What did you find when you started packing??
Aug 12th 2005, 4:23 pm
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What did you find when you started packing??
Hi
had a very strange day today,
the jist is we have sold the house, been here 19 years and had 5 kids, not got the visa but start a new job in Oz in January.
So today we started clearing the attic........ 19 years of history and sentimentality!!
Kids have laughed I have cried,
found records the kids didnt know what they were... bought up with cds so now we got to set up the player we founknow d up there and play the records for them so 'they know what olden day music is like'
Wedding dress......girls been dressing up in it...wish I could have got in it!! lol
found some old brook bond tea cards and books.
loads of stuff we kept for......what???
so now its done car boot on Sunday to sell some so that we can try and get everything in one container!!! lol
wondered what you found when you cleared yours
Chris
had a very strange day today,
the jist is we have sold the house, been here 19 years and had 5 kids, not got the visa but start a new job in Oz in January.
So today we started clearing the attic........ 19 years of history and sentimentality!!
Kids have laughed I have cried,
found records the kids didnt know what they were... bought up with cds so now we got to set up the player we founknow d up there and play the records for them so 'they know what olden day music is like'
Wedding dress......girls been dressing up in it...wish I could have got in it!! lol
found some old brook bond tea cards and books.
loads of stuff we kept for......what???
so now its done car boot on Sunday to sell some so that we can try and get everything in one container!!! lol
wondered what you found when you cleared yours
Chris
Aug 12th 2005, 9:20 pm
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I enjoyed sitting there looking at the kids wrist bands from hospital, first shoes, first dress etc when I should of been sorting out and getting organised!!!! 
Painted and drawn pictures that th kids had done at playgroup and newspaper cuttings when they appeared in them. Memories or what!!!! (and they're only 10 & 6)!!!!
Lorraine
Painted and drawn pictures that th kids had done at playgroup and newspaper cuttings when they appeared in them. Memories or what!!!! (and they're only 10 & 6)!!!!Lorraine
Aug 12th 2005, 9:35 pm
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What we found is that we have got to much stuff 
Aug 12th 2005, 9:51 pm
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Re: What did you find when you started packing??
Originally Posted by karenjc
What we found is that we have got to much stuff
Aug 12th 2005, 10:03 pm
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Re: What did you find when you started packing??
Originally Posted by TheRossers
Ditto. We said we weren't taking much......140 boxes later!!!
My total contribution to my suitcase so far is a big swiss army knife and a windup radio..
I think that must be about my 32kg luggage allowance all gone then.
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Aug 12th 2005, 10:27 pm
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I just emptied my attic a couple of days ago too. Although I wish I hadn't it's unbelievable what you hide away.. I also came across my wedding dress nd old halloween costumes that I made for them all when they were little 
.
The best thing though was to find all the old drawings that the girls done when they were in nursery etc. They are now 16 and 14 and fight like cat and dog or don't bother talking. When they came across this box though they were sat downstairs with their brother and they were all laughing away at their efforts.
The funniest things were a card that my sister had sent to my oldest daughter for her birthday. We found the other day that she had crossed out the writing in it and wrote. " Miss Brearley I love you from Hayley". She must have been 5 or 6 at the time as this was a teacher she had in Primary for 2 years running. What is so funny is that we moved out of the area and a few years later the same teacher turned up in the secondary school that my kids go to, to teach art. After my younger daughter threatened to expose the card, Hayley is going to take it in to show the teacher in question. She is sooooo embarrassed
They also had a good laugh at my other daughters writing. She is left handed and always wrote everything right to left, so although she could spell she used to write her name eilataN (natalie) and loohcs (school) etc. I had actually forgotten that she did that until the girls showed me.
My oldest daughter was obviously obsessed with smoking from a very early age, every picture that she drew of a person seemed to have a fag hanging out of its mouth :scared: . I used to smoke when they were little so she says that I was a bad influence .
I'm looking forward to going through my sons box of pictures. Not that he ever brought many home.
We also went through some old photos that we haven't looked through for years, although not all of them. We have packed them now but are really looking forward to sorting them out and putting them all in albums when we get to Australia.
I am so glad that I kept their pictures. I know loads of people who put their childrens artwork on the fridge for a few days and then put it in the bin when the child isn't looking. I have never thrown one single picture out, much to my husbands annoyance. he could never understand why I kept every little scrap. He often tried to persuade me to whittle them down a bit, but I refused. My brother also thinks that I am mad for shipping them all over to australia but I don't care. I'm not taking my tv, suite or anything like that as they can be replaced but my pictures are priceless. They even managed to bring my girls together albeit for a short while and I am sure that they will get a laugh out of them for many years!!!
I sound a bit demented now don't I
Tracey
.The best thing though was to find all the old drawings that the girls done when they were in nursery etc. They are now 16 and 14 and fight like cat and dog or don't bother talking. When they came across this box though they were sat downstairs with their brother and they were all laughing away at their efforts.
The funniest things were a card that my sister had sent to my oldest daughter for her birthday. We found the other day that she had crossed out the writing in it and wrote. " Miss Brearley I love you from Hayley". She must have been 5 or 6 at the time as this was a teacher she had in Primary for 2 years running. What is so funny is that we moved out of the area and a few years later the same teacher turned up in the secondary school that my kids go to, to teach art. After my younger daughter threatened to expose the card, Hayley is going to take it in to show the teacher in question. She is sooooo embarrassed
They also had a good laugh at my other daughters writing. She is left handed and always wrote everything right to left, so although she could spell she used to write her name eilataN (natalie) and loohcs (school) etc. I had actually forgotten that she did that until the girls showed me.
My oldest daughter was obviously obsessed with smoking from a very early age, every picture that she drew of a person seemed to have a fag hanging out of its mouth :scared: . I used to smoke when they were little so she says that I was a bad influence
.I'm looking forward to going through my sons box of pictures. Not that he ever brought many home.
We also went through some old photos that we haven't looked through for years, although not all of them. We have packed them now but are really looking forward to sorting them out and putting them all in albums when we get to Australia.
I am so glad that I kept their pictures. I know loads of people who put their childrens artwork on the fridge for a few days and then put it in the bin when the child isn't looking. I have never thrown one single picture out, much to my husbands annoyance. he could never understand why I kept every little scrap. He often tried to persuade me to whittle them down a bit, but I refused. My brother also thinks that I am mad for shipping them all over to australia but I don't care. I'm not taking my tv, suite or anything like that as they can be replaced but my pictures are priceless. They even managed to bring my girls together albeit for a short while and I am sure that they will get a laugh out of them for many years!!!
I sound a bit demented now don't I
Tracey
Aug 12th 2005, 10:29 pm
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Re: What did you find when you started packing??
A rubix cube 
And guess what? I still couldn't bloody do it
And guess what? I still couldn't bloody do it
Aug 12th 2005, 10:39 pm
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Originally Posted by hevs
A rubix cube
And guess what? I still couldn't bloody do it
And guess what? I still couldn't bloody do it
.There's 2 ways to do it:
1. Peel all the stickers off and stick them back on again
or
2. Pull it to bits and then put it all back together again.
That's how I used to do it!
These methods don't work for long however. Either the stickers lose their sticky or the bloody thing just falls apart
Tracey
Aug 12th 2005, 11:28 pm
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Re: What did you find when you started packing??
Originally Posted by TheRossers
Ditto. We said we weren't taking much......140 boxes later!!!
HOW MUCH?????
Aug 12th 2005, 11:31 pm
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Originally Posted by tracey.d
PMSL .
There's 2 ways to do it:
1. Peel all the stickers off and stick them back on again
or
2. Pull it to bits and then put it all back together again.
That's how I used to do it!
These methods don't work for long however. Either the stickers lose their sticky or the bloody thing just falls apart
Tracey
.There's 2 ways to do it:
1. Peel all the stickers off and stick them back on again
or
2. Pull it to bits and then put it all back together again.
That's how I used to do it!
These methods don't work for long however. Either the stickers lose their sticky or the bloody thing just falls apart
Tracey
Did it once broke the flaming thing!! had to buy another didnt do it again!! lol
Aug 12th 2005, 11:32 pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Mitchell
HOW MUCH?????
Aug 12th 2005, 11:35 pm
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Originally Posted by tracey.d
I just emptied my attic a couple of days ago too. Although I wish I hadn't it's unbelievable what you hide away.. I also came across my wedding dress nd old halloween costumes that I made for them all when they were little .
The best thing though was to find all the old drawings that the girls done when they were in nursery etc. They are now 16 and 14 and fight like cat and dog or don't bother talking. When they came across this box though they were sat downstairs with their brother and they were all laughing away at their efforts.
The funniest things were a card that my sister had sent to my oldest daughter for her birthday. We found the other day that she had crossed out the writing in it and wrote. " Miss Brearley I love you from Hayley". She must have been 5 or 6 at the time as this was a teacher she had in Primary for 2 years running. What is so funny is that we moved out of the area and a few years later the same teacher turned up in the secondary school that my kids go to, to teach art. After my younger daughter threatened to expose the card, Hayley is going to take it in to show the teacher in question. She is sooooo embarrassed
They also had a good laugh at my other daughters writing. She is left handed and always wrote everything right to left, so although she could spell she used to write her name eilataN (natalie) and loohcs (school) etc. I had actually forgotten that she did that until the girls showed me.
My oldest daughter was obviously obsessed with smoking from a very early age, every picture that she drew of a person seemed to have a fag hanging out of its mouth :scared: . I used to smoke when they were little so she says that I was a bad influence .
I'm looking forward to going through my sons box of pictures. Not that he ever brought many home.
We also went through some old photos that we haven't looked through for years, although not all of them. We have packed them now but are really looking forward to sorting them out and putting them all in albums when we get to Australia.
I am so glad that I kept their pictures. I know loads of people who put their childrens artwork on the fridge for a few days and then put it in the bin when the child isn't looking. I have never thrown one single picture out, much to my husbands annoyance. he could never understand why I kept every little scrap. He often tried to persuade me to whittle them down a bit, but I refused. My brother also thinks that I am mad for shipping them all over to australia but I don't care. I'm not taking my tv, suite or anything like that as they can be replaced but my pictures are priceless. They even managed to bring my girls together albeit for a short while and I am sure that they will get a laugh out of them for many years!!!
I sound a bit demented now don't I
Tracey
.The best thing though was to find all the old drawings that the girls done when they were in nursery etc. They are now 16 and 14 and fight like cat and dog or don't bother talking. When they came across this box though they were sat downstairs with their brother and they were all laughing away at their efforts.
The funniest things were a card that my sister had sent to my oldest daughter for her birthday. We found the other day that she had crossed out the writing in it and wrote. " Miss Brearley I love you from Hayley". She must have been 5 or 6 at the time as this was a teacher she had in Primary for 2 years running. What is so funny is that we moved out of the area and a few years later the same teacher turned up in the secondary school that my kids go to, to teach art. After my younger daughter threatened to expose the card, Hayley is going to take it in to show the teacher in question. She is sooooo embarrassed
They also had a good laugh at my other daughters writing. She is left handed and always wrote everything right to left, so although she could spell she used to write her name eilataN (natalie) and loohcs (school) etc. I had actually forgotten that she did that until the girls showed me.
My oldest daughter was obviously obsessed with smoking from a very early age, every picture that she drew of a person seemed to have a fag hanging out of its mouth :scared: . I used to smoke when they were little so she says that I was a bad influence
.I'm looking forward to going through my sons box of pictures. Not that he ever brought many home.
We also went through some old photos that we haven't looked through for years, although not all of them. We have packed them now but are really looking forward to sorting them out and putting them all in albums when we get to Australia.
I am so glad that I kept their pictures. I know loads of people who put their childrens artwork on the fridge for a few days and then put it in the bin when the child isn't looking. I have never thrown one single picture out, much to my husbands annoyance. he could never understand why I kept every little scrap. He often tried to persuade me to whittle them down a bit, but I refused. My brother also thinks that I am mad for shipping them all over to australia but I don't care. I'm not taking my tv, suite or anything like that as they can be replaced but my pictures are priceless. They even managed to bring my girls together albeit for a short while and I am sure that they will get a laugh out of them for many years!!!
I sound a bit demented now don't I
Tracey
after 5 i have had to be very hard today and have thrown old chrismas cards since 1980 birthday cards had kept them all upto about 5 years ago when hubby revolted and said there was no more room!!! misery lol
we have laughed at kids dressed up in my wedding dress....... bit of embarrassment when they asked what the silver handcuffs were for!! lol
Aug 12th 2005, 11:40 pm
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Re: What did you find when you started packing??
Originally Posted by tracey.d
I know. I was hoping it was a typing error :scared:
Don't worry Tracey!
Last week affter 20 trips to the tip, 10 trips to the hospice shop, - our packers arrived and packed 284 boxes and cartons into the container :scared: yes thats not a typo - 284
Aug 12th 2005, 11:44 pm
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Originally Posted by Paylia
Don't worry Tracey!
Last week affter 20 trips to the tip, 10 trips to the hospice shop, - our packers arrived and packed 284 boxes and cartons into the container :scared: yes thats not a typo - 284
Last week affter 20 trips to the tip, 10 trips to the hospice shop, - our packers arrived and packed 284 boxes and cartons into the container :scared: yes thats not a typo - 284
That is really scary!!!
didnt think there would be so many i was thinking 1 x each room and 1x each person but think perhaps i have underestimated.
Hope pickfords did a better job when they quoted.
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Aug 12th 2005, 11:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Paylia
Don't worry Tracey!
Last week affter 20 trips to the tip, 10 trips to the hospice shop, - our packers arrived and packed 284 boxes and cartons into the container :scared: yes thats not a typo - 284
Last week affter 20 trips to the tip, 10 trips to the hospice shop, - our packers arrived and packed 284 boxes and cartons into the container :scared: yes thats not a typo - 284
Hi just noticed you are in lincolnshire where abouts are you
