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Now I have started to feel like coming back to life at last and we have been making little inroads into our domestic shambles we are making some wonderful discoveries.
My OH is the Big Heaper, carefully trained by his mother, The Mighty Heaper. She puts curtains over her heaps and has diligently filled several rooms in that way but I have forbidden him the use of the curtain!
My approach is just about opposite, I have cupboards and drawers that are immaculate in a home resembling a chicken house.
Anyway, we have been deconstructing heaps of late, the latest has been the one around the cupboards in the place between the kitchen and wet room. My stick blender needs replacing because all the attachments have broken but , oh joy, there was another one I had forgotten about in his heap, and a telephone I must have bought when Fred was alive to use if the power was off.
Then there was the M&S gift set with a bottle of beer, a jar of chutney AND a piece of extra mature cheddar best by Jan 2015, which neither of us can remember and which I am wondering if it might have been a Christmas present o Fred from one of his hand maidens.
Plastic bloody boxes galore. I probably told him I wanted to keep a couple once. That happened when I decided to keep one or two jars outside for when I made jam. We ended up with something resembling the municipal bottle dump with, Marmite jars and beer bottles and all sorts by my back door.
Wash down the cupboards, brace myself to chuck away some and then put it back tidy.
I am going to feel so much better when all his heaps are unheaped and we have space again (not that we had much before!).
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Good luck with unheaping the heaps!
I'm currently actually entering the second bedroom :-S
The door to this has twice been rendered unclosable, thanks to removal men :-|
I managed to close it, then preferred to forget it.
Now has come the time to decorate it.
In this room is/were a deconstructed day bed, (IKEA), in the wrong place, minus it's sides and back.
4 small chests of drawers, each with a dolls house, or half a dolls house on, a shelving unit, and cupboards, a victorian desk, wardrobe, bedside table, 6ft long shelf, in need of putting up, a mirror (also needs a home), 3 bookcases,and boxes - loads of boxes - one containing the other half of doll's house.
The room is 7'6 by 13ft! The day bed is 7ft 4 x 3ft when closed.
I've managed to move 2 chests of drawers, and a dollls house into the shed, and a dolls house into the living room, with the help of a coffee table on wheels.
3 bookcases and books are cluttering the living room, as are the sides and back of the bed, the 6ft shelf, and loads of boxes.
I have, however, managed to paint one and three quarter walls, and about a sixth of the ceiling.
I am currently trying to move the bed around, then I should be able to put the back and sides on, and paint that wall. Moving it may take some time, as it's 7'4 length is squeezed against the 7'6 wall, it's not on wheels, there's only me, and there's not a lot of room for manoeuvre. I shall have another go tomorrow!
On the plus side, I'm entertaining the couple across the road! :-D :-D :-D
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You're both doing brilliantly, tidying your home and making room. It's hard work for both of you for different reasons; Sharron, because she's only just getting on top of things after her "go slow", and Maggie because there's only herself to move heavy furniture. Well done to you both and I really hope you enjoy the end results of your hard work when you can stand back and admire it.
My very best wishes to you both. XX
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Thank you, Kay.
I forgot to mention in my 'piece', when Sharron said she'd found another blender, it reminded me that, on sorting out a box of last minute 'Oh, I'll shove it in this box and sort it later', I found the old screwdriver I use for stirring paint - after painting over half the bungalow!
Sharron's job is harder than mine, mine's purely logistical.
If I get bored/tired trying to move the bed,it's in a position where I can squeeze the stepladder in,cover the bed, rub the wall down and paint it, and part of the ceiling - one of the advantages of painting everything white!.
I can then have copious cups of tea while it dries, and cover the window, thus depriving dog walkers and those over the road of entertainment! :-D
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But I do have my long implement for painting ceilings and dealing with things on top of cupboards.
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Hubby is a hoarder and it drives me mad, his shed has so much stuff in it that there is only just enough room to move around in it. I am the opposite and don't keep things "just in case" they either go to charity shop, the tip or someone that really needs it/them.
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I admit to having a lot of stuff - I call it 30 years of accumulation.
My worst 'collection' is books.
I have 2 IKEA 'Liatorp' bookcases, and 1 'Hemnes' cabinet 'double banked' with books, plus 3 other bookcases, and boxes.
The 'Liatorps' and 'Hemnes' are in position, with books in, but no doors attached yet, as I'll have to empty and move them to put the flooring down, and put the back in one, that the removal men somehow managed remove!
I also have 14 matching lidded boxes with craft stuff, but mainly genealogy stuff in.
I can't throw out the wartime letters, love letters, cards going back to 1872 etc that granny held on to. Then there are the genealogy folders :-S
How many people have a working 1920's HMV record player, and Victorian piano stool containing 78's?
Says she, who is sat at her g granny's 'bespoke' (ie, I've never seen another one like it!) sewing table :-D :-D
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Sharron, I've found a paint spatter roller shield invaluable!
I don't only use it for ceilings, I use it on the walls!
Any spatter on the floor etc has come off my brush
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Rer emember when I used to make a poor old man who had lost the use of one of his hands do my washing up? Well, he used to get his own back by tipping egg cups and cutlery into the bin.
Because of this, I bought a big, very cheap set of cutlery from Argos. Most of that was still on the top of the cupboard so it has been given to the village group who have started a little tea hut at the recreation ground.
OH can't tell the difference between a shed and a corner. He currently has a heap in the wet room, the shower part. He also has the shed the Burma Star Association bought for me full of God Knows What. I would like to use that shed as a study, especially as I have had it wired for light and heat.
Then we come to the front bedroom, we sleep in the back because I would rter look out at the gardens than at the road.I really must get all his bags and boxes unpacked so I can have it as a craft room or a place to go when he is watching the spitting!.
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