MIGUELGOMEZ said:

What's vi-deo?










Want my Disney vids?

HamsterHuey said:

Video, as in dvd's, vhs and all that junk.

Yes. Give me alllll your Disney videos.....by Disney you mean porn, right?
[Edited 1/22/09 9:29am]

I'm a recovered hoarder.
I inherited hoarding from my parents.

Now I'm an anti-hoarder, I still have stuff,
but I'm getting rid of things and not collecting more stuff and am a selective buyer,
I buy only what I need or absolutely want.

Now when my mom isn't looking, I might throw away some useless stuff.
The other day, I went through the freezer and just threw out some stuff
that 'could have' still been good but I know deep down in my heart that will probably sit there for another few years.

Out with the bad, better health for me.

HamsterHuey said:

It's the only way to fly!

I just noticed in the last few years that I've become a hoarder too, I never seen it coming!

Dayclear said:

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
Wife
And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

It's amazing how much stuff you THINK you need when you're collecting it all & you just can't see this mountain of shit while it's happening. Or maybe you see it but it doesn't bug you until you have to move it around, then you wonder why you have it at all!

I've been clearing out for a few months now. There's 2 huge garbage bags full of clothes waiting to go to a charity/shelter - they could have done someone some good this winter, instead they're just blocking my closet door... waiting for me to get off my anus

CLEAR THE CLUTTER

shanti0608 said:

maybe...

wildgoldenhoney said:

my mom in her fridge, has a bottle of beer ,ONE,
that i have kept track of since July 2007
it's still there...
oh! i mean...

today i am doing the same thing, going through each room of our apt. getting rid of everything we don't use or NEED! and i am donating it to the nearby native american reservation crisis center. they are always in need of donations since they run a thrift store over there.

peb319 said:

The stuff I threw away had frostbite on them,
and the chicken turned white.

HamsterHuey said:

if only I could help out I like nothing better than decluttering

IstenSzek said:

only if you aren't a genuine certified hoarder, in which case you would feel horrible and anxious and edgy and irritable

horatio said:

or should that be for minimalist mavens

Yes,
I like that,
minimalist.
That's been the new me.

shanti0608 said:

we had a huge clean out when we moved- nine yrs in the one place- plus a rugrat

and im a hoarder...especially books

but they werent getting thrown out/donated

wildgoldenhoney said:

you sure you haven't been in mom's fridge?!
it's almost time to put the probverbial foot down and clean house,
she doesn't really know how to spring clean...her house has shelves everywhere
my stepdad put them up..it's just way too much stuff...
i think she didn't have much as a child..

I can't stand clutter. I drives me crazy.



Me to!

peb319 said:

I think that causes hoarding because I can see the effects on my dad,
and how he treats food,
and his mom used to have a lot of canned goods all the time.
This was her way of surviving through war before,
not only that though,
they were sort of poor back in the late 40's to 50's.
So now they tend to 'stock up'.
I recently had to throw away 5 cans of refried beans (expired years ago).

prb said:

Same here. And magazines.

But I started with the mags. Most are GONE now and I feel BETTER. Once I started calculating how much money I spent on those mags... I decided to let go off one of those addictions.

Books. I only keep the books that are good enough to re-read. Books that made an impression. The rest GOES to the second hand shop.

EmeraldSkies said:

Yes, me too.

A clear space helps my mind.
I still have more de-cluttering to do in my room though.

I had tons of books which were all over my room and found a solution since I wasn't able to get rid of them yet,
I put all those books in boxes and used them to make a sort of sitting space,
it's covered with comforters and cushions and is quite comfy.

wildgoldenhoney said:

A friend of my Mom's, Mom was like this. When they had to have her moved into a old people's home,my Mom was going to rent out her house,and Oh boy!, I helped clean out the house,and she had a pantry on the back porch that was full of canned food,and most of the cans were so old,they were actually starting to leak out onto the shelves. A few of the cans were dated in the late 80's to early 90's.

EmeraldSkies said:

That's bad.


Although personally I hate canned food (I've noticed it makes me a little ill),
It would be okay to have all those canned goods for emergencies,
but the thing is to rotate the stock,
use the older ones first and place the newer ones towards the back so that your stock is always fresh.

wildgoldenhoney said:

Same here. But it's kinda telling my house looks like an pensioner collected his whole life. It's ALL got to GO!

HamsterHuey said:

I've been doing that myself, it's been sort of going slowly.
But I've gotten rid of a lot of stuff in the past year,
and still want to get rid of more.
If I could rid of everything too, I would be happy.

Once I just took a couple of boxes outside and started going through them
throwing things in the garbage,
even letters,
but stopped once I saw that I was throwing away letter from my sisters.
I've decided to go through them again and keep only the ones that are meaningful,
but some of the others are gonna go in the trash.
The letters from childhood friends are gone though.

I want to end up with just the essentials, eventually.

wildgoldenhoney said:

For you;

HamsterHuey said:

Yes,
exactly.

wildgoldenhoney said:

I think with her it was just old age. She would forget that she already had certain things,so she would buy more,and it was just her here,so she had WAY to much. I think she was dealing with Alzheimers way before her daughter realized it.

EmeraldSkies said:

She wasn't hoarding on purpose then.

wildgoldenhoney said:

you are in my mom's cupboards!!
i found a 6 bottle stash of barbaque sauce that expired April 2005..
she rarely uses it, so i can only say it must have been on sale, or at the closeout store.I was out at the house last week and they either bought more or dug into to the corners...
there are cupbords and corner cupboards that i didn't dare look into, but i fear i must this time around...
and my stepdad asked me to help clean out his workshop...

be afraid,be very afraid...