Hoarding - Springing Ahead

mothernerd

24 items gone to the charity bin in the library today. They have been hanging around since before Christmas but I am still on crutches, only started proper walks outside last week and I still can't carry much (had to repack the bag and take some things out).

My house shares a car park with the library and two mini trips across the car park were enough for me - the library are bringing my books to my home. I did suggest returning to normal service last week (didn't want to be a nuisance) but the library lady said she would keep bringing them for now and if I wanted to choose my own books (their selections have been excellent and I have a short list of 'new to me' authors to catch up on).I should leave them at the desk and she would still bring them. So will keep with the service for now (walking is improving weekly) but may take another small parcel or two over the next week).

GreyQueen

mothernerd wrote: »

Yeah - it's self-manufactured from all the socks that go missing.

This made me laugh A LOT. I'd always wondered which alternative reality lost socks migrated to and what they did once there, and now I know.

Mothernerd, glad to hear that you are making steady progress towards recovery, your library staff sound wonderful.

I have been having a little mending sesh this evening, as having many more pairs of undies through the wash (broken washer, new washer, Mount Washmore being caught up with) and discovered that some of them had holes. Tell ya, Sl0ggi are not the knicker they once were and I'm not buying any more of them at £8/ pair if they're letting the quality go like that.

Anyroad, have mended several pairs and will put those forwards for concentrated use and get them worn up and to the great laundry bin in the sky.

Have also binned a small Sains hessian bag. It was given to me several years ago and has had a very hard life inc some spillages and stains which have defied all attempts to shift. Still just about functional, so I swithered about ditching it, as it fits the rear basket on my pushbike.

Umm. The rear basket which is still on that bike which I swopped for Mum's Pashley 18 months ago and which lives 30 miles away. So I binned it, it was far too manky for donation, and a brief debate about 'putting it into the shed to keep Stuff in' reminded me that the is the route to a very overcrowded shed. So it's gone.

Baby steps, but heading in the right direction. One my mend then I'm going to have a G &T in a can (pressie from SuperGran, pensioners rock, don't they?) :rotfl:

imataloss

Hello. I'm out of lurkdom again. Just been having a quick read after realising my oarding needs to be sorted. We are going to be having a new boiler fitted and will also be stripping out the kitchen and fitting a new one. The cupboards and drawers are overflowing. Just how many plastic containers can you fit in a cupboard. I'm certain they breed in there.
So I'm going to start in the kitchen and work my way upwards through the house. Wish me luck. I thinkI'm going to need it.

mothernerd

We have a large elderly population in our borough and I had noticed the little vans and notices about the home delivery service. Went in the library a few days before my operation to change my address back to old house and asked at the same time.

Thought I would be able to walk fairly quickly (had cold.cough/sore throat bug for 3 weeks before Christmas which knocked me back a bit) but was bothered about the weight of books and I'd also been told I musn't bend down so was worried that I could only pick books from the top two shelves.

They said I qualified for the service and when I want to change back to normal service I let them know. I think they have got rid of the library bus and replaced it with these little vans. Two or three small vans dropping off book parcels to specific households on a rota is probably much more cost effective than a library bus + driver and two staff parked up on an estate for half a day being targeted by idiots with nothing better to do than throw rocks.

When my hessian shoppers and other baskets develop holes I put soil in them and plant them up (bulbs but also onions and potatoes last year - knew I was moving so dismantled my raised beds and put it back to lawn). Depends on the bag but they have lasted from 1 to 3 years and I can move them about as needed (and usually can go in the compost heap afterwards.

Icey77

imataloss wrote: »

Just how many plastic containers can you fit in a cupboard. I'm certain they breed in there.

OMG, I've just had a light bulb moment!!!!
In my plastic container drawer I have burger making stuff which was my Mum's. I do remember her making burgers in it when I was a child for BBQs and she's given it to me in one of her clear outs.

I, however, have never made burgers. For a BBQ or otherwise. These burger moulds have at in my drawers, moving with me twice. They are going in the charity bag tomorrow, when we next have a BBQ (an infrequent affair at the best of times with 2 small children!) I will do what everyone else does and buy my burgers. If I have a domestic goddess crisis at some point in the future I can trundle down to Lakeland and by another set or make them by hand and just squash them as the famous chefs do.

Onwards and upwards, hurrah!!!!

thriftwizard

I make burgers pretty often, Icey77, and have never managed to get any kind of mould or press to work! Much easier just to roll your mixture into a ball & squish it; also much easier to clean your hands afterwards (as well as before, naturally!) than any gadget, no matter how low-tech.

I've stopped panicking now. The car is full again, but it's full of clean, mended, trimmed, pressed, priced items to go tomorrow, plus a box of stuff for the Tip and a bag of clothes excavated from the deeper recesses of the bedroom to go to the homeless. This now includes two jumpers, which have been replaced by the 50p "pure new wool" ones from Cornwall. One item, a Harrods suitcase that may actually be quite valuable, is awaiting further research, but will also be on its way before long, and two items - hand-knitted baby shawls - are still drying, flat on my ceiling airer; I'm not hurrying beautiful hand-knitted wool items.

So, back to square one, having gone backwards for a few days! But a little further forwards, perhaps, with the bag going off to the homeless. And in passing down the street earlier, I glanced in at the porch & realised that although I haven't tackled it at all yet, it's nowhere near as bad as it has been. Not good; still full of stuff that no longer has any business in this house, but not as bad as it was a couple of years ago.

Icey77

Ha, I've just pulled said burger press out of the drawer and it actually is Tupperware!
I didn't know I owned any honest to God Tupperware, well not for much longer anyway :rotfl:

MyHappinessProject

Icey77 wrote: »

Ha, I've just pulled said burger press out of the drawer and it actually is Tupperware!
I didn't know I owned any honest to God Tupperware, well not for much longer anyway :rotfl:

Popping out of lurkdom to say...you do know that ALL tupperware is worth loads for sale on ebay , don't you?...just saying,it is an option...sinks back in to lurkdom

whiteguineapig

i was going to say that as well, i'm sure i'v read tupperware sells on ebay

Happygreen

Gosh Icey77, I wish I had your tuppers, lol. I keep on buying tubs as they either disappear on me (I suspect I might find some in DD1's poor student flat) or come out of the freezer somewhat damaged...

I've been mending a lot of clothes and washing and sorting another load from a bag I found under the bed. I have no idea why I put them there maybe a couple of years ago! Some is nice stuff I can still use like warm pyjama bottoms and garden T-shirts, others will go into the black bag for Cash4clothes. Some nice things from DD1 I'll still take to the charity shop, they are just too lovely even for the possibility of a shredder coming near them....Then I discovered a project I started 25 years ago - a knitted patchwork blanket! And there was no evidence of moths which I found utterly surprising after all this time....It's the best season to work on it now as I'll have a warm blanket over my knees when watching catch-up TV, lol.