The Hoarders Anonymous Thread Part Two...Still Sorting It Out ~ Together!

[Solo]

Sorting out the home when you're a hoarder (big or small) is never going to be easy and we should know! but having someone else to support you, talk about it with you and make you feel much less of a freak of mother nature makes a huge difference!

If you are any of the following:
A hoarder. In a mess. Untidy. Disorganised. Lazy with housework that has lead to something that you now feel unable to deal with. If you are ill and not coping with the housework. If you are emotionally attached to items for whatever reason. If you have a combination of any or all of these things or something completely different, please join us. No one here will judge you. We have something in common and we have a common goal. We share our ideas and we share our disappointments no matter how big and our celebrations no matter how small.

Welcome to thread number 2! :)

Aw Babies thank you! You are lovely :) You all just make me feel like I'm not alone in my mess if I'm honest. It's a tough 'dis-ease' to live with and I don't share much of it with anyone ~ and I'm ashamed too of the way my home has become, so you all help me too, so thank you all

Work is not going well for me either, so it doesn't help matters.

PG Welcome back :) I'm loving the sound of your kitchen order! Well done!!

Hi, back again. Have attacked paperwork in bedroom (mainly because OH started attacking it). Our bedroom is still being used as a floor-robe but rest of floor clear of clothes. Trip to IKEA for storage bits to organise chaos was useful and only slightly over budget.
Due to various issues I have got into an angry state of mood that I haven't seen for a while. I am still ploughing on but at the moment I am not a pleasant person to be around. Being back in the loop has only made me realise how much I have been out of it. I have started to do all the tasks I dropped but it just seems I am constantly being reminded about other tasks.
I meet up with an old friend recently who has the same housework issues she suggested I might have ADHD (she has it) or I might be premenopause. I am hoping at the moment it might be PMT. I did go to the doctors in the past for depression and got referred for talking therapy still considering whether I should go back. The questionnaire they give you doesn't really work for these situations.
Sorry to dump this on you. I really only wanted to post positive stuff. I normally talk to OH but at the moment it feels like I talking a foreign language he cant understand.

We wouldn't even have this thread without you Solo :)

Welcome back PG and Beds :)

I have done nothing, as I have a poorly vomiting child to care for. She seems to be ok but every time she eats, she is sick again...yuck.

Hopefully I will get more sleep tonight..off to cook tea for the healthy children. :)

Hi Babies and everyone,
Here's hoping your little one turns a corner tonight Babies and you get some sleep.
In future if I'm feeling down I'm grabbing the dog and going for a walk as I bumped into a few people who made me feel a lot better. Plus I solved the problem of dog knocking kitchen bin over. It's now in the porch next to the kitchen behind a locked door!
Thanks for the thread Solo positive stuff from here on in.

My poorly child is now well. But another child is now unwell. This is what happens in big families. Another loaf in the washer and another child in bed with a sick bowl.

Load not loaf !

Hi all :)

Solo I wanted to echo the appreciation. You've been brilliant keeping us all going. I'm sorry things are rough for you. It's a long hard slog isn't it!

Not good about the job, is that redundancy or to do with your health? I'm about to lose my job too - have been on the redeployment register for a while now but they haven't found me anything suitable, so the only option left is to boot me out the door.

We haven't done much decluttering since DH started his new job a few weeks ago, as we've been getting accustomed to his variable shifts. Today I managed some gentle decluttering of the craft drawers, so the colouring stuff and paper are getting there - it's taking a stupidly long time but I'm pleased nonetheless, and it was something I could do while watching comedy and most importantly SITTING DOWN :o

Big hugs to all. Every step forward is a step forward, even when we step back afterwards. Keep going!

Thank you :) But I want to throw it back at you all; I am very grateful to you all . I felt so alone with it all before and now I know that I'm not the only one. It's comforting.
I doubt redundancy will come into it ~ more being 'let go' I think he's hoping I'll leave of my own volition, but I can't unless I have another job to go to. What I'd like is to be let go and be able to sign on with a bit of financial support (few months or so) and be able to get the house sorted during that time...then find work :) simple really!!!

Solo, You won't ever be on your own.
Work wise, I hope your boss lets you go or you find a different job.

I am home a third day on a row with ill kids and starting to go stir crazy.

So I am going to get up and finish hoover under sofas. Take a box upstairs, strip and change the beds, load dishwasher and do one load of laundry...then I am allowed to sit down and mumsnet again

I can't sleep atm, too much in my head I think :(

Anyhow I am hoping tomorrow will be the first time all week that ALL children will be back at school.

I am planning to clean out a kitchen cupboard. Strip beds again and wash bedding/remake beds and deal with the pile of outgoing stuff in my hallway.

I am also hoping to get a walk in first...an outside enjoy the sun (if it shows) and fresh air walk. Wish me luck :)

I finally got around to all the beds....switch several pillows and a duvet for new ones and matching sheets all around :)

Cleared set of drawers and deep shelf in kitchen. Three more cupboards to go.

Still not folded little girls clothes, nor sorted my clothes.

So much too do.

Well done on the beds Babies! I hope the return to school routines went ok too.

Solo any news yet? I don't have my meeting for another week.

Managed a few little bits recently, nothing major, just the craft/home ed drawers but still an improvement. And I have extra reason to organise all that stuff as [gulp] it looks like once I've left work I'll be running a maths club! Eeeeek! Really exciting.

How are you all? How's your weekend so far? I'm hoping to get some stuff sorted tomorrow...fingers crossed.

And did I? Nope!

Helloo! Been on a looong and fantastic holiday, and now i'm back and feeling refreshed and relatively healthy, and have returned with a very peculiar nesting-type of feeling?!

My parents have been decorating while i was away and commented that (although they did begrudgingly? point out it is very clean) there does seem to be a lot of "clutter" in my house and my mum wants to help me sort it all out. They are now on holiday too for a few weeks, so my secret plan is to get rid of it all before they get back...

Hello Beyond I'm about your long and fantastic holiday, but welcome back
Do you have a lot to get done in two weeks?

I'm paying a friend to come and sort out my garden (and then some) soon and his partner has decided she's coming too. I'm not happy about this arrangement as I can't let anyone into my house (to use the loo for instance) and I've know him a lot of years and he's accepting of my no one in the house thing, but she doesn't really know me so I'm panicking a bit. I think I'll have to be out!

Depends, on how on board dh is need him to do most of it, and the tip runs

Can he tell her that you dont like having people in the house?

Sat on th kitchen floor this morning and pulled all of the tupperware type stuff out of the cupboard. Two bin bags full to go to the tip - i'm just throwing most of it out, along with all of the plastic bowls/plates/cups.

There were sippy cups in there. My kids are 5 & 4!!

Mug shelf left to do. I have enough mugs to last a lifetime.

solo I bet your friend will have already told his partner your house is off limits. But if you have somewhere to go, being out makes sense.

beyond Sounds like you are doing well. .banish those sippy cups !

I am shattered. I cleaned kitchen, tidied dining room & living room, hoovered hall & stairs. Did three loads of laundry. Stripped and made five beds. Two school runs in the rain, going down with a cold but pleased with what I have got done today.

Biggest job was moving our bed in our bedroom plus all the stacked ready to store or move or sort bags and boxes and hoovering under everything.

I will sleep well tonight !

I'm full of cough and cold...feel really crap :(

I'm impressed with you two! Well done! I have sippy cups and my youngest is 9, the eldest (yes I do still have one of his) is nearly 18 I gave away some of my sippy cups several years ago!

{{{Solo}}} Hope you feel better soon.

I did paperwork and BuJo updates today, as I didn't feel very well myself.

Tomorrow is never ending laundry, small food shop, batch cooking for tea/freezer, more paperwork and if I have time I am hoping to take my youngest swimming !

Thanks Babies you too .

I have run out of washing !

Nothing in the laundry baskets and two items in the washing machine awaiting more clothes to join them.

This never happens....and I only have a small bag of essential ironing. That should be done tomorrow.

I have sorted and folded all four children's and DH's clothes. I am really finding the benefit of having Konmaried the clothes. Having less clothes, which are all clean and folded nicely really helps.

I need to deal with my clothes.....I have been avoiding doing it for weeks months. I am practically living out of bags...as all the too small or disliked clothes are stuffed in the wardrobe.

But I keep telling myself I need to sort out the kids craft stuff and games next.anything I can do, to avoid dealing with my clothes

Lol, well as long as I do SOMETHING tomorrow :)

Wow! Babies that's brilliant!
I have been off sick for 2 days; feeling a bit better, but not much.

My garden is looking very different! Not cleared completely yet, but so much better :). And yes, she came today. I stayed hidden which was easy as I was feeling so rotten!