Hoarding - Springing Ahead

silvasava

Forgot! Yesterday I cleared out a folder I use for gardening 'stuff' & threw away all the old magazines that I thought might 'come in useful' that I havn't looked at 'cos we've got 'tinternet!
Putting washing away today & sorted out 2 boxes of knee highs that are mid calf on me and 4 tops to go the the CS.
Going to watch Mrs Miniver this afternoon with DH & a cuppa while sorting my recipe folder - I will NOT get rid of my BeRo cookbook though

Rainy-Days

A big clear-out for me this morning and I am surprised at how quick the morning actually went! Two big black bin liners full of rubbish went into the ordinary bin.

Four pairs of flat shoes, two hardly worn.
Two Pairs of stilletto healed black formal shoes- worn but have not been on my feet this last three years so they have gone out. I have three more pairs of healed shoes if I need them!
Two handbags
An array of jumpers, jeans and T shirts.
A large round whicker storage basket
A lampshade
Some old videos
A fabric cat house - she went in it but never used it so it goes to CS

The lot has been loaded into the boot of my car and I will take it to the CS tomorrow!

I am ashamed - really ashamed - to go through my wardrobe and see just how much is no longer being used. Some things I cannot part with yet - but it will come no doubt.

There are still ten pairs of long boots with flat (well 1 inch) heels. There are another four pairs of long boots with heels. Allot of my flat boots I wear, but at least three pairs I have not.

I bought a black pair of flat heeled boots from Jones's in Newcastle last week with gold buckles on them. To be fair I use the black flat heeled silver buckled boots allot and I have had those for four years and always have them re-heeled at the cobblers each year and I have no doubt I will do the same with the Jones's boots. However, going through the wardrobes this morning has forced me into a huge reality check. Exactly how many pairs of shoes and boots do I need? Not that many for sure! :mad: On top of that I have six pairs of ankle boots! Okay I have not bought a pair of ankle boots in a number of years, using the ones I have, polishing them and having them re-heeled but even so!

I think I need to put a list in my handbag of all the shoes and boots I have and if I get tempted to buy anything then I can whip it out and have a think on it!

I do look after my things, polish my shoes and boots, get them reheeled etc but forcing myself to go through them all has kicked me mentally! There is allot of money sat in those wardrobes!

The absolute worst of it is, is that last year I had a massive clearout before moving home. Then when I moved I had another big clearout. Then when one of those charity shop bags came around and three bags full went out for them to collect that day! Now today another load of stuff! I am utterly ashamed. Thing is the house is neat and tidy, it's not cluttered but it's hidden behind wardrobe doors and thats the issue!

pigpen

Motivate me for the love of chickens I cannot do this on my own!!!!!!!!!


I have flung 3 carriers of recycling a binbag of brown paper I found in the front room.. I don't know how long it has been there!


It is binday tomorrow so I am on a mission to fill both wheelie bins to the top and sort a box of toys. I AM going to list a pushchair for getting rid of too.. free to anyone who wants it I think just to get it out of the house!

calleyw

Rainy-Days wrote: »

Thing is the house is neat and tidy, it's not cluttered but it's hidden behind wardrobe doors and thats the issue!

Is that not what we all do. hide it away to deal with at a later date.

I did read some where. Not to handle things more than once. So when you get in you put your coat/shoes in there proper home. And you do that for all stuff so it does not keep getting moved about a million times before it goes away.

Also read that you open your post over the bin. So you can chuck stuff out right away.

I try but I get lazy. Well I am very lazy. I have weeks where I don't work and get sod all done. I know. I would rather look at it than move it. And well the washing up lets not go there.

I rarely have visitors. But have a new friend who will probably be visiting more often. So need to get to keep on top of the clutter and dirt and mess.

Yours

Calley

thriftwizard

Nothing doing here, I'm just not in the right frame of mind. I managed to move just one item from the conservatory to a proper home, then went upstairs to cut up some of my fabric stash to go into the quilt I've got in my head. But my scissors were missing... so I came & sorted out some minor paper-workish things instead! And I've been like that all day - easily sidetracked, totally skittered.

I even went out into the porch to assess the Pile Of Doom early this evening, glanced upwards, saw the colour in the sky, dropped everything to grab my camera and ran off down to the nearest point I have a clear view westwards, about a hundred yards away, down by the little river that joins the big one a couple of hundred yards further on. In my fluffy slippers, complete with hairy socks, with the rush-hour traffic streaming past behind me.

I spent a happy ten minutes taking pictures, instead of sorting out any of the horrible mess. Happy to say that I got some shots I'm really proud of, and it's digital so doesn't need to add to the clutter, but knowing myself fairly well after 56 years, this doesn't bode well. There's a good chance my head will be in "creative" mode for the next few weeks and all attempts to impose any sort of order on anything will be frustrated...

silvasava

Oh Thiftwizard - I am SO with you - I am also very easily sidetracked - DH says I'm in 'Butterfly Brain' mode.
I do find if I have a list of jobs it does make me focus a bit more (only a bit though.....;))

ginnyknit

Bag 2 for the Cs is filling up and 2 bookshelves almost empty. Also emptied the sock box as Im sick of its overflowing mess. Chucked the empty boxes away from the side of the tumble drier today now the bins have been emptied.

Gingernutty

I was coming home yesterday when I saw my scutty next door neighbour had dumped a big cardboard carton outside the house containing recyclables, when her recycling bin was half full.

Round our way, with no exceptions, the bin men won't take anything that's outside the bin.

It was already damp with the rain and it was going to sit there, break down and litter the place unless or until street sweepers come round. They're not guaranteed.

I picked up my trusty carpet knife, sliced the box up into manageable slices out on the pavement and put it in her bin for her.

The bin men came today and it's all gone.

I went through my collection of "office smart" trousers, trying them on and looking at them in the mirror and got rid of three pairs. They had big palazzo type legs, made me look rectangular and were a tripping hazard as they flapped around.

I got rid of some books - a home craft book from the 80s (stencilling, rag rolling and frills), an American book about how to create bespoke storage from ordinary "lumber" and another book about stylish storage creations "just for you".

Let's face it, when my house is not a building site, it'll be charity shops and IKEA for my "storage solutions" - there's no point lusting over some bespoke, Shaker style, fitted wardrobe and drawer combo that only a master carpenter can execute.

Some more self help/get thin books, another trashy romance 'novel' and an old stamp album.

The tote bag, eyelash curler, packet of screen protectors, neck pillow and four skirt/trouser hangers also went.

Not bad.

greenbee

I have to remember to go to the tip tomorrow. One child car seat in the boot for disposal. Have another one to take next week. And depending on whether the new one gets approval from my brother and the kids, possibly a third to go (still fits the youngest child, but cover has holes in it now) and I'll get another cheap one. (Kids spend approx 1 hour/month in my car, so as long as it is secure and has a 5-point harness then that's good enough... oh... and I can work out how to get them in and out of the car!).

I'm slowly filling up my old work suitcase (now sadly too worn to risk in the hold on a multi-city trip) with stuff to go to the CS.

Catriona_P

Things are all go here. I have finally asked a few estate agents to come and value the house, which means I have this weekend to get the place at selling standard. No mean feat when it'll just be me and the little one around, but I will do it.

This is the moment I've been de-cluttering for these last 2 (nearly 3 years). The house is nowhere near tidy enough right now but I'm donning the superhero pants for the weekend and it will be so by the time I'm done. I hope. Wish me luck!