Hoarding - Springing Ahead

whitewing

I have got rid of 1 binbag of confidential waste, 2 noticeboards and a T shirt.

I also did 40 minutes walking.

Gingernutty

This isn't much, but I'm actually quite proud of my little self....:D

I'm on a geeky mission to collect the "Now.." series of albums. Just the numbers, btw, not the whole "Christmas", "Dance" "Disney" etc - 'just' the albums 1 to 84. 52 down and 32 to go!

Yeah, I know.

Last week, after I got off my one night shift for the week, I went into town and trawled the charity shops where I found "Now..10". It looked scratched, but if they were only surface scratches then the records were playable.

I took ages to go around the shop buying stuff I was going to wear or read so that I could use my debit card (£5 minimum spend).

When I got home, the clothes went in the washing machine, the books are being read and the record went on the player.

They weren't surface scratches.

There was a track on each of the four sides that was unplayable and the rest had more snap, crackle and pop than cereal. Still, that's a hazard of buying 30 year old records from charity shops.

Did I keep it until I found a better copy? No. That was what I would have done in the past. Instead, I've thrown it straight into the recycling bin.

When I tried recording a treasured story record for a toddler cousin, the same thing - the record kept 'catching' and wouldn't play - into the recycling it went.

It's a decision making thing - once I stop procrastinating, it's easy to decide what to do with it.

It's just something I've noticed about myself.......:p

whitewing

Gingernutty,

I am even more impressed that you resisted the temptation to melt the record into a funky fruitbowl.

I gave my daughter a pair of socks she handprinted at nursery. I let her wear/play with them! They would normally be a Sacred Object (where's GreyQueen, btw)

Gingernutty

whitewing wrote: »

Gingernutty, I am even more impressed that you resisted the temptation to melt the record into a funky fruitbowl.

Thanks!

I've got two large melamine bowls already and need no more and I don't know anyone who'd appreciate a moody, black, plastic bowl which can't even hold liquid, so into the recycling they went.

GreyQueen

whitewing wrote: »

Gingernutty,

I am even more impressed that you resisted the temptation to melt the record into a funky fruitbowl.

I gave my daughter a pair of socks she handprinted at nursery. I let her wear/play with them! They would normally be a Sacred Object (where's GreyQueen, btw)

I'm HERE!

Just a little sheepish because I'm not doing much decluttering so not posting but I do try to read the thread.

Took 2 bags of clothes to the c.s. at the weekend and am getting a wee bit happy about all the recycling bins which have sprung up in my 'hood like mushrooms after rain. Aiming to get stuff out to them each day on my way to work, even if it's only a couple of bits, as this flat is so tiny that they're better out than in.

In my overhaul of the "wardrobe" (more a concept than a piece of furniture) I hauled up several items which hadn't been worn for a while as I tend to dress off the top of the pile and things which go thru the laundry are liable to be put straight back on again.

Found some stuff not seen for a while and have been wearing it. Got compliments (go, me!). Shopping in your own home, we know it makes sense.:rotfl:

Does anyone else have a fair few things in black cotton among their clothes? And have to unfold/ unroll them to work out what they are? I don't have enough space to have a "tee-shirt" drawer and a "other thing" drawer.

I also found a missing bottle of Ecover wup under the kitchen sink. I used to have two, could only recall using one, and was going a bit spare thinking I'd taken it to the lottie (to soap aphids) but couldn't find it in the lottie shed....... finally came to light a couple of days ago. It was in the undersink cupboard, which I'd hauled out several times, but hiding behind the pipes.

It's now being used up. I shall revert to Moaning Freesh as it comes in lairy colours like purple which I like and am not likely to mislay.

I also found a tip in a book which has made my simple life a wee bit easier; decant powdered stuff into milk containers (4 pinters in my case). I now have my stash of soda crystals and my handwashing powder detergent thus stashed. Labelled with a bit of tape, natch. Much easier to handle than a cardboard carton or poly bag and the stuff will stay dry and not clump and set hard.

And, should there be a leak under there, it shouldn't be ruined. I book repairs as part of my job and its amazing how many stealth leaks occur under kitchen sinks.

Hokay, can I go for a cuppa now?

pigpen

1/2 binbag of rubbish and a henry full of crumbs and broken lightbulb.

2nd binbag not got to cs yet but I haven't taken anything out of it and I am 1/2 way through filling the next one.

I have a large box of age 7-8 clothes to sort through.. I want a fair chunk of it gone. I might do that in a bit actually.

I feel totally grotty today.. not sure if I am just hungry/hypoglycaemic given I am fairly irritable too.. or if I actually do feel unwell.. or if I feel to bad because I am tired and in pain.. but enough whining... lunch awaits.. or it will when I cooked it (toast and jam loads of cooking there) then I can sort this box of clothes.. and a box of toys maybe.

whitewing

Keep up the good work, everyone!

I had to sort some important paperwork out last night unexpectedly. Thanks to the scanning in I did at the start of the year, I managed to get it all done last night (took about 5 blooming hours though). I would usually have spent a week panicking over it before attempting to find the stuff, which would have taken another three days to collate from various hideyholes.

pigpen

I went with hungry and fed myself.. a lot.. feeling much better but absolutely exhausted from the pain in my hips and back.

Bedroom half cleared.. another binbag of rubbish and a Henry full. I have not yet sorted through the box of 7-8 stuff but it is stacked neatly so isn't taking up too much room, it is on my list to do.

lobbyludd

ds sent home with temp and stomach pains again (was last sent home 2 weeks ago and off for a week). took him to GP, sat for 40 mins couldn't get seen before they closed for the day at 1pm. IF I manage to get through tomorrow (ring at 8 constantly and hope to get through before 8.15 when all appointments will have gone for FRIDAY, I will then be looking at next week gah!) he was writhing in pain screaming at 2 complaining of appendix area pain and vomitting so took him to A&E, by the time they saw him he was much better, and it didn't matter how much I said "he was like this 2 weeks ago only less severe, and no doubt he'll be in agony again at about 3 am" they said it was probably just D&V - again, this will be the 6th or 7th time this year, and the rest of us never catch it, including 4 year old dd.

apparently there's no such thing as a "grumbling appendix" - don't get me wrong, I don't want him to have something serious, but he does have something, and I don't see that it can just be repeated bouts of viruses that not even his little sister comes down with.

any way rant over, means I have loads of extra washing and am behind with work and dehoarding, so the most that I have accomplished today is getting the bins out, which is a bigger than usual feat, but 2 steps forward 1 back (or even 2) sort of day.

greengoblin

GreyQueen wrote: »

Does anyone else have a fair few things in black cotton among their clothes?

99% of my wardrobe is black :rotfl: Everything is placed with extreme precision so I know where it is!