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so cathartic
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am moving soon and have been sorting out - cannot believe the rubbish!!! - always thought I coudn't live without this that or the other but as I haven't used it for ten years - you know what? I can!!! Once you get started, clearing out is briliant.
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You are brilliant rsvp - wish I could do mine! It SO stresses me out! Would you like to come round and sort my clutter out - 43 years worth! Mostly secretarial paperwork, from jobs long gone, "might come in use one day" type things, vintage toys in loft "may make us a fortune one day" NOT! Not to mention empty boxes, tins and containers - love 'em - "there must be a use for them" and clothes hanging on OUTSIDE of wardrobes - many inside never worn for ages but too good to give away "going to sell on Ebay, but never have time to list" etc etc I'm known as the "Clutter Queen" - its only in places where visitors never look though. All my friends think I'm wonderful as they ask me for anything and I can find one (takes a while but they are so impressed!) Latest request - crochet wool shawl to use for a Victorian Christmas event - found one last worn round an evening dress in the 70s!! Sound familiar??
Ann86 - you are a gal after my own heart - I love 'things' even if they aren't always apparently useful. I'm also very practical. One of my christmas pressies last year was new fencing pliers - yea, okay, strange. I keep 'things' cos I may be able to use them somewhere, somehow at some stage -bits of wire, posts, fencing etc, not to mention matting, nails planks and other sundries - legacy of a time we very defitinely had to make do and mend. No where near in your league of crochet shawls but certainly the same idea!!!x
Don't tell anyone, but I bought a tall house so that I could get all my stuff in... most of it's still here, and then OH moved in, but he has minimal stuff apart from clothes and books. It's taking me ages to even think about shifting some of it, but we can never move until I do. Some stuff has moved house several times with me already, but I can't do that again. Lots of my stuff worth disposing of has gone on eBay, and what doesn't sell goes to the charity shops. I wish I were tidy, but I'm not. The living room is currently full of sleeping catz....
Boxy I came over to UK about twelve years ago - had a suitcase - never meant to stay. Have acquired things - some of them I really want to keep - like my Mum's stuff when she died (which is obviously very precious to me) but I began to think that I was being owned by all the other 'stuff' I had and my house was a reflection of that - I needed a million rooms and was paying for a million rooms!!
Am now as sleek as a racing snake -have really sorted things out and, honestly, feel brilliant.
Am now as sleek as a racing snake -have really sorted things out and, honestly, feel brilliant.
We too inherited all my father in law's clutter when he died - what do you do with books of very bad poetry (he thought he was brilliant, bless him) but they don't rhyme and are very peculiar. He also had lots of photos of the Hunt with huntsmen sitting on horses with their heads cut off (the riders not the animals!) double exposed photos (you used to be able to do this if you didn't turn the camera to the next frame!) the best one ever was a pic of a gutter in the street and one of the sea which merged together produced a drain in the sea! He had numerous old Bibles as he was a retired Methodist local preacher, they all have scrawled notes in the margins of his sermons. My own Dad was just the same, he had hundreds of Kodak slides just of the sea from every angle, big waves, little waves, and some even had a ship on the horizon!! How can you just destroy things which meant a lot to someone else? They are in bin liners in our spare room ..............
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