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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: CLKD on May 04, 2012, 11:31:41 AM
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:o 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 ::)
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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!
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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
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I would like our stuff around us but not in clutter form ::) - haven't found those keys yet Mrs P ;)
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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.
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Dare I look at that ??? .........
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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
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Facts about it here http://www.mentalhealthintheuk.co.uk/article_3.html
Taz x
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I don't suppose hubby's keys are under a pile of something in your house are they CLKD? ;)
Look around the microwave ;)
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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!
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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!!
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Once I've sold/passed things on I never miss them. Stuff which is precious is hung on the walls, worn, stored carefully ........
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I'm a throw it out type married to a store it'd like a squirrel ... adds interest to our relationship sometimes ::)
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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. :)
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We're both messy but not hoarders as such. We just seem to have "mess blindness" - we just don't notice stuff lying around - until guests are due, that is! ::) ;D
Bette x
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My lovely man has a 'man draw' ... Anyone else got one? The bits he stores away in there 'just in case' completely baffles me as to why he keeps the things he does.
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it is an old drawer from a long since disposed of chest of drawers and he keeps it under the bed.
Oh I wish ::) mine has always comendeared a draw in the kitchen where ever we have lived.
His time might be up soon ... we are planning to have a new kitchen :diablo:
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my son is a kitchen designer ;)
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I feel my anxiety levels rising when things get messy in the house. I'm not obsessive about tidying, but cannot be bothered with keeping stuff that no longer has a purpose. Our loft has stuff like that, but I cannot persuade himself to rid of it - it's mainly his stuff! Our bedroom doubles up as his "office" when he works at home and there are piles and piles of books sometimes. Does my head in.
Like Susan I have a massive tidy up when visitors are due or I am about to go away on holiday.
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