Featured Hoarder or storer?

Great shelf bercrystal. Looks nice and sturdy. I need one of those...it would hold my entire "inventory", I'm afraid. I rarely find anything at all from week to week.

Thanks!! I had them built when we moved into this house because I knew I was going to have to have someplace to put all my stuff till it sold. My room is right off the kitchen & family room area so I wanted something that would look nice as well as hold tons of stuff.

Bercrystal, I have the same "can't get to things 'cause of the stuff in the way" situation in some places in my house. I know the frustration!

I think we all feel this frustration. None of us can pass up buying something because we know we may never see the item again. So we take it home & it gets placed in front of the stuff we already had there & before you know it we can never seem to get to the original layer.

I found when I got one room done I kept going back to look at it.

Even half a room is a plus, it gives you a place to put the stuff you are sorting out.

I find myself admiring the area everytime I have to go out to the garage. It makes me want to get the rest of it done so that I don't feel like a rat in a maze going from one area to another.

We had to wait till Saturday to move the table into its spot because it was raining most of Friday & in order to have enough room for this table (it is 8' long & 2' wide) we had to move quite a bit out onto the driveway. Hopefully next weekend will be nice so that maybe I can get onto phase 2.

 

I LOVE the rolled bubblewrap holder. I think I will make one like that,Love it

 

I missed the bubblewrap holder. Definitely a great idea.

 

The bubblewrap holder was actually added on to the small packing table I used at the other house. It can accommodate 2 rolls & one of these days I have to get someone to get me a roll of my 12x12 sheets down from the attic. I have all of my Priority mail boxes stored on the shelf under the table.

I wanted something larger & taller so that I can accommodate the totes of misc. packing supplies. It will eventually be located near the holder so that everything will be readily accessible.

 

Ahhhh ... know the can't get organized because everything is so disorganized and in the way feeling. I actually cleared an aisle all the way back in the storage unit but immediately clogged it back up with new purchases.

 

Hi Brad,
used to do the same thing, However it can be done, it is not easy but if I could do it anyone could. Now if I could do something with these columns, I am falling off the wagon again. "Who are you going to call". Clutter Busters.
greg

 

To whomever it was who had a problem with storing and being also able to see, picture frames:

IF one has an empty wall somewhere, one can hang them empty. The good thing about hanging them is that not only are they visible, but one can hang them inside each other so as to conserve space. If the only empty wall is the guest room, put them up in patterns and say its a giant collage. Or a geometric still life.

 

Hi Silver,
You made me laugh. When I was in school and had nothing but I did have a lot of empty frames. I hung the frames and had notes typed up on the back of notecards
saying "On loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art" "lent to the National Gallery of Art display 1966" etc and placed them in the center of the empty frames.
My first hospital job started two weeks before Christmas. The next day was the judging of the office Christmas decor. Well I had no time to do anything and the light blub lite up. I taped up sheets of construction paper in different colors. hand wrote " Santa's suit under the microscope" for the red, same for green of the tree. Black was Santa's belt etc. Got me the prize for originality.
greg

 

Hmmmm... Always been like this, have you? Verrrry interesting. And clever.

(signed Arte Johnson)

 

Okay, I'm going to start to clear one room at a time. Will start with my dining room as Thanksgiving is Oct 13th and family start showing up on the 10th - we need the table for Tom Turkey and poker. This doesn't look too bad (I try and convince myself) as I'm not showing the 10 or so banana boxes on the floor.

 

LOL, Cxgirl! Looks like my dining room -- I have stuff that needs to be moved before Thanksgiving -- which, for our American friends, in Canada is this coming weekend.

 

Some rooms I am not allowed to clutter. The Christmas stuff (cards, decorations, parcels) is from last year, not a fixture.






The study/office, not shown here is in a permanent state of flux with the forces of Chaos and Order in a slow struggle for hegemony.

 

cxgirl, I love the wood in your lovely dining room

Af, your home is gorgeous

 

Hi Af,
I like your home also. On the down note you are showing Christmas even tho last year. They are playing carols here and it's not even Halloween. It keeps giving me jiggers, feeling that November was skipped.
greg

 

I have been busy clearing part of the garage in case I get a load of stuff I'm after. On the bright side,if I don't get it I have made some space for other junk. I found the vast open space so impressive I spent some time just walking round in it. Two paces that way, three paces this way, two paces another way.................





But the shed has suffered a bit lately so that's the next job.

 

All I have done is tidy my bookcase.
sigh . . .

 

I vacuumed around everything yesterday. Does that count?

Oh ....... and moved a box of paintings from one room to another. We go for small successes around here

 

Although I had nothing to compare to some of the photos in this thread, last weekend I did somewhat clean up a corner of the living room that was starting to collect a lot of "stuff."