Organisational delights?

We had a hall cupboard that was entirely taken up by an old boiler which no longer worked, and hadn't done for some time.  Today, the dear SO decided to remove it - good thing to do - and use the cleared space for something else.

Now I have a very great number of boxes and baskets full of papers and calendars, diaries and notebooks, plus countless other things that are entirely necessary to me, and my earlier days but which, now, need to be properly organised, recorded and sorted, to complete a picture of my life.   I mean, that is what you want to do when you are endeavouring to keep an interesting and readable record of your life; and recording your family history also demands that you keep details of your own life, for you don't want an incomplete record, which is what you'd have without your own life story.

So, over the years, I've kept all sorts of details which now must be put into order and, by doing this, I hope to enable myself to conjure up other stories; but first of all, I must clear the decks and give myself room to manoeuvre.

Thus this newly cleared cupboard has allowed Him to create a space for his tools and bits and pieces, which He definitely deserves to have and this will then allow space in the kitchen cupboard, where the hot water tank is, to hold various kitchen bits and pieces, thereby clearing the kitchen of clutter and giving us a tidier work space.

Are you still with me?  You see when we arrived, we just put things anywhere and now we're having to re-organise ourselves as we eliminate various things we no longer think are right - phew.

So He's creating shelves in his new cupboard and in the process, using up his wood supply, which will help us decide what to buy for future shelving requirements.  And I need shelves over my desk and in the bedroom and...........well, I'm not sure where else yet but we'll see?

You know the situation I'm sure; you know where you want to end up and with what, so you have to go back from that position to the beginning and work out what you need to do first of all, to get to your desired end position, hey ho!

And once He's got his shelves, He will be happy to do mine, well more of mine, and that's what I'm working on right now; and when my new shelves are up and utilised, I'll have a clear desk on which to work.  And that will be just great.

And today I've been looking at various ready-made shelving ideas but I guess we'll end up by buying new pine shelves and brackets and nails, and creating own design items, for He's very good at building and creating things....and it's all very exciting!

Daisy