Help me to throw out...

I am not good at this!
single sheets - my first reaction was nooooooo. My second was, now hang on, may be? Though I couldnt tell you for what!
DVDs - first reaction, no, they are easily replaceable, and you didnt like them. Second immediate reaction, perhaps they are not replaceable?
3 printers - no idea
cables - no idea!

Ask some other gransnetters. I am rubbish!

Anyone else have a large bin bag full of cardboard inserts from toilet rolls. DH saves them to use for planting sweet pea and runner bean seeds. Not sure just how many he intends to plant.

Single bed sheets make great play tents/dens , drape over the clothes line . Bit of posterpaint and a great Happy birthday / anniversary /welcome home banner . Local dogs home will take them

Dvds are great bird scares ............... mmmmmm am I just justifying all the hoarding ?

Left over balls of wool! Anya don't bin them, send them to the charity shop. Someone will buy them to knit squares. (But not me because I have three large boxes and one large bag full and I bought more this morning. Why?)

DH culled most of my small cardboard boxes then I couldn't find one to post some things off to DGS.
Polythene bags go into an Ikea thingy on the back of a cupboard door.
Receipts were gone through and most shredded recently.
What kind of plastic boxes do you mean? Old icecream tubs or good Tupperware boxes? Some of my Tupperware is nearly 50 years old!! I don't use it but I can't won't get rid of it.

The rest of the house is overflowing with, well, everything else

appygran that's a good idea re the toilet roll inners - must start saving them!

Anya, I so feel your pain over the wool, I love cross stitch but have seventeen unfinished pieces in their own boxes because I may finish them one day, if my eye sight improves , if I change from not liking them to liking them and if I ever get the hang of back stitching , which I very much doubt

Age UK would welcome wool donations. They are always knitting, especially the little hats for Smoothie Bottles! Charity shops might appreciate carrier bags too??

I`m not really a hoarder, but save carrier bags to use as bin liners, also for lining the cat`s litter tray, that takes 2 of them. I save small to medium sized cardboard boxes for books to go to the charity shop, and plastic parcel wrapping is saved to be used again as parcel wrapping. Hubby, a retired engineering toolmaker, hoards tools, we have LOADS of them in the garage that will never be used again, but he won`t be parted from them. A few months ago I persuaded him to wring a scrap metal dealer who took 8 old car batteries off our hands, I mean, WHY does anyone hang on to 8 useless old batteries?

I can't even start to mention the stuff DBH hoards, I am not allowed to touch it. We have several old computers, tvs, printers, speakers, radios, DVD players, video recorders - none working. Lightbulbs of the old sort that don't even fit our lights. Board games the kids didn't like, but he did when young and refuses to part with them. LOADS of them. Old sports equipment - really ancient tennis racquets that are too heavy, ancient golf clubs. His study outside has racks to the ceiling full of the crap stuff. As for cables - they have spilled over into poor DS's music room/den.

As for his shed - well, you can barely get in it, and it's meant to be a working space. But no piece of wood, no matter how small, has ever been allowed to leave the premises because 'one day it might come in useful'. On the rare occasions when he does find a use for a piece, he crows about it endlessly, but more often than not he surveys what looks like the beginnings of a very large municipal bonfire, and trots off to buy a new bit.

I have to throw out all my old coffee jars before he can lay his hands on them, because he is using them to keep nails and screws in. Old ones, not new ones. Sorted into different lengths and thicknesses. However - last week he went out and bought a whole load of new ones.

I hoard almost everything mentioned so far!

My granny used to hang teabags on the washing line to dry before re-using!

Dont tell Mishap!

DH has discovered my wool stash isn't just a large lidded footstool , but I do quite a lot of knitting and rosequartz, have just bought some more, oh dear!
Other than that (and for some weird reason enough tights to outlast me) I've started being pretty ruthless-including hiding stuff under the usual rubbish in the bin on bin day so His Nibs can't fish it out 'in case it comes in useful'! I just plead total innocence if he asks where something went
I recycle as much as I can or take to the charity shops.
My parents have 60 years of 'useful bits'....... Mum even tried to give me my ancient and decrepit school boater yesterday because she 'didn't like to throw it out so you can have it for the memories' (no bl....y way!)

A bit is tupperware rq. But an unused tub is an unused tub? No?
I think that in general, for me, I end up saving too many whatever. Only a few are needed.

I think at the back of my mind is that I recently watched an only child have to clear out his mum and dad's place.
They always said that they needed to clear the loft, but never did.
But he also found that there was a filled garage to go through, a full garden shed of things that had seen better days, a greenhouse which needed a clear out etc. All very sad.
But then again, I am middle age, so I still have plenty of time to leave plenty of things for my children to sort through.
But my husband says that is their job.

My dad insisted on giving my sister and I a few bits for the memories. She liked hers. I didnt!

If you do like the memories, but not the clutter of it, you can always take a photo before disposing of the item carefully.

anniebach your post Thu 05-Mar-15 15:28:38- lol!

I am being very very good and trying to finish unfinished knitting projects!
I nearly finished a 25 year old nearly finished sweater last year (but stopped myself just in time 6 rows from the end!). I don't think I will like it if I finish it anyway.

The yarn I bought today was a bargain, enough for a jersey for each DGD!

But an unused tub is an unused tub soontobe it could just come in useful one day .....

We had quite a job clearing out MIL's house as she was a hoarder, but I think that we have more. Our junk is just a bit more useful - but she had nothing in her attic. Ours is groaning with stuff.

Please can anyone explain why, despite careful pairing up, I can never find the matching lid to a storage container (aka Tupperware)?

I think it is because I just found them all in my lean-to...

I found a huge stack of boxes, I found a huge stack of lids. The lids did not fit the boxes. Therefore they must be yours. If you pm me your address, I shall send them to you.

I shall have to retrieve them from the very full black plastic bin bag first, though.

I used two old tubs just this morning to melt some hardened shoe polish! I should probably just have thrown the shoe polish out but it worked fine and now I don't have to buy any. I do like to make use of stuff - not for the money but just because I can't bear waste. I have a well ordered stock of junk for all my craft hobbies. I console myself that when it is time for the kids to clear out the house it will at least be tidy rubbish and easy to put in a skip. There is nothing more annoying than throwing something out then realising the next day that you do need it!

I can't bear waste either - which is how we all end up in this state, isn't it! I saved all the tubs and lids originally to cut up and use as labels in the garden and for seed growing, but it wears off too quickly, lolly sticks are better and I get to eat the ice lollies as well!

OMG, reading what you guys hoard, my house is positively empty. My floored loft is empty, I only have 2 wardrobes full of clothes which need to be taken to charity. I decluttered my shed last year, I have cardboard boxes for the recycling bin but little else rubbish wise. I do have heaps of books but I regularly offload them to a friend! I managed to get rid of half used tins of paint which had been accumulating. I have not come to grips with filing so I have a lot of paper, old and new.

Thanks janerowena..

Your halo must be shining brightly Charleygirl, quite !

Little boxes are just so useful-looking, aren't they? And plastic tubs, which are just crying out to be used in the freezer. Such a pity that they breed so fast though...