Hoarding - Springing Ahead

silvasava

Morning All - GQ - I have bike envy! A PASHLEY, surely the Rolls Royce of bikes. (This from a person whose DH has her bike strung up in the shed & not used for about 6 years!!!) Hmm feel a clear out coming on.
Many years ago I used to be a Tupperware demonstrator so I've still got loads but there's some that's going to the CS 'cos I cant be arrised to put it on Fleabay its onlt bits & pieces that have seen better days.
Good news - DH's record deck has sold so got to get that sent off today - and there's the added advantage of a box & bubblewrap going out of the loft too - yipee
GQ - agree with you - Sloggi's aint what they used to be & I'm having trouble replacing white knickers in a style that suits me 'cos i like high leg not cheese wires!!

Icey77

I did have a quick look on ebay before I posted on here but there were loads of burger presses on there and most with out bids. Most of them we're from USA so perhaps that is the reason but I may have another looky in moment

I have unearthed several pairs of DH shoes from the wardrobe I mention earlier. In 4 yrs of marriage I've never seen him wear them so I will seek his permission to send them off to the CS, they're nice ones too, a pair of Ben Sherman I think and another name brand I recognise.

I'm trying to haul nearly all the furniture out of our bedroom this morning so that the decorator can start in there, I'm very behind as I was meant to do last night but the kids were having a bad night and now trying to do with a crawler and a toddler means I'm having to do it in 5 minute bursts when I can sneak away. No doubt the decorator will have a whinge when he arrives but he will be given very short shrift he he goes on about it

Softstuff

In preparation for moving, I managed to fill 4 carrier bags for the charity shop and a large sack for the rubbish. Given we're in a tiny flat and I didn't think we had much stuff anyway, that's quite something.

I had the realisation this morning of how much effort it actually takes not to just allow the "slow creep of stuff" onto the premises. I joked with hubby that someone must have been sneaking things in when we're asleep, but even when you have a "1 in 1 out rule", it's really hard not to just accumulate in so many areas.

It was strange items too - I found a pair of white shoelaces, new. Neither of us owns a pair of shoes that would ever require white shoelaces. I had a set of 6 sake cups, I can't stand sake nor can anyone I know.

And this is what happens even when we thought we were being careful, suspect we'd be buried beneath it if we weren't.

GreyQueen

Morning, Softstuff, I would like to share a theory which I have expounded elsewhere before on MSE; C-space.

If you follow Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, one of the many amusing asides is L-space, the distortion in the space-time continuium caused by the magical books in the library of the Unseen University, books so potent that they have to be chained to the shelves and, in one case, kept in a vat of dry ice. L-space links all libraries together, somehow.

Therefore, it seems obvious to me that all domestic cupboards, like the wardrobe into Narnia, have a second portal into C(upboard)-Space. All cupboards in the world, and possibly intergalactically, are actually linked. This is the only possible explanation for things appearing in a person's cupboards which they have never seen before in their life.

Somewhere in USA, a baffled person is saying Dang, honey, I was sure I put a new pair of sports shoe laces in here and now I can't find them, you'll have to go to the store.

And someone is Japan is saying (in Japansese, naturally) Crikey, where the heck are those sake cups?

I can see a commercial opportunity here, for a lost-and-found website where the strays are listed by the finders and claimed by the losers. It's only a matter of time, can't be any more bizarre than stuff already up and running.:rotfl:

I am working my way through the t.p. mountain and will probably be OK til about Easter. I laughed to myself at something in the last couple of pages of the Marie Kondo thread, where the lady herself had referred to someone with 80 toilet rolls as one of the worst hoarders she'd encountered.

Hmm, is it very wrong to admit my thought was Only eighty? What a lightweight!

ivyleaf

GreyQueen wrote: »

Morning, Softstuff, I would like to share a theory which I have expounded elsewhere before on MSE; C-space.

If you follow Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, one of the many amusing asides is L-space, the distortion in the space-time continuium caused by the magical books in the library of the Unseen University, books so potent that they have to be chained to the shelves and, in one case, kept in a vat of dry ice. L-space links all libraries together, somehow.

Therefore, it seems obvious to me that all domestic cupboards, like the wardrobe into Narnia, have a second portal into C(upboard)-Space. All cupboards in the world, and possibly intergalactically, are actually linked. This is the only possible explanation for things appearing in a person's cupboards which they have never seen before in their life.

Somewhere in USA, a baffled person is saying Dang, honey, I was sure I put a new pair of sports shoe laces in here and now I can't find them, you'll have to go to the store.

And someone is Japan is saying (in Japansese, naturally) Crikey, where the heck are those sake cups?

I can see a commercial opportunity here, for a lost-and-found website where the strays are listed by the finders and claimed by the losers. It's only a matter of time, can't be any more bizarre than stuff already up and running.:rotfl:

I am working my way through the t.p. mountain and will probably be OK til about Easter. I laughed to myself at something in the last couple of pages of the Marie Kondo thread, where the lady herself had referred to someone with 80 toilet rolls as one of the worst hoarders she'd encountered.

Hmm, is it very wrong to admit my thought was Only eighty? What a lightweight!

:rotfl: A lightweight indeed!

I was going to suggest the shoelaces and sake cups had accidentally snuck* in from a parallel universe.....

*I know it's American English, but I rather like "snuck"

thriftwizard

80 toilet rolls? That'd keep us going for about 6 weeks - hardly a hoard at all!

I was quietly despairing of EVER getting anything done/sorted/gone yesterday; there are 3 paperwork tasks hanging over me that I need other people's input before I can compete, and it's not yet forthcoming. However when I think about it, a big bag of fabric did go off with a Freecycler and a bag of wool has been promised to another. I'm sure I can remove some more surplus bits today; at the moment it's shaping up to be a relatively quiet one. I just need to remove the rather determined feline occupant from my knees and get on with it...

Softstuff

GQ, I'm not entirely sure what it says about me, but I read all of that nodding as though it made perfect logical sense :rotfl:

The only part of it I don't get is why you never seem to find anything you hadn't seen before that was good, or suited to you. If the Japanese chap wants his cups back, they'll be at the charity shop. Also I'm now wondering if there *is* a Japanese translation for crikey.

I am ashamed at the lack of toilet roll on the premises. I'll be booted from the non-food poker league any minute now. In my defense, we are moving. And I haven't bought any since November. And we'll still have to transport some I'm almost out of toothpaste, which is unheard of in the past 8 years.

Knit_Witch

GreyQueen wrote: »

Morning, Softstuff, I would like to share a theory which I have expounded elsewhere before on MSE; C-space.

If you follow Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, one of the many amusing asides is L-space, the distortion in the space-time continuium caused by the magical books in the library of the Unseen University, books so potent that they have to be chained to the shelves and, in one case, kept in a vat of dry ice. L-space links all libraries together, somehow.

Therefore, it seems obvious to me that all domestic cupboards, like the wardrobe into Narnia, have a second portal into C(upboard)-Space. All cupboards in the world, and possibly intergalactically, are actually linked. This is the only possible explanation for things appearing in a person's cupboards which they have never seen before in their life.

Somewhere in USA, a baffled person is saying Dang, honey, I was sure I put a new pair of sports shoe laces in here and now I can't find them, you'll have to go to the store.

And someone is Japan is saying (in Japansese, naturally) Crikey, where the heck are those sake cups?

I can see a commercial opportunity here, for a lost-and-found website where the strays are listed by the finders and claimed by the losers. It's only a matter of time, can't be any more bizarre than stuff already up and running.:rotfl:

I am working my way through the t.p. mountain and will probably be OK til about Easter. I laughed to myself at something in the last couple of pages of the Marie Kondo thread, where the lady herself had referred to someone with 80 toilet rolls as one of the worst hoarders she'd encountered.

Hmm, is it very wrong to admit my thought was Only eighty? What a lightweight!

With you all the way on the c-space ... hmm and I wonder if some arrives back as well? so you couldn't find that item, you go and buy another, open the cupboard .... and there was the first! Sitting there all innocent like

Happygreen

I defrosted 2 giant freezers yesterday. Decluttered them also from stuff I will never use or cook, like eggs I froze as winter supply when I first got the hens....egg whites are useful frozen but nothing with yolk in it, not for me anyway . So now I have a better idea what I still have and don't need to stock up on too soon, feels great! I just hope my memory doesn't fail me when I'm in the shops!

mothernerd

My resident Japanese expert DS3 doesn't think there is a specific Japanese word for 'crikey' but they do have many words to express surprise/shock of varying degrees.

Sorry thought this bit had got lost