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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 19:36:24 GMT
OK, here goes for my first numpty thread.
If Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and especially Pluto all align next year I will be moving from a very large 12 roomed house in the country to a boat.
Don't ask why - just accept I'm an idiot.
Give me your stories of getting rid of stuff etc. I'm looking for a mix of practical and more fun anecdotes to help me keep sane through what will be a difficult process.
As an example;
Do I offer the cement mixer on here as a way of making your own ballast. Do I offer the 19 kg concrete breaker to a London boater looking for a new mooring.
Some sensible suggestions would be appreciated!
Wibble.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 19:41:12 GMT
We did car boots and then binned what we really didn't want. We then filtered. We rented a storage room, and what was left there 12 months later was sold, or given away.
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Post by kris on Oct 18, 2016 19:44:38 GMT
Pack the essentials in a rucksack, then burn the house and it's contents to the ground. Making a sizable insurance claim at the same time. Other than that ebay is your friend.
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Post by lollygagger on Oct 18, 2016 19:49:12 GMT
I also moved from a large house to a boat. First I chucked obvious rubbish. Then I chucked the worst of the remains. Etc, etc until I had a few clothes and some tools ( I did same for a vehicle restoration business at the same time).
By the end I was giving away everything and everything, having manic bonfires and thinking I should have just shovelled everything into a series of skips without looking to begin with.
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Post by patty on Oct 18, 2016 19:51:49 GMT
Only car boot if you don't mind being insulted by the pennies offered for your stuff..ebay first if u can I had to get rid of loads due to chaotic life and predicted time of sleeping in rentals and I got very upset at car boots..in the end I donated to a charity shop Ive seriously decluttered though back in crumbling stone and mortar If u have loads..what about sale at your house?..we did that at dads..well barn sale but we put loads household in it...auctioneers did the lot but i had to sort it all first into lots..u mix the good in with the rubbish.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 20:11:03 GMT
Pack the essentials in a rucksack, then burn the house and it's contents to the ground. Making a sizable insurance claim at the same time. Other than that ebay is your friend. Your post is a bit too close to the truth of what has happened for comfort. Add in the death of my wife and you would have pretty much hit the jackpot. Thank you (and others) for responding. Some light hearted/funny/rude responses would be welcome as well.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 18, 2016 20:12:19 GMT
Devote 2-3 weeks to it, put everything on ebay. Post the smaller stuff, collection only for the larger stuff. If an item doesn't attract any bids then re-list it with a far lower reserve. If it still doesn't sell then skip it.
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Post by peterboat on Oct 18, 2016 20:13:10 GMT
I moved into a very large caravan whilst looking for the first boat and decluttering was done by moving it all to work then selling/giving it away. By the time the boat came along all was sorted ish
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Post by kris on Oct 18, 2016 20:22:16 GMT
Pack the essentials in a rucksack, then burn the house and it's contents to the ground. Making a sizable insurance claim at the same time. Other than that ebay is your friend. Your post is a bit too close to the truth of what has happened for comfort. Add in the death of my wife and you would have pretty much hit the jackpot. Thank you (and others) for responding. Some light hearted/funny/rude responses would be welcome as well. im sorry if I've hit a nerve that wasn't the intention. I've been reduced to what I can carry in a rucksack on numerous occasions in my life (for various reasons.) whilst initially it has been traumatic, when the shock fades it has been most liberating. It has always led to a new interesting phase of my life. So take the useful advice that has been given in this thread. Get through this transitional period and good luck with the next phase of your life.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 20:30:37 GMT
Your post is a bit too close to the truth of what has happened for comfort. Add in the death of my wife and you would have pretty much hit the jackpot. Thank you (and others) for responding. Some light hearted/funny/rude responses would be welcome as well. im sorry if I've hit a nerve that wasn't the intention. I've been reduced to what I can carry in a rucksack on numerous occasions in my life (for various reasons.) whilst initially it has been traumatic, when the shock fades it has been most liberating. It has always led to a new interesting phase of my life. So take the useful advice that has been given in this thread. Get through this transitional period and good luck with the next phase of your life. The nerve was triggered but I know it wasn't your intention. I know I'm going through a transitional period (even if it is 10 yrs old/young...) Need to get back to being an idiot - where is Foxy, surely he has internet by now. Wibble Wibble
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Post by Delta9 on Oct 18, 2016 20:30:40 GMT
I didn't have much to start with as I've always travelled around a lot and lived in small places. I gave a lot of stuff away to friends and brought way too much with me on to the boat. I regret giving away some of the stuff and never use most of the shit I bought with me..
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Post by JohnV on Oct 18, 2016 20:42:56 GMT
When I moved on board I had 2 company storage units where a lot of my odds and sods ended up. the big problem came about 5 years later when I closed down the company. One of the stores went straight away. I managed to sell a fair amount of stuff to other maintenance companies but I still had a hell of a lot of oddball stuff in my other store (plus all the stuff from my house, my wife's flat and my late mothers house) It took three years of boot sales and small adds to whittle it down (Patty's right, it needs a thick skin to sell personal things at boot sales) selling equipment and spares etc wasn't so bad, most of it was being bought by other people in the trade who had a damn good idea of it's value and soon knew that I knew exactly what it was worth. (and it was at a sensible price that made it worthwhile for another professional to buy) Eventually I got fed up with the sheer bloody effort of doing boot sales and dealing with the piss takers, so I stuck all the remaining boot sale stuff in a shed in my sister's garden. It still remains there On top of that I seem to have gathered even more junk things that will come in useful one day ........ Oh heck I suppose I need to start getting rid of stuff again ........ and I am not good at it !!
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Post by phil70 on Oct 18, 2016 20:43:04 GMT
We had a series of garage sales, the same faces popped up every week asking about the same items "chisit" I would reply "the same as last week" eventually after 2 or 3 weeks of "chisit" I would accept a price with a token discount (everybody happy) One occasion we spotted a couple whispering while examining a oriental style vase, paying a lot of attention to the base which had Chinese characters on it. Sensing suckers I put a stupid price on it and they bit my hand off..........it cost £5-00 in the Lincoln Co-Op, they had loads of them. We ended up camping in the cottage and on the day of our move aboard we had a skip into which went everything that was left. Phil
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 20:45:45 GMT
I didn't have much to start with as I've always travelled around a lot and lived in small places. I gave a lot of stuff away to friends and brought way too much with me on to the boat. I regret giving away some of the stuff and never use most of the shit I bought with me.. It is this sort of knowledge that would help me. What did you give away and regretted etc. You don't have to answer as this sort of stuff can be very personal.
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Post by Delta9 on Oct 18, 2016 21:04:28 GMT
I didn't have much to start with as I've always travelled around a lot and lived in small places. I gave a lot of stuff away to friends and brought way too much with me on to the boat. I regret giving away some of the stuff and never use most of the shit I bought with me.. It is this sort of knowledge that would help me. What did you give away and regretted etc. You don't have to answer as this sort of stuff can be very personal. I was just in too much of a rush to do things as I had about two weeks to get rid of enough stuff to fit all my possessions in a large car and drive to the UK. I let some stuff go very cheap and gave away things worth decent money. I also got rid of a few things that would have been really handy on the boat like a genny and a monkeybike. I didn't have much room so made some poor decisions and kept the useless crap I did't really need.
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