Don't we all just love.....

"To hoard?!"

"All those scraps of our lives, denoting this or that event, a party, an examination, Passing-Out Parade or Graduation, and all the rest!"

To Daisy, these things are the stuff of life, and her life.  The treasured memories gathered over the years, are reminders of the special things you've done or experienced.  They're signposts to your life for others to pick up on and hold onto...one day when.

Dates and details are signposts but the little scraps, the programmes, the dance cards, invitations and school time-tables are the stuff of legend. Your legend and you have every right to hold on to them.  Fill up the scrapbooks, the photo albums, the discs, the memory sticks and the external hard drive.  Your future needs them and your grandchildren, and children, will one day lovingly look back on them and be thankful for your hoarding instinct.

How can you decide between different events, different details?  Well, Daisy doesn't think you can, and why should you?  It's your life and your decision as to what to keep. 

"Keep everything!" says Daisy "or rue the day somebody encouraged you to discard your hoarded possessions".

Of course, intelligent storage  is required for we all have such little space these days, and there are so many people who need to retain possession of their treasured belongings.  And there are books and tapes and DVD and videos and books....aah books; surely they're old friends?  How can you part with these?  The answer is, of course, with the greatest of difficulty, as with anything else you love to cherish and possess.

But there is hope for all of us hoarders for, according to Christopher Middleton of The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, 8th August 2012, whose article cites researchers' claims that hoarders are affected by "abnormal activity in the anterior cingulate cortex" when asked to affect a clear-out session.  According to "scientists at the Institute of Living, in Hartford, Connecticut", hoarders have an "inbuilt disability when it comes to decision-making and categorisation issues".

"Ah ha, we just can't decide what to discard, so we keep everything!" quips Daisy.

Daisy recommends dating every document, naming and dating every photographically captured face, place,  landscape and view, and holding on to as many family letters, birthday cards and holiday postcards as time and ability allows.


"It's your life and your right to hold onto what ever connects you to your past".

We all possess old and undated and nameless photographs  and  wonder why our family members omitted to add the necessary details; and isn't it sad to see such memorabilia discarded because of that lack.

Daisy is the self-appointed family historian and her children are always eager to hear of some fascinating detail she has unearthed through her researches.

Happy hoarding!!!


Daisy