Hoarding - Springing Ahead

MrsAtobe

The problem is a lack of anywhere other than a small window sill (sp?) to put anything on, until I find bathroom cabinets that I like and will fit the space that we have available. Then I have to wait for the OH to complete all the other jobs I can't do, before he gets round to putting the cabinets up. Oh, and instead of having one bathroom, I now have one bathroom, one en-suite and one downstairs cloakroom. There's only room to have a floor cabinet in the downsstair cloak

Then there's the lack of a pantry in the new house and the fact I have less kitchen cupboard space than I did in the last house. The non-perishable stuff from the pantry will eventually live in the garage, but we need racking in there before we can do that.

Did I mention the wardrobes? I had a walk in closet in the old house, so everything was in there. We need to buy fitted wardrobes for this house (OH's wish) so at the moment our clothes are either on hanging rails or in black bags in the room that will become our dressing room. At least I can shut the door on that at the moment, but it does make finding clothes difficult.

I was determined to only buy things that I liked for this house, rather than buying something that would do, but I think I'm about to have a change of heart about that.

GreyQueen

Evening all.

Just back to my flat-let after 3 days' absence and determined to do better.

I have a habit of coming home exhausted and just putting bags down on the living room floor. Found one the t'other day with fruit in it.....grey furry fruit. Ewww. Plus the wastefulness scandalises me.:o:(

So, new resolution for April is NO MORE UNPACKED BAGS BY BEDTIME. Ever. No more excuses.

Been inspired to catch up with the thread after a few days out and about other business. Someone posted about a family member leaving crocks upstairs? I'd like to share a wee true story from RL.

A woman who worked with Mum re-married in middle life to a widower with several teen sons. Plus her own two. And thus became chatelaine to a large and chaotic manly household.

She decided to limit the amount of crockery on the premises to stop the beggars leaving stuff under beds etc growing interesting varieties of mould. There was one plate, bowl and mug per person. Extras for visitors existed but were under lock and key.

Left yer mug upstairs, son? Tough. No more coffee until you bring it back down and wash it up. Now, this might strike some of us as extreme, but it actually does work and stops the situation where the household helps themselves to fresh crocks until they're all used and someone (usually a Mum) has to scour the house to recover them, then scour them out with bleach or summat.

In my office, the management file unwashed coffee cups in the dustbin. Since they're people's personal property, this tends to concentrate the mind wonderfully.......:rotfl:

I'm also thinking about not shopping for grub, with the exception of a few fresh items, for a month. Living off the freezer and the cupboards and saving the time to do other things like reading. Or catching up on my sleep. Whaddaya think?

sjprmc01

I find all we need in the downstairs loo is soap and a towel, really!

Although the kids keep their toothbrushes and paste down there too


I am beginning to understand the reward in getting rid of 'storage' items that are NEVER perfect, or 'the answer' anyway!

I have a storage cabinet thing in the bathroom, its rammed, as is around the bath, the little shower shelf-thingy and the whole windowsill

We also have a suction holder thingy suctioned onto the tiles which can take 2 bottles of stuff

I cant wait to reduce the amount of toiletries (I'm on the no more unnecessary toiletries thread) so I can get rid of the storage cabinet



Oh and by the way.......the bathroom only houses 'in use' stuff. My bedroom and linen cupboard hold the 'stashed' unused stuff

msgnomey

sjprmc01 wrote: »

Oh and by the way.......the bathroom only houses 'in use' stuff. My bedroom and linen cupboard hold the 'stashed' unused stuff

I like my bathroom a whole lot more now I stick to the rule!!

Mind you the linen cupboard is rather full..... perhaps I need to use some of that up next

This_Year

We have one current shampoo, shower gel and bath foam out, it's on a bath-edge to ceiling pole. Toothpaste and mouthwash on the window ledge. Nothing on the bath edge itself as that always seems to attract grime!

Spare loo rolls and one spare of each toiletry in the bathroom cupboard, we have more in the back bedroom. Shortly to be rehomed to underneath the bath as OH is constructing a shelf/drawer thingy for them as this seems more logical. Loo cleaner lives behind the loo.

We have our own towels and they live in our bedrooms on a rail over the radiator.

The downstairs loo only has a liquid handwash and a hand towel but the cupboard in there houses spare loo rolls.

GQ I do that with carrier bags too! And think "why did I buy all this stuff?" We could probably live for 3+ months out of our freezer and stored groceries. We just hoard - everything.

Right I'm off to declutter a well earned beer. Been gardening all afternoon (sieving an entire compost bin and emptying rubbish from the greenhouse - my back is breaking!)

MrsAtobe

Aargh just typed a long reply, and it's gone

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

MrsAtobe wrote: »

The problem is a lack of anywhere other than a small window sill (sp?) to put anything on, until I find bathroom cabinets that I like and will fit the space that we have available. Then I have to wait for the OH to complete all the other jobs I can't do, before he gets round to putting the cabinets up. Oh, and instead of having one bathroom, I now have one bathroom, one en-suite and one downstairs cloakroom. There's only room to have a floor cabinet in the downsstair cloak

Then there's the lack of a pantry in the new house and the fact I have less kitchen cupboard space than I did in the last house. The non-perishable stuff from the pantry will eventually live in the garage, but we need racking in there before we can do that.

Did I mention the wardrobes? I had a walk in closet in the old house, so everything was in there. We need to buy fitted wardrobes for this house (OH's wish) so at the moment our clothes are either on hanging rails or in black bags in the room that will become our dressing room. At least I can shut the door on that at the moment, but it does make finding clothes difficult.

I was determined to only buy things that I liked for this house, rather than buying something that would do, but I think I'm about to have a change of heart about that.

Upstairs bathroom. The bits and pieces are in the two little drawers.



Downstairs one has a clothes horse in it right now, plus a litter tray and the digital scales. It can't have a cupboard because it's a wet room. So the loo rolls (and cat litter) go under the stairs with the kitchen roll, toolkit and vacuum cleaner. And in reality, the only thing you need in a cloakroom is bog brush, soap and a towel. I have my contacts on the glass shelf under the mirror in the downstairs one because it's got the best light of the two in the morning.




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No pantry? Don't have one, either. There are photos of my kitchen knocking around on here somewhere. I'll have a look for them.




Wardrobes? Do you actually need black bag after black bag of clothes? Do you actually need a whole room's worth of clothing? Does everything in it make you feel great wearing it? Or are you scratching around great masses of random bits that you don't want to wear ever again but are scared to get rid?

sjprmc01

I think I have so many clothes coz it takes that long to get through the laundry I forget what I've got and think I've got nothing.

It's a catch 22 coz if I didn't have so much it would be washed and dealt with a lot quicker

I've been attempting to sort out the ironing (during the short times I've been in the house over the past few days) and I have a pile of school clothes waiting to be ironed, wish I knew how to take a pic on my phone or I pad and upload it straight to here.........instead, I'm going to go off and count the items.....

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Here we go;



I've actually moved the things on the windowsill to the dead spot the other side of the hob.




And the fish tank is now in the living room.




ETA: and the Idiot Cat is sitting behind me.

sjprmc01

:eek: 68 items of school wear in the ironing pile

That's 68 not including what's already hanging in wardrobes or in the laundry baskets


You'd think I had about 30 kids! Not 3!