Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

Tahlullah

All the best Viva. Will keep fingers crossed.

Have enjoyed catching up on the thread. I too have no cupboard space and struggle with what to do with 'stuff'.

Can anyone dierct me to Doozers post on 'creative use of space' as mentioned by fc123? It sounds like it could offer inspiration where all has been lost. I will keep trying to find it, not been successful thus far.

PasturesNew

The weather's wild n wet out there!

LydiaJ

My dad is here. It is bliss. When both children need separate adult attention simultaneously, I can explain that to him, and we can spend time with one each. I have a faint recollection of parenting a long time ago with two children and two parents. It is so much easier.

He will be gone again tomorrow.

PasturesNew

Tahlullah wrote: »

Can anyone dierct me to Doozers post on 'creative use of space' as mentioned by fc123? It sounds like it could offer inspiration where all has been lost. I will keep trying to find it, not been successful thus far.

Not me. It came as a complete surprise to me.

I'd be good at being creative with small spaces, if I had the budget/skills to make the changes. I've never lived in a big place.... and suffered a 6'x7' bedroom as a teenager.

fc123

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm not only missing pantries and airing cupboards, I'm missing an outbuilding too. I feel quite hard done by. As though I am an extreme outlier on a useful cupboard deficiency index.

....but this means you live in a more organised, less cluttered up way. The more storage space one has, the more clutter one keeps...esp if you are a child of the 70's.;)

michaels wrote: »

We don't do too badly on the cupboards, garage, loft and outbuildings front. Where we fall down though is on the ability not to buy carp in the first place or to sell / give / throw it away when no longer needed.

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...exactly.:)


We started our extension / 'destroy our house' project last October (2012) and all our worldly goods have been boxed away since then and put with the other worldly goods that didn't go to Brighton with us in Summer 2005.


I then added all my clothes except the bare essentials 2 months ago.
80% of the kitchen is also crated up as not in use.


Now we are questioning how much of it will come back into the house, how much do we really want / use?


Take the vinyl. We have 4 boxes of rare vinyl dating from our yoof years. We haven't owned a record player for years.


I would like to ebay the lot and spend it on something else....or just drop it into the mortgage. Are we going to listen to it again?
An example would be a 12'' remix of Like A Prayer, Madonna. It's a great record, it has a nice cover but do I want to create a cupboard to store it and keep it....and for what? Just to 'have' it? Will OH really groove to his old Never Mind The * or Depeche Mode LP's again?


We have a ton of stuff (and that's post edit when we moved in 2005) that we should re-sort but we just keep it because....well because it's our stuff.

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm not sure if that is a really, really posh alert or a really really whimsical alert. I've never heard of a cat fountain before.

...nor me, our cats drink out the pond or bowl of tap water if it's icy but I quite like it.

PasturesNew

That pop singer/physics bloke on bbc2 "The Science of Doctor Who"

Entertaining even if you're interested in science but have absolutely no idea what he's on about.....

fc123

Tahlullah wrote: »

All the best Viva. Will keep fingers crossed.

Have enjoyed catching up on the thread. I too have no cupboard space and struggle with what to do with 'stuff'.

Can anyone dierct me to Doozers post on 'creative use of space' as mentioned by fc123? It sounds like it could offer inspiration where all has been lost. I will keep trying to find it, not been successful thus far.

I can't remember when it was but it was about carving up rooms and creating spaces to function for certain uses and not just accepting that each room would be a square thing.


She may have referenced a Sarah Beeney show too? Or that may have been OH as he has been OCD-ingly watching her extension show.

vivatifosi

fc123 wrote: »

....but this means you live in a more organised, less cluttered up way. The more storage space one has, the more clutter one keeps...esp if you are a child of the 70's.;)

If only... what it means is that I have a room in the house that is full of junk. And a loft that is full of junk. That's the problem with owning a 3 bedroom house when we really only need a 2 bedroom house. Bedroom 3 has become a really big cupboard. Albeit one with a window, curtains and a radiator.

fc123 wrote: »

Now we are questioning how much of it will come back into the house, how much do we really want / use?


Take the vinyl. We have 4 boxes of rare vinyl dating from our yoof years. We haven't owned a record player for years.

I did have approx 10,000 singles and 1,000 albums (all vinyl), mostly rare groove. I gave about half of my albums away, most has gone now but still have some pesky stuff that I can't part with. Haven't had a record player for 8 years. Spent too much of my teens and twenties blowing a fortune at City Sounds, Sterns and the record shops in Hanaway Street and Leicester Sq whose names I have forgotten. I spent £2-300 per month in the 1980s. And that, ladies and gents, is why my house is smaller than most.

lostinrates

Ladies, ladies.

What is wrong with you both?

DH and I ....have a record player each now! Ok, one is resident parents now bestowed upon me, and the other was in store for ages, but its amazing to have it set up again.

Just get a record player. (Both ours are exactly the same models, by coincidence, and we know exactly how old they are because DH got his for his bar mitzvah ).

Only problem is, some of the records haven't been stored that sympathetically. . They could do with an edit, but ......will need to be done on a brave day with stiff drinks I think.

Spirit_2

vivatifosi wrote: »

Don't quote

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Ghastly .The best outcome is that you have been "worried well" but still consumes vast emotional energy whilst you are in it.