| Tillie | Posted: 09 December 2016 - 09:56 AM |
Good morning everybody 🙂 Great to read your posts on phase five! 😀 WAY TO GO!!! Everybody on every accomplishment, especially the little ones that really do add up and help make your homes the sanctuary of your dreams. | |
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| Tillie | Posted: 30 January 2017 - 10:46 AM |
Hi CriticalMass 🙂 | |
| Tillie | Posted: 30 January 2017 - 10:43 AM |
Good Morning Everybody 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Hi Pain 🙂 Just another very sad and discouraging weekend here. Tomorrow is the last day of January 2017. | |
| CriticalMass | Posted: 30 January 2017 - 10:39 AM |
Hi everyone, happy start of a new week! I sure hope it will be the week my van gets the repairs done. Yes, I am still waiting. Friday it didn't happen. Left a message with mechanic about an hour ago, haven't heard anything back. I'm trying so hard not to become discouraged about this. It irritates me of course that the whole business affects the portion of my decluttering plans involving trips to the storage unit. Guess I'll just have to do more here at the house in the meantime. With all that in mind, I'm going to refrain from posting about the subject of vehicle repairs anymore until that happy day, God willing, when I can announce the work has been completed. It's just getting too tiresome to post these ups and downs; I feel like a broken record. So that's that for that. This weekend I had some good accomplishment, though. I love it when I start in intending to do just a little and more comes of it. I went out to the storage unit Saturday, and did the following: --located a book I wanted to look at --took the doll clothes crafting ribbons and trims out of drawers and put them in flat plastic storage boxes that had been emptied by the Great Yarn Destash of 2016 --sorted a few of my doll clothes in progress sweater boxes to locate trims that could consolidate into those large trim boxes. I no longer meet with the other ladies weekly for sewing sessions, so I can re-centralize the location of all ribbons/trims. --compacted the contents of two large cardboard boxes that have been riding around in my van since my move mid-2015. Put the stuff to keep in a plastic tub that was empty, and ditched the cardboard boxes, clearing more space in the van. --with the flattened boxes and some miscellaneous, that made a black trash bag full to go in the dumpster at the storage place! --found a few bits of lace to add to my latest donation bag. I start a new bag as soon as I get rid of a batch of donations, even if I just have one small item. Having a bag going makes me look for more things to go in it. @Pain - you are doing so well under very trying circumstances and I like your ideas. Especially the tubs. It sparked an idea for future sessions at the storage - I have one really big tub and I'm going to use it as a holding tub during work sessions. That'll help me be able to move around in there and access the shelves. I have shelves that are available to hold things but several of them are just sitting empty while stuff is piled in front of them! Using the "dump tub" to hold that stuff, then sort it and put what stays on the shelves neatly will be a big help. So thanks for the idea. Word of advice I have to give because my mom was diabetic and my ADD gets so much worse if my own blood sugar dips - be careful about being too jacked up on sugar, caffeine and adrenaline - make a point to get some protein in there too for the steady fuel, okay? 😉 That way you won't crash suddenly. I have an anxiety disorder too so that's a deterrent for me against excess caffeine usage, and I've cut back on sugar since surgery last fall, so I could lose some weight. I find that I'm not having the sugar swings and bottoming out and it feels good not to have them. Your Mileage May Vary, I know, but just passing along my own experiences for what they're worth. Good luck with everything! 🙂 | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 29 January 2017 - 08:21 PM |
Hello everyone! Good to read your posts. I am doing laundry and some puttering. I got rid of a comforter today and I took some things that my brother wanted. I am doing laundry and throwing stuff out. Going to call January 10% and for February looking for 30%. The fact this isn't realistic is irrelevant. I have identified one piece of furniture that could potentially go. I do have a piece I want to get rid of but not until I find a replacement and I'm in no rush. I have exactly the furniture I want in my home. It's the other stuff. So my 30% challenge lives on. Just need to reduce, reduce, reduce. And I believe in myself. I do have some artwork that I will be looking to consign. I should probably get that together and put a date on my calendar to do that. | |
| Tillie | Posted: 29 January 2017 - 11:33 AM |
Good Morning Everyone 🙂 Yes, sometimes when the message board is slow to load, The Daily Chat does not appear until you refresh the page. It's just a computer programming glitch. Ever since I installed Windows 10 on my computer Deleting browsing history and cookies regularly helps keep computers running smoothly. I know this does not help people posting from phones or using other browsers besides Windows. Hi Pain 🙂 | |
| Pain | Posted: 29 January 2017 - 05:37 AM |
This is the link to the "view full site" link. http://www.hoardingcleanup.com/Message_Board/?msgbrd=3 I wonder if the Daily chat was visible on this page too Instead of not discoverable from view full site. | |
| Pain | Posted: 29 January 2017 - 05:26 AM |
I'm thankful this site exists. | |
| Pain | Posted: 29 January 2017 - 05:22 AM |
Yes I have to navigate to it. I have to know where to find it. | |
| Joan | Posted: 29 January 2017 - 05:02 AM |
Since my last post 1/27 Friday morning at 5:51AM, I have not been able to access this board. The Message Board has always been slow to load and often does not include the "Daily Chat" thread. I have to reload, often two or three times, to get the Daily Chat to show up on the main Message Board. The last two days I have been unable to access the Daily Chat at all. If I didn't know this thread exists I would have stopped looking for it. Anyone else having this problem? | |
| Pain | Posted: 28 January 2017 - 04:37 PM |
Poked my head in bAck room. That's good enough for today. I'll go buy them now to stay away from mother in law. Not like we fight , just that were not ever been friendly. I know she wants me downstairs so she can have them all upstairs together. But the reality is my wife can't get up and down the stairs. And me and my wife will downstairs together with mother in law. ALOT. NANN come Monday through Thursday Well just thinking out loud. | |
| Pain | Posted: 28 January 2017 - 03:57 PM |
Thank you Tillie Today was a wonderful day. We ate on the big table. My daughters friends knocked on the door around noon. They the house was spotless and came in. Right then NANN my wife's mom. My MIL. came in and saw what was going on. She pulled me aside and said if I clean out the back room downstairs - which is a 7x15 porch made into part of the house. So I took all that wanted to go to guitar center. And bought a used electronic drum kit. While NANN fixed dinner. I know I'm about to get exhausted. So I cut out after setting it up. Only the two guitar players stayed. And NANN has some alone time with her daughter. I've spent the rest of the day putting the tubs in storage. At a slow pace. Drinking coffee. Im sober three years now. As long as I have coffee I don't want to go back to being an alcoholic. I just have know that the caffeine makes me jittery and testy with in laws. So to stay away from the other emotional tigers like myself. I plan to get home . And no matter what's going on . I'll just clean the kitchen. This leaves only two rooms left. P.S. the electronic drums attachment fits my daughters computer. The computer fits the 55 inch television in my room. So I left it in there. With the headset . The drums are silent to the downstairs. But she was watching you tube drumming g lessons from chromecast and using the computer software she could see on the TV Too.. she's having fun and has some friends in the house again. That's all for now. | |
| Tillie | Posted: 28 January 2017 - 10:38 AM |
Good Morning Everybody 🙂 Hi CriticalMass 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Hi Pain 🙂 | |
| Pain | Posted: 27 January 2017 - 07:34 PM |
I'm in purge mode. It's contents are secondary, however I'm strategic that I'm not just unstacking piles From the dinning room and restacking in other rooms. My problem is I'm out tubs. If I buy more I wont have places for them. I've discovered my wife is more sick than she has been telling me. My emotions s are a whirl of dismay, disconnect, and denial. I no know why she's so upset. She just wants Peace. While I am an emotional Tiger. Daring with my tale. We almost can't get along even when we both agree. I'll be done with the street level this weekend. | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 27 January 2017 - 07:30 PM |
Hello everyone! Joan I am glad you are working through your health problems & congrats on your refrigerator victory! Hello to everyone. Another tough day at work but managed to finish a project and I hope to feel relieved soon. I don't feel it yet. Tillie I am feeling mostly healed today in abdomen area & haven't seen any sign of internal injury. I don't think it will slow me down this weekend. I'm not at the 30% and won't be by end of weekend but I've made favorable progress and I'm happy about that! I will take the comforter to goodwill this weekend and I have another bag of clothes. I don't think I can shred tonight. My eyes are tired. I'm running dishwasher and will Heat up some turkey soon. I was only able to skim the posts because my eyes are sore. I'll catch up later. | |
| CriticalMass | Posted: 27 January 2017 - 04:59 PM |
Well, today was to have been the vehicle repairs day, and my mechanic and I were in communication earlier. So I was guardedly optimistic. But now it's after 4:00 p.m. here so I dunno. I know he had other cars ahead of me. The issue of my place in the overall queue is a complicated one. I think it has to do some with him doing business out of his home and he also does plumbing. Between that and his family there are frequent emergencies. I don't know for a fact but I may also be lower priority since he tries to help me out financially. *makes attempt at philosophical sigh* To not get all antsy, I've done other things. Checked bank account and other stuff online, sorted more sewing lace. The lace will be evaluated as to whether it can go quickly onto doll dresses I plan on making very soon. Otherwise it may go away. The leftovers will certainly go away. Also drew a design for part of the quilt top I've got in the works for church. I really like how it came out. Doing artistic and creative things makes my brain happy. Keeps away the ADD brain mode where I just have two settings, "Impulsive" or "Indecisive." The impulsive side is the part that bought too much stuff or jumps from one unfinished project to another like a bunny on espresso. The indecisive part is the sloth on tranquilizers that crawls mournfully amidst the wreckage that the bunny wrought. | |
| Tillie | Posted: 27 January 2017 - 11:17 AM |
Good Morning Everyone 🙂 Hi Anonymoniker 🙂 Hi CriticalMass 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Hi Pain 🙂 Hi Joan 🙂 The sun is shining and no rain or snow, just frosty cold. TTFN 🙂 | |
| Joan | Posted: 27 January 2017 - 05:51 AM |
Morning everyone, Tillie, Tatoulia, Anony, Critical, Pain. Glad everyone seems well. I am finally able to rest properly because health issues are resolving. In my case, people were quick to victimize me because of my hoarding, but that has been just an outward sign of a deep problem that is finally resolved. It is another case of "blame the victim". Now that the situation is resolved those people will have to find a new victim to blame, or else deal with their own issues. I am not thinking about the hoarding now. I am working on an immune system problem that recently started to be corrected by a good allergist. I was pleased, however, that when I took my mulch - I keep in it the fridge until it is time to go food shopping, as they have a mulch bin there - anyway, when I took my mulch in yesterday, I included two semi-rotted and semi-frozen apples that had been in my hydrator for years. Only other hoarders can appreciate this as progress. I rate myself not so much on how much I remove, but more on how comfortable I am removing it and how old it is. Have a good day, everyone! | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 26 January 2017 - 09:03 PM |
Quick drive by! Glad to hear from Tillie & CM & Anony & Pain. WTG everyone! Just got home from work. Going to probably just go lay down. I am extremely tired. I slipped at work today, one of the soap dispensers had fallen apart and there was a clear layer of liquid soap all over the restroom floor. I was propelled right into the sink counter and my abdomen is very painful/straight across where I hit the counter. I think it will be ok, I just need to wait for the bruising to finish coming out and then heal. I'll head to bed soon. Just so glad to hear from everyone. This is my last weekend in January & there's still plenty to go before the 30% less of everything has occurred! Still feeling good about it. I will work hard this weekend, as always, with your help. | |
| CriticalMass | Posted: 26 January 2017 - 06:35 PM |
Anony, good to see you back. The more you reclaim of your life and your space, the more you will reclaim of your serenity, I'm sure of it! Hugs and hang in there! Tillie, you give US inspiration to keep going too, I hope you know that! Pain, yeah, I have the ol' ADHD too but I'm going to figure out some "workarounds." Keep posting your progress, it gives me ideas. Kitty fur is a small price to pay for the delightsomeness of kitties. 🙂 Today I was out near it so I popped in at my storage unit. I thought if I could just do a few quick things. And I did. I found a few more bits of my Steampunk crafting stuff and consolidated them into the Steampunk tub which is in the van for now but hopefully will find a permanent place soon. I also went through my doll clothes ribbons and lace and consolidated some of it that was in a separate place over to the main place. It will be easy to find and USE UP now. I had purged about 50% a year and a half or so ago, and I think what I have is not bad. Plus as I get the doll clothes made, if I have too many leftovers, they can get donated. I hope to get an Etsy to sell these craft things eventually. I found two hanks of trim I didn't really like and those went to donation - again, that idea of not keeping stuff around that I'm unsure of. I know I won't miss those trims at all. To wrap things up, I put some large art and sewing books in an upright crate which will keep them from getting bent - oh, and I got rid of one book too. And I found a book I'd been wanting to refer to for a project. It all felt good, just those little things! And it gave me some ideas for future decluttering out there. It's always nice to know where I might start the next time. | |
| Anonymoniker | Posted: 26 January 2017 - 04:09 PM |
Hi there, everyone? | |
| Tillie | Posted: 26 January 2017 - 10:43 AM |
Good Morning Everybody 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Hi CriticalMass 🙂 Hi Pain 🙂 Snowing again, still. TTYS 🙂 | |
| Pain | Posted: 25 January 2017 - 09:34 PM |
Glad to hear from everyone. Critical I do relate to projects that start but dont Finnish. My parts get separated. I hate heart break. But it's the risk we have to endure to do get to that person we bond with. Today is laundry day. There's been a pile of laundry that the wife and daughter won't purge. It's been a coin mountain. About 6 foot tall and feet a across. I took it all to laundry mat while they were out today. Kitchen is OK today. Wife was mad and didn't kooc up the place. I'm taking her to dinner tomorrow evening. But the weekend will be all delivery. I'm closing the kitchen until we can eat in a clean dining room. I think that will be Sunday. | |
| CriticalMass | Posted: 25 January 2017 - 05:29 PM |
Hello again, This will just be bits and pieces. Pain, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your posts about your plans and how it's going carrying them out. It makes this decluttering business sound doable. Sorry your wife is not well, though. I can imagine how that must make you sad. But that was nice that she and your daughter shared a happy moment too. Tatoulia, you are doing well, and even if I had a quick visual of an "underwear herd" trust me the amusement was priceless! 😉 So don't feel embarrassed. I haven't gotten large things done this week but the things I did get done I'm pleased about. One was getting a form submitted regarding my student loan debt. A routine thing but I tend to feel a bit uneasy anytime there's something with a deadline. It wasn't difficult really, and it's finished! Then I just wait to hear confirmation back from them. The other thing I did was take a small bag to donate at the thrift shop. It just had a pair of jeans that are too short, and some craft lace that was white stained with a little red dye and the box of dye remover. Such a classic hoarder thing - most people would've just thrown out the stupid lace, it wasn't anything valuable. But no, I had to go buy the box of dye remover, then read the instructions which sounded scary, and procrastinate in indecision for at least 3 years thus far. The bag rode around in my van after my last move. So when I put the jeans in the bag I was thinking to look for things to add, and I found that bag of lace and dye remover. I just bundled the whole thing up and stuck it in with the jeans! And today got rid of it. It may not sound like much but it's not bugging me anymore. If they want to throw it away, fine. It's the decision-making I hate most of all. Problem solved. I'm going to do more of this sort of thing - just getting rid of things that I am annoyed that I keep, if you see what I mean. Anony, glad you checked in. I know you've probably heard it from others but I'm going to join the chorus anyway: Don't let some person who has treated you badly make you feel like your own life is washed up. It's grief and loss but it can be gotten through. If I could tell you what I did/endured back in the day yet somehow survived . . . and am glad I did, and though things are hard they're at least not stuck back in that old rut . . . anyway, grab onto hope and hold on tight. We'll be pulling for you. Yeah, the 2017 celebrity deaths have started, it was only a matter of time. I remember watching Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 70s when I was pre-teen or teenage. Lots of laughter and good interactions between the characters. Being a KC Royals fan, I was also shocked and saddened by the death of their pitcher Yordano Ventura this weekend. Another baseball player, Andy Marte, also died in the Dominican Republic in a separate car accident. And there have been others died recently Too much sad. Young men with promise but maybe reckless, I don't want to judge but it's too bad they didn't get a chance to mature out of it. | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 25 January 2017 - 05:14 PM |
Tillie--I inspired you? Wow!!! Ok maybe inspired is a big word, but just let me savor this! Turkey is delicious. | |
| Tillie | Posted: 25 January 2017 - 04:32 PM |
Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Yes, losing Mary is sad. 🙁 WAY TO GO! cooking that turkey for you! 😀 | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 25 January 2017 - 03:23 PM |
*everytime I watch her show | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 25 January 2017 - 03:22 PM |
I understand the cabin fever, Tillie! If I work from home too many days in a row I find my social skills suffer. Well my role model Mary Tyler Moore has died. Everything's me I watch her show I stare at her apt and think, why can't I just have people over. She is giving me strength and motivation today. Recycling out and I'm roasting a turke breast. For me. Generally I cook for others but I just want a turkey dinner tonight. | |
| Tillie | Posted: 25 January 2017 - 12:43 PM |
Good Morning Everyone 🙂 Hi Tatoulia 🙂 Hi Pain 🙂 Cold day, down in the 20s. TTFN 😀 | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 25 January 2017 - 12:33 PM |
Hello everyone. Cleaning out some drawers today to make a bag for donation. Going to step out for a walk in a little while. Need milk and cat litter. Feeling better after lots of sleep. Doing some laundry. And clearing off dresser. Puttering in between work time. What are you doing today? | |
| Tatoulia | Posted: 24 January 2017 - 11:15 PM |
Quick drive-by to say hello. Tense day at work so I came home & napped. I'll write more later. Be sure to take care of yourself, Pain & Tillie. | |