De cluttering help.

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
A lot of people criticise the amount of 'stuff' that I have, but they are also the most likely people to start a conversation with "Do you have...?"
 

arthur

Nixon Garden Neatness
does anyone save birthday and christmas cards from special people i have all the ones that say to a special mummy or to a wonderful daughter in a box on the top of my wardrobe - im sure the kids will want to chuck them when i pop me cloggs -
 

arthur

Nixon Garden Neatness
Maybe my daughter will just increase the amount of stuff she has by adding my stuff to hers when im gone so i often go into her room now and say look if you don't use this is will go old and i think you should give it to me to use now. She usually agrees and i never have to buy shampoo conditioner perfume or chocolate because i have a steady supply from the back of her wardrobe.
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
does anyone save birthday and christmas cards from special people i have all the ones that say to a special mummy or to a wonderful daughter in a box on the top of my wardrobe - im sure the kids will want to chuck them when i pop me cloggs -
I used to save every birthday card the kids got, then I walked out and left them all there............
I still have the last ever Birthday card my mum gave me and a Christmas card off the eldest saying - Happy Christmas Mummy, from your little soldier.
I've called him that for years, got it from Please Sir, Frankie Abbotts mum used call him that.
Along with wedding invitations and things like that. I admit to being a hoarder.
 

littleme

250,000th poster!
I hoard cards & all the stuff that they've ever brought home from school, but apart from that I'm all for a good de-clutter...

A bit like @Glam, when I left 'the twat' I took absolutely nothing with me - (except for the 2 kids & the clothes we had on). The only thing I've ever regretted not having is the baby photos of the 2 kids (they were only 1 & 2yrs at the time) - it can be quite awkward when people ask & I have no baby photos to show them :(

Husband & smallest child are terrible hoarders - they like to pile stuff up in, well, piles - & husband infuriates me by bringing home stuff from *work that he says he's going to do something with & then DOESN'T!


Any takers for 2 x Dulux paint, 1 x Valspar paint, a tonne of short lengths of decking & loads of pallet wood?! GRRRRRRRRR
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Husband & smallest child are terrible hoarders - they like to pile stuff up in, well, piles - & husband infuriates me by bringing home stuff from *work that he says he's going to do something with & then DOESN'T!
He is a hunter-gatherer - it's the basis of our civilisation.
 

Gadget

Well-Known Forumite
Gadget. Fight back.

Also, are you sure the dragons are OK in the loft? Do they get enough sunlight to make vitamin D up there? Exercise? And I'm intrigued to hear that they previously lived on shelves. Knew cats are very fond of shelves, but didn't know dragons are funny that way as well.
This was a few years ago, It made me quite unwell. I fought back in the end and then ran away to be doubly sure lol.
My dragons are Pocket Dragons and one of their favourite habitats are shelves, kitchens or cookie jars. They are extremely cat like. Mainly I believe because they are mainly raised by The Wizard's Library Cat. I often hear a slight kerfuffle where they are but as The Wizard and Library cat are also in there I trust all is in hand.
 

age'd parent

50,000th poster!
I have a filing cabinet draw filled with all the cards that my kids bought me,
and its difficult to get in my sheds with all the stuff that might be useful one day,
I still have a rubber dingy that I bought on holiday down Devon 35 years ago
Still it might come in useful if Coton fields floods one day.

Me hoard stuff... no not really.... honest it might come in useful.

P.S.I've just remembered there's a black and white 405 line tv in the loft.
 

Laurie61

Well-Known Forumite
I tended to keep putting things in the loft then one day I noticed a crack appearing in the lounge ceiling. So I went for the skip option, that was about 15 yrs ago, I could probably do with another now.
 

littleme

250,000th poster!
I tended to keep putting things in the loft then one day I noticed a crack appearing in the lounge ceiling. So I went for the skip option, that was about 15 yrs ago, I could probably do with another now.
Parents loft is stacked from floor to ceiling with full boxes of stuff. They recently decided that maybe they should start lookin through the boxes to find 'important' stuff to give to myself & my step-brother - there were large sepia pictures of people we don't know, tonnes if childhood notes, letters & cards, & my step-brother (50yrs old) received the receipt from his first Pram as a newborn baby....

:strange: ....really useful stuff!
 

Laurie61

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there were large sepia pictures of people we don't know,

:strange: ....really useful stuff!

Old photo's of your relatives ? do your parents know who they are. I found all our old photo's and went through them, managed to identify many with the help of the family.
 

Noah

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Old photos of relatives? Yes, many identified. Also letters written by my great great grandmother and things written by her mother. Some jewellery in a box that belonged to my mother that can be identified on photos of a great grandmother. Embroidered silk Christmas cards sent between relatives in the First World War. A christening gown that my stepdaughter & stepson were christened in but which goes back at least five generations. My daughters first shoes ... Clutter or valued family heirlooms?

A cluttered house is a home, a de cluttered home is a house.
 

littleme

250,000th poster!
Old photo's of your relatives ? do your parents know who they are. I found all our old photo's and went through them, managed to identify many with the help of the family.
Not mine, but step-mothers...I don't believe old portraits of my family exist (well, they probably do, but not in my part of the family).
 
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