Hoarding - Springing Ahead

Happygreen

I've just arrived back from my mum's and am shocked at the state of our place. Good, mum has a new easy-care flat and our home is a very old country cottage that needs so much work done but I despair at the mess...OH has done what he could and that's not much more than keeping on top of the washing up but first thing I had to clean the toilet and sink, it's that bad. We were only away for 10 days! How hard can it be??? He must have been in a depresssion as he's no step further than before with clearing his desk, I now have 10 buckets of eggs to sort and clean (at least I hope they are in order of laying date...), the garden needs a lot of TLC....if I'm not careful I can feel my own depression rolling on

whitewing

Do the eggs soon, happygreen. A nice little job like that makes you feel a sense of accomplishment and helps dissipate the frustration, I find.

pigpen

I have another half dozen bits thrown at ebeast.. I have a parcel to get posted today


I also sorted another carrier of stuff for charity shop.. I will get a few more bags together and give my friend a shout and she will arrange it being collected


.. I now need to declutter cake down the necks of the tiddlies..

Happygreen

whitewing wrote: »

Do the eggs soon, happygreen. A nice little job like that makes you feel a sense of accomplishment and helps dissipate the frustration, I find.

Half way through and a friend stopped buy and bought 2 dozen, definitely makes me feel better! I have started to sort out my wardrobe, moth evidence, so more to do there. At the same time I can check out some cds from the big pile and put some songs I want to keep on my ipod.

whitewing

DH has just pulled the boxes off the top of the cupboard, so I will have to do something with them now. I half wish I was brave enough to say, I don't know what is in them so I'll just chuck them straight out.

GreyQueen

Have been to Hoxfam this afternoon with a laaarrgee bag of donations, what a relief to drop that off. Included the book I'd finished yesterday, so am keeping on turning the stuff over.

Am almost too hot to think straight, but have done a few bits inc decluttering several bits of glass and old nails from the allotment soil as I transplanted leeks this morning. I remove all this stuff on sight, each and every time, and have cultivated this particular bit of ground for 6 years straight.

And each and every time I work the soil, I get a handful of glass, nails, plastic and misc - I swear the bliddy stuff must be breeding undergound. :mad:

whitewing

Perhaps the allotments are on the site on an old rubbish dump! You'll be pulling out shopping trolleys next.

The box on top of the cupboard had a load of crafty bits. It was a friend of a friend of a friend's mother's box that got passed on when she died. The paper and stuff that is decent but realistically I won't have time to use is put aside for nursery on Monday.

The crayons, felt pens, ransom stickers and another box of miscellaneous writing/drawing stuff has been given to DD along with a pile of scrap paper and she is happily making her own works of art. She knows that after the weekend anything remaining will be binned or recycled. She's happy. There is also some patterned paper, which again I ought to be realistic about. The buzz of getting it out of the house will be reward enough.

GreyQueen

It's been allotments since before WW2 and before that was farmland. The carp you get out of it is unbeliveable. The prize lunatic item was a 3 footed sugar bowl (with one foot missing) which was plastic pretending to be cut glass............why oh why oh why...............?:rotfl:

I still have some more things which were brought up from the hometown last Friday for donation re my gift-aided charity shop donation. I must get them organised and bagged neatly as this chazzer opens for a few hours on a Sunday and I can get them out tomorrow, if I time my activities right.

Onwards and upwards, my lovelies.

pavlovs_dog

Summer hols are here and so am I! I can see the fruits of my labour during past holidays, as most of the easy bits are done. What is left for this summer will require more time and discipline.

Am spending the weekend on enforced rest (I find it quite difficult to switch off from school at times). Think tomorrow's job will be to purge some recipe books, which will be done over a cuppa and trashy TV.

pavlovs_dog

6 board games and 4 cake based cookery books added to chazza corner in the junk room.