dust and clean and furniture
Sep. 22nd, 2015 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI emptied out a set of shelves in the bedroom preparatory to moving it to the living room.
... I'm waiting on there being another human in the house before I attempt that part. Pretty sure I can lift it, not so sure I won't end up squashed like a bug when it overbalances. Second human can then phone for help.
The lower two shelves are 90s magazines.
The first decade or so of my Fortean Times collection is down there, and in embarrassingly better nick than the more recent ones I accidentally folded a bunch because the stack toppled.
There's also a whole ton of New Scientist. Is there a reason to keep 90s New Scientist? I mean, they're pretty cool, but I don't know how accurate they'll be. Plus the rule where if I've done without them for fifteen years I probably don't need to keep them. But they're in such good condition and kinda pretty. Maybe someone else would want them?
The third sort of magazine down there is 90s cult TV. Which pretty much means X Files. So much X Files. I have GQ, I have TV magazines where they're on the cover, I have... I don't even know, probably all the things, I was aiming for all the things. So now I have so very many things. And I'm sure somebody somewhere would want them, in the nice condition that happens when you shelve things neatly and leave them that way since last century, but I have no idea how to get them to someone who would want them.
... anyone who can get to Norwich and wants a whole stack of magazines?
... not very likely.
I'm all covered in 90s dust now. It's worse than more recent dust cause the allergens just pack down so you get years of them at once. This dress is going in the laundry as soon as cleaner day is finished.
I cannot put the shelf in the place it's meant to go. The piano is in the place the shelf goes. But if I put the shelf in the living room and move the big stack of boxes of mostly Doctor Who merch into the bedroom then I can get at the box on the bottom that is books I meant to sell two years ago when I had someone to help me go places. I can then put those books in my wheely bag and go up to Norwich with them in the hopes someone will take them away. And use the box they're in for more DW merch, because clearly I can never have too much of that. Also the DW books have exceeded maximum capacity on the shelving and need a box too. And I don't even have all of them. I'm years behind.
I need to get rid of two recliners and then get furniture that actually works.
Similarly I need to get nice new drawers with actual structural integrity and get rid of the breaky things in the bedroom.
I'd quite like to get rid of the very tall bed but given how much I'm storing underneath it that seems unlikely to work. I mean the comics longboxes will fit under many beds (and come to think I could measure up with them in mind) but there's a lot of stuff under there in bags and boxes and it's just like a cave of things I couldn't throw away.
I have so many things. I want to keep the books, mostly, but then there's random stuff and things that I vaguely recall thinking were important when I was... 10 or something, but can't remember why. I mean it's possible some of the tackier plastic shiny things were inherited, but I don't recall, which is vaguely sad.
I'm all cough cough now because 90s dust.
There's another giant set of shelves in teh bedroom I plain can't use because they're the wrong sizes and stuck behind the cabin bed, but I can't get them out either because stuck behind the cabin bed. Frustrating.
In order to get rid of the bed I'd have to find storage places for each and all of the things currently in it. Challenging. Especially since any thing I buy that's not a bookshelf I just look at and think needs more books.
Okay, onwards to a less dusty bit of the Cleaner Day.
... I'm waiting on there being another human in the house before I attempt that part. Pretty sure I can lift it, not so sure I won't end up squashed like a bug when it overbalances. Second human can then phone for help.
The lower two shelves are 90s magazines.
The first decade or so of my Fortean Times collection is down there, and in embarrassingly better nick than the more recent ones I accidentally folded a bunch because the stack toppled.
There's also a whole ton of New Scientist. Is there a reason to keep 90s New Scientist? I mean, they're pretty cool, but I don't know how accurate they'll be. Plus the rule where if I've done without them for fifteen years I probably don't need to keep them. But they're in such good condition and kinda pretty. Maybe someone else would want them?
The third sort of magazine down there is 90s cult TV. Which pretty much means X Files. So much X Files. I have GQ, I have TV magazines where they're on the cover, I have... I don't even know, probably all the things, I was aiming for all the things. So now I have so very many things. And I'm sure somebody somewhere would want them, in the nice condition that happens when you shelve things neatly and leave them that way since last century, but I have no idea how to get them to someone who would want them.
... anyone who can get to Norwich and wants a whole stack of magazines?
... not very likely.
I'm all covered in 90s dust now. It's worse than more recent dust cause the allergens just pack down so you get years of them at once. This dress is going in the laundry as soon as cleaner day is finished.
I cannot put the shelf in the place it's meant to go. The piano is in the place the shelf goes. But if I put the shelf in the living room and move the big stack of boxes of mostly Doctor Who merch into the bedroom then I can get at the box on the bottom that is books I meant to sell two years ago when I had someone to help me go places. I can then put those books in my wheely bag and go up to Norwich with them in the hopes someone will take them away. And use the box they're in for more DW merch, because clearly I can never have too much of that. Also the DW books have exceeded maximum capacity on the shelving and need a box too. And I don't even have all of them. I'm years behind.
I need to get rid of two recliners and then get furniture that actually works.
Similarly I need to get nice new drawers with actual structural integrity and get rid of the breaky things in the bedroom.
I'd quite like to get rid of the very tall bed but given how much I'm storing underneath it that seems unlikely to work. I mean the comics longboxes will fit under many beds (and come to think I could measure up with them in mind) but there's a lot of stuff under there in bags and boxes and it's just like a cave of things I couldn't throw away.
I have so many things. I want to keep the books, mostly, but then there's random stuff and things that I vaguely recall thinking were important when I was... 10 or something, but can't remember why. I mean it's possible some of the tackier plastic shiny things were inherited, but I don't recall, which is vaguely sad.
I'm all cough cough now because 90s dust.
There's another giant set of shelves in teh bedroom I plain can't use because they're the wrong sizes and stuck behind the cabin bed, but I can't get them out either because stuck behind the cabin bed. Frustrating.
In order to get rid of the bed I'd have to find storage places for each and all of the things currently in it. Challenging. Especially since any thing I buy that's not a bookshelf I just look at and think needs more books.
Okay, onwards to a less dusty bit of the Cleaner Day.