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To have forgotten areas/rooms in your home

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FlyingMonkeys · 04/03/2018 16:24

Off work today cue the tidying up. I've a spare room/dumping ground I've just popped my head in to.. and then promptly shut the door! Possibly in total denial about how to tidy up properly but to be fair mostly can't be arsed! I seem to be one of those folk who create piles that move around the house and never find a proper home. Or mostlyrics I'm just a lazy bitch! Blush

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Loonoon · 04/03/2018 17:26

Oh the dreams! I used to dream about stumbling on a room or wing we had forgotten about and that would solve all our overcrowding problems. Not surprisingly when we moved to a bigger house, the dreams stopped. As the new property was a new build it had a much smaller garden than the previous one which I didn't think bothered me as I don't like gardening. Now I have dreams about finding a new area of garden that had previously escaped my attention.

applesareredandgreen · 04/03/2018 17:27

Not in my own home - it's fairly small and everything has a place - anything currently not in use is put in loft (my DH is very tidy.

Have just been to my parents OTOH and looked in their spare room which I'm meant to be clearing out for carer to sleep and it's wall to wall junk - I think they have kept every piece of paper, book and box they've ever been given.

blipblop · 04/03/2018 17:28

Mine is the garage. I don't own a car so just keep shoving stuff in there. Went in last week to carefully store dump more stuff and discovered that the roof is leaking, which should be the incentive for me to sort things out - but it can wait until the weather gets warmer.

littlebillie · 04/03/2018 17:29

I have spent an hour in ours. It is full of the toys that time forgot. It is mostly going to charity or if damaged landfill. All a bit depressing.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 04/03/2018 17:31

I've taken really drastic action and am moving house. It's concentrating the mind a bit - we have boxes of crap that haven't been unpacked since the last time we moved (10 years ago!) think I can probably assume those can go....

JaneEyre70 · 04/03/2018 17:34

We've got a spare room, conservatory (unheated), very large upstairs hallway and dining room that are basically storage dumps. It drives me nuts, as I soon as I clear them, it all appears back again. The grandkids have toys everywhere, and there are times I feel like hiring a skip Hmm

MothertotheLordsofmisrule · 04/03/2018 17:35

We actually found a secret cupboard in our house.

It was a space behind the lounge fireplace that had been plaster boarded over by previous occupants.
We think it may have contained hot air heater at some point then got sealed up.

It had the large (now obsolete) flue for the fire so we turned it into a very useful store cupboard.

Trooperslane2 · 04/03/2018 17:36

We've recently shifted our bedroom into the 'shit room'

It means we're using all rooms or will be soon better one i've got DHs shite out of them

I have a full car of crap to go to recycling tomorrow and I can see the bottom of the washing basket.

I know that's nothing to do with the thread but as we say in Belfast - YEEEEEOOOOOO!

ImNotWhoYouThinkIAmOhNo · 04/03/2018 17:36

We've been here 22 years, which is far too long. Whether you have a room full of junk or you are falling over it, I recommend moving house to help identify what's really worth keeping - it's less than you think!

Elderly MIL thinks that when she moves to a care home or dies, DH and I will take all her furniture and other stuff...

CrochetBelle · 04/03/2018 17:37

I'm in social housing, so currently have 4 spare bedrooms. I keep forgetting about the as the cleaner is the one who deals with them three times a week.

Papergirl1968 · 04/03/2018 17:37

I have that dream too! About forgotten areas of my old house and old garden actually, not the current house and garden, which are bigger.
I had a deep attachment to my old house though and life was simpler then. It was just too darned small for kids.
I also have a box room filled with rubbish!

HelloHouse · 04/03/2018 17:38

Oh this is so me!
I am super excited - hiring a skip next week to clear out our junk room.
As hubby is working away this clearly extends to the utility room and loft - where he keeps the most pointless items we could never possibly need again.
I haven't been this happy since Christmas Grin

NinaNoSleep · 04/03/2018 17:42

Yep, a loft and the garage.

We have started to sort it. A cot to the tip youngest is 21

TinklyLittleLaugh · 04/03/2018 17:43

I have a 20 something living back at home and two at uni. I don't really go into any of their rooms, or the bathroom they share, or indeed into a DH's man cave office.

Just kitchen, sitting room, other bathrooms and ours and DC4's bedrooms. Thinking about it, I don't really go into half of my houseHmm

Laiste · 04/03/2018 17:43

Sorry about the side-line dream thing OP :)

Interesting how common it is! Interesting that some peoples' dream rooms are nice and a solution type feeling.

Mine is more guilt of neglect. I feel i've neglected that area. Maybe it means there's something i'm not doing and i know i should ... ?

ragmayo · 04/03/2018 17:44

I have a recurring dream about forgotten rooms. I wish!!!

Shadow666 · 04/03/2018 17:45

I made great progress in my junk room this weekend and I feel so happy when I look at it now. You do need to be ruthless though. Just do a corner and see how it goes.

Chewbecca · 04/03/2018 17:56

I have an eaves cupboard at the top of the stairs that is full but the only thing stored there that we regularly use is toiletries bags for holidays.

I think the cupboard also contains (very) old coats, old curtains (from previous house) and maybe old pillows. It is definitely full.

AcrossthePond55 · 04/03/2018 17:57

Yep, we have a storage room upstairs that really needs going through. DH had to go in there yesterday to retrieve something and I swear it sounded like Fibber McGee's closet when he was rummaging around!

MycatsaPirate · 04/03/2018 17:59

Well as we were snowbound all weekend, I had a wander around the house and discovered a door I had never seen before. I opened it and found an entire wing I never knew we had!

I have now locked it and put a bookcase across the front so DP can't fill it with more shite/crap/useful stuff.

FaFoutis · 04/03/2018 18:01

I have a recurring dream about forgotten rooms too. I wonder what it means (if anything or it might mean I wish I had one!).

melj1213 · 04/03/2018 18:03

I have lived in my house for 3 years now and I keep forgetting that I have an attic!

In my defence I lived abroad for 10 years and always lived in apartments so never had loft space until we moved back to the UK so I'm not used to having it as a storage option ... Then every so often I remember it, cart everything up there and then rip the house a few months later when I'm trying to find something that is now in one of the piles of boxes in the loft.

IfNot · 04/03/2018 18:04

Laiste in dream theory rooms are supposed to represent parts of your mind .So maybe it's guilt over neglecting a useful part of your intellect?
I have those dreams a lot but usually it's enourmous velvety bedrooms that I'm exited to discover until I realise they only have 3 walls and are in some kind of massive shared house..
I think that one must have something to do with vaginas 😂

Dungeondragon15 · 04/03/2018 18:07

I have dreams where I suddenly find lots of rooms I didn't realise we had. We do have a four bedroom house but actually use all the rooms. Unless it is a really big house why would you waste space by dumping crap in it?

WetsTheVet · 04/03/2018 18:07

I hate houses like that... Sorry, but I have several friends with a 'dumping room' and it makes me so twitchy when I see them.

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