Hoarding - Springing Ahead

Catriona_P

Very little declutter going on here. I have another baby sale this weekend (toys this time) but havn't had the time to sort things out yet, which will take me hours. Struggling to juggle FT work (should be working right now, sue me), 2 year old DD who is not sleeping well, studying in the evenings (next exam looming) and marital issues. And this week I'm spending most of Thursday/Friday in the big smoke on a totally unwanted trip using money I don't have.

And we have friends arriving on Saturday morning for the bank holiday weekend which is freaking me out as the house is a tip and I don't have enough time to tidy anything.

Aaaaaaaaand breathe...

Granny28

:oWell done everyone who's made a dent - small or large! And well done Jojo, it sounds as if life is looking up for you. I have taken my granny trolley full of books to the books for free shop, and also a trolley load of clothes to the hospice shop.I have a storage box on top of the wardrobe full of cardboard boxes that might come in useful for presents (wrapping them!). I have taken them out, looked at them and put them back again. Why is it so hard? There might be a shortage of small boxes soon .....

decogecko

Hi all

Not posted for a while as not much dericharding has gone on here.

I've managed to keep on top of things and deal with them (in the main). One thing I've found helpful is to have my shredder in the hallway, that way when I get letters etc with my details on and I don't need to keep them they are shredded right away.

Tonight I've finally taken some rubbish down the dump including the skeletal remains of my christmas tree, the one from christmas 2011
The sunroom is looking much clearer but a work in progress.

My small spare room (the room formerly known as my room of despair) is still clear. Nothing has been put in there since I cleared it. It's easy to keep clean, a dust and a hetty run and it's done.

I think about my purchases for homeware and clothing carefully, not just from a 'can I afford it' POV but do I need it and/or do I love it.

I may not post much but I'm rooting for you all.

Deco x

PudseyDB

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Did anyone notice that the BBC has a hoarder programme up and coming in May, I think? Jasmine to present. I only half - heard about it as I was busy, but I'm sure we will hear more in due course.

Oh I saw a preview of that too. Jasmine Harman (she presents a Place in the Sun) has a mum who's a serious hoarder. The last series showed how she tried to help her mum declutter.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/posts/jasmine-harman-hoarders

Byatt

Just some updates, life is difficult, daughter and ex, plus losing Bess of course, but I have had some more visitors, my land lord for one :eek::D, the best part was I could let him in! An electrician, and a friend for supper and a chat.

It's still not perfect, the bedroom is still needing a (ahem) tidy, but mostly it's just a quick hoover and tidy everywhere else.

My house is definitely a home now.

Polo-cat is currently waiting for the letters to drop from the letter box, after he waylaid a packet of cat nip when I wasn't here. :eek::rotfl: Ever hopeful.

lobbyludd

great progress everyone, the littles bits often do add up.

I stalled on booking the storage as tesco vouchers for safestore are sent in the post, assumed wrongly that they'd be an online code thingummy. But I've ordered them. ds sent home sick on monday and still off today. I worked from home on monday and have been rung yesterday and today to update people on meetings that I'm not involved in and asked to do bits and pieces of work for them (I'm taking annual leave to look after a sick kid AND working? great ). but I managed to take 2 jammed-to-the rafters car loads of stuff to the recycling centre yesterday - including cot from loft and a load more kids clothes that I discovered, plus all three bag types out to bin men. So feel i have not let the momentum I was siezed by on mon night go to waste.

I'm feeling it in my muscles today though (involved lots of heavy lifting) so I've done some light decluttering by finishing off bits of projects and binning the leftover bobs of materials, rather than squirrelling them away "just in case". so feeling positive today as well.

Unearthed shredder in my loft raid and a load of paperwork which I will not need so the rest of the day will be spent dealing with that in between brow mopping and soup administering.

lobbyludd

........and now I remember why I don't use this shredder. It over heats after continous shredding (the sticker on it classes this as 2-4 mins!) and has to be unplugged to cool down, I have to get the tweasers out after each unplug to stop the shreds clogging the mechanism, and despite saying it has a max load of 5 papers - it can't cope with more than 1, and frequently needs several attempts to angle that single piece of paper in correctly before it will pick it up and shred.

what I don't remember is why I felt this useless piece of tech should be kept for posterity in the loft?

I'm binning the darn thing. Any recommendations for a decent cheap shredder?

pigpen

lobbyludd wrote: »

I'm binning the darn thing. Any recommendations for a decent cheap shredder?

tin bucket or a BBQ ....and a match!

pigpen

OH .. forever resourceful suggested a lawn mower.. shreds paper and minces the grass in one go.. multitasking!

lobbyludd

lol! lawn mower prob as temperamental as shredder, good job my "lawn" is a postage stamp of dandelions and clover - got a garden wood burner though and fire-lighters, can feel a burning coming on ta