Hoarding - Springing Ahead

mcculloch29

GreyQueen wrote: »

Does anyone else feel like they've "murdered" something by getting rid? Or am I, as I've long suspected, a bit nutty?

Not nutty at all. Emma Kennedy has written of how heartwrenching it was to part with her bike Gwendolyn when she left Oxford; she left Gwendolyn on a street corner to be found by someone.

I cannot countenance rehoming my trike, I would like it if he had bigger wheels - his are 20'' - but I would not swap him for one that had. I couldn't.

If the time comes when he has to be rehomed, I would be very anxious that he had a good home where he would be well-used and not just sit and rust.

dktreesea

whitewing wrote: »

I don't know if it will make you feel better dktreesea, but I looks like I am getting the opportunity to expand my business with the backing of the bank. I am sure that having survived the recession has been a factor in that. The recession has definitely made me more adaptable and more appreciative. Of course the sunny weather is giving a feel good factor as well.

I am enjoying the posts a lot on our dehoarding anniversary weekend. I haven't had a huge amount to get rid of but some of the smallest things were the most emotional drains. The fact that I feel confident to make a significant career step is because I have been able to face some of the issues behind the stash.

Well done to you all, be you frenzied chucking outers, discerning destashers, tentative triers or those lurkers who haven't quite dipped a toe in the water yet!

In one way I am grateful that our business has survived the recession. But at the same time it feels like it is still going on. That's brave, to be considering taking on debt to expand your business. I hope it works out well for you. We have had a bit of help from the bank recently, but I just used it to swap out the more expensive debt rather than expand.

OH is doing a car boot this weekend, so have seen a bit more space, - well, for now at least. I know they seem a lot of effort for the money, but we can now open our front door fully. Yaay! Plus the extra £100 will make a difference to our finances this week with car tax looming.

dktreesea

With so many shops closing on the high street, I wonder where all the stock goes. Does it find it's way into lounge corners and attics? On a brighter note, thumbs up the Chest Heart and Stroke. They have refurbished two of their shops in Edinburgh and they are beautiful. Well worth a look if anyone is up this way (Morningside and Davidson Mains branches). They have inspired me to look out some stuff we are finding hard to shift to donate to them.

idristhedragon

Im trying to work out how long I have been AWOL and what has happened in the mean time.
I have completed everything I needed to do to re-register as a childminder so am just awaiting my certificate now However this involved a 3.5 hour inspection of my HOME by OFSTED. *gulp*

The decluttering has come on in leaps and bounds. THe house,( bar my husbands "study" which we have accepted is now a loft/garage) is visitor ready! I have done a car boot, gone to the tip lots and taken loads to the chazzer. I also have stopped two processes that were holding me back 1) I'll ebay that and 2) sentimentality.
I had an ebay stash in the study which was a bit too good for charity but I just never got round to ebaying. Also my last few ebay experiences have been a bit hellish so trying to avoid.
Sentimentality- I have a few hoards that belonged to Grandparents etc one being a wicker waste basket shaped like a frog that was my grandparents. It has survived many housemoves and was definitely one of my sentimental stashes. However when decluttering the playroom for OFSTED I realised it had something mouldy in the bottom and my friend that was helping me declutter literally recoiled in horror at it. I allowed her to chuck it and am OK about it. I have thought about fishing it back out of the dustbin about 5 times but won't. It reminded me of my grandparents but wasn't my grandparents. It was a stinky mouldy old wicker basket that needed binning about 30 years ago!!!

roundtuit

:wave: Hello

Greyqueen I think all those roundtuit devices are defective or could it be that once all the jobs are done a roundtuit is no longer needed and can be sent to the CS for the next needy person?

Two more bags of shredded paper have been deposited into the recycling box over the weekend chez Roundtuit. :T

And I unpacked another carrier bag from the kitchen floor - contents = 2 old frying pans. I already have a frying pan in use, I don't need 3 frying pans, the 2 'discovered' frying pans were old and too mangy to pass to the CS shop, so........they are in the dustbin.....tadahhhhh:T:j:T.

Simples :cool:

Rxx

pigpen

Binday tomorrow so after that my anaemia exhaustion shall be put aside and I shall recommence my flinging.. pointless filling endless binbags with rubbish you end up keeping in the front room because there is nowhere else to put it!

lobbyludd

soooo tired,
up wrestling with dd's bed until 1. the wall bows so the no millimeters to spare are not enough, I have been sawing dowm the legth of the bed and will have to fix it to the wall somehow. can't think straight so tomorrow....

then dd, woke up at 4.30 jumping with excitement (she's 5 today!) been on my feet, or driving (4 hours worth ) since then, and am now sat down, bless her she fell asleep cross legged on the carpet head sunk down into her lap at 6.30. I've been doing random bits of flinging because i knew as soon as I sat down I'd follow her.

so bins emptied and hoover bag emptied, and bins soaking to be cleaned tomorrow, been through 2 baskets in the bathroom of "toiletries" and all the beauty products that I will never used (funny skin, some of these are 10 year old presents that I tried, they hurt and I didn't throw them away because they might be useful/i didn't want to offend ??) less than half a basket left, all cleaned and useful.

paper from presents gone in recycling, not too many presents thankfully as most people have gone with my suggestion of "activities" rather than "stuff". Dishwasher reloaded, but that's it = I'm done, I know if I try to do anything with her room I'll b*gger it up.

found 2 lots of oven pride whilst looking for dishwasher salt and have put it next to the oven to shame me into using them.

fab progress everyone......zzzzzzz.......zzzzzzzzzZZZZZZ

dktreesea

So I have been upstairs and brought down a crate and am now going through it. All over the lounge floor because that way I will have to make a decision about what to do with each item, as I can't leave them out. I am using the gravity principal, - what comes down, stays down and continues on down, out the front door and down the external stairs, all the way, hopefully, into our bank account.

I did start to get overwhelmed though because, though some of the pieces are lovely, I don't recognise most of the pieces. Binoculars? Opera glasses? I don't usually buy that kind of thing. Plus one crate can fit a lot of this size item.

The other thing is, I thought dealing with the crate would take about an hour, tops. How silly am I! three hours in and I am only half way through it. I did get an auction house lined up for a few of the pieces though, so they have already booked their passage out of the front door.

I keep telling myself to stay focused and positive, one piece at a time, £1 in the bank is £1 off the business debt, plus another 10p to 20p a year saved in interest. A part of me wishes though that this hoard was all out of date food that I had to chuck away, or moth eaten clothes so going the same wall. A culling rather than a "dealing with The Hoard" experience.

whitewing

I suffer from Hoard Envy too when I read some of the posts. I throw out small bags of stuff because I did the big stuff last year, but I nearly invited myself to pigpen's house for a bit of dehoarding by proxy.

Now, I want to invite myself to your house dktreesa so I can think and learn about Business Dehoarding.

What a great thread, so many individual experiences yet so much in common.

pigpen

My bins are now empty so I can go do some more flinging without it piling up inside the house to irritate me!