Hoarding - Springing Ahead

Gingernutty

One dressing table, one chest of drawers, one double wardrobe, two hanging rails of coats and three clothes dryers.

dragonette

I have a chest of drawers, 3 underbed drawers (one of outdoor works clothes so thermals and bulky things) and 3 wardrobes (2 don't hold v much due to their design so it's v easy to find things) One of a double, but holds very little as there are 2 bars running front to back. The other 2 wardrobes are singles, one full, the other really isn't. But i like all of them!

I think that's too much, and am trying to thin it down. In fairness, i also need things spread out so I can see them easily. It would fit in a much smaller set up of furniture

seven-day-weekend

thriftwizard wrote: »

¡Hola, amigos!


Off now to ask around, in a new thread, out of genuine curiosity - how much clothes storage do people think is reasonable for one adult?

I have one small double wardrobe (with shelf and a drawer), a small chest of drawers, another deep drawer in another chest of drawers and a couple of hooks in the cupboard for my coats.

GreyQueen

Clothes storage............one chest-of-drawers, one 3 ft hanging rail for coats, jackets and blouses and a basket at the bottom of the airing cupboard for seasonal things like jumpers, waterproof overtrousers and gloves and hats. Still feels like a lot because my home is tiny.

I shall be taking a chazzer bag out today which will include a blouse from the hanging rack. Wore it this week and decided has too many irritating things about it to continue to live here, so is now laundered and ironed and ready to live with someone else.

Gingernutty

Gingernutty wrote: »

One dressing table, one chest of drawers, one double wardrobe, [STRIKE]two hanging rails of coats[/STRIKE] one hanging rail for the coats and three clothes dryers.

I've had major upheaval preparing for a new, lockable, office cabinet.

I was repeatedly called by BHF yesterday describing the problems they were having delivering the thing.

Whilst I was waiting, I put two coats onto the charity pile, put all the coats together on the one heavy duty rail, brought the other coat rail into the back bedroom where I dry the clothes and took down the one that was there.

When the delivery guys showed up, there were two sets of shelves, one small filing cabinet and the dismantled hanging rail cable tied so as to keep the pieces together.

The two coats are lovely. But I haven't worn one at all this winter and the second looks nice but it's dry clean only and the hood's missing.

I've got a lot more floor space both in the bedroom and in the downstairs back room. :cool:

parsniphead

I'm still decluttering. Actually I have been n in the cellar and dumped 4 bin bags so far.
I have read the Kondo book but to be honest it irritated me so I ignored it. I'm going to stay here where I'm happy.

For clothes I have half a wardrobe and a chest of draws. Its one area I don't hoard.

thriftwizard

Oh dear, I've gone & done the absolutely unmentionable. I took some more bits down to the Tip yesterday and rescued the screen back again...

They'd had a huge influx of stuff, and because it's a tiny facility serving a big area, had reached the point where they have to destroy stuff before it becomes dangerous for them and the public. I couldn't bear to see it just smashed up for chipboard, so it's back in the garage. I will offer it on Freecycle this morning...

I have a big pile of stuff to put on Gumtree, too - three sets of rattan shelves, another ottoman, some lovely stainless steel casserole dishes, 2 Bond knitting machines - some for Ebay - a sewing machine & some "collectables" - and more for Freecycle - fabric, yarn etc. - so shall be pretty busy. But OH has gone back into one of his black pits of despair, so it's not going to be an easy weekend... I have a tendency to give up & go out for long walks when he's like this, but this time I must just knuckle under & get on with it, before someone breaks their neck falling over one of my piles of "rubbish".

thriftwizard

Screen gone, along with some horrible !KEA Skubb shoe boxes, and a binbag full of fabric oddments. Two more large items listed on Freecycle... Most of the above items have been listed on Gumtree; I'm leaving Ebay till tomorrow as I've consistently had the best results from auctions ending on a Sunday afternoon. And I've sorted out a huge bag of yarn oddments for my mother's knitting group - seeing her tomorrow - found a genuine use for an old wine box - holding spare loo rolls in the upstairs loo, instead of the Skubb boxes, looks very much better - and FOUND MY SEAM-RIPPER - Yeehaa! Just as I was about to go out & buy another one; we're mid-skirt & I needed to make the opening for the tie-belt quite urgently!

dragonette

Sounds like a successful day so far Thriftwizard

thriftwizard

And another large item spoken for, and one more enquired about... I'm making a dent in it, if nothing else. Stopped now to make my Mum a Mothering Sunday present; I'm turning the single one of my stepfather's old shirts that I managed to save from my step-siblings' instant declutter (the day after he died virtually ALL his clothes went to the nearest charity shop - we barely managed to save enough to send him to his own funeral in) into a knitting bag for her. She's been keeping her projects in a carrier bag & the needles keep puncturing it & falling out. It's lined with one of their own old floral sheets, and batted with some old curtain lining - I do manage to use some of the fabrics in my stash!