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Where does all the STUFF come from ???

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NuttyMuffins · 05/05/2007 11:09

It doesn't seem to matter how often I have a clear out, I still seem to have too much stuff, but how ?? I don't buy lots of stuff, don't make any stuff so where the flippin hell does it all come from.

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rabbleraiser · 05/05/2007 11:11

I agree. I'm looking around my flat now .. there isn't a square foot unaccompanied by 'stuff,' including hair, dust, crumbs and buttons from items of clothing I don't even possess. Where do all the buttons come from? Where do the socks go?

And I only went through the place yesterday (sigh).

RustyBear · 05/05/2007 11:12

If you find out, let me know & I'll send all mine back there. I do a clear out, have a great feeling of satisfaction from the number of bin bags I've filled, turn round and.... the place is still full of stuff

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NuttyMuffins · 05/05/2007 11:14

Thats the thing though I regularly go through the whole house with a bin bag and chuck out anything that I don't think is needed, broken or just annoying, but then the next day it is replaced by more stuff.

I think someone comes in in the night and chucks a load more around the house.

Think I need more storage though too.

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rabbleraiser · 05/05/2007 11:20

But the trouble with more storage is you end up with more stuff.

I'm looking at something on the floor now. It's a piece of circular red felt, provenance unknown. There are also two green shiny stars, three umbrellas, two shoe boxes, and five rather horrible plastic sun flowers.

None of this stuff was there five minutes ago .....

RustyBear · 05/05/2007 11:37

I agree about the storage - I'm always looking for new miracle storage that will magically reduce the volume of stuff, it never does, but I still keep looking.....

RustyBear · 05/05/2007 12:08

Atually I should be sorting stuff right this minute. I'm going to stop MNing soooooooon.....

Who am I kidding

Wotzsaname · 05/05/2007 12:10

For the last 3 weeks I have sorted big piles of stuff. Today I am planning on putting two charity bags of stuff together...get rid, get rid.

whomovedmychocolate · 05/05/2007 12:10

Muwwwhahahah you have all my stuff my house is spotless and clutter free.

Still can't find things though

Rustybear, a small house fire is an excellent way to reduce the volume of the stuff.

NoodleStroodle · 05/05/2007 12:12

I live in a white minamilist house so we have literally nothing...very liberating!

whomovedmychocolate · 05/05/2007 12:18

Noodlestroodle - you're in an asylum aren't you?

RustyBear · 05/05/2007 12:23

Can't say I haven't been tempted wmmc
Trouble is it's not just my stuff - we have lots of MIL's stuff too as she is trying to move from a large 5 bedroom house a mile and a half up a hill on the Welsh border where she has lived for 47 years to a small easy to run place somewhere near us or SIL.

DH & SIL are there at the moment trying to get her to get rid of stuff that has been sitting in the shed/garage/attic for 30 years+, but the trouble is, she wants to find a 'good home' for everything.
Anyone want to offer a 'good home' to 14 concrete garden gnomes? I just know they are going to end up in our garage.

NoodleStroodle · 05/05/2007 12:28

Sometime it feels like it when all the inhabitants are in!

But...

"one can want a place where it is possible to be still without necessarily wanting to pray in it"

whomovedmychocolate · 05/05/2007 15:44

rustybear - freecycle anything like the gnomes - I cleared out a double garage in a weekend this way! But I don't think you can freecycle your MiL

NoodleStroodle · 05/05/2007 15:45

Love freecycle - everything goes it's fab! And usually goes to people who really need whatever it is you are putting out.

RustyBear · 05/05/2007 15:54

DH's grandfather went into the garden business with a friend before the war, but later was bought out - the friend went on to become a millionaire with a chain of garden centres, Dh's family have 14 concrete gnomes....

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NuttyMuffins · 05/05/2007 17:45

Right, I decided to declutter dd2's room, with her help too, and we got 2 huge black bags full and a box full of stuff she wants to try and sell on here or ebay

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NoodleStroodle · 05/05/2007 17:47

Well done Nutty & NuttyDD! The trick is to monitor the stuff that goes back in. Hope DD makes some cash on ebay but NOT for more stuff

NoodleStroodle · 05/05/2007 17:48

Rusty - way too many concrete gnomes. Have they not met with an "accident" yet?

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NuttyMuffins · 05/05/2007 17:52

Good point, not sure what she wants to buy with the cash, although she is quite good at saving up, so hopefully we can limit it to one worthwhile item.

Will try and persuade Dd1 to do her room with me tommorow.

Also cleared out the bottom of my wardrobe and have a few bits and bobs to put on ebay for a treat for me LOL.

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Aloveheart · 05/05/2007 22:16

I have filled up 6 black bags of rubbish and i'm still not done!! I am doing it again tommorow. my house is tiny and i really don't know where it comes from. I do the whole house and two hours later it's a mess again GRRRRRRRrr. i jus wanted to join in too!!

Wotzsaname · 06/05/2007 12:10

I have cleared 4 bags of stuff for charity pick on Tuesday
feel so much better....

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