attack of the killer boxes

[the_siobhan]

Things to do before the party

Finish going through books. (I think we have four-five milk cartons left.)

Go through clothes. On top of the big cardboard box with "Siobhan has too many black t-shirts" scrawled on the side we also found an additional stash that ended up filling four contractor bags. I looked inside. There are clothes in there from from when I was in University. Which I attended in the 80's. Get your bitchin' retro fashion on right here.

Finish sorting tools and reno materials and see if we really need to keep all of it. We probably don't need four sledgehammers, for example.

Put up shelves. Do another pass through the boxes of gargoyles, statues, dolls and candlesticks. Put (some of) them on shelves. Anything that doesn't end up with a place to live on goes into the "to give away" box.

Seriously, we've been at this for months now. How the fuck is it even possible for anybody to manage to accumulate this much crap?

Comments

[the_axel]

Keep up the kick arse purging!

[the_siobhan]

I almost forgot - we have those vinyl's in the office by the bookshelves. Maybe you could go through those?

[greylock]

I am impressed. Most people move into big houses and expand to fill them.
I can only imagine you are doing the reverse.

[the_siobhan]

Pretty much. When we merged households we had no idea what we were going to want or need once the renos were done so we didn't do any purging at all - just put it all in storage. And I had a crapload in storage already of things I had packed away when I lived with BC & Ldot.

So once the construction was finished we emptied out the storage locker and we've been digging through stacks of boxes and furniture ever since.