[Misc] Hoarding stuff with a storage company

[ozzygull]

I have had to use these in the past due to moving. Normally the smallest unit I can get away with and if it will cost me more to store it then to replace it, it goes.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

My missus comes from a line of hoarders and has clearly not shed the family tradition.

Very much THIS

The (small) loft is SO full, that I'm genuinely surprised the bedroom ceilings have held up.

 

[Springal]

Helped the in-laws clear their loft due to works recently … my word, I don’t think they had thrown away anything for 30 years. They got a bit offended when I said almost all of it needs to go in a skip.

Who’s keeping a child’s car seat from the 1980s FFS…

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Very much THIS

The (small) loft is SO full, that I'm genuinely surprised the bedroom ceilings have held up.

Helped the in-laws clear their loft due to works recently … my word, I don’t think they had thrown away anything for 30 years. They got a bit offended when I said almost all of it needs to go in a skip.

Who’s keeping a child’s car seat from the 1980s FFS…

Yeah - that would be RIDICULOUS.

A car seat from the late 90's however, along with baby carrier, pushchair, bouncer, first shoes, ALL their baby clothes, every toy they ever so much as smiled once at - that would be perfectly reasonable...

 

[raymondo]

Helped the in-laws clear their loft due to works recently … my word, I don’t think they had thrown away anything for 30 years. They got a bit offended when I said almost all of it needs to go in a skip.

Who’s keeping a child’s car seat from the 1980s FFS…

The car seat is probably emotional attachment

 

[alanfp]

I have a skip in my front garden now and it brings a joy I've not really experienced before.

Me too! I have a skip most days and it's really good exercise, although I do get funny looks from passers-by.

 

[Brovion]

Me too! I have a skip most days and it's really good exercise, although I do get funny looks from passers-by.

In a similar vein my neighbour asked if it was ok if he had a skip outside my house? I replied "Go for it fatty!"

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I do have a lot of old clothes that all seem to have mysteriously shrunk in the last couple of years. I keep them in the vain hope that I might also mysteriously shrink in the coming days / weeks / months.

At some stage, I will have to admit that this isn't going to happen, accept my old fat bastard status, bin them and get some new threads that actually fit.

Get a skip.

 

[bhafc99]

In 2000 I was living in Brierley Hill but fed up with my job. After taking some careers advice I decided to return to university to do a Masters course. I got accommodation on campus for the duration so I put the contents of my rented house into storage in the expectation that in one year's time I would get a job (somewhere) and extricate my belongings.

A few months after finishing my course, and still figuring out what my next career move would be, completely out of the blue I got the opportunity to move to the US.

Yep......almost 25 years later, all my stuff is still in storage in the midlands

Wow. I was reading through this thread, thinking I’d post my “we left stuff in storage thinking it’d be 18 months or so and it ended up being 8 years” contribution, but you’ve just blown that out the water.

It’ll be like Howard Carter cracking open Tutankhamen’s tomb when you finally go back!

 

[Official Old Man]

CD players = old stuff

I had tons of gear. Started in 2000 I built up a massive show. Whilst the sound system was great, I couldn't give away a dual CD Player nor 30 lights, all dmx controlled but used lamps, it's all leds and laptops now.

 

[albionalba]

I just love it when NSC contributors combine to reassure me that I am not alone in some lazy aspect of my behaviour that I recognise and am powerless to change. So glad that there are others like me lining the pockets or storage company owners for no good reason beyond procrastination.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I just love it when NSC contributors combine to reassure me that I am not alone in some lazy aspect of my behaviour that I recognise and am powerless to change. So glad that there are others like me lining the pockets or storage company owners for no good reason beyond procrastination.

You're a FOOL. I'd never do that.

(I just continue to pay way over the odds for Virgin media and Now TV because I'm too lazy to get round to finding a better deal and actually switching)

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

I had to put stuff in storage when I was working in the States and renting out my flat in the UK, I used a really good family run place close to Southwick lighthouse - very efficient (you could drive your car right up to the storage container) and reasonable rates. Unfortunately they closed so had to move the stuff to a facility in Shoreham.

I've been back a couple of years now and done nothing - this thread is a timely reminder that I need to move the stuff out or bin it.

 

[mile oak]

If it’s out of sight for 10 years you don’t needs it unless it’s of some value that you can sell .

may be some sentimental values in there?

 

[BN9 BHA]

When the kids were young, I boarded the whole loft for 'the kids Scalextric'. Big Mistake.

20 odd years later I now have a huge loft full of crap that 'might come in useful'. There's a small area with the Xmas trees and stuff and another with the skiing stuff. I know there's a few boxes of scalextric, some diving stuff, a collection of musical instruments, but still I have no idea what the other 90% of the loft is filled with. And having put the Xmas stuff back up Friday we had the annual 'we must clear this loft out chat'

I have been in hundreds of lofts to get to water tanks and pipes, I think it’s my lucky day when I see a clear one, I’ve seen a side car, and a Hovis advert type pushbike in a loft.
I did go into one loft that wasn’t big but full of Albion programmes, that job did take me slightly longer