What to do with the furniture

When you've lived in a house for 10 years, you tend to hoard stuff that really you should throw away. As the years go buy, you fill the holes under the bed, the airing cupboard becomes full of boxes rather than towels and the loft is groaning under the weight of all the aquisitions stored away up there. All this combined with sheds, garages and workshops amounts to an awful lot of stuff.

My dad always used to suggest that people should be forced to move on a regular basis in order to get rid of all this unwanted baggage. Well our time is now.

We've purchased a 20' second hand container, unfortunately not as bright and cheery as the one in the picture. This was delivered to the farm on 12-04-07 and the task ahead of us now is to pack it in such a way that we can retain as much of our rubbish as we can.

We've taken the option of buying a container as it means that when we finally find somewhere to move to, we can ship the container whole without the rigmarol of having to unpack it all again.