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[Siobhan Shadow]

My husband is not a hoarder but my ex was, man oh man what a mess three garages, basement, attic full and started on the living area I could not handle that. I don't waste but to keep stuff to put into storage to never use seems like wasting to me. Maybe I am wrong, but it's a waste not to use too.

[srobins96]

All of what we have we use, but I am thinking that perhaps it is time to pass some of it one..the stuff we use not too often

SUE

[Siobhan Shadow]

A true hoarder is a person who collects stuff for the sake of not tossing it out. They never use it, it just goes into storage or they put it in there homes and their it sits. That is what a hoarder is. It's not using any of it that makes the hoarder. LOL HeeHeeHee.

[handy]

My name is Pat and I'm an embroideraholic. I confess to collecting more designs every chance I get, as well as digitizing daily.
My friends want to know when I'm going to find time to sew out all the designs.
You're supposed to sew them, too?
I'll never live long enough.
Pat

OH, how well I can relate to this.........Sad part is I have much of the fabric to go along with many of the designs. Designs by Sick are coming out with so many new ones, which gets the mind going even more.

[Siobhan Shadow]

Fabric is different. There is always a use for fabric from patching to embroidery. LOL

[boblynn55]

Oh good! From what I am reading I may be a embroidery addict, but I am not a hoarder. I was begining to think I was a hoarder. My mother has claimed I was one since I was little.

I come from a family where my mom doesn't save anything. Not a week after dad died and she was giving away or tossing his things away. At least she did give some special things to each child, grandchild, or great grand. I had to convince her to save something that smelled like dad. He died last May. The other day she said "I am glad you convinced me to save those shirts. Last night I just missed hime so, I went and got his shirt and hugged it all night." Some things are good because of the memories they keep.

Lynn

[Siobhan Shadow]

I am so sorry to hear about your father passing away. I am sure no one here meant you should not keep items for keep sakes. Even I have a keep sake of my mothers. Again I am sorry to hear about your father. Siobhan

[boblynn55]

Actually I am a really good saver and I happen to live in a former 45 room hotel (not at all being used as a hotel) with a total of about 15,000 square feet for our living quarters and 6,000 for our business on the main floor. We also have two dirt floor basements that are 120' X 32'. Those are not typos. So I have the potential for lots of space for organized storage. But, you know what people say about stuff? -- It expands to fit the size of your house!

Unfortunately, we have been doing this project debt free and using as much of the original trims as possible so it is very slow process. We have been at it for 10 years. Our business is done, our main living area (2 beds, 2 baths, breakfast room, sitting room, laundry room, and kitchen), we just finished a one bedroom apartment for my mom (it is about 1200 square ft.) and are almost done with a guest suite. The rest of the place has been taken to the stud walls.

Mom's living room and dining room used to be my sewing room and craft area. Her kitchen and bathroom are where I kept my stash. Now my stash and craft supply is on shelves in the Ballroom (on the third floor) and I use the Music room (on the second floor) for sewing. I have stud walls with plastic over the insulations, extension cords and 125 year old floors that catch every thread and give splinters if you go barefoot --- but I have a place to leave sewing out and available when I am.

After putting the engineered flooring in my mom's apartment my husband said we could get some cheap variety to put on the floor in the sewing room. So I have to take apart this set up in a couple of weeks to do that. That should make things a little better. The old floors are impossible to clean and if I drop something it becomes covered with dust. It's an adventure to say the least!

[Siobhan Shadow]

I would love to live on the first floor of a hotel. Changing it around to make a home. Removing walls putting in kitchen, sewing room, craft room. It would be super. Siobhan

[boblynn55]

Our first floor is retail and other than the original restaurant was always retail, the hotel lobby and 45 guest rooms were on the second and third floor. Very steep stairs so since I have a spinal cord injury we installed an elevator. We have a bookstore on the main floor with a tea room at the back of it. We also have our publishing company offices and our warehouse on the main floor. We're in a little town of just 1500 people. It is an ideal situation -- no traffic jams more time for my embroidery addiction. lol

[matistsat]

Actually I am a really good saver and I happen to live in a former 45 room hotel (not at all being used as a hotel) with a total of about 15,000 square feet for our living quarters and 6,000 for our business on the main floor. We also have two dirt floor basements that are 120' X 32'. Those are not typos. So I have the potential for lots of space for organized storage. But, you know what people say about stuff? -- It expands to fit the size of your house!

Unfortunately, we have been doing this project debt free and using as much of the original trims as possible so it is very slow process. We have been at it for 10 years. Our business is done, our main living area (2 beds, 2 baths, breakfast room, sitting room, laundry room, and kitchen), we just finished a one bedroom apartment for my mom (it is about 1200 square ft.) and are almost done with a guest suite. The rest of the place has been taken to the stud walls.

Mom's living room and dining room used to be my sewing room and craft area. Her kitchen and bathroom are where I kept my stash. Now my stash and craft supply is on shelves in the Ballroom (on the third floor) and I use the Music room (on the second floor) for sewing. I have stud walls with plastic over the insulations, extension cords and 125 year old floors that catch every thread and give splinters if you go barefoot --- but I have a place to leave sewing out and available when I am.

After putting the engineered flooring in my mom's apartment my husband said we could get some cheap variety to put on the floor in the sewing room. So I have to take apart this set up in a couple of weeks to do that. That should make things a little better. The old floors are impossible to clean and if I drop something it becomes covered with dust. It's an adventure to say the least!

I understand this is a long term project. I have a good friend who bought a "fallen down" castle ... no donjon () but a huge property and put almost all his money into the buying. He borrowed the needed money for buying all the stuff needed for building from tiles to bricks etc...

He rebuilt himself with little help but no huge company with cranes etc ... he rented the big equipment when he needed them and carried on with only 1 or 2 helps from roof to basement - swimming pool included !!!

He made a really good job of it and rents rooms (only 5) as a guest house + a "gîte" (small flat) and does a pretty good business out of it.

Now he has not much to do ... he sells gypsy mobile homes !!!

So I understand it is not easy to live with !

[boltonia51]

Wow it sounds like 10 years of dream making.What a wonderful setup! Slow and steady will bring you what you truely want. An ideal home with the one of a kind tailor made sewing studio.....I love it!!!!!

Verne

[Siobhan Shadow]

I agree 10 years of dreams worth living. I am so jelly! Siobhan

[tndenim]

That sounds so cool Boblynn55. Imagine having all that space. But you are right - seems the bigger the space - the more you collect - lol.

I used to do contract work and travelled from place to place with a small pickup and everything I owned would fit in it. Now - I'd need to moving vans just to clear out the junk - lol.

[Siobhan Shadow]

I think all the cleaning that would have to be done I will just keep my 5 bedroom house. I do have a dressing room too. Down stairs is lg. bathroom, kitchen lg living room office and then sewing room. Can't complain. LOL Siobhan

[KarenJay]

All that cleaning!! We are going to be doing some renovations on our house soon and will replace all the windows - expected cost is around $20,000 for our 5 bedroomed home - now get this!! my husband has priced a job for new windows to go into a house and the windows only cost $750,000!!!! I have seen the front of the designer house and I can only describe it as "a castle" - think of all the cleaning!!!

[msk123392]

sure wish i could find a hotel like yours to buy and live in!we are currently looking for a place to buy so we can get out of this high priced rental.i would need a room for sewing and fo course one for fabric.then one for scrapbooking and all that goes with that.one for my daughters new found love,nail polish! one for my husbands love, computers and his school work- he teaches 5th grade. then a bath for me, one for my husband,2-3 for my daughter,room for all her make-up!!! and a room for my baby's ,foxy and ginger,and haley!(2 dogs,1 cat) so we need something large,energy efficent,fair shape,(my husband is a great carpenter! ) and diffently lowest cost possible!! other than that any old thing will do! lol

[motoandnutty]

boblynn, you have taken my passion for re-cycling to the next level! What a dream your home sounds. All that SPACE to use. And to be able to design it to suit your needs - bliss!
I re-made my (tiny by comparison) three bedroom semi when we moved in a couple of years ago. (Almost single-handed with NO money) because it had been trashed by the previous occupants to such an extent that there was no electricity meter, no safe electricity circuit, no doors, rotten floor boards, broken conservatory roof, and leaking bathroom (the whole bathroom leaked - not just the bath!). And the garden was a mountain of discarded furniture, fittings and general household rubbish. (When I cleared the garden I found two large ponds that had been totally filled in with rubbish! I re-lined one and it is now teaming with wild life and water plants, and the other I emptied and filled in with new top soil to make a very productive vegetable garden)
Because it was to be home for just my daughter and myself I was able to spread my craft work ALL over the place, so that projects don't have to be put away mid-working, but now I am having to re-jig everything as my daughter's boyfriend needs a home, so good bye to my 'sewing room'. It is HARD to shrink things down - and SO EASY to expand to fit the space you have available!

[windstar]

That's a whole lot of work and how many people will it take to clean it on a weekly basis. I'm tired already.

Molly

[Siobhan Shadow]

I started spring cleaning. Got the kitchen done, sewing-office room done- living room done, and today it is a disaster out side, snowing, blowing, can't see 100 yards and snow drifting up so far to 6 feet. I hate March! Siobhan