Hoarding - Springing Ahead

idristhedragon

Hi everyone Im not sure if you will remember me? I was quite a prolific poster about 18 months ago......I think last time I posted I had just paid for a visit from the decluttering lady??
Well eventually we went for the most extreme form of de-cluttering and in November last year we moved house :j We went from a victorian terrace with a teeny weeny yard to a 30's semi with a side extension, a double drive and a 160 foot garden and a HUGE shed :T which is FAB with 2 cats, 4 kids and a large dog

We are so happy here and really pleased we made the move but my debts are scary again, I have been hoarding (clothes) a bit again and thought I'd come back here to get straight (if you'll have me!)

Life is very different now really, my kids are 17,11,9 and 6 and Im no longer a childminder (hallelujah) - I have a job I love in the community and am generally happier.

So whats been happening??

catshark88

4 carrier bags, stuffed full, went to the CS bin in the recycling centre.

I've kept one drawer of clothes I hope to slim into, but everything else in my wardrobe and chest of drawers, is stuff that actually fits now. It's scary that I've got this big, but very liberating to know that I can actually get into anything that is in view!

catshark88

idristhedragon wrote: »

Hi everyone Im not sure if you will remember me?

I remember you! And I seem to have stolen your signature, lol! Great minds heh?

GreyQueen

Afternoon all.

Have spent a big chunk of the day hanging out at a pal's house, just chatting, doing some craft, drinking tea, watching some TV, great way to spend a rainy day.

I seem to be generating a decluttering aura because my friend went up into her loft to get something for her craft project and suddenly bags of Stuff were thudding down. Short version is that she ended up with an IKEA bagful of Stuff to go to the chazzer and I volunteered to be the one to do it.

Am now home, have folded the stuff into carriers bags and have chucked a few of the clothes in with my washload. They were put away clean but have got badly crumpled in storage. Will get them ironed then off the premises.

I also wanted to share something I read yesterday in Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, which gave me a real a-ha! moment. From page 160:

Another lesson we can derive from the dictionary defininition of "frugal" is the recognition that we don't need to possess a thing to enjoy it - we merely need to use it. If we are enjoying an item, whether or not we own it, we are being frugal, For many of life's pleasures it may be far better to "use" something than to "possess" it (and pay in time and energy for the upkeep). So often we have been like feudal lords, gathering as many possessions as possible from far and wide and bringing them inside the walls of our castle. If we want something (or wanted it in the past, or imagine we may want it in the future), we think we must bring it inside the boundaries of the world called "mine". What we fail to recognise is that what is outside the walls of "mine" doesn't belong to our enemy; it belongs to "the rest of us". Abd if what lies outside our walls is not "them" but "us", we can afford to loosen our grip a bit on our possessions. We can gingerly open the doors of our fortress and allow goods (material and spiritual) to flow into and out of our boundaries.

Pretty darned neat, hey?

Picklepot

idristhedragon wrote: »

Hi everyone Im not sure if you will remember me? I was quite a prolific poster about 18 months ago......I think last time I posted I had just paid for a visit from the decluttering lady??

I remember you too welcome back! I have only just started reading again having realised that i have just been kidding myself with my previous clutter clearing attempts. If i m honest not a huge amount has left the premises i think i have just been churning it around the house and trying to reorganise it. :mad: I am getting so fed up of it - but its only me that can address it. So i am back to try and make progress

ivyleaf

Welcome back Idris! Glad you love your new home and job.

Roundtuit You (and thankfully the rest of us too) can have as many fresh starts as needed x

Picklepot Nice to see you back too

We have a Christmas "fayre" (I hate that word) at church in a couple of weeks so I shall be able to donate a few bits and pieces. I have some little ornaments I don't want any more. They're not having my little wooden kiwi from New Zealand though

camelot1001

Hello, I too posted on here for a while, need to come back though!

I de-cluttered a 6 bedroom house with a huge shed full of late OHs

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rubbish, oh sorry, tools and things, and then we moved. DS1 took all his stuff as he has his own house so just me, DD and DS2 here but DS2 has now got his own place but it's in Holland so not easy to off-load stuff.

Nearly a year on I need to de-clutter again as we brought so much stuff and furniture here (now a 3 bed house) we are crammed full. I went round with a box the other day and filled it with ornaments and things and they went to the charity shop together with the curtains and rug from my room as I am stripping that at the moment.

I am determined to get rid of half the things in this house during the next couple of months. Today a man is coming to buy 2 chests of drawers that are surplus to requirements.

idristhedragon

I sorted and sold loads of my boys lego yesterday on our local selling page. Unfortunately I then went out and spent the money on clothes from a lady on the same selling page. Idiot.
I am off work ill again today (day 10 of flu) and I have loads more kids stuff to list and get out while they are at school and won't miss it!! might crack on with that today as I feel a lot better- has turned into head cold now am over last weeks proper couldn't stand up flu so it would be an ideal time to do it as am off today and tomorrow!

silvasava

Afternoon All. - well I've started Monday reasonably well as i had an email from relly's & they are coming to stay from 20th to 26th December with 2 small children. SO 2 bedrooms cleaned & dusted & tidy - shut doors so cat can't sleep on the beds!
Given my kitchen, breakfast room & utility floors a proper wash (hands & knees!) & skirtings & kickboards done too. Washing folded & put away. recycling in the bins. 1 item sold on ebeast & some more waiting for bids - fingers crossed. Off to make a list as one visitor is a veggie (food - not himself!!) so need to menu plan & get some of my freezer stash used up.

jk0

idristhedragon wrote: »

I sorted and sold loads of my boys lego yesterday on our local selling page. Unfortunately I then went out and spent the money on clothes from a lady on the same selling page. Idiot.
I am off work ill again today (day 10 of flu) and I have loads more kids stuff to list and get out while they are at school and won't miss it!! might crack on with that today as I feel a lot better- has turned into head cold now am over last weeks proper couldn't stand up flu so it would be an ideal time to do it as am off today and tomorrow!

Oh, poor kids.

You sold their lego? Did they know?

Seriously Idris, I think you ought to discus this toy selling with them. When I was ten, my mother thoughtlessly gave away a toy wheelbarrow of mine to the family who were storing our belongings while we moved.

I was really upset. More so that I hadn't been consulted, when probably if I had been, I would have agreed as it was too small for me by then.