The one about the House

The Wee One is at Wood School today so Al got the day off work. He and I have been SORTING all day long. It is now 9 o'clock and the Wee One is here distracting me in spite of the fact that she has already been put to bed and I have sat down to a glass of wine and a blog post. We started on junk room number 1 today, a.k.a. the study. We called it the study because it had loads of books and activities and educational materials and the computer in it. It has all the passports and bank statements and mortgage info stored in there...somewhere.  But is has been the junk room for a long time, hence it's honour in being junk room #1. It has also had bikes and piles of stuff and all those  boxes of random stuff that get cleared out of other rooms when we need to do an emergency tidy. ( I know you all do that too!) :-) So basically, while I have enough educational materials to home educate all 5 children all over again, I can't actually find any of it or get to any of it. Thre...

I have been trying to "sort things out" for years. I go the charity shop on a regular basis. The older kids as they move out are actually quite good at managing their stuff. My house is full of STUFF.  I cannot really blame anybody else anymore. This past week was half term. I booked the Wee One on an activity which meant she was out of the house for a couple hours each day throughout the week and I thought I would get started. But where. It is all too much. We have three rooms in our house which are  basically unusable. The third is the bedroom of the Meister who moved out at the end of last year. I had plans for that room. And it just joined the ranks of the others junk rooms. Part of the problem is time. We are busy. We never have the time to do this. Part of it is storage. We didn't have any money to spend on furniture when we bought this house nearly 24 years ago. WE have accumulated other people's cast offs and things from Freecycle and some random IKEA bits...