Sep
21
2009
Recent Discoveries at Chez Spud
- If you leave a vast pile of boxes in the garage with a leaky roof for ‘just a few weeks’ (um, 9 months ago) you can expect some of them to have rotted away, taking their contents with them.
- It doesn’t matter how many times you say, ‘That’s IT! I’m never moving again!’, some day you will.
- It’s depressing spending an entire day decanting slightly damp possessions in to plastic crates ready for storage. We haven’t missed any of that stuff for 9 months. Do we really need it? And, while we’re at it, do we thus need any of the stuff in the container (yes a ship container) full of stored furniture etc that doesn’t fit in to our current home?
- If you want to hide an annoying toy, say, a drum…you need to actually remove it from the premises. Shoving it in the leaky garage is only a temporary solution. Somehow the music gods protected said drum from getting wet and the Megaboys are overjoyed.
- When you are 4 years old you can just lose yourself in the music, and not mind the vast pile of rubbish and moldy boxes around you.
- The necklace I thought I’d lost finally showed up, under a pile of rubbish in the garage. How did it get there? Alas, no sign of the £50.00, sausage pie (bleargh), bottle of wine and e-reader which have mysteriously vanished from our house in the last year however.
- We have toads living in the garage.
- The Killer Cat left a mouse to decompose in the playroom. The playroom is so untidy that I didn’t notice it for days. It left its insides on the carpet when I picked it up to dispose of it. I really need to tidy the playroom. And clean the carpet.
- When you move house, you really should empty the bins and the laundry basket before ‘temporarily’ stashing them in the garage. Dealing with 9 month old dirty laundry and rubbish isn’t pretty. Especially with your neighbours looking on giggling, tee hee!
- MrSpud finally conceded an argument that started in August 2003 when I proposed the best way of tidying out my garden shed was to take everything out, sort it, then return what I wanted to keep to said shed. He maintained for 6 years that this was a foolish approach. I noted with interest yesterday that his chosen tactic for the Great Garage Clearance was to take everything out, sort it, then return what we needed to said garage.
I WIN!!!!! I WIN!!!!! I WAS RIGHT AND HE WAS WRONG AND IT EVER SHALL BE THUS THE END AMEN.
I’m such a modest and graceful winner. It’s one of the many reasons MrSpud married me. That, and my superior external buildings clearance techniques.
I have a basement full of temporary things moulding away. I put them in there ‘temporarily’ three years ago. Sigh. Fortunately I have done my duty, and most of the stuff down there is Livers. I win!
We cleaned out our basement last fall and hauled away a ton of crap. Amazingly, it’s filled to the rafters again. How do we accumulate all this junk?? Agghhhhh!
That picture is the greatest thing ever! It totally made my day! Also, I’m never, ever cleaning out my garage, at least, not without an order from the Department of Health, so I really admire your resolve. Great post!
what a fantastic photo! I’ve got boxes in the basement that I haven’t opened for probably 8 years. I guess I don’t need those things? ;-)
The picture of your megaboy grooving to that drum (with all of the box mess in the background) illustrates this post wonderfully! And did Mr.Spud REALLY concede — and by that, I mean did he actually say that you were right? My husband doesn’t know how to do that. The most he will ever give me is a smirk.
Yuck about the mouse!
my speed is not too bad but even after 5 minutes I can’t have the photo (of the mess???) oh that reminds me of the day when I was alone at home and a tiny stream became a river after a thunderstorm. and how I tried to keep the ddors to our basement tight with pillows, hahaha. the mess was not only wet but a reddish-sandish-soilish-really-sticky mess. but after a few years I can still say I can hardly remeber what we lost except for somme drawings I did in college. apparently it wasn’t important at all. without the flooding we would have had one more container to move to ireland almost 10 years ago!!!! xxxx eliane
Do you think the neighbors would notice if I emptied the entire contents of my house onto my front lawn? It may be the only way I’ll ever get my house cleaned!
No way you can get a skip and just chuck the whole lot in? I’m working on the basis currently that if it wasn’t unpacked when we moved two and a bit years ago we haven’t missed it and I can chuck it (or take to the charity shop…)
Only trouble is that Mr Muddling is a hoarder and thinks I’m going to get rid of something invaluable … bah
p.s. your technique is the right one for clearing (and did you do the I Was Right Dance ?
Seeing as you’re so good at clearing and sorting fancy doing my loft? I love that shot of b. Looks like a happy clapper
Oh, to be 4 again and not have to worry about cleaning up.
It sounds like you are making some progress and good you found your necklace.
I have lost a ring I was going to give to my daughter for her 10th birthday. I’ve got 5 more months to find it.
Congrats on getting the garage cleaned! I’m impressed! Love the photo of megaboy drumming, so into it.
well you did get a really spectacular photo out of it. Love his expression.
I can’t see photo either,but I AM impressed. And fearful…I’d like to just throw away the contents of our back room but I KNOW I’m going to get suckered into investing TIME in unpacking crap I don’t need…gr…..
i have an attic like that. two of them actually. and i’m pretty sure someone’s going to make me sort them out very soon. i’m not looking forward to it. however, in light of recent events surrounding absence of internet, it may be put off for a bit…which is a relief.