My husband just rediscovered a stash of books in the bottom of a huge end table that we have not opened in years. Thought I had at least seen all the books.
My husband just rediscovered a stash of books in the bottom of a huge end table that we have not opened in years. Thought I had at least seen all the books.
That's interesting, sweetana3.
Reminds me of another story I read about a woman who said her family opened up a trunk that hadn't been opened in decades and found beautiful hand-sewn quilts. While I know something that like isn't going to happen in our family, I'd be curious to know if anyone here had any similar "happy surprises" during a clean up.
****Spoiler Alert**** MY Name is Doris
Last night we saw My Name is Doris with Sally Field and surprisingly it has an element of the hoarding condition in the storyline. The movie overall was very cute and funny - Sally Field is always fantastic in everything she does - but I was disappointed in the typical Hollywood portrayal of hoarding. It was very similar to how the Silver Lining Playlist brought up a real condition but instead of being true to the difficulty in addressing such a condition, they make it look like a piece of cake to overcome. But despite that, it was such a cute movie.
I have a beautiful antique trunk we found cleaning out my great grandmother's attic, and we found all kinds of really neat things in my grandparent's house - I am now the keeper of the family quilts, I think my (thrifty? Saver? Hoarder?) Subsistence farm great grandmother turned every scrap of fabric that crossed her path into something useful, and often beautiful. The other side lived in Maine in the 18-1900's. Everyone took at least one nice quilt, but I got the ones that didn't speak to anyone or need significant repair. Quilting is something I dabbled with briefly when my kids were babies and want to get back to when there are a few major projects off my plate.
Geila, yeah, that's how it goes in movies - individual has huge personal struggle, suddenly easily overcome by the love of a good partner. Thousands of women marry men thinking they'll save them and the are surprised when the struggle is real and continues. I'm not sure it's as much of a problem with men, but I'm sure it happens.
Also, when I started dehoarding, I found dd3's birth certificate. She was 7. The envelope had never been opened. We had moved twice since her birth.
I talked to my mom again today. I am now also getting the bolt of fabric that matches the upholstery on the child's rocker that I am getting, because I have the other child's rocker and it needs to be reupholstered. Dh is calling "scope creep"
and I went to get feed and discovered that when dd2 said she unloaded all the stuff from the wedding, we were not in agreement on the meaning of some of those words. (She has the farm truck on a camping trip, so I was driving my car for the first time all week). I am just putting all the decorations in the loft with the wedding presents and the bride and groom can deal with them when they come back.
Tell me what he means by "scope creep."
Scope creep - original plan - pick up fountain and table and chairs. New plan - and fabric, and rocking chair, and lamp, and...
i have to to show him where all this stuff is going to go or it stays at my mom's house. I'm feeling a lot of time pressure.
Ah, yes... I have also heard the term "mission creep" and thought maybe it was related.Originally Posted by Chicken lady
Why not just go back to the original scope? Then no pressure.
Hunh, so your hubby is takng the position of "show me where this stuff will live" before it comes to your house.
Sounds good!
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