Can you ever have too many............

maggie I am a beginner .... respect

Oh blimey. (Sneaks off to order big skip and new backbone)

Maggie You've made me feel very minimalistic (is that the right word pedants?), but please don't give your out of date beer to anyone, as they could be really ill!

maggie will we be seeing you on tv on Hoarders any time soon?

Maggie, am I being very rude to suggest that the correct term for you would be a 'hoarder' rather than a collector? Mind you the idea of hoarding GC is quite appealing. I only have five.

I think that's the right word, Lona (but I'm not a pedant!). I am feeling very minimalistic as well, but I might upset the DC if I put the photos away.

No, you're spot on, all of you. My name is Maggiemaybe and I'm a hoarder. There must be a support group somewhere.

My saving grace is that despite having a small house we have a big cellar, with shelving, and an awful lot of plastic storage boxes. My very tidy and organised DD1 despairs every time I buy more of them at Wilkos. I'm afraid the other 2 take after me!

I don"t think you need more than 6 pairs of knickers.
FGS , you can only wear one pair at a time !

When I go on holiday I take three pairs , and rinse through !!

I've just found this thread.

I see Grumpa lives in London and has too much champagne.

I'm a caring person and am on standby to help him with his problem.

As for other stuff - books, great grandfather's books, grandfather's books, father's books and my books. Floor to ceiling, double stacked reproducing like triffids.

A fabric store waiting to be stitched. But patterns are so expensive now and I'm no longer a size 6. So there's all the old patterns too.

A fair few scarves - they date back forty years - and a shed full of wood which might come in useful for bat boxes or bug boxes or toy chests or.....

I might have rather too many containers in my garden.
Today I bought another bucket! I now have seven.

One old orange bucket I bought for my babies nappies in 1977.
Two red floor mop buckets. One of those was my parents.

One new clean white bucket for soaking washing, washing windows etc.

Today I added another black bucket from B&Q it was one pound.

I now have three of the B &Q black buckets which are strictly for garden use. I can fully justify three garden buckets.

There are also a couple of cracked and handle-less buckets which have garden tools or mud in them.

Probably at least four watering cans only two of which are any use.

Two water buts one storing plant pots.
Four black dustbins in which compost gets stored. One of those was my parents.
Three old washing up bowls!
There might also be two or three old pots that once contained emulsion or shed paint.

I have to say the orange nappy bucket must have been made of a far more robust plastic than any of the newer ones. It coped with over four years of stinking Nappisan solution and smelly nappies.

The three wheelie bins are the councils.

Do I need help?

I thought you meant containers for plants, nelliem, and was going to ask if you had a nelliemoser growing in one

Odd earrings. The cheap every day sort. Can't bring myself to throw them away just in case the pair turns up.

DH finds it hard to throw anything away unless it's completely, beyond redemption worn up and in pieces. He just leaves things by/near/on top of the bin for me to throw out!

If odd earrings are dangly ones, I use them as decorations on my small Christmas tree. Being on my own, I don't bother with a full sized tree.

That's a good idea. I have a notion to turn them into a bracelet - one day!

Pop socks which are knee high, pop socks which are ankle length, popsocks which are known as footsies, sadly few match. Occasionally I get a big handful of them, stick them in a poly bag and dump them in the dustbin.

Oh and a selection of brightly coloured socks.