Hoarding - Springing Ahead

skeeter93

GreyQueen, when I was little I used to dream that I could live in the library. I thought I would hide somewhere in the day, and come out at night...

parsniphead

I wanted to shrink to live in my dolls house by a forest of bonsai trees which surely is just living in a house by a forest!!!!! I think I must have watched too many episodes of Land of the Giants.

I have managed to sort my kitchen in 10 minutes. I really must keep on top of this.

GreyQueen the travel diary project sounds interesting.

Now I'm heading to the sitting room where I may vanish under a pile of toys and building blocks. Scared........

GreyQueen

skeeter93 wrote: »

GreyQueen, when I was little I used to dream that I could live in the library. I thought I would hide somewhere in the day, and come out at night...

We must be related!

parsniphead, set a timer that the emergency services we be diallled if you don't emerge in an hour. There are piles and there are Piles and some of them are more Alp than molehill. You take care, y'hear? We shall require a report-back later.

Have just realised I need to get breakfast, do my pack up and then get the hell outta here in 45 mins, so must get a wriggle on.

thriftwizard

Just realised how unfair I was being yesterday - I think I needed to moan "out loud" as it were! Actually, I have two sewing stations, one upstairs & currently not very usable due to temporary circumstances, which contains the computer-that-sews (a very big, posh & complicated beastie that cost the last owner £1.2K+ - luckily for me, she didn't get on with it!) and one in the conservatory, which contains my trusty 1909 Jones treadle, which cost me £2.50 on Ebay and has spent most of the last 100 years sewing sacks in a barn. If push came to shove, that's the one I'd move heaven & earth to keep. Both machines are used just about daily (when possible) as is the Bernina under the stairs, which is used on the kitchen table; there are now 4 stitchers in the house, 3 of us earning money from it and the fourth quite capable of earning more than the rest of us put together if she should ever choose to do so. (She turns old saris into brilliant dance costumes - just with scissors, pins and an eye to drape & patterning) So maybe twenty thousand-odd football programmes (sorry, investments) are a justified indulgence. Or possibly revenge!

I also have three boxes of kipple out in the garage, left over from when I had the shop, which I closed the doors on more than two years ago now. I clearly don't need whatever's in them, and would love just to chuck them out, but I'm missing a couple of important & relatively expensive tools, so will have to at least look through them first. This may take me some time, but I do have some time at the moment; I'm tied to base by having the students staying, so can't head off to the beach or interesting auction houses unless I know I can get back before they do. But I'll have to fight my way through DS2's furniture to haul them out, so wish me luck!

pavlovs_dog

GreyQueen wrote: »

:eek: OMG, ovens need cleaning?!

I'm looking at it as a way of declutting some of the supplies that have been sat in the cleaning cupboard with nothing more than a few sprays left bin each of them.

pigpen

I got a company in to do my oven.. it was horrific!


need to add.. I can't do it.. it requires kneeling on the floor and I can't do that.

whitewing

I won a competition once to have my oven cleaned. They do take the doors off and the glass out and clean it. It was amazing.

Gingernutty

I'm looking to declutter an oven....

E.On came yesterday to look at the external wall insulation and part of the deal was a gas appliance check - the boiler was affected by the cladding.

He took a look at my oven - found the oven didn't work, the grill is duct taped closed and three out of the four hobs work - and condemned it.

It's disconnected and stickered and I'm waiting for the tat man's bugle now.

I have a toaster, a kettle, a stick blender and a microwave/combi oven.

pigpen

Gingernutty wrote: »

I'm looking to declutter an oven....

E.On came yesterday to look at the external wall insulation and part of the deal was a gas appliance check - the boiler was affected by the cladding.

He took a look at my oven - found the oven didn't work, the grill is duct taped closed and three out of the four hobs work - and condemned it.

It's disconnected and stickered and I'm waiting for the tat man's bugle now.

I have a toaster, a kettle, a stick blender and a microwave/combi oven.

and you are going to be superskinny!


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whitewing

Toast, spinach, sliced ham, peppers, a poached egg, natural yoghurt and pepper or dill is absolutely scrumptious.

Without the egg is lovely too.