I really started today. I had done all the stuff I had to do and I pulled off the boxes from the attic to sort them out. It was no pleasant surprise... I thought me and my dad had packed all the toys and such in only four boxes but I pulled off ten, including four boxes full with dolls and stuffed animals. And two packed with jigsaw puzzles and board games. It was a real shocker...
I tried to log most of it with my pocket camera but the room was to small to sort it all in so I kinda dropped it all on one big pill and started making smaller piles.
Box 1: Playmobile
Box 2: Dolls and stuffed animals
Box 3: Dolls and stuffed animals
Box 4: Dolls and stuffed animals
Box 5: Dolls and mixed toys (pulled out the toys, dropped the dolls back into the box)
Box 6: Matchbox tracks
Box 7: Mixed toys and action figures
Box 8: Action Man dolls and mixed toys
Box 9: More mixed toys and Barbie clothing
Box 10: Mixed box of all above
Because sorting each box is a damn hard and time consuming task. I started off with the Playmobile box. I knew that there was a lot of junk in it. How I knew? The top layer was covered with non-Playmobile stuff, probably toys my dad found while cleaning the guest room earlier this year and dropped them in the first box he could find.
![Playmobile Box after sorting. The box with Playmobile after sorting out all the non-Playmobile stuff.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAa7lVeWX6TXCvWxWfXEKbKk_ZwxuVh29mbWUGOEkR2wIdeFAvckJ4uYLfSIIG00-UgwGJ03mRP4v04Bb7imI-4LmB5A07s_j7MYIisSdNSYXIYzTF4tFUOMycIcn3m0gQdOgXWWisTR7O/s640/SAM_0142.JPG) |
Box 1, the Playmobile box after sorting. It's nicely shaped as a treasure chest =) |
All non-Playmobile stuff I found I dropped into a seperate box and continued like that... until I was surrounded by piles of toys limiting my moving space. But this seemed to work best because it was the easiest way to move around all the toys and keep good track of what toys were on which pile...
![Left overs after sorting. A box filled with random toys after sorting out the Playmobile box.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3GP36fsaOoGwndA8HgEnoChFknYHSreEEvyXUSTKZ5WNDUVM3h3hk4xp5HqkFGqbH4zVmvnt7FQ_Yci7WB7MNf7P5eqsWGUYpPRto7c-4eNYfHkNleJZy7jyY8FRhZG5EjFAPpc6DJUCI/s640/SAM_0145.JPG) |
All the stuff that came out of the Playmobile box. A lot of random stuff including a while pile of wooden bricks of some knock-off Jenga tower. |
More to come, I'm not done yet! *sigh*