Originally Posted By Lady Starlight OMG my Aunt and Uncle used to have a giant spool table inthier house. My cousin made it for them. He blow torched it and then urathaned it. It looked pretty cool. We also used to walk on those giant spools down our street when we were kids. you'd walk on them the same way that log roller's rollthier logs in the water. LMBO! talk about hillbillie hell!! Good Times!
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I want to make jewelry and hang it on my clothes like my grandma did...she had everything matched up so she didn't have to look for the things that matched the outfit that day. This is obviously the grandma NOT from my mothers side...
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight I do believe we might have to have a "Granny Party" to swap things and make Granny jewelry. YES! now that I think of it...We should have an "LP Hoarders Thread Swap Meet O'Doom" meet. We pack all the stuff we need or SHOULD get rid of and trade it with other LP'ers. I can see it all now..... Here, ST you take this pile of crap and LS, you go and take that pile of crap. Klucky, you just sit there and make egg crate furniture and wooden spool jewelry and when your done you pick a pile of crap to take too.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight <<I know this thread was started in Play Pen, not usually the place to discuss serious matters, so I apologize if I got all heavy when that isn't what the aim of this thread was. But having dealt with this for real, it just isn't a joking matter to me.>> 2oony and 99, it's all good. I completely understand. I re-read my post's and I'm so very sorry if I came across harsh. That wasn't in that tone. It's so dang hard to convey feelings on here sometimes. I hope you can fogive me if I came across that way in my postings.{{{2oony}}} {{{99}}}
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Whatever became of Ursula's Closet of Crap...that was fun, I ended up with some very nice Mr Potatohead accessories.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb <---former horder (minor league). Nothing like moving 3 times in 12 years to get some of that crap out of your life. Especially since I haven't had a place of my own since the first move. I used to have mounds of office supplies (still have a bunch) and craft supplies and books and not only couldn't I get rid of my old clothes I'd end up with my mom's and my friends' cast-aways, whether they fit or looked good on my or not. If a relative died and I ended up with something there was NO way I could part with it (OK, I'm still guilty there). I still have my grandma's sewing box, wooden spools and all. My late husband was a game collector and he had hundreds of board games and role playing games and any kind of game you can think of. After we lost him I took all but those I might play or had some sort of sentimental attachment and took them to the annual poker party he used to go to and told everybody to take as many as they wanted. Still have some of his stuff, but I found slowly going through it and getting it out over the years has really reduced the number of boxes I have. I found the show Clean Sweep also helped me purge a bunch of stuff. Really motivating.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Ohhhh AD, YES!!I had forgotten about that show. Clean Sweep. I should have put that title on this thread.There is another show I had forgotten about too, that is allabout dirty/cluttered houses,but I have forgottenthe name of it. UGH! I'm such a dip!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>2oony and 99, it's all good. I completely understand. I re-read my post's and I'm so very sorry if I came across harsh. That wasn't in that tone. It's so dang hard to convey feelings on here sometimes. I hope you can fogive me if I came across that way in my postings.{{{2oony}}} {{{99}}}<< It's a Play Pen thread, and I should have let it be. No hard feelings.
Originally Posted By Labuda Count me among those who have OCD. Mine manifests in a slightly weird way, though. I count things - usually letters in sentences and/or paragraphs. And heaven forbid someone move something on my desk - it may look unorganized to YOU, but to me - uh uh - I know where everything is, and if it's at all askew, I start to freak.
Originally Posted By Labuda Oh, and I count stairs and steps taken, too. And, Sara Tonin - ^5 for the thing you do with arranging money!
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I think of the money thing as just knowing how much and what denominations I have...I have seldom ever seen something I wanted or needed and said, "Let me count my money and see it I have enough". ...and it makes me feel secure and in control of something in my life. You know I've been thinking about the counting steps and stairs thing...I think it all started in second grade, walking home from school, whom amongst us didn't play "Step on a crack, break your mother's back"? So we would carefully meter our steps so as not to break our mother's back....
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie Stair counting is not normal? As I worked as an insurance adjuster for years, the hardest claims I went to were hoarder's homes. We used to call them pathway houses because there was stuff piled from floor to ceiling in every room of the home except for a single path that would go through the room so you could walk through. The worst one I went to was a man who hoarded food. He had food piled in every room of the home except for the front room where his wife had told him he could not put anything because that was her one room in the home. They could not even use the kitchen to cook the food because of the boxes and boxes of food that was piled in the kitchen meant you could not get to the stove, sink or microwave. Every can or box had the date he purchased the item written on it. It was very sad. When I was there, he was home, but refused to come downstairs because he was embarrassed. I dealt with his wife who broke down crying while I was there.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I'm OCD about hand washing and food. My hands must be washed before touching food, the food must be washed and if I've touched an egg or raw meat or anything not deemed clean, I wash my hands again. My hands are always in need of moisturizer because of it. There is also NO 5 second rule for me, it hits the floor it gets washed or trashed. Same with the counter. My roommate tossed a counter green bean back in the pan, I immediately fished it out and trashed it, pointing out he was lucky I didn't throw the whole thing away (and I might have if the counter hadn't been cleaned earlier in the day). The ironic thing, I'm sort of a messy person. You'd think my kitchen would need to be spotless, nope. So long as I have a clean place to work and a sink with soap and a clean towel, I'm good.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Just popping in with an idea for those wooden spools. My sister put hers in a beautiful glass jar and has it in her sewing/computer room. My mom found a little lamp that had a glass jar as the base and put the spools in there. A way to showcase your junk and make it look like sentimental art We spent yesterday moving junk around in our garage (beanie babies? don't get me started!) so DD can bring more junk back when she moves back home while job hunting. I'm still waiting for our sons to have their own space to put their tons of comic books and baseball card collections! Somehow where ever they live doesn't quite have the room. The curse of telling them they didn't need to take them until they had room to store. I could move all my crapola from MY closet into that space and be done with it! <<<off to clean out my closet, this thread has been inspiring. We have 45's and albums, old newspapers with headlines of things like Reagan being shot, my old creepy dolls, DH's mom's highschool yearbook, etc. Stuff we have moved from place to place. Oh man, today is not going to be fun. I feel the need to go to Target and get some plastic boxes and use that space we made for DD's junk.
