The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: spandit on February 28, 2014, 01:01:52 pm
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Anyone else running a free storage facility for friends/acquaintances? Both our stables are chock-a-block and our large barn doesn't have much space left...
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We've had hints but quietly ignored them ;D
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Not quite in the barn, but we now have an old fire engine in our yard !!
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I wish I had a barn, or a neighbour with an empty one.
My plan is to build a workshop/store/garage but planning process is so cumbersome and obstructive around here that I need to look at permitted development options. If anybody has any experience with this...
My brother had a couple of outbuildings that were constantly full of other people's crap and I'm sure that was one of the deciding factors to him pulling them down. He had a bloody boat in one of them - 35 miles from the sea!
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It's not friends and acqaintances, it's offspring :rant:
Mind, I used to do that to my Dad but he would bring up a boot load of my stuff with every visit, til I had it all back. I think you have to be hard-hearted like he was'
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My mum and sister, both do it.... My mum under the guise of 'you might be able to sell by my old marty wilde records on ebay'. My sister with, its much easier if I leave all our wetsuits with you (we live 200m apart) as I might come next time on the train. Last summer my sisters partner came up in his long wheel base works vans for a flying weekend to see sis and kids while they where here on a month long holiday. OH discreetly went round the house, shed under the beds and collected all sisters and kids stuff up, then said to sister's partner, I got a few things for you to take back to Notts. OH filled the van. :roflanim: :roflanim: I got a picture to prove it as evidence for next time. ;D
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We've had hints but quietly ignored them ;D
That made me laff. :roflanim:
You would get on well with my sister.... ;D
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My daughter Has had her own house for 18 years but I still have a wardrobe full of her clothes "I might want them" and now my loft is full of grand children's outgrown clothes, high chairs and cots! Good job I'm not a hoarder.
Since he retired in September OH has managed to fill a 12x20 shed full of cr4p.
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I replied to an advert and offered one of our barns to a chap who wanted to store his "vintage cars". He was willing to pay me to have 3 old Aston Martins in my barn !!! Turns out we lived too far from him. Now the barn just has the old cart that the donkey pulled in it. :'(
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the village were so keen to get their corrupt little mitts on our barn they started a concerted campaign to get us to sell it to them. When we said no they started another campaign to kid us into thinking we didn't even own it. It took... strong words to get them all to shut up.
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The first thing someone said to me when I had my 60 x 30 ft barn put up was - that would just fit our combine harvester, and I don't think they were joking, but I laughed anyway
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We lived in our last house for 23yrs and of course have a whole load of c***. We have moved to a disused dairy farm with an old cow shed, milking parlour and associated barns all a bit tatty but standing, it amazes me when people ask are we going to knock them down. Their main purpose seems to be shelter from the wind that blows across the fens, but of course we are filling them with the c*** we had and of course all the new stuff we need. If we stay here 20yrs I am sure all of them will be full.
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the key to crumbling outbuildings is to fill them with so much stuff they become self supporting.
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A friend of mine put a load of stuff in one of my old stables and it all got soaked/eaten by mice. The latest stuff has all gone up on pallets and will be covered with a tarp but I'm sure once the mice find a nice tasty sofa then they'll tuck in!
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It's not friends and acqaintances, it's offspring :rant:
Mind, I used to do that to my Dad but he would bring up a boot load of my stuff with every visit, til I had it all back. I think you have to be hard-hearted like he was'
It's not offspring! It's PARENTS! My mum is looking to sell her place and move closer to us but unlikely she will find somewhere she can set up her workshop (she is a smith) so it is now all in our workshop. She is welcome to the barn as long as she is happy to share with the sheep. ;D
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My grandkids would love a firengine in our barn, 2 boys aged 6 and 7, sam tarn would have a lovely home in our barn lol
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The three brothers who look after their Mum's house that is opposite us have barns full of firewood so they keep their 3 fire engines outside.
(http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/NWE4uLHPWPB2vtEaZPWs3XHv3eWJj3DXYJpYmcaZO18=w334-h223-p-no)