Hoarding - Springing Ahead

ivyleaf

Oh thriftwizard, what a shame about the wardrobe

and Happygreen, the wallpaper steamer giving up mid-wall is really not helpful! Perhaps it wouldn't be quite so annoying if the wall had been almost finished so you could have done the rest manually.

GQ Hope your mouth feels better now x

thriftwizard

Quite a happy bunny here; it was a MUCH better day, & I've just proved it is possible to get out of the Great Big Swedish Box shop with only what you've planned to buy! I was taking a friend who doesn't drive, who needed to try stuff out before ordering, and just needed some solar lamps for camping, 3 picture frames, and something mobile to store the currently-homeless craft stuff in the conservatory. A small Kallax unit with castors is the perfect answer; the things originally came out of an Expedit unit which was donated to DS2 & TDiL, and are already in Drona boxes, which will just pop into the holes. I didn't know you could have them on wheels; it's solved 90% of the problem out there as there's even a free slot it'll slide straight into.

I know that more storage just means you can store more rubbish, but that was part of the problem; this stuff really isn't rubbish (think Oliver Twist yarns, bought to be woven up for an exhibition next summer) just stuff whose home had disappeared, because DS2 & TDiL were in greater need!

GreyQueen

Thanks for your good wishes for my toofy, ivyleaf, lower right 6 sends its good wishes back and all is well.

ivyleaf

GreyQueen wrote: »

Thanks for your good wishes for my toofy, ivyleaf, lower right 6 sends its good wishes back and all is well.

That's good

thriftwizard

No movement today, which almost feels like backsliding & is inducing a mild panic! I did manage to take that big box of rubbish to the Tip - and didn't come back with much, honest! - but haven't had a chance to sort anything. And I won't have, tomorrow, or Saturday, as my mother's unwell and it's a market weekend. DS3's new room is far from ready for his return on Saturday evening; we couldn't move the bed through today because the relevant Allen key had gone missing. But we moved the mattress anyway, and got the bed made up, and moved other stuff through to his old room, that DD2's going into. But we're out of time now because I need to switch my attention to preparing for the market, as well as chasing up my mother's doctor & getting in any shopping she needs before the weekend.

I am panicking mightily about how we're ever going to clear enough of that room to decorate it for DD2; at the moment it contains all my fabric & the sewing bench with 3 machines (main machine, overlocker & embellisher) two beds (one of them dismantled) and things belonging to DD1, DS2 & TDiL as well as a few bits of DS3's still. Somehow there are a few square feet of floor space, but hardly enough to wield a paintbrush in! Really, really hoping that I can motivate DS3 to help sort it all out; last time he came home, he just wanted to sleep for two weeks, and if he did that again it would just bung up the works even further, meaning total chaos for longer. I need to move DD2 & get my sewing stuff up & running again to get stuff ready for the summer shows!

Seriously considering just having a nervous breakdown; a nice quiet padded cell somewhere sounds very tempting... not wanting to make light of anyone else's misery, but feeling quite overwhelmed just now.

parsniphead

Afternoon all.

I have been working away slowly at the mess between work days and now have four days off so want to make a difference. We have been having an issue with local stray cats lately. They have been attacking my cats making them not want to leave the house and they have started pooping in odd places. Also one of them keeps getting in. They have broken the cat flap, which only allowed access to my cats, and have started spraying. The smell is revolting and is making me feel down and think what's the point. Anyway I need to go on the smell hunt again and try to rid the house of it on top of the clutter problem.

Oh well it never rains but pours.

ivyleaf

Oh poor parsniphead, that's horrible for you, and upsetting for your cats too (((HUGS)))

dragonette

(((HUGS))) for Thirftwizard and Parsnihead, all the hugs!!

Thrift - theres only so much you can do, and I'm sure the kids can help too once theyre back.

Parsniphead - I strongly suggest you block up the cat flap. V sturdily. It will stop the strays getting in, and will hopefully make your cats feel safer.

thriftwizard

Oh Parsniphead, that's no fun, for you or for your cats. Says she who has actually adopted one of the feral cats from the garden... but she was very shy, and in quite a state, not at all aggressive & no threat to the resident moggies at all, and they've accepted her without demur, as if she'd always lived indoors with them. But we always know when there's a new cat on the block; ours get very anxious about going out and start having little accidents... I wish I had shares in a pet-spray company!

Thank you for the hug, dragonette; I'm feeling a bit calmer now, after a very busy day. What's done's done, and what isn't can stay undone now. The two stalls (mine & DD1's) are all packed into the car ready for a dawn start - well, as near as I can get with two young traders on board! - the IKEA bed has been dismantled & picked up & is now where it will have to stay until DD2 is moved into her new room. We're all stocked up for the week (fresh food) and month (non-perishables) and my mother's also stocked up for a week too, her medication checked up on and updated.

Apart from going to & from the market tomorrow, we're now virtually immobile until Tuesday; even at 3 o'clock this afternoon, the main roads were clogged up with caravans & motorhomes. Dorset is THE destination this year, apparently. So we'll stay well clear of main roads and anything that leads to a beach or a National Trust property until normality is restored next week - which means I should have a chance to get stuck into the mess again! I will be aiming for a bin-bag a day again next week...

dragonette

That sounds like an excellent plan Thriftwizard! No need to stress unduly, and enforced time at home can be quite liberating.

I have also adopted a stray, but the condition was that my cat I've had from his kittenhood was happy with it. Indeed, I think he actively enjoys someone else to curl into.

I have guests next week. This is causing less panic than it usually would - I'm signed off sick and so am refusing to blame myself for the place not being immaculate