Scarlett ended up sleeping in our bed last night. Solely because she wasn’t asleep when we went up to bed, infact neither was Davies, and she doesn’t like being left downstairs on her own. This meant it was only a matter of time before someone gave up trying to sleep three in a bed and went downstairs – it was Ady around 3am :).
We bimbled about a bit this morning, Davies had a bath, we all watched TV before galvanising ourselves to go and tackle the cupboard under the stairs. Davies and Scarlett would not have been at all helpful, infact would possibly not have fitted in the room so they kept themselves busy and out of the way while Ady and I got on with it.
It was fairly boring but we now have an empty cupboard under the stairs with the exception of camping stuff which has gone back in there ready for Sustainability Centre camping next month and will face a cull before being put away. We now have way more than one car full of stuff so will be doing at least two car boot sales if not more and a heap of stuff deemed worth more than we’d get a car boot sale and therefore needing to be listed on ebay. It feels good to be doing it all though – a step closer to the plan and theraputic to be shedding stuff we don’t need. I still have about 4 bags full of wool and fabric to make decisions on so will either have to get busy making stuff to give / sell /use or get shot of that too.
We finally reached the back of the cupboard, sorted through everything into piles of keep, sell and dump and then Ady did a run to the tip. I got dinner on and stood and peeled the whole of this years garlic crop into individual cloves. Last year I stupidly let loads of them go rotten so this year I have peeled them all and put them into jam jars with olive oil which will keep for ages and ages – tedious thing to do but worth it to look at them all ready to use and preserved til I want them :).
A lovely roast dinner, followed by raspberries and cream from PYO the other day while watching Countryfile before the kids went off to bed. I had a very frustrating phone conversation with my Mum who I am sure if being particularly stupid about the whole thing and was asking questions like ‘what will you sell clothes for – I can get £5 a bag for rags for the charity shop’ and ‘what about books – I can get £1 each for books, don’t sell them for less than that!’ and still didn’t seem to get it when I pointed out this is not just about clearing the house but is also a fairly serious fund raising operation for *us* for our camper van :rolls: Did do a rather canny telling her the kids would love to spend the morning with them next Sunday while we’re doing the carboot selling rather than asking her though which I was proud of :).
And that was the weekend :).
I thought you’d use the kids to do the selling! Very hard to barter with a winsome child – when buying stuff for C once I was unable to haggle buying from a kid but no compulsions about haggling with adults!
Had considered it but although they have agreed to sell everything that is going some of the decisions have been a bit ‘stiff upper lip’ and I don’t want to put them through more by making them actually take the money. Also the cash won’t be going directly to them, all into the ‘campervan fund’. I’ve haggled with kids at car boot sales – far easier targets than hard faced adults 😉
C and I are imagining that it’s a bit ashes to ashes, dust to dust round your house atm – yea, the plastic tat did cometh from the car boot sale, and lo, now it returneth to the car boot sale … 😉
Hope you make loads 🙂
lol, yes it is rather. We’ve not used much if it, just added a further digit to the ‘previous careful owners’ tally 😆