The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

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mardatha

We introduced our son in law to Ikea and he was like a big kid in a sweetshop! He couldn't believe how cheap everything was - or how fast the bill mounted up

mcculloch29

I've managed to avoid Ikea this century, having been introduced to the store when we lived in Germany, it wasn't novel to us when it arrived here.
I do miss the herring bits in sherry, though. I wonder if they still sell those? Totally delicious.

We still have the odd Ikea item from twenty years ago, a Billy bookcase or two that survived going to Germany again and coming back, being held together with masking tape.

Aldi was another store that we used a lot in Germany, I use it just as much now. It was a happy day for us when they opened in my town.

cbsexec

Just a thought Hester - where are you going to put the grandchildren when you downsize!

Softstuff

ivyleaf wrote: »

Yep, I think that counts as restrained for IKEA.well done Softstuff :T

Indeed... Where's my halo :A
I put a few things back. You can take the girl out of a tiny flat, but you can't make her clutter.

I do love ikea very much. Something for everyone. And if you're willing to customise a little, it's an entire warehouse of possibilities.

Having whole rooms done helps. I'm very good at imagining the finished product, hubby isn't, so needs a little more by way of examples.

I didn't see any herring in sherry, but it does sound good.

monnagran

I am lost in admiration Softstuff. Such restraint! Such will power! I am always good until I get downstairs and hit the market. At those prices it would be ungrateful not to pick up a few extra goodies.

It's a perfect day here today, warm but not too hot. A gentle breeze and plenty of sunshine makes drying the washing a sheer pleasure. DGD3 'helped' me water my plants. The sweet peas have now donned lifejackets and can be heard shrieking " we're not waving, we're drowning."
She has also sung to me - everything from "happy birthday to you" to "we wish you a merry Christmas." I have also been told stories. "Once upon a time there were 3 little pigs. One went 'pop' and the other went 'bang', sticks in my mind. The others were rambling and obscure. Obviously a new genre of fiction is about to be created.

Such is the day of a retired lady.

Time for a cuppa.

x

Hard_Up_Hester

Cbsexec, if we get a one bed flat they can sleep in the lounge, if we get a studio apartment we will all quish in together.

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HESTER if you get a studio apartment buy one of those festival pop up tents for the DGCs to sleep in, they'll love it and it'll give you and OH some privacy too!!!

Softstuff

monnagran wrote: »

I am lost in admiration Softstuff. Such restraint! Such will power! I am always good until I get downstairs and hit the market. At those prices it would be ungrateful not to pick up a few extra goodies.

It's not a case of willpower Monnagran, when I was in England I spent most of the time clearing out and cleaning my mothers house. I phoned her the yesterday, she didn't pick up. She called me 10 minutes later... she'd heard the phone ring, but it was buried.

It's not buying too much I have a problem with, I struggle to live in anything but a sparse room. Every time I come back from England I have a clear out here... and if you look at the place, there isn't much to clear out. I guess that's why I go to town on things like the air con vents... so at least the fixtures and fittings are stylish.

greenbee

My stairs work. And having just stayed up late for a meeting with a client not too far from Softstuff, I'm off to test them again.

Just have to remember to wake up properly in the morning and not attempt to walk through the temporary barrier where they used to meet the landing...

nursemaggie

Now I understand why you retrieved the felt Christmas tree from your mum's, softstuff

It sounds like my grandma's house. It was a huge Victorian house with 4 large bedrooms, attics, two receptions, two kitchens, a mezzanine floor, even the bathroom you would struggle to get into this living room. Wherever you went in the house you could not move for occasional tables, corner cupboards and whatnots on the landings and ornaments everywhere some between two tables. She had massive cupboards either side of the range in her main kitchen. Imagine an "Upstairs downstairs" sort of kitchen.

One of the top cupboards was jammed full of little corrugated wrapping you get in packets of biscuits in your favourite shop. I took my mum and dad and my aunt and uncle three months to clear the house when she died.

I stripped down to bear minimum when I was diagnosed with cancer. I thought get rid of everything I can they no one will have so much to turn out. I over did it thus, the looking for planters now I have house plants again.