Our husbands are secret hoarders – we battle COMPOST & old school notes – and that’s not weirdest thing we’ve found
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TWO thirds of us declutter in January. But for some, getting rid of rubbish isn’t so simple. Lynsey Clarke reports. TANYA GOLD, 51, a writer from London, says:. I LOVE my husband Andrew, 49, but I do not love his stuff, which moves around the house like snowdrifts.
![[A woman organizing a cluttered garage.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/mature-woman-springs-action-whilst-963520630.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
I hate it!. It is only when we bought a house together that it became unmanageable. He drops things – Diet Coke cans, letters, shoes – where he is and can’t throw anything away. There are hundreds of books that he has read lining the walls, and he still has every piece of clothing he has ever owned.
![[Tanya Gold and her husband in a clothing store.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/tanya-gold-husband-963520737.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
There’s a cupboard just for trousers with holes in them, another for what I think is fancy dress, gardening implements many of which don’t work, and DIY implements that are rusty. He has three saws, none of which can actually cut anything. Every tin of paint he has ever bought, most of which are empty. His childhood books and paintings.
![[Messy room with toys and belongings scattered on a table and floor.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/tanya-gold-husband-andres-messy-963503965.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Some random compost, which lives in the hall. A broken telescope. Tents. Of course, he is holding on to something but I can’t gauge what because the stuff is speaking for him. I would mind less if it were in the attic, but it is in cupboards and under beds, gathering dust or exploding out of drawers.
![[Messy living room with items on a sofa.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/tanya-gold-husband-andres-messy-963503960.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
I have to fight with multiple drawers, most too full to close, to cook supper. If I secretly throw away one can opener (we have three) another appears, like a spell designed to drive me mad. Every house has a “man drawer”. My whole house is a man drawer.
![[Mel Fallowfield and her husband.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/mel-fallowfield-husband-963520728.jpg?strip=all&w=710)
