Hoarding - Springing Ahead

thriftwizard

And the next tomorrow??? hahaha!!

is there not a tiny bit you could do today?? You know the saying 'tomorrow never comes'????

Tomorrow I WILL take the two binbags I decluttered earlier this week from my wardrobe & the "unclaimed washing" tub up to my neighbour's to be given to the homeless. I've given them two old sleeping bags and also have an old self-inflating mattress to donate. But they're out this evening. I was actually 26 miles away for most of today, left straight after breakfast, worked hard all day with a 20-minute lunch break, drove back & cooked tea for 6 without even sitting down, unpacked the car, then composed a very difficult email to my assorted brothers about a Family Situation which needs very careful handling, now collapsed in small heap in front of 'pooter... No, can't achieve anything tonight! But there's something to be said for planning an all-out assault on a specific area tomorrow, and that I am capable of doing.

PS - have just talked to the DDs about this, and have managed to extract promises of wielding paintbrushes & helping sort things!

RadioHorse

thriftwizard wrote: »

Tomorrow I WILL take the two binbags I decluttered earlier this week from my wardrobe & the "unclaimed washing" tub up to my neighbour's to be given to the homeless. I've given them two old sleeping bags and also have an old self-inflating mattress to donate. But they're out this evening. I was actually 26 miles away for most of today, left straight after breakfast, worked hard all day with a 20-minute lunch break, drove back & cooked tea for 6 without even sitting down, unpacked the car, then composed a very difficult email to my assorted brothers about a Family Situation which needs very careful handling, now collapsed in small heap in front of 'pooter... No, can't achieve anything tonight! But there's something to be said for planning an all-out assault on a specific area tomorrow, and that I am capable of doing.

PS - have just talked to the DDs about this, and have managed to extract promises of wielding paintbrushes & helping sort things!

Hope you can take some time to self care, thriftwizard - it sounds like you've had one doozy of a day!

RadioHorse

thriftwizard wrote: »

Well done with the pens etc, RadioHorse - I might just get competitive here & see how many dead pens I can find & dispose of too, as there's never a working one when (or where) I need one! Have had a busy day elsewhere, so the Cunning Plan will start tomorrow. Probably with de-penning...

LOL, thriftwizard, you just inspired me to go and get the big drawer of pens from the living room chest and go through them. Mother stole all my neatly organised pens while I was abroad for a year and dumped them all in the same drawer. :mad: V. annoying.

I will beat your depenning total! *lies but eh, who cares*


I was starting to learn to crochet but I'd rather veg with the channel 4 online player :rotfl:

Tomorrow is always a good day for depenning too. Good luck!

drusilla

Hi Lovely Ladies

I am back to post a bit more about my own personal dehoarding/ finding my home under all the carp exploits.

Some of you may remember that my DD2 decluttered herself off to Uni and my plan was to sort her room for when she inevitably comes home to roost. She had already done a fantastic job of getting rid of 'childhood things' but today we dismantled her bed, took out the fitted wardrobes and started to de-plaster the walls.

3 trips to the tip later, we have a virtually empty room. Still old carpet and some rubble but more knocking off to do tomorrow. Definitely not ooh err Missus. I am so tired! BUT i know that it will all be worth it.

She is nearly 20 and has always had hand me downs and mismatched furniture. For the last 7 years she has had no wall paper on the walls as we stripped off the woodchip when we moved in.

I know that refitting the room will bring more stuff into the house so it is not technically de-hoarding. However, if it looks prettier, has better storage and is something that you are not ashamed to let visitors see, I think it probably counts as de-hoarding the bad stuff out of our lives. What do you wise ladies think?:)

elly68

I'm in for a black bag a day

RadioHorse

drusilla wrote: »

I know that refitting the room will bring more stuff into the house so it is not technically de-hoarding. However, if it looks prettier, has better storage and is something that you are not ashamed to let visitors see, I think it probably counts as de-hoarding the bad stuff out of our lives. What do you wise ladies think?:)

I think that is definitely counting as de-hoarding and decluttering. Making somewhere habitable and pleasant to be in is pretty much the aim of this section of the forum, right?

pigpen

thriftwizard wrote: »

PS - have just talked to the DDs about this, and have managed to extract promises of wielding paintbrushes & helping sort things!

I love decorating, I always feel it is such a shame to put the mountains of crap back in a nice fresh room... where are you doing first?

pigpen

Popping by to cheer Thrifty on with todays mission!!! :T:T:T:T

We are trotting to The Range and then maybe Dunelm then home for flinging!!

GreyQueen

I think decorating, particularly if it's so major that plastering is involved, is definately worthwhile.

I don't personally have a lot of time for the worldview espoused by the decor-lifestyle magazines, being an alien to the idea that furniture is a disposable fashion item, but there's no harm in moving things in when life moves on, such as a young person leaving home. And things do being dreary and tatty over time, and homes need refurbishing. and, as pigpen points out, once you've emptied a room and made it nicer, why would you want to return carp to it?

I changed out my sitting room's curtains for a nice pair of Next-via-the-bootsale-for-£4 ones, and later found a matching cushion from the same range in a chazzer for £2.50. I have to say these simple changes give me pleasure several times a day, so well worth it, although I had to alter the curtains to fit.

Today I snuck out at 6.30 am with a bouquet of sunflowers home-grown on my allotment to surprise a pal with by leaving them on her doorstep (her birthday today, we friends are doing the celebobs next weekend). Interfloralia can eat my dust. Pal's home is a tiny cottage and they are struggling with clutter, so a disposable present which will give pleasure and then be gone is ideal. They're in a coffee jar for a 'vase' which she can either recycle, re-purpose or bring back to me.

Going to start rounding up some of the stuff which the parental units brought to mine on Friday to make a donation bag, if I get enough, I may trot off to Hoxfam which is open for a few hours on a Sunday. If there isn't enough to make a decent bagful, I will put it to one side until there is. Not enough room here to keep more than 1-2 bags out to declutter as they have to sit on the living room floor and annoy me.

Righty, onwards and upwards. I may have to finish the dishes and drag the vacuum out as those impertinent cobwebs are rearrearing in the corners.

catshark88

Oh my goodness, we have just tackled the cupboard of despondency! Loads of old mugs out, vast numbers of glasses and various pills and potions that were out of date. The indigestion tablets were left over from when I was pregnant - my youngest is 5!!

I will take them to the recycling this avo, on the way to a kids' party...

The kids' toys and precious artwork is still there to be done. I'm dreading tackling it, but hopefully I'll get to to this week (displacement activities allowing!)..,