Monday 27 May 2013

Four days down, too much to go!

My last post was about my little secret. Maybe not a little secret anymore, my hoarding is getting too much.

Day one (Friday) started off badly. I wasn't feeling good so had a nap when the girls went to school. My "nap" turned into 3 hours sleep, I finally got out of bed at 11.15am when I had originally planned to be up and ready to tackle the smallest bedroom at 9.30am. A big fat OOOPS! By the time I'd sorted the boys with their brunch (which consisted of toast and a bowl of cereal for J, he's going through a faze where he has to have two different cereals in the same bowl, this morning he had coco pops and shreddies, and Baby B had his normal bottle, full to the top.) it was almost 1pm. I had 2 and a half hours until the girls were due home and another hour on top until we had to go out.

Stood in the doorway, I wished someone or something would give me an excuse to not start this now. I look at the pile of junk just in the doorway. How on earth was I going to sort through it all? We had 8 years worth of clutter, stuff I didn't even remember we had, books unread, cds unlistened, and I don't know what else!

I thought to myself, If I don't start now, it'll never get done. So, I picked up a black bag and began filling it. It didn't take me that long either. Over the three days, up until yesterday, I spent about 3 hours in there each day. Once I got past the stuff we had put in there before Christmas, and after (tree and decorations!), it was quite empty. There were three big boxes of stuff which we had from the move that we'd never got round to emptying so I just put the stuff straight into a rubbish bag. 9 black bags full and numerous pieces of wood later, all that's left in there now is a table and two 2-seater sofas. And I can't move them until tomorrow when the Mr has a day off work.

Now onto the kitchen cupboards........


7 comments:

  1. Now how did you feel after starting to sort it out?

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  2. Much better! It just saddens me to see the pile of "everything old" out the front waiting to be taken away. I'm terrible for keeping sentimental things and hate knowing there is stuff out there that were the girls first whatever - books, videos etc.

    But at least I now have some space to work with!

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  3. Sounds like you are off to a good start! :) It can be difficult, especially when you have a lot to sort through, it's sometimes hard to know where to start! I tend to start clearing out & organising & then lose motivation & stop half way! I bought some new plastic storage boxes recently when feeling enthusiastic, ready to sort things into to go under our bed but I must admit that I haven't quite finished the sorting and now have 3 empty boxes laying around! Oops! Am going to try to get some more done tomorrow!

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  4. Well done, I bet you feel loads better for it. I could do with having a good sort out like that too.

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  5. I'm so impressed that you did it!

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  6. we often have to have a good sort out, once we can't close cupboard doors we have to have a clear out to make room for the next couple of months and then we do it all over again!

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  7. we regularly have a sort out, as soon as we can't shut the cupboard doors we have a sort out, however a few months later we seem to back at square one!

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