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De-cluttering

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Madmeg Sun 30-Dec-18 00:13:16

How do I get my OH to declutter? He has his own bedroom and an ante-room and they are full of stuff. So full that I'd be embarrassed to admit a doctor if he were ill. He has stuff all over the floors and worktops, all over the bed. He has four coffee tables, several half-dead plants, artificial flower displays (he says they make the room look cheerful), a rusty exercise bike he has never used, you can barely get to the bed for stuff, and it hasn't been cleaned in years. He cherishes an old telly and CD player that is never used, a broken printer, five table lamps, a full-size electronic keyboard he never plays. Most of the wardrobes and drawers are inaccessible cos he has stuff stashed in front of them, and open up the wardrobe doors and they are full of old video tapes, with little room for clothes. I try to dress him decently but his good clothes are thrown on the floor. It's like living with a teenager but he's 72!!!

Should I just put up with it as he points out that they are "his" rooms and aren't impinging on the household?

Meg

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Lumarei Mon 31-Dec-18 20:58:23

In fact just reading and writing about this subject makes me want to declutter even though I declutter all the time at least 3 times a year.

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GabriellaG54 Tue 01-Jan-19 01:16:33

I can't abide mess and clutter, cabinets stuffed with ornaments, shelves and mantlepieces groaning under the weight of bric-a-brac and piles of papers and magazines in old fashioned magazine racks.
Imagine all the cleaning (or not) that it entails and it's stuff which is rarely picked up and admired after the flush of any new purchase wears off.
I like a clean, dust, pet-hair and clutter free environment. grin

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PageTurner Tue 01-Jan-19 06:56:21

An excellent post*Tillybelle*. You've put a different perspective on the subject of "hoarding". By the way, I dislike the word intensely. And I am not by any means a keeper of "stuff". I have moved many times in my life, each time disposing of personal items, furniture and an assortment of items I wish I could have kept. Now, at the age of 70, I have to begin thinking of again downsizing so my children won't have a monumentous job tackling my personal items at the end of my life.. Ah, it does keep me busy constantly sorting through drawers and closets.

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