This afternoon we moved the sideboard back into the hall. That meant emptying it and then, of course, putting things back. Are you like me? Do you have loads of ornaments and 'things' that you'll never use but you hang on to for sentimental reasons?
Like the black pottery that belonged to my great-aunt, or the knick-knacks that came from my childhood home? Or the candle holder that was given me by a dead friend. (She was alive when she gave it to me.)
I should de-clutter, get rid of all the junk. Clear out my cupboards, make space for ... stuff.
Maybe I'll do it. Tomorrow. Or the next day.
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I de-clutter a few times a year, but still have a few things that I don't use,but just can't get rid of. Some of my ceramics I made years ago, I did get give lots away and sell some a few years ago, maybe these will go next time. My husband is the worlds worst, what a hoarder..arggghhh..
Some of these things are links to the past, links to friends and family gone, links to childhood. No, they will not go.
When you've finished yours can you come and do mine too?!
Fumbling around in the attic, I recently found an old case full of my deceased mother's mementoes.
My old school reports, a couple of my homework exercise books, a few B&W photos e3tc, with which I shall be boring my readers in the coming weeks (threat!).
Ah, nostalgia!
(It isn't what it used to be ;-)
. . . or the next. I do try to de-clutter once or twice a year, when the mood strikes. Living in a tiny space in Manhattan doesn't afford room for all the knick-knacks. Still, I pay a goodly sum every month for a storage unit in Atlanta to hold a whole lot of useless stuff (though there is furniture, etc., there as well). As you say, one day . . .
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that it may incriminate me...
However hard I try to keep things tidy, I seem to be surrounded by mess. I do love things to be tidy and clutter free...just need to keep perservering.
Tomorrow is always the best time for decluttering!
It's always difficult to get rid of the things with memories attached to them. I have plenty!
I have way to much clutter. Every now and then I have a huge clear out, but it soon builds up again!
Is the Pope a Catholic?
I have junk everywhere. I was just thinking (again) today that I need to do something about that.
I used to have ornaments then I had BOYS!!!
I like to read all those articles about how to de-clutter your house. Then I put the magazine in the pile under the bed (just in case I want to refer back to it again) and forget about it:)
My husband is like Anne's - he will hoard everything. The main culprits are bits of metal and piles of magazines. He now has 2 desks which are piled high with car and railway mags. I do try and trim my stuff when I'm in the mood. Special keepsakes with memories though will always have a place.
Wendy (Wales)
One day it will come over you ! You will sit or lay somewhere and suddenly jump up and throw everything out maybe keep it in a carton in the basement, that's what happened to me one day 5 or 6 years ago !
My suggestion: unless you need the space, keep all of it.
Oh Liz, this post speaks to me. I am drowning in stuff and after 31 years in the same house I need to move or something.
I just can't seem to let this stuff go either. I am following Saintly Nick's advice myself.
A few months back Mrs F came straight up to me when I got in one day. "I'm sorry" she said "I've something to tell you". I thought - this is it finally I'm being kicked out as she has finally realised she should get a much better husband but actually she was apologizing for breaking - well shattering actually - an old engraved glass of mine. I got it years ago when in a team that got a Queens Award for Technology or something. She thought I'd be devistated (be fair I have few allocades in my life) but honestly it was just one of the things that cluttered the mantalpiece...
My house is full of clutter. And when my mother moved out of our old house, I ended up with a lot of her clutter because I couldn't bear to throw away a lot of stuff. Now I have boxes in my basement full of old mementoes.
What a lot of responses! It seems I am not alone in hoarding.
Anne, it's wood my husband likes to cling on to. 'You never know when you'll need a bit of wood.' that and whisky bottles.
Katney, you're right.
When I've finished mine, suburbia?
Things like that are so fascinating, dr stu.
Down-sizing would definitely be a big job, mary.
Fair enough, puss!
Jo, I know. I try too but it just gathers.
I think you're right, jams and starnitesky.
cherrypie, I got rid of quite a bit before Christmas but some things just stay in cupboards.
Let's make a resolution, jay, to do it. One day.
Yes, hippy mama, boys are good for getting rid of ornaments. Oh no wait, what about the things they make? You have to keep those ...
Oh Rose, yes! My pile of I'd-better-keep-this-magazine takes up three shelves!
Wendy, I think we have to treasure some things.
Gattina, our attic is beginning to sag it has so much stuff in it!
Nick, I think so.
jmb, memories are too important to disregard.
Furtheron, you should see the shelf of trophies we have! All from Husband's ten pin bowling days!!!
Mauigirl, it is too hard to part with some things.
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