MUSICAL JUNK – The Moves

As we are nearing the end of January 2010, my need for a major clear-out seems to have turned into a bizarre game of Musical Junk!

Move One: Start at the top and work my way down seemed like a good idea…at the time. So, I set to bringing stuff down from the loft and dumping it in the living-room and hallway, dumping long-discarded empty boxes out on the landing ready to be taken down to the recycle bin. This was going to be a major job, spread over several weeks, as I would only be able to do this when Robert was not in bed.

Move Two: Electrician turns up…can he have access to our cupboard and loft, as the council want easy access to the communal lighting and TV aerial gubbins that are currently in our flat. So, work commenced on removing the fuse box and such like and re-installing them out on the landing. Time to shift stuff out of the way so that he could work, so the cupboard got emptied into the hall! Some of the stuff that was in the hall then got dumped into the library, so that it was out of the way.

Move Three: A phone call from our former boss…do we want some deep red carpet? We said yes, and were told that there was a lot of it, as the rooms that it came from were pretty large. Where were we going to put it until we could get it laid? In the hallway! So, the stuff that had been dumped in the hall was all shifted into the living-room and library. This is fun, isn’t it!

Move four: Decision time…where is the carpet going to go? Living-room first. OK, living-room will need to be emptied, and we will need somewhere to put some of the furniture, won’t we…hence my start on a massive clear-out of the library at the weekend!  See the before and after shots of the same corner…

  

It is the impetus that I need to actually look at the crap I have collected over the years…stuff like furniture and furnishing brochures from when I did the C&G soft furnishings and upholstery course at college back in 89/90!! Scraps of paper with notes and scribbles that are no longer relevant, plus old magazines and other papery crap…all formed quite a big, and very heavy, pile for the…you guessed it!…recycle bin!

So, my work for the next week or two is to quietly sit here and sift through years of stuff and wonder why the heck I kept this, or that, and get tough. I don’t NEED to keep it. It’s all RUBBISH! THROW IT AWAY!!! 

This is the pile waiting to be vanquished… 

      

Progress reports will be added as and when…wish me luck, because I’m gonna need it…!!!