10-06-2016, 09:35 AM
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I did that last year when I got rid of most of my furniture
The house is now light. bright and minimalist and cleaning takes half the time with less stuff to move around.
Wish I had done it years ago
. Now if I move (I would like a tiny house) the hardest
work will have been done.
As one gets older there is no telling if reasonable health will remain or if doing things will become difficult.
I like to be well prepared
10-06-2016, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Mups
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I'm afraid I'm a bit of a clutterer. Not bad enough to be on a tv prog. yet, but working on it. What does annoy me is the way I clutter work tops. I do like to see nice clear work tops yet mine are always full of stuff - plants mostly, pens, bits of writing pad, medicines, and even the birds mealworms for the next morning.
I do love my plants and flowers and I've always got plants, flowers, seedlings, cuttings, on my window sills which spill over on to the worktops. Plants are living things and I can't bear to throw bits away, I try to rescue and resucsitate every leaf and twig! Anything that looks like it's struggling, instead of throwing it away, it gets my best tlc instead.
I bought a cheap tiny 3 parts dead rhodedenron recently, barely more than 2 twigs. It really didn't look like it stood a chance, don't know why I bought it really, but I have persevered with the tlc and to my joy is has finally started growing new little leaves. I'm chuffed to bits.
I do clear out old clothes for the Salvation Army now and then though.
better to give them to the poor and homeless.
11-06-2016, 06:06 PM
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My ex husband hoarded stuff in the garage . To take out the bins I had to carry them through the house as could not get through the piles of stuff ( no way to back door except through garage ) for 15 years I asked him to clear the garage out or make a walk way through and he never did , saying everything was useful and would one day come in handy.When we divorced I passed the house and there were two huge skips full up with the stuff he said would come in useful one day ..
Ps , as you have read I carried the bins through the house each week , he never did ....just another reason to add to the divorce list
I now live in a small tidy minimilist house YAY ....
11-06-2016, 06:22 PM
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Absolutely guilty ! I'm a hoarder. (It will come in useful one day).It gives wifey and son (who lives with us for the moment) the total laxatives.
But they had a win a couple of months back.
Whilst I was recovering from an operation, they brought in a very large skip and filled it - plus about ten carloads of 'stuff' to the local dump.
In my condition, there was nothing I could do to stop it.
Watched for a while from the back deck and screamed "oh no, not my ......" to no avail.
Eventually, I could stand it no longer and refused to watch.
Some things really did have value - but most did not.
Of course all they have achieved is to make a great deal of space available for me to re-fill - which I am now working on with gusto.
13-06-2016, 10:00 AM
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I could never understand how people lack a conscience when ridding their partner's 'stuff'. If anybody ever threw my stuff away, while I was alive, I wouldn't talk to them again, ever!As you know from before, I am self confessed hoarder. But I'm trying...honest!
13-06-2016, 10:27 AM
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As somebody in the process of moving house, I can confirm that everything above is true... We are all magpies!I have been taking so much stuff down to the tip, I now have a season ticket, and I think I am also on their pension scheme.
he charity shops still take some stuff off me, but have said no more books - nobody is buying books the way they used to. I used to work in one, and I know from experience the worst ones to get rid of are Readers Digests.... yet they still come in and I had to smile and say 'Thank you'.
I have been throwing clothes out that are six and eight inches tighter around the waist than I now comfortably wear. I kept thinking, well, one day I may go on a diet. My wife nags and says I need at least five diets to even think about it.
Anybody wanna buy a Teddyboy outfit? Or a wedding suit?
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