Hoarding - Springing Ahead

thriftwizard

Ginnyknit, love your thinking on the garden; I'm always gobsmacked to see my neighbour, who is constantly panicking around on the edge of total financial collapse, emerging from her car with polystyrene trays full of Cosmos, Bizzie Lizzies, tender Fuchsias & Petunias. All very pretty - but she could have grown them from seed!

Sorted out one picture from the porch last night; I was just too excited for DS1 with his news to settle to anything. But one picture is better than nothing at all, and in the night I have come up with a brainwave for gaining some room without dumping stuff I actually need to earn money with. As DS2 starts moving back in tomorrow, that's not come a day too soon! But it shows how much my mood has to do with it; before, I couldn't see the wood for the trees, but now I feel much more on top of things.

GreyQueen

:T Bravo for the brainwave, thriftwizard.

I sometimes find that those random moments between sleep and wakefulness harvest a fabulous crop of LBMs. It's like the brain is removed from everyday frets, and has time to throw out solutions to random problems. I was marvellously amused to hear years ago that science hasn't figured out what the brain is doing most of the time. :rotfl:

For complicated and too-boring-to-tell reasons, today is a day I can go to my lottie but not on the weekend. I have woken to rain, which will make what I need to do up there miserable and much heavier and more difficult than it would otherwise need to be. So, I shall hang fire on that until later today, in hopes that it dries out. Uh-Oh, just turned radio on and got weather forecast, widespread heavy showers across the South, not sounding good until mid-afternoon. Pants.

I have made a Cunning Plan to do quite a bit of cooking with storecupboard items in the next few weeks, to bring down the supplies of some things, and to see if I can bring the monthly grocery spend down from its usual £50-£60. Be a good exercise as well as enabling me to make a clean sweep of certain food categories.

Hmmm, need to make a Plan B for the rainy day we seem to be having.....but not until I've drunk some more tea. One has to get one's priorities right, don'tchaknow?

Happygreen

The last documents have gone out for DD1's student loan - why do they offer an uploading service that NEVER works as nobody can reduce the items small enough? Wasted hours trying and had to go to the post office in the end, arrgghh...today I will spend the day catching up with work in the veg plot to regain some sanity! Catch-up phone calls and more applications for things will have to wait until next week or I go mad!

xcarlyx

Hello all,

Giving a bag of coathangers today to a charity shop as they are chuffin doing my head in the wardrobe

whitewing

I have a pathological hatred of coathangers.

Oh, how I miss the summer sunshine. Couldn't get the washing outside yesterday so it stayed in the machine. DH draped it on the airer this morning. Am wearing an old T shirt and will have to do a whites wash tonight and hang it out, hoping it will be dry by the morning so I don't have to walk around naked.

Supposed to be changing my medication but the chemist didn't have everything I needed in so that was a pain, as I couldn't start the new regime this morning.

Suffering from a total lack of motivation at home - haven't even done so many of our routine jobs. We need some holiday time really. DD was given some clothes the other day and they are still spread about on the surfaces - we need to go through her stash.

Popped in to a charity shop yesterday on a whim but only had enough cash to buy one book. As it was a whim, I didn't donate anything.

GreyQueen

Yeah, I'm missing summer, too. It's nearly dark in my flat, at just after 1 pm, due to the rain. Pertiddling down and I want to be up the allotment.

As that's not going to happen, I've been pottering about catching up with The Strays. The Strays are things which are loitering on surfaces. They're not out because I haven't put them away, well not directly; they're out because they need to have something done to them, before they go away or back to the allotment.

After making the Frankensheet yesterday, I will be doing some more mending, which will bring those items back into service. I have found some stuff which needs to go back to the allotment, including a pkt of red clover (a green manure crop) which had a rip in it and was shedding tiny round seeds everywhere. That was an interesting clear up. I do hope I've got them all, otherwise a water leak indoors might cause germination, and before we knew where we were, I could be knee-deep in clover, lol. :rotfl:

I also found a small wooden doo-dad which I'd forgotten which was a sucker-punch as it had negative connotations and I hadn't even seen it for 2 years. I have added it to the burnables items, along with a snapped wooden spoon, and it will form part of the kernel of October's bonfire, and it will be gone-gone-gone, taking its negativity with it.

I've turned out a very ratty pair of trousers and a shirt which I was using for painting. So ratty that the fabric was giving way. I have newer old clothes, IYSWIM, so these went into the rag bag.

I try to donate or dispose of things responsibly. I don't criticise anyone who doesn't do likewise btw, I appreciate that I am one person with only a small flat's worth of Stuff (well, plus the bike shed and the allotment shed). If I was racing to clear an entire house of stuff against the clock, it could well be a very different matter.

Rubbish is out, recycling is out, some of the mending is done, paperwork filed, most of the accounts for June done in pencil, in case I do some more spends between now and Monday, and it's slowly getting there.

If only the weather would lighten up on me, if it gets any darker, I shall need the light on!

ETA, got hold of a pile of stuff set aside for mending and found one item in there in error, didn't need a mend at all, a pair of knicks turned out to be more religious than thought, and are in the ragbag, and a pair of gardening gloves needed more than a small a patch and are worn apart in such away as not mendable to have slung them.

Did find the fusible interfacing which I was looking for earlier in the week and have mended brother's shirt, which I'd brought home for that purpose. So that can go out, too.

All in all, the several weeks that these items have been annoying me have been wasted as, once I looked closely, it was fast enough to process.

I would like to hike a couple of streets over to drop into my pal's shop for a natter but torrential rainstorms sweep in every few minutes and it seems daft to risk a drenching when I don't have to go out. Haven't been further than the communal bins today, but them's the breaks.

thriftwizard

The rain hasn't been too bad down here. And I've evicted 7 - yes, 7 - elderly sewing machines from the porch, leaving just two in there. They have gone off to a charity which will send the worthwhile ones (probably just two!) off to Africa for someone to earn a living with, and scrap the others for the cash to send the worthwhile ones off with. The two I've kept are easy to tidy up for sale within the next month or two, and are big "name" brands, which people will buy in preference to a better machine with a name they don't recognise.

One Tip run done & another planned in an hour or so... two big bags of fabric I don't need until autumn gone into "storage" behind my stall, two more on their way over there momentarily. It'll be a pest if I need anything out of them, but I'll just have to work it so that I pick it up when I'm doing my normal tidying-up & restocking runs.

Now I just need to transport the clothes rails into the "spare" bedroom, dismantle my sewing station & build it again in our room before DH gets home from work... do you think he'll spot it...?

ETA: Oh my goodness, I hadn't realised just how much fabric I have. That's not a reasonable level of useful stock, that's a hoard. Time to let at least half of it go... but on a brighter note, I have managed to squeeze both my festival stock and the sewing station into the "spare" room, still with room to move around (just) and space to work on garments.

whitewing

Been up for ages but it is slow-going today. We were tired last night so didn't stack the dishwasher. I have put off doing it all morning as I had to unpack it first. When I did force myself, the dishwasher was already empty. I could have had two hours of pleasant kitchen!

According to the forecast, it is supposed to be dry today so I think I will hang the washing out. We have been so used to dry weather that the rain was a novelty. DD is playing in the living room with two umbrellas - they are her houses for her toys who are tucked up in bed.

I need to sort DD's clothes out. We bought a few items, she has also acquired some from relatives. We are in the process of swapping bedroom furniture so I need to take it all out to redistribute it. I am sure there will be three of four items that can go, and also her potty is never used. It has been around so long, we don't even see it. Those are the things that clutter up the house.

I think I may have to force myself to do as much as I can in an hour. That will get me focused. Once I start, I will get a lot done, but getting round to starting is seeming very difficult in the last week or so.

pigpen

Chazzer stuff all loaded in the car.. I'm sick of the sight of it all so it is hidden in the car lol..


argh.. raining on my laundry...

whitewing

I cleaned out one of my kitchen cupboards and got rid of a few things. Pegged my washing out and went through the peg basket and chucked out a couple of broken pegs.

Started to try to tidy DD's clothes but she was an absolute pain and kept picking things up and moving them. So I aborted that attempt for the time being.

Have packed a lot of toys away.

Found an thin raincoat that I shall give to aunty.