Hoarding - Springing Ahead

whitewing

pigpen, I meant to say that you sound like a whirling dervish with all the stuff you're getting through at the moment. Well done!

pigpen

whitewing wrote: »

pigpen, I meant to say that you sound like a whirling dervish with all the stuff you're getting through at the moment. Well done!

I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to create some floor space and room for the baby.. we still have the little one in our room and if you breathe she wakes and screams.. I do NOT want her in there with the baby. which of course involves moving 3 rooms and 4 other girls around... and I am hobbling about on crutches (SPD) and delegating an awful lot.. but only I can do the actual sorting..

OH fixed the drawers while they were emptied earlier, he is now sweeping and mopping the kitchen!

I am seriously considering moving our bedroom downstairs and leaving the little one in my room on her own.

nitnurse-not2

I decluttered 3 bin bags of clothes/ shoes etc to go to the rag man. :j
I usually ring the van to collect them but, as I was going near the hut in the local shopping centre, I took the bags to be weighed.
The man opened the bags and began sifting through the stuff saying they will only take stuff that is reusable.
If they were reusable then they would have gone to the CS!:mad::mad:
I had to bring them back and ring the man with the van:(

At least they are gone now

pigpen

Another half binbag from the kitchen for CS.. and some stuff I will never use binned.. my cupboards are looking very bare lol.

2 binbags of recycling out and a binbag of rubbish.. My back is agony now so I might not get much more done today

Gingernutty

It's been about two years since I did anything with the yard.

With Dad ill, I had no spare weekends as I was up and down to London to see him and had to try and cram a weekends worth of housework and laundry into a Saturday and visit him on Sunday.

Last year, there was the E.On insulation debacle, which has left a large amount of dumped rubbish in my yard as well.

So, I spent the Bank Holiday weekend putting wood preserver on the fence between my house and the neighbour's and was horrified when I stuck my nose out the back gate to see the overgrown, fly tipped yard which a variety of animals have been using as a toilet. :eek:

I got fed up with waiting for more good weather, so today, in the pouring rain, carefully tottering between the dandelions, I set about moving the wood and I found a large plastic trug, filled with plaster, old water and dead things.

Fabulous. It's worse than I thought.

So instead of setting about the dumped scaffold boards and someone's makeshift gate today, I wrestled the contents of the trug into two rubble sacks, sawed the ruined trug into four and put the pieces into another rubble sack.

I've put the sacks into normal bin bags so that I can pass it off as 'normal' household rubbish. The plaster is so heavy, that it'll be the only thing in the bin this week.

If the bins are too heavy the bin men won't take them.

The yard should be looking okay by the end of the Summer.

alice-mary

I haven't done much lately but today I put the 4 broken/rusty/very old fire grates and the 2 broken/rusty recliner chair frames outside the front door for the "scrap metal people" to collect. I should take it somewhere and collect the money myself but the local scavengers will do it for me without getting the car all mucky AND I would have kept on putting it off, so although I am losing out on some cash, at least now that tiny bit of long standing clutter has gone from the garden AND my mind!

Keep going everyone, I don't do as much as I should but I DO read all your posts and you are all so inspiring!

Alice
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whitewing

I have put about 2 carrier bags of paper in for recycling. Most importantly, I timed the dehoarding so that I actually got it cleared up and put away before the children arrived home.

lobbyludd

there is now nothing of ex's in my lounge, and I've nearly finished packing up his stuff from the kitchen

so far I've put into storage: 1 single and 1 double bed, 1 antique table, a box of books, 2 x 60litre boxes of random stuff, 5 large boxes of crockery, a dining room table and six chairs, a large mirror and 5 pictures.

There's about as much stuff again to go in and I really wish I could take a day off and just get it done, but I'm having to chip away at it before and after work. I've also got about 5 black bags and 5 bags of recycling to go out from the loft/shed and some things earmarked for the tip/cs/recycling centre, but darn it if my boss isn't insisting I go in and do some actual work for my pay.

It is a lot of work, but nowhere near as hard as I thought it was going to be.

Once again I'd really like to thanks everyone on this threrad for motivating me with your experiences

alice-mary

alice-mary wrote: »

I haven't done much lately but today I put the 4 broken/rusty/very old fire grates and the 2 broken/rusty recliner chair frames outside the front door for the "scrap metal people" to collect. I should take it somewhere and collect the money myself but the local scavengers will do it for me without getting the car all mucky AND I would have kept on putting it off, so although I am losing out on some cash, at least now that tiny bit of long standing clutter has gone from the garden AND my mind!

Keep going everyone, I don't do as much as I should but I DO read all your posts and you are all so inspiring!

Alice
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I feel silly quoting my own post BUT I was dead right about the local scavengers.... at 4 o'clock this morning, I heard 2 men walking down the street, chatting very excitedly when they saw what I had left outside! They then very kindly took it ALL away, saving me the effort:j! I just hope they managed to get themselves some cash for their efforts as I could not get myself organised enough to do it over the last 4 years !

Alice
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bobble_hat

Hee hee hee, caught Mr Bobbly de-cluttering HIS bedside drawer last night. I'm having quite an effect on him. :beer: :rotfl: