Hoarding - Springing Ahead

whitewing

Sun has been streaming in here all morning, which has been great. Such a welcome change.

We've done loads of tidying and putting away and washing etc. Even managed a vacuum round the house, and it all looks a look better.

Recycling and other waste is out.

One minor hiccup is that the ribbon used for the cake box has founds its way home again, and I think it has been ironed too. So I shall have to train them that I only want containers/wrapping back if I write that on the gift tag!

GQ, I know exactly what you mean about the eggbox. I want it to put 4 empty egg cups in filled with some tiny spring flowering plants.(Saw similar in an aspirational magazine once).

I think I will do some wrapping next.

roundtuit

roundtuit wrote: »

trumpet fanfare........great excitement and BIG smiles chez moi........... I've found my pink-with-white-polka-dots-snuggly-slipper-boots. Oh yayyy, woop woop. I remembered I had them but I didn't have a clue where they were, and now they're found.:T:j (This is what I call the 'up' side of being a recovering hoarder - you find much loved but long-lost treasures. I am a happy Roundtuit.

they are in the bin! Parts of the soles had gone brittle and disintegrated while I was brushing down the slippers. So I've binned them. And while I am a bit sad, I'm more cross with myself....for hoarding, not for binning them! hey ho
Rxx

roundtuit

noelphobic wrote: »

Last time I had my living room looking relatively tidy I was really disappointed that when my son visited he didn't comment. I gave him a whole 5 minutes before I said anything. He then said that he had been just about to say how tidy it looked. It was spoiled by then though.

I guess I primed my son by telling him he 'might' notice; and he has always been observant. (He always knew when grandma had changed her curtains - I, on the other hand, am more of a 'oh have you? what did they look like before?' sort of person.)
It is nice to have your efforts noticed and applauded. I'll cheer you on, go us. :beer:
Rxx

ginnyknit

Finally cleared out the spice drawer, some of them didnt even smell of spice they were that old. Actually did it while the kettle was boiling so why have I put it off for so long. Am going to do a pile of things tomorrow including parcels which should clear more space. Got a bit disilusioned this week but feeling ready for action after the spice drawer success.

Being able to move things around more easily makes such a difference, still got a way to go but know I can do it.

whitewing

I wrapped the presents. In doing so, I found a couple of sticky tape dispensers. With old tape in. I used up one, and part of the other. I have thrown out the empty dispenser. It is completely wrongly sized for the sellotape I usually buy. I know these gadgety things are part of the aspirational lifestyle. I met a woman on Sat who is (on the surface at least) exactly like I imagined I should have been. And while I can still admire her, I can fully accept that it is aspirational for me and part of the perfectionism for me that actually holds me back. So it is a good thing that the dehoarding has made me look at myself and my thoughts and feelings as I didn't feel inadequate and jealous and hopeless.

Okay, off to delve into the posh shoebox..

lobbyludd

darn you noel with your paperwork tidying, and me for getting all motivated by you, I am now surrounded by paperwork and have inadvertently shredded the most recent buildings and contents policy (t'is not a disaster, I will have an email copy of the policy number, and I know who they are/when it needs renewing) but I've decided to blame you for being all efficient:p.

I'm in that midway stage, there's a full bin bag of shredding and stuff everywhere, just have to put it all back together then locate a single place for it all, instead or 3 or 4 seperate bits. I have a filing cabinet buried in the loft which I could get down, but where to put it? If I don't do that I'm going to throw the files I've brought out because there's no point in storing them any longer.

still - bath and bedtime now for the littlies, so plenty of time to ponder

GreyQueen

Evening all.

I've been doing this stuff called 'real life' and, bygorry, it's tiring. But I have just done a major decluttering of the most-of-a-shed, the four sides which were donated to me and which I priced up making into a whole shed and decided not to as materials alone would be £100+.

Anyroad, the shed panels have been lying flat on the allotment for the past few months with clumps of grass etc from the bit I cleared in the autumn. A chance convo with a lottie neighbour revealed a need and we dragged them up, scraped off the mud, gave them a wash and brush-up with water from the water butts and carted them around to his lottie.

Major space gain and he has already started carpentering them into the repair of his existing shed, plus the perspex window from the old shed, which was in my proper shed, is gone as well and is already incorporated.

Feeling chuffed that it's going to somewhere it'll be used and have made my day and someone else's day; his shed had been badly damaged by the break-ins, too, so it was nice to be able to mitigate that somewhat.

Other than that I have decluttered some weeds, decluttered a just-bought bar of chocolate and sorted out the washing and run a load thru. Just got to get the dishes washed and then will be ready for the new work week. I;ve even charged my mobile, get me.

greenbee, I binned the fishcake packaging tonight, after eating the second fishcake. Thank you for your encouragement, folks.

Bike is back in the bike shed and swathed in chains. I took the opportunity of its absence to have a sweep out and tidy, as mentioned, and now have an inventory. Which is a posh name for a list scribbled in a notebook, but there you go. :rotfl:

So I know what's in there and, should I ever be broken into again, what's missing.

Quickly going to catch up on the dishwashing and then and bit of interwebulating and an early night.

Knit_Witch

Well done on getting rid of the shed bits GQ :j

GreyQueen

It's a good feeling. And they're doing someone else a good turn, so I'm extra happy.

mcculloch29

A small thing binned but significant: I have one leg a couple of inches shorter than the other, and to help balance me I wear something plastic on my feet in the shower and around the bedroom.
The plastic mule sandal that has mostly done duty for this had somewhat disintegrated (sole intact, top bit not) but I was persevering with it. Why? I could barely keep the expletive thing on.
So it is binned and I am on the look out for other things that don't work as they should but are being kept out of habit.
I'd already binned two bike front lights and bought one that did work properly, so I know it wasn't a one off.
Books... I have got rid of hundreds and I still have hundreds. I don't want a Kindle as I often have a book drop from my sleepy hands in bed.
Hm. Cull time?