Hoarding - Springing Ahead

silvasava

Result Ivyleaf!!
Not done much as I've spent far too long fiddling with my 'puter. The broadband keeps dropping out & at first I thought it was down to bad weather but my friend uses the same provider & she's 2 doors away had no problems! I've managed to isolate it to the 'box' thingy so man is coming out tomorrow morning ...........we shall see.
Right - off to declutter a neck of lamb from the freezer into a Tagine & 2lbs mince into lasagne & bolognaise. I'll see what 'goodies' DH wants me to do while the oven's on

thriftwizard

I've hit another busy patch (might as well put out a taxi-cab sign) but am delighted to say that DS1's popping home for a couple of nights tomorrow, and I only have to tidy away a couple of items & push the hoover round, and the room (actually DS3's) is perfectly habitable & actually looks quite pleasant. I have managed to get some more bits priced up & down onto the stall whilst running another errand this morning, so we'll be able to eat all meals around the kitchen table, as we always did when they were growing up. And the living room's good & tidy, as we have the men coming to install the stove early next week.

So now it's on with DS1's own room, needed in time for Christmas. I'm going to have to get tough with people whose stuff is still in there; DS2 & TDiL seem to have wrapped their heads around the fact that WE NEED THE SPACE BACK at last, so their bits are draining out of there now too. A few bits will have to go into the loft; I've tried to dispose of the trunk full of cuddly toys and nearly provoked a riot, so up they go & they may just mysteriously vanish in a few months' time. I shall probably have to sell off my carefully-collected Llloyd Loom bits; OH had a fit when he saw them. But whilst they've been waiting to be used, they've suddenly become trendy again, so at least they've been a sound investment of - what, £20 in total?! Which should turn into more than £100 - not a bad rate of interest over less than a year.

There's still too much stuff in the conservatory, though it's nowhere near as bad as it has been, and the porch. But I have a clear vision of how I want my porch to look, so everything extraneous has all got to go...

silvasava

Cable man came this morning - new box & switch 'thingy' fitted - internet up & running. Cable man drives off - internet down again (
Luckily he'd phoned earlier so I had his number - he suggested doing a system restore to a previous date. Hmm funny that when I tried it I noticed my security programme had run an update on the day I started having problems. Upshot - security programme uninstalled - 'puter off & then security programme re-installed. All OK - happy bunny:)
Only trouble is I've spent about 3 days fiddling with it instead of decluttering - Arrrgh

catshark88

I feel your pain Silvasava. Every time it rains, we seem to lose almost all internet strength. Weirdly, it's bad on very sunny days too. Maybe the person running round the hamster wheel to power it, gets tired.... ;-)

Softstuff

catshark88 wrote: »

I feel your pain Silvasava. Every time it rains, we seem to lose almost all internet strength. Weirdly, it's bad on very sunny days too. Maybe the person running round the hamster wheel to power it, gets tired.... ;-)

Forgive the half-assed reply here, but I recall talking to someone from a cabling company over here a while ago and saying the same thing. He said that humidity and temperature (up or down) does affect the cabling, so it's not just you!

catshark88

It's interesting, the effects this de cluttering malarkey has...

I've got some new raised beds and bought a load of half price bulbs, to plant in them. It's (apparently) quite late for bulbs, hence their being cheaper and their roots were sprouting. Anyhoo, Ive got a bit of a cold bug and it's a miserable day, but I've planted all of them. Normally, I'd have procrastinated, left them for weeks, felt guilty and probably wrecked them.

Anyone else finding that de cluttering has "improved" other aspects of life?

silvasava

Catshark - YESSSSSSSSSSS - its like an earworm & keeps wriggling until you feed it with some decluttering. Right slinks off to plant my bag of crocuses that are sprouting........;)

GreyQueen

catshark88 wrote: »

It's interesting, the effects this de cluttering malarkey has...

I've got some new raised beds and bought a load of half price bulbs, to plant in them. It's (apparently) quite late for bulbs, hence their being cheaper and their roots were sprouting. Anyhoo, Ive got a bit of a cold bug and it's a miserable day, but I've planted all of them. Normally, I'd have procrastinated, left them for weeks, felt guilty and probably wrecked them.

Anyone else finding that de cluttering has "improved" other aspects of life?

:T Yes, definately.

And when you have space to see among your decluttered belongings, the things which don't belong, like the to-be-planted-bulbs stick out like sore thumbs, don't they?

Have been in the [STRIKE]anteroom to hell [/STRIKE] ooops, I mean, my parents' loft, today. Wasn't being nosy-parker, Mum was at the foot of the ladder and I was a woman on a mission as she doesn't like clambering around up there in her seventies. Yarn of the knitting of, retreived, smallish quantities of surplus yarn for the knitting of blankets, retrieved. Xmas gift wrap, retrieved just before more was purchased, phew!.

Several items will be going back to my homestead tomorrow to be rehomed at Hoxfam, and the fate of a couple more items has been determined. I am turning undyed cotton into dishcloths with huge wooden knitting pins - am on my 3rd dishcloth since lunchtime,

Have encouraged Mum in decluttering in that we have probably decluttered 0.5 % of the kipple up there. I queried why they have 3 cat baskets for 2 cats? The third basket came to live with us when Nan's cat passed away and wasn't replaced. All 3 have to be kept (two-cat household) because one of them isn't so easy to use as the others. Why the offending article can't be re-homed isn't clear. They take up a surprising amount of room, don't they?

Other than that, I am taking something away to alter it into workability because one of Mum's two sewing machines is buried and the other one is playing up. It needs fiddling with to determine whether it is civilian-fiddling level or sewing-machine-service-in-another-town level. This status has pertained for more than a year. So the sewing project will come to mine and come back here when next I visit.......

Oh, and lawks, she's turfed out a plastic biscuit tub into the recycling bin and is vowing not to buy any seasonal snackery in containers, only in cardboard. I never thought I'd live to see the day.

greenbee

You didn't find anything you could 'turn into christmas presents' did you GQ? Maybe if your mum thinks you are making good use of things she'll be happy to release them into your care.

Then again, I can quite see that you wouldn't want to be knitting when you could be at archery... and I don't suppose combining the two would really work...

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

You didn't find anything you could 'turn into christmas presents' did you GQ? Maybe if your mum thinks you are making good use of things she'll be happy to release them into your care.

Then again, I can quite see that you wouldn't want to be knitting when you could be at archery... and I don't suppose combining the two would really work...

Nah, we did find some crafting supplies to be released into the wild for other people to make things from, although whether me getting them to the c.s. on Sun or Monday will be soon enough to see them made up and gifted this Crimble is anyone's guess.

Last week we were shooting apples at archery. Someone did suggest that we balance them on Teach's head but I did remind the class that he's a married man with kids and I didn't really want to have to ring his missus and explain that he was at A & E. Bygorry, but a coupla Braeburns got what was coming to them, and no mistake.:rotfl:I did suggest that we might decamp to the produce aisle of a nearby supermarket to have a real shoot-out - I think you'd've seen in in the snoozepapers if we'd followed through on that one.

Have just finished Dishcloth 3 (the Return of the Wiper) since I got hold of the yarn after lunch. Huge knitting pins, very fast work.