Help with hoarding

A new bed sounds nice! Sometimes I wonder about the things I have sentimental attachment to. I was emptying out a container the other day and found a wallet I had as a child. It even had some yard tied to it, I think the first yarn I ever bought. It's filthy and worn out and you can't tell what color the yarn was (I remember) - but I got excited to come across it

I came across a small box i had lined with "mod" gift wrap - so sometime in the mid-60's? - and used as a desk drawer divider, and honestly i felt sling-shotted - slung-shot? - back to that day in my room at home! They say smells are powerful reminders, but maybe it's because the visuals arent so easily replicated?

I just realized today that I have too much stuff in my closest. I don't know how to get rid of it. I just got rid of the last piece of my old bed which is very hard to do.

That true. I believe you it the visuals aren't so easily replace.

I just clean out the boxes in my closest.

Wow everyone seems to be doing well!

I finally got rid of the bags of clothes in my room and the hall. I have made two more bags that I really have to deal with. I have also started a box of books for the book sale this year. I have to do something the books are every where. Of course that all went full stop for Christmas. My next big thing will be to put all the Christmas decorations and tree away! Then see about getting the living room back into shape. Really wish the rest of the family would help instead of hindering the process!

I got rid of the tree and decorations last week. I really needed the space for something else.

Friday I cleaned out the closet in the room I recently renovated. I found things I hadn't touched since I'd moved in many years ago now. I threw out three trash bags full of stuff and found better homes for other things. Now the closet is mostly empty. It feels weird to have thrown out so many childhood things but also really nice to have the space. I'd only planned on spending thirty minutes on it but wound up taking the whole afternoon to go through everything - definitely had decision fatigue by the end of it.

We're having people over tonight so we had to spend the weekend sprucing things up. I hope I can keep it looking like this.

I have almost a full bag of clothes I can not wear anymore just from my closet that I am donating. I just got rid of my old bed and traded it in with a new bed

It sound great with what you are doing! I had to do in small break because of the anxiety I had been having.

It going to be hard when I clean out the storages and get rid of a lot of things I have.

Good job swapping out the bed and setting out clothes to donate! I find that once decision fatigue sets in, I need to stop. It's probably better to do it in small chunks so it doesn't get to that point, but I have trouble recognizing when I should stop.

I crammed a bunch of stuff into a hallway while I was working on my renovation project and took my first stab at disassembling the pile yesterday. I don't actually have anywhere to put these things so it is forcing me to make some hard decisions.

I've had some of those hoarding shows playing while I try to figure out where I can put the stuff that's blocking my hall. One of the shows had a counselor asking the home owner whether they needed something to live a functional life or if they wanted it. I'm trying to ask myself that question as I go through these things.

I also came across a tip, I think in one of these shows, suggesting that you just handle the thing once. I tend to defer decisions and move things from one place to another, so I am trying to catch that as well... although I did take a stack of DVDs I will probably never watch and move them from one bookshelf to another, so not sure how well that's working for me...

I am the same way! It hard but I getting better.

I watch the hoarding show myself. My home had never been that bad. But one of my sister and neighbor house is like the houses on the hoarder show.

I haven't done well lately. All the anxiety leading up to buying the house and tensions with my mother were all I could handle for a while. We get the keys to the house in the next few days, so we are going to have to face more decluttering.

I'm sorry that you are struggling right now!

Thanks Buffy! We decided we NEED to set aside some time this weekend getting rid of things that we don't want to bring to the new house. Before we can move in, we need to get a handyman in there to do some things, so we have a few weeks to deal with getting rid of stuff. There's a lot of stuff that we won't be moving.

Wish me luck!

Good luck!

I visited my mother last week and saw some rooms I hadn't seen in a while (that she didn't want me to look at). They were full to the brim. It's no wonder I have clutter issues growing up the way I did.

Good luck

Got all the christmas stuff away. Only took two rounds of under the basement stairs tetres to get it all put away. Living room doesn't look too bad. Before I put up the tree I managed to get the grandson to give up the big lego! Of course I knew that there was more lego in his future lol! Fortunately the new stuff doesn't take up as much room as the big stuff did.


Still moving slow the dr upped my thyroxian hopefully that will help. At least I'm thinking better and have lost a few pounds. I have even restarted physiotherapy


I have a few more bags of clothes to go to donations plus some toys the grandson has decided are for babies. Then I really need to get my room finished. Of course while trying to keep up on the other daily stuff. Oh in the mean time I also have to go through the 7 large cloth bags of movies a friend gave me. Most I will pack up for donation but there are a few I really want to see. I now have Boy In the Bubble on DVD!! I need more time!!!

Woohoo, congrats on losing a few pounds and restarting physiotherapy!

Well last weekend wasn't bad.

We went through tons of old file folders. A lot was old articles from a previous job I could dump. There were also old bills, deposit receipts for mutual funds I have since cashed in to buy the house, etc. We don't have a shredder but we cut out all the personal information, burnt that and got rid of the rest. It felt good.

I also got rid of a bag of clothes. Here if you put it by the dumpster people will usually take it either to wear to to sell at a flea market.

We need to do the same this weekend. We get the keys to the new place on Feb 5th so time is becoming crucial.

Sound like my siblings

Sound like you are working hard. Better than me.

Yes I agree congratulations

That great! Better than me!