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Apart from work/sleep/recreational stuffs? Are you working on creating a better home or garden, or voluntarily assisting with anything in your community or similar?
I am currently helping somebody with their house-a guy who is a mega hoarder and is living in substandard conditions due to past years of ill health and circumstance..The house is full of junk and also items he's collected over the years, and he also has no real flooring, nor hot running water! The electrics aren't operating properly either. I've began by clearing a lot of junk out (he's reluctant to rid of most things, so this has been a bit difficult!) and I've tiled the bathroom floor and cleaned his kitchen up, it was filthy and full of junk (he hoards old tupperware boxes, margarine boxes and the like, for example) and I've created some space by moving things around. I've cleaned the floors and put a lot of things up into his loft, put new bedding on his bed, had the windows open as the house was smelling fusty, given him my old tumble dryer... Taken LOADS of stuff to the local tip, sold some stuff on eBay for him-I can't think of much else but the place is looking better. Obviously I can't do much regards his water or electricity situation as I'm not skilled or licensed for that sort of thing. I'm just doing what's within my capability and so far I've got it quite a bit better :) Are you doing anything at the moment that's a work in progress? |
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Not doing owt for anyone else Sugar, But I have just moved into my new home. (Well a Flat) and spending loads of time redecorating and getting it furnished etc. Today it is tidy the garden day. Its bad luck that I live in Kent. I could do with some help from a Samaritan like you. |
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Hey I'm not doing it for nothing :) as I travel so much for work, he's offered me somewhere to stay basically any time I want, in return, so whenever I'm in this neck of the woods :)
(Although to be honest each time I take him up on the offer I am scared for my health lol). Are you buying new furniture? One main thing about this place is, I don't want to spend much money-it's not my house, for a start and it's just not of a condition where buying new things is justifiable. :) |
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I like most others am doing what I do, I don't need to tell the world, I do it because I can.
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I used to do voluntary work for P.A.T ( Pets as Therapy) Dogs. If anyone wanted to register their dog to do hospital, nursing homes or other places.My role was to assess the dog to see if it was suitable to go in these places and that their temperment was ok. I had to give this up due to other committments. I miss it.
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Sugarmouse, I'm surprised you can find time to get onto the computer. There was an item on TV recently about hoarders.
Find a skip in a nearby street and make several trips to it 'out of hours' There can't be many houses without hot running water |
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Well my current "project" so-to-speak is finding a customROM that I like the most for my phone. I have kinda become a bit of a flash addict(no not that kind)
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I did write to channel four, 'The Hoarder Next Door' and they came to look around, seemed interested then said they wouldn't do it as this house is more of a mess, than a hoard. I've taken tonnes of stuff to the tip, but he likes to keep everything and I have to respect that-he's done well in letting me get rid of what I have. Quote:
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Sure!!! :D I'm always up for learning new useless/ful (! :D) information.
Okay I've been too busy to do anything on this house this week , and last week I caught a bug (quite possibly a result of spending time here lol) so prescribed myself a rest from it. I'm back here now, so far all's I've done is the laundry!I honestly feel overwhelmed, so decided to sit here and have a coffee, and hope that somebody on AccyWeb will give me a kick up the aristotle and tell me what to do next! I know it's difficult without having seen the place, but I want some outside perspectives-if you were sorting out a messy hoard, trying to make somewhere look like a home, say your house burnt down and you had to stay in such a place temporarily-where would you start? I've put some rugs down, covering bare floorboards-that's made a major difference, for example-it looks much more cosy and homely now. I've gone around the sitting room with a huge cardboard box and chucked in surplus bits and bats, he won't be upset because I've not thrown them away, but they're in a box, taking up a few square feet, rather than making the whole room look cluttered... |
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Well, you asked, so here I go, Why with this 'project', (personally I would have called it helping someone), aren't you busy doing it, getting on with it, feel proud of yourself when you've finished by all means, but don't come back on bragging about it. Charity is best done by folk that do it then drift into the background. The one's involved in any such action, that shout the loudest probably did the least. ;) |
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Well, I think I've done quite a lot, considering I have a few other things going on and I haven't been doing it for very long.
I think I am helping, he is grateful for my assistance anyway. I guess I just like conversing , hearing other people's experiences similar-I will not post again if it's grinding people's gears, I didn't realise it would. |
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I'm currently upgrading a replica "Red Special" (Brian May's guitar) Including full rewire, new pickups, pots (vol and tone controls), machine heads (tuners). At present the upgrades have cost me more than the guitar did!!
Seem to be having some earthing problems with the wiring - don't think my soldering's up to much. Sugarmouse, that's what you call a project...haha! |
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Also I've just re-read my post and still cannot see it bragging, apologies it it comes across that way to others.
I've asked on other forums also, many people seem to have had to clear out houses before or assist others with their clutter problems, and as such I thought maybe people may want to share. Do you mean I should have called the thread 'Helping Someone'? Sorry I found that bit hard to understand. |
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Brian May is one of my favourite folk at the moment! :) |
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He's been my No. 1 musical hero since I was 14.....although my worship of him faltered ever-so-slightly after the Dappy from N Dubz collaboration!!! |
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Lol it wasn't *that* bad :p
(Okay it was). He is absolutely amazing, I agree-cannot claim to be a die-hard fan, but he's always been somebody I admire. Good luck with your work :) |
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Well I must have messed up as I had no MMS and sometimes no GPS(on certain ROMS) but I flashed original firmware on my phone and then flashed a customROM and my phone is G-R-E-A-T
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Sony put a lot of bloatware(crap you may never use and resource/ram hog etc) in their stock ICS(ice cream sandwich--android version)ROM. It is very buggy and slow compared to the ones I have tried from XDA's(website for android development) users. These guys are the programmers of tomorrow. Well. They do a better job than sony do... |
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I really must learn more about technology, I'm humbled!Lol :)
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Oh don't mistake it as me knowing stuff. Haha. I stumble along just like anyone :D
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ive made dribble bibs with matching taggies for my 8 month old, cushions, nursery bags for my 3 year old and 3 year olds just had her bedroom decorated so made loads of things for that,phone case for 0 year old currently knitting blankets and making nursery some book bags then starting on personalised christmas stockings (i just got an embroidery machine) and santa sacks for my 4 while making bag,tablet/laptop/phone cases,aprons and knitting scarves as christmas presents for my family :)
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I'm tired just reading it. Well done. |
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Can you make me a new body. I am fed up with this one
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oh and i made a 'boy' ragdoll for my 2 year old, i can make you a ragdoll body if you want? ive been wasting a lot of time and fabric playing with my new machine, did the baby a few bibs and a personalised taggy for a christening present :)
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ive found the more children i have the more organised i need to be, ive to have all 4 of them up,fed,washed and dressed by 8.30am for the school and nursery run, miss 3 year old madam has demands on what she wants doing with her hair every morning that take up alot of my time lol
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I think I need a 'you' in my life lol What's a 'taggy' please? I tried making christmas presents one year but my family turned their noses up at them! Apart from the chocolates. I will be making some of those this year! |
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I guess it is down to prioritising......these days, Christmas just doesn't seem so important. I'm a 'bah, humbug' person anyway. |
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Taggies Little Taggie - Lets Go: Amazon.co.uk: Baby
thats a taggy/taggie,its a comforter babies like them, i backed mine with fleece so its soft :) and i made matching bibs for her aswell |
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There is plenty of work to do out there in the community for people who want to do it. I know it's only really possible if you have enough income to live on, e.g. from retirement pensions. Since retiring three and a half years ago I occupy my time as a borough councillor, serve on the boards/committees of various local voluntary bodies, am a governor at three schools, a lay reader at church and a national trust room steward at Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham. I'm not a domestic goddess so things like cleaning up have a very low priority! Some people think I'm mad for doing all the things I do in my so-called retirement but at the end of the day it's my choice! I was very tied looking after my mother until she died a few months ago - I found that very hard - but am now able to continue my work in church and community. Can't see me slowing down yet!
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tonight im mostly shouting at my machine which decided to suddenly shift the design i was stitching into a completely different place half way through... time for a brew i think and start again...
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Still repairing/restoring master clocks and clocking in machines oh and making model boats. Perhaps i need to get out more!!! :):):):):)
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today im going to attempt to applique on my new machine, im starting the coffee now and no doubt i'll be calling it names later lol
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wasnt that bad actually, i need smaller scissors to trim closer but im happy with that as a first go :)
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ive just finished this while the smalls watched muppet christmas carol, tidies it up a bit after the pic was taken because i ould see it better on the pic :)
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theres no picture on that last post :o
now im sewing up an elf :) http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/...m/SAM_1010.jpg |
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I do like that wreath! Perfect.
I've now got to help do up a house to make it tenant-worthy, have about 8 weeks in which to get to a certain standard..Not something I'm especially good at or looking forward to, but, people have completed harder tasks..I'm going to be kept busier at my usually-busiest time of the year lol |
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its up in my window now, going to make one for my big girl in pink and purple for her room next
my elf no arms on or clothes yet, i was interuppted by non sleeping children instead :) |
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I'm not a Christian, but I think that's really pretty. You should start a business if you haven't already :)
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no, no business :) just making things for my little ones and my house, i found a tutorial for tutu's on the internet, might try that and embroidered name banners when ive finished all my christmas craft :)
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we decorated big girls bedroom not long back, i took what was left of the border and made her a mobile for her ceiling with hangin tissue paper butterflies and cut card butterflies and stuck them to the wall with their wings folded up so they stick out. im going to do her a wreath for her wall and the banner and ive got fabric to make both girlsmatching patchwork quilts, then to start on the boys lol, my lot keep me busy :)
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i finished my elf, meet alf :) first go at anything like this so im appy enough with that and the children will love him :)
http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/...m/SAM_1015.jpg i'll stop boring you with my tat now :p |
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i made my smallest a christmas tutu this morning :)
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That Elf is ace!I wish I was creative.
My other half is. Makes chainmail items a lot and can do a lot of electrical tasks, builds desks and tables etc. I'm useless at all creative things apart from cooking, if that counts lol Quote:
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