Liz Shankland has some enterprising thoughts on sorting out her new smallholding
Almost a year ago, I set myself a challenge – to have a massive de-clutter of unwanted items, either loading them in the trailer and dropping them off at the skip, or giving them a bit of pampering and tidying up and selling them off to other compulsive hoarders.
Yet here I am, getting ready to tackle another year on this smallholding, and I’m still surrounded by what I affectionately refer to as ‘useful items which might come in handy’.
In fairness, I had a big, concerted effort at clearing out stuff last spring. I spent days washing, cleaning, polishing, and painting things and then even more precious time staging photoshoots, positioning each piece in a suitable place around the farm yard or in the house, so that everything could be photographed in the perfect setting.
I managed to shift quite a lot of items on eBay and on the ever-increasing number of local Facebook pages catering for people with smallholdings and farms. Facebook was once regarded by many as a place to waste time, a site for sharing happy snaps with family and friends, where you could have a good old moan about your life and the state of the world, brag about your latest exotic holiday or new relationship, or boast about the achievements of your amazing children.
This story is from the January 2018 edition of Country Smallholding.
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