General Chat

LIR, I have (amongst other things) 4 cat carrying baskets (I've got 3 cats), a dog basket and a cat basket (cat's won't use them), a box full of bubble wrap, a rabbit carrying case (I have no rabbit) and - somewhwere - a lawn mower in my shed!

Sooo embarrasing when the man comes to read the electicity meter - positioned (of course) in the cupboard under the stairs.
Have to remove the ironing board, coats, various bags hung on random hooks, etc.

In my attic I have (amongst other things) about 6 rug making kits and an enormous amount of green wool, a suitcase wih various objects in it, a bag full of fox and other random furs (from my gran's house)
A needlepoint frame with Kaffe Faset tapestry on it (jumble sale), two enormous globes (elder daughter) a vast range of original boxed Sylvanian family stuff (younger daughter), a roman blind, loads of black bags of clothes and shoes (mine & daughters), boxes of Tetley teamen, teacloths, and other artifacts(mine).
Schoolwork (both girls), uni work (mine) various Sindy-type junk - some of which is downstairs for grand daughter to play with.
Bags of curtains - I now have wooden blinds on every window - but one bag has some 1930's curtains in it!
2 years worth of schoolwork for year 5/6 from the 1980's (must find that for younger daughter - doing a PGCE in September) Historical education is so useful!! LOL
Quite a few black bags filled with various toys, a few bags full of costumes I've made through the years, and a number of empty boxes!!
Oh, and some of boxes of books!

My hubby spent several happy hours sitting on the bedroom floor the other day sorting out all his old cheque books into date order. They go back to 1966......
When I asked him why he was keeping them he suggested that our granddaughter (aged 1) may be doing family history in 50 years time and will be interested in them!
We've got a dog bed but no dog, computer manuals for machines and software that were got rid of years ago, the Haynes manual for the car before this one... the list goes on but then he tells me that I've got too much junk......

Our loft has scalextric, a train set, and boxes of toys - and we are grandparents now. When the boys come home, they go up the loft and look at their "memory" box
Liz

oh bum pressed wrong button

i was saying, i got cupboard understairs like it,
have to push door shut,
and warn , noooooooooo dont open it,

like im hiding someone

Hooray !

Daughters just found what we were looking for when we started this cupboard searching.

Now all I've got to do is tidy up and visit a few charity shops with unwanted items.

Gwyn

Ann
Why is it there?....Who knows.

OH visited there some years ago and must have been given it / bought it.
He probably tucked it away safely. I've never seen it before.
He can speak Russian, so it will make sense to him !

Gwyn

I am a little confused by the wall map of the Ukraine Gwyn!!!!! My question is...... Why????

Glad to hear I'm not the only one.

Today's finds include....

Barbie 'Well done' stickers

Mickey Mouse Wellingtons, ..child size 9

Russian fake fur hat.

Bag of baby lotion and baby talc

Various boxes of tissues...always useful

and

Wall map of the Ukraine.....in Ukranian, of course!


I have climbed into the cupboard, vacuumed it and very little is going back !

Gwyn

I spent half the weekend clearing out the cupboard in the corner of the bedroom ... yukky job as the top couple of shelves were really dusty.

Anyway, one smallish rubbish bag, 1.5 charity bags and a heap of recycling later I now have order in the cupboard and one completely clear shelf! Plus, I found a lovely little shoulder bag that I'd completely forgotten all about - that was a bit like giving myself a present as a reward!

Jill

Maggie our loft is like yours by the sound of it.
I think we can get just a few more boxes of playmobile and maybe all the starwars lego which is all built and then hard hats to the ready for falling masonary!

19 year old has clearouts of her room every month or so, how she collects so much rubbish is anyones guess.

Teresa

i have a big build in cuboard in my bedroom and i seriously need to dig it out, iv only been there a yr but it has sheets n towels on top shelf, my clothes in tubs on the bottom shelf, but the middle shelf ohh dear junk junk junk, same as under my bed, but its all stuff that may come in usfull one day lol, xxx

Steve keeps doing the larder cupboard and every time he chucks loads out how it gets in there i dont know.

Roll on them going back to school as he is goingto blitz the whole house may need a few skips lol

Did you have a sat nav to get out of your deep dark cupboard Gwyn? ;o) xx

Time to declutter folks before you get snowed under......we all hoard but it doesn't arf make you feel good when filling those charity/bin bags........but it's the stuff left by children who've left home that's the problem lol ah memories,we have 5 action men etc. still living in our loft.. now my Daughter is experiencing the joys from her boys...

Yes, but I have whole rooms, not just cupboards! We live in a house with lots of rooms, and tend to 'dump' things into one of them for 'sorting out' later. I am tackling it bit by bit and have had one car boot sale so far - where does it all come from, lol! It doesn't help that FIL keeps giving us boxes of stuff that he doesn't want.

I find it best not to start!!!

My problem(s) is(are) the attic and the cupboard under the stairs........
I know that in a few (5 ish) years the attic may be inpenetrable to me.....

OH had a bit of a clean-up in the garage and we found football boots that are at least 20 y.o. We also found old toys that we cleaned up for the grandkids. Spiderman, the Hulk etc that this generation of kids are going crazy over again.

I tidied the linen closet awhile back and found tablecloths that don't fit our "new" table that we bought 12 years ago.

Suexx

we have a rule in this house


nobody opens a cupboard unless they are wearing a hard hat

Liz
You're right....It's not all going back in, but that's by choice.

There are outgrown shoes, junior Monopoly, 3 kiddy umbrellas ( grandson is 15 ) and new wiper blades for a Toyota car ( type and model unknown)...and many more items.
Daughter is visiting tomorrow. I think her car will be full on the way home, then she can go to the boot-fair that she often mentions.

Gwyn