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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 18636, member: 25&quot;]Doing a flick back through some of the many rooms shown (thanks for the&nbsp; interest) I spot a common theme. </p><p>In most cases, apart from basements or cellars, they show signs of all having started out as just rooms with the usual roomy stuff, and then they just sort of growed.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is part of the solution I am working on.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.plasticboxshop.co.uk/images/products/zoom/1361454444-36538400.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>For a couple of years I have been taking my stuff to antiques fairs and flea markets in these handy plastic boxes in about three shapes and sizes to optimise fitting them in the car exactly filling the available space. </p><p>I notice that much of the impression of hopeless clutter is due to the ubiquitous cardboard box in all stages of decrepitude.</p><p><br /></p><p>The plastic boxes are pretty cheap, and usually discounted if you buy 20 or so, and can be stored empty inside one another (it&#039;s great to come back from an antique fair with less than half the stuff you went out with and all the empty boxes stacked together so they almost vanish) and it&#039;s pretty easy to colour code them by lid or with a sticky label--my system is &#039;car boot stuff&#039; (just barely above &#039;chuck it&#039;), Flea market, (better, more interesting, sellable very cheap, owes me nothing, etc) and stuff earmarked for antiques fair only.</p><p>Survivors of an antique fair get downgraded to flea market, survivors of that get downgraded to car boot, nothing has yet made it to &#039;dump&#039; though some should.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless you are storing gold bricks, they are pretty strong and can be stacked a lot higher than cardboard boxes without exploding or crushing the lower layers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The process of moving stuff from those cardboard boxes to the containers is a good chance to filter some of into a total discard box, and for motivation, the chance of a worthwhile find, assuming that you have more or less forgotten what was there or possibly have learned more about what you did not recognise you had while it has been gathering dust.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rally to the cause, good hoarders and storers, the worst that can happen is that for a small effort, you can hoard&nbsp; or store twice as much stuff. All that space previously wasted on mere air can now become solid with good stuff![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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