Hoarding - Springing Ahead

GreyQueen

thriftwizard wrote: »

Not Getting Very Far with DS1's room... I've put aside two big bags of fabric for a fellow freecycler in need, sorted out some deceased bedding which would be best disposed of, and a huge pile of - yes, mending! It must be mending week... but this is mostly stuff that will be sold on once intact again. I've already patched & shaken up a lovely old eiderdown ready for sale. But I don't even seem to have made a dent in the ghastly muddle yet. I'm rather hoping that it's one of those jobs that doesn't look any better until you're nearly finished...

I'm sitting here in my 9.5 x 12.5 ft sitting room looking at Stuff.

1. The clothes horse can't come down until the stufff is dry.

2. Some of the stuff on the horse is to be ironed. The ironing board has been out for some days, as a sorting bench/ sewing station. Not much point in putting that away until I have ironed the clothes. Which may be tomorrow, depending on how damp they are.

3. There is a camping mat (still rolled) on the floor. It needs me to put two bits of elastic around it, then can go into the bike shed. The camping kit doesn't live in the bike shed, apart from the mat, because they get broken into occasionally (mine was done in Feb) and I have a very good tent and sleeping bag - which live in the bedroom.

4. Pile of newspapers and some random small boxes which I am intending to use to corral some of the tins on the storage trollies under the bed. Or, should that not work, take to allotment shed for storing the onions.

5. Pile of copies of the local rag, fetched in yesterday by SuperGran. I want to scan through them to see what my friends are doing/ what the neighbours have been convicted of - one's been jailed this week already.

6.............oh, it's all too embarrassing to itemise. I should get off my beam end and start dealing with it.:o

I am about to delve around in my micro-bedroom inc under the bed. Should I not re-appear in a timely manner, pls call the emergency services.

I'll pre-order a hunky fireman, pref 6ft 3 and dark hair, tan, blue eyes.

catshark88

And you've motivated me once again dear GreyQueen.

I've tackled the kept greetings cards, the photos, the paperwork and the too many souvenirs from a past hobby.

Bonfire blazing, giving things a Viking burial.

There are momentos which are in the wrong place (a box file in a cupboard in one room, rather than in pretty boxes in another), but they will very easy to move.

Very tired, but that's all the scary stuff faced and dealt with. Rest is just the usual minutiae of life.

Thank you all.

GreyQueen

Small signs of progress. Three out of the four small boxes floating around have been deployed to control groceries. Anyone else get attacked by tubes of tomato puree leaping out from wall cupboards? No? They're the darndest things to store, they don't stand upright, they don't stack, they take up a lot of room if stood in a tub like pencils in a jar.......

Anyway, I used a small box which held a bag full of broken biscuits, and cut the flaps off and used them to make 4 dividers, so that the puree tubes (there are 20, all in date until 2016-17). I'm astonished that there weren't more of them, they seemed to be everywhere on that shelf, stacked like unruly firewood.

Whilst experimenting with cardboard - and I would just like to say that I personally hold Blue Peter responsible for a lot of my habits - I had a LBM. Yup, in the shop, they have puree tubes in tray boxes, with holes in an upper level of cardboard so they stand upright. Hopefully, before I am very much older, I shall find one of these on shelf, nearly empty, and buy it tubes and all. I shall have to trim the bit with the holes to fit the biscuit box, but that's well possible.

I feel quite chuffed at the idea. This flat is so titchy that any way of playing Tetris is welcome.

Right, going to see if the carp has soaked of the saucepan I need to use to cook my supper. A wumman's work is never done.

VJsmum

Ooh Ooh, please miss, please miss - I have a mending pile too!
And A "Things to take in because i have lost weight and they don't fit right but i love them" pile. But have no time to devote to doing it at the mo. i may do my very favourite baroque trews tomorrow night while Downton is on

Stupid question - i think - but i am going to ask anyway.

I have a "medicine cupboard" with some out of date, were prescribed but could be over the counter pain killers and anti inflammatories. things like Co codamol. They are for the bin, right? Not just "could be used but might not be as strong"?

Our general waste is incinerated so I assume they are OK to put in the bin - i may space them out so no-one could stumble upon a permanent sleep's worth :eek:

Whilst going through said cupboard i chucked some massage oil (WTH?) and some pot pourri refresher - goodness only knows how old that is :rotfl:. Thinking about it, i could probably use it in a reed diffuser.

GreyQueen

Hmmm, due to some judicious folding and smoothing, I have realised that the pending ironing pile is in fact about half a dozen hankies. Which I can put aside when dry and iron them at some future point. I may hide them in the airing cupboard, for my heirs to find after I've gone.

Several items are still damp so clothes airer will have to stay up but ironing board can go away. One I've dekippled it.

Something has just Fallen in my bedroom. I have no idea what it was except it didn't sound like a breakable. Better go check it out.

Panic ye not, was only the camping mat diving out of the linen basket. I have pawed thru my two smallish boxes of fabric and bits of haberdashery and realise that I don't even have the kind of elastic (1 cm wide, black) which I was going to use, so will get some when next near the shops and then get that project nixed.

Keep on digging out from underneath the kipple, my lovelies. We are not alone in this struggle, our name is Legion. Well, sounds better than Clara Clutterbuck of Packrat Manor, doesn't it?!

Knit_Witch

Do I get thrown off the thread if I admit to mending things straight away

M.E.

Grey Queen....... Camping mat can be tied up with the waistband from an old pair of tights or even "posted" into a leg of the old tights. Very cheap and effective, especially when backpacking.

GreyQueen

Knit_Witch wrote: »

Do I get thrown off the thread if I admit to mending things straight away

Of course not, my lovely. But can you do ours, too?

Knit_Witch

GreyQueen wrote: »

Of course not, my lovely. But can you do ours, too?

Errrr .... no :rotfl:, I may get mine done quickly but trust me there is sever muttering happening at the same time

thriftwizard

Two jackets now have new buttons, and a lovely Jaeger silk dress has its button loop repaired. They can go onto the rails on Monday, and a big bag of wool blankets is awaiting pricing, to go Monday as well.

Actually feel as if I have made some headway now... but there's a long way to go yet! And most of the rest of the kipple in there isn't mine to sort out. I think I'm going to have to put my foot down quite a lot over the next few weeks; if it's yours, it goes in your room. And the two "spare" rooms, whose erstwhile inhabitants now live away but persist in returning home from time to time, can each double up, one as a sewing/mending space and the other as a Man Cave with weights, Hornby railway, footy programmes & sports books, spare computers, guitars, amplifiers etc. Not to mention sleeping guests; however the most regular guest, OH's identical twin brother, would never emerge from the Man Cave again, so he'll have to go in the sewing room when DS3 isn't here.