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Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 2
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Thank you for being lovely everyone. I just hid yesterday and let my upset-ness wear off.
The feedback was that it may not be enough of a challenge for me - in other words I wouldn't be sticking around for very long because I'll get bored.
They're right, to be fair
Onwards and upwards. I hope everyone has a lovely day
HBS x"I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another."
"It's easy to know what you're against, quite another to know what you're for."
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But Birdie! A saxophone isn't clutter!
It's a musical instrument!
It's culture!
It's food for the soul!
It's exercise for the brain!
It's a social activity (if you play in a band!)
JM, back me up on this!
("Clutter" is all those silly little ornaments brought back from holidays, Christmas and .birthday presents you never use, gadgets that were one-day wonders, and all those things you keep 'just in case you need it one day' but never do, at least until the week after you've got rid of it! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:)
A saxophone is not clutter! It's a precious gift! A thing of beauty! (I just lurve spiders!)
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I'm in a clique! It's a clique of one! It's a unique clique!
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Totally agree Pyxis
Which gives me a great excuse for why I still have my old flute, as well as my new-ish one. Plus the fact that the old one is too battered to rehome and there's no way I could ever bring myself to throw a musical instrument away!
I feel the same about books - which is a bit of a problem as the house is being overrun :rotfl:.
It's also still got loads of FOH's stuff in it. Which I know I really should at least box up but it seems like so much effort. Plus I couldn't put the boxes in the garage as it's a bit damp in there, and I don't have anywhere else to store them. So really I need to sort out a way of getting them collected before I pack everything - and that involves attempting to contact one of his mates. Which I don't fancy doing at the same time as trying to get the bloke prosecuted!0 -
Tea, throw it all in big bags and boxes and just dump it in the garage. Who cares if it's damp in there, his stuff shouldn't be squatting in your house and FOH clearly doesn't need it or he'd have collected it ages ago, before turning into a freaky stalker! Have you asked Police Baby about what to do with it all?
Georgie, if you're just holding onto the sax out of guilt how about donating it to a school, give a child the gift of music. Kondo is all about thanking things for their service and letting them go if they're no longer needed... Overcome the notion that you must be ordinary. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary!Goal Weight 140lb Starting Weight: 160lb Current Weight 145lb0 -
I just couldn't Birdie. There's things like a uniform from the second world war that belonged to his Grandad, I just couldn't be responsible for that getting ruined.
Spoke to police baby about it a while ago (in general, nothing specific) and just said that I'm happy to sort it with someone else but not directly with him or his mum - and this was before I knew his mum had been calling my parents, am definitely not contacting her now!
Wish the cps would just decide already and someone would let me know what's happening.0 -
Happy birthday SDW and Gingernutty!
As do I. I still have books I owned when I was at school :eek: I have all the technical manuals for the BBC Micro I bought when I was about 14, my university text books, a set of children's encyclopedias that came in 26 hardback volumes, each about 1/2" thick, and were bought weekly by my parents from newsagents like a magazine in the mid-late 1970s, umpteen Haynes car repair manuals, and so on and so on, without talking about the hundreds and hundreds of paperback fiction books and smaller number of hardbacks.I feel the same about books
I often buy on kindle nowadays due to space problems ....
As my signature says, home is where my books are.
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onomatopoeia99 wrote: »Happy birthday SDW and Gingernutty!
As do I. I still have books I owned when I was at school :eek: I have all the technical manuals for the BBC Micro I bought when I was about 14, my university text books, a set of children's encyclopedias that came in 26 hardback volumes, each about 1/2" thick, and were bought weekly by my parents from newsagents like a magazine in the mid-late 1970s, umpteen Haynes car repair manuals, and so on and so on, without talking about the hundreds and hundreds of paperback fiction books and smaller number of hardbacks.
I often buy on kindle nowadays due to space problems ....
As my signature says, home is where my books are.
Ditto, Ono!
Do you know, sometimes when I visit people, I look at their living room and there are armchairs, coffee table, TV etc, maybe a couple of side lights, maybe a shelf unit with a couple of ornaments and a collection of CDs. And that's it.
And I think, where's their life? Where's their personality?
A room which says nothing about the person who lives in it is a sad room, IMHO.
(Of course, you can go to the opposite extreme, and have a room that's so full of your life, you can hardly get in it!!
) (I just lurve spiders!)
INFJ(Turbulent).
Her Greenliness Baroness Pyxis of the Alphabetty, Pinnacle of Peadom and Official Brainbox
Founder Member: 'WIMPS ANONYMOUS' and 'VICTIMS of the RANDOM HEDGEHOG'
I'm in a clique! It's a clique of one! It's a unique clique!
I love :eek:0 -
But Birdie! A saxophone isn't clutter!
It's a musical instrument!
It's culture!
It's food for the soul!
It's exercise for the brain!
It's a social activity (if you play in a band!)
A saxophone is not clutter! It's a precious gift! A thing of beauty!
Whilst I totally agree with all that you've said above, the nearest it's got to being used was when it was out on display once. It looked good, but did nothing more than gather dust. It now resides in it's case in the eaves in the loft.
The nearest I've got to playing in a band is getting 2 Tupperware boxes, one with a laccy band round it to play as a guitar, and D can use the other one as a drum! :rotfl:Georgie, if you're just holding onto the sax out of guilt how about donating it to a school, give a child the gift of music. Kondo is all about thanking things for their service and letting them go if they're no longer needed...
No, I'm not holding on to it because of guilt, I just haven't got round to either learning it (no inkling to do so right now) or selling it. I don't totally subscribe to the MC way, but I do believe that if something isn't bringing you joy or you have no emotional attachment to it (and I don't) then there's no point in keeping it. I just don't have the same feelings towards it as I do to my Dad's Harmonicas. He couldn't read music, but could play them beautifully, and I have many happy and funny memories of him playing them and so could never part with them. I am very sentimental towards a lot of things, but this isn't one of them.
It's a lovely thought to donate it to a school, but to be brutely honest, I'd much prefer the money right now for the moment that D finishes his knowledge transfer and is officially out of a job. We'll be fine in that the redundancy will pay off the mortgage etc, but we'll be going on a strict budget and trying to live as frugally as possible as we don't know how long it'll be until he gets a new job. Hopefully not long, but who knows.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SDW and GINGERNUTTY!! Hope you both have a lovely day! :bdaycake:
Tea, I totally understand about the uniform etc, but for the other stuff, could you get some of those plastic storage boxes on wheels (you could always use them again afterwards) to put FOH stuff in the garage. They're waterproof, so would protect it. Although if he hasn't been for his stuff in all of this time then they can't mean that much to him. (Although I know that is most probably a ploy to still have an attachment to you)
Pyxis, glad you're going to complain to both parties when you get back. Bad customer service is just not on.
I agree about the books. Books for some reason I find harder to part with.0 -
Haha Pyxis - there are no books in my living room (apart from the one I'm currently reading)! If however you were to venture upstairs it's a different story
I couldn't relax in the same room as the clutter. I like to sit in my v tidy living room and pretend the rest of the house looks like that :rotfl:.0
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