Hoarding - Springing Ahead

Byatt

lobbyludd wrote: »

........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?

Hi, I had an Argo$ cheapy for some years, very basic and did overheat (I shredded all my divorce stuff etc and had black bib bags of shredding! :eek:), but once cooled down it was fine. It did eventually go the shredders in the sky, and stupidly I bought an expensive Fe££owes one, that would not take the 5 or so pages it said it would, ketp getting jammed and over heating within a very short time. I recently took it to my DD's to use and it wouldn't! Not a peep from it and as I got it from fleabay, and it was last year had no record of where I got it from...so...

just picked up the same brand (Homeba$e), for a mere £2 from a seller on FB, I am :T because it works great, simple but effective. I've seen them in CS's too, but will try and find the link for this brand.

edit, they don't seem to sell the basic one now, but this seems the closest, such a shame though, http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=110&storeId=10151&partNumber=903270

idristhedragon

Kitten lived to tell tale! She is fighting fit and gorgeous (did I tell you I also have her sister?) and only cost me £303.
However I now have a massive abscess on gum and has a filling today and have dentist phobia
Friend is starting radiotherapy soon and I have to de clutter by may 24th when OFSTED are coming. Argh
Can anyone let me hav a sensible kitchen cupboarwed plan please?

Back to catch up later- lots of small teeth to clean now

bobble_hat

A strange time for me at the moment, I've been scanning into PDFs and shredding my diaries this week. They start from around age 15, I'm now 40 and I was quite a prolific diarist until I married (3 yrs next month).

I've been reading each one before scanning in and it's a bit soul destroying as every single one reads with the same general struggles of trying to lose weight, stop being lazy, reduce my debt, like myself enough to take care of myself and I can't believe I've been in the cycle for 25 years!

There was one year where I got out of debt, lost a bit of weight and went off to the other side of the world for a month with cash! But that seems to have been the exception.

So scanning these dreary pages and then shredding them has been quite cathartic. They are quite funny to read amongst all the angst too. :rotfl: And don't get me wrong there are very many happy memories being recalled.

I just wish that the essential ME had changed and moved on. Will I always be battling these demons, and my own perceived failings?

whitewing

bobble_hat,

No, because you now recognise that you've been stuck.

I have had decades of daily suicidal thoughts, and it's only this year (with the help of medical treatment/counselling, but most of all the knowledge and self-awareness, that I am now able to go days at a time without any. And the ones I do have I know will pass. I can't tell you how life changing it is).

sjprmc01

Food for thought: if there was some kind of emergency and you couldn't get home for a night/a few nights but someone could bring you stuff you would need.......would you be able to tell them where to find the things? Would they be in obvious places where 'normal' folks keep things? Would they be easy to find?

Middle DD fell off climbing frame at school on Tues and broke her arm, she and I had to stay in hospital overnight. She needed an emergency op and now has 3 wires in her arm holding It together

I de-hoarded some school clothes (they needed cut off her)

On the plus I did have some form of clothes available that we can make fit her (full arm covered in plaster and at a 90 degree angle)

lobbyludd

hope dd is okay sj

thanks byatt, I'll have a think about that one.

ds still ill, so today went into the shed-of-no-return, and have taken a car load of complete rubbish - paint tins that were here when we moved in (10+ years ago) etc. and can now see what of ex's is in there.

tesco vouchers for storage for his stuff came through this morning hurray! have been worried about how I am goign to transport all the stuff there, and work full-time, and looka fter 2 kids on my own (I don't really want them to be part of packing their dad's stuff away, plus if they're in the car I can't get as much stuff in) so think I am going to pay for an extra month so I can take my time getting it there little and often rather tha stressing about it or taking precious annual leave (some of his weights will only be able to be run to the unit one at a time, otherwise my suspension will go!) and then let him know he has 3 months to pick it up. I think that is more than generous. if he doesn't pick it up I am going to pay for a week and freecycle the lot to whomever can pick it up first.

think I'm going to start renting it on tuesday which gives me all bank holiday to sort through it and get things into the hall whilst I still have momentum, before it all seems impossible again.

pigpen

sjprmc01 wrote: »

Food for thought: if there was some kind of emergency and you couldn't get home for a night/a few nights but someone could bring you stuff you would need.......would you be able to tell them where to find the things? Would they be in obvious places where 'normal' folks keep things? Would they be easy to find?

Middle DD fell off climbing frame at school on Tues and broke her arm, she and I had to stay in hospital overnight. She needed an emergency op and now has 3 wires in her arm holding It together

I de-hoarded some school clothes (they needed cut off her)

On the plus I did have some form of clothes available that we can make fit her (full arm covered in plaster and at a 90 degree angle)

I'd get home.. I live 5 minutes from the hospital so I'd get someone to sit with said child while I nipped home to grab stuff. I know where the stuff is and I couldn't bear the thought of someone in my house.

When DS3 was rushed in I waited until his dad could be there and popped home for him some pj's and toiletries. OH had already brought in a bag of bits for the 11 day old baby and DS3's one eared Pikachu.

I hope she is soon mended and not in too much pain. None of mine have ever broken anything.. other than DD1 who fractured her wrist 4 weeks ago but she is nearly 19 so didn't need me this time! Here they send them home unless there is bone poking out of the skin and make an appointment for operating!

sjprmc01

Ah! The surgery was the emergency kind her arm is broken above the elbow and they couldn't get a pulse at her wrist! She was put to sleep hence the staying in hospital!

I'm not greatly far from the hospital but I don't drive, OH does! If he didn't live with blinkers on he'd have found what was needed quickly....I know where the stuff is to tell him to look but we most definitely don't keep things in 'usual' places

bobble_hat

whitewing wrote: »

bobble_hat,

No, because you now recognise that you've been stuck.

I have had decades of daily suicidal thoughts, and it's only this year (with the help of medical treatment/counselling, but most of all the knowledge and self-awareness, that I am now able to go days at a time without any. And the ones I do have I know will pass. I can't tell you how life changing it is).

Whitewing, thank you, and I'm glad to hear that you are having more good days than bad now. I believe you are right, that once this exercise is complete, I will know myself more and adjust accordingly :T

sjprmc01 I hope that DD is ok and that you have found clothes that work around the scaffolding!

Byatt Keep plodding on, 2 steps forward 1 step back is always a better option and it may not seem like it always but I think you have struck that balance, and you're on the up now, and a visitor friendly house now too :T :T

nitnurse-not2

Hi all
Hugs to all......whether you feel you need them or not:)
I am off today to get some new tee shirts for OH for the holiday. i don't really need anything as my 2 BFF have offered me the loan of their summer clothes :D
While i am out I will take 3 black bags to the rag man.:j:j
This will allow me to get into the under-stairs cupboard and access the large freezer without feeling I have to climb Everest to do so:D
Have a great day all.xxx