Bored now
My regime of popping into a charity shop with a bag of items every time we leave home really isn't making much of a mark. We've now agreed to leave our house by 24 September, slight panic is setting in.
We want to continue enjoying the house as long as we can so we are not parting with major items yet, plus we have no idea where we are moving to so we don't really know what we shall need or be able to keep. Every day has become declutter day.
Mr FF has been scanning documents and photographs mainly relating to when we built this house more than 20 years ago. Yes that will make a big difference to an office with floor to ceiling engineering books but we all have our displacement actitivies and I've been procrastinating by shuffling round my knitting accoutrements.
I have sorted out some yarn for charity
and put some on ebay, which is selling well. That only leaves the yarn in the bottom of the airing cupboard, the yarn in the chest in the hall and the yarn in the wicker hamper in the morning room. I kid myself I am knitting away at this huge stash and it will be gone in a month or so. Right, even if I did knit it all up I'd still have the same cubic area in finished articles.
I have disposed of some of the many patterns I've printed over the years and never tackled, but I still have a few shelves of books I'd like to keep. Then there is my collection of Rowan magazines, they don't seem to have much value and I may never use the patterns but then they are lovely to have.
This is not easy, its tiresome and boring and in some ways it will be good when we can eventually start seriously stuffing things into boxes. But how can we book the removal people until we know where we are going.
I guess you are going to have to put stuff into storage, which we have had to do in the past, and just keep the necessities to hand (that doesn't include your wool and pattern stash!!)
ReplyDeleteThe rowan books hold their value really well. Knitting books when they go out of print rocket in value, Debbie Abrahams book on finishing techniques went up to about two hundred pounds before they decided to reprint, be careful, as you might have some quite valuable books there. As for the wool, keep the good stuff, your going to live somewhere and you'll always want to knit.
ReplyDeleteMoving house is so stressful, especially if you don't know where you are moving to. . Good luck with it all. Xxx
ReplyDeleteOh dear, it isn't easy, is it, all of that sorting? Although she's not moving, I've been trying to get my aged Aunty M to get rid of some of her stuff (honestly, she could feature in one of those TV programmes about extreme hoarders). When I visited at the weekend she asked if I could do drop off at the charity shop and handed me ..... a tea towel!
ReplyDeleteYou sound remarkably calm and collected for somebody who has no idea where they're moving to, and only just over a month to go!! I'm impressed.
ReplyDeleteWhen we were packing boxes for our move, anything we had to think twice about getting rid of, we kept. Then we had another chance to think about it when we were unpacking. You don't want to regret throwing anything out! Hope you find the perfect location and your new home very soon.
ReplyDeleteI really don't know how I would cope in your situation - probably be in panic mode by now.
ReplyDeleteI hope it all works out easily for you.
When I move, I always have a big chuck out when packing, and then wonder WHY I have more stuff when I unpack, so I chuck that too!
ReplyDeleteOh dear! At least you are managing to declutter. I am a hopeless case when it comes to getting rid of stuff. Let's hope we never decide to move! Ros
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