How long would it take to clear all your crap

[Bods]

You really are in a bad way 👀

Mentally and Physically Probably been struggling with energy and don't get anything done like I used to, getting back in the right mindset to get on with things though, once this table has gone, I can move some machines about, get more of the floor tiles down in extension, when there all down that will create more space as there pilled up in extension, just getting on with one thing will help with another, that with something else and should start to get somewhere then, hopefully

 

[kingtreelo]

MORE CRAP
Unlike many homes and not as old as oak beamed ceilings our house has a steel frame construction with concrete floors but the ceiling support irons are exposed

My love of all things colourful ( like a magpie) and supplying juke boxes both vinyl and cd to many pubs in the 80s/90s the hideaway record cabinets often sat in the cellar with the barrels of beer

Around that time 1994 the 2p coin change content from brass to steel alloy and became fully magnetic … yet another nightmare for machine operators in arcades

All the s10 and some s1 coin validator entry mechs for 2p had to have their pairs of ‘washer catcher’ magnets removed and the front of my filing cabinets were littered with these useless magnets

A brain bell suddenly rang and I picked up a few of the snap off barrel caps with various beer brand adverts on and out came the hot melt glue gun …. Magnet glued to beer cap and hey presto instant fridge magnets not available in shops!!!

See the picture below also features our electronics teaching books and several Miller antique reference books on our dining room wall. As said we hoard all sorts of crap ….

The Peoples Club....lovely mate

 

[Retroman839]

Mentally and Physically Probably been struggling with energy and don't get anything done like I used to, getting back in the right mindset to get on with things though, once this table has gone, I can move some machines about, get more of the floor tiles down in extension, when there all down that will create more space as there pilled up in extension, just getting on with one thing will help with another, that with something else and should start to get somewhere then, hopefully

Mind and phisycal are one !
You will get energy from the achievements incrementally as you go!
It will spur you on..
Make you feel better
Forward project the finished product in your mind. 😌. This will push you onwards to finish .
Don’t work to hard to quickly
Pace your self and get into it
Enjoy it ..
Treat it as phisyical exercise and think of the money your saving not neadimg to go to the gym..
It will make you feel great as you achieve what you set out to achieve .
The realisation that you really can do it.
Happy days ahead once you fulfill this goal . You will need another challenge.

 

[Bods]

Mind and phisycal are one !
You will get energy from the achievements incrementally as you go!
It will spur you on..
Make you feel better
Forward project the finished product in your mind. 😌. This will push you onwards to finish .
Don’t work to hard to quickly
Pace your self and get into it
Enjoy it ..
Treat it as phisyical exercise and think of the money your saving not neadimg to go to the gym..
It will make you feel great as you achieve what you set out to achieve .
The realisation that you really can do it.
Happy days ahead once you fulfill this goal . You will need another challenge.

I know it's all connected

Used to do nothing but work and got tons done, just because your over 50 it doesn't have to change anything, main thing is my poor diet, that's gotta change

 

[Retroman839]

I know it's all connected

Used to do nothing but work and got tons done, just because your over 50 it doesn't have to change anything, main thing is my poor diet, that's gotta change

Like me .. I can eat like horse
Problem is if I stop working
I carry on eating like a horse ..

 

[Bods]

Like me .. I can eat like horse
Problem is if I stop working
I carry on eating like a horse ..

We get bored at work sometimes when no jobs, usually end up at shop buying crap to eat and drink

Just need some good music to get you moving while doing some of this work, listen to all sorts but I've been listening to a few Soundtrack Albums, Breakfast Club, Weird Science, The Wraith, Licence To Drive, get you in the mood hauling ass it made me think of this

Or

Or bit more relaxed lol

 

[diego821]

The hardest part is getting started, but once you do, it gets easier. Managed to clear out a lot only after deciding to keep strictly what’s used every day and move the rest into a safe space at Hold Self Storage. That way there’s no temptation to keep digging through things and putting them back in the house.

 

[funk]

Out of interest how much do people manage to get storage for?!

 

[Body pop]

I forgot about this thread .thanks for getting me interested again
I stopped eBaying as they want national insurance number now to sell crap you’ve been taxed on a million times

 

[Retroman839]

got up this morning greeted
By a man looming in my bin
Telling me I was not allowed to through my stuff away
Carpet scraps and empty paint pot !




I🤪. This country going nuts man ! Soon we will get fines on our bins! …

They will use the bins as a tendril in to out lives ,
To tell us we made a mistake
Putting the wrong stuff in it ,
Then the fines will come ..

It’s just a way for them to make more money,

They said to me I was disposing building waste ?

Is carpet fragments and an empty paint pot building waste now ?

I pay my council tax and I get a rude awakening from the dustman ?

I barked back
I asked them how they defined carpet fragments and an empty paint pot as building waste - They couldnt.

It’s obvious to me that they see my work van and just assume I’m disposing of my work waste, but they are wrong.

I just don’t get why they do it
Apart from its a slow progression Thats already been designed to introduce a 2 strikes and you’re fined policy that in predicting will be implemented in this decade.

Anyways got that rant out the way it would take me 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂..
It is never going
To happen. I’m always gathering more shit!

I’m planing 3 steps ahead at the moment ..
Which will involve massive undertaking if I want to make space .. will involve chucking stuff I don’t need but realistically I will never get rid of all my useless unused and also unwanted , totally pointless crap unless I burn the whole thing down.

 

[Bods]

got up this morning greeted
By a man looming in my bin
Telling me I was not allowed to through my stuff away
Carpet scraps and empty paint pot !




I🤪. This country going nuts man ! Soon we will get fines on our bins! …

They will use the bins as a tendril in to out lives ,
To tell us we made a mistake
Putting the wrong stuff in it ,
Then the fines will come ..

It’s just a way for them to make more money,

They said to me I was disposing building waste ?

Is carpet fragments and an empty paint pot building waste now ?

I pay my council tax and I get a rude awakening from the dustman ?

I barked back
I asked them how they defined carpet fragments and an empty paint pot as building waste - They couldnt.

It’s obvious to me that they see my work van and just assume I’m disposing of my work waste, but they are wrong.

I just don’t get why they do it
Apart from its a slow progression Thats already been designed to introduce a 2 strikes and you’re fined policy that in predicting will be implemented in this decade.

Anyways got that rant out the way it would take me 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂..
It is never going
To happen. I’m always gathering more shit!

I’m planing 3 steps ahead at the moment ..
Which will involve massive undertaking if I want to make space .. will involve chucking stuff I don’t need but realistically I will never get rid of all my useless unused and also unwanted , totally pointless crap unless I burn the whole thing down.

Don't worry some Councils have already been issuing fines for such nonsense, of course in some places like Birmingham were rubbish lines the streets or skips litterally across the pavement and piles of rubbish so you have to walk on the road there are no fines given

In the late 90's clowns opposite me used to put like 15-20 bags outside for bin men, It was all trade waste from her doing sewing machine work from home, i don't know if they paid extra or something but I wouldnt have thought so but they used to take it all

 

[69er]

I am quite cautious putting too much black plastic machine parts waste in the domestic bin though our dustmen are pretty good here but who knows when a clipboard spy might be accompanying them … occasionally I have ditched the odd smashed monitor tube via that route. Always smash them to look like it’s just old glass item ? Though the metal remains inside .

We can disguise a lot of ‘trade’ waste with our house fire ashes, not easy to sort through and check what’s in our bin ? We just save up two bucket fulls on the patio , if it stays dry it’s not heavy but far too hot to go direct to the plastic wheelie bin till it cools down to cold ( I have a very funny story related to that but not for this post)

We are quite lucky living in a part of the country that’s not smokeless zone

So we still have an open solid fuel fire (even still have a small amount of the black stuff - ‘real coal’ , too) on which we do burn smokeless briquettes/ovals and logs to heat the house and hot water ! No central heating here! Don’t even have Gas !

HOWEVER before I drift off topic - bins - we pay for green garden waste £50 a year bin but the garden alone usually fills that every two weeks…..

This week wife and I suddenly decided on a new ‘summer project’ - it looked a huge job
- we had about 18 tall unwanted conifer trees at the rear boundary, so this week down they came approx 40 years ago they were planted by us just 30cm tall - we kept them from getting more than about 10ft high but that’s too much to climb ladders now to trim and they hung over the neighbours nearly two metres in places.

So we built a replica of the Grand National Beecher’s brook hurdle on the lawn .. sorted a few 4” trunks already dying, for logs and left 8 x 5ft stumps all lined up ( nearly ) to erect a 6 ft panel fence on rails attached to said stump posts ( saved digging in ugly concrete slotted ones)

LAST NIGHT with it totally dry and dead I Christened my latest 160 litre oil drum crematorium and cleared a good portion of it…. If it went in the garden waste bin it would take till 2027 to get rid

So now my shiny blue drum is already roasted brown there’s lots of pooltable doors and a few back doors off cabinets that can keep the flames alive !!! ( once I get the conifer pile down).

This project wasn’t on our summer plan.. just a decision last Monday and one week on the panels are on and Ronsealed in a dark oak stain colour … and in the long term a time saver to dedicate more time to clear other crap .. but it’s far too hot to spend much time in my tin roofed workshop . That needs a wall fan in the far wall to get some air inside so nothing is changing in there for a while !!

 

[Bods]

 

[jimmerd]

Out of interest how much do people manage to get storage for?!

Down south I pay about £160 a month for indoor storage, which is about probably less than half the size of a regular shipping container.
It's dry and secure (turned up early once and met the lovely security dogs!) Has power, toilet and coffee - and they don't mind if you spend the whole day sorting stuff out, providing you are not using it as a workshop.

I don't keep much in the house, so anything 'I might need' goes in the storage. It's a good way of limiting clutter, when it gets full then something has to go.

On the subject of recycling, I think paint, oil or large batteries is something you probably should take to the recycling centre if able or make the people collecting aware of as they have specialised bins these days to ensure it gets processed correctly.

 

[Bods]

Down south I pay about £160 a month for indoor storage, which is about probably less than half the size of a regular shipping container.
It's dry and secure (turned up early once and met the lovely security dogs!) Has power, toilet and coffee - and they don't mind if you spend the whole day sorting stuff out, providing you are not using it as a workshop.

I don't keep much in the house, so anything 'I might need' goes in the storage. It's a good way of limiting clutter, when it gets full then something has to go.

On the subject of recycling, I think paint is something you probably should take to the recycling centre or make the people collecting aware of as they have specialised bins these days, although I understand it's tricky if you only have a 'personal' van and not a car which would be charged per visit.

"carpet fragments and an empty paint pot" of course it would make more sense starting up a car and driving a few miles to local tip to throw them away while were saving the planet

My dad had same, complaining about an empty paint pot that had been all cleaned out in his bin

I couldn't bring myself to pay £160 a month to store stuff, I'd sooner not have anything, my Mortage was only £260 a month lol and once that was paid it just left me with the council tax mortgage

 

[jimmerd]

I couldn't bring myself to pay £160 a month to store stuff, I'd sooner not have anything, my Mortage was only £260 a month lol and once that was paid it just left me with the council tax mortgage

I plan on building a log cabin to store stuff in the future, then I can join you on the hoarding, but it's been a good exercise to thin out unwanted stuff.

I tend to save stuff up and visit the 'tip' once a month or so when I am going near it for other reasons, only down side is trying to avoid punctures from people dropping nails.

 

[Flyback2021]

got up this morning greeted
By a man looming in my bin
Telling me I was not allowed to through my stuff away
Carpet scraps and empty paint pot !




I🤪. This country going nuts man ! Soon we will get fines on our bins! …

They will use the bins as a tendril in to out lives ,
To tell us we made a mistake
Putting the wrong stuff in it ,
Then the fines will come ..

It’s just a way for them to make more money,

They said to me I was disposing building waste ?

Is carpet fragments and an empty paint pot building waste now ?

I pay my council tax and I get a rude awakening from the dustman ?

I barked back
I asked them how they defined carpet fragments and an empty paint pot as building waste - They couldnt.

It’s obvious to me that they see my work van and just assume I’m disposing of my work waste, but they are wrong.

I just don’t get why they do it
Apart from its a slow progression Thats already been designed to introduce a 2 strikes and you’re fined policy that in predicting will be implemented in this decade.

Anyways got that rant out the way it would take me 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂..
It is never going
To happen. I’m always gathering more shit!

I’m planing 3 steps ahead at the moment ..
Which will involve massive undertaking if I want to make space .. will involve chucking stuff I don’t need but realistically I will never get rid of all my useless unused and also unwanted , totally pointless crap unless I burn the whole thing down.

I sense a Michael Douglas in ‘Falling Down’ type moment

 

[John Bennett]

A big tip-trip is rather satisfying, although you have to book about a week in advance around our way.

For the odd thing that doesn't look like general waste, the golden rule is it goes in the bin first, straight to the bottom.

I need to look into storage potentially as I've my parents house to clear soon (they're alive, just in care homes now).

 

[Bods]

I plan on building a log cabin to store stuff in the future, then I can join you on the hoarding, but it's been a good exercise to thin out unwanted stuff.

I tend to save stuff up and visit the 'tip' once a month or so when I am going near it for other reasons, only down side is trying to avoid punctures from people dropping nails.

I would get that done pronto and start saving money

A big Tip-Trip for me used to be coming back with a car full of Retro Hi-Fi, TV's, Computers, Arcade bits Miss those days, still piles of LCD TV's down there

 

[Body pop]

A big tip-trip is rather satisfying, although you have to book about a week in advance around our way.

For the odd thing that doesn't look like general waste, the golden rule is it goes in the bin first, straight to the bottom.

I need to look into storage potentially as I've my parents house to clear soon (they're alive, just in care homes now).

That situation makes for some tough calls .especially if your hoarder like a lot of us or very sentimental.like some of us