I have a plan and I am working the plan. The plan is step by step all the way to completion on the house and yard. That is something I couldn't face, much less plan, until now.
First priority must be keeping up appearances with the neighbors. I've had complaints and they need to be addressed first. This means keeping the front yard clear and clearing the last pile on the side yard and removing or selling 3 more trailers. No, I won't worry about the ivy or missing fascia or even the leaking roof for now. But keeping the patch of grass cut and edged, the hedge trimmed, the streets and sidewalks swept and the piles of stuff in the back yard, out of sight, must be and will be done.
Second priority is the living room because the couch is in the van and I need to empty that to get the scaffolding. The tool cart and grinder table need to go in the garage which is now ready for them. The refrigerator that is there must go into the kitchen which brings up the fourth priority.
Fourth priority is getting a usable kitchen. This means clearing and cleaning it and disposing of a refrigerator.
Fifth priority is getting hot and water running again. This requires the basement be cleared and cleaned. To do that, I need good access. That means back walk and back hall cleared. This means that the stuff I have put on the back walk from everywhere else needs final sorting, disposal and storage of the remainder. And tools in the back hall need to go in the garage. That's part of the reason I worked on the garage.
All these things work in conjunction with each other. If I had started with the basement, which I couldn't face at the time, I would still have a house crammed to the hilt and no desire to be here. It might have been a better and more efficient way to go, but this is the path chosen and it is working. I started out small and then eventually got to where I could clear and clean whole rooms at a time. That process has gotten me to where I almost have a completely clear house with every room usable. When I get to the basement (And I can't wait!), I will have a clear and presentable front and side yard, and access and use, of all the other rooms of my house. After the basement and water, heat is the priority, along with the back yard. With the house in fairly good shape, I can do this and finally have a decent place. Many fix up and organize and repair projects will remain. But we will have a decent beginning point.
Bill
I see a problem. You are still moving stuff around from here to there then from there to here. Your second priority is the living room. I thought you had that cleaned out long ago, and now you're dragging a tool cart and a grinder out of there? WTF. It will soon be coming up on the one year anniversary of when you started this thread. Almost a complete year. 283 days to be exact, 40 weeks and three days.
You have all of your priorities fucked up, plain and simple. Again you have had countless members on here that we willing to help. Physically and spiritually and willing to donate some cash. You refused. Now you go to a support group of Hoarders that are probably doing nothing but sitting around stroking each others egos.
Your problem Bill, is.......YOU kEEP MOVING **** AROUND. Throw the **** away.
Priority #1.....Get the damn roof fixed. THe ivy is slowly tearing things apart and with a roof leaking, you are ruining the house every time it rains.
Priority #2.....Get some running water and heat. In your own words
Fifth priority is getting hot and water running again.
This is from March
The basement can NOT wait. I MUST have water heater in the next month and heat by fall.
And this comes up in quite a bit of your threads
Stacked up a pile of brush and put away 15 rakes and shovels. Raked a pile of leaves. Trimmed bushes and cut up and put in trash.
You keep doing things that doesn't amount to a hill of ****. Nothing.
In life, it is almost everyones goal to own a house and make a home. That is the #1 goal of almost everyone on this planet, or at least it is in the United States. We were taught and brought up to work hard and achieve that goal. Not just me, not just the members on here, but almost everyone you meet on a daily basis. And Bill, you just take that **** for granted. Was it never a goal of yours to have a nice place. Was it a goal in life to live like filth, yet brag about things like "I have 17 trailers". What satisfaction does that give you knowing that you have that many one on hand, and on the other, everyone else things your two sandwiches shy of a picnic for having them.
And I must admit, that when you mention you are sorting things and found out that a rat has **** and pissed on the items, but it will clean up, it does make you a rather unique individual. No one else would put up with it as nonchalantly as you do. For instance, if there is a rat in my house, everything is going outside and I'm setting up shotgun watch. A mouse is bad enough, but a disease carrying rat living under my roof, EFF that.
Most people are catching on Bill. You speak and write very intelligently. You are a bright person. So when confronted by a few individuals, you write on an open forum and tell the person exactly what they want to hear, so you don't have to hear what an actual reply might be. You thrive on the replies you get like "YOU GO BILL" or "Man you're making great headway" and TAKE IT A BITE AT A TIME BILL, YOU'LL GET THERE".
And in the meantime, you continue to surf other forums, go buy some more tools, you still have 17 trailers that you can't do **** with, three of which are in your driveway, a couch stacked on top of scaffolding in a van, **** still sitting in the back yard, basement not touched, then the roof, facia, ivy, and every other little thing not mentioned. But the weather's nice, so maybe rake some leaves again today up and down the neighborhood or help the neighbor clean up his yard.
Bill, it's time for you to own up to all on here, that you have been basically bullshitting. The stuff you have done so far is way short of anything miraculous or outstanding. You cleaned a room or two, and continue to shuffle stuff around. When you need a "people fix" you come back on here after a few questions are asked about "Where's Bill been" and "Maybe the basement has swallowed him up". Then and only then do you make your presence and give them one or two things that you have done, which if it was most people doing it would only amount to about two or three hours work.
If you are real serious about getting things done, you would get them done or at least make one hell of an effort. You aren't making the effort and you know it. You refuse help, you refuse donations, and you really refuse advice or instructions on how to do it. If you look at the ones that have been giving you advice, you will also notice how they live. Tools in the garage, rakes and mowers in the shed, their refrigerators are in the kitchen along with the stove, food in the cupboards, and not covered in rat and mouse ****. But you won't listen to that type because they "don't understand".
Personally I feel kind of sorry for a person that has an affliction or sickness called "Hoarding". They hang on to every thing because they can use it for this or for that. They collect. I don't feel sorry for a person that is called "Lazy". That is the person that get done with a can of pop and leaves the can set. They get done eating off of a paper plate and leave the plate set. Their roof leaks and they'll fix it after it quits raining, but all of a sudden, it's not leaking now since the sun is out. Or the person that looks at a room that is full of trash, old papers, and more trash, then says "I'll tackle that tomorrow"
You started this thread Bill. It evolved into where it is at now. 83 pages long. 83 pages that you have stroked people by pouring your heart out, asking for help mentally so you could tackle this, argue with some because you HAVE to follow YOUR plan, and still no real headway on your part. And according to the above statement that you wrote. Still no water and no heat.
Bill....this is just a personal thought, but instead of getting yourself mixed up with conflictions of stories and contradictions of statements and people coming on here and either praising you or calling you out, for you,
wouldn't it just be easier to ask the mods to delete this thread? Then you can do what you want at your leisure and if you get something done, fine. If not, fine. But you won't be held accountable for your actions and you won't have to come up with excuses as to why you have only cleaned out a couple of rooms in a years time.
I thought mine was bad but I think you had me beat. Looks like you sure have your work cut out for you......good luck with your project.
Reminds me of a sitcom, but in this case I think it's a "sit-con". Only in America...wonder who he's voting for?? HA!
