AAARGH! I hate moving sheds!!

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

So, we've a move of residence coming up in a few weeks. 'Er Indoors just can't help herself... we've been living out of boxes for the last month or so. And it's getting worse.

With a Council Hard Garbage Day coming up this next weekend, yesterday she and SIL decided to tackle... my shed! In the interest of domestic harmony I said nothing - indeed, I tried to avoid the whole issue by staying in bed - but every 15 mins or so I was called out and asked "do you really need this?"

"Yes, I need something to sit on," and "yes, those shelves keep my tools off the floor" were a couple of my answers to the sillier questions.

At the end of the day they came in covered with dust, looks of satisfaction glued to their faces as they declared they'd made " a big dint in it." So I wandered out to the nature strip to mourn my losses. There was a humongous pile of domestic items - boxes full of old tupperware, etc. that'd come out of the house. And sitting next to them? Two cardboard boxes; one the packer for my SCMS and t'other for my scrollsaw, filled with scraps of fly-screen, old rags and the like.

"Hey, I can live with that" I thought, although I do sincerely mourn the loss of two perfectly good boxes and the cleaner of the rags.

Until I went into the shed this morning.

Absolute and utter chaos! It's impossible to work in there, all my tools have been stacked (not packed - just stacked) on top of each other in odd corners, amongst assorted timbers, boxes and other shed components. It'll take me weeks just to find any given tool... by which time we'll be moved. Worse, the reason I went out today was to start making boxes for storing my tools for transport. Quick knock-ups, basically just over-sized pencil boxes. I reckon I could knock up 20 or so in a few hours (nail-guns and bradders are luvverly toys! ) from the big scrap of ply offcuts I'd saved just for this purpose.

HA! Where was the ply? At the bottom of the biggest stack. My tablesaw? It'd been used as a bench for another stack.

3 hours later, I've managed to get at my ply and re-arrange stacks so that I could access the tablesaw and found all the little odds'n'sods I thought I'd need for the job, such as pencil, square, bradder, glue... Not my favourite tools (apart from the bradder) but every properly aged shed has spares of most mark-out tools, eh wot?

That's when I realised. Not one, single extension lead to be seen in the whole shed! Out of some 6 or 7 I'd made in specific lengths to run to each machine. Another hour searching through stacks and I still can't find even one. Of course, the Fiscal Manager had already taken off for the day, citing shopping as her reason for absence.

I'm damned sure she knew I'd be p***ed when I saw the stat of my shed and she got while the going was good.

So much for my building boxes today... I'm going back to bed!

[echnidna]

What's good for the Goose is good feor the Gander
sounds like its time to cleanup her house

[Calm]

What's good for the Goose is good feor the Gander
sounds like its time to cleanup her house

NO NO NO being a divorced man i thinks it not a good idea to grab the croc by the tail. Definetly let sleeping dogs lie, remember the tools need to go in the garage at the new house til the shed is built.

Strategy required here - let them think they won - time is on your side, they owe you one even though they wont admit it..

[echnidna]

well I'd do it

[Ivan in Oz]

NO NO NO being a divorced man i thinks it not a good idea to grab the croc by the tail.

I do NOT Know

My ex now lets me sort the "STUFF" her Shed,
she actually keeps out;
except to park her car....................Which is; infact, actually MINE......

Go Figure

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

NO NO NO being a divorced man i thinks it not a good idea to grab the croc by the tail. Definetly let sleeping dogs lie, remember the tools need to go in the garage at the new house til the shed is built.

Unfortunately, you're spot on here.

Strategy required here - let them think they won - time is on your side, they owe you one even though they wont admit it..

Yeah, it should make it easier to lay claim to the garage as well, after the shed is built. But biting my tongue isn't coming easily at the moment...

Besides, we're basically living outta boxes at the mo. Somehow I don't think rearranging them will have quite the same impact...

[RufflyRustic]

Heck!!!

I see I was very wise to get the keys to my shed before HWMNBO could.

Sincere Condolences Skew!!

cheers
Wendy

[Waldo]

Somehow I just knew you'd be full of anticipation and excitement on coming back from the island.



If you're hard up for ply I've got one piece leaning against something somewhere.

[dai sensei]

Oohhh

Hate the thought of moving. All the best, hope it works out.

[Cliff Rogers]

I now have 4 sheds full of cra... collectibles & 2 of them aren't anywhere near where I live.
I'm going to get a container to shift some stuff out of some of the sheds but I can already see that the container just won't be big enough.