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Post by closetofchaos on Apr 10, 2017 21:54:31 GMT -5
Your Junk is Actually Junk!!! Dun..dun..dun!!! Today was Monday in North America and Mondays are sort of disturbing anyway here. Well, today was no exception. Usually the disturbing mondays happen at work or school but mine usually happen at home where the squalor is! I am fighting my squalor every day, and progress is being made. The biggest misconception I've had about it is that the hoarding aspect has all been treasure that needed to be sold. For the large part that was true. Lately though, I have been coming across the parts of that which is not the valuable part: the giveaways/donations:) Giving is good for the soul. But then today I discovered the portions of it that needed to just be thrown away. Ouch! Surely my squalor isn't junk!!! Most of the junk category is from the back yard but I did not think there was more:0 But alas, there was! Say it's not so, Closet!!! I was doing it shamelessly in broad daylight too. The manager did tell us to clean our yards and that the owner was on her back about it. So no one could say anything bad about me following orders. I know they were thinking: "She had that junk in her yard?" Or worse.....they knew all along....*Sigh* I had to come to terms with the fact that stuff I thought was regular stuff was falling apart and was actually junk:( I also soaked the weeded area because the dirt was hard and I need to pull the weeds up. Yuck! After I'm finished, after an indeterminate amount of time, who knows, the yard may turn out looking really nice? But a bunch of my junk has been identified as such and trashed. Yay me for not being in denial:)
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Post by closetofchaos on Apr 11, 2017 2:27:25 GMT -5
joy in virginia notanotherdecade I started working in my backyard around 8:30pm and decided to call it quits for the night right before midnight. Ironically, today was kitchen day but I could see the weeds through the window so I turned the hose on outside so soften the earth. I figured I'd spend about 20 minutes out there later and tug a few weeds. Then when I went out there, something came over me! I know what it was too. It was the full moon! You know these books the kids are reading where people turn into mythical creatures? Well, it must happened to middle aged hoarder women too because I became a werewolf! I was a cleaning maniac werewolf! I not only weeded almost every abomination from the yard but threw away every unturned piece of junk back there and I mean, I even pulled rotten tree stumps out of the ground (ok, just one and it wielded effortlessly but still). ..talk about junk I didn't realize I was hoarding! I just kept finding more and more and more! It was very little treasure and very much trash. And I STILL haven't gotten to the scary part! Meanwhile, and mind you, it's the middle of the night, some homeless guy is going through our dumpster! So I say to him: "None of it's good. It's all eight year old rained on rotten crap from my backyard. It's a bunch of hoarded junk." He jumps a mile because I startled him but he still doesn't leave! Meanwhile I'm putting a metal parasol from patio furniture on him, rain-rotten rugs, clothes, yard waste, lawn decorations, broken chairs, broken crates, broken plastic tubs, rubber mats, old cleaning supplies, a tree stump, cat feces, weeds of all varieties, old Christmas decorations, the list goes on, he doesn't care! It makes me wonder! I can't believe how much work I have done. The rest will be rearranging things but the elements were not kind to most of that stuff . If you're going to be a hoarder, don't hoard things outdoors.
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Post by closetofchaos on Apr 11, 2017 2:37:38 GMT -5
If anyone is wondering what started this besides the fact that if messy people have a backyard, it's going it end up messy...the owner of our building was coming down on the manager about tenants having plastic wading kiddie pools in their back yards and weeds. Well, I had both:/ Apparently the manager had weeds as well and so did quite a few of the tenants and junk in their yards. My junk level apparently was acceptable which was kind of a shock but I had been working on it since last Summer. It was actually me who magically uncovered more junk I wasn't expecting. I'm still not sure how I feel about that but I'm proud of myself for being disgusted and taking care of it:)
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Post by closetofchaos on Apr 11, 2017 2:39:33 GMT -5
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Post by roarshark on Apr 11, 2017 3:06:09 GMT -5
Good for you It's not an easy thing to realise or to come to terms with. But these are just things, and they are things that we don't need and cause us stress! Even if it is in good condition, it is just junk. We won't use or need them!
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Post by closetofchaos on Apr 11, 2017 3:20:02 GMT -5
roarshark I haven't seen you around for awhile! These things were obvious junk. I couldn't believe I was letting them sit outside for that long without throwing them away! At least my other things had value! This stuff was garbage and I was wondering why it wasn't scaring the dumper seeker away . That's how obviously garbage it was!
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Post by joyinvirginia on Apr 11, 2017 6:45:50 GMT -5
I'm laughing at the picture of the full moon turning you into a frenzied dejunker!
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Post by def6 on Apr 11, 2017 6:57:08 GMT -5
I hope the moon transforms me too closetofchaos I still have much to do in the garage. My muscles hurt right now and I'm worried I'll get another hernia.
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Post by peaceandfreedom on Apr 11, 2017 10:40:43 GMT -5
Wow, a whole new thought came to me as I read your opening post on this thread. The weeds in my yard are my OUTSIDE JUNK!! It rains a lot where I live, and this was an extra-wet winter, so weather has not yet given me much opportunity to get outside yet to do yard work. I have gotten a start for the year, but barely. But now, looking out the windows, I see the weeds in a new light--they are junk! Worse yet, if I don't get them pulled, I will also be HOARDING WEEDSout there! Thanks for the eye-opener, closetofchaos!
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Post by ohblondie on Apr 11, 2017 11:15:49 GMT -5
Yeah. I had this realization a few weeks ago. Half of everything in my house needs to be fonated. I am beyond the point where I can just put it all away. Closets ARW full. Attic is full. It must GO OUT THE DOOR!!!!!!
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Post by def6 on Apr 11, 2017 12:10:13 GMT -5
Hello ohblondie That sounds like you need a good strong helper to actually do the moving and the hauling. You would be the one directing and choosing... happens all the time in business. This could be facilitated by labeling what goes with dot stickers.
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halfwaytohoarder gets rid of it all!
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Post by H2H on Apr 11, 2017 12:30:56 GMT -5
Your Junk is Actually Junk!!! <<this is the title of a BOOK, (an online DL version) maybe there can be a chapter per SOoS member who want s to edit their words into a 3 page story? there is already a goldmine of heartfelt stories here.
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Post by 7sweetbabiesgranny on Apr 11, 2017 18:59:09 GMT -5
Junk actually costing us:
Tale of daughters "grandmother in law":
Saved everything, Moved to an assisted living. Family took what they wanted. Cost 3,000 dollars in the end to get rid of the rest. 3 $1,000 dumpsters.
I need to remember this for myself
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Post by closetofchaos on Apr 11, 2017 21:38:30 GMT -5
Did I mention that I secretly haul these things in tne middle of the night to the dumpster and my only co-conspirator is a homeless guy who is pulling some of it out and taking it with him, therefore, creating more room for me to put more secret shameful hoarded rubbish in? I'm only pointing this out to let everyone know there's a less embarrassing way to go about it, albeit eccentric? H2H 7sweetbabiesgranny
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Post by closetofchaos on Apr 11, 2017 21:40:39 GMT -5
The garbage man came this morning and no one was the wiser:)
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