Hoarding - Springing Ahead

ginnyknit

Wow everyone has been busy while I have had a day off. You should all be justifiably proud of yourselves. I feel we need to be kind to ourselves and not feel guilty for a week while we add up how many things of a kind we have in stock ie dishwasher tabs then write a list of what we do not need to buy for say 4 months. If you have lots of shower gel put it all in a box and use it up bottle by bottle but dont get a new one out till the old one is in the re-cycling. I have 4 bottles of washing machine liquid on the go so am going to consign 3 to the cupboard and use the first one up. I have 2 bottles of fairy on the sink so the one with basically just water in and a few bubbles can go !

Maybe if you have a lot of something you can put 50p in a pot everytime you go shopping ready to buy replacements when you are running low? Just an idea that I am going to try.

Tomorrow I am going to attack my office and set up the lap top and printer in there instead of on the dining table. We always worked in there when we had a pc and it was much better. Now its just a dumping ground and a waste of a room.

johanne

we started on our shed today........... we filled OHs huuuuge car boot TWICE for a tip run.. and have more to do tomorrow! I took a before photo on my phone as motivation. I've found that really works for me as I can clearly compare how the dehoarding is making things pretty....


Only negative is we discovered the bed & wardrobe we were storing and hoping to dig out and use had got mouldy and so were no longer any good So were going to have to find the money for a new bed at least as ours is awful and is too overdominating in our tiny bedroom - my old bedroom which I bought it for was twice the size of our current one.


Ah well roll on tomorrow..... 7 years of paint to sort through and reason with myseld that it needs to go and cannot be kept "Incase" things need touching up specially as some colours came from our old house we left 5 years ago... lol

Patchwork_Quilt

Thinking of you VJsmum. It takes a long time to get rid of a deceased person's stuff sometimes.

On a lighter note, popped in to see Mum on the way to MIL's and she gave me some more jam jars, which was lovely. I only have a couple of cupboards full. Then she said she'd noticed at New Year that we didn't have a pie slice and offered me three. Apparently, they have plenty more.

I accepted two. I didn't want to be rude.

What are we up against?

lil_me

Thanks for the support. I've been like this for years. Absolutely moved here with some of the food I'm sure. Only stuff I didn't is freezer as we had a power cut when away and lost loads.

Lists I love lists, absolutely, issue is enough time in the day to count it all. I know as they're in one place I have at least 30 cans of tomato soup.... I emptied a freezer at Christmas before we went away, took it with us, shook when I got home and refilled it. Using it is another weird concept, I'm great at making things go further.

The other part is finding it: we've emptied most of the caravan now, there are lots of kitchen cupboards, garage has maybe 2 boxes, work has at least one box ...... Then the major issue is the sheds. We have 2 and one is being flattened. Hence I am here. It doesn't all fit in the house..... Oh blimey what a pickle! 2 freezers are in there, I need to find and buy the shed for the rehome. I'm going to take a freezer to work which we can keep the food for there in and some of the dog food.

Right today I seem to have curve ball avoided it but I did sort through an immense amount of laundry, got a pile of 'too small' one for work rags, one for giving away. I also uncovered some more of the toiletries stash. No idea how OH can not have a can of deodorant to use and I can find a dozen in a day! Lazy pig! As I speak of him this week he added to clutter, clients giving him presents as a thank you - bottle of whiskey which we don't drink, 3 or 4 bottles of wine, bottle of vodka and a massive hamper full of goodies....so where do I put that lot?!

pigpen

bottles of undrinkables.. regift or donate to the school fair or something. I'm a regifter.. Out of my regift stash I sorted most gifts for my sisters for Christmas.

Today I got rid of a rug and 2 small blue vases... off to DD1's house up the road.. I will create space!

I need to sort the mountain of clothes I removed from DS3's drawers last week.. DD2 picked out a few bits she wanted so I need to sort the rest.. lots of it is brand new next stuff..

roundtuit

Morning :wave:
It's really grey and miserable here - have decided to put on the light rather than grumble at the murk.
WM was loaded while I waited for kettle to boil and toast to pop. I have breakfasted - so it's time to start Day 2. ( A long way to go but I can see the difference yesterday made in the kitchen and DS's bedroom - I keep smiling at the draining board )


Yesterday's method worked for me - so I'll do the same today. And breathe.....


Step 1 (got to start small)
feed birds
start laundry relay - airer -> radiators -> put away ( I don't iron)
wash a bowl of pots


Back later.


Rxx

pigpen

This week I have a baby bouncy chair to go.. does one REALLY need 4 unless you have quads??? 2 are suitable for children up to 3 and the other matches all the baby bedding so the other is set to go.


I am also going to sort a binbag of teddy bears etc to vacate the house.. if it kills me I will empty 1 toy box this week.


I also have a mountain or 5 of stuff to ebay so I shall get on with that this week too.. it is the taking pics I am struggling with.. I have no clear flat surface big enough to do them *shame*

cyclingyorkie

VJsmum wrote: »

I am afraid

VERY afraid

OH has gone to his mother's today. She is moving from a large 4 bed detached house with double garage into a 2 bed bungalow on a sheltered housing development.

Understandably it is stressing her out - at 82 everything is hassle. Anyhow, one of the things upsetting her is that she is trying to offload stuff onto her children and families, and we don't want it.

He has gone to help "sort stuff out" - I am truly worried about what he will come home with cos he won't chuck anything away.

I texted and asked how full the car is (large estate car at that). he said "heaving". I don't know if he's joking or not

GQ - buy a new spoon!

WE did this last year (mum is 85, so I do understand) and to be fair we did get mum into a 2 bed retirement place, albeit quite a large one. I stuck to my guns and took very little, and what I did take is useful - chest of drawers, small chest freezer, double bed. My sister has taken more than me - and was insistant that certain stuff remained in the family. Now she does have a larger house than I do, but her family are not happy!


Ultimately I stuck to my guns - I did not want a Doulton dinner service or a Wedgewood tea service, and she moaned, but I pointed out that I don't have enough room for our stuff anyway, I didn't want a tea/dinner service when I got married (large disagreement there) and I still don't.


The nearer mum got to moving the harder it became. Some stuff went to the auction house on the day she moved. but she is a lot happier now that she doesn't have it all to keep sorting.


I feel your distress, though. I was resolute, but we had already sorted out O/H's dad's place, and he brought very little back.


But I will remember for a long time sorting out bedding for the 3 single beds she was taking and going through 60 sheets to work out which ones were in best condition - we had to measure every one as she wanted to take the long ones.

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Didn't actually roll out of my pit until 9.40 (asleep due to being kept awake past 3 am by bliddy neighbours. Same neighbours who kept me awake past 4 am the night before, grr!). So that's half the morning wasted for starters.

Howsomever, I stripped the bed and decided to run an 80 degree was which the new-to-me single bedsheet in there as well. Professional laundry told Mum years ago virtually nothing germ-wise can survive a 72 degree wash so 80 should see everything good.

Last night I went off-line and got hold of that single Keep Calm duvet which I bought for 50p to use the fabric (only a double bed in this flat). Unpicked all the seams and it is now ready for the sewing project for bags to contain the various random elements inside the linen cupboard.

The new-to-me candystripe bedsheet was another ruinously-expensive 50p purchase and it to make laundry bags also, to hold the bedsheets. Didn't fancy putting white bedsheets in a red fabric (duvet cover) in case ended up with some kind of cross-dyeing episode.

Once the laundry is done, I shall rack it and go up to the allotment after lunch, even though I still feel like something the cat dragged in due to sleep deprivation; Spring is a-coming and we can't dilly-dally on the allotments for too long. Heck, I even saw catkins on some trees yesterday.

Has VJsMum appeared from under her carload of new possessions yet?

PQ, I find that most modern households can survive without one cake slice, never mind two, so you have my sympathies. At least jamjars can be Freecycled or recycled. By gum, I never had so many responses as the time I offered a bagful on Bonne Maman jamjars on Freecycle, people were rabid for them.

roundtuit

Sympathy to GQ re noisy neighbours xx
Step 1 done - plus: put out kitchen bin bag and some cardboard for recycling - it slid down the side of the plastic bottles so that was ok; emptied and reloaded WM; dried and put away the washed bowlful of pots. :T Two plastic receptacles belonging to S now ready to be returned.


Even though it's murky the kitchen seems lighter - less oppressive. And I've got Cher singing quietly in the background as I work - putting my music on is a good sign - when I'm really down it just feels like noise and I can't do with it.


So Step 2
put lappy on charger
strip my bed
remake my bed.


DS's dad usually comes for coffee at 11.30, then I'm at mum and dad's for Sunday lunch- plus I'm aware I have to pace myself or I'm going to be totally worn out and not fit for purpose at work all week. But I will be back later.


Oh and I'm going to bin the orange plastic clock on the kitchen windowsill - I don't like it, it doesn't keep time properly and it's only there because I don't like throwing anything out. So why is it still hard to sling it???


Enjoy your Sunday everyone


Rxx