Hoarding - Springing Ahead

thriftwizard

Well done, catshark88! Makes it all worthwhile, doesn't it?!

I Freecycled 4 pairs of curtains and most of a 'van awning today so I'd be feeling quite virtuous if I hadn't had to sneak a 4' futon in... removed from my mother's flat yesterday to make way for a ripple bed for my stepfather, but it's by no means certain that he will accept it, even though he might well have to end his days in hospital without it, rather than peacefully at home. So it seems kind of daft to get rid of it... also, I will need it (or at least a double bed) at Christmas, as DS1 is bringing his young lady down to meet us (serious, then) and they won't both fit into his little single bed. It'll be quite convenient to have it to sit on in the room instead of a bed, when it isn't needed as a bed.

So, now I need to dispose of an entire bed...

silvasava

Not ventured into the 'Room of Doom' yet (I promise......;)) as only just finished holiday washing & I hate it hanging round the house. I did walk down the garden to check the greenhouse & picked the last of the tomatoes & some chilli peppers. I cut down the old tomatoes & put them in the green bag for tomorrow, swept the greenhouse floor & found a bag of shells that I'll put on Freecycle for someone to use. I also managed to pull out a huge ornamental grass (self sower) that had appeared in the front garden swamping one of my pretty shrubs
SQ - my chilli peppers are still producing & healthy & my bell pepper has suddenly produced more fruit - can I just leave them to carry on in an unheated greenhouse? I've never grown either of them before.

thriftwizard

Silvasava, we're probably in the clear frost-wise for a bit yet down here (I'm just next door in Dorset) but I'd be thinking about finding an indoor windowsill for them now, as I am for my pelargoniums. I've had chillis and greek peppers still producing after Christmas in our conservatory.

Off up to assess DS1's room/The Dump now. I need to leave DS3's room as it is now as it seems he's popping home for a dental appointment next week - from the south of France! So any further clearing up needs to be done in situ... I desperately need to be able to use my sewing station, which has been buried since DS2 & TDiL moved back in; I need to re-hem 3 summer skirts before they go away for the winter, split one large curtain into two narrower ones, and make a knitting needle roll for a friend, ASAP!

Happygreen

well, the mere task of finding some paperwork has evolved to a major issue as I made the "mistake" of moving the box (just in case) and I did not only find evidence of mice (poison has been in the loft for a week,grrr) and a leek! Firstly I blamed the radiator, then that I maybe overwatered the Avocado tree - it was my salt lamp! It's been off for a while as I'd not been spending enough time in the room to make it worthwhile having it on...So I had to cut another bit of the ancient carpet out, also the rug which needs to dry, vaccum the floor, wash the floor.... I wonder when I actually will get round to finding those papers, lol.

silvasava

Well the Room of Doom is still looking at me - BUT I've given the downstairs a good hoover & dust, wiped all the skirtings (WHY did I think that fancy moulded skirtings were a good idea??) pulled the cushions off the suite & hoovered the crumbs up, picked up all the slip mats in the hall and spot cleaned the carpets. Got rid of a load of newpapers for firelighters & put the kibble away. Having a cuppa now 'cos I'm bushed!

RadioHorse

Have drastically neglected the decluttering aspect this week but trying to pick myself up to go and clear up the kitchen and sort the bathroom out. I should be able to throw away a couple of bottles of cleaner after that because they're ALMOST empty.

Hoping to find a couple of things to put on ebay out of my wardrobe so I should do some laundry too.

mcculloch29

Hello all, been MIA for a while and not a lot of decluttering done, apart from cardboard from free stuff that Am@zon sends me. Part of this is from Az's own Vine Voice scheme where one is offered free stuff in return for reviews, but I am also offered free stuff from manufacturers. I'm not allowed to give the Vine Voice stuff away, but I've been trying to rehome the manufacturers goods.
I was pleased to re-home a CD player/radio alarm clock to a friend this week. I'd bought a new DAB radio alarm with my Nectar points, but the old one still works fine, it's just that the reception could be crackly at times that made me replace it. A baby step but it's good to have it gone.

GreyQueen

And a lovely thing to do for a friend, as well. Good on ya.

I have now finished the part of the week where I sell my time and am on my own time for 3 days. Still dark, so not sure if it will be gardening weather, but if it is, plan to pedal up to the allotmentino and drag some stuff around and do a dump run on the way home.

The lottie, the tip and home form 3 points on a triangle, so I can divert to the tip on the way, which shaves a little off the pedalling time. When you have chronic fatigue syndrome and only a pushbike for transport, you tend to become marvellously efficient at planning your journeys.

I have dropped my hands on some nice tops which are work-suitable in the Everything 50p chazzer, which don't require ironing, so will look for some more of those and even (whisper it who dares) think about shedding some of the ironables.

The allotment is always a work in progress, and I'm busy in the 9th square (top right corner) where the Alpine Carrot Bed is being chiselled down and raked over The Rough (as was), which was brought into cultivation in Sept-Oct 2013.

Ultimately, my aim is to have zero rough shaggy areas of grass. I will still have to stop encroachment from other people's plots. because the row in back of my plot is offset, I have parts of the tops of 3 other plots touching the top of mine, plus 3 plots alongside (sub-divided plots) all of which are problematic with weeds encroaching, plus brambles trying to loop across.

Well, they don't try, they just do it, and I go after 'em. It would be better not to have to police the boundaries for vegetative encroachment, but it is as it is, and I just get on with it.

Plenty of little things need to be dealt with here at the ranch. If I have stuff left out, it's seldom a simple matter of not having been arrised to put it away. Nope, it's a complicated matter of the item requiring some kind of action which I can't yet be arrised to do.:rotfl:

Will try and nix a few of the loiterers in the next few days. Have a good day with your projects, one and all. GQ xx

parsniphead

At last a few days off which is needed as the house is starting to revert back to utter tip and also I may say or do something I later regret if at work today. As much as I may like to declutter work from life it can't be done.

Anyway I'm going to spend until 9.00 am doing some cleaning, tidying and washing. After this it time to really start hitting the sewing room to make it as productive and user friendly as possible as this will eventually be the way out of the job of great irritation.

The first big job is the washing as I heard a rumour of sun and wind for the morning. Fingers crossed eh.

Have a good day everyone.

catshark88

I bought some shiny new box files in order to better organise my paperwork (it's not actually bad, but I want to keep it down to what I really need).

Anyway, it turns out that I already have lots of box files and more that are full of stuff I don't need anymore and so I have spare spares (if that makes sense).

Am cross that I have been gratuitously unfrugal. Am looking forward to the bonfire I'm going to have disposing of what I no longer need though!!