Hoarding - Springing Ahead

kayester

well done everybody...and thankyou.
feeling slightly better today.
one big bag of rubbish (clothes with holes in that have been there ages) no thrown out and kitchen now clean....also hoovered downstairs (do down 3 times a week and upstairs twice)

goign to get chilli on the go soon

grumswifie

Hello,

Long time lurker, needing some support! Have started decluttering a room in my house, good grief....started with my present stash. Have enough socks for 3/4 of a centipede! Seem to have amassed 34 pairs of socks and countless pretty notebooks! Need to get a grip, everyone will be getting socks for their borthdays and christmas for the forseeable future.
Have quite a bit for my girls birthdays in march purchased already and have written it down to stop me frm being tempted into buying them unnessecary things.
Havent actually declutterd anything today, just taken stock. Will be reading with interest.

pigpen

I have dehoarded.. a table and 4 chairs.... and filled the space with a chest of drawers.. I know it is another flat surface but I am having a jolly good fling and sling of toys..


TELL ME IT IS OK TO SEND BABY TOYS TO THE CHARITY SHOP!!!!!!!!!!


We are overrun!!


I also have a HUGE box of stuff to ebay, some Next stuff to return and some Amazon stuff to return.. and one to M&S..


I am aiming to clear out a large proportion of the back room over the next couple of weeks! It is horrific!!

noelphobic

I left 2 charity bags out last night which were collected this morning. Been out most of the day so not done anything.


I seem to have millions of old socks, most of them odd ones. What do people do with these? Put them in the normal household waste on the basis that they're not usable or put them out with the recycling on the basis that they can actually be recycled, if you know what I mean? I obviously wouldn't give them to a charity to be sold on but if the material can be recycled by someone then it makes more sense than it going to landfill - and filling my wheely bin which isn't due to be emptied until the end of next week.

GreyQueen

ginnyknit wrote: »

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:

I once saw a Christmas tablecloth still out in July (hi Mum!). There comes a point where you start to think whether it's worth putting something away or if it should be left for the next Xmas. On this principle, her Xmas card string is now going into it's third year in place. It's the same colour as the walls and is hard to see unless you know where to look.:rotfl:

I have just made a meal out of not-very-much in the fridge and it was pretty tasty and healthy. Decluttering leftovers.

The table has acquired a light covering of crockery and paperwork but I shall liberate that shortly by filing my post and putting the dishes in the kitchen ready to be washed up when I'm ready.

Had a lovely soak in my bath last night, too, still using the bath soak which was Dec 2012 present......must do better.

Have we lost roundtuit under the clutter? Please step up and say "hi" if you're reading along, pet.

Right, liberate that table, out the kettle on, catch up with my text backlog and then watch my rental DVD......bliss.

ETA; table clear. Mind clear. Could be Zen or summat?

Pitlanepiglet

GQ that foil tray discussion is so me....but it's useful, I might use it for something, it's a waste....

I haven't confessed so far but all this discussion about linen cupboards and fabric bags and the like nearly had me going through the two black bags of linen that I shifted out of the airing cupboard at the weekend. They are being collected tomorrow by someone via a local facebook freebie site but the temptation to go through the black bags to find nice fabric to make pretty bags from has been enormous.

For me it's absolutely key that I don't get attached to things in the beginning or I really struggle to dispose of them later....by the time I've stored a foil tray for 6 months I've convinced myself that it must be useful otherwise I wouldn't have kept it.....

OH has filled shiny new cupboard with junk as he's had to clear other units as part of the refurb

The shelves are deliberately far apart so that I can store some of the appliances in them, plus they'll take a double stack of Ikea's transparent lidded boxes.

I'm still amazed that I've moaned about a lack of space for so long when the answer was staring me in the face....

GreyQueen

Piglet, imagine me at work, asking someone who deals with the recycling side of the Council.

GQ It is right that alu pie trays can't go in the recyling bins, isn't it?

Other No, they can't.

GQ (slightly desperately) Isn't there anywhere in the city where they can be recycled?

Other. Nowhere at all.

Cue long face from moi. And if you think I'm fighting with myself over a traybake tray, imagine the struggles I had with the alu "roasting tin" that my frozen joint came in a fortnight ago. I decided to keep it but couldn't get it completely clean despite soaking it and scrubbing at it, so out if went. If I'd've got it spotless, I'm sure it'd be on the premises still.

I really ought to go and declutter the kitchen of washing up -urg!

Patchwork_Quilt

GQ that conversation about the foil tray seems so familiar. Hands up anyone else who has a neat stack of washed foil chicken-shaped trays under the sink! Why does Tesc0 send chickens out in these things?

But they might be useful.

I must recycle them. This thread is so good.

Well, the 0xfam mountain is growing, and I have a new challenge for the bravest of you - throw ten tops in ten minutes. I just about made it, although I had to dig deep into the 'gardening' stash to do it and had to stop myself putting one top back into the wardrobe at the last moment. However, I can now close the 'tops' drawer in my dressing table.

Keep going! It's all in the right direction.

rosieben

flubberyzing wrote: »

Anyway, today I have finally finished my biggest project of the past year. My DVD collection was getting out of control, it was dominating an entire wall in my living room. So I took all the discs out of the boxes, and put them into thin plastic wallets, and am now storing them in 2 decorative boxes under the TV.
And now today, I have finally thrown out the last of the empty DVD boxes!
I'd done the bulk of the project during the summer, but said I'd keep the boxes until Christmas, in case I didn't like the new arrangement, but I've LOVED IT.
Today, lugging the heavy bin bags of DVD cases out to the bins just reminded me how much lighter I feel, and how much emptier my living room is!
It's also actually easier to find the DVDs I want. They are separated by type, and then in alphabetical order within their genre, so it's super easy to find what I want.
A recommended organisation project!

flubberyzing, I just wanted to say a big Thank You for this idea. I've done the same with my dvds today, and they fit easily into an Ikea dvd box. I've put the cases in a cardboard box which fits easily in my newly decluttered store room! and have made a diary note to get rid of them in July if I'm happy with the new system! Such a simple idea, and cost so little to set up, much cheaper than a new dvd rack, 2 shelves emptied and no neck strain from trying to read the labels sideways

lobbyludd

Hi grumswify,

welcome
I've done nothing today either. trying not to just sit looking at it all in despair today, have come here for some motivation - think I'll throw the top I'm wearing (and wore for work) as it's got paint splatters on it that I didn't discover until in work - curse these dark mornings. At least I've done one thing then!