Change is Good...REALLY??

[Doug Rose]

I came in from cutting the grass and getting the leaves up and there is a guy in my phone room with Jan. He has carpet samples! Carpet samples!!  FEAR has hit me..... she want to re-carpet the upstairs. My phone room! Stuff on the shelves is fine, but I have to get everything off the floor! This is no minor undertaking. FEAR!!       ...Kidscared

[Russ Kirk]

When we laid new flooring throughout the whole house we had to pack both our collection rooms. My phone room had to be packed, I chose to pack it almost like they were going to shipped. It was the safest way. While the phone room was not bad, my wife's basset collectable room was a bigger task.  Her collection is about very delicate 2000 items, mostly in her basset room in the numerous curio cabinets and book cases. I belive we packed about 150 boxes and stored them in the garage. After the flooring was completed we had to upack everything. So, Doug I know the great amount of work that lays ahead for you...

[WesternElectricBen]

Oh my, that sounds like a lot of work.. I was thinking about replacing the ripped up carpet in my room, but I decided it's too much work right now.

Ben

[AE_Collector]

Don't worry Doug, once all that new carpet is in Jan will need the room to be repainted to match!

Terry

[WEBellSystemChristian]

My parents want to replace the ugly turquoise carpeting in my room with hardwood flooring. I agree with them, but I'm not looking forward to moving all of my phone stuff out, plus two beds (one is more of a guest bed) and a huge TV shelf.

[Phonesrfun]

Hey, everyone, it could be worse. About 6 years ago I moved to the house I currently have.  What a pain that was!

[Dan/Panther]

Doug;
Just make sure that the next thing out of your wife's mouth is, "Will a Sewing Machine fit here in this corner, it won't take much space".
Dig in don't give an inch.
D/P

[Weco355aman]

I'm thankful that all of may phones and switching equipment has there own building.
The down side is I still don't have enough space and I've been informed there will not be any more space for phone stuff.
I have 1900 SQ feet of space for phone stuff.  My wife wants a larger sewing room and storage. I had the phone items be fore I had her and she does not see it that way.  She wants more storage. I Will be working on it this coming summer.

[twocvbloke]

Got to be careful with putting your foot down, it often raises the "It's them or me" dilemma, can't offer any sane advice on the matter though as I've yet to get that far into a relationship and I don't want to be liable for the ending of someone else's...

[Greg G.]

I came in from cutting the grass and getting the leaves up and there is a guy in my phone room with Jan. He has carpet samples! Carpet samples!!  FEAR has hit me..... she want to re-carpet the upstairs. My phone room! Stuff on the shelves is fine, but I have to get everything off the floor! This is no minor undertaking. FEAR!!     ...Kidscared

I'm confused.  Your phone room?  Which one? 

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=8211.0

[Weco355aman]

I have 2 Display rooms 1 For sing line phones and 1 for Business phones And maybe a wall in my 3 building with a few phones.
Still undecided.

[Doug Rose]

Only one phone room in my house Briny.....new carpet.....ARRRGH...Doug

[RotarDad]

Hey Doug - I found something that will just look GREAT with that new carpet in your phone room.  This one is worth swapping something out for......

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281497156137

And only $89.99 BIN.....

[Doug Rose]

All the furniture and phones not on built in shelving or wall mounted have been removed. New Carpet on Tuesday. We are doing the three rooms in three separate steps. This was a pain in the a$$. No Damage...sooooo far.

This carpet was only 13 years old, but showed wear, especially in my daughter room. Everything from my room went across the hall to my youngest daughter's former room or out the door. I filled her room!  There will be a lot of phones from the collection on eBay next year. I am trying to stay under the 20K no taxes this year, so no  more selling this year.

I am shelving tomorrow. I am hoping.....CHANGE IS GOOD!! Really hoping so.....Doug

[paul-f]

So Doug, did you find anything interesting that you haven't noticed for a while when moving the phones?

This looks like a good opportunity to get rid of the non-phone stuff on the bottom shelf to make room for more phones.  Or are there really BSPs in the document boxes?