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By: We have flooring at last | English Rose Kitchen

We have flooring at last | English Rose Kitchen — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:04:02 +0000

[...] all we need to do is to get the rest of our damned STUFF into storage so that they can lay the floor in the first [...]

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Cardboard box vs X box | English Rose Kitchen — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:36:01 +0000

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By: kitschen pink

kitschen pink — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:08:09 +0000

Might a wifey comment here? Hubby and I renovated an edwardian school building as our first project. It took 7 years. We accumulated stuff suited to a building with 4 metre high ceilings and class sized rooms. Then we moved into a caravan to build our current house. EVERYTHING went into storage except clothes, useful books on building, and a choice few bits for camp cooking. We planned a renovation and ended up doing a new build. 7 years, 3 months and 4 days later we had a big lorry deliver the forgotten stuff and we unpacked all the stuff I had since added in friends and family’s lofts and sheds. Some stuff was great. Our young son could not believe we owned real furniture like other people. However, less than a month after we moved into the house another large lorry took the majority of the stuff to an auction house. Sometimes a project needs to be completed before you feel able to get rid of stuff. It’s a comfort thing. It reminds us that one day we will have a home not a building site. It’s not until we actually have a home that the stuff becomes surplus to requirements. My sister-in-law is the same. Held onto everything until their home was finally done and then whoosh – all gone. (that took the best part of 7 years too!) t.x

By: El Buccanero

El Buccanero — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:04:11 +0000

Never let your stuff go!

By: kev

kev — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:18:33 +0000

Stand Firm my good man, wife’s do eventually start to declutter the ‘nest’, although it tends to be ‘our stuff’ that is first to go to the local charity shop, so keep prized objects close, may be fit them into the sleeping arrangements so they look as if they have a useful use!!!