Bricks Not Books

VintageHistorian · 25 August at 2:41PM

This is very true @South_coast sometimes the cost is well worth the stress reduction!

Cooking has continued a little today. I have made an apple and blackberry crumble for Mr VH, using last years blackberries that were in the freezer, and 6 chocolate chip cupcakes for my work lunches this week. I did want to make some bean casserole for DS but there's not much room in the freezer thanks to Saturday's batch cooking. Oh how I long for a utility room, or a garage that has an electrical supply so I could have a small chest freezer.

I have made some space by removing some things that are just never going to be eaten, such as some tiny pots of sweet potato and butternut squash pasta sauce that I lovingly made for DS when he was 9 months old and which he turned his nose up at. To be fair I can't blame him, I vaguely recall it smelled like feet when I made it. I've also taken out some chicken kievs for us to have for our dinner tonight, and I've decanted some potato waffles and fish fingers into freezer bags so the half-empty boxes can be binned. But that's all been filled up by the Saturday cooking which was left in the fridge.

There's a little decluttering challenge on Instagram for September which involves decluttering 100 things over 30 days. The organiser does decluttering as a living and will do an area of focus each day. I tried it last year and didn't get as far as I wanted but I'm going to try again this year. I've got a few things I want to try and sell so if I can find the motivation of photograph and list things on the mailing list at work, and some pennies towards holidays, then that's all for the best. I've been making a little list in my planner of the places I need to remember to go through. That means I should probably start now but it'll be easier to make time for it when I know others are doing the same thing.

That said I did have a tidy up of DS's toys the other day. Some things have been put in the drawer under his bed and some have been tidied away into boxes. There's two, possibly three or four, decent-sized toys that are still in good nick that I could also try selling but I might do that a bit closer to Christmas so I can watch him and make sure they're definitely not really being used. We could probably put up some shelving in his room and move a few things up there too.

This afternoon we're going to pop out to Aldi and get some more nappies. Potty training is going well but DS still needs a nappy at night and we're running a bit low, the main difference is we won't stock up and buy 3 large packs this time!

Dinner tonight is chicken kievs and potato wedges. I didn't have loads of potatoes left in the first place and on peeling them discovered a lot of flaws in them, so it will be a smaller than usual wedge portion. I could probably do with the occasional smaller portion though to be honest.

Have a good week everyone!