Hoarding - Springing Ahead

greenbee

sjprmc01 wrote: »

Those words actually instilled a panic within me as I read them. I DO give extras to others and the school when I have them and when things no longer fit but I honestly CANNOT bring myself to get rid of stuff 'in use'. Clothes are like a safety net kind of thing for me. I have a MAJOR problem with them (ok I have a major problem with toiletries and with food also) I do revisit items constantly and chuck as I can

How about packing stuff up neatly after it is washed and putting it away (in binbags/old suitcases) until they run out. Then get out 5 days' worth of the best condition stuff to fit each of them, and put the rest away. Try for a month with just a week's laundry and ironing to do each week and see how you get on. You may need to do this for yourself and OH too :cool:

If you can't bear the thought of getting rid of stuff just now, pack it away in a designated 'emergency extras' area and see how you get on. At the end of the month, work out what the optimum number of changes of school clothes is per child and get rid of the rest. Then do the same with the rest of thei clothes. And your own. And then you'll have time for something other than washing and ironing...

MrsAtobe

whitewing wrote: »

I have NEVER met a perfectionist dog, although I am chuckling at the thought. What a caring person you are. I have perfectionist tendencies in some areas of my life and it is CRIPPLING.

Hah! Chloe won't pooh in the back garden, as she wants to keep it pristine! I've tried not taking her out, after three days I gave in, she was starting to make herself ill...

I'm pretty sure it's because the old next door neighbour's dogs used to bark as soon as the back door was opened, but she seems to have got into the habit now. She's a springer, it makes sense to her

MrsAtobe

decogecko wrote: »

Would love to meet a perfectionist dog :rotfl:

WW I am the same - although I am getting better - I spend/spent so long thinking about how I'm going to do something, the perfect way of doing it and then I create problems that mean I can't do it. For example I have stuff that needs to be taken down the dump but I don't want to get the interior of my car dirty, if I had to clean it, it wouldn't be the end of the world if I did clean it out afterwards (and it could probably do with a clean ) I also work myself up into a tizz about parking at the dump. You have to reverse park there (parking is not my forte) if it's busy then there won't be 2 spaces free next to each other which means a wasted journey as I'll end up just driving out again .

There is 2 bags of rubbish in the sun room and various carp in the garden that needs to be taken down there - it taunts me. The energy I waste on these 2 bags of rubbish and carp is not worth it.

I need to get on and do, not think.

Deco x

Would getting a boot liner work? You may have to make more trips, but they are wipe clean and far easier to clean than that fuzzy felt that's on the inside of my boot.:cool:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

sjprmc01 wrote: »

Those words actually instilled a panic within me as I read them. I DO give extras to others and the school when I have them and when things no longer fit but I honestly CANNOT bring myself to get rid of stuff 'in use'. Clothes are like a safety net kind of thing for me. I have a MAJOR problem with them (ok I have a major problem with toiletries and with food also) I do revisit items constantly and chuck as I can

What happens if one of them gets a small hole in a cardigan cuff on Friday afternoon when they have another cardigan sitting in the wardrobe.

What exactly would happen?


What would happen if they had enough school uniform to last for the rest of the week, even if all three fell into a vat of purple paint at 11.30 on Monday morning?

What would happen?




Would they have to go to school naked?

Would everybody think, oh, look, that sj only has enough school uniform for 35 children for a FORTNIGHT, not SIX MONTHS, that proves she's a bad mother?


Or would they think 'Yeah, mine knacker their clothes too. Just as well my girls are in summer dresses for the next 12 weeks, because their winter skirts are halfway up to their bums and half the shirts have strange blue stains on them.'

If they even noticed?



After all, if it's in a giant heap waiting to be ironed and put away, the odds are that, like the vast majority of the rest in their rooms, it's not ever going to be used again before they grow out of it.



Out of interest, exactly how many

blouses
cardigans
jumpers
skirts
trousers
pinafores
summer dresses

does each child have?

And can we work out an average usage for each item for the 12 weeks remaining until they break up for summer?

mcculloch29

My daughter has a Springer, never known a dog with so many little quirks. She is lovely though.

pigpen

Well we've had an interesting day.. 1 bottle of blue paint.. binned after toddlers smurfed themselves




They then tipped a 2kg bag of sugar over each other and smashed a jar of apple puree

THEN!

they disappeared to destroy my bedroom.. OH's prized collectors comics



There was a loud noise we weren't sure if it was inside or outside so didn't check

It was inside..



So that was another 2 binbags of stuff thrown from the kitchen.. some had dates waaaaaay back in 2007...

The floor desperately needs a mop and I am so pleased I had 4 baskets of dirty laundry or it might have been worse!!!

pigpen

ooh.. that was some of my pasta hoard flung.. all the open packets went as I cannot risk contamination with broken glass

sjprmc01

Oh! Pigpen! That looks scary! Glad the worst the tots came to was a bit of smurfness!

Jojo, they have 2 dresses each, well youngest may have more by default but we live in Scotland, you are lucky if they get 3 weeks use out of them a yr!!! They have about 3 or 4 cardis each bar youngest who, again, has more by default

It's the blouses and 'bottoms' that are ten-a-plenty. I don't recall going wild this year buying, though but things appear through granny mainly lol. I bought youngest a really lovely pinny from marks and she has barely had any use out of it I'm aware this is wrong and wasteful and it won't happen going forward but it still can't bring me to get rid of stuff they wear and the stuff in the ironing is the stuff they wear and as soon as I see a stain on a shirt I give it a second chance in the wash, if no joy, it goes in the cash for clothes


Oh and all my friends/school mums know I'm 'mad' re clothes lol

minimoneyme

Yikes pigpen, you certainly had an interesting day!

Catriona_P

Wow Pigpen, what kids get up to eh! Lovely little ones though even with the smurf paint! Mcculloch what a gorg dog, I love springers.

Our evening of entertaining husband's friends at short notice went ok even if I did end up nearly busting a gut trying to get the dining room in some sort of order before they arrived. I HATE having visits sprung on me.

On the plus side, we have a bidder on our dining table! :j Really hoping it's a genuine buyer, because if it is the table should hopefully go this weekend. Need to start reading up on what to do when selling something by collection on eBay, so I don't get ripped off...

Baby clothes sale is also this weekend and despite being so productive in getting everything organised, the vast majority of stuff still hasn't been labelled so I'm worrying about that now. And I get my exam results next week from my big exam in January. Nail biting time.

On another note, did anyone SEE new Game of Thrones last night?