Tillie,
I have to know how the burn went? Sorry I missed you all last night. I actually got home in time for the last hour, but I arrived home to find two of my children at my house to surprise me. My son was on leave from the Marines for the weekend and one of my daughters was here also. It was great seeing them again to say the least. So fill me in on what you burned and what the response was!

Good morning 🙂

Since the weather is so much cooler now and we have some humidity I can burn things in my burn barrels again.

That's my plan for today.
Going to get out there and burn everything I can find to burn. 😀

Still needing to impress upon him that I am very serious about him getting that septic tank taken care of ASAP.
He keeps burying his head in the sand in the hopes that all the maintenance issues around here will just dissapear.

Have a GREAT day everyone and hope to see you all in "chat" tonight. 🙂

Thank you MayMAy. 🙂

Hey Tillie,

I really hope your husband will do what he needs to do so the company will be able to drain the septic tank. Because I definitely don't want you and your husband having to live like Shanna. Her house was so scary! Plus after they cleaned out her house she still couldn't live in it anymore because of all the damage. So I definitely don't want that to happen to you guys. 🙂

Good morning everyone. 🙂

Today I will be going into town to get some groceries.
I have my list all made up and my coupons organized.

When I get back my plan is to let my hoarder know exactly what I expect him to do about clearing a path to the septic tank and making him call the company to have it drained.
And that he MUST be here when the company comes so he can get all the dirty looks and not me because it really is not my hoard & squalor.

Or very soon we will be living like Shanna here.

Have a great day everyone! 🙂

Hey Tillie,

OMG! Me too! It's ridiculous how many political phone calls we get at my house. And now people are actually starting to come to our door asking us to take political surveys. It's so annoying! And I hate how every time I watch the news the majority of what they talk about right now is politics. I can't wait until it's finally over!

Hey MayMay
Yes I hate how it gets earlier & earlier all the time.

What I am really hating right now is being bombarded with political BS.
Seems I live in a "swing" state.
Every day there is at least 3 pieces of political junk mail delivered here.
The TV has constant political commercials.
Worst of all is that EVERY DAY the phone rings off the hook with surveys and automated political messages.
AAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Will be so very happy when this election is over with!

OMG! I just saw the first Christmas commercial of the season and it's not even Halloween yet. I swear, They start advertising for Christmas earlier and earlier every year.

My To-Do list for today...

Make a grocery shopping list.
Since I am trying to keep my hoarder out of stores I have been trying to buy 2 weeks worth of groceries at a time so we only have to go every other week.
He impulse buys food and he has the freezer on the fridge stuffed solid and he has a LOT of other food stashed all around in his hoarded areas.
Plus he goes to this other grocery store near where he works and brings home stuff every week.

Any way.....
Just have my usual type tasks to do today
feed & water cats
scoop litter boxes
sweep
tidy up

Have a GREAT day everybody! 😀

Good morning everyone! 😀

Tina (((HUGS)))
I know how depressing that is. 🙁
My hoarder does that exact same thing to me when I get sick.
So sorry.

NewLife,
Wonderful that you are getting down to the actual floor! Even if it does need a good mopping at least we can see it. 🙂

Hey Tina,
I'm so sorry to hear about what your hoarder has been doing while you've been sick. 🙁
I'm glad to hear that you are starting to feel better. 🙂

Hey NewLife,
Good luck clearing your floor. 🙂

Hi Tina, i'm glad you are feeling well enuf to be up and around, don't let what you see lay you back down, just rinse out the sink or something. My trick is to not really think about it, cause i go into a tizzy, just do what's on top, even if it's only 5 dishes. you did something. Wish me well clearing my floor. I need to stop trying to read and walk down memory lane with each piece of paper. Also, cleaning up mad makes me do a little more ... let's do something today, NewLife

good day All, it's Friday and i'm alive. Today I would like to clear out that kitchen floor, it's icky dirty underneath all that paper trash. I cleared off my couch 2 days ago, yea, and stuck the papers and mail in a plastic bag to go thru, only 1 of many ... anyway, Happy Today, one small step will do me good ~

Medical complications have had me laid up for the past few weeks, but I'm beginning to recover. As I wandered around the house this morning my heart caught in my throat as I surveyed the damage left in the wake of my illness. My worst fear realized, My hoarder has taken full advantage of my inability to actively defend the clean & clear spaces in our home...

Not a clean dish in the house.
Every horizontal surface covered.
My living room transformed into his project workshop.
Paths once again starting to form.
Weeks of laundry piled on the washroom floor...

I can't describe what I'm feeling right now, except that it hurts.

[Sigh...] 🙁

Today while I was cleaning my room I discovered something very interesting and kind of shocking.

In my room I have 2 tents; one is for Cory and the other one is for Matt. In their tents are their dog beds and their favorite blankets and they also have some dog toys in there too. All the rest of their dog toys are in toy boxes that they can get to anytime they want. Today while I was cleaning I looked inside both of their tents to get their blankets so I could wash them; and when I looked inside Matt's tent I noticed that it was practically overflowing with dog toys. When I went to get Matt's blanket out I also took out all the toys in his tent and counted them. Turns out he had over 50 dog toys hidden in his tent. I was really shocked! When I went to get Cory's blanket I also counted all the toys in his tent too. He only had 10 toys in his tent.

I think Matt might be a hoarder! Lol. 🙂

Thanks Tillie! 😀

Where did my post go?

I wrote a post & it's not here.
Oh Well.....

Have fun at the park MayMay.

Today I will be moving my winter things to the front shelves & top drawers and summer things to the back.
Has gotten very cold here at night.

Have a great day everyone! 😀

I don't have much planned for today. I just plan on cleaning the house. Then after I clean the house I'm going to take Cory and Matt up to Delco Park for a walk. It has been a while since I have taken them to Delco Park.

Good morning

I have the kind of insomnia where I can fall asleep but then wake up a few hours later and can't get back to sleep. 🙁

Been up for hours now.

My To-Do list for today...
water the lilac hedge amd lawn
cook pork chops and curried rice
clean the kitchen
try to take a nap

Have the best day today you possibly can! 🙂

Hey Tillie,

Sorry to hear about your neck and head ache. 🙁

I hope it gets better soon. 🙂

We are having the outside of our house and the garage door painted brown; and all the outside doors like the front door and our 2 back doors painted white. Today the painters are working on all the doors; so the house is freezing cold right now because all the outside doors are opened. Right now Cory and Matt are playing in my room, which is the warmest room in the house, but I can't stay in there with them because I have to keep an eye on the painters. The painters do have a really good taste in music though. 😉

Good morning! 🙂

Today I need to water my trees and bushes.
It is sort of cool & breezy right now so I will wait until a little later.

Woke up with a stiff neck and a head ache.
Slept wrong.

Oh Well.....

Have a great day everybody! 😀

How nice MayMay! 🙂

The outside or the inside?
What colors?

I just came in from outside, where I was playing with Cory and Matt. Now I'm getting ready to give them a bath, and then when they get out of the bath they will probably want to take a nap. We were outside playing for over an hour this morning. While they are taking a nap I am going to wait for the painters to arrive at the house. We are getting ready to have our house painted. 🙂

Today is a cold and gloomy day. A perfect day for a movie marathon. Right now Cory and Matt are on my bed all warm and cosy under their favorite blankets. I am getting ready to pop some popcorn and then we are going to start the movie marathon by watching "The Sixth Sense." 🙂

Good morning everybody 🙂

My To-Do list for today...

clean the bathroom
wash the floors
vacuum the carpet
sweep the porches

When everything is back to how I like it I will then shampoo my hair and give myself a manicure. 🙂

Since I removed all his clutter out of the house (except his bedroom)
the house is very easy to clean.
There are no piles of stuff laying around in the way keeping me from being able to clean all areas quickly.
I don't have to spend hours to have my home clean and smelling good. I can do other things with my time.
I love having a clean home but I also hate doing housework.
It takes very little time to daily tidy up a clean house.
Never neglecting a mess is an important part of maintenance.

Have a great day everybody! 😀

Cory Chalmers has a farm

E I E I Oh 😉

I know that animals really appreciate being well taken care of.
Wishing all of them were pampered.

Today we went to 9:00am church. Got home and cleaned out our chicken coop and added fresh bedding. Now going to the feed store to buy some hay and alpha pellets for the goats. When we get back it is working in the back yard all day. The wife is helping inside doing laundry, dishes and the weekly chores. Hope to be all completed in time for the Hoarding Support Group!

Happy Sunday to you all 🙂

Hey Tillie,

Actually Matt and Cory are both really well behaved dogs. But for some reason last thursday Cory decided to run off to go look at the fish in the fish tanks at petsmart. That was the very first time one of them has ever run off. Normally they are so well behaved that sometimes I won't even put them on a leash because they always like to stay by my side and they are both really friendly. 🙂

Good morning 😀

Stayed up late last night watching some dumb movie but managed to sleep in this morning before the cats started acting up wanting their breakfast.

My hoarder is gone again today installing hand rails in the home of our elderly friend who fell down his stairs. He is home from the hospital and he is very happy to have the hand rails in his bathrooms and hallways.

Was planning on doing some burning today but there is a breeze. Even though I use covered burn barrels, I never burn when there is any kind of wind.

Going to vacuum and dust in my room. Rearrange some things just for fun.

Have a great day everyone and hope to see you in chat tonight.

MayMay,
Dogs are not like children and grounding doesn't work the same on them.

Have you checked into obedience training?
Once you are taught how to get your dogs to mind you they will be much better behaved out in public.

My hoarder used to socialize puppies so that they could be trained to be guide dogs for the blind.
He trained me in ways to train my dog better. 🙂