Is how long until the removal men arrive, arrrggghhh!! Do we look anywhere near ready – no 
Miles behind it looks like on the house sorting, though the garage/shed/greenhouse/garden are moslty ready (and if you had seen the garage….). hopefully it is a bit superficial, we did have pretty good sort out before the sale, but when I go to bed I want the house pretty much ready to move. Leaving tomorrow free for final stuff, trips to tip, taking down climbing frame.
TINA – I have to exavate the loft………….
Oh god… i always think i look ready and then it turns out i’m not.
We’ve moved with removal people once and they were actually pretty good at turning up and bunging stuff into boxes.
Make up LOTS of boxes and start bunging. Put everything but a picnic sets worth of kitchen stuff into boxes, and declare the kitchen done, chuck out most of your food that ought to have been chucked ages , do the bathroom down to your toothbrushes and declare that done. Get SB to help with toys, aargh! I hate packing up houses, wish i could help.
we’ve never got round to packing properly – we allways end up just chucking stuff the the van in bin liners. The loft is the worst too arrrggghhh – you will be okay though
It always looks bad though, that last bit, where you’ve done all the main stuff and it’s all the leftovers left over.
We were 100% ready for our removal men last time we moved and felt a bit out of place with nothing to do, having farmed the kids out, but sounds like you’ve been a lot more settled in your house than we ever were in ours!
Will be thinking of you both today – don’t pack the computer down until the last minute, will you?!!
We are getting the removal men to pack up anyway (though I have packed and sorted some things, and i’ve packed the gaarge etc.) – for an extra 150 quidish it seems worth it, but it’s just sorting stuff out into some sort of order, and chucking what we can etc.It’s just the house seems to have got itself (!) it a bit of mess again lately……
helen here.
and i’m howling as i throw out SB’s projects/art etc. its like throwing her away.
Pictures! Take piccies of them, make a scrapbook….and remember that she can make you loads and loads more to fill up the new house
(((Helen)))
have pictures, just i remember soing them etc etc etc. not throwing the ones the mean the most though – hiding them in books!!
That’s nothing, in the top of my side of the wardrobe is a big stash going back to year 0….
So far in the ‘why were they kept’ list from the loft are:
3 x dead/semi functioning video recorders
1 x suitcase full of notes, photocopied journals etc. from my degree (competed 1987……..)
and i got rid of mine yonks ago – would put on halo, but any minute now chris is going to mention my sindy’s!!
anyway sittingroom/playroom sorted.
bb asleep on my lap.
my bedroom stuff next. i thi nk for me it now gets easier
3 x cuddly toys – a red Mr Man type thing, a Panda with a Sash saying ‘congratualtions’ (for what I now wonder?), a Badger. All I think belonging to me?
not mine!!
aahh, now I’ve found ?100 of travellers cheques!! [at least 12 years old]
some microscope cover slides, massess of assorted detritus of life to cry over [cards and letters from deceased etc]chopsticks from china.
rofl @ you two! We have a number of semi-defunct electrical items in our loft, Steve can’t bear to throw them away. Printers, monitors, tape decks, don’t think we have a vcr though!
My degree notes got chucked in stages each move we made, for ages I kept the teaching practice folders but threw them away last move as I realised they were way too schooly to be any use for HE!
Hope it is getting easier anyway. Do either of you like *unpacking*?!!
2 moves in 3 years made us declutter most of our crap in a fairly detached way – our reasoning was that having paid once to move it all up north, shove it in a basement for 2.5 years untouched and un-needed made it totally not worth paying to move it back down south again!
Our biggest box of stuff which will probably end up being dumped by the kids after our deaths (!) is a box of cards – early valentines, Christmas and birthday to each other going back over the last 12 years.
Of course what this really means is that although our loft is relatively clear of stuff we do have every surface in the house crammed with stuff we keep out to justify keeping it at all