Enjoying the Sunshine whilst Saving for the Rainy Day

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dawnybabes wrote: »

Sounds like a fantastic day.

I work in a school so don't spend much on my clothes as they get glued and painted on so I get mine from everything5pounds.com

Can get some really nice clothes and they do plus sizes too :-)

Some of the items I kept were from that exact store Dawny!! :rotfl: I got rid of some "expensive mistakes" bought because they were a good deal or looked good on the hanger but never suited me and I just kept the stuff that suited me, that people complimented me in (sparking joy) or that I felt good in....and lots were just cheap shop jobbies! I was also brave and threw out all my size 14s and all my size 10s. I just hope I don't put on any more weight now and if I lose weight I'll have to use my belt :rotfl:

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Good morning! Well my storage sold and has been dropped off. So no chance of me changing my mind on it :T £5 in my pocket :T Whilst I was on the selling page on fb I saw a tv stand go on so I enquired and it was free the word "FREE" is like beautiful music to my ears :rotfl: So whilst I was dropping the baskets off I picked up the tv stand :T it's not wooden just one of those black glass ones which seems to look good in everyone's house...aside from mine :rotfl: it just doesn't match anything :eek: but it will do for now and it meant I could get the tv off the wall which of course, I did straight away :rotfl: meaning complete chaos of the front room. I had to move the cupboard that was in the way of where I wanted the new tv stand. That cupboard happened to be full of books. Like 300 books (it's a big old Victorian cupboard with deep drawers!) so I emptied them out on to the floor and thought, let's do the books now. WHY. :eek: It was around 6pm at this point and I was already tired but I had started so I had to finish. It took me until 10pm to do it. I culled over 150 books :eek: if not more! and we have 2 big drawers still full, but 2 empty :T I'm thinking I may do it again at another point when I am less tired. For now I'm happy I could let that many go :T I am unsure what to do with my uni books though I had sourced an awful lot of really old books to do with education and schooling etc and I don't think I'll read them again so am happy to let them go but I am unsure that the charity shop is the right place to get rid of them. However I'm not keeping until they sell as they are specialised and not everyone wants them so I want them gone I just don't know where. I would like them to go to a good home where they will be enjoyed, or "spark joy" .

So my wall is devoid of a tv, however the big black bracket is still up there and I need to find the tool box to get it off! Then i have found some paint. It claims to be One Coat ....I'm not sure it will be though over the dark grey up there! But I might try and do that later .

I've told my sister we are going to see her tomorrow so that will be fun I hope and a day away from cleaning and throwing things out (it's exhausting you know!) and I'd like to pop into 1kea whilst we're down that way to get another toy storage unit for the kids room. Then I will allocate one unit per child. They can fill those boxes up to their hearts content but once they start to overfill that's it they must purge more. They realistically play with the lego, barbies (DD) and transformers (DS) on a daily basis. The rest is just sat there waiting to be played with.

I emptied out ds1's train set (all Thomas the tank) and told him to be ruthless, sort through what he'd like to keep to one side in case he or one of his siblings had kids (I know this is probably a NO in Kon Mari but they spark joy whenever I look at them as ds1 used to love these and they were super expensive :rotfl:) ...so He got rid of lots and I could move what was left to a much smaller box and therefore we also cleared one drawer out of the smaller kids toy boxes :T.

My house looks worse than before I think it's because everything is all over the floor. Piles upon piles of charity shop/to sell stuff and also stuff that needs to find a new home etc. I've put the old hoover up for sale and I have someone coming to look at the stool I put up for sale too. Unsure if charity shops take hoovers if it doesn't sell? Our one is quite strict on electrical stuff. SO anyway, must go, need to get dressed and try and find homes for the bits that were stuffed in drawers if I can't find homes I will be getting rid of more stuff......!

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Just sold my Zumba DVDs. Only thing they were good for was collecting dust :rotfl::rotfl: £5 to come to me later. That's all my fitness DVDs gone! And it feels great only ones I've kept are my yoga ones which I love :j:j

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£5 for the 1kea stool :T it was great when kids were smaller but no longer needed and gone to a lovely lady who child minds so will help her out now instead who knew selling your stuff could be so gratifying as well as emptying out your house and thus creating more space :j

liltdiddylilt

I can't keep up!!! And how do you have anything left in your house?!?! :rotfl:

I am loving how you have taken to this kondo-ing malarkey! It really does spark joy clearing the place out properly, though kids hamper things. I am sure if I didn't have Jelly my house would be a sofa, bed, tv and a LOT of kitchen gadgets :rotfl: thats it!

Yay for all the money made and things you don't use being useful for someone else :0 it is a good feeling. like when my secret pile in the hallway disappears

I need to do my books again. I culled about 200 a year or so ago, but I haven't even glanced at the rest I left since then. What is the point?! I sold loads of them to a woman who had the same taste as me the rest went to mum for her charity sales reminds me, she is doing another one. She can have my books for that! :T

Hugs xxx

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OMG I am exhausted! I could not look at the piles of everything everywhere for any longer! For some one who is a secret hoarder (so secret I never knew it until the other day :rotfl:) my house is usually pretty clean! I have so much stuff though it's ridiculous! AND can you believe 10 minutes after I sold my stool I needed it to reach up high for something :rotfl: haha! So anyway I have sanded down the wall, filled in the holes where the bracket went and painted it three times today :T I had some "one coat" paint in the cupboard in brilliant white and it really did what it said on the tin :T it covered the grey in literally one coat :eek: I covered that with two coats of magnolia (it only needed one really but I did two just in case) and it looks so bright over on that wall now! I'm used to seeing dark grey!

The dog escaped half way through me doing this painting :mad: as the kids were in and out playing and I didn't even realise he was gone until about 30 minutes later So I went running out with paint all over me, no shoes on screaming for him....got just round the corner and a man was wandering around looking for me! He had taken Duke in his garden thankfully as that dog is an idiot around roads :cool:. Drama over and I went back to finish and do dinner. I've sold a few more things today all to be collected on Weds. Anything not collected or sold is going out of my house by Friday :T.

I have told my sister that I would go up Weds not Tomorrow like I had thought :think: but i've now got deliveries due on weds and people collecting things. I picked up my @sda order today. They put in size 14-16 jeggings instead of a 12 :wall: as I was putting them on I was thinking "omg I am SOOOOO skinny". Then I checked the label and saw they were the wrong size and felt an idiot and fat again :rotfl: SO all of those are going back :mad: and I am without trousers again! Here's hoping the sp0rts direct ones fit and suit me so I can just get a full refund on the @sda ones rather than swapping :T

I have a car full of stuff to go to the charity shop in the morning and then we are off to 1kea and my mums if they are in :rotfl: I haven't been able to get hold of them to tell them i got the days muddled I hope everyone is well here, I am so tired i've sat down with crumpets & tea and am going to watch The Craft and go to bed I think

NSD here :T
And I made £10 and have around £10-15 due to me over next few days

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liltdiddylilt wrote: »

I can't keep up!!! And how do you have anything left in your house?!?! :rotfl:

I am loving how you have taken to this kondo-ing malarkey! It really does spark joy clearing the place out properly, though kids hamper things. I am sure if I didn't have Jelly my house would be a sofa, bed, tv and a LOT of kitchen gadgets :rotfl: thats it!

Yay for all the money made and things you don't use being useful for someone else :0 it is a good feeling. like when my secret pile in the hallway disappears

I need to do my books again. I culled about 200 a year or so ago, but I haven't even glanced at the rest I left since then. What is the point?! I sold loads of them to a woman who had the same taste as me the rest went to mum for her charity sales reminds me, she is doing another one. She can have my books for that! :T

Hugs xxx

Oh wow you are the same as us! We love books!!! We have far too many still but I have a whole set of Dickens in leather bound covers which spark joy looking at them even though i'll probably not read them all (again) I also have a leather bound set of Orson Wells too and they are beautiful I've not read any of those (I have read his books but other copies not my own ones :rotfl: I make no sense at all do I). And I've kept all my spiritual ones (like the celestine prophecy series I heart those! )

Poor DH wasn't here to say yes or no but he video called yesterday half way through the mess and he asked what was going on :rotfl: he told me what he wanted to keep and thought it made sense to let the others go that he wasn't ever going to read again :eek: I'm shocked! But I kept the ones he wanted and have bagged up the rest ready to go tomorrow! I literally, actually, really have a FULL cars worth of stuff to go :rotfl:

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Good Morning :wave:

I had a great day yesterday at my mum's house, we went to the local fair there and thankfully the sun was shining, the kids were mostly perfect and the day was just the break we all needed. Almost felt like we were on holiday (oooooooooooh I long to be on a real holiday though )

So I dropped off around 10 bags yesterday at the charity shop plus lots of bulky bits that wouldn't fit in bags :T:shocked: It felt great and I no longer trip over it all in the kitchen! Win-Win! I've got a delivery due today, I need to drop off the George stuff back at store as all the sizes were wrong and I had a delivery whilst I was out yesterday so everything will have arrived soon that I ordered :T. I loved everything from my most expensive shop (how typical!) so just to see how everthing looks from the sp0rts d1rect now . I've also got 4 or 5 people coming to collect items i'm selling this morning/afternoon and I have a drs appointment later too so a pretty busy day. DS1 said he will put together the items I bought from Ike@ yesterday, which by the way, happened to be in the sale they were having :T so I got £20 off the price I was willing to already pay :j super duper happy with that! Once they've been made ALL of the toys (aside from Lego which is in too big a box to move too far! and also their art easel, also too big) will be going upstairs!! I am reclaiming my front room as a living room not a toy room :T This pleases me no end and I can't wait to see how it looks when all done. I've also told the children that they have these 6 big boxes to store the things they love the most and then they must get rid of what doesn't fit and they don't love -if i'm honest they have already said get rid of X, Y & Z as they don't like them it's been me that's said Nooooooooooooo I spent to on much on that you will play with it so I think that will be pretty easy for them- harder for me :rotfl:. DD loves art & dolls. DS2 loves transformers, his superhero toys & the bricks (lego) and that is ALL they play with I am holding on to the rest thinking they don't have enough.......OOps......They also have a whole cupboard of jigsaws, another one of board games, all of which we will keep so they have plenty I guess. Does anyone else have problems culling the kids stuff even though they've said it's fine? Or is it just me!

Anyway I am dressed and ready for the knocks on the door for all the stuff and I have even done my make up and put lipstick on . I got up this morning after 6 hours sleep (we got in super late and it took ages to drop off to sleep) and I looked 46 not 36 :eek::eek::eek: so i decided to cheer myself up with my new bright pink jumper and a lipstick to match Oh and lots of foundation to cover big bags under eyes and patchy skin :rotfl:. Am feeling much better now and ready to face the day Hope you're all well I will attempt to catch up with everyone here today if I can

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Afternoon. Well I've drs in a bit so will do another tip run (WHY do I have so much broken things in the house :eek:) and another charity shop run at the same time as they're all in the same direction. I missed a call from the scrap metal guy so I need to ring him back about collecting my stuff from the garden this evening. I have done the kids toys and found one and a half bags of stuff they don't play with. It's too much effort to list it all for 50p, £1 etc so i've only listed what I think I can get £5 and above. If it doesn't sell though it's going. Erm, oh yes our "new" hum@x box is broken again did I say :mad: I am going to try and plug it into the tv upstairs just to make sure it's not my tv (but the dvd player works so am assuming it's the box) so I will be ringing them later if I can't get it working.

Also need to pop to the shops to get a new wire for the tv-surround sound box. It's snapped when I moved all the stuff around the other day was already on it's last legs with wires hanging out so I will just go get a new one!

Hope everyone is ok, I got round a few diaries before people started turning up for things here. Have made £10 so far today with another few people due this evening for low priced items (£1-2 which will be the last time I waste my time selling items at that price as people were still trying to get money knocked off :mad:) So anyway will try again later with the diaries :rotfl:! TTFN

Sun_Addict

I feel exhausted just reading your diary - wow have you been busy. There's nothing better than a good clear out, and if you can make money in the process then brilliant