Hoarding junk

Maisie

I'm a hoarder too or so my husband says! To me it's sentimental. We've been married 45yrs and known each other for almost 50 (shows my age!) I have all the love letters he wrote to me..... (all say aaaaaaaah!) He was in the army so I got lots. Also all the birthday/anniversary cards he sent and also from our kids first 5 years.
Not junk to me and there's hundreds of photos of grandparents parents kids etc etc. Have boxes full of them. Even have letters my dad wrote to my mum during the war.

Have letters from 55 years ago from a penpal whose family I still keep in touch.

Plus lately I've been going to car boots and buying bits and pieces thinking they might be valuable one day! ... This has to stop and tonight I've filled a big bag with things for the charity shop.

Also found about 30 Wade figures mostly chipped. I'll give them to my grandson for when his mum does a boot sale. He might get pocket money for them.

My hoarding has got worse since the kids left home as before we didn't have space to put anything. Now we still don't have space!

Anyone want 5 bone china mugs and an Irish china leprachaun I bought today at boot sale! I have to make a start somewhere.

Sofa_Sogood

Maisie wrote:

I'm a hoarder too or so my husband says! To me it's sentimental. We've been married 45yrs and known each other for almost 50 (shows my age!) I have all the love letters he wrote to me..... (all say aaaaaaaah!) He was in the army so I got lots. Also all the birthday/anniversary cards he sent and also from our kids first 5 years.
Not junk to me and there's hundreds of photos of grandparents parents kids etc etc. Have boxes full of them. Even have letters my dad wrote to my mum during the war.

Have letters from 55 years ago from a penpal whose family I still keep in touch.

Oh Maisie ... that's not hoarding at all It's lovely to have those in memory, let alone existence.

I'd agree about the boot sale stuff though

sans_2

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

Oh Maisie ... that's not hoarding at all It's lovely to have those in memory, let alone existence.

I'd agree about the boot sale stuff though

Oh I agree. Really nice.

Str4berr3

Odd socks that cant be replaced (Not that I want to cos there are some Winnie the pooh ones! I bought them cos I know my partner would'nt nick them like my black socks!)
Bras with underwire comming out.
Old make up, creams, perfume samples etc.
Books - I have around 7 boxes of them and about 40 in my bookshelf.
inflated ballons.
McDonalds Happy meal toys.
Paper, paper and more paper!
Newspapers.
leaflets, Junk mail, unimportant letters.
Free CD's from Newspapers which I have been meaning to listen to.
Olds phone rechargers.
Alot of broken stuff that needs to be binned or Mended.

Just a quick Question: Does anyone actually keep electrical boxes to keep your warranties on stuff? e.g: Tv Box for TV?

elmer

I dont hoard very much , as I moved houses and step parents too often growing up , but my OH's parents have lived in their house since before he was born, 40 yrs or so, and still have the fabric that their sofa used to be covered in 20 years ago , not just a little square of it, but the whole sofa back, they have a 5 bedroom house, that only 2 bedrooms are usable the rest is full of stuff, so much that you can barely open the doors, the whole house gives me the clutter heeby jeebies.
I have eventually trained my OH to de junk, and his only failing now is " bits of wood that might just come in handy", we have a shedful, but bonfire night will be with us soon, we will see how handy they are then!

Elmer

aliasojo

Str4berr3 wrote:

Just a quick Question: Does anyone actually keep electrical boxes to keep your warranties on stuff? e.g: Tv Box for TV?

me.

Lots of them in the loft. Last clear out unearthed stereo boxes that we don't even have the stereos for anymore.

Sofa_Sogood

I'm on the way to space saving

For years, since my daughter and her best friend lived with us, I've kept their clothes with mine - starting from a size 6 (theirs lol) to a 16 (mine )

I've chucked loads of woollies away - some where only bought last winter but out of fashion and took up loads of room. (OK, it was an average sized bag, but still a start? )

Then got to work on the bedding. Sheets - new, pillowcases - new and not so new, and quilt covers. On one bed we had 3 pillows in each pillowcase? Are they Oxford size? Anyway - dumped all but the good ones. Dumped loads of pillows too. (O/H's looked like a map - of the goriest dampest places in Britain I was never like this before - honestly)

Chucked away all the magazines, even this weeks. Didn't matter that I didn't buy them, but might have read them eventually ... in a box and off to the dump with em

We even decluttered the plates and pots cupboard .... another box of good plates, but not expensive ones, loaded into a box and labelled "fragile but free" etc. There was nothing wrong with them - but they were taking up precious space.

I had to have a rest, backache etc, so started on the last 4 months paperwork. Ooops. But it happens doesn't it?

Half were envelopes, so will tackle the important things like the taxman , utilities, bank stuff on Monday.

C_Q? It was a great day ....helped by O/H finding some flat pack storage canvas things for £10 each ...... good size too, and fold away when finished with. Sturdy things nevertheless.

I'm not trying to kickstart you, or any other of us hoarders, into having bonfires etc .... but I feel such a sense of relief!

I might have a bonfire, just NIMBY. Haven't got one to speak of lol.

Good luck all you hoarders x

Smiley_Mum

Str4berr3 wrote:

Odd socks that cant be replaced (Not that I want to cos there are some Winnie the pooh ones! I bought them cos I know my partner would'nt nick them like my black socks!)
Bras with underwire comming out.
Old make up, creams, perfume samples etc.
Books - I have around 7 boxes of them and about 40 in my bookshelf.
inflated ballons.
McDonalds Happy meal toys.
Paper, paper and more paper!
Newspapers.
leaflets, Junk mail, unimportant letters.
Free CD's from Newspapers which I have been meaning to listen to.
Olds phone rechargers.
Alot of broken stuff that needs to be binned or Mended.

Just a quick Question: Does anyone actually keep electrical boxes to keep your warranties on stuff? e.g: Tv Box for TV?

I just keep the boxes of electrical items until the warranty is out and then chuck them.

Sofa_Sogood

aliasojo wrote:

me.

Lots of them in the loft. Last clear out unearthed stereo boxes that we don't even have the stereos for anymore.

Our worst clutter bug's computer boxes.

But they seem so insistent on keeping the packaging, more so than tv's and stereo's etc.

Curry_Queen

Well done S-S, sounds as though you've made an excellent start! :T

My de-cluttering has been put on a back-burner for now but I must get back down to it as soon as I can. Ex-hubby took away a load of junk for me the other week and remarked that he'd have brought the lorry instead of the van if he'd known how much there was! :rolleyes: Then he said "are you sure you want to throw out this and that" so I told him just to take it all and if there was anything he wanted to keep then feel free to LOL!

I've also got a load of kitchen paraphernalia boxed up that's too good to just throw out so was hanging on to them to give to one of the boys if they got their own place, but they might be better off going to charity or a hostel/refuge type place and put to good use instead of cluttering my place up

I think my first task has got to be de-cluttering some of the animals though, as I've had some unexpected breedings this year resulting in extra mouths to feed and look after, so if I can sell them off it will help recoup some costs and pay for their food bill for the rest of the year, as well as reduce my workload a bit!

I still haven't got round to listing stuff on Ebay yet either, which I need to do soon, especially as I've just remembered I have a huge box full of giftware left over from a previously failed business enterprise which should sell easily at this time of year

Arghhhh too much to think about so early, I need more :coffee:

But seriously, well done S-S, and good luck to everyone else trying to declutter