Hoarding - Springing Ahead

roundtuit

ginnyknit wrote: »

To all having anxious days, take a deep breathe and relax. Ok so things didnt get done today but its not as if you have gone out and bought tons of stuff to fill up the spaces you have made progress in. I have done nothing today as my poorly hubby had a meltdown last night so today was about mending him and everything else went on the back burner. Theres always another day.

Roundtuit, I reckon by mid february we will all be able to see a vast change after whittling slowly away at our clutter. anyway its going to rain all weekend so we will need something to occupy ourselves

Wise words ginnyknit and just what I need to hear to prevent a mini-meltdown here. I do not cope well with officialdom ((hugs)) to you and Mr ginnyknit.


I'm wobbly but I'm here - could have been here at 4.15 am but I stayed in bed and yoga breathed, prayed and meditated myself into the day.
I 'dug out' clean bedding for DS's bed before I even got dressed - knew exactly where to find it after sheet-searching last weekend - and I've put it in his room ready for a planned Step later today. (He's coming home for the weekend as it's his karting club Presentation Evening tonight.)
WM was loaded and switched on while kettle was boiling and toast was ... erm toasting. So I've made a start even before I present myself as ready for duty chez forum.
The method I used last weekend was successful, didn't exclude social events and didn't lead to burnout in the week, so I'll do the same again. Apologies now if it leads to numerous boring posts


So.... Step 1
feed birds
wash a bowlful of pots
dispose of cardboard box in kitchen


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Rxx

whitewing

old, washed, duvet and pillowcases out.

Dry washing away, wet washing hung up (I know this isn't dehoarding, but keeping on top of the washing makes such a difference to getting rid of clothes, and also space in the house).

kayester

roundtuit it will get easier and i wish you well

roundtuit

kayester wrote: »

roundtuit it will get easier and i wish you well

Thank you x
Step 1 done - box, not a small one, fought back a little but is now in pieces and in a bag ready to go to friend's bin - mine being full. (Bin day is Tuesday ); pots also dried and put away - 3 plates and a saucer put to one side to return to friend ); 4 glass jars - 2 jam and 2 coffee -now soaking ready to be delabelled, rinsed and recycled; and a piece of polystyrene packaging, found under the box plus the kitchen binbag have gone into the bin.
Oh and I've put load 2 into WM and draped load 1 over radiators. I agree with you whitewing whilst not strictly dehoarding, this creates space...on my kitchen floor where it was piled up.


Step 2
Make up DS's bed
recycle glass jars
unpack last bag relating to Christmas 2011 - for some reason that is a 'toughie' that keeps getting put off. ( Then there'll just be bags from Christmas 2012 and 2013 to sort :eek: )


It doesn't matter. It'll be okay. I'm going to do it and I'm going to let you know what I do with the contents )


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Rx

GreyQueen

((((((roundtuit))))))) you take care, pet, keep the deep breathing and keep chiselling away at it. You know were rooting for your success and holding your hand over the interwebs if you wobble.

It's OK to wobble. We all do it.

My particular issue is packaging materials. 95% of my shopping is food, so it's mainly stuff food comes in.

Such as last weekend, when I was at Tosspots at closing time on Sunday hunting for YS bargains. Was very pleased to luck onto some lush Finest brand salmon and cod fishcakes reduced to 99p. They came in a strong aluminium foil tray (black on outside, thus having extra allure for a womble like me), and when I removed them for the oven, I discovered each one was sitting on a bit of strong silvered card, with a fold in the middle separating them.

OMG, not just the alluring tinfoil tray, but strong silver card. Which could be re-purposed for craft activities. I blame Blue Peter for a lot of this, I can see the potential for all sorts of random things from all sorts of other random things.

Trouble is I'm nearly 50, not nearly 5 and haven't got small people to entertain, so there is a severe limit on the amount of "crafty stuff" I need.

It's in the bin now, after 24 hours parked on the side while I swithered. I was able to put the cardboard sleeve the whole package came in into the recycling without a moment's hesitation, though.

And, I bought two others at the same time which are now in the freezer so I can revisit this issue twice more......arrrgggghhhhh!

Am about to float down to the c.s. with a small donation bag, want to get it away before I start taking stuff back out of it, can feel the Second Thoughts starting...........Laters, GQ xx

Broomstick

GQ. You made me laugh about blaming Blue Peter. Thank you. I decluttered a bag of little craft pompoms the other day. My sons are young adults not 5 yr olds. I have no plans myself to make anything with a bought pompom on it in the rest of my lifetime. I am sorely tempted to label a large carrier bag 'Blue Peter' and put all that kind of craft stuff into it ready to be donated to a place that has children of the right age.

(((((roundtuit))))), hugs from me as well. There are a lot of people who lurk about the place (me being one ) who send silent good wishes to all sorts of posters. I just wanted to come out of lurkdom to say that I'm sure you will get where you want to be. From the sounds of what you have already done you are leaps and bounds closer.:T

B x

greenbee

GQ - you can't keep them. You'd always be wondering whether there was a faint whiff of fish around the place

kayester

off topic but just made a new thread.
maybe a good incentive for us to de hoard

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4878219

roundtuit

Thank you for the hugs GQ and Broomstick. I think those good wishes do come through the ether, and it certainly helps to come to a 'safe place' where no-one says 'oh just sling it!' ...if only it were that easy eh?
The Christmas 2011 bag itself is ........in the BIN!!!!! I did consider saving it to re-use for Christmas 2014, but as it has been hanging around for two years tis past it's best - and I can see 5 much more reusable bags waiting to be emptied just from here. So bin it is. And the contents? A 2012 calendar from my son with verses on telling what a great mum I am....swallow hard... wire stripped out and binned, the rest recycled - and torn in half so I can't retrieve it The rest: a snowman for the tree, a book of meditations, a kitchen blackboard and an 'any year' planner are all keeps....for now. Can't just sling everything - it's going to be a filtering process. They are going into a drawer for now... once the overwhelming general clutter has been sorted there will be a home for them, I think.
A blackboard and a planner - therein lies the start of an organised Roundtuit d'ya reckon?


I need food.


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Rx

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

GQ - you can't keep them. You'd always be wondering whether there was a faint whiff of fish around the place

That's why they're going to the allotment to have strawberry plantlets put in to give to a friend (pre-arangement, not the foil tray, but I'm running out of small plantpots, because they're going with strawbs to another friend).

Y'see, you can always find a way to hoard if you try hard enough.:rotfl:

One bag of donations out and a small amount of stuff in, mostly food but a couple of things which will be en route (book for brother, length of fabric for Mum). She was looking for a bit of fabric to make a new bathroom curtain when we were in this same chazzer a fortnight ago but I vetoed her choice on grounds of taste. Never have daughters, they tend to be bossy little so-and-so's.:p

Think she will really like this fabric (John Lewis and extremely tasteful - I'm a bit of a fabric snob) and as her sewing machine is out-of-order (the electric) and the other sewing machine (the treadle) is inaccessible due to vast amounts of carp, I shall offer to run it up for her. Just a rectangle with a channel for the curtain wire, won't take long as soon as I get the measurements and I made the earlier curtain anyway.

I have also spent 75p on a hardcover notebook at the chazzer to collate my prepping tips from random websites, some of which are floating around on scraps of paper. I shall evict something else to justify it having shelf space.

Funny thing happened at the chazzer. I have a pair of secondhand curtains in my sitting-room which are getting a tad threadbare. Nothing ghastly, but definately past their best. In line with GQ Corporate Values, I don't buy new things if humanly possible, so I have on my non-urgent-but-keep-your-eyes-open watch list, a pair of curtains in a certain colourway. My window isn't a convenient size, being tall but narrow compared to many of the curtains which turn up, so I keep my eyes open and if I see something suitable at a nice price, I shall have them.

But completely non-urgent. I was in the "everything 50p" charity shop and a couple picked out a pair of curtains whose colourway was certainly suitable, and which looked like they were long enough. They were holding them up and debating them and suddenly I was seized by the urge to have those curtains something rotten.

As it happened, I didn't get the chance as they bought them, but the almost-obsessive wanting of something I hadn't even seen until that moment took me by surprise.

Righty, off to fix a bit of luncheon. GQ xx