What do you have in your attic????

lupin15

Well i had a fun filled afternoon yesterday up in our attic. It had to be done...had no floor!!!!couldn't see it for all the stuff that had gone up there over the years when we did work on the house.
We had paint...various colours kept...just in case!!!!
pieces of wood...
a piece of lino
Printer
scanner
fax machine...don't ask never used it.
Puzzles
games
lino square.
tiles (bathroom ones for the wall)
Chair
hard board (loads)
various exercise machines...now unable to use.
loads of cardboard boxes (a really bad habit from moving around when hubby was in the army)
paper work
cars without remotes...what has happened to them is unknown (3)
Various cables for computers and more, chargers...
Boxes of vids
video player
empty cd boxes
pc games
boxes of bits and pieces.

I managed to get rid of a load of stuff to help the environment by placing an advert on a local facebook site. The lad took all the paint and wood plus the cars for his kids and exercise stuff. The rest went to landfill which i felt really bad about.

Left with a huge space that was filled with.......baby stuff for my daughter who is due 1st August. That stuff will not be staying.

What do you have in yours???? Do you know?

jillyb1

In our attic ( ie the room above our heads ) we have a family with a cat , dog and 3 budgies . You guessed it ; we live in a flat , it's just the upstairs neighbours ! Jillyb

katie5

when we moved into our new house 5 years ago i had ideas to turn our attic into a room for the kids. when we went up there to have a look it's just completely full of beams!

no - we didn't check it out before we bought because it was a new build but i thought we would at least be able to stand up in there - cant believe it!

Katie x

mellman01

Bats we have bats and wasps in the summer, I was up there one day and was moving stuff about I had one hand on the roof batern and this bloody bat flew out out went under my arm and back up in the roof on the other side, I nearly fell through the ceiling with shock, I thought for a second it was a swarm of wasps!.
On and while were talking about wasps DONT go up in a roof in the day if you think you might have a nest up there wait until it's dark before you do, and even then only go up if you know what your doing,it can be very dangerous if you don't respect the littlew buggers, another way to find them is to look around the outside of your roof if you see a slow stream of flying insects coming and going from one spot then bingo you've found them. If you want to know how to get shot of em then PM me and I'll give you some pointers for free!.

katknapp

i have so much junk in my loft,we are planning to sort it out thursday half for bootfair and half freecycle i expect,most of its books and baby stuff,i also have a chair and printer every loft has either an unwanted odd chair or a printer lol

joanlawson

I don't know.........daren't look :shock: :shock:

tjt6768

I have a strange little man up there, he likes alcohol and watching tv.....
We also live in a flat

dreamdaisy

Whatever we have up there is probably going to stay there. I have some wonderful Christmas decorations and a few bags of very old clothes. I dunno what else is there, I cannot remember. It will remain as the loft access is a VERY small hatch (no ladder) and Mr DD is now of such girth he won't fit - plus I suspect he can no longer execute the necessary gymnastics to launch himself from the top of the stepladder to sitting on the edge of the hatch. (He is not of the Mr Creosote ilk, it IS a very small hatch, about 26" square.) This is one of the odd occasions where having a teenage son built like a whippet would have been useful. We will have to borrow one from somewhere. (male child, not whippet) DD

maria09

We dont have an attic so our double garage is the attic & its full :!:
Even though last summer we decluttered obviously not enough!
Even got a coal bunker in there from previous owners anyone want it :?:
Luckily no mice or bats
But lots of big spiders well not that big but they freak me out :shock:
Ive always wanted an attic room with sound proofing so my two can have their mates round & music blearing good job we have a detached house coz im sure all of us would drive the neighbours mad with our music :!:

lupin15

dreamdaisy wrote:

Whatever we have up there is probably going to stay there. I have some wonderful Christmas decorations and a few bags of very old clothes. I dunno what else is there, I cannot remember. It will remain as the loft access is a VERY small hatch (no ladder) and Mr DD is now of such girth he won't fit - plus I suspect he can no longer execute the necessary gymnastics to launch himself from the top of the stepladder to sitting on the edge of the hatch. (He is not of the Mr Creosote ilk, it IS a very small hatch, about 26" square.) This is one of the odd occasions where having a teenage son built like a whippet would have been useful. We will have to borrow one from somewhere. (male child, not whippet) DD

Now have a metal picture of a Man part way through a ceiling ...stuck and shouting for help...one foot on the top of a wobbling ladder and the other waving around trying to find the top of the ladder.
We also have loads of spiders webs and HUGE SPIDERS.
They have a gym so have big muscles...

frogmorton

We are common so only have a loft..well two actually as we have an extension with it's own.....? that is empty for sure as we had squirrels up there the summer before last :shock:

Some very interesting things up yours folks.....fat men watching Tv...etc etc....

Love

toni xx

tkachev

bags and bags of size 8 clothes I can no longer wear, shoes that no longer fit, photos, books, magazines(gym and scooters),curtains, broken down beds,my 1978 Jam ticket , all my divorce related papers in a massive box,old bits and bobs the OH won't throw away and my valuable collection of dolls.
I cannot see them for myself so hope he hasnt thrown them all away without me knowing.


Elizabeth

robertls

30 odd years of accumulated rubbish.........

Several large boxes of christmas decorations.......mosty never used......(but they were such good bargains)

Gun security cabinet with selection of flintlock and percussion rifles and shotguns.......

Ammunition cabinet........... .308 (7.62mm of military types) ammunition, solid and softnose.......

Ditto for .223 (or 5.56 for militaries).....

Ditto .222

Ditto in .22 rimfire......

Several thousand rounds of 12, and 20 bore shotgun cartridges...

4 + kilo's of black powder (gunpowder)......for old rifles and shotguns......

Police like it kept in the attic......

If it 'goes up' only blows the roof off.....not the whole house.....

Goose, Duck, pigeon decoys......

One or two (well probably 20+) fishing rods......

And all associated reels etc.....

Lewis' collection of action men...........tanks, cars, trucks and several boxes of AM clothes....

Apart from that lot.................Its nearly empty

Just 'normal' stuff I guess...

seamonkey

I am blissfully unaware of what is in our attic and absolutely no way am i able to get up there and have a look!
Seamonkey

julie47

All my daughters dolls
Clothes
Xmas tree etc
Games
Books (annuals)
Records.
Video recorders
Cases
Ornaments.
Photos
Wedding dress
Thats what should be up there anyway plus lots more....Haven't been in a loft for 20 years.

Oh yes and a train track...........redundant.....
was a good idea at the time......But his bikes won him back :roll:

lindalegs

My lover

valval

my son that where his bedroom is
the one above bathroom well 7 berth tent, cooker, kettle, pans ect, wine making stuff sledge,2 fans, and not sure what else now want to look whos idea was this lol

lindalegs

rehab44 wrote:

lindalegs wrote:

My lover

Really?

Yep ........trouble is can't climb the ladder to get at him :roll: :shock:

tkachev

yes Linda
and his chain is too short for him to climb down the ladder to reach you

Elizabeth

lindalegs

tkachev wrote:

yes Linda
and his chain is too short for him to climb down the ladder to reach you

Elizabeth

So he's chained up Elizabeth, that explains such a lot ............I thought he'd gone off me

NinaKKang

Interesting, I never thought to put mine in the attic.... he's still chained to the bed!

I have nothing in my attic apart from the insulation. We're going to do it up in a couple of years and make it into another bedroom. I know what you're all thinking, but I have no junk, if it's NOT:

- beautiful
- useful
- seriously sentimental

It either gets given to charity, sold, recycled or thrown away. Honestly.
Nxx

PS - And we're bringing up our girls the same

frogmorton

Rehab

i keep my bodie in the cellar.....far better and really much more 'in keeping'

Like your idea Linda, but Nina

I like yours FAR better

lupin15

frogmorton wrote:

Rehab

i keep my bodie in the cellar.....far better and really much more 'in keeping'

Like your idea Linda, but Nina

I like yours FAR better

They keep better that way...much cooler. Attic to hot in the summer...terrible smell. Umm much check the other side of the attic today if i get time...only done half of it.

maggiemay

MICE!!!!!!!!
Dirty sods
enjoying the heat from our winters
Plenty of mousetraps down but non caught

Mags

frogmorton

lupin15 wrote:

frogmorton wrote:

Rehab

i keep my bodie in the cellar.....far better and really much more 'in keeping'

Like your idea Linda, but Nina

I like yours FAR better

They keep better that way...much cooler. Attic to hot in the summer...terrible smell. Umm much check the other side of the attic today if i get time...only done half of it.

Indeed!

Quite right! I will have to make some space for the workman who failed to turn up this morning....IF he is foolish enough to arrive THIS late....... :evil

cthornley

A very comfortable spare bed with an en-suite bathroom

Its a lovely room and would have contemplated it for our room if it wasn't for the stairs!!!

I love this house the only thing is the people before us converted every last inch of space into something .....bedroom, bathroom, loo. So there is absolutely no storage..... well thats my excuse for all the mess!!!!
Chrissie