Smilie's Diary for the Pilgrimers

mrsinvisible

Kondo-ing seems to be catching on, l must have a look at it, and hopefully rid chezinvis of a load of stuff. trouble is, tho, when any family/friends want something they always 'ask Su first, she's probably got one she doesn't need'. Like yesterday when fave cous needed a silver photo frame for a silver wedding gift, l had 2 for her to choose from! And that gives me joy.
The bathroom scales, tho, they can go as l get no bl**dy joy from them.
Now, what can l do/where can l go to cause havoc and mayhem today? (more joy in the making) coffeeeeeeeeeeeee xx

Upsidedown_Bear

Smilie of the day.

mothernerd

Oh Smilie, can I join you? Think I need to start this day over. Something is bothering me (family situation). Don't think I can do anything to improve matters but for some reason it is going round in my head and making me cross. Going to Kondo all my embroidery threads back into as much order as I can manage soon - very soothing activity.

My clothes may get Kondo'ed this week (but probably not getting rid of much - as the husband of a poster on the hoarding thread said "If I get rid of everything that doesn't give me joy, I'll get arrested when I leave the house."

Doing the threads will hopefully free up a tray (think shallow litter tray) which will probably hold all my underwear. The other one will be more than enough for all my remaining t-shirts. I only realised the other day that all these 33 / 10 item basic wardrobe people aren't counting t-shirts and jumpers. I thought I was being inefficient or that they must work in an office environment/ sedentary lifestyle where they go from a centrally heated house (that they can afford to put the heating on) to their car to work and back again without needing outerwear (or painting/ mucky jobs clothes) or seasonal variations.

I also need to mend a drawer. I think I have reached the stage in my recovery where my clothes can go in the 'normal' drawers (currently underwear and medicines/ toiletries/ hairbrush etc are in two sets of those modular plastic drawers, side by side in the dressing table 'hutch' above the drawers - it's a sixties set of three wardrobe type bits and this middle bit has 4 drawers, hutch with a mirror on the back in the middle and a really useful top box which holds all my sheets and pillowcases). DS3 has the two hanging wardrobes with top boxes.

My wardrobe is a single flat pack without any doors which currently has 7 items of clothing in it ( 2 Ts, 2 swimsuits that nearly went last week, summer plastic cagoule, posh green dress and 'best' jacket which needs re-lining but no rush unless someone dies and I have my coat coat if I need it (3rd hand, 'best coat but also one and only so I also wear it when chopping down trees - just remember to brush it before I go out). One pile has just gone down for washing and there are a couple of things on the radiator waiting to come up (weather has been so good that the radiator hasn't been on, but that means the things that didn't completely dry outside are taking a while to finish off).

Still from my welfare rights advisor days in the early eighties, you were eligible for a clothing grant if you didn't have two outfits (that's two dresses/ blouse and skirt combinations for women, two pairs of trousers and shirts for men). So I'm not that poor.

I have 'let go' two pairs of knickers. One from a sale pack of 5 I bought last year 'to keep me going'. The pack was in combinations of peach and lilac (both on my list of least liked colours) but after the first washing one pair turned such a hideous shade of grey (remember the advert for the bra that stayed white "even after 65 machine washings", well this would be what they would pick for the other bra) that it gets pushed to the bottom of the pile and only makes it out of the drawer in extremis. Knickers so grey that if I were to get knocked over generations of women in my family would come back from the dead just to die of shame over my being seen wearing them.

So I threw those away and it did give me great jot to do so. I threw away the pair I was wearing yesterday as they kept trying to escape and take my trousers with them (which isn't fun when you are standing on a step-stool with a pair of secateurs, a sawn through ivy branch above you and a prickly pyracantha inches from your face - not a lot of wiggle room) so they may have been fro the ones that necessitated the purchase of the peach/lilac combo in the first place.

I have lost so much weight that some of my knickers no longer have anything to hold onto and kept trying to escape in public places. However I have yet to reduce to the 'final' size that will justify buying myself something I want. I understand the principle of feeling good from the inside out and being more confident but at the moment (as I am generally the only person to see my underwear) I prefer to hobble along and fling my meagre pennies at the debt.

Today I am grateful for my embroidery threads making me feel useful and creative, my walking stick for allowing me to get to the bathroom and back standing upright instead of in Quasimodo stance (may have slightly overdone things yesterday) and for my knickers for providing entertainment and amusement if not doing much in either the modesty or joyful stakes.

greenbee

I had the same problem as you with knickers mothernerd, but eventually had to give in. If you are doing laundry regularly, buy a cheap SM pack of something that fits and bin the rest. If you won't be in the next size for a few months buy two packs. But having stuff too big makes it easy to grow back into it...

I kept half a dozen 'too big' pairs in my hospital drawer as I'll probably need them about once every 18 months-2 years, but I try to forget about them TBH. And as hit size targets I allow myself a couple of nice pairs of knickers too, as it helps motivate me and they're not as expensive as other items of clothing!

liltdiddylilt

Is it that they are too big when they keep falling down? Or too small? Or just knackered. A few pairs of mine have started falling down repeatedly dozens of times a day and I can't figure out if I am bigger or smaller. They are driving me mad. they aren't very old, and the elastic is still good...

P.S Smilie, that was me this morning. Jelly turned my alarm off and even though I thought hmm.. it seems a bit late, I didn't actually look at the clock until 8:38am. I was meant to be at nursery with Jelly at 9 :eek: - we got there at 2 minutes past.. phew!

in_need_of_direction

Does it matter why they fall down? If they fall down, get rid.

liltdiddylilt

But I genuinely don't know whether to buy a size bigger or smaller INOD :rotfl:

in_need_of_direction

Why not go with a size and style that don't currently fall?

liltdiddylilt

All of my knickers are the same size.. I don't really tend to change size much in that area as I have a booty shall we say that doesn't really tend to react to weight gain/loss. Hence my confusion. And most of them are mum pants. Plain cotton briefs in varying colours.

I will figure it out. I just don't know where to start :rotfl:

greenbee

Measure and then look at online size guides