Featured Hoarder or storer?

Show the dollhouses,show the miniatures ! yall know I love them !

 

My dollhouse is in the way back on the porch. Meanwhile, I decided today would be a good day to tackle the garage. We cleaned one side almost enough to put the car in. Hubby's van died on Tuesday - they opened the differential and all the gears fell out in pieces (whatever that means) - so he had to empty it out and put all his tools and stuff on the other side. Here's the new and somewhat improved garage. We took three trips to the dump and some old stuff we didn't want out on the side of the road with a free sign and it was gone in an hour.

 

Bev, your garge looks more spacious than mine.

Johnny, always love looking at your doll houses and especially the gorgeous interrior.

Funky, I too use ice on my neck,always on the left side, feels like a nail in my occipital region. If I stay in one spot too long I lock up so I am constantly up and down from the PC.

Living with hoarders had to be tough Usually a tramatic loss or other horrible event makes some hold on to everything.

The class stuff I gave to my daughter felt good. A lot of it was from when the girls were growing up so there are some memories, also I picked up a lot from various places.

I never had this much stuff in my house,had a place for everything,then when I began to sell on eBay the stuff just grew.

 

My mother was the youngest of five and as her siblings passed, she got their stuff. She and my Dad had a second hand store and did flea markets, so she had a LOT of stuff. When she and my Dad died, I got it all and I've been going through it ever since. Her name was Thelma. Now my husband and son run a property management business and sometimes clients ask us to empty rental houses for them. We've gotten some really good stuff that moves right away, but then there's always the leftovers which end up in the garage or the porch.

 

Something similar happened to my dad. He was an only child, and his mother moved in with my parents after they got married (long story). We STILL have boxes of her china that have never been fully unpacked since they were shoved in our attic in 1965.

 

No doubt I am a storer of my collections through the years!

 

I am publishing this because a) it's rather funny, and b) I happen to know I am NOT alone with this...um...difficulty.

I dislike ironing. I know how to do it, was taught by the best -- and if I do say so, I am rather good at it. However, I don't much like doing it. Nowadays, one almost never has to iron, unless, of course one likes to use damask lines on the table. Which I do.

When I iron, I make sure there is a long movie on the telly -- GWTW is good, as is The Sundowners, or an old swashbuckler with Errol Flynn or Stewart Granger. Once equipped with the iron, the board, the movie and a comfortable chair (No, I do Not iron standing up!), I have at it for a few hours. And the end of the movie, I have had a pleasant afternoon with Stewart Granger, and am filled with virtuousness for doing all that labor, and the end result is just lovely!

Which is why there is a bag in my linen closet that has been there since 1986. And which is why I probably have close to a hundred damask napkins in there. You see, I can justify taking the great big tablecloths to the dry cleaner, but I feel guilty about the much smaller napkins.

But rather than iron the darn things, I buy them at flea markets, thrift shops, tag sales, etc.

Hey -- I'm helping the economy!

 

Hi Silver,
I will give you a hint about the napkins. This will work if you have clean windows. After washing the napkins smack on to the window and smooth with your hands. They will dry and then you can peel them off and no wrinkles. If you carefully fold them they will not need ironed. I never iron my tablecloths any more. Since my table has those fitted pads I place the damp cloth on the table and smooth with my hands, the weight of the damp corners will "pull" the cloth even more. When dry "voila".
The window or mirrors also works with hankies and other small flat items.
greg

 

Greg, But then there is that whole "wash the windows" thing . . .

 

In the same vein... One used to dry various lightweight items (ribbons, nylons, and such) by running them across a nice hot light bulb.

 

Oh, goodie. Now I have to wash my freakin light bulbs?!

 

You DON'T??

(smirk)

 

The table top trick only works if you have an empty table. Or clean windows.(LOL)

 

Do what I do,Messi,keep the curtains drawn !

 

Hi,
Oh My you don't wash lightbulbs???
greg

 

That SO reminds me of a friend of mine who used to say ,when pretending to be shocked, "Gasp! Clutch pearls !" LOL !

 

I got rid of most of the basement stuff two years ago. My husband turned the storage room into a pool room. I do "store" my costume jewelry in plastic shoe boxes, but I have yet to fully organize them. I was caught up this summer, but am behind again. I have two floor to ceiling Ikea bookshelves full of shoe boxes but need two more.....it is uncluttered, but since I don't know where things are when I want them, it has yet to be organized.

 

Harper Lee used to iron her money - or rather, had the maid do it.

 

That was Diana Vreeland - I don't think Lee even keeps a maid these days........

 

Actually I was recalling it from the Truman Capote movie. Capote - Lee there was a connection, but I stand corrected.