Hoarding and reusing

[Tracey]

Hello there

I have a tendency to hoard things that I think may be usefull in the future. I can remember using a cologne when I was in my early teens and because it was in a pretty glass bottle I couldn't bare to put the empties in the bin. I used to squirrel them away in a space under the wardrobe. It just seemed wrong to put them in the bin. I can't remember what happened to them in the end, they didn't recycle glass then.

Anyway, since I've started getting into growing veg. I see use in everything, polysterine boxes as tubs, cardboard and plastic veg trays as seed tray and cloches when they've got plastic lids, etc. etc. I've even asked my neighbour to save me her loo rolls for parsnips. Do other grapes have these tendencies?

Kind regards
Tracey

[shirlthegirl43]

In short, yup

[smallblueplanet]

Useful bits of wood, plastic compost sacks, lots of screws & nails......

I wish I could put some shelves up using the wood and sort the nails and screw into the jam jars....

[Tracey]

I know I will always find use for the things that I save. The problem is remembering what I have saved.

[zazen999]

Yes - I do.

I went and found myself a minimalist OH - so I come home some days and find that one or other of my collections has been relocated to the bins...Which as I work around the country and he works locally; happens quite alot. At the moment, it seems to be my future prize winning carrot/parsnip toilet roll innards that I am saving - which if I don't hide them somewhere disappear whilst I am out.

I don't even stand a chance trying to save yogurt pots - he just about lets me get away with *bucks frappacino containers; as they come with a little hat with a hole in it. Anything else just gets chucked. I also save everything I can that can be burnt as we have a wood burner, and he announced this evening that we had 'Enough' stockpiled - so I need to get a fire lit tonight so that we have an excuse to start saving it again.

Goodness knows what he's going to do when he sees what I have planned to chit my spuds - as soon as T&M get around to sending them to me - that's when the fun/struggle kicks in.

[Tracey]

bucks frappacino containers; as they come with a little hat with a hole in it.

What do with these?

[bluemoon]

Yes, not only am I a re-cycleaholic I keep everything that could possibly be 'useful' for the lotties. I'm lucky in that OH is just as bad and can often see where something might be used which has totally passed me by.

[veg4681]

Anyway, since I've started getting into growing veg. I see use in everything, polysterine boxes as tubs, cardboard and plastic veg trays as seed tray and cloches when they've got plastic lids, etc. etc.

I'm actually the opposite of a hoarder (due to smallish house with no attic space) but for veggie growing related stuffs, I'm going thru the same thing of seeing a use in most food packaging (pots, trays, punnets) and clear plastic cover that you can use as propagator that I can use for sowing seeds . I'm going nuts! Sorry I do recycle everything as I possibly can even big cardboard boxes for burning rather than putting in the bin.

[smallblueplanet]

Yes, not only am I a re-cycleaholic I keep everything that could possibly be 'useful' for the lotties. I'm lucky in that OH is just as bad and can often see where something might be used which has totally passed me by.

LOL!!! Lucky indeed.

[JennieAtkinson]

Well ..............

the gardening stockpile is kept in the shed and utility room ..........
the sailing stockpile is kept in the ....... anywhere you like (thats OH!)
the paper crafting stockpile is kept in son no. 1s old bedroom
the wood stockpile is kept in a 30ft above ground ex air raid shelter

and our sons wonder why we need a big house!

[piskieinboots]

I can't hoard, try as I might, I can't - if it hasn't been used within six months it is sent on its way to someone else who may be able to use it. Snowdrop are you listening!

however, I do keep yogurt pots and food trays for seeds

[Flummery]

Hands up - guilty as charged! I can't get into the shed for hoarded pots - I got some fantastic root trainers - hundreds, when I helped the local brownies planting wild flower plugs around the village. The flowers were raised by a local nursery that employs people with learning difficulties. They sold us the plants (discount for big order) and didn't want the things back. I asked everyone else helping - no-one wanted them. I now have a huge pile, oh boy do I feel smug! I also keep my preserving pan (except today when it's boiling away cooking my marmalde peel), all my gardening kit, my spare loo roll middles and my spare demijohns in there.
There's a blanket box in the corner of the dining room which had (note past tense) all my quilting stash. This has now seriously outgrown the box - big piles teeter on top and there is fabric and knitting wool in the storage drawers under our bed and the spare bed.

I daren't take up another hobby! When the kids had both left home we bought a bigger house!

[HeyWayne]

Anyone remember Mr Trebas?

[TonyF]

Hoarder, moi? Of course, always gardening stuff, because we have so many different size and thicknesses of plastic bottles here, they're all converted to mini cloches, really useful (potentially) bits of wood, the fencing the previous owner had thoughtfully put round the 'estate' which is now all out and will be recycled here or at chums .........

Goes with the recycling/organic/gardening philosophy I think.

[JanieB]

Heavily into re-cycling but also collect stuff I can use for the garden. I'm also a dollshouser and collect stuff that can be turned into things for dollshouses and room boxes.

Brian was also a hoarder - anything paper. We had a stack of old newspapers teetering just inside the front door which I wasn't allowed to chuck until he'd read them. I used to go through them and reduce the pile a bit from time to time by chucking out the bits I knew he didn't read and surrepticiously anything over 6 months old at the same time. He also had 10 years worth of computer magazines in the bedroom. He also saved all his computer printouts (he was a software engineer). The newspapers and magazines have now gone but his daughter won't let me chuck the printouts incase there's "something valuable" in them (there's not).

My daughter said it was typical of me to fall in love with another hoarder .

I have a conservatory that was built as a "temporary" structure to give us more kitchen space as ours is minute. It houses the washing machine, dryer and some kitchen cupboards. It also comes in handy for germinating seeds and for two years I grew my tomatoes, cucumbers and chillies in there.