go to CS. 6 boxes neatly placed in the girls new room and the big babies room is starting to look like it is a fraction emptier.

DD2 stillb has 5 binbags to sort through.

DundeeDoll

I love polishing mirrors and cleaning the kitchen and bathroom. It's decluttering i hate -paper, emails, clothes (sorting laundry is one of my frogs) but it is easier now my drawers and airing cupboard are decluttered. Slowly slowly catch a monkey (or change habits of a lifetime)

VJsmum

Perfect excuse arose for decluttering the spare room

CARPET MOTH :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

It wasn't as if it was that bad - just a pile of old quilts at the side of a wardrobe, a chest of cuddly toys the kids won't let me chuck and a laptop bag on the floor. Moved laptop bag to hoover and .. "what's this rice doing on the floor? Hmm, I don't think that is rice" - on the lappy, googled "carpet bugs rice" and came up with the above. Get the vac on it - a patch of carpet has been eaten away to bare hessian :eek:

Thus ensued a mad half hour of chucking old quilts and pillows out the window - vaccuming whole house in case it spread (apart from DD's room that I can't even find the floor of). We've had a washing machine full of fluffy bunnies and teddies. DD was shown the "rice" and the resulting carpet and is now under strict orders that she is to clear her room of everything so we can check for carpet moth, especially as hers is the room nearest to the spare and carpet moth grub heaven, I imagine.

Deep joy

maddiemay

VJsmum wrote: »

Perfect excuse arose for decluttering the spare room

CARPET MOTH :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

It wasn't as if it was that bad - just a pile of old quilts at the side of a wardrobe, a chest of cuddly toys the kids won't let me chuck and a laptop bag on the floor. Moved laptop bag to hoover and .. "what's this rice doing on the floor? Hmm, I don't think that is rice" - on the lappy, googled "carpet bugs rice" and came up with the above. Get the vac on it - a patch of carpet has been eaten away to bare hessian :eek:

Thus ensued a mad half hour of chucking old quilts and pillows out the window - vaccuming whole house in case it spread (apart from DD's room that I can't even find the floor of). We've had a washing machine full of fluffy bunnies and teddies. DD was shown the "rice" and the resulting carpet and is now under strict orders that she is to clear her room of everything so we can check for carpet moth, especially as hers is the room nearest to the spare and carpet moth grub heaven, I imagine.

Deep joy

Bit of lurker, but had to chip in when I saw this. Had the same thing at last house, I found that the little beggars kept hatching and I vac'd, steamed and sprayed with moth killer for weeks before I got rid of the last of them, it was a nightmare. Mine started under items of furniture that did not get moved very often:o No idea where they came from in the first place though. Although we found the moths flying around the house as they hatched (only ever 1 or 2 at a time) they did not do any damage in any other room. OH and I used to run around like demented things trying to kill the dammed things and the poor dog developped a complex about us doings so (she had been a rescue dog, so could be a bit nervous on times) Good luck getting rid of the little beasties.