Treasure-hunting at home challenge

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BigMummaF wrote: »

Guilty as charged m'lud I'm forever putting things in 'a safe place' only to forget about them completely :doh:The amount of times I've been frantically turning out every suspected hidey-hole to find it again at the 11th hour, only to resort in buying a substitute gift/ card/ top instead...

Carefully cut down the centre back of the covers you want to keep, so you end up with--eg--Dr Who in the middle of a large piece of material. You will have to open the top &/or bottom seams too, but then make the back of the quilt cover from a plain sheet by hemming the raw edges & sewing up along the top & poppers along the bottom. I reckon it would fit a double quilt then :think:

I am inspired so I hope you don't mind if I drop by again. I like finding new ways to use something, more so because it annoys me muvva that I'll 'put up' with something instead of going out & buying the what-have-you :rotfl:When the Offspring grew out of the exceptionally large pool that their father bought in a fit of pique SIZE=1]& the plastic liner refused to be mended with a bycycle repair kit any longer[/SIZE I salvaged the two longer poles, cut notches in one end & use those as props for my washing line :T
Actually, I've just thought about that programme that first brought us Lawrence-with-the-sleeves & Handy Andy..I loved that one! They took 'stuff' & transformed it into other 'stuff' & the people who brought the 'stuff' had two options of what their 'stuff' could be! I hunted high & low for esp & never did find universal colourisers for me paint

Someone posted THIS on another thread & I figure it fits on here too --have a look if you get a mo..

Please do drop by again:D You are an inspiration:T

bellaquidsin

Ah cross stitch, now there's a thought, I have boxes of treasure of the cross-stitch type just waiting to be dug out and if I team it with all the photo frames I have stashed away I'll have gifts a plenty. The only trouble is my damaged wrist which caused me to pack it all away several years' ago but maybe if I got some out and just did a few stitches at a time, eventually from tiny acorns....., after all Rome wasn't built in a day.

Bella.

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bellaquidsin wrote: »

Ah cross stitch, now there's a thought, I have boxes of treasure of the cross-stitch type just waiting to be dug out and if I team it with all the photo frames I have stashed away I'll have gifts a plenty. The only trouble is my damaged wrist which caused me to pack it all away several years' ago but maybe if I got some out and just did a few stitches at a time, eventually from tiny acorns....., after all Rome wasn't built in a day.

Bella.

Great idea, you just have to make sure you are strict with a few stitches at a time

vivw_2

Tiny bit of 'treasure ' today - I had run out of washing up liquid but noticed that the bottle still seemed to have a tiny tiny bit left in. So I filled it with water and used about half of it to wash up with this morning and there's enough left to wash the tea things too

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Suggestions for this thread - bit of fun?

1. We list what money we have saved by 'digging-up' rather than 'coughing up':D
2.We have a 'challenge' now and again like 'dig up some crafts, fabrics, utensils or stuff for charity shops. Or treasure hunt in the shed or garden?

Any takers or suggestions?
Or do you think that's too much like hard work:p

recovering_spendaholic

Decided to have a declutter after reading this thread. Went upstairs and looked through some of the (many) boxes of unlabled "stuff" and found a Bunty Annual, my diary from 1976 and two Barbara Cartland Romances in the first 10 minutes. So now I've spent all day reading (and having a lovely time!). Will get to the boxes tomorrow - or maybe I'll leave it for a while as I have got work to do - decluttering is not for the easily distracted I think;)

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recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

Decided to have a declutter after reading this thread. Went upstairs and looked through some of the (many) boxes of unlabled "stuff" and found a Bunty Annual, my diary from 1976 and two Barbara Cartland Romances in the first 10 minutes. So now I've spent all day reading (and having a lovely time!). Will get to the boxes tomorrow - or maybe I'll leave it for a while as I have got work to do - decluttering is not for the easily distracted I think;)

I loved Bunty when I was a little girl:j

vivw_2

budgeteer wrote: »

I loved Bunty when I was a little girl:j

so did I!

Not really sure how 'treasure hunting' and decluttering go together. I know I should clear the clutter but then how could I treasure hunt??

coraline_2

Speaking of 'digging' and 'treasure-hunting in gardens' I found an old shabby bottle while digging my garden recently, having since washed it I can read it says on the side 'Regesan Formeloids'. I googled this and there was no hits, except one advertisement from the Singapore Times in 1916, which says they were pastilles that prevented sore throats and supposedly even consumption :eek:

Its a beautiful shaped bottle with lid and I am very happy to have not only found a piece of the past, and to imagine people in my garden in 1916, but to have potentially the only one around so to me this is real treasure!

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vivw wrote: »

so did I!

Not really sure how 'treasure hunting' and decluttering go together. I know I should clear the clutter but then how could I treasure hunt??

Hmmm. Good point. Perhaps you will have to expand your treasure hunting to work, or in skips. Get right down to the bottom of the skip and dig around:eek: