Aw a good purge is always good even if heart breaking.BTDT many times. Love the bottle edging. LOL at the frozen bucket compost. Sorry about the loss of your storage space. My first thought was so get a couple of pallets and store the stuff you want to keep on top of them under a tarp or two for the winter. Several pallets would make a quick box of sorts that could be tarped off. Good luck and do be careful.

Pink house...............????????? Was is paint gone way wrong or what??

Bottle edging looks great! Ohh, what a job, crete! Good luck & good recycling where you can! Jeanne S.

How can anyone get rid of a 30 year stash ??? OMG --- it's like giving away a relative !!! It's like Christmas when you go through things and find things you've forgotten about !!! Decisions,decisions ....
I'd say keep the bottles -- somewhere ! They're not easy to collect . Places to keep a secret stash are :
under the bed
spare closet
on the backs of doors
in empty suitcases

.......ask me how I know *wink* ! LOL

Oh yeah --- what's with the pink house ????? I always say they must have gotten a deal on discontinued paint :) heheh

Well I like the pink house! I would paint the trim a maroon color however to blend better.

Can you leave the bottles and compost where they sit until spring? Perhaps spring would be the time to create your bottle tree. Those look like good solid wood posts holding up your fence. Could you drill holes and install long screws and turn the posts into bottle trees? Or leave them where they sit? They make an attractive border.

I don't envy you the task of clearing out 30 years worth of accumulated stuff. Will you be building a new garage where the old one sits? Good luck with re-organizing. It's a shame that your nice garage finally went, but it had a long run at least.

I have the same problem--lots of storage buildings!
Been 'collecting' since the 1980s. Had to have new
roofs put on most, (hurricanes!) but the foundations
are still good!
I am so sorry that you have to do this......I would be poking things everywhere-spare bathtub-LOL----

Sorry to hear about your major clean-up problem......I agree...giving up precios items tucked away for so long is like tossing out a family member. I have a ton of blue bottles too and I have a small yard and active grandkids, which I fear might accidently break them. I made a border of a few bottles. I put down 3 bricks and then fanned out 5 bottles, as in pushed in the outer bottles further in ground and at an angle and then another bottle pushed not as far in and at an angle and then the middle bottle stands straight up and is highest. then 3 more bricks and another set of bottles and on to complete the edging of that bed. The bricks are light colored and looks nice with the bright blue bottles. Good luck on finding an area to save as much as possible.

I like your blue bottle idea old crafty.
Hopefully mine iwll be ok where they are for the winter.
I do regret letting my dh throw out my many paned window without glass. Othther thatn that I'm ok so far!
Kathy

My brother always wanted to paint his house pink. After Ike when he had to raise the house and rebuild he painted it pink with orange trim! Since his house was so much taller it really stood out. The city gave him a grant to finish the work and they painted the outside a light tan/beige brownish color. He hates it and all he talks about is painting the house pink again!
Sorry about the clean out. It was much easier for us, everything under feet of salt water, nothing to do but throw it all out. The roofers burned the house down, same thing, threw it all out. So the yard AND the house got cleaned out.
Tally HO!

wow! What a disaster beachplant. What state do you live in? I hope you had what ever kind of insurance would cover that.

I love the fact that your bro painted his house pink with orange trim. And I'll definitely suggest maroon trim to the owner, spedigrees, if I ever seem him since he now lives elsewhere. I like that idea. I don't mind the pink house. The real problem is that the siding is asbestos and it is crumbling in some parts. Just glad its not my house!

I still have no regrets except that many paned door insert. And I had many years to do something with it and didn't. We probably kept other stuff that we sholdn't hve tho.

Kathy

I had to get rid of so many things the last time we moved. At least I was able to find a place that does what we all do with things. Create other things from found stuff. So it was not as painful as it would have been going to the dump.

Kathy that is sad about the many pained door. So much possibility. Friend brought me two glass doors I was going to use in the house but they did not fit:^( I ended up laying them down around the porch railing making a bit of a wind and snow break for the porch kitties.