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Qoheleth.
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But where does the clutter come from? Evolutionary psychology's take on it here.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Qoheleth.:
But where does the clutter come from? Evolutionary psychology's take on it here.
From the end of the article:
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This idea is inspired by some research that proves happiness is more likely to come from experiences rather than stuff... this is an "experience revolution" that will help people be happier by nudging them to spend their time and money on experiences rather than stuff.
If more people do this, and join this "experience revolution", they will be happier - and they are far less likely to be drowning in stuff.
But for every "experience" you'll need the souvenir t-shirt, play program, ticket stub...
(Actually, I think the article does have some good points, but it's only one theory and doesn't deal with all of the issues facing hoarders.)
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North East Quine
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Today, I'm trying to sort a large drawer full of jewellery. I very rarely wear jewellery, so it's effectively a drawer full of clutter. None of it is worth much. But most of it was a present, and quite a bit represents a special occasion; a gift when I was a bridesmaid, for example. The space is taken up by the boxes it's in; I do have a jewellery box, but it's full, and the stuff in there tends to get tangled up.
My daughter doesn't wear jewellery either.
How do other people store jewellery?
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Piglet
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Not long after we moved here, we bought a big wooden box with eight velour-lined sections in it and a Perspex window in the lid that contained assorted tea-bags. As it turned out, the teas were a bit rubbish, but the box is now my jewellery case (and is coming close to overflowing - I love jewellery ![[Smile]](smile.gif) ).
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Lamb Chopped
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I rather like the clutter box for jewelry, as my grandmother kept one, and we used to go treasure hunting in it as children. It was probably her only cluttered thing, and it was awesome.
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Golden Key
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Some people store jewelry in clear vinyl bags that have compartments--like over-the-door shoe bags, but there are special ones for jewelry, too. You can see everything, and there's little chance of tangling if you put one item in each compartment.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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I've seen Ferrero Rocher containers, complete with inserts, suggested for earrings (though that raises the question of how you acquire said containers ![[Biased]](wink.gif) ).
Personally, I have a jewellery box full of stuff I don't wear; I hang the necklaces, chains etc that I do wear on one of those hands covered in black plush; I keep the stud earrings in a little glass bowl that was part of a Dartington cream-and-sugar set*; and the dangly earrings hang from the rim of a tall glass candlestick.
* the little jug is ideal for tweezers, nail clippers etc.
Mrs. S, doing her best to re-use and re-cycle!
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Welease Woderwick
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I presume that by "stud" earrings you mean the kind that I would wear.
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Firenze
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A good way to store dangly earrings is a piece of tapestry canvas pinned up. I also have a purpose-made wooden thingie. That still leaves quite a few pairs scattered over the chest of drawers. The necklaces are hung on the arms of a brass stand and a few over the mirror, though the current favourites are lying among the earrings. Did I mention I make bead jewellery?
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I presume that by "stud" earrings you mean the kind that I would wear.
To match the gold medallions on your ripped pecs, Wodders.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
I've seen Ferrero Rocher containers, complete with inserts, suggested for earrings (though that raises the question of how you acquire said containers ).
I've actually got one for that very purpose. (We were sent FR at the office one Christmas and I kept the box.) The gold inserts are a bit distracting, though, so I keep it for the earrings I hardly ever wear and the loose ones that need to have clasps fitted.
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I use a hanger from Primark: flat and double sided with 48 transparent pockets, which is attached to a clothes hanger and is stored hanging in my wardrobe. I don't wear jewellery much, though.
I sometimes wear earrings, and these are stored in a couple of flat, clear, plastic, compartmentalised boxes I found in an electronics store. I think they're designed for fuses and things.
Some people use ice cube trays for earrings, but I couldn't find any which were stackable.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I have a huge collection of costume jewellery in my dressing table drawer which is a good size and packed to the brim. I love chunky jewellery and I make fused glass so it is ever expanding. I did think about the covered board for brooches but have never got round to it - I do love a cluttered drawer of sparkling things.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I presume that by "stud" earrings you mean the kind that I would wear.
Oh Wodders ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
Mrs. S, blushing
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cattyish
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Today, I'm trying to sort a large drawer full of jewellery. <snip>
<snippety snip>
How do other people store jewellery?
Traidcraft have a jewellery appeal which includes costume and broken/ mismatched items. Here is a link.
I store costume jewellery which is really for wearing onstage in a drawer which is bursting at the seams. My good jewellery is hanging on a pretty decorative tree ornament which I bought in a sale in a shop full of odd gifts. Any thief would have to untangle it all.
I do have some pieces which I keep in their original boxes, but that's less of a tendancy than it used to be when I had less.
Jewellery rolls can be convenient for storage.
Cattyish, avoiding tidying up.
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To The Pain
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I find that I wear more of my jewellery if I can see it, so I use a jewellery hanger mounted on the wall or the side of my wardrobe. Otherwise I get caught in a rut rotating the same things over and over again. The same is true of clothes - I don't miss them if they disappear into the laundry or I fail to unpack a suitcase for umpty-mumble weeks and then there's the joyous reunion when they do show up.
Which reminds me that I need to sort my shoerack, it's all got a bit higgledy-piggledy in there and I've been using the snow and ice as an excuse to wear only hiking shoes.
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Golden Key
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Making progress, but it's hard. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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I politely requested - via email - that the kind person who'd brought a whole roll of vinyl flooring into church (in response to an appeal for offers of that very thing!) remove it - and lo and behold, mirabile dictu, they have! ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
Mrs. S, much amazed
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St Everild
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The sort of clear plastic boxes that fisher-people use for storing flies in make good ear-ring boxes...as do jelly bean boxes (but then, you do have to eat the jelly beans first!)
My "good" jewellery lives in the boxes it came in from the jewellers. (I don't have huge amounts of "good" jewellery, mind...) because some things can be damaged by rubbing against other things, chains can become tangled etc
I bought some small silk pouches to store items in, to keep them unscratched and chains untangled.
And ear-rings (of which I have an enormous number) are stored in the aforementioned plastic boxes - you can see what you have without having a cluttered heap and not being able to find it's "partner".
(If they are "stud" - type earrings, putting the shank of one through the butterfly loop of the other and then fitting the butterfly to it keeps them together...earring wearers will know what I mean!)
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Polly Plummer
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I was clearing out some old handbags today. One wasn't good enough to send to the charity shop, and I started to wonder whether it would be worth keeping as a place to put jewellery or little whatnots in - it has loads of pockets. But I managed to throw it into the bin, and am very proud of myself.
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Joan_of_Quark
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I've achieved Washing-up Zero for the first time since Advent. (Not that any item had been left since December, but I had never quite caught up with the backlog. Things had never been that bad before but I was ill a lot, and now am getting better at last.) I also have Laundry Zero and unpacking the boxes from my move has restarted. Next stop, Ironing Mountain.
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This is not me, but my son, who graduated from high school about eight years ago. Only now did he deem it possible to get rid of his high school graphing calculator. He was a notably poor math student, so this device did not get much exercise. I put it up on Freecycle, and am going to give it away to a HS teacher who will loan it out to students who can't afford their own.
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Originally posted by Joan_of_Quark:
I've achieved Washing-up Zero for the first time since Advent. (Not that any item had been left since December, but I had never quite caught up with the backlog. Things had never been that bad before but I was ill a lot, and now am getting better at last.) I also have Laundry Zero and unpacking the boxes from my move has restarted. Next stop, Ironing Mountain.
I am impressed - wand wish you well for the path to Ironing Zero.
I am experimenting with taking an item to a charity shop each time I go into town. At some point I'll need to recognise a good time to stop though.
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Tukai
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For clutter, it would be hard to beat my mother who appears not to have thrown anything out in the 30+ years she has been in her house.
But last week, Mrs T and I helped her move into a nursing home, which required us to help her select a small subset of her stuff to take there.
She is quite fond of jewellery, and had it stored at various "safe" spots around the house, such as in old tea caddies, under a drawer full of underpants etc. These items - some of them quite valuable - are now in her lawyer's safe, though she wants to install a small safe in her room at the nursing home to hold it, which we are arranging to do at her insistence. . We also found a drawer that was entirely filled with old empty jewellery boxes and another full of old empty glass jars !
Fortunately for our sanity, she plans to keep the old house, so clearing it out for sale is still a distant prospect.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Originally posted by daisydaisy:
I am experimenting with taking an item to a charity shop each time I go into town. At some point I'll need to recognise a good time to stop though.
When you start having to buy stuff back from them, perhaps? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Mrs. S, snickering hound
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Tukai:
For clutter, it would be hard to beat my mother who appears not to have thrown anything out in the 30+ years she has been in her house ...
For "your mother" read "my father" - except in his case it's nearer 50 years.
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Golden Key
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Put 'em on Craigslist or Freecycle. Some people still have VCRs.
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To The Pain
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Originally posted by To The Pain:
Which reminds me that I need to sort my shoerack, it's all got a bit higgledy-piggledy in there and I've been using the snow and ice as an excuse to wear only hiking shoes.
So I didn't sort out the shoerack, it is just as higgledy as ever it was and had to be moved in that state for a delivery that never showed up, but I did find a different home for six pairs of shoes that leads me to the conclusion that clutter is not clutter when it counts as display!
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I always have Ironing Zero, due to the fact I never do any. Things get dried flat, shirts go straight on to hangers, and a lot of smoothing and folding happens too.
We are decorating upstairs; our room is done and things are now to be moved out of the box room into Nenlet1's room (now the spare room but I can't get used to calling it that even though she hasn't lived here for nearly three years). The idea is to sort as we go. It is mostly sentimental paperwork, my very worst sort of sorting, and yesterday I was in tears over it. But I am gradually filling a black bin liner.
Well done to everyone - perseverance is key.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by To The Pain:
... clutter is not clutter when it counts as display!
I could give a good home to the red Mary Janes on the left-hand end of the top layer.
What size are your feet?
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To The Pain
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by To The Pain:
... clutter is not clutter when it counts as display!
I could give a good home to the red Mary Janes on the left-hand end of the top layer.
What size are your feet?
Oh, they're enormous, Piglet! About a UK 8 or 9 or a European 42. When I was 13 or so I took a US 11 and may still do so.
None of the shoes are really clutter, it's just that in their spare time they were doing a lot of cluttering! I do hold a special place in my heart for those red Mary Janes - they are in fact the Magical Shoes of Wonder and were actually a Christmas present from several wonderful friends and both my siblings!
The clutter has increased over the weekend though, I am sorry to report. There was a leak of water from upstairs into my hallway cupboard (no, I can't explain why their overflow discharges into my hallway cupboard) so the contents are spread around the flat to dry out. Again. Fortunately said cupboard was fairly comprehensively sorted while putting things back after Christmas and now contains far fewer items that would suffer from water damage. Now if only I could get the unused chest freezer out of said cupboard before I put everything back again, but it's wider than the doorway and I think some electrical conduit has been added since it was put in there.
There might have to be a dismemberment...
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That's unfortunate - mine are size 4 UK or 37 European.
Lovely shoes though ...
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by Piglet:
That's unfortunate - mine are size 4 UK or 37 European.
Lovely shoes though ...
green-eyed monster attack
I have ruby red (with subtle shimmer) Mary Jane's in a size 3 with an hourglass heel and tiny heart cut out trim - they've my dream shoes come true. Feel free to drool in this direction too
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Yesterday was spent decluttering the kitchen ready for a new oven to arrive. Next job is to work out how to get rid of old computer equipment and that's another big bit of decluttering done.
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To The Pain
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This afternoon I have to declutter enough hallway and kitchen for my new fridge to arrive. Should be fairly straightforward. Putting everything back again sufficiently straightened up will be a good feeling.
Also working on plans for a whole new kitchen, dreading the week or so that the kitchen will be out of commission (but if I shift kettle/toaster/microwave into the living room and the fridge is still useable then the living room clutter might benefit from the experience too) and hoping that the opportunity to really sort through everything and eliminate a pesky corner unit will make for a more pleasing workspace.
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Hurrah! A local charity is picking the sofa up on Tuesday! They very sensibly said that, obviously, it must have had a fire safety label once, at which I admitted to having cut it off myself because it annoyed me, several years before I had any thought of getting rid of the sofa. (I didn't know it was going to be important!)
These people supply furniture to low income families at low cost, so it's going to go to a good home.
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Just successfully sold a batch of CDs to a company who offers freepost. Now to use them to tackle the latest box of books to come down from the roofspace.
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Had just started to successfully use Green Metropolis to sell my excess books, to find out the site is closing in the next couple of weeks. Foiled.
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my parents are visiting this weekend, and brought the remaining yarn and fabric stash I had stored under my bed at home. Several hours were spent yesterday working as a team to go through all of my yarn and fabric, work out
What is good and enough for a reasonable project and should be kept
What is good scraps of fabric, or part balls of yarn that might reasonably be used for patchwork, toys or baby clothes (sibling shrew is expecting)
What I will never ever ever use and should be given away.
We then used zip lock bags to separate each set of yarn or piece of fabric and packed it away nicely.
The stash is plentiful and will need another go through to slim it down further, but at least it feels that some progress has been made. And now I know what is in there I can get started on using it!!!!
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Roseofsharon
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Took a load of good stuff to a Table-Top Sale yesterday. Brought most of it back. Sold only small items, so that won't make much difference to the storage problem. Gave a big bagful of small odds & ends to another stallholder who will be holding a jumble sale next month in aid of a local hospice. At least I sold enough to cover the cost of the table this time.
Much as I'd like to make a bob or two on a number of what were expensive, but no longer wanted, gifts it looks like they will have to be added to the mountain of stuff I will have to haul (on the bus) to the charity shops in the area.
I never realised this de-cluttering lark would be so time consuming and difficult. And Mr RoS is still bringing home stuff he finds abandoned around the village
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Hall, bathroom and kitchen cleaned and decluttered, pretty much, and quite a few of the other surfaces in other rooms. Various loads taken to different places and a lot of bags of rubbish into the bins (quite a lot into the recycling bin, there are only so many plastic bottles and boxes I can use). The computers are booked for collection this week. I just need another box to pack the second one away.
Another week off would have meant I got the rest done. Shame about the work work I was procrastinating over.
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This week I really will put the boxes of Christmas decorations away. Honest. They're currently stacked up the stairs which is horribly inconvenient and conspicuous, so I have to get them dealt with soon. Even I can't cope with the idea of them still being there come March...! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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The sofa has gone!!!
Two lovely men came to pick it up about 9.30 this morning - and I immediately got the vacuum out and re-arranged all the furniture in my living room.
I have space! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Originally posted by Beethoven:
This week I really will put the boxes of Christmas decorations away. Honest.
I confess that was part of my hall decluttering last week. But they're all away now. I just added a few other bags of bits, two of which leave tomorrow.
I need to find another box to get the computers collected on Thursday, and write some labels for the collection guys, and that's another big cluttered bit gone. Hopefully by this weekend I'll get it down to only one room needing decluttering, which is my bedroom.
Briefly, oh so briefly, I was at Ironing Zero on Sunday and yesterday, but I've washed something that needs ironing.
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Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
I think I have a coherent, if not cunning, plan. Please pray it works. Fingers crossed!!
![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
Let us know what it is!
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Garden. Room. Walk
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
I think I have a coherent, if not cunning, plan. Please pray it works. Fingers crossed!!
You do know that arson is illegal, don't you? You musn't burn down the whole place to get rid of the clutter. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
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Ethne Alba
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OK, help please:
How do i deal with the apparently never-ending piles of paperwork that accumulate around our living room?
I am a file freak who loves nothing more than seeing rows of orderly files, containing sorted documents. However i am married to someone who likes to leave their paperwork lying where it was dropped.
Remaining married is non negotiable.
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