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hjd

GDB2222 wrote: »

I've been contemplating a roll of toilet paper for a while, but sadly I just don't seem to have feelings for it.

Don't just contemplate it.
Embrace it.
Afterwards you will have a squashed loo roll and may have discovered new feelings.
Or not.

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

I've been contemplating a roll of toilet paper for a while, but sadly I just don't seem to have feelings for it.

Try waiting until next time you, err, are about to use some loo roll, and then contemplate an empty loo roll holder. You may find some feelings result.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

I've been contemplating a roll of toilet paper for a while, but sadly I just don't seem to have feelings for it.

Have you thanked it for its hard work in keeping you clean and fresh?

Are you not grateful you have it to fulfil that function?

Really no?

Would you feel any different about the option of the alternative ' family cloth' (sometimes raised with the caveat a step too far on the old style board)

If you really are ambivalent......chuck it. Gowan.......but, um, keep soap. ( please goodness find joy in soap)

Nikkster

LydiaJ wrote: »

Try waiting until next time you, err, are about to use some loo roll, and then contemplate an empty loo roll holder. You may find some feelings result.

Having spent a bit of time at music festivals, being able to sit on a toilet and help yourself to loo roll that is just there, waiting to be used (no dogs required ) is a beautiful thing.

Nikkster

Good luck Gen. Vibes heading your way

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

In my house, if I declutter a small area one day and aim to do some more the next day, I find that the original area has been recluttered by the time I go to do the next bit. Sometimes I'm the culprit, but there are others in my house who reclutter it much more dramatically and more rapidly than I do.

I had that issue too....I think I scared them into submission this time :rotfl:

Didn't work with James though, he is like a one man whirlwind of mess when he comes home, everything just completely spread out instead of in a nice neat pile, drove me barmy when he was home at new year.

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

Whereas I am more or less at the "can't even contemplate beginning" stage.

One thing at a time, get yourself feeling better first. This was another of my mistakes, trying to make everything better at the same time, it was doomed to failure, I would end up collapsed in a heap despairing at ever being able to have a tidy home and completely overwhelmed with the magnitude of what needed to be done.

It was because of all this doomed to failure feeling that it never really got off the ground, it was only when mentally I was ready for it that it all came together. I'm not perfect at it yet and there are still some troublesome areas (the larder cupboard!) but it's getting there and I am feeling more comfortable with it but there would still be some who would class it as cluttered as I like my little ornaments, books on display and pictures but I have learned to say....to hell with them!

I like them and if they don't, well they can blooming well leave.

ukmaggie45

Did a brief trip to MiL flat again today. Got rest of sculpts back, but they're still in the car as OH had to go over the water for a second time for a committee meeting to do with sailing stuff. Delighted on way over to see a buzzard sitting on a lamp post over the motorway, and then on way home another - or might have been same one on a different lamp post! Saw lots of catkins, though had to look for them - on Thursday when we went over there was sun, so the catkins stood out. In today's more gloomy weather you had to look hard to see them, seemed to just disappear into the general brown-ness of the hedges.

We also took the rest of the framed paintings (watercolours by MiL and FiL) and delivered them to our local Oxfam Furniture Shop. We know that they would prefer they went there than to landfill, and the frames will make a few bob for Oxfam. I can live with leaving the rest of the stuff there, though it grieves me to leave a full set of drill bits in a case! OH will be going over before bloke comes to pick stuff up on Thursday I think, so might get him to grab those and a few other bits to go to our local Oxfam too if he can.

Weirdest find was a felt pouch with a label from Tiffany's New York! I did grab that. It's the only thing I will ever be likely to "own" from there, and why send it to landfill? We think it was maybe what MiL had her tiara in (it fell to pieces from what I can gather) as it's a bit of a strange shape. One of her brothers went to sea, so lots of odd things came back to the family. I often wonder what happened to the stuffed armadillo that used to sit on the stairs in the flat they lived in when I first met OH! :rotfl:

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

One thing at a time, get yourself feeling better first. This was another of my mistakes, trying to make everything better at the same time, it was doomed to failure, I would end up collapsed in a heap despairing at ever being able to have a tidy home and completely overwhelmed with the magnitude of what needed to be done.

It was because of all this doomed to failure feeling that it never really got off the ground, it was only when mentally I was ready for it that it all came together. I'm not perfect at it yet and there are still some troublesome areas (the larder cupboard!) but it's getting there and I am feeling more comfortable with it but there would still be some who would class it as cluttered as I like my little ornaments, books on display and pictures but I have learned to say....to hell with them!

I like them and if they don't, well they can blooming well leave.

To read that you failed and failed when you tried to sort your house out before you were better, but have succeeded now that you are in the right place mentally gives me hope in a way that other forms of encouragement (although much appreciated) have not been able to. Thank you sooooo much, Sue. :A

PS Good night!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Would you feel any different about the option of the alternative ' family cloth' (sometimes raised with the caveat a step too far on the old style board)

Romans had a sort of sponge-ended loofah arrangement. The programme I watched that explained this said they weren't sure if everybody had their own sponge, or if it were a communal sponge.