I'm trying not to put off the job till tomorrow @Ben, but it's getting harder. Got another 3 boxes of glasses to go, 3 umbrellas, a board game (the Ludo one doesn't have all the counters so that will be binned), two cut glass bowls and sundry other items. That's the kitchen cupboards done, the sideboard is next, then other rooms in turn. I'm pinning OH to the spot asking him to choose which things he wants to keep. We've agreed his family heirlooms will go back to his family if he dies first. Not sure about mine, my kids don't seem bothered.
Packing up stuff to move has honed our decisions to keep or get rid of. That, plus the fact that our next home will be significantly smaller.
I found a copy of the first edition of the newspaper Insurance Day, plus the first years edition. Will they be worth anything? I doubt it, so we'll probably use them to wrap glasses, etc.
If I find out I could have got a good price for them, then my wife will laugh.
We're hoping to move soon too so have been "decluttering" ruthlessly. I volunteer in our local Hospice shop and have been taking books, bric a brac and clothes. Even if the people sorting the donations deem them unsuitable for sale they can still get money for rags, books to pulped or scrap metals. It doesn't feel quite so wasteful if someone else decides your "stuff" is really just "junk".
We're hoping to move soon too so have been "decluttering" ruthlessly. I volunteer in our local Hospice shop and have been taking books, bric a brac and clothes. Even if the people sorting the donations deem them unsuitable for sale they can still get money for rags, books to pulped or scrap metals. It doesn't feel quite so wasteful if someone else decides your "stuff" is really just "junk".
Certainly much of our declutter has gone to charity shops. We're now getting rid of our stereo, in order to obtain a smaller one. So, there will be no record player. That means I have to get rid of my beloved records!! CD replacements don't always have the same tracks on them, or the same appeal. But who wants to buy records nowadays?
Another of those urgent things to do - make a list of the records, so to buy CDs.
We have a regular group of record collectors who rummage through the records, some of the more obscure 60's and 70's are apparently highly sort after. The likes of Val Doonican and Shirley Bassey are not quite the same.
There's a market stall near here that sells old records, CD s etc. There's always a few people rummaging. I've sent off for one of those plastic crate efforts for storing photos. I'll be able to dump the bulky albums and the big container of unsorted packets of photos. Many, I'm sure, will be of people and places that I can't identify - so they'll go too
I've just boxed up my stereo to get rid of. I wonder if I could get a good price, since it's in the original boxes!? We've had it for 25-30 years. I think.
Our loft is stacked with original cardboard boxes for 'just in case'.
Not a chance, @Lizzie27 I have no brothers - but two sisters, neither of whom are hoarders I have kept so much stuff 'just in case' - and mostly it has come in useful. Old boxes (case in point, with polystyrene), are just the beginning. I have most of the carpet off-cuts from over the years. These will do for packing material. In fact, I've already used some. Shoe boxes in great numbers have been used, and boxes that are too big for packing, get cut up for packaging. Spare rolls of wallpaper. Leftover pieces of pipe insulation. Odd pieces of wood - including roof beams being thrown out by a neighbour. Ditto real slates from roofs. Old tiles - roofing and bathroom. Even leftover sand and bricks from when insurance paid for a wall knocked down by an errant driver. It's not a surprise my wife goes crazy sometimes. Another Liz!! 😁😁
Putting my still unsorted photos in my new box which arrived today, it has become clear to me that I was wrong. The photos that matter are the ones of people - not the pretty landscape ones. The landscape subject is likely to survive forever, but people don't. It also made me glad that my precious photos are a physical entity and not in the cloud . I've dumped photos of people I never liked, people and places I don't recognise. I've yet to get to the bulky albums. There was a time when my hair had a colour and I didn't have wrinkles , dogs, cats , old gardens - who knows what actually ended up in the albums. I will find out tomorrow.
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I echo B3, enjoy the memories now.
I found a copy of the first edition of the newspaper Insurance Day, plus the first years edition. Will they be worth anything? I doubt it, so we'll probably use them to wrap glasses, etc.
If I find out I could have got a good price for them, then my wife will laugh.
I volunteer in our local Hospice shop and have been taking books, bric a brac and clothes. Even if the people sorting the donations deem them unsuitable for sale they can still get money for rags, books to pulped or scrap metals. It doesn't feel quite so wasteful if someone else decides your "stuff" is really just "junk".
We're now getting rid of our stereo, in order to obtain a smaller one. So, there will be no record player. That means I have to get rid of my beloved records!! CD replacements don't always have the same tracks on them, or the same appeal. But who wants to buy records nowadays?
Another of those urgent things to do - make a list of the records, so to buy CDs.
I've sent off for one of those plastic crate efforts for storing photos. I'll be able to dump the bulky albums and the big container of unsorted packets of photos. Many, I'm sure, will be of people and places that I can't identify - so they'll go too
We've had it for 25-30 years. I think.
Our loft is stacked with original cardboard boxes for 'just in case'.
I have no brothers - but two sisters, neither of whom are hoarders
I have kept so much stuff 'just in case' - and mostly it has come in useful.
Old boxes (case in point, with polystyrene), are just the beginning.
I have most of the carpet off-cuts from over the years. These will do for packing material. In fact, I've already used some.
Shoe boxes in great numbers have been used, and boxes that are too big for packing, get cut up for packaging.
Spare rolls of wallpaper. Leftover pieces of pipe insulation. Odd pieces of wood - including roof beams being thrown out by a neighbour. Ditto real slates from roofs. Old tiles - roofing and bathroom. Even leftover sand and bricks from when insurance paid for a wall knocked down by an errant driver.
It's not a surprise my wife goes crazy sometimes.
Another Liz!!
😁😁
It also made me glad that my precious photos are a physical entity and not in the cloud .
I've dumped photos of people I never liked, people and places I don't recognise. I've yet to get to the bulky albums.
There was a time when my hair had a colour and I didn't have wrinkles , dogs, cats , old gardens - who knows what actually ended up in the albums. I will find out tomorrow.