Today’s plan of action

I’m in the mood to sort/re-organise/de-clutter (bet Ant’s heart sank into his stomach reading that!!) and get this house ready to celebrate Christmas. I have lots to do and not much time left.

 

Ant really dislikes it when I get in these moods and I know that he sometimes checks the bin to see what I’ve chucked out. He probably rescues things as well but I’m happier not knowing any of that!

Yesterday, I spent most of the morning re-organising the small storage area that is next to the front door. Ant uses it to store decorating/plumbing/tiling equipment as well as leftover pieces of wood, and pipe, well let’s just say he saves everything and has a huge amount of ‘stuff’.
I forgot to take a ‘before’ picture but let me try and explain what it looked like when I first opened the door….the shelves were facing the left. They had large plastic storage boxes on the shelves as well as paint cans, an old rusty lamp (which is quite lovely and would be really nice if it were taken back to its original condition) along with tools, rags and various other bits and pieces.
You couldn’t actually get to most of the stuff on the shelves though because stacked up in front of them was an old computer monitor, a gas canister, loads of pieces of wood, pipe, curtain track, a blue pirates chest full of jigsaws and a box of things taken out of the old car when it got written off.

I emptied it all onto the garden, sorted it out and re-organised the shelves, after turning them round to face the front rather than the left. This gave me free space to fit another set of shelves and I’m quite excited about having some extra storage space! I’m quite easily pleased, obviously!
Here are a couple of pictures of yesterday’s work…

I only threw away the actual rubbish and put all his ‘stuff’ back on the shelves in a more organised manner. All the wood/plastic/metal ‘stuff’ is being put in the garden shed for now. I’m sure we’ll have to deal with it again when it comes time to sort that shed out next spring ready for the new season but for now, I’m happy not to have to deal with it!

Later, after Ant’s visited his mum, he’s going to pick up a new shelving unit from B&Q so we can utilise the space better and I’m going to empty the cupboard under the stairs and move the majority of it into the front shed. Emptying the cupboard is a mammoth job, one which I’ve done countless times and one which isn’t that much fun but needs must, as they say.
Ant wants to get the server into the cupboard under the stairs so hopefully, after tomorrow, he’ll have space to do that when he gets time.

I also need to re-organise the kitchen cupboards because they’re getting messy again and I have to say, I dread this chore. It is actually worse than emptying the cupboard under the stairs because most of the cupboards are on the floor and it hurts my back and knees having to get down there. I do admit to feeling so much better when the kitchen is done though so I’ll grit my teeth and get it done. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon, very soon!
Ideally, I’d like to move the kid’s pc out of the kitchen but I’m struggling to find another space for it. I’ll keep thinking about it because sooner or later the answer will come and I’ll wonder why I didn’t think about it straight away.

So those are my plans for the day. How about you….doing anything fun? I’ll need to read about nice happy things once I’ve tackled that lot so please, do share!

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