House-Work
December 6th 2007 06:52
Well, since we came home we’ve spent the bulk of every day trying to sort out house out again. I’d thought it was a big enough task putting everything away before we went, but getting it all out again seems even bigger. You have to find a home for everything again, and some things aren’t going back where they were before. Some are being tossed out, including some furniture (we’ve had a problem with borer over the years). We’ve had to get over our sentimental feelings for the older items. There just comes a day when….
The difficulty comes when you decide that a large item - like the exercise treadmill - is going in a different room to where it previously resided. The treadmill always took up more than its fair share of room in the place it occupied previously, but where we’re going to have it now means we have to shift another piece of furniture out. Which means that something else has to go elsewhere. It’s like getting a jigsaw sorted.
Alongside all this my wife has decided she wants to redecorate two of the smaller bedrooms upstairs. So they’ve been stripped of their wallpaper in the last few days, and she’s begun plastering the walls ready for painting. We go from big picture things like that to detail stuff like sorting out all the tiny bits that have accumulated: are they worth keeping or not, is the constant question.
I even decided that some books that had survived the last purge were to go. That’s scary.
The difficulty comes when you decide that a large item - like the exercise treadmill - is going in a different room to where it previously resided. The treadmill always took up more than its fair share of room in the place it occupied previously, but where we’re going to have it now means we have to shift another piece of furniture out. Which means that something else has to go elsewhere. It’s like getting a jigsaw sorted.
Alongside all this my wife has decided she wants to redecorate two of the smaller bedrooms upstairs. So they’ve been stripped of their wallpaper in the last few days, and she’s begun plastering the walls ready for painting. We go from big picture things like that to detail stuff like sorting out all the tiny bits that have accumulated: are they worth keeping or not, is the constant question.
I even decided that some books that had survived the last purge were to go. That’s scary.
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