When Pa refitted our kitchen, he put the old units in the garage. The idea was that he was going to put up the wall units in our bedrooms for extra storage and put the base units around the back wall of the garage. Instead, he dumped a load of oily car bits all over them. So they never moved from where he dumped them, in the middle of the garage. For the next 20 odd years, negotiating the garage was difficult, we could never find what we wanted, and the car had to live out in the cold!

When my parents finally sold up and moved in 2000, after 40 years in the house, clearing the garage took longer than clearing the house - much to the dismay of both removal guys and the people who were trying to move in.