Packing - a most depressing job
- Thread starter Roadkill
- Start date
I don't pick the keys up until Friday, otherwise I'd do exactly that. Well, and take in a pot of paint and paint over the hideous purple wall in the spare room.
You've bought haven't you? Looking forward to the nesting thread:thumbs :
Yup, finally I have bought, but ... nesting thread?
bmd
Island in the stream.
Yup, finally I have bought, but ... nesting thread?
How to paint over hideous purple walls, things like that
How to paint over hideous purple walls, things like that
Now this I must read. I've skinted myself buying the place and won't be able to afford to do much to it for a while - although it doesn't need it, thankfully - but that purple wall is going come what may!
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Moved on Saturday with the help of three good friends and Aussie Man with a Van who was actually from Hungary. 
Then got totally leathered on Saturday night and only managed to unpack stuff today. Will move in permanently on Wednesday. I reckon this was my penultimate move in life. Good luck with the move Roadie. 
Then got totally leathered on Saturday night and only managed to unpack stuff today. Will move in permanently on Wednesday. I reckon this was my penultimate move in life. Good luck with the move Roadie. Moved on Saturday with the help of three good friends and Aussie Man with a Van who was actually from Hungary.
Ta muchly.
When I moved here, two years ago, both the van driver and his mate were Lithuanian. This was fine - and I've never seen two guys clear a house so quickly - but neither of them spoke very much English. Again, not a problem, except that it did impede conversation a bit on the long haul from London to Hull!
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Ta muchly.
When I moved here, two years ago, both the van driver and his mate were Lithuanian. This was fine - and I've never seen two guys clear a house so quickly - but neither of them spoke very much English. Again, not a problem, except that it did impede conversation a bit on the long haul from London to Hull!
I can imagine. I only moved about a mile down the road, but had a good chat with Laszlo about his upcoming trip to the fiords of Norway and the wisdom of taking an electronic cigarette with him to avoid polluting the fresh autumn air.
I'm only moving a few streets from where I am now, although it'll take a couple of trips to shift everything. No doubt in that time I'll be treated to the van driver's views on immigration, the area, the city council and the state of the roads.
</stereotypes>
toggle
wobbly
Bump again.
I'm too efficient for my own good when it comes to this packing lark. I'm moving house next Saturday and have Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off work, but I thought I ought to make a start today. I should just have gone through cupboards and drawers and sorted things out ready to box up, but instead I dived straight into packing up the boxes I've scavenged from shops this weekend. Six hours later the living room is completely packed up and now a mass of boxes, my study bookcases are nearly empty, and even the rooms I've not yet touched look weirdly bare because all the pictures are down. A few more hours, boxes and rolls of sticky tape and I'll be all ready to go. I might as well go into work on Wednesday or Thursday rather than sit twiddling my thumbs in a house that no longer feels like my home.
Oh well, at least this move will hopefully be the last for many years...
I've decided I'm never moving anywhere else ever again after I had to move books in here. I'm up to 17 bookcases. 600 quid to spend on amazon in the past 2 years and a retiring supervisor saying 'take as much as you can carry' out of his office hasn't helped.
I feel your pain ... in my back, which is killing me after emptying all of the living-room shelves and four bookcases in the study this afternoon.
And there are still four to go, plus the wheeled trays under the bed, and two cupboards full of files that I'm trying not to think about right now!Oh well, at least my new house is bigger than this one.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
I am down to three bookcases now, after ruthlessly culling some of the lesser books I'd collected over the years. Only the absolute classics stayed. Well, mostly.
toggle
wobbly
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
17 bookcases is post cull.
Wow. I could only fit about six maximum in our flat.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Even though we aren't moving, Mrs21 is currently going through a book purge ,charity shops are really benefitting atm . She keeps asking me to start on my books17 bookcases is post cull.
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
bliddy hell, as a librarian and avid reader of mostly weird shit I thought I had a lot of books ! but our last house move prompted a cull - but it was so long ago I've got nearly as much as before, so time to "re-cycle" some of them.
I still don't have 17 bookcases worth - but only just!
I hate moving / clearing houses ...............
I still don't have 17 bookcases worth - but only just!
I hate moving / clearing houses ...............
boohoo
No.
17 bookcases is post cull.
Wow! photos!
I only have three - and the third is not very full. I went through about 9 years of struggling to focus on reading but studying has brought my reading mojo back!well done on the move Roadkill. Do a house warming party, get people to bring paint and redecorate your spare room
Now that is tempting ...but also dangerous, since the spare room is in a loft conversion, the icky purple also spreads across the ceiling, and the carpet is worth keeping.
I've just looked and my current house is on the letting agent's website. They've used the same photos as when I looked at it, and although it's probably fair to say that it's still 'presented to a higher than average standard,' it's looking a little more work-worn than when I moved into it two years ago! I do love the pleace, though, and I shall miss a few things about it; not least the fact it's still got its original (1900ish) doors, bannisters, skirting boards and ceiling roses. Right up until I saw the place I'm now buying I planned to make my landlord an offer for it. I shall be sorry to lock it up and leave for the last time.
toggle
wobbly
4 tall ones, rest about waist high. about half of those are double stacked though.Not all tall bookcases?! If so, you're worse than me!
that's me and Bakunin though. although only 5 of those are his. i culled my fiction collection and bought 3 carloads of nonfiction books before i met him (that's backseat and boot of an audi A3 FULL, i was terrified for the suspension at every bump in the road, and the roads in cornwall have bumps on their bumps) mainly general history, lot of ww2 and some trot stuff, for 40 quid, that i've still got 2/3 of. they no longer smell like a pub ashtray and were, i reckon, someones lifetime collection. there's 15 or so signed Bertrand Russel paperbacks in there. lot of stuff that i'll probably never read, but i'll keep until someone else wants it.
Wow! photos!
photos are awkward, cause they are so spread about. see what i can do
Puddy_Tat
🐈⬛
I salute you recycling your old thread too!
he had packed it away carefully in the loft
Mogden
I like tea
Roadkill have a look and see if there's a local scrap material recycling scheme in your area. We have one here in Derby and you can buy paint for a pound a litre or so. There's also fabric and things available for DIY at silly prices. You might not have as much of a say over colours but it must be better than what you have. I think Googling scrap schemes yields results.
toggle
wobbly
I can't think of anyhting I'd prefer than to have a bookcase-off.
mine don't look anywhere near that organised though,
Similar threads
