KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

Dropped in on my pal's juntique shop and managed to bag and sell 55 kg of thruppenny bits (pre-decimal brass coin, for non-brits or young brits reading). The very last day these were spendable was 14.02.1971, fer cryin' out loud.

We've found somebody who'll pay money and take them away. Unbelievable. Half have already gone. They couldn't carry all of them at once, for some strange reason.

GQ to pal; Why were they down there (meaning in the cellar)?
Pal (helpless shrug) I'd forgotten they were there.

Which was the answer but not an explanation. I expect something in C-space teleported them onto the premises when he wasn't looking. It's probably quantum, or summink.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Slinky

Good greif GQ had he had them since 1971? How can 55kg of them be so invisible? How big is this cellar?

GreyQueen

It has the same footprint as the small house above it but is badly-lit. They were in a crate, on the floor, under a table with another crate on top of them. And a 5 kg bag of them is a bit smaller than a standard bag of sugar, so they're heavy for the space they take up, IYSWIM.

Floss

55kg of thrupenny bits must have got a fair price at a scrapyard

minnie2

So a mixed day today

I gave a slide to the boys nursery.and three bags of rubblish went to the recycling centre. Finding this is the easiest way for me little bit at a time.also our recycling bin is full again too :-)

The boys room is looking a bit of a mess again...so reconsidering how he keeps his millions of thomas engines so we are trialing a box that can sit on his thomas chest and they csn be thrown in there quickly.can not find somethings that i found end of august.weve been through his room too so must be behind bed or in somewhere more difficult to find.

I have appointments now everyday this week so not sure how much progress i will make.also returning to work next week all being well with my back so not sure what is going to happen with progress then either.
My open university course started Saturday so i must fond time to study too.but with the house being clearer i am hoping i will find it easier to relax

greenbee

I wonder how many people will find thrupenny bits in their puddings this Christmas instead of sixpences?

Oddly, I found a sixpence on my coffee table last week. Just sitting there...

GQ - do you take a head torch into this cellar? And are you excavating it methodically or just poking around and seeing what looks interesting? And can we all come along too?

catshark88

Sent 3 recycling bags of cardboard out, but that pales into insignificance beside GW's thruppeny bit hoard...

Do you think that all those coin hoards in local museums are just people in the past, who liked hanging on to stuff?

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

I wonder how many people will find thrupenny bits in their puddings this Christmas instead of sixpences?

Oddly, I found a sixpence on my coffee table last week. Just sitting there...

GQ - do you take a head torch into this cellar? And are you excavating it methodically or just poking around and seeing what looks interesting? And can we all come along too?

It has a fluroescent tube but the cellar is so chocka that it has a lot of shadowy bits. I have used a small torch to poke into some corners.

As you can't all come down the cellar with me (we'd not all fit) I shall give you a virtual tour.

Please duck your heads as we go through the door under the stairs and step gingerly down the brick-edged twisting steps into the cellar. Who just said Owww?! Sorry, thought you'd see that beam just above your head there - my bad.:)

We are now in the dank and vaguely mushroom-smelling cellar. Note how it appears older than the Victorian building up above? As in a couple of centuries older? Yes, I think so, too. Watch where you put your feet as we gaze in bemusement/ wonderment/ bafflement/ horror at the many treasures in this particularly English version of King Tut's Tomb.

There are, in no particular order; various large steel weights, some of which have rusted and stuck to the carpet. A set of balance scales as in from a greengrocer (hence knowing about the 55 kg of 3ds). A coffee jar of copper nails (no idea), various display cases (broken), frameless pictures and pictureless frames (un-matching), mummified spiders, blunt pencils, ice-cream tubs (predominantly Carte D'Or), several silvery things which can't be sold because of being only plated, and lots and lots of boxes which I am just itching to get my paws into.

Oh, and a small forest of dead fluro light bulbs and gawd knows what. I have cherry picked the best stuff long ago and got it cleaned up and flogged off, this is the random sweepings.

Please, don't put thruppenny bits in your Xmas puddings or you'll be spending a lot more than 3d at the dentist, these things are chunky. And worth about £2 kg as scrap, apparently. If you can be arrissed to get them to the scrapyard, which my pal obviously couldn't.:rotfl:

Floss

Copper nails could also be sold to a scrap dealer...and as a business he should have no problem setting up an account to recoup some £££s

GreyQueen

There's only half a nescaff jar of copper nails and they're to be kept 'because'. I know of nothing which particularly requires copper nailing but then, I'm not a veteran juntique dealer.:rotfl:

Tell ya, it's shame I have a day job, because there's a lot of fun to be had in the juntique shop. Apart from the cellar and the shop floor, there's the rest of the place with three rooms upstairs.

One of them has its ceiling falling in (polystrene tiles over lath-and-plaster) due to a slipped tile on the roof. It's clutter central, with an integral water feature. Stuff in there is falling all over the place. Beats turning out the junk drawer in the kitchen.