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I am about half way through the reorganisation of the downstairs part of the house. Frankly it looks much worse at the moment. I can not wait til it is all done because I had a melt down on Thursday when I just sat there ranting about the squalor and the mess.

I have weeded about 400 books. This has freed up the nicest and largest bookcase to be used for toy storage. Which it can be once the table is moved. Which it will be once the TV cabinet and TV are removed. (If you want a TV or TV cabinet, please come over and take one. Otherwise, assuming no one makes an Ebay offer, I am going to try to get the Good Sammies to take it next week).

Then the desk can also be removed and the available floor space should expand to several square metres.

Once all this is done I will have the mental energy to begin the more difficult parts - organising a loan so I can get a swish, waterproof shed to store my craft stuff (which will open up a gap which I hope will fit a deep freeze) and then doing the unbelievable amount of work which will be involved in swapping bedrooms.

I think the steps will be:

1, move all the books out of my bookcases and carry them downstairs (ie. about 1500 books).
2, move the bookcases into the bathroom (though, now I think of it, nine bookcases are not going to fit in the bathroom so I am going to have to take them downstairs too and this may mean disassembling them as they went up in Ikea kits).
3, dismantle my bed and move it downstairs, and have it taken away because it will not fit in the smaller room.
4, dismantle Pearl's bed and move it into my room.
5, put her bed back up and move Ruby's cot parallel to it.
6, swap the clothes between our storage units.
7, move Pearl and Ruby's bookcase and books.
8, buy a new single (possibly lofted) bed and take it upstairs and assemble it.
9, rearrange the furniture in Pearl's room, including throwing out the hideous storage unit with Ruby's clothes in it.
10, move the bookcases out of the bathroom.
11, all the books will then have to come upstairs.

Just thinking about this makes me want to weep. I can see no way to do it in a day and to do half and stop is a recipe for Pearl to have a meltdown. She needs to be presented with a done deed. She is thingy enough about the downstairs being rearranged.

Perhaps the best way to do it is to have the kids spend the night at Nanna and Pop's (and me too) and I can work on it for all of two days.

Must go now as a naked girl is telling me that her bed needs changing after rest time.

Date: 2012-01-07 09:20 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] possbert
Don't you hate that point when you begin to wonder why the hell you started but know that it's too late to stop or try to put it back the way it was?

Date: 2012-01-07 02:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] fred_mouse
depending on when you are working on it, I could come over with the kids and you can use us all as pack mules for carting stuff. Kids have been incredibly helpful with the reorganization of the bookshelves here (middle and youngest sort alphabetically together, eldest does it individually). This week, we are available all of thursday and friday, and I'm quite happy to organise bribes for the lot of them.

As a bonus, eldest and i are now of a size, so we are generally able to shift bookshelves together quite well.

Various others might be available as well?

Date: 2012-01-11 04:53 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] fred_mouse
slight change of plans - not available Thursday, as I now have a doctor's appointment (nothing major, just getting a prescription renewed), and she is only available tomorrow (or Tuesday, when I was working).

If you want us friday, give me a call by about 8pm tomorrow, otherwise I presume that I'll hear from you when you are ready to get on with it. Exact days that I'm working over the next two weeks aren't set, but I'm off work 30 + 31st January, as kids don't go back to school until the Wednesday.

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