Are you a hoarder?

[El Cid 218]

Just sorting out some old paperwork, P60s dating back to 2006. Does that make me a hoarder?

2006/7 was a poor year, £7,568, by 2007/8 it was £12,806

[Mikes10 10]

Six years ago I had a good clear-out. I also put stuff in carrier-bags, under the notional heading of 'To Be Sorted Later' (TBSL).

 

Well I haven't looked at the TBSL stuff in six years, so I am now mulling over the idea of one bag per black-bin collection

and NOT looking in the bags.

 

 

I have a neighbour who's back garden ( I use the term loosely ) resembles a builders yard and his transit van appears to be a small mobile version of the garden.

[El Cid 218]

One thing that stops me throwing old papers away is the security risk of recycling all te personal information, I should burn it.

[mcleod 10]

not needed , CHUCK IT end of

[*_ash_* 88]

Just sorting out some old paperwork, P60s dating back to 2006. Does that make me a hoarder?

2006/7 was a poor year, £7,568, by 2007/8 it was £12,806

 

One way of getting rid of things (if hoarder and difficult to part) is use a digital camera and photograph things. You could quite easily get an entire house on a little memory stick

[carosio 186]

Every quarterly bank statement going back to 1974 (until a few years ago when they stopped sending them)!

[geared 311]

Six years ago I had a good clear-out. I also put stuff in carrier-bags, under the notional heading of 'To Be Sorted Later' (TBSL).

 

 

I did that, but used those biodegradable bags Tesco used to have.

 

After a few years the bags turned into dust and everything returned to the un-organised pile of crap it previously was.

[AmberLeaf 10]

I used to collect cardboard

[Padders 2,863]

I used to collect cardboard

 

I worry about you amber.

[vwkittie 10]

Move house, it cures being a hoarder as you realise you really can't be bothered to pack up, store and move anything that's not really required or pay the associated costs!

[El Cid 218]

Move house, it cures being a hoarder as you realise you really can't be bothered to pack up, store and move anything that's not really required or pay the associated costs!

 

Great idea, buy a bigger house

[Cyclone 10]

I periodically find a drawer full of stuff (normally when I've lost my wallet or something) which I then go through and throw a lot away.

If I've not used it in a year and didn't remember I even had it, I probably don't need it anymore.