Hoarding - Springing Ahead

pleasedelete

Gosh Pigpen-brave to post the photos. I am sure that if you get the children motivated they can clear the clutter in no time at the weekend- many hands make light work etc

Buffythedebtslayer

Fantastic Pigpen


Very inspiring! thank you hope you are pleased with the results and standing there admiring them for a bit! XX

pigpen

pleasedelete wrote: »

Gosh Pigpen-brave to post the photos. I am sure that if you get the children motivated they can clear the clutter in no time at the weekend- many hands make light work etc

Heck no.. they are kicked out and not allowed in until I'm done... they get all 'Gollum' over tiny straps of paper and beads and other such crap I just slurp up with Henry.. The worst 2 are off to their perfect parents on Saturday so I'm dragging the stuff from the landing into this nice empty room and sorting the stuff that can go.. I have a charity shop collecting my stuff on Monday.. I want as much as possible out of that door!

It is predominantly clothes which children can't sort, I just need to stop thinking they will all go naked if I don't store stuff for 5 years until they fit the next child who probably wont wear it anyway.. it is my issue and I know it and I am trying really hard to curb it.

silvasava

Pigpen - excellent results - go you! I did laugh at your 'Gollum' expression. Fits DH to a T with his tool stash
Must ask - how do you post photos on here? I've tried copy & paste & it doesn't work.

Managed to shred a load of old documents yesterday & put my sewing machine & stuff back in the cupboard where it belongs instead of being left on the dining room table (good light there) I've also managed to find a proper home for my slow cooker in one of the cupboards I cleared last week. It used to live on top of a wall cupboard & I've nearly brained myself more than once trying to get it down. It now lives very nicely at floor level - big satisfied smile )

pigpen

Mine are on my facebook I just copy and paste from there.

Today I had a crazy 10 minutes.. might have been 15 but who's counting .. I filled 2 binbags for CS and 1 for the bin.. from an area of landing 6ftx2ft ... I also found kitchen bits and a pile of books which went on the shelf.. but seriously.. this was from this tiny area bar 1 roller skate and a boot which were in the girls room.. I have 2 boxes, 7 binbags, a tv and a large carrier for CS now. It is all piled in my hallway so I will do pics before it goes!.. just so we can see how much there is!

I lso have a lady coming to pick up a booster seat on Saturday.. fuuurrrr--LING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

25 things on ebeast.. it will all go.. if I have to pay people to take it!

Sadly I didn't get my room started today but it is on my Friday afternoon list so I will get there with it.. and there is always the weekend.

IrishRose12

Just listed another lot of things on Ebay myself tonight. If they don't sell within the next week they'll go to the 2nd hand shop next weekend. I feel a HUGE clearout again coming this weekend getting rid of stuff I wouldn't a few weeks ago. The mess is REALLY starting to annoy me now

parsniphead

Wow Pigpen, what a fab transformation. I hope you put your feet up later.

I feel inspired to start sorting out my sewing room which I think I will do today. I also have a bag to take to the charity shop which must be done today.

GreyQueen

:T Blimming heck, pigpen, awesome progress. I'm feeling faint just thinking about dealing with that lot. You rock!

I've had a cheap (free) thrill today as have jot The Joy of Less out of the library. Y'know, Miss Minimalist's book. Woop-woop.And when I've done, I can declutter it back there for the next reader to enjoy.

I have also used the library to pick up a novel I saw at £1.75 in a chazzer but was too tight-fisted to buy (have pity, my service charges are going up and I have to pay for my allotment this month, too). And forewent another 75p on another book as that's in the library, too. Just couldn't find it on this trip, but had some happy discoveries when looking.

Have filleted something for the rag donation and am working on the next lot of recycling with plastics etc. Have also done a high level cupboard search and it was a bit Hel-lo, stranger! with some of the stuff on the upper shelves. Mercy me, however do short women manage, there was stuff up there I hadn't seen for a while.

I have also decided to shred the utility bills from the address I lived at 10 years ago. Kept them from an anxiety that I might somehow have to prove I lived there to some branch of officialdom, and would be able to produce the leccy and gas bills as evidence. WTH I am thinking I cannot articulate.

Have rationalised it thus; I have bank statements from that period at that address. My credit file shows me at that address as does the electoral register. I was on the council tax records at that address. DVLA had me at that address and - top proof - I have the rent book. All of those things would serve as proof, should it be required, and it wouldn't be. So I can shred the futility bills, a few at a time, so's not to overheat the shredder.

I am also thinking about re-homing a couple of things to friends and am about to fire off a couple of emails, now.

Keep on keeping on, lovely peeps. GQ xx

thriftwizard

Need to kick myself into re-starting... DS1's room is now a total disgrace, and the clutter is creeping back into the conservatory & the porch again. Must STOP biting off more than I can chew - I see a bargain, think that only needs a bit of glue/WD40/stitching & it'd sell for much more than I paid for it, so I bring it home, then I get sidetracked or the space gets hijacked, and I find the dratted thing again months later when it falls on me! The house is very full for the next week; we're back up to seven inhabitants until DS3 trots off to Provence for 9 months next Saturday. After that we can rationalise things a bit & I can have my sewing space back. But I really, really need to get things back under control; have been looking for my spare sewing machine (elderly but very capable Bernina) to lend to a friend, and I can't actually find it under the clutter in DS1's room, which is NOT GOOD!

pigpen

Not a great deal done today I've been a busy bunny.. but I put a pair of shoes in the CS bag.. Tomorrow I have a mountain to move on the landing and in my room to accommodate a chest of drawers and then reshuffle clothes.. mine and the baby's.. it WILL be habitable!!! I want at least 3 or 4 more binbags for CS before Monday.. It shouldn't be too hard with all the crud in here to fling... I could probably just pick up boxes and kick them out without looking inside they've been unused so long!