Hoarding - Springing Ahead

ginnyknit

Took a big carrier bag to Cs and bought NOTHING :j Posted a big parcel thats been sat here for BL - part of Oh's de- cluttering. Feeling positive but tired.

hope you had a nice trip out with your Mum GQ and didnt get shop rage ( I do when going for clothes :mad:) Well done on getting the table clear, can you come and do mine next perlease x

Bonus Whitewing with the washing. I have also started doing quick washes then an extra spin, must be saving money too.

Patchwork if you have a lot of stuff to go to the CS they might come and collect it, charities are in dire need now that people are weighing in clothes - a necessity in this climate

Lobby, well deserved round of applause me thinks for the disposal :T

noelphobic

Having a better day today. Went to my meeting which was really interesting - only downside is that I had some paperwork to take home. Still trying to slay the paperwork demon and get it into some kind of order!


I went to the recycling bank afterwards and got rid of several carrier bags of books, a biggish bag of paper recycling. a largish bag of clothes and about ten pairs of shoes (no cuddly toys, although, funnily enough I do have an awful lot of cuddly toys!) There was a man loitering by the recycling banks and I was rather worried about what he was up to. He then told me that if I'd had CDs he would have 'took them off my hands'! I didn't have any CDs and if I had have done I would have put them in the charity bank that was there for that purpose.


When I got home I realised that I'd forgotten to pick my prescription up so I walked around the corner with it. I packed another bag of books up and dropped them off at the charity shop on my way.


The house still doesn't look any better but I feel better knowing that I've got rid of some more stuff. I'm also leaving more clothes out tonight for the charity collection tomorrow, so even more space cleared.


Night School tonight. Full day training tomorrow and then a voluntary work stint on Thursday afternoon. Will try to fit in more decluttering though. I'm on a roll at the moment and I know if I stop for too long it will take me ages to get started again!

GreyQueen

Well, a successful day was had by us both.

Mum walked into my flat and the first word's out of her mouth were "Ooh, the table's clear."

She visits every 2-3 months and it obviously hasn't been clear before. Ever.:rotfl:We had a successful day with her getting a top and me getting two pairs of (extremely badly needed) work trousers. Get me, managing to buy new clothes without having a meltdown. She got a couple of bits from a c.s. to work with the new top, remembered something else in her wardrobe and is a happy bunny.

Mum went away with some stuff from my home which belongs at hers, plus a book I bought, read and want to share with Dad, and then he can pass on.

One of the new work trousers is replacing a pair which was canniablised for the fabric, and the other is replacing a pair which had just had major surgery (still to be completed by hand-sewing) which will demote them to rougher stuff but should still see them usable for things like the allotment. I need a fair few gardening clothes as it's a bit of a mucky business and things do get worn to rags.

ginny, if we weren't many hours travel apart, I'd love to come up and give your table a good seeing-too (ooo-errr, missus ) but alas it isn't to be. If it helps, my table says "Hi" and hopes to wave at your table when it comes visible again.

Looking at a few spaces where things were until a couple of hours ago and it's all good.

ginnyknit

Gq thank you for the offer, maybe you should re-brand yourself as an de-cluttering organiser working for people - new career:D I think if I take the Christmas tablecloth off it will be a good start - now thats embarrassing admiting it. We didnt actually eat at home so its not been used for food.

Im going to treat myself to a long bath with a glass of wine which is cluttering up the fridge. I had a small glass of port at Chrimbo and a sherry the year before but feel like a mad moment of luxury :rotfl:

Patchwork_Quilt

Well I hope you had a lovely long soak Ginnyknit. The only thing I have decluttered today is some chocolate.

Keep going folks.

Pitlanepiglet

Morning all

After photos as promised (hopefully as this is via my phone)

Top of cupboard



Bottom



Ignore the scabby floor, it's on the list of things to do.

The previous content is lurking but probably no time to sort that until the weekend

Hope this works, if not I'll have to fix it tonight x

GreyQueen

Piglet, that looks a brilliant cupboard. I put shelves like that in my tiny airing cupboard. Very useful.

I'd like to share a little convo from yesterday afternoon which demonstrates that my love of packaging materials is inherited.

The scene; GQ and her Mum and a traybake cake. Mum had never bought a traybake from the supermarket and was rather taken by the heavy duty alu foil tray it came in.

Mum ; When you've finished with that, can I have it?

Me; What do you want it for?

Mum: I don't know, but it seems to good to throw away.

Me, if I save it for you, I'll have to keep hold of it until about Easter. I haven't really any space other than the pan box under the oven. I suppose it wouldn't be too much of a nuisance under there. Do you really want it? What would you use it for?

Mum: (thinking about it) I suppose not.

Trouble is, now I'm looking at the bliddy tray and thinking about what I could use it for if I saved it.

1. Could probably stand-in for a paint tray. Only I don't paint with rollers, I prefer brushes, and won't be painting anything for years.

2. I could use it as an oven tray. Only I have metal oven trays and 2 casserole dishes. Can't imagine a culinary emergency using all them at once.

3. I could use it to catch the drips when I change the oil on the car I sold back in 1997.......and didn't replace.

Folks, this way lies madness and lots of hoarding. We don't want to go there, do we?

Hollyberry

Piglet - that's fab! *has cupboard envy* Yay you! :j

procrastinator

I have taken a day's leave to try and get on top of the housework, and make some inroad in the mounds of stuff. So far I have stayed up most of the night, slept from 5 to 8 then played on puter until now. I writing this down in a bid to shame myself into movement.

I am now going to put on a wash and make a coffee, then find the vacuum. I need to do stairs, hall and through downstairs as a minimum.

Wish me luck.

whitewing

procrastinator, get on with it!

I have got a small pile of personal paperwork out to a very appreciative recipient. It has been hanging over me so there have been a few dark thoughts during the process but the recipient was so pleased that I am feeling much more cheerful.

Got a free M&S card with a voucher that came with an internet order so I am pleased about that. It starts to make up for the fact that I haven't been able to 'collect from store' on stuff I bought in the sale - good value stuff but it is annoying how far it lets you go thro trying to 'free collect from store' before you find out that you can't.