Baby steps will get it done and will help keep you from getting too frazzled, frustrated and worn out. :D

Whyyyy is there sooo mucchhh paper !! I can't seem to just toss and go, geezz - ok enuf moaning,

Hi Tillie, thinking of you and my Crew,,,, hating the slow going ...need to remember it wasn't built in a day -

Wonderful to see you NewLife! :D

Sounds like you have a great plan for today.

My To-Dos for the day are to do a little garden clean up if the weather permits.

Need to sweep and vacuum again because the leaves keep getting inside. :D

Have a GREAT day everybody! :D

ok - my garden looks good...

haha, my flowers are still growing, i have a lovely green/white ivy that lasts all year, and exotic colorful plants, trimmed everybody down, weeded the leaves, i love pruning the outside - you couldn't compare it to the inside - now i will go thru 2 grocery bags of papers - do it quickly, oh pls let me do it quickly 10:30 - i walk in peace, love, joy, gentleness and patience

Time for Work
Hi All, been busy with outside things and enjoying the lovely fall in my birthday month - time to get back to work - working from 9 to 10, hoping to go longer - tv on loud with joyce meyer, creflo dollar, let's make a deal - hope we all clean something today. Mind over Matter. :) got to gooo!!!

That's hilarious Tillie. :D

I should rake up a bunch of leaves tomorrow so Cory and Matt can play in them. Because they would probably love to do that. :) this is their very first autumn so they've never played in a huge pile of leaves before. :)

I have always loved Autumn :D

Used to rake up the biggest pile of leaves I could just so my dog could do her favorite thing.

She would take a running jump right into the middle of all the leaves and spend hours buried in the leaves.
If someone happened to walk past she would jump up like a "Jack In The Box" and scare them.
Happy times :D

OMG! I just looked out the window and realized that our yard is already covered in leaves AGAIN! It's so crazy because just yesterday my brother came over and cleaned the yard and now there are even more leaves in our yard.

Ok, so my room is officially off limits until Sunday. You probably think that i am crazy for doing this, but This morning some of my friends came over to help me set up a camera to try and catch any type of paranormal activity that happens in my room. And then every morning after I wake up I will check the camera to see if it caught anything. I really hope that it does catch something. I actually put some stuff around my room so that I can see if whatever is in there will mess with it. And I also locked the door to my room so that no one will be able to get in there. My friends actually think that it's awesome that my room might be haunted but I am totally freaked out by it.

Good morning everyone :)

I'm planning to rewatch the new HOARDERS episode again online.
Drinking my tea and having an oatmeal raisin cookie for breakfast. :D

ToDos for today are pretty much just look around and do whatever inspires me.

Sun is shining right now but there are big dark clouds moving in closer.

Have a great day whatever you are doing. :D

MayMay,
settle down and quit going to see spooky movies. :)

OMG! OMG! OMG! Some more PARANORMAL ACTIVITY has just occurred again in my room! Right now it is almost 3:00A.M. Where I live and a water bottle filled with water has just fallen off my coffee table in my room. Me, Cory, and Matt were sleeping when it happened and it woke us up and totally FREAKED US OUT! So right now we are going to try and go back to sleep in the guest room and tomorrow I am going to try and figure out a way to find out why this has been happening lately. I am thinking about getting some video cameras set up in my room to record everything that happens. Kind of like what the people did in all 4 of the "PARANORMAL ACTIVITY" movies. And then if I see any kind of activity on the cameras then I might go out and get a wigi board so I can try to connect with what ever spirit or demon that is in my room.

Hey MayMay,
sell tickets and make some money giving tours of your haunted house for Halloween. :D LOL

OMG! There is some major PARANORMAL ACTIVITY going on inside my room right now! No joke! I was just laying on my bed watching tv next to Cory and Matt, when all of a sudden I hear this loud bang come from inside my closet. Then right after I heard the bang, suddenly it sounded like stuff was falling off the shelves in my closet. When I went to see if something fell, everything looked normal. I am so FREAKED OUT right now!

My To-Do list for today...
Tidy up the house
clean bathroom
vacuum, sweep

Since it is an over cast rainy day
I have all the ingredients and will be making
oatmeal raisin cookies.
Then I will clean up the kitchen.

Have a GREAT day everyone. :)

Hi Cory,
Glad you got to see your kids :D
A winter storm knocked me off line before chat was over. :(
Sheryl was there but she was exhausted & needed to sleep.

The burn barrel....

Well while I was burning I was "discussing" with my hoarder/squallorer things that have to be done around here.
I kept my voice down and spoke rationally and logically about these things, mainly the septic tank.
He immediately got his pantiees in a twist, started getting very mean and nasty, slamming stuff around, as usual.
But for the first time I did not allow this to make me back off.
I got very close to his face and very quietly told him to "stop that".
He stopped. WOW.
I also told him that he had to deal personally with any service men that would be coming to the house.
That is when he literally choked. Thinking about himself having to face being publicly outed for this mess he has made here.

All the while I was burning my beloved antique medical books and my more current medical books.
Burned my vintage clothes and a whole lot of my personal items that were burnable.
Also used the hammer on some glass items too.

I gathered up a lot of sticks and branches and some pieces of rotted wood laying around and had the fire burning HOT.

Good morning everyone :D

Tina,
Good luck with your stealth mission and remember to take good care of yourself. Don't over do.
(((hugs)))

Have fun MayMay. :D

Mary,
I am very proud of what you have accomplished already.
Let that guilt and shame go. You are a worthy person who just had her life get out of control.
You are doing a fantastic job!
(((HUGS))), Tillie

Just had hoard cleaned out over the weekend. Today I'm trying to clean up residual dirt & grime & assess structural damage. Feeling very emotionally drained from the experience and feel very vulnerable with all my stuff gone. Also feeling guilt and shame to have someone come in and see how I let things go so long. No idea how much it will cost me to get things back to where they should be. Dealing with so much anxiety right now...long road ahead.

Hey Cory,
Is your son single? Because I love marines. ;)

Today I plan on doing some chores around the house. And then later on today I am going to go to the mall with one of my friends. She still doesn't have her halloween costume yet. So I am going to the mall to help her find a costume. :).

I spent an entire week gathering a very sizable collection of items to donate to a local homeless shelter, but I got sick before I could deliver them. Of course, I discovered that my husband dragged everything I had packed up to donate back into the house during my illness... (Even though none of the items were his!) So my mission for today is to go into Super Stealth mode and load as much of it as I possibly can into my pick-up truck & haul-ass out of the driveway with it before he can catch me. lol!

Tillie,
I have to know how the burn went? Sorry I missed you all last night. I actually got home in time for the last hour, but I arrived home to find two of my children at my house to surprise me. My son was on leave from the Marines for the weekend and one of my daughters was here also. It was great seeing them again to say the least. So fill me in on what you burned and what the response was!

Good morning :)

Since the weather is so much cooler now and we have some humidity I can burn things in my burn barrels again.

That's my plan for today.
Going to get out there and burn everything I can find to burn. :D

Still needing to impress upon him that I am very serious about him getting that septic tank taken care of ASAP.
He keeps burying his head in the sand in the hopes that all the maintenance issues around here will just dissapear.

Have a GREAT day everyone and hope to see you all in "chat" tonight. :)

Thank you MayMAy. :)

Hey Tillie,

I really hope your husband will do what he needs to do so the company will be able to drain the septic tank. Because I definitely don't want you and your husband having to live like Shanna. Her house was so scary! Plus after they cleaned out her house she still couldn't live in it anymore because of all the damage. So I definitely don't want that to happen to you guys. :)

Good morning everyone. :)

Today I will be going into town to get some groceries.
I have my list all made up and my coupons organized.

When I get back my plan is to let my hoarder know exactly what I expect him to do about clearing a path to the septic tank and making him call the company to have it drained.
And that he MUST be here when the company comes so he can get all the dirty looks and not me because it really is not my hoard & squalor.

Or very soon we will be living like Shanna here.


Have a great day everyone! :)

Hey Tillie,

OMG! Me too! It's ridiculous how many political phone calls we get at my house. And now people are actually starting to come to our door asking us to take political surveys. It's so annoying! And I hate how every time I watch the news the majority of what they talk about right now is politics. I can't wait until it's finally over!

Hey MayMay
Yes I hate how it gets earlier & earlier all the time.

What I am really hating right now is being bombarded with political BS.
Seems I live in a "swing" state.
Every day there is at least 3 pieces of political junk mail delivered here.
The TV has constant political commercials.
Worst of all is that EVERY DAY the phone rings off the hook with surveys and automated political messages.
AAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Will be so very happy when this election is over with!

OMG! I just saw the first Christmas commercial of the season and it's not even Halloween yet. I swear, They start advertising for Christmas earlier and earlier every year.

My To-Do list for today...

Make a grocery shopping list.
Since I am trying to keep my hoarder out of stores I have been trying to buy 2 weeks worth of groceries at a time so we only have to go every other week.
He impulse buys food and he has the freezer on the fridge stuffed solid and he has a LOT of other food stashed all around in his hoarded areas.
Plus he goes to this other grocery store near where he works and brings home stuff every week.

Any way.....
Just have my usual type tasks to do today
feed & water cats
scoop litter boxes
sweep
tidy up


Have a GREAT day everybody! :D

Good morning everyone! :D

Tina (((HUGS)))
I know how depressing that is. :(
My hoarder does that exact same thing to me when I get sick.
So sorry.


NewLife,
Wonderful that you are getting down to the actual floor! Even if it does need a good mopping at least we can see it. :)

Hey Tina,
I'm so sorry to hear about what your hoarder has been doing while you've been sick. :(
I'm glad to hear that you are starting to feel better. :)

Hey NewLife,
Good luck clearing your floor. :)

Hi Tina, i'm glad you are feeling well enuf to be up and around, don't let what you see lay you back down, just rinse out the sink or something. My trick is to not really think about it, cause i go into a tizzy, just do what's on top, even if it's only 5 dishes. you did something. Wish me well clearing my floor. I need to stop trying to read and walk down memory lane with each piece of paper. Also, cleaning up mad makes me do a little more ... let's do something today, NewLife

good day All, it's Friday and i'm alive. Today I would like to clear out that kitchen floor, it's icky dirty underneath all that paper trash. I cleared off my couch 2 days ago, yea, and stuck the papers and mail in a plastic bag to go thru, only 1 of many ... anyway, Happy Today, one small step will do me good ~

Medical complications have had me laid up for the past few weeks, but I'm beginning to recover. As I wandered around the house this morning my heart caught in my throat as I surveyed the damage left in the wake of my illness. My worst fear realized, My hoarder has taken full advantage of my inability to actively defend the clean & clear spaces in our home...

Not a clean dish in the house.
Every horizontal surface covered.
My living room transformed into his project workshop.
Paths once again starting to form.
Weeks of laundry piled on the washroom floor...

I can't describe what I'm feeling right now, except that it hurts.

[Sigh...] :(

Today while I was cleaning my room I discovered something very interesting and kind of shocking.

In my room I have 2 tents; one is for Cory and the other one is for Matt. In their tents are their dog beds and their favorite blankets and they also have some dog toys in there too. All the rest of their dog toys are in toy boxes that they can get to anytime they want. Today while I was cleaning I looked inside both of their tents to get their blankets so I could wash them; and when I looked inside Matt's tent I noticed that it was practically overflowing with dog toys. When I went to get Matt's blanket out I also took out all the toys in his tent and counted them. Turns out he had over 50 dog toys hidden in his tent. I was really shocked! When I went to get Cory's blanket I also counted all the toys in his tent too. He only had 10 toys in his tent.

I think Matt might be a hoarder! Lol. :)

Thanks Tillie! :D

Where did my post go?

I wrote a post & it's not here.
Oh Well.....

Have fun at the park MayMay.

Today I will be moving my winter things to the front shelves & top drawers and summer things to the back.
Has gotten very cold here at night.

Have a great day everyone! :D

I don't have much planned for today. I just plan on cleaning the house. Then after I clean the house I'm going to take Cory and Matt up to Delco Park for a walk. It has been a while since I have taken them to Delco Park.

Good morning

I have the kind of insomnia where I can fall asleep but then wake up a few hours later and can't get back to sleep. :(

Been up for hours now.

My To-Do list for today...
water the lilac hedge amd lawn
cook pork chops and curried rice
clean the kitchen
try to take a nap

Have the best day today you possibly can! :)

Hey Tillie,

Sorry to hear about your neck and head ache. :(

I hope it gets better soon. :)

We are having the outside of our house and the garage door painted brown; and all the outside doors like the front door and our 2 back doors painted white. Today the painters are working on all the doors; so the house is freezing cold right now because all the outside doors are opened. Right now Cory and Matt are playing in my room, which is the warmest room in the house, but I can't stay in there with them because I have to keep an eye on the painters. The painters do have a really good taste in music though. ;)

Good morning! :)

Today I need to water my trees and bushes.
It is sort of cool & breezy right now so I will wait until a little later.

Woke up with a stiff neck and a head ache.
Slept wrong.

Oh Well.....

Have a great day everybody! :D

How nice MayMay! :)

The outside or the inside?
What colors?

I just came in from outside, where I was playing with Cory and Matt. Now I'm getting ready to give them a bath, and then when they get out of the bath they will probably want to take a nap. We were outside playing for over an hour this morning. While they are taking a nap I am going to wait for the painters to arrive at the house. We are getting ready to have our house painted. :)

Today is a cold and gloomy day. A perfect day for a movie marathon. Right now Cory and Matt are on my bed all warm and cosy under their favorite blankets. I am getting ready to pop some popcorn and then we are going to start the movie marathon by watching "The Sixth Sense." :)

Good morning everybody :)

My To-Do list for today...

clean the bathroom
wash the floors
vacuum the carpet
sweep the porches

When everything is back to how I like it I will then shampoo my hair and give myself a manicure. :)

Since I removed all his clutter out of the house (except his bedroom)
the house is very easy to clean.
There are no piles of stuff laying around in the way keeping me from being able to clean all areas quickly.
I don't have to spend hours to have my home clean and smelling good. I can do other things with my time.
I love having a clean home but I also hate doing housework.
It takes very little time to daily tidy up a clean house.
Never neglecting a mess is an important part of maintenance.


Have a great day everybody! :D

Cory Chalmers has a farm

E I E I Oh ;)

I know that animals really appreciate being well taken care of.
Wishing all of them were pampered.

Today we went to 9:00am church. Got home and cleaned out our chicken coop and added fresh bedding. Now going to the feed store to buy some hay and alpha pellets for the goats. When we get back it is working in the back yard all day. The wife is helping inside doing laundry, dishes and the weekly chores. Hope to be all completed in time for the Hoarding Support Group!

Happy Sunday to you all :)

Hey Tillie,

Actually Matt and Cory are both really well behaved dogs. But for some reason last thursday Cory decided to run off to go look at the fish in the fish tanks at petsmart. That was the very first time one of them has ever run off. Normally they are so well behaved that sometimes I won't even put them on a leash because they always like to stay by my side and they are both really friendly. :)

Good morning :D

Stayed up late last night watching some dumb movie but managed to sleep in this morning before the cats started acting up wanting their breakfast.

My hoarder is gone again today installing hand rails in the home of our elderly friend who fell down his stairs. He is home from the hospital and he is very happy to have the hand rails in his bathrooms and hallways.

Was planning on doing some burning today but there is a breeze. Even though I use covered burn barrels, I never burn when there is any kind of wind.

Going to vacuum and dust in my room. Rearrange some things just for fun.

Have a great day everyone and hope to see you in chat tonight.