Loft? What do you keep

[TheOpalFox]

What does everyone keep in the loft please

Seasonal decorations. Boxes for large/expensive electrical items. Extra dining room chairs (for when the table is extended). Suitcases. Kids clothes for the youngest to grow into. Decorating equipment. Memory boxes from when the kids were babies / I was a kid. DHs huge CD collection. Approx. a years supply of: toilet roll, kitchen roll, fairy liquid, laundry detergent and softener, dishwasher tablets, bleach, cleaning liquid, shampoo, conditioner, soap and toothpaste. Assorted boxes and baskets that I use when organising spaces (always come in handy).

My loft is massive, and also a source of pride because it’s v tidy and organised!!

I think we may have tap dancing squirrels in our loft.

If you live near the Chilterns you may have glis glis up there.

A relative of mine has those living in their house. It is an absolute nightmare.

Benjamin Button has nothing on me!

Suitcases, Christmas decs. Loads of shit I don’t know about and my husband has put up there.

When my parents died I was so grateful that their loft had nothing in it.

The door to Narnia

Nothing. My parents have 40-odd years worth of crap in their loft that they should have thrown out years ago so I swore ours was not going to become a dumping ground. Plus I hate going up there.

Our family spell book.

Christmas decorations.
The boxes/polystyrene for stuff like TVs etc that needs to be returned in the original packaging if there is an issue.
Toys that are no longer played with, but hold sentimental value and/or nice enough to be passed on down the family at some point.

Suitcases,
skiing equipment
baby stuff like travel cot
old clothes currently too big for youngest child
stuff to sell on vinted
christmas Easter and Halloween decs
misc stuff like flippers and snorkel
spare duvets and pillow

NB this is a new build and it’s storage not loft (eg nothing would be damp or cold in here)

Xmas decorations
camping gear
suitcases
clothes to diet into
empty Lego boxes

Not going to Google whatever that is 🫣 luckily nowhere near the Chilterns.

Christmas decorations

Spare parts and packaging for things like TVs that might be useful if we move

Box of DC artwork and early schoolwork and various other sentimental keepsakes

Middle child (it’s converted for him).
Plus storage in the eaves for:
christmas decorations
autumn decorations
winter clothes in summer and vice versa (we have a “changeover day” every 6 months
Kids trunks for summer camp
nostalgic toys

Glis glis used to strike terror in everyone when I used to live near there they hadn't got to where I used to live but I've been gone 15 years.

We did have a rat last autumn/winter who chewed through the burglar alarm wire. We bought sprays a cinnamon and a peppermint. DH sprays the loft regularly. May have to stop that as we think some bats may have moved in

Issues of a satirical magazine going back to the early 1980's;
Uni notes and dissertations for both DH and myself going back nearly 50 years(God knows why,but they did cost in blood,sweat tears and money to produce and type);
Toys belonging to DD(she's 40 now);
Sealed boxes of china,glassware and memorabilia from my late parents' house -basically,all that's left from the house clearance that I can't even face getting rid of;
DVDs;
Some old crafting/hobby equipment.

Christmas deccies were brought down and put into storage in a large cupboard when DH stopped being able to climb ladders. DD & DSil have offered to go up up there to help clear out &organise what's left & rebox some stuff when they have some time to do it.

The bodies 😀 I haven't got a basement, and the garden was getting a bit full 😀

We have several separate loft spaces but none of them are boarded over or so I thought, so none of our possessions are up there. However, when the landlord upgraded the insulation last winter he discovered a treasure trove of 1950s and 60s kitchen and household junk, plus the original corby trouser press, old fashioned baby and children's clothes and loads of letters/ postcards etc from a family that lived here then. It was quite interesting. But the landlord got a skip and it's all gone now. We are in a meandering one floor stable conversion so there are quite a few different lofts.

no access to ours only a tiny hole so as far as i know only insulation unless someone before us was clever enough to squeeze something in

Anything in my loft has to earn its place by being used at least once a year. So only suitcases and Christmas decorations.

Toilet roll ( Costco ) & suitcases !

2 chairs and 4 suitcases

Funnily enough, I ventured up there just this morning when the spark came to fix some stuff and he needed to get into the attic space. I haven't been up there in about ten years. I was imagining all kinds of crap up to the gunnels but I forgot that I had the attic re insulated a couple of years ago and the installer very kindly moved a lot of the crap to the garage for me. I never even noticed it in the garage so that just shows you!

Still up there is a suitcase of my late parents sentimental stuff, and two empty suitcases. That's it! And I couldn't believe the size of the space, it's massive. But I live alone and don't need any conversions. Glad I got the spark in, it was a pleasant surprise to see it wasn't jammed with crap.

Just having my second major sort out (first one about 10 years ago) of my memory boxes and old toys and have actually managed to give 2 boxes to my dd for her attic today so that is a win, ds's will probably stay here. Still have family bits to sort, some nice pieces (silver and jewellery) but the kids don't want them and I just don't know where to sell them. Am determined to not leave piles of stuff to sort but have my old school trunk that must be coped with still! Then, 4 chairs that come down for parties and Christmas crockery and decorations.