Weeks 15-17 review, plan for week 18

[rmc28]

I continued to do small garden tasks during weeks 15 & 16. I failed to send off the boxes of clothes from the back room, or tackle anything in the living room.

Week 17, this bit me. With 16 hours notice, I had to empty and dismantle two of the four shelving units in the room, to make space for a large heirloom bookcase (made for spouse's grandparents) which my mother-in-law discovered on moving house did not fit through any of the doors of her new home, and shipped to us instead.

I started by clearing off a third shelving unit entirely (the previously-mentioned corner unit, now known as Unit 3), because that's the sensible place for a bunch of the contents of Units 1 & 2, ever since I reorganised the room layout (in February!). I'd just been procrastinating doing the work. A lot of stuff went straight to the rubbish / recycling bins, some went into an empty box in the back room, and a load of Lego got added to spouse's Lego-sorting project upstairs.

Then I systematically emptied Units 1 & 2 one shelf at a time, dusting as I went. Things went into one of the following:

• bin bag
• recycling bag
• donations bag
• Unit 3 (dining table things, and board games)
• stackable storage crates from the back room and hauled elsewhere (DVDs to the downstairs study, a bunch of spouse's puzzles to his room)
• the newly-cleared table in the back room (booze, including some Very Nice Wine I'd forgotten about in Unit 2)
• the dining table (board games / jigsaws which I consider candidates for throwing out, but need input from offspring)

Finally I dismantled both units (IKEA IVAR, it comes down pretty easily) and stacked the shelves/uprights in the back room, before moving all remaining furniture to one side to allow the movers to deliver the heirloom bookcase. Which they did a great job of, and it fits neatly in the space made.

Then I went splat, and paid for the effort with about 3 days of falling asleep a couple of hours before my normal time.

We are now a day into week 18, and I have just got Elder Offspring to start cleaning the heirloom bookcase, which had got quite dusty in storage and transit

Plan for the rest of week 18:

• move the assorted DVDs and CDs from storage crates onto the freshly-cleaned bookcase
• (and improve the organisation thereof while doing so)
• move the booze back onto the higher shelves
• move the jigsaws for consideration into any remaining shelves, so they can be gone through less urgently, and we can use the dining table again
• fix the shelf issue with Unit 3 I spotted during my frantic delivery preparation but didn't have time to fix then
• with the booze moved, I can access the shipping boxes in the back room, so actually book courier collection for them

I probably should get back into the garden, which is still not in a usable state, and the strimmed weeds are showing signs of regrowing, but I can't see that I will have time this week. Next week maybe.

Comments

[yukonsally]

Well done with all that! While a surprise, the heirloom bookcase sounds much nicer than ikea furniture (as I type this on an ikea desk...)

I've cleaned up the last of the wood from a building project outside and that will be picked up tomorrow morning. I dropped off another bag of textile recycling. Eldest Child discovered the joy of garage sales and we quickly found a few toys we both agreed could be sold. Some of the profit was spent on other junk, so it's a bit of a one-in, one-out situation, but the new junk is novel and will keep the kid entertained until the next garage sale rolls around, rinse and repeat.

[hooloovoo_42]

Congrats on springing into action at such short notice and getting things done successfully. I need to do something similar, without the spur of an impending heirloom.