This came last Thursday
Since then I have been emptying out the garage of all the junk, the electrical and electronic rejected things, the rubbish and stuff that has accumulated in there. Lindsey came down on Sunday and helped me manoeuvre a mattress out and prop it up against the skip. She also helped me move a bookcase into the guest bedroom wardrobe.
Now the skip looks like this:
And the garage looks like this:
The back walkway by the laundry door has had loads of Colorbond garden bed edgings moved out the way - cautiously because there were lots of what easily might have been redback spider webs around them. I only saw one spider, which didn't seem to be a redback. Now the back walkway looks like this, waiting for me to sweep up all the leaves and for the arrival of another skip for more rubbish removal
A lot of what I have isn't necessarily junk. But if I am planning to move from a house with three bedrooms, a lounge room, a kitchen/dining room, a bathroom and a laundry, with garden, to an apartment with one bedroom, one small lounge/kitchen/diner and a bathroom, no garden, realistically I need to get rid of most of my stuff.
As I wander around the house and garden I ask things these questions:
- Are you coming with me?
- Yes.
- Do I need you between now and then?
- Yes. Stay where you are
- No. You get packed in a box, as boxes come to hand
- No
- Do I need you between now and then?
- Yes. Stay where you are
- No
- Can I take you to an opportunity (charity) shop?
- Yes. Into a box you go, or into a corner of the garage while I work out how to get you there
- No. Into the skip you go
- No. Stay where you are until I work out how to get rid of you
- I don't know
- For some things, like the bookcase, now in the wardrobe, or the desk in the middle of the garage, it depends if there is room in the new place. Obviously, I won't know that until I get the new place.
- For other things, I just don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Until I decide, just stay where you are.
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They watched it for ages, before eventually deciding it was time for a nap |