Organization and Storage

No problem - it's always fun to see other ideas for storage and organizing! MelissaD

MelissaD

Then you NEED this:

Who, pray tell, is going to drive the thing?? Not me, I promise you!!

Gill

Yes, I do!

Cheryl

Hmm - hey Bruce, driving a RV is a "man thing"; want the job? (giggle, giggle)

LOL - fortunately it's just filling the rec room, my office/studio, and well - some rather large unpacked boxes! Y'know the plan is to finish one of the unfinished rooms in the basement level to be my play room. The main area - which is embarassingly large - is done. But, that's DH's playroom - eventually. For now - it has my sewing corner, and my stitching spread around - besides the bigger trying to die tv, and the old sectional. In the meantime - the bigger mess is my "sewing" - which hasn't completely migrated downstairs, and still has some baskets in my bedroom, plus some in the office, plus what's downstairs, and in the guest room. Ooops - there's stitching stuff in bins in the guestroom and in the open loft/landing.

Hey - at least I finishted something from the outing - you enabler, you!

ellice

Well, in 1969 the RAF taught me to drive and, thanks to a year or two of working with alongside the Army, my RAF driving licence is/was signed up for several armoured vehicles including Centurion tanks. But if an "RV" is one of those huge mobile home monstrosities that handles like a hippo wallowing in thick mud then I think I'll let someone else do the driving. No doubt an RV is fine on a nice large USA motorways but negotiating the narrower lanes, especially those in the North of Scotland, would be a little tricky at times. Thanks for the offer (and the cute giggle) though

That's what it is, Bruce! 37 ft long,8'6" wide; and then we tow the car (Toyota Scion) behind, so that makes it a 50 ft train LOL. This current one has air-suspension, diesel engine in the rear, and is too big for me to drive with any confidence. However, when we are away from home for 5 months, as we were last summer, and covered 8500 miles, it is a super "home away from home". We definitely avoid small roads, and JIm tries to stick to the Interstate Highways, or other limited access roads. We use the small car for all the sightseeing! I can't imagine doing the sightseeing in the National Parks of the Rockies in this thing. We saw several people who did, but white-knuckling it is no way to admire the scenery in my opinion.

Knowing well the lanes of England and Scotland, there is no way in hell I would take the rig over there. Mind you, some Brits *do* come over here and buy them to take back. A little nuts, I think!

Gill

I have this vision of an RV making its lumbering way along some of the narrow roads in UK and on the "wrong side" yet! no way

A vehicle of that size wouldn't be on the "wrong side", it would be in the middle and occupying all the available road! When we lived in Sutherland about 30 years ago there was at least one instance of two tourists, one French the other German, driving these huge vehicles on single track roads with passing places every mile or two. The drivers were heading in opposite directions and saw each other coming but refused to pull over at the nearest passing point so they came nose to nose in one of the wilder, more remote bits of NE Sutherland. All traffic stopped for several hours as neither driver would give way and reverse to the nearest passing place; apparently tempers became flared and things were about to turn quite nasty when a policeman (who had to park and walk past a LONG line of cars) made them BOTH back up to the nearest passing place and allow the rest of the traffic to go on its way.

I can only imagine! I recall a few places where it wasn't wide enough for two Mini Coopers to pass each other!

Ah yes, 1275cc Mini Coopers - a lad's dream! I never managed to acquire one of those but I did have a Mini Traveller (the half-timbered variety) which was quite capacious. It had more room for the driver than my previous car, an MG Magnette (BEFORE I was married!). When I got the Mini Traveller after we moved to Scotland our very first Alsatian (German Shepherd) could stand in the back when he was fully grown and his ears did not touch the roof, something he could not do in a friend's huge Ford Estate.

I would love a Mini Cooper as a tow vehicle; the Scion looks a little like it. However we do have a MGB, which Jim stripped all the way down, learned to weld, and rebuilt the thing. He spent more money than was sensible, but it was a great hobby for a couple of winters ( here in Florida it is too hot in the summer to do this sort of project).

Gillian

I have noticed on that show and the other one, Clean House, they don't value craft stash. They think if you haven't used it in X number of months, you don't need it.

Sacrilege, I say!

I wouldn't let any of them near my house for that reason. But then, other than stash, I'm rather Zennish, myself...

Okay --- I have a driver for the RV. My husband used to be a OTR driver in another life. He says 50' is something he can handle.

As for "Clean Sweep" --- they always have Keep, Sell and Trash piles. I say we convince the person we're cleaning/organizing to give us the stash they don't need and we take it back to the RV and sort it out for ourselves as we go to the next job.

And thank you for posting the entire lyrics of "Be Our Guest". My daughter (age 16) and I watched the Disney movie just for that song yesterday.

Denise

I've had several men come in and announce that they could clean up my house PDQ. Step one for all of them was "we're getting rid of these big bins of yarn." The guy from Social Services was stunned when I told him that if he came back in 6 months, all the yarn in the one next to the love seat would be knit up into gifts and gone from the house. (Didn't tell him that I'd have refilled the basket.)

Second suggestion is always that they could make a lot of floor space by getting rid of the books and bookshelves.

One of these guys, I've been to his house and know his dirty little secret. Suggested that before he started tossing my yarn and books which he deemed "junk", he should go home and toss all those 25-year old computers and peripherals, which really ARE junk.

Honestly, after explaining to the guy from Social Services that I'd looked into Assisted Living, but was years away from being old enough to move in, he started explaining to me that I needed to *right*now* toss all my books and yarn, because there wouldn't be room for them in the A.L. apartment. I know that, but I don't see the point in throwing things away now because I'll be moving to a smaller place when I'm 55. What am I supposed to read till then?

But what's the point of making a lot of floor space? Do they intend you to start holding regular barn dances?

Well, at the risk of sounding slightly neurotic, I MUST have lots of space in my living areas. I have my stash packed away nicely and neatly. My kids' toys drive me absolutely bananas.

I'm the antipackrat. I throw stuff out ruthlessly. Except stash. If I didn't need furniture to sit on and beds to sleep in, I may not have that, either.

I have books, which are packed away because one of my children is the Tasmanian Devil and she destroys EVERYTHING, but even those I cull. I have found out about this fabulous place where you go and you can BORROW books for, like, 3 weeks at a time and read them and take them back--FOR FREE! I can't remember what it's called.

I envy houses with lots of open, clean, airy space.