Help1 Im stuck under a pile of boxes...

NoMoreExcuses

...well it feels like it!!

Im in. Electrics are rubbish in new rented house (think wires stuffed into sockets and you get the picture) theres crap everywhere...but we're in. Just.

Baby howling - have to go...speak soon

NME
xxx

Richard_S

NoMoreExcuses wrote: »

...well it feels like it!!

Im in. Electrics are rubbish in new rented house (think wires stuffed into sockets and you get the picture) theres crap everywhere...but we're in. Just.

Baby howling - have to go...speak soon

NME
xxx

Congratulations NME,

Hope you haven't lost the cork screw and make sure the fridge is in a live socket to keep the beer cool. :beer:

Richard

wherediditallgo

blind-as-a-bat wrote: »

Glad you made it NME you will get everything sorted eventualy (although it took me and OH 10 years to get our place as we wanted it:o :rotfl: )

There's hope for me yet then - 18 months on, & I've still got loads of boxes & bags I haven't looked in yet.

philnicandamy

I cant say a word....6 years with my OH and still got boxes in the garage

Hope all goes well for ya NME roll on the housewarming party!!!!

NoMoreExcuses

House warming tomorrow at about 8? Bring beers....and bottle opener....and glasses...and a chair.....and a torch....
:beer:

NME
xxx

Richard_S

NoMoreExcuses wrote: »

House warming tomorrow at about 8? Bring beers....and bottle opener....and glasses...and a chair.....and a torch....
:beer:

NME
xxx

a torch :eek: If it's that dark I'd never know who was stroking my leg

NoMoreExcuses

Richard - Thats all part of the fun and mystique of being skint....you save on electricity bills, and you get to have more fun than those with the lights on!!!!! There has to be some benefits....

Now - what do you think about this? I have boxes of tut in my lounge that I didnt throw away for 7 years in the old house. things like photos, kids drawings, stuff that was my grandparents thats worthless. What would you do? bin it or keep it in the loft only to appear in the next loft?

Richard_S

NoMoreExcuses wrote: »

Richard - Thats all part of the fun and mystique of being skint....you save on electricity bills, and you get to have more fun than those with the lights on!!!!! There has to be some benefits....

Now - what do you think about this? I have boxes of tut in my lounge that I didnt throw away for 7 years in the old house. things like photos, kids drawings, stuff that was my grandparents thats worthless. What would you do? bin it or keep it in the loft only to appear in the next loft?

NME,

When it comes to some things I have no shame or conscience whatsoever, as has been pointed out on a number of occasions. However, with things like that I just can't bring myself to do it, put them in the false roof and move them again later. :eek:

We met 30 yrs ago last December and we've saved every single card that we'd sent each other, cards to and from the children, their paintings, needlework, emotional little notes, school exercise books, the whole bl***y works. There's some 20-30 boxes (big boxes) and after moving twice in recent months, guess where they are? Back in the false roof of course; I've no logical or rational explanation why.

Richard

wherediditallgo

NoMoreExcuses wrote: »

I have boxes of tut in my lounge that I didnt throw away for 7 years in the old house. things like photos, kids drawings, stuff that was my grandparents thats worthless. What would you do? bin it or keep it in the loft only to appear in the next loft?

I say definitely keep it in the loft. You can't put a value on memories, even if the items have no actual re-sale value. My mum's still got lots of my childhood things including pictures I painted, the first thing I ever knitted for her (a bobble hat ) & the hospital band that was around my wrist when I was born. I was a premature baby, & you could barely get that thing around my thumb now. I was born with the cord around my neck, & because I was so small I took ages to learn to walk - she's got an inkblot picture of my feet & hands, & has a note of the day I took my first steps & said my first words. She thinks it's funny given my start in life that I grew up to love words so much & adore writing songs & poetry.

I've got EVERY diary I've written from the age of about 8 (started off with the little pocket ones, & now I can barely contain myself in an A4 one sometimes ). A few years ago I read one of my childhood ones & was amazed at some of the things that were so important to me at that time - you might remember being a child, but as the years pass you forget so much of what made you the child you were. Some of it made me quite tearful, but far more made me laugh & I'm so glad I've still got them. Maybe I'll publish them one day.

Remmer

I moved from Sunderland to Notts 7 years ago and there are still unopened boxes here. Wouldn't part with any of it though. My kids will have a right laugh when I'm gone