Are you a hoarder and does the Hazmat team have to come and clean up your mess.

[Beachguyj]

Out of sight. Out of mind.

The problem is when you save stuff and put it away and don't know where it is. And then you have to remove all the stuff in the closet to look for it. My old closet, the only one in my apartment was about 20 square feet and it was hoarded, but the rest of the apartment was mostly good. If i needed somthing out of there I had to prepare for an avalanche,

 

[Alnitak]

We are .5 on the scale based on the living levels of our farmhouse.....but probably a 2 or 3 once you get into the loft over the garage and the basement..........they are full of 'stuff'. Since having a housecleaner come in once a week....the ordinary everyday clutter has vanished. At work, we have cleaners of course, so the areas that count are always kept clean and tidy....unfortunately though, I am required to keep every record and every piece of paper ad-infinitum and we have one entire floor of our building that I won't even go to because of the clutter.

Out of sight. Out of mind.

My work digitized our closed file records, about twenty thousand files that are now on NAS and cloud servers, and in doing so we have given up a storage room in the basement, reduced our rent, sold some 150 cabinets, and hiring the hands to do the scanning has paid for itself and then some.

 

[oakpope]

I'm between 5 and 6. Slightly more in living room, slightly less in kitchen/bathroom.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

ok me

I keep my vinyls and I keep my comics. Geek I am, but I don't collect anything else.

my place is barebones....... a TV and a computer that holds all the movies I love. A leather sofa and chair.

a bed that begs for Ronboy but that will come

but I love wall art so that is my problem. I buy too much art.

 

[Native Son]

This is sad. What do you guys think of this.

Well, it's sad. Everyone has their crosses to bear but this goes into the really heavy. What can one say?

 

[eastofeden]

ok me

I keep my vinyls and I keep my comics. Geek I am, but I don't collect anything else.

my place is barebones....... a TV and a computer that holds all the movies I love. A leather sofa and chair.

a bed that begs for Ronboy but that will come

but I love wall art so that is my problem. I buy too much art.

Ahh...I have an entire room dedicated to vinyl....I cannot even count how many anymore. I have everything I ever bought plus a lot of promos I got as well. I will never sell any of them but thankfully I have bought everything I ever wanted (that I can think of) except for a hard to find LP from Yvonne Fair.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Ahh...I have an entire room dedicated to vinyl....I cannot even count how many anymore. I have everything I ever bought plus a lot of promos I got as well. I will never sell any of them but thankfully I have bought everything I ever wanted (that I can think of) except for a hard to find LP from Yvonne Fair.

I am actually upset that I lost my copies of London Calling and Sandinista through all my moves. buts its not the vinyl that helped me to be the man i am today it was the songs.

 

[Alnitak]

I can't throw anything away, i have almost two rooms filled with my junk.

Books, records, dvd's.

Which books

 

[Alnitak]

On second thought, don't clean up your clutter.

This guy lost $9 million in bitcoins when he cleaned up his house and tossed out the hard drive they were on.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/9m-bitcoin-haul-buried-u-160800943.html

 

[Alnitak]

Mostly trash Dan Brown knock-off trash, and lots of gay stuff

Stacks of yellowed fiction novels... eer not my thing

ooo wait. What gay stuff

 

[Benvolio]

I can't throw anything away, i have almost two rooms filled with my junk.

Books, records, dvd's.

I suggest that you will find it easier to give it to Goodwill or one of the other thrift charities. You will not be wasting or destroying it. Someone will get good out of it. And you can take a tax deduction. Start slowly, looking for things you don't care much about. Easy decisions first. You will find that it gets easier with practice.

 

[bankside]

I lose my mind anywhere much over 1.
I also don't consider myself a neat freak at all.

1 looks like it is "casually lived in but time to tidy up."

 

[Alnitak]

I suggest that you will find it easier to give it to Goodwill or one of the other thrift charities. You will not be wasting or destroying it. Someone will get good out of it. And you can take a tax deduction. Start slowly, looking for things you don't care much about. Easy decisions first. You will find that it gets easier with practice.

Is there a Goodwill in Edinburgh?

Congrats on 5k posts btw

 

[Kulindahr]

Not at home.

But after critters got into my long-term beach/dune camp, a hazmat team would be most appropriate.


BTW, did you know that racoons can chew through heavy-duty plastic storage containers and even food cans?

 

[medic1]

Nope, though since moving here, i have way too much furniture, and prints.

 

[cgymike]

Atypical hoarder here. It's very tiring. And absurdly difficult to overcome.

If Paris was nuked that would solve that.

 

[Alnitak]

BTW, did you know that racoons can chew through heavy-duty plastic storage containers and even food cans?

Evolution The fittest raccoons obviously survived to eat through human containers.

 

[ravenstar]

I collect novels, but other than that I've got no real connection to anything. My father keeps everything. He's got all sorts of nonsense under our house. I try to throw bits and pieces away when he's not paying attention. He's never noticed yet, but if he does notice he usually goes and gets it before bin night.