Hoarding - Springing Ahead

pigpen

MinnieMousesMummy wrote: »

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).

What is the meaning of this?? It does not compute!

*stuffs posts in CS bag*

cyclingyorkie

roundtuit wrote: »

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
xx

good decision re the dressing gown - if you shed some weight you will want to go and buy new stuff - trust me - I did after shifting 5 stone...

GreyQueen

roundtuit wrote: »

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

Family is incoming on Sat inc a coupla bottles of stuff which needs to be finished after a family party which we over-catered for last weekend. Bagsie me to get the organic farm-shop apple juice, yay! Rumour is, I may even get a bottle of wine, will have to get a mate to help me drink it, tho.

lobbyludd, your daughter's bedroom sounds like my childhood box-bedroom - takes a single bed widthwise and no more? I've gone up in the world as an adult; there is a whole 6 inches past the end of my bed and the wall and you just about have room to open the door without hitting the bed.

I have heard of these things called bedside tables, but they're not going to get a look-in at this flat.

Has anyone considered the anti-captialist nature of really small homes? I know the commercial housebuilders do it to save money but it's anti-cap in the wider economy; smaller homes mean smaller carpets, less furniture, less everything, so the whole economy suffers.

Good for makers of plasters as we bang ourselves up trying to navigate around the tiny quarters.

This weekend I shall be de-cluttering a tea-set back to Mum and a pile of books back to brother. It's all good.

VJsmum

Yesterday I sorted out my drawers in my wardrobe (oo err! )

There is a bank of 10 drawers and from them I threw out only 3 scarves.

However, this is progress as I went through every item and decided there was still life in it all and there were some things I'd forgotten about. All i really need to buy clothes wise is one pair of pyjamas as there is literally nothing else that I need.

The three scarves came from a load that were my mums and I have been struggling to sort through and get rid of those I won't wear. Three is progress indeed.

lobbyludd

I've got to an age where people buy me many pretty wool scarves for christmas, but I can only realistically wear one (or 2 if it's very cold) at a time, and they don't get dirty like socks so no need to change every day, and they don't wear out. If I needed more blankets/throws (I DON'T- very large ban on buying any more) I'd sew them all together to make one. I gave one away this year but need to do more

stuck in house with poorly littlies, and have run out of the needed bags to get decluttering out of the house, have a pile of cs stuff that I'm itching to get rid of, feel like it's sulking at me everytime I go past, and if I don't get rid of it soon, it may all just sneak back into it's original home (or convinve the kids to aid it).

can't remember how I built the bed in situ and can't see the fixings to work it out.
I remember there was swearing, lots of it.

Think I am going to have to rig up some sort of heath-robinson lifting device to hoist the bed to desired height and fix extender legs underneath whilst it hangs in place.

there will be more swearing.

bed-SIDE? no, don't really get what you're trying to say? she has bedunder cabinets though. Hopefully by this time next year I'll ahve cleared the loft so I can propery convert it (it's half done now but not to building regs) and she can have a room up there. she's rocketting up and will soon be unable to lie down in her current room.

pleasedelete

Hmm bed under was one of my downfalls.

But mostly the plastic stacker box- because if it is in a box it is not clutter right?

I think we had about 100 at the peak. I now have about 20 empty in the garage and just 6 in the house now (with Christmas decorations in).

Getting rid of places to hide clutter made it easier for me. As I said in a big house it didn't look cluttered- all in cupboards but I do sensibly guess10,000 items are gone.

tracey12_2

pigpen wrote: »

Exactly this.. I am church mouse poor.. OH has been out of work for 4 years, we have 3 children with disabilities so are both registered carers.. We are super skint.. we don't smoke or drink or have holidays or anything remotely leisurely but selling crap for the pennies reward for the effort that goes in (since ebay capped postage and postage rates doubled it is impossible to make any money at all on there and gumtree/fb selling pages are crapper than crap here) is not practical or sensible when I am so incredibly desperate for the actual physical space.. space will benefit me, or rather my children far more than the hassle of selling..

I know off topic, don't know if this applies where you live but in my area parent carers or other carers can apply for a carers support fund which is a yearly payment which goes towards things like day trips, hobbies, gym membership, swimming, holidays etc. It may be worth seeing if there is a similar scheme in your area. If you lived in my area you and your husband could both apply and would both be entitled to it.

HTH

Tracey

roundtuit

:wave: hello everyone
:wave: hello suzitiger
:wave: hello cyclingyorkie wow 5 stone that's brilliant! well done.

DS has arrived home from Uni for the weekend - and was really pleased to see space on the kitchen floor.....'for him to fill' :eek:Nooooo!

More decluttering chez Roundtuit this weekend methinks

Rxx

(Right now will this post manage to sneak past pigpen.... or will she throw it out :rotfl:) xx

ETA yayyyy. woop wooop.

pigpen

I only want the big meaty time consuming to write type threads!

mcculloch29

DS decluttered the appliance boxes stacked in a corner of the dining room -his carp fills the outhouse and attic where they would otherwise go.

However....

All of them were products supplied to trial by Am@zon, and if they don't work, tough, you can't return them, no guarantees. So no need to keep boxes, duh!

Luckily an early breakdown has only ever happened once over a good few dozen items. Anyway, they have gone and a whole pile of carp from the alcove at the end of the outhouse too. Woo!