I've done a Life Laundry....

[wilbur]

Feeling very cleansed and proud of myself. I finally took the 10 boxes and bags of, ahem, bric-a-brac, to a car boot sale on Sunday after literally years of saying I would do something, sort them, etc etc. Sold a load, took a load to the charity shop and only brought home 1 small box of things I am too fond of to flog for a quid, plus a bag of stuff to give to the NCT sale in September. Dh is amazed and we have cleared the equivalent of a whole room in our house. Can't recommend it enough. BTW - people buy the maddest stuff at car boots.

Wow - good for you, Wilbur. Must feel amazing.

Yes it does. I didn't realise how much the junk was getting me down (some of it was inherited from my parents and I just hadn't been able to get rid of it before). I made £120 as well !

We recently chucked out about 40 bin liners of crap and sent numerous assorted boxes of books/stuff to charity shops and it was great, I'd recommend it too and now I KNOW there's NO crap anywhere in our house. I found receipts from 1989 fgs!

I need to do a full house clearance, instead I have been faffing aboutdoing little bits at a time, trouble is we are so bogged down it just spreads and takes over again.

We are remortgaging and I suspect they will want to a valuation survey, so I will soon have a deadline I think as no way is anyone coming in here to survey when we are in this state.

Trouble is it is all in a big circle, need to take stuff out of one place before we can put other stuff away. Some stuff needs sold, higher value stuff so will need to go on ebay or small ads, but I have no where to display it until I have cleared up arghhhh!!!

Wish I had the nerve and the weather to put everything out in the garden like in the program.

I am not even as sentimantel as most of the people on the programme.

Ruby - the only thing that stops me re-homing stuff is that I currently have no storage, no bookshelves, no cupboards, nothing except a small loft space left over from when the loft was converted. Plus our kitchen is small and we have a divan so I can't even shove it under the bed! The bloke who sold us this house had about 8 (I'm not kidding) huge dressers all over the house - now I know why!

Skribble - I know what you mean about the circle - I get very bogged down, household-wise, with that. It's like dominoes, I can;t do this until that's done, that can't be finished until I go out and get X, the shop for X is closed on Wednesday aftgernoons, and wouldn't you know? It's a Wednesday afternoon when I have my one precious hour to do some house stuff.

My efforts this weekend are part of a larger hope to get more organised (so I remember to buy X on a Monday when I am passing the shop, for instance) as we are extending our kitchen later this year and I can't bear the thought that it will be lovely for about 10 minutes and then it will start to drown under a tidal wave of crap.