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Dec 2018
1:12pm, 21 Dec 2018
16,968 posts
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Columba
I don't take hotel toiletries either, - possibly partly because OH did, and as he was in the travel business we had masses and masses of them, and I got fed up with all these silly little bits of soap etc.
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Dec 2018
6:56pm, 21 Dec 2018
19,303 posts
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Lizzie W
Your local GP surgery or friendly teacher will have those pens off you!
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Dec 2018
7:25pm, 21 Dec 2018
9,788 posts
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Garfield
Hmmm, that sounds like an idea! I have too many pens at home...and hubby keeps on bringing me more pens from various law firms that he visits.
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Dec 2018
8:46pm, 21 Dec 2018
6,115 posts
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Hark the Helegant Angels Sing
A local woman near Bedford collects the little freebies and samples and makes up parcels for homeless people and those in the refuges to use.
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Dec 2018
9:55pm, 21 Dec 2018
37,486 posts
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alpenrose
Never thought of that one Helegant, I'll start collecting on my travels now. 
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Dec 2018
1:19pm, 28 Dec 2018
40,106 posts
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Velociraptor
I've set about Fellmouse's wardrobe today. She's only going to come back to visit, and when she visits she's not going to want to sort out the clothes she didn't take with her when she left and hasn't wanted us to send to her.
Enough so far for two well-filled bin bags to the charity shop, a bundle of t-shirts that are only fit to be bike rags, and one half-full shelf of shorts, tops and hoodies that she or I might wear. And I haven't started on the underwear or the hanging-up things yet.
I've got a notion of reorganising the house so that the sofa bed can go into a bedroom and the bike boxes and suitcases can come out of a bedroom, but that depends on whether or not the sofa bed can be carried upstairs.
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Dec 2018
8:35am, 29 Dec 2018
6,137 posts
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Hark the Helegant Angels Sing
Sproglet and I bought a joint present for Sprog of some time with a professional declutterer. We thought that a set time in her diary with a neutral third party might just kick-start a process that she struggles to fit in between running a very busy life.
I'll e clearing my Dad's house and it really underlines how sentimentally attached we are to our own stuff, whereas in someone else's home it is just 'stuff'.
My current best tip is to photograph the goods and then get rid of them. The photos can still trigger the memories without the item being there.
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Dec 2018
2:27pm, 29 Dec 2018
1,272 posts
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Silvershadow
I still have boxes of my Dad’s stuff. Although it means nothing to me it did to him and therefore I am struggling to get rid 4 years later.
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Dec 2018
10:34pm, 29 Dec 2018
6,138 posts
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Hark the Helegant Angels Sing
I was quite intruiged to see what Dad had left out for people to see and what he had put away out of sight. Also saddened to see some items of value have vanished from the house in the last year - was one of his helpers light-fingered?
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Dec 2018
8:54am, 30 Dec 2018
702 posts
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um
[Helegant - going back quite a few years, I know my grandfather was giving everything away in his last year or so. The family nearly all resisted - but I assume any helpers or neighbours would need to have been angels to keep turning 'gifts' down.]
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