Hoarding - Springing Ahead

whitewing

Furniture has been moved with a bit of unexpected help. So I have about 10 items of clothes that can go somewhere. I am pleased about that.

DH is chucking out one of his suits. I don't like it anyway but it has ruined itself without any help from me so that is a result.

It has been a good day today, especially after yesterday's hiccup.

GreyQueen

I stopped the music at 9 pm. Had a lovely time powering around the kitchen smacking things made of steel onto other things made of steel. Got no end of stuff done. Think Modom may have just got the message that I wasn't best pleased with her behaviour. It's a quiet as a mouse up there now, so I shall chillax a bit more then lie me down to bed.

anirtak, no offence, but I prolly wouldn't like you as a neighbour if you're nocturnal, as I'm a lark not an owl, plus have to leave for w*rk at 8-ish so am not best pleased if someone keeps me awake into the small hours. I'm a crabby cow if I don't get at least 7 hours' sleep and have often jested that a mad axe murderer would be in mortal peril if waking me up in the middle of the night, as I can go from nought to incandescent with rage in a surprisingly few number of seconds.

Hokay, time to put a wrap on the weekend. Have just been watching 'Troy' on DVD. Brad Pitt swoon.:rotfl:Far too many gorgeous actors in that movie.

whitewing

Not a movie that I would watch by choice but 300 is surprisingly compelling and bodies that are awe-inspiring.

I need a last burst of energy to sort out some drawers.

anirtak191

i try nott o make too much noise in the night, as i know i got neighbours, i think downstairs make more noise than me especially their dog. theyve woken my nan up before now when she has stayed where they have let the dog out at 2am then leave it out till it barks to be let in.
but id also hope you would come and tell me if i had made too much noise so i would know not to do that particular job at night.
some neighbours i know theres no point in saying anything they just ignore you and make more noise, or carry on as normal.
my neighbours are one of them, the one sister can hear you when she wants, but if your complaining or she doesnt want to talk she just but im deaf and walks off lol. yet she will hear you swearing under your breath.
at one point there was 8 of us living in this 2 bedroomed flat, and there nearly came to blows with them and my sil, they had dumped a load of soil overt he kiddy bike seat that my sil left outside my shed, and even tho shes calmed down over the past few years, with my sil, just dont mess with her children or anything to do with her kids, and putting the soil over the seat to my sil was just spitefull towards the baby, well she was a toddler at the time, and she just got shrugged at when my sil said something to her, but cos she didnt want to couse any problems for me cos once they went i would still be here, she just swore and called her vindictive under her breath, where the neighbours turned round and asked what she had said, my sil said, i thought you were deaf, and she got told i am and then she walked off.
gotta be honest i half expected her to hit her with the seat lol, she was fuming when she came back in cos the seat was ruined and only fit for the bin.
but then i get the but im deaf response when i try and say about the noise from the dog or any other noise, like sisters arguing and sounding like one is murdering the other, actually on the odd occasion it sounds like ones locked the other in a room and wont let them out.

dktreesea

whitewing wrote: »

You can have a dehoarded house and not clean for 2 hours a day, lol.

Yes, but then you'ld be able to see the dust....the way it sits on skirting boards and in corners, making visitors and family think you haven't so much as vacuumed for days, even though it took all of less than 24 hours to take over your life.

We've denuded a window recently - yes, not part of the floor but a window. The rest of the hoard can now see the view. And I can see the grime on it that I couldn't see before. And still can't get in to give it a good clean because it's one of those modern affairs that opens inwards and wide. Whereas before I lived in blissful ignorance, now it annoys me every time I go in there.

And then there's DD, cheerful little ....., telling me "You do realise, don't you, that if anything happens to you Dad will be standing on the street corner giving all this away as fast as people can carry it."

dktreesea

GreyQueen wrote: »

.....I'm a lark not an owl..........

Can we swap? I've always fancied being a lark but have never quite managed it.:(

I once worked in swish offices where some of the inmates would go for a run and then shower in the work gym all before work. They'd come into the canteen looking like fitness instructors. Grrrrh!

GreyQueen

dktreesea wrote: »

Can we swap? I've always fancied being a lark but have never quite managed it.:(

I once worked in swish offices where some of the inmates would go for a run and then shower in the work gym all before work. They'd come into the canteen looking like fitness instructors. Grrrrh!

I don't do stuff like THAT before w*rk, that's just wrong, wrong, wrong. Don't they know that exercise is bad for you? The American whose book populised jogging in the 1970s, Jim Fixx, died of a heart attack. Whilst jogging, aged only 52.

anirtak, Modom knows fine well what she does is a problem for me because the housing officer has been telling her for 9 months and she agrees not to do certain noisy things between 11 pm and 7 am and then promptly does them again. It's very frustrating. I feel that she's taking the p, you know? She's spiteful, or at least so contemptious of the rest of us that our need to sleep doesn't count a jot, compared to her whims.

And it's particularly galling because she doesn't work and I do, and I can't catch up on my sleep later. Not that there is a later, most days, she's like the Durac*ll bunny and has been rattling around since just after 6 am this morning. So she's an owl and a lark, or hyped on drugs. Or possibly just a very annoying, very energetic person who oughta get a job and use some of that energy productively.

Anyway, I've a couple of days leave this week. Is it a staycation if you just do your regular weekend stuff on a weekday, or is it only a staycation if you holiday elsewhere in the UK? Have some errands in the city centre, some for me, some for a neighbour-friend, and then will head out later. Have realised that I'm extremely unlikely to use up the big tub of wood treatment jollop this summer, as it is still about half full after several shed treatments, and putting another coat on 3/4 of the shed barely made a dent on the level.

I also have started washing up the flowerpots as they come empty, instead of saving them for a big sesh at the end of the season. It's easier to do half-a-dozen at a time, rather than about 100 in a sitting. And culled one which was breaking up, they're all other people's cast-offs and are pretty old, so a few of them die on me each year.

Observing allotments, mine and other peoples', has made me realise that the littl-and-often, and keeping on top of the clutter is the way to go.

Rightly, time for breakfast and then up and out and at it, as soon as the offices I need to visit will be open, of course. Have a productive day, lovely peeps. GQ xx

PS, I've seen 300. I think there was a fair bit of CGI enhancement of the physiques done. Not that it's a bad thing, necessarily.

I've also read about it. That battle was one of the most stunning in ancient history, when 300 Spartans held the 'gates of fire' against the entire Persian army, knowing it was a suicide mission from the start, in order to buy time for the other Greek city states to mobilise their citizen-soldiers. City states which were usually fighting against each other, btw, there was no such entity as 'Greece' in the ancient world, just cities and the territory they controlled, like Athens with Attica. Sparta was a very strange place, even the other people alive at the time thought they were bonkers over there. Scary-good fighters, but bonkers.

Happygreen

Summary of the weekend - I unblocked the kitchen sink (without the use of any chemicals but plunger only, I'm so proud ) and moved the vacuum into my bedroom to remind me that I really NEED to get going in there. ...

whitewing

Out today - 1 bag of T shirts for family, 1 bag clothes for charity shop bin, 1 thank you card.

DH bought new felt tip pens for DD so I went through her old ones, discarded 3 and have given the rest to Granny for when DD visits.

DH has a day off so he is getting on with sorting out the house. He cleared the top of the wardrobe and found lots of DS' stuff that he thought had already gone out of the house, so that will be going to recycling. Includes shoes that are now 3 sizes too small.

I know we've discussed this on here before, but what is best to deter moths from the wardrobe and drawers? I think I am going to need to be a bit more proactive about these.(Not that it is much of a problem, just one or two items damaged).

suzitiger

GreyQueen wrote: »

Well, have decluttered an appointment already this morning, and am pleased as it could have been any time from 8-12 and it was 8 am so I can have a cuppa and then get on with some other things.

Have the makings of a bag of stuff for Hoxfam so will get that off the premises and have a bit more room to move. I don't have cupboards free to stash stuff in, so the donation stuff is literally sitting on the side or in a bag on the floor, so it's always in sight and in mind.

suzi, congratulations on your wedding. I feel your pain as I have the top half of my allotment infested with horsetails and it grows an inch every 24 hours, ghastly stuff, well done on disciplining it. Not sure about the cards, could you make a collage of the loveliest bits of images/ messages and frame it? Or have a special album, so that they can be kept nice and enjoyed, rather than piled somewhere? Hopefully, someone else will have a better idea.

I'm keeping up with the rubbish and recycling out and feel silly-happy that I've just finished a bottle of w.u. liquid, so that can be rinsed and leave. I get a ridiculous amount of satisfaction from dropping the recycables off, must be a sad case, lol.

I'm keeping on top of the book pile, am finishing one then either adding it to the donation bag/ taking it back to the lirary/ returning it to whomever had loaned it to me. Still lots of other stuff to do, long way from perfection here, but not at all bad.

Keep on keeping on, lovely peeps. GQ xx

Yessss it's always good when they come early isn't it? And I feel your pain with donation stuff, I DO have a place to put it, but if it's out of sight I will forget so just needs to stay in a corner where it is visible until I have enough to take.

And is THAT how quick it grows? My goodness no wonder I've been thinking that it grows when I'm not looking, because it does! I just keep going out there every day now, even though the worst of it is gone I go out and pull up the little shoots to stop it coming back. My mum siad that eventually it will ghet too weak to keep trying. I'm leaving a bit of it at the back along the fence because there is nothing else growing there and I don't mind it being in that part of the garden. TBH I have quite a lot of respect for it as it's so resiliant.

Catriona_P wrote: »

Congratulations on your wedding Suzi

When I got married a few years back, I created a big scrapbook of 'mementoes' including things like cards. I admit I did cull some to just the essentials like from parents, bridesmaids, grandparents, as I don't think its realistic to keep them all. A scrapbook is a nice thing to look back over aswell. Hope that helps?

Knit_Witch wrote: »

I also did a scrap book, which has the benefit of tidying them away as well!

Yay Pigpen, that lot out of your house will make you feel loads better!

Thank you ladies, yes I think the scrapbook may be the way forward