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Great thread. For me -
Dinner services
Tea-sets
Glasses - sets for red wine, white wine, champagne, sherry etc etc!
Cutlery
Tablecloths
Towels
Sheets
Duvets
Reusable Padded envelopes
New photo albums
Tea towels
Dresses
Cardigans, especially cardigans!
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NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »Ties - which is especially ridiculous as I hate the things and only every wear them for weddings, funerals and job interviews.
In truth I have enough clothes for the rest of my life too.Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy ...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
Good lord GQ, if cleanliness is next to Godliness, you may a bit too close to the pearly gates for comfort!
All the soaps fit in a modestly-sized hessian bag for life on the floor of the airing cupboard, so it's not like they're in my way.
The sock stash is 90% cast-offs from the mothership and I'm concentrating wear on only a few pairs at a time to use them up and get them out to the rag bag once they develop religious sensibilities.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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Scarves many in lots of colours all carefully rolled a la Marie Kondo and an excess of cushions. Might offer a few or 10 to the local charity shop.0
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I can just imagine all the KonMarie practitioners reading this thread and passing out in horror. The countryside is now probably littered with the bodies of appalled dedicated de-clutterers.
As a minimalist I have been hyperventilating a bit
I might have to lie down (I own just two sets of bed linen if anyone is interested).0 -
As for the glasses,if 40 people dropped in they could have 2 or 3 glasses each!I WILL get rid of some next week,or try to.Charity shops seem to be SABLE for glasses too.
I also have 3 young adult children who I could kit out easily.only one has properly flown the nest as yet.
I must also confess to being sable for furniture.You know stuff that would be handy if .... just got their own place.I have 6 chairs in the kitchen with 10 in the loft!
Oh the shame,and I thought I didn't hoard.:0 -
DigForVictory wrote: »I struggle with the idea of SABLE Books - I mean, it's like really good friends - Can you have too many? (Spare me the the lifealtering accident that reveals the right answer, there!)
Um, reusable shopping and tote bags. Yes. Too many. But the Bags for Life are so charming & affordable & frankly of all acquisitive vices I could be trying to maintain that's downright beneficial. Surely.
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Letter writing materials - I have quite a few card and envelope sets that help chivvy the sons through thankyou letters, a boxfile of postcards acquired because I liked the picture, let alone the reminders of where we've been, or of the Interesting Things... Then when the supermarket cleared its Basildon Bond airmail stationery I picked up a platoon-load for pennies & then forgot to find a platoon to write to. I've even got the onionskin pad I wrote to my boyfriend of before university to, and some envelopes left. .
If the onion skin paper is blue, green, or orange, I'll happily take it off your hands, lol
Shopping bags. Er, the spousal unit says we have too many. But I buy them as souvenirs on holiday and take them home to use. Nothing brightens up a long dark winter day better than a Mercadona shopping bag.
So, when we're in Scotland in the autumn, I'll be picking up shopping bags and hunting for onion skin paper.0 -
I've been chuckling so hard at this thread that hubby asked what I was reading.
I look at some of your lists thinking, ooh I don't have any of that or enough of this, and they look like shopping lists to me! I am however a bit of a minimalist and still sort of stocking our first house (which has so far taken 4 years!).
The only thing I'm sable in is crockery, whilst a few of you could provide drinks for that unexpected coach party, I could serve them a 3 course meal. I do have my [STRIKE]excuses[/STRIKE] reasons though. When we were in our previous place we bought 2 boxes of crockery, enough for 8 place settings. I then proceeded over 6 years to break most of it. When I found our present crockery, a nice Jamie Oliver range, plain and simple, reduced to about a quid a piece I bought up big. I had the thought that at least then if I broke it, we'd have a few years before we ran out! The thing is, this stuff bounces. Even off concrete :rotfl: I've dropped plates, smashed mugs together, whacked bowls on shelves and not a crack. The only thing broken on 4 years is 1 bowl, by hubby in the garage. If we continue at that rate, I'm sable for crockery.Softstuff- Officially better than 0070 -
Spider_In_The_Bath wrote: »As a minimalist I have been hyperventilating a bit
I might have to lie down (I own just two sets of bed linen if anyone is interested).
Only 1. .0 -
Crockery, cutlery & glasses + chairs & table-space to feed & water 24 for dinner...excuse being we have a spread-out family of 23 bodies and we live most centrally
Bags for life - DH insists on buying at least 1 on every visit to Booths
Clothes (both of us ) DH travels with work & has regularly been away for 2-3 weeks of business attire ...despite only doing shorter trips now he still has 9+ weeks worth of socks & boxers.
Screws/nails/nuts & bolts - I acquired my ex-h collection on divorce, plus my dad's collection that had some of his dad's + DHs own collection
Embroidery silks - grandma's, my mum's, MiL, plus my own. I have at least 3 of virtually every permutation in all of the Anchor branding!2021 Decluttering Awards: ⭐⭐🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 2022 Decluttering Awards: 🥇
2023 Decluttering Awards: 🥇 🏅🏅🥇
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