How much cr@p can one person accumulate?

[punkypossum]

With a house move on the horizon, I decided to show some forward planning and start de-cluttering, so today was wardrobe day. Ended up with four massive bags to go to the charity shop, one full black bin bag and a full recycling box and that's before I've even started on the shoes!!! With a lot of the stuff I hadn't seen it for years and couldn't even remember I had it! (Being a bit of a hoarder things tend to stay well after their "sell-by-date", just in case they might come in useful... )

The scary thing is, the wardrobes don't look much emptier than before - where on earth did it all come from???

 

[johnnyh]

Narnia, just keep heading to the back of the wardrobe

 

[Spinney]

It breeds...

 

[swee'pea99]

We had to clear my Dad's house after he died last year. On the first afternoon, I took six full estate car loads down the tip. Sis and I sat back with a cup of tea afterwards and agreed that it had made not the slightest bit of difference.

On the very last day (of many, many days), I cleared the attic with the help of my youngest, saying to her at one point: 'If I ever propose to save a slightly grubby bit of beige carpet, 6 foot by two, that might have matched a carpet I once had in a house somewhere, just shoot me.'

 

[ianrauk]

Whats the opposite of hoarder? As I am one of those, yet 'er indoors is a hoarder.
She gets worried when I go through one of my phases of chucking things out, books, CD's, DVD's Clothes etc. Apart from a small collection of watches I don't collect or keep anything. To keep 'er on her toes I say that if I was to ever leave 'er I would only need a bin bag for my stuff..

 

[threebikesmcginty]

To keep 'er on her toes I say that if I was to ever leave 'er I would only need a bin bag for my stuff..

Ever the gent!


Mrs 3BM and I hoard tons of stuff. When we moved four years ago we got boxes of hoarded stuff from the attic and various storage areas and moved it all and hoarded it away in our new house!

 

[sheddy]

Is there counselling available for hoarders ? Where can I get some ?

The Mandrawer -
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5qyJpAn2Wc&feature=player_embedded#

 

[Dayvo]

How much cr@p can one person accumulate?

I had constipation for three weeks once (well, I shat six times in three weeks: there was a lot of crap after that, I can tell you!

I've moved four times in five years, and after each move have discarded a lot of things, mostly junk.

Even now, two weeks after I moved in with my g/f, there are cartons and bags all over the place.

 

[Mr Pig]

When I moved out of my mother's house I had a big box of bits and pieces that got dumped in a cupboard in my new house. When I moved out of that house, six years later, it was still there!

Most of the stuff we keep we'll never use. Just last night I was putting records away, which takes ages. Every time I pull out a record it get sat next to the settee until the pile becomes two piles and eventually I need to file them away again. Over the years I've got rid of a lot of records, but I still have quite a few so finding where they go takes hours. I said to me wife last night "What are you going to do with all these records when I die?"

Because somebody's going to have to clear up our junk. What's valuable to you will be landfill to everyone else. Which does make you think about why we bother to keep it. I have records that I will almost certainly never play again. What's the point of having them?

 

[very-near]

Feeling hungry, I had a look through the 'tin cupboard' yesterday. I filled the bin in the kitchen with old jars and tins buried at the back which were out of date.

 

[Crackle]

We had half our house in storage for 12 months. Funny we never needed any of it in that time but we still have it all here now.

 

[Fnaar]

I'm a chucker-outer/charity-shop-donator/recycler/get-rid-of-itter, but Mrs F is an inveterate hoarder. When we moved up North from London, the contents of our small London house nearly didn't fit in the massive removals lorry, and easily filled the rather bigger house we bought up here... which is now full of even more cr@p

 

[tyred]

I only downside to throwing things out is that as soon as you bin the box of bits and pieces which has been sitting untouched under the stairs for twenty years, the next day day, you will realise you need something that was in it...

 

[punkypossum]

That's exactly why I struggle to do it - that's happened to me a few times, so now I stick to the safe hoarding route!

 

[ChrisKH]

I'm a pairer downer after keeping stuff for twelve months except for the garage where it has a tardis like quality and I have had stuff for decades. But that's different isn't it?

I will pay someone to come and force my wife to go through her clothes (most of which now don't fit) and shoes (puts Imelda to shame). And her knick knacks. If I could use expletives at this point I f%C&(£$ would.