Running out of space...

culpepper

If you have a garden or outside area,you could get a dustbin with a well fitting lid and keep bits out there.
I have a large bin bag of material in the roof that might come in useful and if I go off my knitting machine for a while,it goes up there too.Oh has his photography stuff up there .We dont have our roof floored so have a few squares of wood that fit across 2 rafters to sit things on. Jam jars could go there if you kept them in a plastic lidded storage box.You could just take the ones you wanted each time.

sans_2

I'm glad someone started this thread, with all this re-using things my cupboards in the whole house are full of stuff. I try to recycle all my glass at the bottle bank once a week as it can take up a large section of the kitchen bunker. The council provides 3 bins for us (one for main rubbish, one for paper, plastics and tins and another for waste) so that isn't bad. I try to re-use smaller envelopes where possible as the gum use on them doesn't allow the envelope to be recycled. However where the envelope is damaged or too tatty to re-use I will take the time to rip away at the bits which have been glues together etc. I actually have several bags of A4 sized or larger envelopes so now unless they are in very good condition I tend to recycle them as it currently takes up a whole top shelf of a single wardrobe in our bedroom. I tend to recycle most bits of paper now unless both sides are nearly like new as I tend to take home bits of paper from work which had the odd line printed on it which I can't exactly re-use at work again.

nabowla

I was just about managing until I moved into a top floor flat with access to a loft the size of my flat. I've only been there 11 months and the loft is getting rather full of 'things that might come in useful'. Goodness only knows what I'll do if my landlord ever decides to sell the place!!!

competitionscafe

nabowla wrote:

I was just about managing until I moved into a top floor flat with access to a loft the size of my flat. I've only been there 11 months and the loft is getting rather full of 'things that might come in useful'. Goodness only knows what I'll do if my landlord ever decides to sell the place!!!

Same here, my rented flat has a small box room and a large walk in cupboard - been here 3 years and both of my 'storerooms' are full!!

I also collect books like it's going out of fashion (can't resist ebay bargains) - does anyone know where I can get a cheap bookcase / shelves that don't look hideous. Tried ebay but most are ££££££££ for delivery or local pickup only (understandable due to weight). Tried freecycle but they always seem taken about 3 seconds after the email goes out (plus I don't have a car to collect one). Any online shops doing a bargain bookcase with reasonable delivery charge? Prefer something in (dark) wood or bamboo, but I guess proper wood doesn't come cheap - although I was told it's not very fashionable at the moment and bargains abound?

bargainqueen_2

Have you tried a cheap loal general auction house/sale? My friend got a pine bookshelf for ten quid a few months back. Must be worth a shot?

Lillibet_2

Have just lost our general dumping ground (in most people's homes a spare room:rotfl:) as Spud came along & we had to conver it into a nursery....for such a small creature he needs an extrodinary amount of stuff and a lot of space! Our loft is now bulging, so much so that Hubby is worried about the rafters! I think an early car boot sale is required next season:p. But the stuff we really want to keep and even use regulary but have no where to store...I think the answer for us is a maximum of only 2 projects on the go at any time and storing stuff inside stuff inside stuff. The sterliser lives inside the microwave, tupperware regulary gets cleared out & only what I can fit in the cupbaord stays, anything broken, chipped or damaged which isn't repaired within a week goes 'cos lets face it, we aren't going to get around to repairing it before we need to use it & have to buy a new one anyway.

Just out of curiosity, what are you savign teh loo roll tubes for? I can understand jam jars but loo roll tubes????

toozie_2

Uses for loo rolls:

Hampster toys
Grow sweet pea seedings inside
Make arty stuff on rainy day with little kids
Take to local Play Group-they'll love you-they are alway in need of craft bits

Can't think of anymore until I get my next :coffee:

Ticklemouse

Hate to tell you this, you folks who live in small places, but if and when you up-size, you will only expand and expand until yet again you are running out of room

We used to live in a 3 bed house, with a long single garage. Now we live in a 5 bed house, with decent loft access, 1 1/2 width garage, external shed (which Mr TM has converted to a bar) and a summerhouse which has my conservatory furniture in. All my rooms are full, my kitchen needs to be at least twice the size, the garage is full to bustin' (and never seen a car) and this is why I'm doing a car boot sale in a few weeks. Toddler toys are big and bulky and we're not (intending on) having any more, so it's gotta go

We've inherited furniture, bought more furniture, been given more camping stuff (some of that is going too!) and now I'm OS, my understairs cupboard looks like a cross between Tesco's and Curry's I have card making paraphernalia, part done cross-stitch and 65 m of heavy duty curtain material kicking around, plus lining material, waiting to be transformed.

I have my eye on a rather nice 5 bed Georgian detached villa nearby, with lots of downstairs rooms and storage......which I could fill instantly......(money is a bit of an issue you understand, but I can dream )

black-saturn

toozie wrote:

Uses for loo rolls:

Take to local Play Group-they'll love you-they are alway in need of craft bits

When I worked in our local playgroup they wouldnt use donate loo rolls as they were considered to be unhygienic. Instead they used to buy in new empty loo rolls

I also live in a Victorian 2 up 2 down terraced house and I have 4 people living here. I do a lot of ebay so the dining room is full of packageing and items which the auctions are waiting to end and items packed up waiting to be posted. There is a dining table in the middle though. The kitchen has 2 small worktops which have the breadmaker, slow cooker, George Forman, kettle and microwave. I have 3 small cupboards, 1 for food, 1 for plates and cups etc and one for cooking utensils. I havn't got a spare bedroom. I've only got a little concrete back yard. On top of that I want a yogurt maker but I don't know where I would put it

calleyw

I use to live in a one bed ground floor flat. So at least the bikes where out side.

We had limited cupboard space. So moving in to a 3 bed house was luxury. But we still seemed to have filled it with all the stuff that was in the flat with out buying any extra stuff.

But what I use to do was put stuff under the bed. Have a pine framed bed. So can get loads under there.

Extra sheets for the bed would go under the mattresses on the slats.

Also had a rule one thing and one thing out. Would try to make it two things out. But I always had a great excuse for not buying loads of stuff as I just did not have the room to put it anyway.

Yours

Calley