Hoarding - Springing Ahead

silverwhistle

pleasedelete wrote: »

Each time we have moved house after pricing the job and starting the removal men have had to send for assistance and another van! My clutter was well hidden (was- I really do have very little now)

Aargh, don't say that!:-) I'm currently organising an international move back to the UK and hope to get a man and van to do it as I'm not a high-flying international company ex-pat type. I've added stuff whilst here but hope to dispose of enough to compensate: the dumped double bed was a space-saving triumph! As a teacher I've got loads of books but at least I don't think I'll ever teach English to kids again, so that's one part of the library to give away (along with reward stickers, flash cards, coloured paper, wall posters...). Most of the Ikea bookcases have been knocked down, so they don't take up much space. Not too much furniture to take back, but just hope that the clothes in bags can be stuffed and squeezed willy-nilly in the interstices between the more solid items. OK, some stuff I haven't worn for ages but it means I won't have to buy anything either.

'Course, when I get back I'll be re-united with the stuff in aged parent's garage. Not sure what's there, mind!

roundtuit

I just lost my post

pigpen

roundtuit wrote: »

I just lost my post

I probably threw it out!

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GreyQueen

roundtuit wrote: »

I just lost my post

I shouldn't grin because it's happened to me before (it's always a long post that disappears, isn't it?) so I do know how maddening it is.

But it is a wee bit amusing in the context of this thread........

pigpen wrote: »

I probably threw it out!

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That is sooo funny.........can we get it back for her from the c.s. or did you throw it into the recycling bin?

I have now got the new bike lights off the desk and onto the bike (about 6 months to do that) and trashed the packaging. The plastic clamshell bit was no probs, but I swithered over the backing card which had the instructions for fitting the doofers to the bike frame.

Then, I thought, WTH, I fitted them, I know how it's done. The instructions were a bit carp anyway.......it is now in the recycling bag.

I adore putting things in the recycling bins outside. We're in flats and have really big bins in the communal areas. The amount of glass I hear going into them is astonishing; I had no idea that my neighbours ate so much jam.............:rotfl:

whitewing

If you write a long post, highlight it and press Ctrl and c at the same time. This copies it to the clipboard. Do this before you Post Quick Reply.

If you lose your post, then Ctrl and v at the same time will put it back.

(I expect there is some caveat about not shutting down your internet or leaving it too long).

roundtuit

I don't believe it - I've lost it again.

pigpen stop it!!!!

roundtuit

In a nutshell - I'm still here. The dressing gown is going in the CS bag as I'm not going to wear something the same colour as my curtains. And I've cleared another carrier bag of gubbins from the kitchen floor - some binned, some kept, some donated to my dear old dad.

Quick post it before pigpen reaches across the Humber and flings this one too :rotfl:

and yes they were long posts, drat it
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MinnieMousesMummy

Well today has not been very productive as I spent the afternoon in the hospital being monitored. The outcome from this afternoon is that I have been advised to rest therefore I will do some light decluttering over the next couple of days.

My first job for tomorrow will be to sort pictures of items for sale and get them listed. I think tomorrow will also be a good day for putting my feet up and sorting through some bags of paperwork (think there is 6 bags).

roundtuit

Greyqueen - on the subject of recycling: there's a bottle of wine in the fridge that I simply must drink at the weekend so that I can recycle the bottle!

Rxx

lobbyludd

done very little today (although not under dr's orders, hope you are OK MMM?) dd has a sore throat and temp and ds had to be at school for 7.30, so I woke up every hour from 12 til 5 (ahh takes me back, no idea how anyone does anything with very wee ones around!) and then gave sleeping up as a lost cause at 5 (knowing full well that as I was feeling like I could relax as I was supposed to get up in an hour I'd sleepp through the 5 alarms I'd set at 6 if I nodded off again).

so I've sort of started clearing dd's room into mine so that I can paint her walls and raise her bed (greyqueen, you'll apreciate this) her bed is exactly the length of the room - no milimeters to spare and the legs have bits chiselled out to accomodate the skirting) , I am cuurently trying to remember how I built it so that I can dismantle it to get the higher legs on. The room is 5ft wide, with the doorway cutting a corner off (no door in it as there's no room). She only has room to play ON or UNDER the bed and now she's taller the bed needs raising.

I've got some of the fence bits into the car, but not got to the tip, and dd has identified 1 dress that she doesn't like to go to cs (would be the one I lovingly made her from beautiful green and pink lightweight soft tweed, lined with butterly embroidered muslin, hand-sewn button holes, and heart shaped pocket, but alas, there's too much green and not enough pink apparently, I could cry, but she's not a doll, so away it goes - very much fighting the urge to keep it, there's no practical use for it though ).