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[CLKD]

   this type of programme surfaces occasionally and I can easily see how people get in such muddles.

For me it's wanting to keep things but not having the places to display them; or enough drawers to store them in; or remembering that once stored that I even own them 

[CLKD]

Yep.  Hoarding to that extreme can soon get out of control.  Already I have stuff on our lounge floor mostly books, maps and letters waiting to be replied to.  If I put the latter away I forget they need a reply.  If I don't put things into the proper place at once they get hidden under piles of other things.  I could soon become a person with boxes from floor to ceiling with momentoes in.

Having said that selling our books at the local market on a Friday for 6 months has helped, I haven't missed any of them!  The only item I feel sad about is a Merino glass necklace which I hummed and aahed over, the morning I decided that I would keep and wear it this Summer, someone bought it from my stall  but she is thrilled with it.

My brooches are now on display: on dressmakers models so that I can see them!

[viv]

I hate clutter....I can only put up with a bit of a mess for a very short time and then it has to go.

I guess its just another form of OCD......being obsessively neat and tidy.

Honeyb
x

[CLKD]

I would like our stuff around us but not in clutter form  - haven't found those keys yet Mrs P 

[KatieLiz]

I have discovered a website called Flylady.net - it's got amazing advice to help keep your clutter under control.  Also it does venture into other areas of life as well.

[CLKD]

Dare I look at that    .........

[Taz2]

I hate my clutter - but unfortunately my husband doesn't see it in the same way. All I can visualise is that one day my sons will have to sort it all out which is what I had to do when my mum and dad died.

Taz x

[Taz2]

Facts about it here http://www.mentalhealthintheuk.co.uk/article_3.html

Taz x

[Pennyfarthing]

I don't suppose hubby's keys are under a pile of something in your house are they CLKD? 

Look around the microwave

[Pennyfarthing]

I hate my clutter - but unfortunately my husband doesn't see it in the same way. All I can visualise is that one day my sons will have to sort it all out which is what I had to do when my mum and dad died.

Taz x

That's what my Mum keeps saying. Every time I ring her she's "sorting out" drawers etc.

I used to work with elderly people and they all get this urge to sort things and then they say "I don't like dust gatherers" ..... I try and avoid saying that because I think it makes me sound like 90!

[KatieLiz]

My 13 year old son referred to his football trophies as 'dust gatherers' so it's not just the elderly!  But it is probably when I tell him to clean his room this happens!!

[CLKD]

 

[CLKD]

Once I've sold/passed things on I never miss them.  Stuff which is precious is hung on the walls, worn, stored carefully ........

[san]

I'm a throw it out type married to a store it'd like a squirrel ... adds interest to our relationship sometimes 

[littleminnie]

I'm lucky then, we both dont like clutter. I like everything neat, clean and tidy. I like things to be put back where they live. It's a shame my kids haven't inherited this though.