What really slowed me down was having to go through boxes of lesser stuff we had thought of taking to a car boot or two this summer (idea now abandoned), and washing, drying and rewrapping it to go off to auction instead.
You can probably just see a striped blanket to the left of centre. This went in the washing machine and will be listed on eBay later today. It's an old narrow-loom one which is worn thin and now needs selling for someone to make into place-mats or whatever.
Above is the pile of stuff moved to the back kitchen door to go back in - shopping bags, a couple of small chairs, and a couple of bags of used padded envelopes which I reuse to send the bits in, I am selling (slowly) on eBay. So those all came back in the Junk Room afterwards.
Above - auction boxes and charity shop stuff. The former temporarily back in the Junk Room until the auction are taking stock for the next sale.
Finally, much tidier. The tall open-shelf cupboard at the back houses some of my fabric stash, craft books and magazines etc. I took armfuls of the cotton fabrics up to my sewing room and have put it away in a plastic storage box up there. Progress . . . The stuff on the right is the auction stuff and I will be glad to see the back of that!
Needless to say I really overdid things and didn't help matters by having stripped the bed at breakfast time, and forgotten it needed vacuuming (to get dust mites off mattress - they're my no. 1 allergen) and making up with fresh bedding. NOT good to discover that needed doing when we'd had our evening meal! By 8.30 p.m. I was fit for nothing and fell into bed, but then woke half a dozen times in the night - you would think I'd have slept right through.
Now I'm going down to do some baking (recipes tomorrow) and it's my patchwork class this afternoon.
Anyway, I can at least say clearing the Junk Room was a job well done! When we have a viewing later in the year all the boxed china can go out in the stables (planning for the house to go back on in April if I get all the jobs done in time - garden, painting etc.)
