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mavvymoo

missyrichards wrote: »

Why too much choice is stressing us out | Life and style | The Guardian

I'm not sure if someone posted this yet or not.:)

Thanks for this it is so true. I just remember the stress of buying my new jeans :eek: I hate too much choice and if there is I always end up buying nothing

Mav x

maddiemay

missyrichards wrote: »

Why too much choice is stressing us out | Life and style | The Guardian

I'm not sure if someone posted this yet or not.:)

Missy, being one of the pension drawing, bus pass holding oldies I have been feeling like this for ages, I long for the time when leccie was from the regional electicity people and gas from B Gas and insurance renewals were not a minefield of hiked prices and lesser benefits, it takes ages even on the good old internet to check out new sources, but feel I have too when the renewal price seems like having a mortgage again. Heyho as they say.:D

Greenbee - as another low iron bod, do you mind if I ask have you found a way of keeping your iron up, without horrid side effects (particularly as you travel a lot), I have found it so difficult, particularly as OH have been gallivanting around the country in our caravan an awful lot this year, when towing loo stops can be pretty difficult, and even a day sightseeing can be ruined. Not meant to be a whinge, just glad of any advice available.:D

Have friend's little dog staying for 10 days so will be at home more with her, hope this will result in a lot more KMing:D:D:D

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Hope everyone is well
Just dropped off two more bags to the CS and two bags of bedding to an animal CS they were both ally pleased, just have two to Bing in the clothes bank later then I'm up to date.

Mins list
Day 22
1. Spare window lock taken to mums to repair hers
2. Pair dance shoes - given to niece
3. Pair my shoes - CS bag
4/5. 2 paperback books - mum
6. Cd - niece
7. Gardening shoes - bin
8. Voucher from paper - mum
9. Moc and store loyalty card keyring thing - given to dd2
10. Dog coat - CS
11. Bits of broken knex - binned
12. Ood store cards (blockbuster card anyone?) - binned
13. Bundle old kettle leads - recycling
14. Big bunch old keys - recycling
15. Padlock with no key - recycling
16. Curtain pole - recycling
17. Load of old rusty nails - recycling
18. Load old rusty screws - recycling
19. Various door locks - recycling
20. Random old bolts and hinges - recycling
21. Light fittings - binned
22. Light switch - binned

TBH I could claim the full 500+ Kondoed items for the month for the garage but I'm trying to be good with this stuff and have grouped them.

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Kondoed the cold-calling call centre job... it really was the most unjoyful job out there and has made my anxiety and depression go through the roof this last week!
Today is the first day in a while that I feel a lot better and have been able to catch up on jobs, as well as clean round the house and calm my anxiety a bit. I have also spent a bit of time sorting out our finances and cutting costs on a few things, almost like justifying to myself that I made the right decision re the job. I am fully qualified in childcare, which I enjoy, so should get myself right and then perhaps focus on that again.
Hubby interviews for a different job today too, so it's all change (again) round here, but hopefully it won't be long before everyone is happy again!

greenbee

maddiemay wrote: »

Greenbee - as another low iron bod, do you mind if I ask have you found a way of keeping your iron up, without horrid side effects (particularly as you travel a lot), I have found it so difficult, particularly as OH have been gallivanting around the country in our caravan an awful lot this year, when towing loo stops can be pretty difficult, and even a day sightseeing can be ruined. Not meant to be a whinge, just glad of any advice available.:D

I did really well last year - no caffeine, eating well (lots of greenery to keep vit C levels up which helps absorption, lots of chickpeas as well as eating a reasonable amount of meat - something I don't generally eat a lot of. Stir-fries are good).

This year has not gone so well, and I'm paying the price (11 hour flight with restless legs was not fun, neither are the breathlessness and pain I'm getting breathing - ironically I think these are made worse by stress but they are making me stressed as I worry about DVT). I haven't taken iron all year, but am on this trip. It's a solgar one, which is very gentle apparently. But I'm also taking massive doses of coloclear extra to keep things moving (I usually take this when travelling, just not necessarily so much!). I'm due to see my GP in a couple of weeks and suspect she'll have me off the caffeine again and taking vitamin C to help absorption.

Hope that helps. Consensus seems to be that overloading with iron isn't the answer, it's finding out why levels drop (eg blood loss) or absorption is poor and fixing those.

uk_american

Remembering GreyQueen's Autumn Gold shed painting a few weeks ago and all the love for the colour, this gave me a giggle when it popped into my news feed:

TREND ALERT: Dulux UK names Cherished Gold as the colour of 2016.
https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/inspiration/duluxs-colour-of-the-year-2016-is-revealed

It seems Autumn Gold has been reincarnated and rebranded. GQ you trendsetter!

GreyQueen

uk_american wrote: »

Remembering GreyQueen's Autumn Gold shed painting a few weeks ago and all the love for the colour, this gave me a giggle when it popped into my news feed:

TREND ALERT: Dulux UK names Cherished Gold as the colour of 2016.
https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/inspiration/duluxs-colour-of-the-year-2016-is-revealed

It seems Autumn Gold has been reincarnated and rebranded. GQ you trendsetter!

:eek: ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHGGG!!!!!! That's Autumn Gold by any other name, I've lost all faith in the goodness of the Doolux world now, how could they?! I will continue to paint everything I can Pure Brilliant White. If it gets a bit much, I go in my bathroom and look at whitenesses, it's very soothing.

Actually, I have one of the Doolux Kitchens paint range in my kitchen, a colour which is humourously entitled Sundried Tomato, which I fancied as I do a fair bit of tomato-based cooking and thought it'd hide any splashes.

Darlings, they should've called it Strawberry Mivvy, as it's the exact same shade as the lolly. And that new paint above is the same yucky colour as my shed, I swear it - identical.

An' I always follow fashion (from a safe distance, pointing and jeering, usually).:rotfl:

Mavvy and VJsMum, I will feel your kindly encouraging presences with me in spirit as I crawl around the parental loft Sunday, Monday and Tuesday week (not the ones just coming). If anyone else wants to join the virtual crowd and send strength to my limbs etc, you will be most welcome. Together we can get over this. I am sure there will be funny things to report, too, decluttering usually turns up a few bonkers things.

I've told you about the 'po, but there is sure to be something else which Might Be Needed One Day (Mum grew up in home without internal plumbing, and lived in more of them as a newly-wed, so perhaps that's behind this particular Isshew).

I have YS chocolate cakes. One for the freezer, one for the fridge and one fer me. What do they mean, serves 16?:rotfl:

greent

American facts and figures, but still resonates:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/20/consumption-consumerism-americans-buying-stuff

GreyQueen

Wow to that link, has anyone else looked at that pile of clothing and felt slightly ill? Or even very ill? Thinking of the girls and women slaving over sewing machines in far-flung countries, thinking of the wretched Aral Sea, dried up to almost nothing because its rivers have been diverted to grow cotton? Thinking of the oil-based textiles, the plastic buttons and zips, the bits of steel in zips and other fastenings, all used so profligately?

Today, when dressing for work, I put on a top which I recalled because I was doing an undated inventory of my clothing before bedtime last night. Decided it wasn't me after 30 seconds so now in the donation bag. Will be adding a jacket later, I need to have these things out of my life and into the hands of people who can wear and enjoy them.

PollyWollyDoodle

Wow indeed. How true - especially the bit about house sizes. My parents brought up five of us in a 3-bed house with one bathroom, but these days everyone I know seems to expect that each child will have their own room and that as well as a bathroom there'll be at least one 'en suite'.

Of course I know there are lots of households where children still share rooms, but it does seem as if we all want more space. Studies, sewing rooms, craft rooms - all things we used to do in the living-room. A very thought-provoking article, there's also a link below to Lauren Singer who is another Zero Waster, but single and living in a city. I'm going to read more of her blog when I've got time.