Enjoying the Sunshine whilst Saving for the Rainy Day

liltdiddylilt

Hey you!!!

Yay for more tip runs! I am jealous of it all as I have a Him who despite barely owning anything here as he has all his stuff at his own house, refuses to let me get rid of mine! I sneak it out on the days when he isn't here still way too much junk here though!!

I don't have the patience to make money from stuff. Is that silly? If I can't get a decent whack from it then I really can't be bothered. I live in a town where people will ask for something for free if you list it for 50p. It makes me so :mad: that I would rather throw it in the bin than give it to them!! I don't, I give it to charity but still!!

As for the kids toys, I was mega ruthless the other day and got rid of tonnes of the stuff jelly rarely bothers with. There is only the odd few toys that she uses and plays with to death. And frankly she's happier with the boxes than the toys at the minute. Her birthday tomorrow. I have a bike and countless piles of junk toys she won't look at after a cursory play. Mother and MIL cannot be controlled. :eek:

Lots of love xx

grannyx2

Happy birthday to Jelly for tomorrow Lilt, it's my DDILs birthday & my wedding anniversary plus the one year anniversary of my operation. (What a difference a year makes )

Well done on your sorting through DF(w), you can come and do mine next if you want

Granny x

pennywisepoundstupid

Morning, Loving all the decluttering, need to get rid of some stuff from DS roombut know the minute I remove it he will know it's gone, even though he hasn't played with it for months.

debtfreewannabe321

morning!

Well i've woken up with a bad back, I should think that is all the furniture moving about i've been doing :D. I have been to the drs this morning as still not got my asthma medication right. I think she wants to try me on a new inhaler but is talking to the Dr first. I have emailed h^max. I'm fuming with this freeview box. Waste of money and i've told them so too :mad: I tried the box with my tele upstairs and nope not working still. they've obviously sent me a refurb out and the HDMI port is broken I think. I have had no tv for months now it's a good job I don't watch a lot anyway but it would have been nice to have whilst kids were home for Easter.

So I need to pop to Asda to take back the clothes that don't fit, lilt thanks for the pm i will try there afterwards! The ones from sp0rts direct didn't fit, I should have ordered the size 10 but I was feeling fat that day so ordered the 12 and they practically fall off me (and i'm not skinny they just seem to come up big). So I need to send back some bits to there, there was also an item missing from that order so I have emailed them too asking if they will send a replacement or just issue a refund? :huh:

Going to pop to shops soon and then take it easy I think for the rest of the day as back is pretty stiff & sore :eek:. Need to catch up on here and YNAB anyway so might just do that this afternoon

debtfreewannabe321

Good morning!

Yesterday I got my refund for clothes- £42 on it's way back to me. I stupidly bought the size down from the ones I was sending back as I was in the store and when I got home sure enough they were too "snug" so I have to bring those back too :wall: WHEN will they make a size 11 for me :mad:. I'll try and get those back today! It was swimming day yesterday afternoon so I popped into TU in sainsbugs after lilts suggestion and tried on several pairs before buying :rotfl: their 25% off had finished so I just bought two pairs of jeggings (so I can wash a pair whilst wearing the other! I live in these things!). If they wash well and I love them I may go back and get more next time the 25% off is on :T. So I have money coming in and out of my bank all over the place at the moment on purchases and refunds! Confusing but i'm trying to keep up on ynab :think:.

Yesterday I did NOT sit down and do nothing :rotfl: I decided to do my porch. Which you can't swing a cat in by the way but which had become a breeding ground for junk! it must be one metre by one metre (maybe a tad bigger) and that is it! It's housing all the coats/shoes/wellies/scarves/ hats etc and the hoover, the ironing board and the iron and all the airers. No wonder when the postman comes I start panicking thinking will he want me to open the door to get something :rotfl:. So I opened the door yesterday and basically put it all out the front so I could give it a real deep clean first before putting things back. New rules in our house are that you can keep wellies & trainers downstairs, all other shoes are to be kept upstairs (and school shoes during school term can stay downstairs). There is plenty of floor space in all the wardrobes now thanks to my clean up there so that's where they shall go :T That instantly freed up a HUGE basket (which is sat in my front room looking a bit lost now, I don't "need" it at the moment but I don't want to sell for pennies as I love it? Any ideas? It's very big?) so with the basket gone I moved onto all scarves & hats & gloves. They went in a large shopping bag and up to my wardrobe in the hope we don't need them till winter now :rotfl:. Another space cleared up :T. I gave away my airers ( had 2 that someone had given me before I got my heated airer and I don't really use them but always keep them just in case ...there's a theme emerging here isn't there! a "just in case" one!!) So all that is in there now is the coats which are hung up anyway, the ironing board and iron & I have somehow managed to fit the airer in which can be half open to hang clothes on and I can still open the door :eek: and the best thing about this porch is, when it's sunny it's like a sun trap so my clothes dried in half the time yesterday without me plugging it in :eek::T I was super impressed with that! I can have it all the way open if I don't need to use the front door too :T. The hoover will belong in there but it's out at the moment in a corner somewhere as I was using it. My porch looks clean, tidy and I don't mind people coming in through it now as it's not embarrassing I was forever saying "please excuse the mess we have no storage downstairs for this stuff" which is true....but... I just had too much stuff which needed rearranging, moving to other rooms when not in use and purging a little . It's still not the "ideal" space, but i have learned that you have to basically make the best of what you do have instead of complaining about lack of things. Law of attraction means you keep complaining of a lack (space, money, time) and you will just attract more of that. I intend to have a space that I love, even though I don't really want to be here and I hope in turn to attract another space I will love elsewhere :rotfl:

Today I have promised to take the kids to the cinema so I will return my jeggings that I didn't like to @sda and try and package up my sp0rts direct stuff I also didn't want and send those back.

Whilst in town I want to use my b0dy sh0p voucher i've had since xmas and i've heard they do a lo-poo shampoo so i'm off to find it and stock up with vouchers :T will save me money on buying the f@ith in n@ture stuff I usually get which is quite expensive!

I want to purge the kitchen but honestly i'm thinking I will actually have that day off today :rotfl: I may change my mind though I had an @rgos voucher and I bought a pan rack which I intend to use to free up one whole cupboard when I do do it :T I hope it works, I got my idea from p1nterest when oogling other people's gorgeous homes and kitchens .


Ohh and I forgot to say i bought Paddington yesterday for the kids it was a good film and the kids loved it too. Today i'm hoping to see Cinderella but I don't think ds2 is impressed with that choice :rotfl: he wants to watch Home! :A TTFN

debtfreewannabe321

pennywisepoundstupid wrote: »

Morning, Loving all the decluttering, need to get rid of some stuff from DS roombut know the minute I remove it he will know it's gone, even though he hasn't played with it for months.

How old is your ds Penny? My eldest is 16 and I didn't ask him to do his room as he's been doing lots of revision (without me asking :eek: that bribe of a new computer tower must be working :rotfl:) and one day he just brought me a tonne of clothing :eek: Then when I was doing our books downstairs he came and rescued some :rotfl: BUT at the same time said, "i've got lots under my bed that haven't been read in years shall I get them out " :eek: I went up to help him but basically we got around 3 bags of stuff (black bin liners so huge bags!) for the charity shop :eek: He rearranged his room, didn't take on board the Kon mari folding (but hey ho each to his own) but did take on board the "throw it out if no joy being sparked thing" and his room is looking much barer, clearer spaces and he has more room He's in the box room so every inch counts.

Whilst on my decluttering I have freed up 8 toy boxes (but bought 6 smaller ones to replace as all broken :mad:) and one huge basket (the one I love), 4 other baskets/boxes downstairs and 3 more upstairs!! I have empty storage containers ALL over the place now but I won't sell/charity shop the good ones until i'm totally done in case I find I can use them instead of something else. So anyway, ds1 took a big storage tower (plastic one you can have as big or small as you like that stacks on top of each other) and he's replaced lots of smaller ones all over his room with just this one big one and he is liking his room much more now and complaining less I'd encourage your son to purge. Start with a category he won't mind going through, perhaps clothes or books? I wasn't bothered about order of categories with my son but funnily enough he's been copying me as I work through each category :rotfl::cool:

debtfreewannabe321

liltdiddylilt wrote: »

Hey you!!!

Yay for more tip runs! I am jealous of it all as I have a Him who despite barely owning anything here as he has all his stuff at his own house, refuses to let me get rid of mine! I sneak it out on the days when he isn't here still way too much junk here though!!

I don't have the patience to make money from stuff. Is that silly? If I can't get a decent whack from it then I really can't be bothered. I live in a town where people will ask for something for free if you list it for 50p. It makes me so :mad: that I would rather throw it in the bin than give it to them!! I don't, I give it to charity but still!!

As for the kids toys, I was mega ruthless the other day and got rid of tonnes of the stuff jelly rarely bothers with. There is only the odd few toys that she uses and plays with to death. And frankly she's happier with the boxes than the toys at the minute. Her birthday tomorrow. I have a bike and countless piles of junk toys she won't look at after a cursory play. Mother and MIL cannot be controlled. :eek:

Lots of love xx

it helps that dh isn't here :rotfl: he isn't bothered by most things and lets me get on with it usually but it has helped me doing it on my own (most of the stuff is mine anyway :o) and i've left all his stuff as it is -well moved it to a place it can belong now :T
I am dreading the kids birthdays as they share a not very big room (10ft x 12ft) which already has bunk beds, dolls house, and ikea storage there isn't any room for big stuff. My MIL bought the kids a tent each last year :mad: an indoor one so couldn't leave outside and they were used but mostly kept folded (awkwardly) in a corner. I gave them to charity yesterday and she's coming next week. I'm hoping she doesn't notice . I also gave away a globe they got for xmas, they already had a lovely light up one and this was a "colour in the country" one and they never used it so off it went. Their room is still pretty cluttered even with me saying "you have 6 boxes, once those are filled you have to let something go if you want to bring in something new".

As for selling!!! :mad:
I have sold lots for £5 but that seems to be the limit people will pay generally. Tight wads. When you consider how much people pay for items originally it makes me fume that everyone wants things for nothing! I paid £30 for a lawnmower when I went to collect the lady said someone had offered her a fiver as they said they could get a brand new flymo for £30 which is true but that was the basic one :rotfl: the one she was selling was pretty expensive to start with and looked brand new and came with loads of free new blades! Some people huh!!! I sold a few low value items and people never turned up for them. I didn't bother messaging them for the third time it's all gone to charity now so if they turn up that's what i'll be telling them! And tough luck you time wasters :mad:

debtfreewannabe321

Sun_Addict wrote: »

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

I honestly didn't realise how much stuff I had See usually I move every 2-3 years. As it is we've been in this town for 7 years now and when we moved 5 years ago from round the corner i had two babies and didn't do my usual purge I just boxed it all up and moved it over so I've got 7 years of clutter. I'm usually pretty ruthless when it comes to moving across country and i'll get rid of lots of stuff but as it's not happened for so long now I have a LOT of stuff . Shame I couldn't sell more really but I didn't want to hold on to it all whilst waiting for new homes for it all! I've done that before and when it's not sold i've taken it out and thought "perhaps i'll keep it then" :rotfl: so it had to go asap!

grannyx2 wrote: »

Happy birthday to Jelly for tomorrow Lilt, it's my DDILs birthday & my wedding anniversary plus the one year anniversary of my operation. (What a difference a year makes )

Well done on your sorting through DF(w), you can come and do mine next if you want

Granny x

Happy anniversary! One year on and everything is great for you :T Happy Birthday to everyone whose birthday it was too :j:bdaycake:

*Robin*

Dear DFw,
I bow humbly before your awesome productivity! :T
Have popped in a couple of times recently, but just reading about all your de-cluttering has been enough to make me reel, needing a lie-down, lol.

I'd keep the storage boxes. They'll come in very handy when you do eventually move, much better than cardboard.
If you've no-where to put the boxes now, as they're plastic you could always stack 'em neatly outside in a corner [covered with a tarp?], safe until you need them.

debtfreewannabe321

I'm whacked, feel very tired this evening. Took the kids to the cinema, they started a fight in the middle (only briefly but it was loud and during a quiet part) then they fought when they got back to the car and I could have just cried. PMT is back today :( I am feeling so depressed and tearful and annoyed at everyone and everything. Then I have DH going on about how carp his life is and how he hates his job and how he wants to live in America not where I want to go. I've quite frankly had enough and told him where to go and switched off messenger . I've been taking agnus castus but it's not helping this month. I'm thinking about trying st johns wort or Maca alongside it. I don't know anyone who uses these things though so i'll think about it. Cramps & pains are back too with a vengeance and I guess my productivity over the last few days will halt now!

I took back jeggings that didn't fit and as I was already in the SM i bought my shopping there, just enough to last till Monday. I left ds2 at home with ds1 as I just could not face taking the two kids with me. I smacked DD earlier as she was being really nasty to her brother then I ended up smacking ds2 as well at 6.30...shortly before sending them both to bed SO fed up and no one to talk to. My friend is wrapped up in her own problems which I was helping to console her until I just thought, s0d it I can't be bothered if she can't be bothered with me. I think I might need to hide out until it's all over for another month. I hate being a woman sometimes.

Not a nsd as wasted money on cinema (it was ok, but I think ds2 was bored hence the fight). and i bought food shop and also a new laundry hamper to replace the broken one.