Making space

[pigletwillie]

Later this summer we are converting our loft but first need to empty it. Before I can do that I need to tidy the workshop and before I can do that I need to chop up a great pile of kindling thats sat under the sawbench. 12 Compost bags of kindling later I am just sweeping up the sawdust. Now, where do I put those 3000 jars I bought last year?

Isnt it amazing how much tat you accumulate, I have just put in my car two small tele's, 2 computor monitors and a sack full of odds and sodds not good enough to keep or worth carbooting, Next I start on the wotkbenches.

[janeyo]

I feel your pain! When we started the extension last year it felt like we were just moving stuff about from one temporary place to another. And neither OH nor I hoarde anything! But there was so much stuff.
Still not sure where lots of things got put, but if I haven't missed them by now.... lol

[Rossa]

Ever tried your local Freecycle group? I've been surprised what people will take. One man's tat is another's useful bits and bobs. And they will collect. Saves you the trip to the tip and petrol.

[SarzWix]

Oh lord, I feel your pain... Our house is just like that - before you can sort out one space, you have to sort... Ad infinitum!
I did actually clear our garage out last year, meaning to start the chain of clearance, and then the OH kindly (?!!) offered to house a mate's generator, welder and other assorted stuff after his workshop had an attempted break-in. The bl**dy things are still there now

[scarey55]

What you need is a barn! Ours is full of all sorts of tat. I daren't go too far in though in case I get stuck in there

[FionaH]

Think the upstairs of my house looks like your barn! MrH is a dreadful hoarder

[organic]

I wish you lived closer - I'd have the workbenches off you in a flash if you didn't want them. I'm in the process of setting up a workshop so it'd be very handy.
Ah well.
Good luck with the clearout.

[piskieinboots]

..Isnt it amazing how much tat you accumulate.

Not here!!

I can honestly say we are pretty much tat free, I am not a horder at all and have trained Snowdrop to let go of his squirrel tendencies

[bubblewrap]

I'm a bit of a collector books,badges,maps.
Last week I gave away 30 + Jigsaws(Charity shop) & sold my collection of NUM plates.

[pigletwillie]

I wish you lived closer - I'd have the workbenches off you in a flash if you didn't want them. I'm in the process of setting up a workshop so it'd be very handy.
Ah well.
Good luck with the clearout.

Nooo, they are built in and just need the tops clearing so that I can actually use my pillar drill and lathe.

its books that I am terrible with tons of them.

[di]

I'm on a two week mission to clear (at least some of) the tat we've both managed to accumulate.
Like Sarz though,my problem is everywhere is full so there's nowhere to put the stuff as you sort it...getting there though!(I have a tidy sideboard)

[pigletwillie]

I now have a pile of some 30 books to freecycle, lots of kindling as I have been ruthless with the wood stack and culled everything not hardwood or over a metre long, have planted my hative de niort shallots that were over wintering in the workshop, put up my secret santa next box (thanks once more), put up the speakers so now I have inside and out workshop speakers and am now in the position to go through the workbench tops and actually find homes.

As per our mantra at work, a place for everything and everything in its place.

[organic]

Ah I'm with you now pigletwillie.
I need to make a workbench in order to be able to use my lathe and pillar drill!

Good luck with it all.

[binley100]

OH has just brought home a treadmill that he got off a mate at a knockdown price.
Now he needs to get rid of the junk in the conservatoire so that we can actually use it.
Yep this house looks like Scarey' barn

[pigletwillie]

Well, some 200 paperbacks have gone to a charity shop, all the Christmas stuff is now on the workshop mezanine, all the giftwrap, labels and ribbons have their own box, the old cloths are at the Loros shop and we can now see all of the stairs up into the loft.

Wish me luck as we move into the loft proper, there are old televisions to skip, and rafts of books and other stuff to wade through.

As a bonus I have found my old hockey stick with which I got my Corps colours for playing for the Royal Engineers, that will he hung on the kitchen wall, probably with my rugby boots after Mondays op.