Do you ever feel like throwing everything away?
I have a house full of stuff that just sits there, it will all end up in a land fill at some point, so why not clear it out now?

I have draws full of photos I dont look at, clothes I haven't worn in years, CDs I never listen to and cupboards full of stuff that I cant junk because of some sentiMENTAL reason or other.

The only items I dont resent are my books, but even some of them sit there and mock me...yes, i'm looking at you university books from 13 years ago, I dont think i'll ever read "Mineral Nutrition in Higher Plants" ever again (But it cost me 30 quid).

Can you even throw photos away? I dont want to erase my past...or do I?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:30, 36 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Clear stuff away into boxes

Leave it six months and if you haven't missed it chuck it out.

That or Arson and an insurance claim.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:32, Reply)

I don't own anything of value
I could tip the lot
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:42, Reply)

Bagsy on the CDs!
what are they? I hope there is some U2 in there(!)
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:32, Reply)

You jest...
but I do own:

The Joshua Tree
Achtung Baby
All that you cant leave behind

I also have some Bowie
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:35, Reply)

Freecycle it, might be worth doing.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:32, Reply)

Or ebay for a few quid.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:35, Reply)

Huh? I thought freecycle was for giving it away
I tried fleabaying a load of stuff a few years back and it was more trouble than it was worth.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

It is, but people will probably be willing to pick it up.
It's a lot easier than ebaying too.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:43, Reply)

Just remembered...I did try freecycle a couple of years ago
it didnt work out as people are useless cunts and dont turn up
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:46, Reply)

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
why do English people write "draws" when they mean "drawers"? I think it's the thing that annoys me most about this language. And also when they say "drawer" when they mean the art process of making a drawing.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:35, Reply)

Mainly
Just to annoy you
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:37, Reply)

it fucking works

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:37, Reply)

It's up there with spelling 'lose' as 'loose'...
Fucking 'loosers'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

Oh crap have I done that recently?
Monty stop marking my posts I don't like it. *cries*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:41, Reply)

Not that I'm aware of.
You're OK, now - I assume all your typos are ironic...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:45, Reply)

Dunno
why do snotty women on the internet assume i'm English?



Which of course I am.


*runs away*
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:41, Reply)

Because it's only English people who make that particular mistake

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:43, Reply)

tahs bcase of hour awsome skool sistm

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:45, Reply)

my house is like Steptoe's
I'm really starting to get fed up with all the stuff I've hoarded. I blame the huge room-size cupboards. If space was an issue I wouldn't have kept so much crap.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:37, Reply)

I would LOVE to have that problem.
Good morning, by the way.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:39, Reply)

Eh up!
No Monty, it's vile. It's like wanking too much. It makes you tired and hate yourself a bit.

DON'T HOARD!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:45, Reply)

We have a woman in our office who is apparently a true hoarder.
I've never been to her house but apparently there are piles of things everywhere with little pathways to get through. She can't enven bear to throw out most of her trash. She tried to make her office that way but had minimalism enforced upon her. Almost killed her.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:58, Reply)

Ah, at least I'm not that bad,
You can get around my house. It's mostly stuffed in drawers and cupboards.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:59, Reply)

There's an episode of A Life of Grime
right there.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 12:02, Reply)

Up yer chuffer!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 12:03, Reply)

My flat is too.
In my post christmas clear out, I found a supply of pee bottles from my last stay in hospital.

I could not throw them away, you never know when you may need them.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:49, Reply)

Empty I assume/hope?

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Pristine condition
for cardboard piss bottles.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 11:53, Reply)

I'm the same
Photos - scan them all in, stick them on CD, fashdrives or better still upload them to Skydrive

Books - charity shop
Uni books - check if your local Uni will have them. Saves some other student having to waste a hefty chunk of his cash on textbooks. and then join a library and use it.

Clothes - charity shop
CDs - Rip them to hard-drive and eBay them as a job lot

Be ruthless with the rest. Pretend that stuff got nicked and ask yourself if you'd really miss it.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 14:50, Reply)

I have come to the conclusion
that I will be saving the planet if I just take it all to the tip for landfill. Because the amount of energy being consumed in trying to recyle, reuse, rehome and just goddam think about my houseful of stuff would be more than offset.

Every weekend I've taken at least one car load to the local charity shop (last time they saw me coming and said "we're going to stop opening on saturdays"). I've freecycled some larger items successfully, some less so. The other day I threw away a bin bag FULL of toiletries.
This is what happens when you live in the same house and hoard for 15 years and then decide to move to Ireland where you can only take stuff that will fit in a car on one ferry journey, unless you happen to have the £300 per trip to hump the stuff across the sea...

I'm losing patience with it, along with the will to live. Stuff traps you. It's stuff or freedom, you can't have both.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 21:25, Reply)