Hoarding - Springing Ahead

lobbyludd

((Roundtuit)) and everyone having wobbles and anxiety.

I love that thought that you have a 100% success rate with getting through rotten days!

I am having another pottering day. I've found the matching rug to the one from the loft and am sewing them together to make a proper size rug for ds's room. which stops me buying a new one (and therefore bringing more stuff in). I've also decluttered a £10 John lewis voucher that has been burning a hole in my purse during the sales. I've been persuading myself not to buy various cushions/candles/kitchenalia/fabric and have instead used it for a food shop from waitrose (delivered). I don't need any of the household gubbins from the sales, but I do need food, and with being a new customer, TCB, and the voucher it was as cheap as aldi hurrah.

I know this doen't seem much but it was a wrestle and a triumph not to bring more stuff in.

Roundtuit - great progress! remember you are doing this for you, not the housing people, and maybe in the future you might get to a point where you could use them as a resource to say take the stuff you have filtered away - I find that holds me up, once I've made the decision I want it gone, and that can be a logistics problem that help might be useful for.

the decorations are off the tree and neatly packed away, a few broken ones are gone in the bin, tree can go in the garden for a summer chiminea burning. there's another lit twig tree in the kitchen that will stay until easter because it looks pretty with different seasonal decs on it, and the kids like redecorating it with new made decs at the weekends.

roundtuit

Thank you lobbyludd x
I've put the 'discovered' items in a drawer for now. So they are no longer cluttering me up...well not visibly anyway.
Under where the box was I found two dusters, a facecloth and three dishcloths - all new!! They are now in the drawer they belong in - and I've thrown out three tatty dishcloths which were not being used, but didn't seem to be able to find the bin.
I've also binned a poster belonging to DS which must have been under the box for a couple of years and was ripped; and I've shredded the small pile of paper which was sat by the shredder.
I've also finished reading a book - and put it into the cs bag.
Three loads of washing now arrayed on airer and radiators... no room for any more, so that'll do for today.
And I've a binned a biodegradable carrier bag which was disintegrating on the kitchen floor - contents to be sorted.
It's got very dark here allofasudden


Rx

Knit_Witch

You are getting there slow but sure roundtuit :beer:

Patchwork_Quilt

Currently decluttering some of the wood pile. Does this count? We have cut down so much of the garden and filled the garage with kindling but never bothered to go in there and haul it out to use up. So I was brave, on Friday night. I went in there in the dark and pulled out the nearest box. Knocked over a few of DH's things, I'm afraid but I couldn't see exactly what they were so I picked my way back out again and it is now burning merrily. Might save a few pence on the heating.

Sending a hug to Roundtuit, too. Although it did make me smile. I thought you were going to wash a bowl of pets before I reread it correctly as pots. Thoughts of helpless canaries floating round in soapy water.

I have to confess that at least 10 jam jars have come into the house. People know I save them. I am going to delabel and then be selective about which ones I keep.

Also two cashmere jumpers from the charity shop. But they were an absolute bargain, m'lud.

In fact, I am still thinking about the jumpers I left behind. I should not venture into the High Street. Repeat.

Perhaps I'll just give up for today and eat more chocolate. Then there'll be that empty tin dilemma!

Good luck folks! Happy decluttering!

ginnyknit

Everyone is doing very well today :j All I have decluttered is the amount of fruit a small grandson can eat But did take some paperwork to Dd when I picked him up. Tomorrow is the day I start my bedroom in earnest. have already whittled down 2 boxes earlier this week bit have a few more to goas next Sunday is the day I start the new craft room so nothing is going in there thats junk. It will be good to have everything sorted so I can go and get bobbins of cotton out of a box when I need one etc.

Parcels to be wrapped too tomorrow and fleabay stuff to take pics off - wow I will be busy bee wont I!

Keep up the great work people xxx

GreyQueen

Oooohhhh, cashmere from charity shops and eating chocolate, I want that life. I have some chocolate cake in the fridge. I stuffed it in there because the kitchen is in a bit of a two-and-eight and I needed not to be distracted by eating it.

Just come off the jellybone to Mum and have the measurements for the bathroom window. She sounds pretty keen on the fabric (and so she should, it's lovely) and that I will run it up for her. We can hand it over sometime in the next couple of months but I realised I have to wait in for a tradesman on Friday coming and have booked the time as leave otherwise it clashes with my job, so will have a morning where I can crack on with some sewing jobs.

I will treat it as a bonus day and try to have something good to show for it, not just lounging around reading and playing on the webulator.

I'm just pottering this aft, tackling some overdue personal admin and have also got the water bill today so will mail a cheque. They'd really like me to pay by DD but I'd rather they read the meter and billed me every 6 months. With too many DDs flying about, you can have to concentrate really hard to keep the account at the right level.

OK, going to do the last few mins on the admin then get started on the tea. Keep pecking away at it, people. GQ xx

ETA PQ, you were very brave going into a woodpile. You know what kinds of things lurk in woodpiles, don't you? S p i d e r s.

whitewing

My new furniture is in. I actually got rid of 3 pieces of furniture, 4 empty cardboard boxes, 2 bags and 1 book this afternoon. A great day.

I am so tempted to start pulling another box out to sort but I need to reorganise my gift tags. I've made a lot and I now need to sort them into categories so I can find them easily when I need them. It surprises me how much joy they bring me. I am already planning on small Easter presents to family. Nothing too expensive but with the gift tags too they'll look great. Sorting them also means that I will be inclined to give some of the excess to other family members to use. They have been very pleased with the ones they've been given so far.

By the way, postcards trimmed with crinkly scissors, hole punched and ribboned make brilliant gift tags too; that's helped me repurpose a handful of cards that I didn't want to chuck but didn't want to keep either. (Perhaps that's the secret: I should bung a ribbon on things I find hard to let go). I am nearly ready to gifttag some old valentine's cards from ex-boyfriends. DH will be glad to see them go. He says he doesn't mind but then mentions them every so often so I know they bug him a bit.

Keep up the dehoarding everybody. I am so gad that I have.

short_bird

Most entertaining song about arachnids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFuUaCe8eY

And I think there is a strong possibility that I will be able to free up 3 more shelves for Him Indoors to put stuff on

Patchwork_Quilt

Got myself together and have tackled the plastics cupboard. It wasn't as bad as I feared but I was absolutely ruthless with the salad bowls and tumblers I'd saved from ready meals etc. I already have two enormous plastic salad bowls! How many can one small family need?

Also found a couple of very sorry breadboards in there. Breadboards should be out on the work top, ready for action. Mine had obviously been put away damp. DH put them on the fire.

Lastly, found another couple of vases for the cs. I keep them because people (mainly Mum) very generously give them to me as gifts. However, they're all the same size. Now we have one tiny (an old tumbler), one medium (given by the people we bought our first house from), one rose bowl (from Mum) and an enormous one, just in case.

It looks very tidy in there but we know what happens. A useful looking tub or two will get together and soon I won't be able to shut the door...

GreyQueen

:T Well done for braving the plastics cupboard. D'you know, one day after I sorted mine, the door woudn't shut properly? I haven't added or subtracted anything so they're breeding. Or at least shifting about. Eeek!

I may get a padlock for it. Plastic containers could rule the world if we're not on our guard.

The one useful thing about proper wood chopping boards, once they are beyond their proper use, is firewood. I only use wooden boards as I detest the sound of knives chipping into other materials. Have two; my grandma's bread board, which was already old in my mum's 1950s childhood, and an oblong wooden board I got a coupla years ago in a charity shop, unused for £1 - very happy with that.

The round breadboard is about the size of a dinner plate and has tapered edges so I find the easiest place to keep it is the dish-drainer. The oblong board sits on its edge alongside the worktop by the cooker.

My kitchen is only 6 x 6 feet but I still like to have all the tools to hand.