#dehoarding

[nostalgicfun]

Me: I've done very good dehoarding, I do not need anything from ebay

Also me: perhaps holding corn bear again will solve my problems

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

the only way out is through, that’s why today i heroically started cleaning (to be precise - dehoarding. i don’t think that its the same bc dehoarding can leave th space looking much worse than it was before)

i woke up angry, shaking with rage, unable to function normally. i didn’t even  wash my face :/ and i did not eat anything normal except for a banana and an apple bc i was too pissed off at everything

but the cycle didn’t repeat today, i broke it by choosing cleaning. i shiuld have started it earlier :/ unfortunately i waited too long, when i was already unstabe

i didin’t write even a single word, but i made a huge progess (for me, visually there is barely any difference)

i feel normaler, for the first time since idk how many days.

[froggierboy]

brain was spicy as fuck today but i got literally all of my work clothes and all of my pajamas/underwear/etc AND my sheets washed! dont ask where they are bc it's in the baskets still but they are clean :3 AND i dehoarded my bathroom and got out all the useless/expired/leaking products and garbage so my drawers are functional :3

[froggierboy]

i am a hoarder. it's a struggle caused by ocd. (sorta poetic, right, like disordered mind -> disordered home). marie kondo's philosophy is the only thing keeping my hoarding compulsions handled.

telling myself 'i shouldnt have stacks of empty packaging in my room it's weird it's garbage it's taking up space' didn't work, even though that's all arguably true, because bullying myself was feeding the anxiety that led to the compulsion to begin with!

you know what worked? identifying the purpose the empty packaging had served (keeping things i enjoy safe and whole until i bought them). observing that it was no longer serving any purpose. acknowledging that far from joy, this hoard sparked guilt and anxiety in me. realizing that i could free space to keep things that presently serve a purpose and/or spark joy. it wasn't easy, the first time i dehoarded, but it was possible, and that philosophy has kept me from rebuilding hoards, because as soon as the compulsion hits i can say to myself "does this spark joy or will it make me feel sad/anxious/guilty?"

Another reason I really like Marie Kondo is that in other cleaning shows the host will looked shocked at the mess and the camera will flash to different piles with dramatic music stings. When Marie sees a draw filled with clutter she smiles from ear to ear and goes “I love mess, I love tidying”. Its just so wholesome and you can see the clients are relieved that she didn’t have a bad reaction.

[thyroiddiseasediaries]

I feel so overwhelmed right now, dehoarding, grieving, trying to keep my knees from buckling under the stress and sadness, the loneliness.

Sometimes thinking about you is my only break. I think you’re the most beautiful woman on the planet. I show family you expecting the same cartoon overreaction I give. Because I think you’re art.

I also just want to get to know you well. I wanna just talk for hours, forever.

I wanna hold you when you need to be held. I wanna be around you. I wanna do dumb crafts and creative projects.

I wanna get to know your weird. You’re so weird. Which makes you even more interesting and attractive. There’s many onion layers.

I wanna tell cheesy dad jokes and hit on you like a thirsty fresh Prince from Bel Air.

I like you a bunch. Too much to fuck it up by saying anything too soon just because I realized after 16 years of friendship- I’m totally crushing. I wanna be in your life either way, but I’d really like the way that calls you my girl. You’re daddy. Zaddy. King, goddess of the damned.

So I gotta shout it into the void for now.

Nothing else really takes away any amount of pain from something like losing your mom, best friend, caretaker etc. But you do sometimes. I appreciates that about yous.

[sunsetmaiden]

I was working on a dehoard today and definitely that's one of the hardest parts of working in supportive housing. The dumpster was completely full when I was finished hauling bags down. Literally an entire dumpster full.

[1ff]

The dehoarding continues. I feel really good about the progress today- the tools are mostly all in the same place now, in the storage room, out of the way. The main studio room is opening up nicely. Every day, stuff leaves the studio as garbage, recycling, or donation. I’m accumulating a box of usable art supplies for donation- there’s a couple of non-profit art outreach spaces in town that could make use of stuff like this.

I haven’t let any visitors down into the studio lately, because I’m feeling a bit ashamed of it, but I’ve invited someone over tuesday afternoon and I think it’ll be okay by then.

[dollsonmain]

That Guy came down there and ruined my flow and I don't want to work on it anymore. That sucks because I'm feeling energetic and productive today. Or I was.

It's not done, but it's better. I dehoarded SO many cardboard boxes. There are so many more, still. A very large portion of the clutter and floor detritus down there is empty cardboard boxes...

Still, if you were to go down there, you'd be like "Wow, what a mess..." because it is.

But it's better.

Went down to the salon for a moment. Very little got done... I had forgotten to put conditioner in some of the ponies' hair so they had to still go through that part of the process.

I'm going to try to get some tidying done down there. I'd like the space to be usable and pleasant again.

[missypapageorge]

#homegym #knockout this is all I need #yes #writing and #dehoarding #heavy #love my #gloves and #wraps

[nostalgicfun]

Fisher Price Merry Go Round 🎠

[fredcowie-blog]

Six pix. DEHOARDING. #western #cowboy #cowboyboots #cowboyhats #fredcowie #lastchancelifecoach #dehoarding #lastchancelifecoach #professionalartist #stressmanagement #helenamontana

[lorenakoran-blog]

Confessions of a People Hoarder.

Confessions of a People Hoarder.

So, a friend posted this picture and it triggered a recent memory.

First off, here’s the pic;

Now the memory!

I was gonna write what I was gonna write in the “about” area of the pic when sharing it on Facebook, but, I’m pretty sure I know what would likely have happened and I wanted to avoid it. So I didn’t share the pic and my thoughts on Facebook after all. Yet.

While there may be a few folks…

[klowee]

…rebecca rose is an angel and helped me pack this evening✨🙏

[mulderspice]

How do u feel about the where is scullys desk dillema

obviously she should have one however whenever I picture that I can only picture the desks like shoved together face to face and I think that would be so fucking funny. like where else could it go

[nomchonks]

matt is normally such a happy person that seeing him sad is so tough. and there's nothing i can say to make it better. so last night we watched Speed, which I'd never seen, and it was so dumb.

we spent the last two days getting started on dehoarding his mom's house. ive realized she's not actually a hoarder, she just buys too much stuff and no one in the house was well enough to clean. his dad was kind of a slob and worked long hours on chicken farms so he didn't do any cleaning when he was home.

it was so hard to move around in that living room, i dont know how his mom was doing it. things are a little better now but we didn't make much progress.

im furious at his sister. first, she and her husband were supposed to bring their truck to haul away garbage that is just sitting in the backyard, waiting to get rained on. instead, she brought her toddler and dropped her off and went to do errands.

but she is the reason the house is a fucking hoard. she hoarded her own home and is spreading it out among other people's homes. she uses her parents' home as a storage unit.

then she and her husband stayed too long

all we did today was clear out a coat closet. every single coat in there got donated and so we had a bunch of trash hangers and his mom was like "i like those hangers for hanging coats" but lady we just got rid of all of them!! and then his sister's husband was like "hm yeah they're good for coats" and then walked away and im trying to throw the hangers away and his mom is like "i think mike wants them" and im like no.

apparently i was being really nasty. i was just so mad at his sister. i dont blame his mom at all but i upset her and i didnt realize until matt pulled me aside. then he and his mom did a donation run and i calmed down and scrubbed out the closet so there would be at least one single clean place to put things. i apologized to her later and she said she was also being oversensitive but it's like no, ma'am, i was being a huge bitch... you're going through your husband's things on the one week anniversary of his death and im like GRRR it's so FILTHY in here

im really embarrassed. matt doesn't hold it against me although i would understand if he did.

anyway i wish i could spend longer out there, but i cant' take any time off because we're so understaffed at work. there was an open interview day on wednesday, im going to ask how that went when i go in today. it would be nice if we got some good new employees!!!

[cmeansches]

And here I was thinking I was done 😭😭😭 #roomcleaning #decluttering #dehoarding (at Mangibin Residence)