Hoarding - Springing Ahead

ivyleaf

Brilliant news about your DS, roundtuit :T:T:j:j:T:T

ginnyknit

Excellent news roundtuit :T:T

Apprently donating things to the hospital is not simple :mad: have to wait for a phone call to say when I can deliver as they are so busy - this is going to be difficult due to Oh's level of poorlyness and I cant leave him to take them by bus ( if I could carry them all). I guess its good that they are getting donations in

Thrifty you are doing well, can you see difference yet? well maybe when the rugs and stuff are gone.

Im now hoping 2 items on fleaby are gone so I can take them to the post with the other parcels tomorrow. Today was a washout as Dgs got us up at 4.45am so we were kn*ckered all day, but at least we can take a day off his mummy and daddy cant.

catshark88

Excellent news re jobs and recycling machines. It's fab that they will be going where they are so, so needed.

GQ, I'm sorry that you are worrying about presents, but I'm also a little relieved as I'm doing something similar and I thought I must be the only one....

Having done so much decluttering, I'm dreading the amount of stuff, that Christmas brings, especially with kids. Then I feel horribly guilty for being a grumpy, hypocritical old moo, especially given that it's me that's buying most of it.....

Can you plant poinsettias out in the spring, or do I need to look after them in the house for the next x years? Lol!

thriftwizard

Having done so much decluttering, I'm dreading the amount of stuff, that Christmas brings, especially with kids. Then I feel horribly guilty for being a grumpy, hypocritical old moo, especially given that it's me that's buying most of it.....

DITTO! If I didn't know the family have been snapping up presents whenever they see them, all year, I'd announce this was going to be the first totally edible/comsumable Christmas, no "hardware" allowed! Might moot that for next year, when the troops are all assembled. Might need to allow handmade, too though...

A huge car-load of curtains, lampshades, rugs & cushions have just trotted off with some Freecyclers doing up a flat for their disabled son. All stuff I'd picked up for my stall, but other stuff has been more "headline" and I haven't needed to use "fillers" like these. Good to see them go to good use, and gain some more room back, as they're all bulky items. They only cost me pennies, but are good-quality items that are still very serviceable and even attractive, in the right setting - think long thick lined velvet curtains, shell lampshades, big glossy cushions

Yes, brilliant news about Roundtuit's son's new job - well done him, it's not exactly easy to get a stable job with a council any more. Now to persuade my DD2 that regular paid employment is not, in fact, a death sentence...

GreyQueen

:T Well done to roundtuit's son on his new job, you must both be so relieved.

Thriftwizard, a lovely old hand-cranked Singer of mine went to a charity which exported them to Africa about 25 years ago. In a way, I wish I had kept it, as it was immaculate, but then I do like the functions like zig-zag on a modern electric machine and I'm sure it is a treasured possession and livilhood-earner to whomever got it, and that's more important than it lurking in my home.

About 15 years ago, Mum and I were volunteer helpers at a church jumblie where an unsold sewing machine was about to be binned; it was one of those early electrics which looked as if the power bit/ drive belt was bolted on to what was essentially a hand machine. To save the waste, we took her home and got to work.

Mum found that it was wired up wrongly (this was stopping it working) and she wired it properly and tightened the drive belt. I played with it until I figured the theading by trial and error, cleaned and serviced it, and then tooled 'er up, did some sample stitching, stopping in mid-stitch (so a potential purchaser could see that it did work perfectly), and sold at a booter straight out of the back of the car. Another workable item saved from landfill.

Today, I have been to the chazzer with a donation bag and nothing has come in bar some fruit and veg. Ooops, tell a lie, a 50p paperback has come in, but it isn't in the library, I have started reading it already, and it will go out in the next donation bag.

I can see parts of the counter-top in my kitchen......strange but true.

silvasava

Well done to Roundtuit's DS!

Called in to the local cat charity & found they give unusables to the rag man. I have a number of things that no-one would want in their house (me included!) so I'm happy to send them to the 'rag man' at least they won't be going into landfill & the charity will get something for them. Large bag filled up & by front door waiting to go.
Working my way through the Christmas card list with letters to do for a number of them - 2 done so far! I'm aiming to have them all done by Monday - lots of copying & pasting!
Off to put some shin of beef in the slow cooker with some stew pack veg & anything lurking that still looks reasonable!

ginnyknit

Took a bag of rags to the cs and a jigsaw also posted 3 big parcels so bit more room now. Keep trying to spend a day getting the living room sorted to put the tree up but no success so far, life keeps getting in the way.

I am determined that by the end of January I will have it sorted so I dont lose things all the time and the room will be clear of detritus. I am revolting :rotfl:against clutter!

GreyQueen

ginnyknit wrote: »

Took a bag of rags to the cs and a jigsaw also posted 3 big parcels so bit more room now. Keep trying to spend a day getting the living room sorted to put the tree up but no success so far, life keeps getting in the way.

I am determined that by the end of January I will have it sorted so I dont lose things all the time and the room will be clear of detritus. I am revolting :rotfl:against clutter!

I speed-read that and thought you were putting yourself down, ginny! Doh! Reading speed occaisonally outstrips the CPU inside the GQ brainbox.

Today, I had a baked potato for my tea, with the accompaniments a random bunch of stuff inc the last two of the 2013 picked onions. Which left1 lb jamjar half full of vinegar. Which called to mind the half-tub of baking powder which was lurking under the sink, which called to mind that thing you can do with pouring both into the plughole at the same time and they go all frothy and clean out the pipes.

So that's what I'm doing now. Will finish it off with a kettleful of boiling water. I had two episodes yestereve of rumblings and random bubblings from the sink, when I wasn't even using it. We're flats, some of the plumbing is shared, dunno what causes this fault but I'd like my pipes to be as squeakly clean as the pipes can be.

So, exiting the home into the recycling bins outside are; the jamjar, the plastic tub from the baking powder, the bottle the w.u.l. came in and the bottle with a dreg of hair conditioner in. I bought that bottle from the previous flat and that was a decade ago.......tis rinsed and washed and ready to do.

The toiletry stash is really thinning out now, have another 7 shampoo sachets (each does 2 washes) and half a litre of shampoo and that's it for the hairy side of things.

If you want a laugh, imagine yours truly half-asleep one morning this past week and reaching for one of the two tubes on the shelf (toothpaste and Nair). I nearly had perfectly depilated pearly whites......lol.

Softstuff

GreyQueen wrote: »

If you want a laugh, imagine yours truly half-asleep one morning this past week and reaching for one of the two tubes on the shelf (toothpaste and Nair). I nearly had perfectly depilated pearly whites......lol.

I did get a chuckle. Reminded me of what my Dad used to say about eating certain things "eat it up, it'll give you straight hair and curly teeth" :rotfl:

roundtuit

Thank you for all the congratulations for DS - who rolled in at 2.50 am even though he had to be up for work this morning! I woke him up when it became obvious he was going to overlay - then I went back to bed and left him to it. Welcome to the real world DS!!!!

So I'm a bit cross about that and then I get a text regarding my 'next day' delivery parcel - ordered yesterday and paid for delivery today as I'm at home today!!! - to say it won't be delivered today as they've not received it from the supplier. So now I have to ask someone to house-sit and parcel wait - it'd better come Monday as my 'sitter' isn't available Tuesday.

Off thread - but I have to ask ... does anyone else feel like they're always taking two steps forward and three steps back???

And the budgie is driving me nuts as his new 'game' is picking the seed up out of his pot and throwing it out of the cage! I filled the pot yesterday and he is currently scrabbling about in the bottom of the pot trying to grab seed to fling! Do you suppose he's heard me talk about flinging and decided to declutter in his own way???

I'm so glad it's not just me who sees Christmas as an invasion of 'stuff' into the house which is already home to far too much stuff.

Sorry - this tired and grumpy Roundtuit is going to make a coffee, finish writing her Christmas cards and not shout at the budgie who is now noisily busy trying to dismantle the seed pot ... even the budgie's not 'normal' in this house.

PS. Anyone seen my mojo? It appears to have left the building - not that I'm really sure what a 'mojo' is!