I've been tidying the shed this morning. It's really a brick extension to the garage which looks as if it was originally used as a small workshop. We call it the shed and use it for shed-type storage such as garden tools, lawn mower, strimmer, paint tins, general tools, electric drills, wellies, bits of wood and so on.
Anyhow I've been finding out how many useless and/or hopelessly corroded bits and bobs accumulate in sheds. I knew of course, but tidying the shed always seems to hammer home the relationship between sheds and stuff which might have been useful one day but never is.
I'll resume operations after a well deserved cup of tea.
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And have you noticed how difficult it is to throw stuff away?
DJ - I have noticed. My next job is to clear a shelf full of boxes of bits and pieces which I originally thought must be useful except they hardly ever are. I wouldn't lose much if I dumped the lot.
In our garage we have a whole filing cabinet drawer devoted to brass bits and bobs. It'll become valuable scrap one day, just you wait and see.
I liked the tale of an old boy who kept a box of "string too short to be of any use" and another box of "broken rubber bands".
dearieme - and the time may come when the filing cabinet is an antique. It would be no surprise is short bits of string and broken rubber bands have been used in a Blue Peter collage.
My son and I have just built a new shed in my garden. Just in time as the old one was about to collapse. My wife insisted that I sort out and tidy everything in the new shed and so I set to.I can now find anything provided that I can remember which box and which shelf the thing is on. What has really surprised me is I was looking on Google Earth last week and out of curiosity checked to see what my place looked like. I found that it showed the new shed in place and it was only completed just before Christmas.
John - that's interesting. I suppose Google Earth could be updated each time a satellite crosses over. Ours isn't so up to date though, I just checked and I can see a shrub by the house which I removed two years ago.
Decluttering is excellent, until shortly after you go to do a small job and clearly remember that item which you now need was disposed of as useless in the declutter.
Anon - that's the problem, I can already imagine all the bits I'll be reluctant to get rid of - just in case.
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