decluttering
Dec. 10th, 2008 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ramtopsInspired by the transformation that has happened to the hall/stairs/landing, last night I set to in the smallest bedroom, which is rather grandiosely known as the "server room".
It's really only a box room, but as it contains one wall of Billy bookcases, two big red plastic boxes for vinyl albums, four computers, a large corner desk and typists chair, a standalone air conditioning unit, a clothes horse (either collapsed or up), a shelf with a Moth record cleaner, a ladder (on wall hooks) and a cat litter tray, it tends to be a dumping ground.
So I cleared all the crap from the red boxes, which improved matters no end. The Bookcase At The Top Of The Stairs was cleared and moved for decorating, and we rather like it not being there, but it has returned pro tem. Top shelf for books to keep, which need putting away (all ours are in alphabetical order), middle for books to get rid of (Oxfam bookshop, probably). One binliner for electrical gubbins for the tip, one for general rubbish, one St Peter's Hospice bag for charity shop stuff.
I took all the miscellaneous and many Microsoft Action Pack CDs out of the various bulky packaging, and filed them in a nice white Ikea box which was just the right size. I cleared the two ancient and non working Olivetti laptops (I doubt they've been powered on for five years or more). I collected all the hard drives, both internal and external, and placed them in one heap for testing. I took out all the bits I could find of the "spare" little PC, as we now have a "spare" tower PC since we retired the Windows server - it will be reassembled and Freecycled.
In the middle of all this, the chap came to collect and pay for the midi keyboard I eBay'd, and someone came for an ironing board hook that I Freecycled. And I cooked lentil lasagne, and watched that wonderful new Indian cookery programme.
Knackered now.
Still to do: move the two tower computers under the desk, check the old rack mount 1U server still boots and eBay it if it does, remove all the extraneous cables (there's an ancient iPaq in there somewhere). It'll be lovely when it's finished.
It's really only a box room, but as it contains one wall of Billy bookcases, two big red plastic boxes for vinyl albums, four computers, a large corner desk and typists chair, a standalone air conditioning unit, a clothes horse (either collapsed or up), a shelf with a Moth record cleaner, a ladder (on wall hooks) and a cat litter tray, it tends to be a dumping ground.
So I cleared all the crap from the red boxes, which improved matters no end. The Bookcase At The Top Of The Stairs was cleared and moved for decorating, and we rather like it not being there, but it has returned pro tem. Top shelf for books to keep, which need putting away (all ours are in alphabetical order), middle for books to get rid of (Oxfam bookshop, probably). One binliner for electrical gubbins for the tip, one for general rubbish, one St Peter's Hospice bag for charity shop stuff.
I took all the miscellaneous and many Microsoft Action Pack CDs out of the various bulky packaging, and filed them in a nice white Ikea box which was just the right size. I cleared the two ancient and non working Olivetti laptops (I doubt they've been powered on for five years or more). I collected all the hard drives, both internal and external, and placed them in one heap for testing. I took out all the bits I could find of the "spare" little PC, as we now have a "spare" tower PC since we retired the Windows server - it will be reassembled and Freecycled.
In the middle of all this, the chap came to collect and pay for the midi keyboard I eBay'd, and someone came for an ironing board hook that I Freecycled. And I cooked lentil lasagne, and watched that wonderful new Indian cookery programme.
Knackered now.
Still to do: move the two tower computers under the desk, check the old rack mount 1U server still boots and eBay it if it does, remove all the extraneous cables (there's an ancient iPaq in there somewhere). It'll be lovely when it's finished.
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Date: 2008-12-10 05:35 pm (UTC)good job!