Hoarding - Springing Ahead

whitewing

What is it with men?

I still can't understand why DH can't tidy up as he goes along when cooking in the kitchen. (I am grateful that he does the cooking though).

I also can't understand why he'd leave coathangers on the bed when he got dressed, but I cured that one by making the bed with them in.

pigpen

I'm so nice I just took him a pizza and coffee up.. saves him coming down .. you wouldn't believe the state of the room.. :eek:

RadioHorse

Just finished the pen drawer and am returning it to the chest from whence it came. 81 pens that were unusable or unpleasant to use, so they went in the bin. Also that came out of the drawer: part of a bike pump, four screwdrivers, a euro, a Norweigian crown coin, 26 pence, three pairs of scissors and assorted screws. Also found, pens from school, pens from when mother was doing her training TEN YEARS AGO, and Barbie pencils from when I was five. >.>

O.o Seriously? The contents drawer has followed us from at LEAST when I was 5, almost sixteen years ago!

silvasava

Radiohorse - just think of the 26 pence as your reward for clearing it all out

GreyQueen

Grinning at the litany of things found in drawers. Here's a few of the things floating around a house (hi Mum!) where the youngest child is late forties and there are no grandchildren or other children visiting.

A stickle-brik, a barbie shoe, lego wheel, a plastic doll dummy, ossified trapezoid Jumbo pink erasers as per Woolworths in the 1970s..........just a few things hanging around in little catch-alls like small bowls and drawer units etc.

I think it's like that convergence zone in the Pacific where the currents bring all the floating trash of the oceans of the world to swirl in a slowly-degrading plastic soup.

Today I have decluttered a non-native black cricket found in my bathroom yesterday to a colleague who keeps exotic pets. It will be fed to a tarantula. :eek: And the jar I transported it in will go to the recycling.

Feeling beyond-p00ped but will rest this evening, pop in and out of the webulator and aim to do little bits and bobs of randon decluttering. I am reading books as well as blogs etc, so once they're done they get decluttered back to the library or the chazzer. I also decluttered a bar of chocolate as it was taking up soooooo much room. :whistle:

VJsmum

Bicycle helmets!!

Any idea who might take them? Decluttered a wally trolley full of stuff and a rucksack full to the chazzer - all bar the bike hats which they can't take.

They are too small for my kids, all relevant nieces / nephews are catered for. It seems a crying shame to bin them when there is nothing wrong with them.

pigpen

freecycle?

cycling school?

facebook pages?


ebay?

gumtree?

thriftwizard

Definitely try Freecycle/Freegle - I've just FC'd a bath/shower seat ("Whoever would want THAT?" asked my mother, baffled; it was requested within two minutes of going up there) and a giant hole punch, no longer needed, and took a bootload of rubbish to the Tip, where I escaped with nothing more than a pair of knitting needles - they save stuff for me, down there! But it's stuff to sell on, or jam jars to fill up, in the hope that I'll take them some of the resulting jam, so not Cumber.

Onwards & upwards - still aiming for the spare pots & pans, hopefully will get to them tomorrow.

silvasava

GQ - I have this mental picture of a Sargasso Sea of kipple, junk, odd socks, underbed fluff with a manic old woman cackling in the middle as she paddles round the world collecting more

Happygreen

VJsmum wrote: »

Bicycle helmets!!

Any idea who might take them? Decluttered a wally trolley full of stuff and a rucksack full to the chazzer - all bar the bike hats which they can't take.

They are too small for my kids, all relevant nieces / nephews are catered for. It seems a crying shame to bin them when there is nothing wrong with them.

Here charity shops wold take them!