I am a horder. A serial horder. I keep pretty much everything, to me everything has a place in my home, a story and a reason to be here. Even if it is a t-shirt which still has all of it’s tags and has never been worn outside of the shop changing room.
Clothes and accessories are my main problem areas, but as our poor relatives who got roped in to helping us pack and unpack when we moved witnessed, my hoarding doesn’t stop there. Plates, apertif dishes, cutlery, books, pots and pans, dust pan and brushes… you name it, I’ve got it.
Mr Piglet despairs at my hoarding. We spent a fortune in storage when we moved just because I have so much stuff. And recently it has become just that to me, stuff.
You may ask why I have waited until now, why not get rid of it sooner? After all, in the last 10 years I have had two international moves and another move which made me homeless for 3 months whilst pregnant.
Having Baby Piglet has helped me gain a lot of perspective and suddenly I’m not so desperate to hang on to all of these material belongings. Okay, I’m not suddenly going to give away by Dior bags or Jimmy Choo shoes, but I have come to terms with the fact that even if I did manage to shrink myself back down to a size 10, my tastes have changed and I would quite frankly prefer to start again.
Don’t get me wrong, I have some lovely clothes which I would wear again in a shot if I could, but I also feel that if I lose the weight I deserve the reward of getting to go shopping for new stuff. Right? Not to mention that right now I would like to open my wardrobe and see stuff that I can wear, not stuff that is all too small that it makes me depressed.
So yesterday I started clearing out my wardrobe. Emptying boxes and bags and sorting through everything. I took many pictures and started listing everything on Ebay. There was no pity. I want this stuff gone. And so starts my Ebay Wardrobe Challenge. By the end of the Spring, I hope to have cleared my wardrobe, lost some weight and started shopping for replacement clothes.
Now I just have to decide whether to part with my shoe and handbag collections, forever faithful no matter what my size.
Please help me by spreading the word. If you can share the link to my Ebay page here or my Facebook page here or my twitter feed here I would be really grateful. Doing a car boot sale isn’t practical with a baby and a Husband that works weekends, so Ebay is my best hope of completing my challenge. Unless of course you can think of any other ways (other than an open house)?
Ye Gods, Piglet! And I thought i was a hoarder! You beat me hands down!
I’ll put up a link, while wondering if I could get one of those magicians to saw me in half lengthways so that some of your gorgeous things might fit me.
LOL! Thanks Fly! I really wish I had got rid of this stuff ages ago, I am looking forward to having space in my wardrobe for my new clothes
Good luck with your efforts to get rid of your “stuff”. My son-in-law has sold a lot of stuff on Craig’s List here in the US. I know that Craig’s List has a French site but not sure how many people go there to shop for “stuff”.
The most popular site I have found here for selling stuff generally is Le bon Coin, but you can’t search so well on it so my stuff just gets lost. I will check out Craigs List too as I’ve never used it.
Shame I am not size 10 anymore!!! good luck
thank you!
You go girl! Man, cleaning out your closets, giving yourself more space AND making some dough! I have every confidence that this is going to be a great thing for you!
Ashley
Thanks Ashley! I don’t think I’ll make much but at least I won’t feel so guilty when I buy new stuff
I hope you’re keeping the very best for Miss Piglet. Think vintage!
Don’t worry, I’ve been thinking vintage for the years, probably the reason why I have so much stuff! I’ve saved the best and anything that’s worthy of dressing up clothes for Baby Piglet
Do it quickly. Do not think about it or pause. Just throw, throw and throw. Good luck. You’ll enjoy the new space.
That is definitely the key! The moment I stop and think I dither, I need to be quicker!
I am a hoarder. I belong to hoarders anonymous. My way of thinking is that I might not need it now, but if I get rid of it, then I know I am going to wish I still had it. This is because I am married to a Tosser .. in that he tosses things away without a second glance. You might call it a mixed marriage
I am thinking of packing for a move and all that I might have to keep/get rid of.
This drives me to shopping for something new.
Good luck with the ebay thing
( I have never used ebay … I know, backwards woman)
LOL Candice you are exactly the same as me, even now I’m getting rid of stuff I can’t help but worry if I will need it again one day… Our OH’s seem to be made out of the same mould too… mine is also a tosser! Just before we moved I found loads of my kitchen stuff in the bin. THE BIN! His reasoning was that I didn’t need two strainers, two potato mashers etc so he was chucking away the old stuff. I hooked it all out of the bin and put it in a box saying that I could sell it or maybe one day I’d need to use it again.
I wouldn’t bother with Ebay unless you are looking to buy stuff, then it is a hoarders paradise! I haven’t sold much via ebay, most of it has been to friends and family who saw that I was putting stuff on Ebay and who knows what clothes I have so called and asked if I was getting rid of “such and such”.