Hoarding - Springing Ahead

GreyQueen

bump!

I did that with tiddly bank accounts a few years ago, mothernerd, it was so irritating to have all the paperwork for several accounts with burger-all in them.

So I closed them and spent the money on fast men and slow horses.

Ahem, it would have been more economic to do that the other way around, but not nearly so much fun. :rotfl:

silvasava

Hope you got your moneys worth GQ :rotfl::rotfl:

pigpen

mothernerd wrote: »

They also seem to be fans of OCD Cleaners, don't they realise those women are mentally ill and need help, not people you should be trying to emulate..

I've actually found watching those OCCleaners on channel 4 REALLY helpful in helping me disassociate from my piles of shpoop and let it go.. I could have filled my own landfill the amount of crap that I've flung in the last 4 months.. I've also sold £750 of stuff this month.. November.. over £500 was this week!! That again is incredibly motivating!!

I watched the hoarder series first and that helped a little but the OCD ones really did kick me into action.. fortunate really as I'm not going to be able to do anything for the next few months.

I was kind of hoping OCD was contagious.. I'd love to have an empty house.. the other aspects such as not being able to hold the newborn babies you just gave birth too must be horrific. It must be awful to feel that compulsion 24/7

mothernerd

pigpen wrote: »

I've actually found watching those OCCleaners on channel 4 REALLY helpful in helping me disassociate from my piles of shpoop and let it go.. I could have filled my own landfill the amount of crap that I've flung in the last 4 months.. I've also sold £750 of stuff this month.. November.. over £500 was this week!! That again is incredibly motivating!!

I watched the hoarder series first and that helped a little but the OCD ones really did kick me into action.. fortunate really as I'm not going to be able to do anything for the next few months.

I was kind of hoping OCD was contagious.. I'd love to have an empty house.. the other aspects such as not being able to hold the newborn babies you just gave birth too must be horrific. It must be awful to feel that compulsion 24/7

I feel really bad that occasionally I am jealous of manic depressives - but would just love the odd time when you get the energy surge to wade into the housework and get everything done rather than just plodding along and trying to resist the urge to hide under the duvet all day.

I'm in bed atm. I had lurgy (cough/ cold/ sore throat/ aching chest) and wasn't allowed my flu jab at the beginning of October, had to take a course of antibiotics. Have improved, had the flu jab but cannot shake the cough (which varies from irritating niggle to falling out of bed/ unable to sleep). Went back to the doctor's 3 weeks ago, was given a new asthma inhaler and should have gone back to 'review the situation'. Have been trying but my sleeping pattern is now so bad that I haven't made it.

Woke at 6am but could barely get to the bathroom and back (only got to sleep after 3am and that's early for this week), next time I woke it was 10 to 10 and didn't feel up to getting myself washed and dressed in 10 minutes and doing the half hour walk. Really struggling to do anything today (feel a bit justified as started to go dizzy during a quick trip to the baby Arseda for vitamins etc) so a have given in for now.

Feel like an utter wimp. In the past I did multiple jobs, a lot of it very physical. I didn't get sick pay so I've worked when I've had flu, worked many times with my ankle strapped up (old injury), worked when I fell on the ice under the snow and bruised all my back (and had to crawl round patting the snow to find my glasses). That time I was cleaning and polishing the vestry floor - had to get three coats of polish on, buffed and dried in between 10pm (after an evening meeting finished) and 8am (when the ladies came in to set up for the coffee morning) and of course had to move all the tables and chairs onto counters and windowsills first. So when I'd found my glasses I had to carry on to put the tables and chairs back in position before carrying on to the rest of my day's jobs. I've also cleaned a pub single-handed (should have been 3 of us) including doing all the brass with my left hand and the manager never even noticed my right arm was in a sling. Now a stupid cough is stopping me.

I am in front with my finances, done a paper purge (more needed) and have cleared all the washing up and tidied the kitchen (major project a couple of weeks ago) so that's up to scratch. Trying very hard to concentrate on what I have done and not on the things left undone.

thriftwizard

{{{Hugs}}} Mothernerd - you're no wimp, you have ME and you need to rest. You've just plain run out of spoons.

I'm back down at Mum's. Not sure if she's had a series of mini-strokes or what - scans show nothing, but she's been rushed to A&E three times this week. Not liking the look of her, TBH; they can't seem to put their finger n what's going wrong but she's slowly slipping downhill. So my de-cluttering efforts have ground to a complete halt; 3 van-loads have gone to my friend's now, but there's at least another one yet to go. The porch has vanished again and the conservatory's not brilliant, though better than it was. However the new stall looks great.

Will be going home tomorrow - brother taking over until Sunday evening - so will try to carve out an hour or so to carry on; I really don't want to lose impetus again.

pigpen

Mother nerd.. Your health comes first!! I'm utterly in a mission because 2 weeks before Christmas I have surgery booked.. On my mouth but you know it's going to be agony for weeks! I'm also going through a horrific time with cf (VERY rude c word followed by face = ex husband) so an trying to focus that negative energy to a positive result this will result in total burnout .. But I cannot stop... Hence the empathy with the OCD types.. 5am.. I've been awake 3 hours!!

We all have our weaknesses but first and foremost comes out health without it we can do nothing!! You're not a wimp you are unwell and need to focus your energy there.

dragonette

*hugs for mothernerd*

I'm almost exactly the same, used to doing heavy manual labour and am largely stopped by ME. You are not being a wimp, you are tackling things as best you can while juggling a sneaky and dispiriting illness.

Health has to be a priority, simply as it takes us longer to recover. Also, the examples of the things you used to do are classic over-acheiver style which is so linked to ME. Sending you spoons and hopes of guilt free rest.

Thrift - ouch, lots of hugs. Best wishes for you and your mum. I hope they figure out what is going on soon.

PP - please be careful to not burn yourself out too much, I'm not convinced you'll have time or peace to recover if you do. Otoh, from other threads I have an inkling of current stresses and think you are amazing to be managing to de-hoard! Every little thing is still progress

I haven't been getting through much, and seem to be buying as much as I get out. At least it is currently needed stuff, but it still feels weird

Gingernutty

I've decluttered a naff fire surround

two Ted Baker gift sets from last Christmas (no one wants them and I don't like the scent)

A tealight holder

2 x 100W and 1 x 150W lightbulbs - 'ordinary' bulbs trip the mains circuit breaker and leave the house in darkness, whereas the new energy saving bulbs just flicker and die and leave the mains board alone

1 T-shirt top

a collection of CDs that originally came free with magazines

- all to a charity shop

a broken vacuum cleaner

an MP3 player that wouldn't hold a charge

a 24 hour timer for a plug that no longer works

four sets of headphones that don't work

- all to Currys who recycle electrical items

2 x Brita water filters - recycling bin at Argos.

Just a collection of Lush plastic pots and a bag of rags to go.

mothernerd

Excellent work Gingernutty. I hope to be back on track soon. Will Currys take wires - have lots of batteries from DS3's old computer and things I think are spare cables from printers we no longer have (they always give you one for a pc and one for a mac). Need to get someone to look at a piece of furniture as have no space in the front room - need to shuffle furniture round in there as well.

Have a load of wood from the shed plus soil, hm compost and plants in bins (collected several people had chucked out when we went over to wheelies) lined up at the 'up for sale' house, waiting to come back here, just need the energy.

Doing okay with paper purge (bin goes out this week, next time will be after Christmas and if it snows they prioritise the food/ rubbish bins), using up threads and discarding embroidery charts/ mags but it takes a lot of that to make a difference you can see.

pigpen

well done nutty!!!

I've been flinging mightily too!!


3 walls of wallpaper (I kept the walls so my house didn't cave in)
a huge double wardrobe .. first thing I ever sold on gumtree!
several unwanted Christmas gifts
freecycled an old fridge freezer

4 binbags to chazzer
filled 3 wheelie bins

Ebayed a few more bits.. inc. a Christmas tree that has hogged space on my landing for 3 years and unused.. I didn't need it did I!?

Sorted piles and piles of stuff and rearranged it into some semblance of order.

after Christmas I have 1 sofa and a pouffe and possibly 2 chairs to wave goodbye to..


Christmas chopping purchased.. I just need to wrap and bag it.. I had hoped to get that done throughout November then I took to decorating and have been ill and it all got a bit impossible.. trying to sort out finances and the like is also impossible at the moment.. we've not had a penny in other than stuff I've sold for 6 weeks so we are pretty strapped for cash and its all a bit much! My cupboards are bare!!! To the point I used the boil in the bag rice which has been languishing in my cupboard for years but we have nothing for tomorrow.. I might whizz together a chicken noodle soup.. I have mini pasta bows and stock and might have chicken and can scrape a few coins for veggies..

Anyway.. it'll sort!

My kitchen, landing and front room echo!!!