I am currently undertaking the ultimate in uncluttering. Bro, SiL and I are attempting to clear Pa's house in order to sell it. He's currently living elsewhere, but has to move and we need to sell to raise capital.
He's owned this house for almost 17 years, but before that, lived in the house where I was born for years. During that time, we cleared out my grandparents house and a lot of family heirloom stuff arrived.
Pa is a hoarder. He also bought a whole bunch of stuff. And then forgot he had it and bought more of the same. The 3 bedroom house is basically absolutely stuffed. A whole load of it is just junk and can go to the tip. Some of it is saleable and is being boxed up for resale. Some can go to the charity shop and a small amount is stuff we want to keep - of which some is of family value. We have found assorted things that are up to 200 years old and belonged to various ancestors.
Bro and SiL have been at this for a couple of weeks, but I'm now available to help out. We have shifted possibly half the clutter, but there's still more than you can imagine left. In the last 2 days, we have taken 8 car loads to the tip, 3 car loads to a storage unit and 2 more carloads to the charity shop.
Sorting through things to find the 2 pieces of paper or small envelope of baby photos, or my uncle's birth certificate, or a letter from my father's headmaster, or an article from the student newsletter about Pa is massively time consuming. As is just emptying the seemingly endless boxes of electronic components, and moving the chests full of electronic equipment (Pa taught electronics, amomgst other things).
Bro & SiL are off to London for a couple of days and I will continue. On Tuesday I have a locksmith coming to sort out the back door, so we can get into the back garden. He will then cut off the lock on the garage, so we can see the extent of the junk in there. I can only imagine that most if it will be seriously affected by damp and will mostly just be fit for a skip.
One of the fun finds today was a notebook from around the time we were born that included lists of words that we had learned at various points and Ma's notes on teaching us to read. And a set of transparancies of Christmas with the grandparents the year Bro was a year old.
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Date: 2017-08-27 11:29 pm (UTC)He's owned this house for almost 17 years, but before that, lived in the house where I was born for years. During that time, we cleared out my grandparents house and a lot of family heirloom stuff arrived.
Pa is a hoarder. He also bought a whole bunch of stuff. And then forgot he had it and bought more of the same. The 3 bedroom house is basically absolutely stuffed. A whole load of it is just junk and can go to the tip. Some of it is saleable and is being boxed up for resale. Some can go to the charity shop and a small amount is stuff we want to keep - of which some is of family value. We have found assorted things that are up to 200 years old and belonged to various ancestors.
Bro and SiL have been at this for a couple of weeks, but I'm now available to help out. We have shifted possibly half the clutter, but there's still more than you can imagine left. In the last 2 days, we have taken 8 car loads to the tip, 3 car loads to a storage unit and 2 more carloads to the charity shop.
Sorting through things to find the 2 pieces of paper or small envelope of baby photos, or my uncle's birth certificate, or a letter from my father's headmaster, or an article from the student newsletter about Pa is massively time consuming. As is just emptying the seemingly endless boxes of electronic components, and moving the chests full of electronic equipment (Pa taught electronics, amomgst other things).
Bro & SiL are off to London for a couple of days and I will continue. On Tuesday I have a locksmith coming to sort out the back door, so we can get into the back garden. He will then cut off the lock on the garage, so we can see the extent of the junk in there. I can only imagine that most if it will be seriously affected by damp and will mostly just be fit for a skip.
One of the fun finds today was a notebook from around the time we were born that included lists of words that we had learned at various points and Ma's notes on teaching us to read. And a set of transparancies of Christmas with the grandparents the year Bro was a year old.