things to do before we move out (EEK)

This just promised to my landlady.

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she also wanted us to take down the coat hangers in the hall way (before, the flat had no coat hangers to speak of), but I dissuaded her successfully, because then, we'd have had to repaint the entire hall way in addition to living room, bedroom, and the kitchen wall with all the appliances on it.

I'm now going to take stock of what we own, so that I can start to plan how to store it in the new place. There's quite a lot of mess caused by inadequate storage. For example, stacks of CDs near the computer because we don't have a CD rack there, same in kitchen (CD rack in inconvenient place for CD player). No good place to do bills & stuff, because kitchen storage is v. inconvenient (a huge pantry, two measly cupboards, and two sets of two shelves), and living room is expensive to heat.

I've also decided, thanks to much support by anguaorc and queenriley to get rid of loads of clothes and donate them to a local charity shop. Mostly, these clothes are sizes I don't NEED wear anymore (like British size 16 and 14, if you get my drift). And should I ever put on a stone in weight BAX on again, I might as well go out and get myself some nice new fashionable clothes.

This weekend will be PURGING TIME!

Against all better knowledge, though, I'm keeping my collection of Newsweek and unread Scientific American. I am not going to subscribe to the New Scientist, though, and after we're through with painting walls, I'll also stop my subscription to Die Zeit (huge intellectual newspaper that I don't have time to read. V. good for floor covering though. Only beat by Sunday Times.)

Scotsman anybody?

I have 4 spare copies of an old special issue of the Scotsman on people whose lives were affected by Harry Potter.

Who wants them?

First come, first served!

ETA: GONE

:)