elephantmeg
01-02-2011, 01:28 AM
We need to clear out the upstairs to make it into a 3rd bedroom and bath. While DS is not interested in sleeping upstairs by himself (heck I don't want him by himself either yet!) we are over run by toys and I think he would benifit from a quiet place to play during the day. Plus all of my family is out of town and I just finished hosting for 10 days an alternating group of my parents/BIL/SIL so during the day we were 8 people in 1200 SF 1.5 bathroom house. And the upstairs room where they slept is half guest room and 1/2 dumping ground. It was embarassing!
DH is a collector: coins, train magazines, old computers, computer parts (lots and lots and lots of computer parts), christmas stuff, N scale train stuff, old cameras plus a lot of his childhood stuff. He basically is always collecting something. It was N scale trains when we were first married. Then the train magazines. Now it's mainly coins (which at least are more compact!) But of course we still have the previous collections. And the computers. He does not want me to go through it. He does not have the motivation to do it on his own either, so I'm trying to break it down into steps. In the mean time I am going to be going through my stuff again and paring down what I can and getting it nicely organized. I was big into scrapbooking but I think if I get back into it I'll go digital so I'm planning on paring down my stash to the stuff I use/could use to make cards. I do enjoy that.
So how do I seperate it out so it doesn't overwhelm him/us? So far I have:
1. go ahead and move Christmas decorations to the attic to get them out of the way
2. figure out where to put storage shed (we've decided on a 12x20 shed that we'll have custom built and have decided on the person to do the pad just need to figure out where)
3. call Jim (person to do the pad)
4. order shed
5. make a list of what is upstairs and designate where each thing should go
6. Set up a work area and start going through the computers to determine what stays/goes
7. once shed is installed move what is designated to it there, sorting as you go.
8. move stuff from existing sheds as needed based on #5.
9. move remaining items to finished side, call person to finish the other part.
so this is basically the computer part. How do you go through boxes and boxes of stuff that is labeled (from when he moved out of his parent's house almost 10 years ago or moved here 5+ years ago) "misc assorted stuff"
DH is a collector: coins, train magazines, old computers, computer parts (lots and lots and lots of computer parts), christmas stuff, N scale train stuff, old cameras plus a lot of his childhood stuff. He basically is always collecting something. It was N scale trains when we were first married. Then the train magazines. Now it's mainly coins (which at least are more compact!) But of course we still have the previous collections. And the computers. He does not want me to go through it. He does not have the motivation to do it on his own either, so I'm trying to break it down into steps. In the mean time I am going to be going through my stuff again and paring down what I can and getting it nicely organized. I was big into scrapbooking but I think if I get back into it I'll go digital so I'm planning on paring down my stash to the stuff I use/could use to make cards. I do enjoy that.
So how do I seperate it out so it doesn't overwhelm him/us? So far I have:
1. go ahead and move Christmas decorations to the attic to get them out of the way
2. figure out where to put storage shed (we've decided on a 12x20 shed that we'll have custom built and have decided on the person to do the pad just need to figure out where)
3. call Jim (person to do the pad)
4. order shed
5. make a list of what is upstairs and designate where each thing should go
6. Set up a work area and start going through the computers to determine what stays/goes
7. once shed is installed move what is designated to it there, sorting as you go.
8. move stuff from existing sheds as needed based on #5.
9. move remaining items to finished side, call person to finish the other part.
so this is basically the computer part. How do you go through boxes and boxes of stuff that is labeled (from when he moved out of his parent's house almost 10 years ago or moved here 5+ years ago) "misc assorted stuff"