DH inherited a house which we now live in with our one year old. I know I'm really lucky to have this house to live in. Thing is the house is still full of stuff from the people who lived here before (DH's relatives). Every cupboard is stuffed full, all storage space is full. It's an old house and there's loads of storage. The amount of stuff is overwhelming. I've done what I can and basically emptied the cupboards we need to use but the stuff has just gone into the spare room so just kind of deferred the problem. There's also so much furniture. The room that is now our little ones bedroom had three desks, two chests, a storage cupboard and a sewing table in it! So they've gone in the spare room as well.
It's like pulling teeth getting DH to help. I'll say "we need to get rid of these desks" and he'll say things like "it's fine where it is, little one can use it when she's older". She's one! She doesn't need a massive desk any time soon. And definitely not three of them. And cleaning out the cupboards in her room I filled three large bags with towels and bedding sets (from just one half of one wardrobe) and all he could say was "can you go through it and see what we should keep". No I bloody can't. Its ancient. It smells musty. And besides, we already have our own stuff. Why do we need cupboards stuffed full of extra bedding and towels that we'll never use.
There's no point to this post. I'm just so fed up of feeling like I'm squatting in someone else's house. I don't feel like I can really hire a skip and chuck everything because DH wants to go through it all before throwing/donating but at the same time he doesn't have the time to do this.