too much stuff - a whinge
Mar. 13th, 2010 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrsbrownGiven my morose inability lately to do anything about organising the stuff in my house, it's even more astonishing to think about what I spent today doing.
Today we went to the unit my Oma lived in for 25 years and brought home furniture, knick knacks, household linen and pictures.
Why pictures? I already have at least 5 pictures that I haven't hung.
Why furniture? I have pieces of furniture that I decided that I don't want/don't need about 2-4 months ago and they're still in my family room and backyard, cluttering up my life.
I regularly decide that I should do something about them, I stand up and look at them and then get overwhelmed and sit down again.
From the comfort of my couch, perhaps I could manage to write the list of what needs to happen;
Sigh! This is too hard too. Perhaps I should just tackle one room at a time. It would be nice to have the kitchen and family room sorted before Easter.
To cheer myself up, here's a list of some of the stuff I scored from Oma;
A circular wooden clothes dryer, like the one I remember hanging my dolls clothes on when I was 4.
a bunch of cups for at Clifton Hill
an icing gun and biscuit extruder
a nutmeg grinder
a bunch of embroidery fabric and cottons
a print of a drawing by Anton Pieck
An electric mower
a replacement gas stove (and gas lantern and heater)
an extendable oval table for doushkasmum and sacred_chao
a bunch of linen tea towels and bath towels in better knick than the ones I own
a leather jacket
a canvas stretcher bed
I also scored inadequate sleep and an overheating headache.
Blah
Today we went to the unit my Oma lived in for 25 years and brought home furniture, knick knacks, household linen and pictures.
Why pictures? I already have at least 5 pictures that I haven't hung.
Why furniture? I have pieces of furniture that I decided that I don't want/don't need about 2-4 months ago and they're still in my family room and backyard, cluttering up my life.
I regularly decide that I should do something about them, I stand up and look at them and then get overwhelmed and sit down again.
From the comfort of my couch, perhaps I could manage to write the list of what needs to happen;
I need to put some of it out as hard rubbish. I can ring council and then put it out the night before they come to collect it. Maybe I should do that last, so that the stuff I don't get rid of by other means can go too.
We need to freecycle/offer to friends the stuff that we don't need. This probably includes; ikea kitchen cabinets, computers (if I can persuade mr-bassman that storing 5 year old computers in our laundry is a waste of space), cupboards, a desk,
We need to absorb the stuff I collected from Oma today.
I need to cut down the grapes so that we stop tracking grapes into the house, and they stop just falling and making the backyard smell. The bees are a bit scary too.
We need to freecycle/offer to friends the stuff that we don't need. This probably includes; ikea kitchen cabinets, computers (if I can persuade mr-bassman that storing 5 year old computers in our laundry is a waste of space), cupboards, a desk,
We need to absorb the stuff I collected from Oma today.
I need to cut down the grapes so that we stop tracking grapes into the house, and they stop just falling and making the backyard smell. The bees are a bit scary too.
Sigh! This is too hard too. Perhaps I should just tackle one room at a time. It would be nice to have the kitchen and family room sorted before Easter.
To cheer myself up, here's a list of some of the stuff I scored from Oma;
A circular wooden clothes dryer, like the one I remember hanging my dolls clothes on when I was 4.
a bunch of cups for at Clifton Hill
an icing gun and biscuit extruder
a nutmeg grinder
a bunch of embroidery fabric and cottons
a print of a drawing by Anton Pieck
An electric mower
a replacement gas stove (and gas lantern and heater)
an extendable oval table for doushkasmum and sacred_chao
a bunch of linen tea towels and bath towels in better knick than the ones I own
a leather jacket
a canvas stretcher bed
I also scored inadequate sleep and an overheating headache.
Blah
