Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

I have unfortunately not achieved minimalist status and am now an inveterate hoarder. But your story reminds me of after my grandfather died. He had lived in the same apartment for decades with the same landlady (it was always a question in our minds which of them would outlive the other).
Anyway, when he died the landlady gave us 3 days to vacate the apartment. We had a friend who had a much smaller place about a half mile away and said we could store as much as we could fit in.
We had no car.
So my mother and I spent three days walking stuff over to the friend's apartment and we would leave things in the street along the way. Usually they were gone by the time we walked by again,
We got really good at knowing 'the market' - pots and pans go faster from that corner, vs that alley really likes books! It turned a sad and depressing event into quite an entertaining and certainly memorable experience.

Tax because that had absolutely nothing to do with chickens so here is a chicken. Bernie.
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I like my things. I've spent years collecting them. I don't have lots any more. I went from 6 cubic metres of stuff to a bit over 2 cubic metres of stuff when I went to Spain. One can get a lot in 2 cubic metres if one is good at packing. I've added a few items since. I've had most of my furniture since my early 20's.
The problem I have now is well packed has in the past meant heavy and this time there are things that would have to go empty because I can't physically shift them otherwise. The days of packing a chest of drawers to straining point and manhandling it on to a back of a truck are over.
I've moved around a lot but I still find it stressful.

 

[Shadrach]

This, all this!

I don't label the moving boxes with the contents, but write on the outside of the box the room where I want it to go in the new place. The last few boxes I throw together have "miscellaneous" or "misc" scribbled on the side!

You mean there are other words one can write on cardboard packing boxes!

 

[Sally PB]

I've moved around a lot but I still find it stressful.

We moved into this house 29 years ago. I tell people we'll go out horizontally. I really like the feeling of having long, deep roots.

I really hope it works out for you, Shadrach. And that you feel better. You and your chickens deserve it.

 

[Shadrach]

Crap day. The feeling better didn't last and it rained on and off most of the day.
Four hours split evenly between morning and evening.
Youngest has Covid again; not down to me I might add.
No roost bar roosting tonight when I looked in.

 

[Molpet]

We moved into this house 29 years ago. I tell people we'll go out horizontally. I really like the feeling of having long, deep roots.

I really hope it works out for you, Shadrach. And that you feel better. You and your chickens deserve it.

I'm 4th generation same place. Lots of stuff

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm 4th generation same place. Lots of stuff

Me too. There was lots of sorting, keeping, discarding, and storing at first, but I'm almost through all of that.

 

[no fly zone]

I have unfortunately not achieved minimalist status and am now an inveterate hoarder. But your story reminds me of after my grandfather died. He had lived in the same apartment for decades with the same landlady (it was always a question in our minds which of them would outlive the other).
Anyway, when he died the landlady gave us 3 days to vacate the apartment. We had a friend who had a much smaller place about a half mile away and said we could store as much as we could fit in.
We had no car.
So my mother and I spent three days walking stuff over to the friend's apartment and we would leave things in the street along the way. Usually they were gone by the time we walked by again,
We got really good at knowing 'the market' - pots and pans go faster from that corner, vs that alley really likes books! It turned a sad and depressing event into quite an entertaining and certainly memorable experience.

Tax because that had absolutely nothing to do with chickens so here is a chicken. Bernie.
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she gave only 3 days? that is terrible! too bad your grandfather did not outlive her.

 

[no fly zone]

Crap day. The feeling better didn't last and it rained on and off most of the day.
Four hours split evenly between morning and evening.
Youngest has Covid again; not down to me I might add.
No roost bar roosting tonight when I looked in.
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Fret's babies look so big now

 

[BDutch]

I'm 4th generation same place. Lots of stuff

I'm first generation same place. Live here almost 18 years now. Lots of stuff.
No plans to move for another 18 years or so.

Abby inside the humans coop.

 

[MrsNorthie]

This, all this!

I don't label the moving boxes with the contents, but write on the outside of the box the room where I want it to go in the new place. The last few boxes I throw together have "miscellaneous" or "misc" scribbled on the side!

My husband is the type of packer where anything goes, I have "this" in my hand and that box is empty.. as long as it makes it on the truck..lol I packed 2 months in advance for our trip to the U.K. LOL He packed the night before... LOL