Hoarding - Springing Ahead

GreyQueen

(((((((((silvasava)))))))))) get well soon, pet, and give the pet a stroke from me, I love a purry cat, so soothing.

mcculloch29

Best bit of decluttering this year, copied from my FB status:

Oh what a buzz... I just had a really lovely lady collect a chunky head torch/bike light that was surplus to requirements, posted it on the local 'Free to a Good Home' FB page. She will be using it to shed light on her music as she plays carols with the Town Band, the lady had wanted one but was finding it hard to justify the expense of a reliable make. I am so pleased I listened to the inner voice that told me to post it up on FB, she was meant to have that.

thriftwizard

Good result, mcculloch29! And take care of yourself, silvasava.

Not been free to do much today, though I might tackle a bit more in a bit. I waved goodbye to a bin bag of fabric and two carrier bags of tapestries that had come to me without their packaging; unsaleable, alas, but eminently useable still as they're pre-printed onto the canvas & still had all their yarns. It all came in as parts of job lots that I've made my money back on long ago, and I'd put them aside planning to do things with them, and of course I've never had the time & wouldn't have been able to find them if I did! I've also painted the chimney breast where we've had the stove put in; it's a quick & dirty job, as I'm planning to paint the whole room after Christmas, but it looks OK for now. One wall of DS1's room has been filled, sanded, sugar-soaped & rinsed ready for painting, too, and if all things remain equal I should get the other big wall prepped tonight too.

Once I'd got going sorting out in there yesterday, I didn't want to stop; I could have gone on all night until I started to make silly mistakes. However OH would have had a fit; he's a lark & can't get his head around the fact I'm an owl & have much more energy in the evenings. And all the housework, cooking etc. are out of the way and I have a clear run at it - but he gets up at 5am to start work at 7 (flexi-hours) so I suppose it's not very considerate of me to try to do it in the evenings...

ETA: second wall done & dusted. However, it's become apparent that there's a BIG problem with the ceiling; it's not artex (spellchecker thinks that should be art exhibition!) over plasterboard, as I thought, but artex over lathe & plaster, and it's started to come down... horsehair visible in the hole. I am not able to tackle ceilings... this could be expensive. And it isn't going to get done before Christmas. I will do one layer of paint so it's OK for the boys to sleep in (not under the hole!) but there's no point doing too much as clearly we are in for major works in there...

And That Darn Cat (the one with the bladder problem) has got in there whilst my back was turned, and wee'd on one of the two remaining bags of my stock in there. Luckily it wasn't anything high-vlaue, just some gent's shirts, but it'll all have to be chucked. Sigh... but I suppose that's one way of de-cluttering.

Happygreen

silvasava wrote: »

My cold has now turned into the beginnings of Bronchitis. Rang Dr & DH collected some antibiotics for me so hopefully will be feeling a bit better tomorrow as I've still got LOADS to do & visitors arriving for the week on Saturday. i've decluttered 2 lots of Paracetamol & a pack of Lemsip haha & spent today cuddled up in bed with the cat - a purr does help

A speedy recovery for you

ginnyknit

I was woken by the car alarm going off ?? Luckily it made me realise I hadnt put the bins out :eek::eek: just got them out in time...phew... that would have ruined my de-cluttering attempts.

Living room now much less cluttered and some decs up, just need the tree out of the loft but need Oh's help and he is hibernating :rotfl:Think I will walk to the Cs with another bag and have a break.

Silvasaver, look after yourself x

One parcel left to post but its not urgent however my need to de-clutter is making me sort it out sooner rather than later.

silvasava

Thriftwizard - our house has plater & lath ceilings. We did take one down NEVER again. The mess & dust was horrendous. A friendly plasterer told us just to find out where the joists were & nail plasterboard sheets to them
Fiddly & awkward but they're still up over 30 years on!

Happygreen

I had the "man for all house related woes and odd jobs" from the village here as a downpipe issue had started to soaked up my walls probably many months before I noticed and water was standing outside each time it rained. It will cost a bit but it will help keeping my room dry and free from mould. Not exactly a de-hoarding issue unless clearing half over a foot of silt in the manhole counts as a hoard, more "neglect", lol. I am very pleased it's been done now as OH is such a procrastinator with these kind of jobs, I'd get a stomach ulcer waiting for it to get done! It will keep me motivated

thriftwizard

I'd get a stomach ulcer waiting for it to get done!

I'm going to have to go up into our loft later on today to retrieve the Christmas decorations. I've asked OH three times in the last week; there are also several bags of childhood oddments too "precious" for people to face parting with yet that need to go up there. It hasn't happened; lots of footy-watching, and digging up the drive (he's always game to do some digging - ask my poor plants!) but no Christmas decs... So up I go, which gives me kittens ever since the ladder slipped & I fell out of it a couple of years ago.

But it was whilst I was eyeing up the bathroom floor & checking that it's not likely to be slippery this time (though there'll be an Offpsring holding the ladder anyway) that I noticed the large bag of Christmas decorations hiding under the towel rail that has actually been there since Twelfth Night, January 2014... which goes to show a) how cluttered this house really is, that it could be overlooked, and b) that a lot of nagging never gets me anywhere!

Easier to overcome my collywobbles & do it myself...

littlegreenparrot

I've discovered a previously unknown peril of decluttering.
I pulled out a couple of box files from under book case in the living room the other day, to go through and shred, well basically everything! And I discovered a beautifully chewed through plastic bag holding files (I'm a teacher, they breed in my house) and a pile of seeds.

I had a mouse find it's way in during the summer, I had thought its activities were limited to the baking cupboard, there was a tiny hole by the extractor and it got in along the back of the units. And since filling that, and putting everything in proper containers in seemed to vanish. Now it seems it, or its pal has been happily living in the house all along :eek:
I have a pet parrot, so it's got a constant supply of suitable food, and warm corners to hide in. So, shopping for humane mousetrap is today's lunchtime chore. And now I'm a bit worried about getting the xmas decs out of the cupboard under the stairs next week. the nest is most likely in there

ginnyknit

Little green dont forget if you succeed with your humane trap you must release the contents far from home or it will just return :eek:

Bin bag of wooly goodness now re-homed to the childrens hospital - big space in the bedroom now :j:j and karma topped up.

Tree is up and window decorations on the newly scrubbed windows so am a happy ginny. Nothing piled in front of bookcase and cardboard box with leftover fleabay items now empty, contents in the bin - Wow. the only bits that didnt sell were random model railway buildings that were of little value. Took a heavy cotton throw to the cs as we much prefer fleece now and honastly how many blankets do we really need.

I have a long way to go but the journey is started and showing results.