Enjoying the Sunshine whilst Saving for the Rainy Day

debtfreewannabe321

liltdiddylilt wrote: »

That is amazing news about A: vacuum cleaner bargain! B: Kondoing the airing cupboard!! You don't hang about do you!!

Welcome to the marvellous joy of kondo! I kondoed Jellys entire drawers. I had an overflowing chest of drawers with stuff piled on top and her bedding in my room at first. Now, after a cull of some old small stuff, and kondo folding of everything plus standing it all up on end together so you can see everything at a glance, I walked away with 'I need 1 pair of jeans, 2 pairs of jeggings, 2 pairs of leggings, 2 bed sheets for her bed, 3 pairs of pyjamas and 9 tops' :rotfl: £70 later I had it all waiting at Arseda to collect. And EVERYTHING fits in her drawers with room to spare!! :T

You can see, at a glance, exactly what you need! I LOVE it!!!

Well done on all the selling I wonder, do you ever just.. sit? xxx

Thankfully it's not an airing cupboard (aka a tardis like my mothers one! :rotfl:) But it's around half the size, probably less so didn't take long at all. :T I would like to do all our clothes but am feeling slightly overwhelmed by that whenever I think about it It has to be done though so I will do it, eventually!

Everything that has sold should be collected today :T only around £8-10 worth if it's all collected but every little helps :T otherwise i'll be visiting the charity shop again

And I sit down far too often! I feel much better in myself if I get up and do things though so I am making a concerted effort (when I have the energy) not to waste my time sat watching homes under the hammer and grand designs on catch up :rotfl:

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Morning :hello: When I move I am getting a cat flap (or dog flap if they sell those too?? Luckily MS's are small so he will fit through a cat flap) If it's not the kids getting up at stupid o'clock it's the ruddy dog!!! 6.50 am this morning he was running up and down the stairs :mad: that's his way of saying, "get up and let me out or I will just go and pee in your front room". He never pees in the kitchen where there is hard floor. Nope! Just the front room where the kids play on the carpet :mad: Thankfully he's done this only a few times and I could probably count that on one hand but grrrrr the dog drives me just as mad as the kids!!!! They're all like little elephants in my house!

So breakfast and a dvd (it's raining AGAIN ) and i'm waiting in for collections at least until 12pm then I also have to be back at 5pm for the other bits to be collected. It's no hardship anyway I only need to walk the dog ....which was mighty fun yesterday when ds2 threw a gigantic strop half way round and refused to move a step more (his legs were broken....2 miles from the car FML) was fun getting him to move again that was for sure! So not looking forward to that again :rotfl:

ds1 is ill. I collected him from school in a bad mood and he looked a bit peaky. He took himself straight to bed and went to sleep :eek::eek: that's unheard of for him! I took him paracetamol and dinner & drinks and he had the lot so hoping it's just a cold and not flu. This is all down to stress of his GCSEs i'm sure of it coupled with the fact he had that spat with the teacher and got a detention he absolutely hates being told off by those in authority (not because he thinks he's right about everything but because he gets embarrassed and really quite upset and sad about it! He's always been the same!) So I have one sick child to look after today too. I'm boiling some eggs for breakfast and hopefully he'll eat those and sleep it off.

Right I might be back with a list of things to do ....This house certainly needs it but I'm pretty tired today after the dog waking me too early! Cup of tea will hopefully sort that out....:rotfl:

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So today I wasn't planning on bleaching carpets clean and hoovering already but I stupidly knocked one of those little dehumidifier pots down the stairs and all the little ball things flew everywhere :mad: I am so mad with myself! I'm so clumsy! I'm not sure if they're poisonous or not but my guess was they are so i've hoovered and bleached it all clean and now my house smells of bleach :doh:. I was chucking the washing down the stairs when it happened so it went all over the towels, clothes (inc. ds1 school trousers) so i'm hoping it comes off in the wash!? I put it on a hot wash and then realised as I turned it on that one of my delicate sweaters was in there from yesterday :wall: Please don't let this set the theme for the entire day!!!!!!!!

So today I want to tackle paperwork which although looks bad should only take an hour tops as i did do it a few weeks ago too. I would also like to sell a few items of furniture from the kids room but one is broken (hoping I can superglue the bit of wood back together which is then covered by material anyway so you can't see what it looks like.) the other needs cleaning. In fact they probably both do as they've both been used to store books for ages! One is a cute little book holder (but the kids books are too big and heavy for it now) and one is a pull along toy box both in the same matching jungle design. Hoping I can sell them on as I paid a fair bit for them a few years back second hand! They're lovely just too small now. Be good to declutter those and then perhaps sort through the books. The kids must have outgrown some by now which can be passed to cousins or the charity shop:T So that's the jobs list for today! As well as the usual hoovering, dishwasher, washing clothes and putting them all away and making curry for later! xx

grannyx2

Hello honey, yes I'm still here. Are you my friend on FB, :rotfl: as I'm posting daily on there

Today we went to Bondi, hence the new Avatar, it was lovely but DD thought it was too cold @21• to sunbathe so we just walked

X

debtfreewannabe321

Granny I pm'd you!

Well in my bid to declutter I've somehow made MORE mess x4!!! :eek::eek: I have got both bits that i want to sell out and cleaned them up, waiting for the fabric to dry on the book shelf one before putting it back together. That will look good as new :T Bit disappointed with the pull along toy box, the kids were little menaces when younger and used to sit in it and pull each other along :wall: along the way somewhere we've lost a screw and it's gotten quite chipped :mad: I've sanded down the paint as best as I can and cleaned it. I will list it as it is with the faults as i'm not going out to buy special screws. I will just put it up for fiver and hope for the best. It still looks good to me, just not as good as the book shelf! Kids eh!
I will need to replace these bits which I've been meaning to do for a while now, i'm not sure if to get replacements now or when we move. And if when we move where do I store 200+ books :eek: I think I should wait really as I will know better what size furniture we need...ok so now to find cupboard space to house all these books temporarily :rotfl: I would like to get to that big Swedish shop at some point too to get another toy storage thing like we already have.
I have one of these at the moment:
http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/0114116_PE266362_S5.JPG

I'm thinking if I get two the kids can have one each and it might contain the toys a bit better.
If anyone has any better solutions they've found please tell! The kids don't have a huge amount of toys but they do have enough to fill one of those cupboards each and then we have lots and lots of books! I love books though and would like to keep the majority just need storage solutions I think! (i've gotten rid of all baby books as I just cleared out the box & shelf just now they're ready for selling or charity) :T

Edited!! OMG that picture is HUGE!!! I will just add the link instead :rotfl:

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I'm exhausted! So I have moved all the kids books to one location. They're in the cupboard in the kids' room and I just have one shelf to declutter in there (board games which no one ever plays any more but i'm wondering if the kids might play them when they get older :think: most are ones ds1 has outgrown).

I've done all of the toys in one go my front room floor looked like a bomb had gone off in toys r us :eek: I have put up for sale around 2 bin liners full of toys (kids sorted them out so I know they won't be asking where they've gone in a weeks time if i'd done it :rotfl:) A carrier bag full was thrown away as it was broken bits. And i've lots of books & toys for charity (2 bin liners worth) :T So in two days i've managed to remove around half a dozen bin liners full of stuff from the house :eek: Now that is quite worrying! My house isn't usually a mess so I am wondering how I became such a hoarder :rotfl: I still have lots more to do too :eek:. Books will be my weakness... I have made £9 today and have a few more quid due to me on Monday and i'm hoping to sell some more stuff before I have enough and throw it all in the charity pile :rotfl:
Very pleased with my efforts so far.

I told DH I was decluttering and he asked if it was his clothes after the other day :rotfl: I said no, not yet!

As i'm looking around my house I'm wondering if I should get rid of some of my plants. I have 9 in the front room alone 4 of them large floor plants in pots :rotfl: I am thinking I definitely have too many...I'll have a ponder. I have spent so long growing some of them I would be upset to get rid of some, others i'm not too bothered about and look half dead anyway :rotfl:

NSD again today :T
Made a lovely curry in the slow cooker earlier too it's hit the spot and I am ready for my bed now. Who knew cleaning could be so tiring :rotfl: I am desperate to get my new hoover too so I can try it out how sad am I ! xx

slm6002

well done on all of your efforts Never heard of this kondo thing and now off to research it lol

liltdiddylilt

slm6002 wrote: »

well done on all of your efforts Never heard of this kondo thing and now off to research it lol

NOOOOOO!! Your life will never be the same again. And.. in a good.. but exhausting sock thanking, plastic bag folding way.

DFW that storage thing is awesome. I was like... OHH I need that, followed half a millisecond later by.. it's a set of stairs for a monster climbing 3 year old. :rotfl::eek: Maybe in a couple of years...

If you bought another, you could tip it upside down and put it on top of the one you've got, then hang the stuff upside down :money: defo space saving.. And stops the climbing.. hmmm

*Robin*

slm6002 wrote: »

A well done on all of your efforts B Never heard of this kondo thing and C now off to research it lol

Hi DFw, :hello:

Absolutely agree with A & B above, but alas C will have to go on the 'to do' list.

Sorry to have been missing for so long... Only excuse is didn't want to inflict Black Dog comments on anyone else's threads.

Have been reading intermittently during m' absence though, and would like to say one thing: It's well worth getting a MIP organised before going house-hunting again. As a vendor, I'd never remove my house from listings for anyone who didn't have purchase funds in place - just too frustrating!

Very well done on all the de-cluttering, that's going to make your eventual move much easier. Not to mention permitting you to get the house cleaned to the required standard with less hassle.

Hope DS is feeling better today.

debtfreewannabe321

*Robin* wrote: »

Hi DFw, :hello:

Absolutely agree with A & B above, but alas C will have to go on the 'to do' list.

Sorry to have been missing for so long... Only excuse is didn't want to inflict Black Dog comments on anyone else's threads.

Have been reading intermittently during m' absence though, and would like to say one thing: It's well worth getting a MIP organised before going house-hunting again. As a vendor, I'd never remove my house from listings for anyone who didn't have purchase funds in place - just too frustrating!

Very well done on all the de-cluttering, that's going to make your eventual move much easier. Not to mention permitting you to get the house cleaned to the required standard with less hassle.

Hope DS is feeling better today.

Robin we did have a MIP We had the letter and everything to show the estate agents. They just kept changing their minds. I think this is happening all over though as we saw 3 other lovely houses that we had rung up about but all had been SSTC well I braved right move after my disappointment the other week and all of those 3 houses were back up for sale :huh: Now I'm wondering if at least one of those had the same thing happen to them with banks changing minds even after getting a MIP! Really gutting. I thought a MIP meant it was green light for full mortgage application to go through, seems not with all the new hoops to jump through with affordability checks.

The Kondo-ing has spurred me on to de-clutter but I will confess I've not actually read her book :rotfl: So I have no idea of how she does it! I keep thinking I might do my own de-clutter first and if I think I still have more to leave the house I will purchase her book and go through each of her categories. I have lots of ornaments which are very unfashionable these days. But I picked one up yesterday and I pictured it sat on my nan's fireplace the way she used to display it and it brought back so many memories I put it back on my shelf. I felt guilty in throwing memories away although i'm not particularly fond of the ornament itself I love the fact every time I look at it (or the paper weights next to it that my grandad left me) I think of them i'm not sure what Marie Kondo would say about that probably that i'm being silly and should throw them out anyway and that memories are in my head not on my shelf :rotfl: it's just that the memories aren't brought to the front of my mind unless I see those pieces.

I hope the black dog has left Robin and that you and CD are ok :A we miss you when you're not here! If you've read up on my diary you'll know i've not had a great week :rotfl: but I find posting here helps enormously and people on here help me to see sense OR offer kind words if needed :)