Get a grip woman!

Suffolk_lass

@enthusiasticsaver - just because he prevaricates does not mean he is not sort of organised - the spare bed is now covered in little piles of papers, all sorted until the cat decides they need a bit of a shuffle. His trouble is not putting things away after he uses them. In this instance he has no filing system - I'm going to offer him the concertina cardboard one I have in my study and a collection of arch lever and box files (it would be massively difficult to accommodate a filing cabinet in there) as I have moved books and he has two ends of shelves (and the small bureau).

The less said about my study, the better, but I have high hopes of clearing it soon. As for filing, I find if it stays in a pile long enough it falls into one of three categories - bin, file or oops, should have done something

enthusiasticsaver

I would not really say my DH is disorganised and he has a system of sorts but likes to have different projects on the go and doesn't put anything away so they are all over his very large work surface meaning that to do anything you have to move something. He maintains he knows where everything is though. We all work in different ways. When I was working in an open plan office it became second nature to file or enact stuff right away and I have carried that on into retirement. My DH was an engineer working in different places every day so he really never had a dedicated office space. His office is really more of a workshop. Your filing system sounds hmm interesting  Whatever works for you. 

Suffolk_lass

Apparently  the alarm on the fridge freezer outdoors has sounded at least twice over the weekend. Why should I expect anyone (DH) to tell me? After being married this long I should know better. 🙄🙄 No, he just powered it off and on again to make the alarm stop sounding and did not tell me. 🙄 I have two pies on the top that are covered in foil and it is clear some sort of defrost-refreeze thing has happened as one has icicles on top and the other a little sheet as though ice fell from the roof of the freezer. Cue massive freezer tidy and audit indoors, outdoors and the produce freezer in the outhouse this morning. Tetris is marvellous but I still need to get a grip (woman!)  of the garage chest freezer. He says it is chaos (!) it wasn't but he has taken over putting stuff away and getting stuff out because I can't reach to undo the tarp in front (He's 6'4" - I am not!).

Deep joy. Blue Monday. Very apt. 

I've made 10 jars of passata this morning to use 3 huge bags of tomatoes up

themadvix

How frustrating! I hope you manage to safely salvage most of it.

IzzyBee

Hope you manage to save most of it my hubby seems to be amazed that I haven’t got a crystal ball when I worked in a supermarket if we ever ran out of anything that he wanted I would say well why didn’t you say and his answer was always well I thought you would know you work in a shop how the hell could I see in the fridge from work never worked that one out 

debtfreeoneday

Well done on the PB wins. How frustrating with the freezer. 

Karmacat

That *is* blue sorry to hear about the freezer, SL.

Suffolk_lass

Thanks all - @IzzyBee that gave me a good chuckle. It has taken 30+ years but I think the lovely DH has got the hang of the list on the fridge - he always tells me too, with a little air of someone interfering in someone else's domain 

Not all is lost - it seems a couple of really cold nights were a bit too much for the freezer (which is literally outside the back door, just under a loggia (slate roof) that was for taking our boots off but now stores logs, empty bottles (!) and this FF) and the poor old thing went into some sort of safety thing. I might have to rejig my little toolshed so I can pop a smaller one in there with some insulation - the fridge is very handy for veg and drinks as a cold larder and the freezer is for ready-made left-overs and any supplies that done fit. I now have all unopened veg in the produce freezer along with garlic bread I bought for Christmas, 3 (!) packets of crumpets I am not eating in this 8-week period and our emergency pizza (every home should have one!). I have ordered some small baskets to reclaim organisation in the chest freezer - due for delivery Friday. I think that will coincide with the temperature dropping.

Money wise we are at that dead period where almost nothing happens - just the weekly milk money to go this week. Oh and no word yet from my new electricity supplier (Scottish somebody, who we have been moved to since Yorkshire Energy folded) and a week to go until the DD should go - if it doesn't get taken it will be two months! I should put it aside I think, and the last of my 5% RS payments will go next week (along with the third of DH's who just snuck in before the rate dropped).

Passata is great btw - much better than the last batch

shangaijimmy

Don't take this as a certain solution but apparently popping some cardboard in between the back of the freezer and the wall stops the freezer going into safety/shutdown mode.

themadvix

Couldn't agree more about emergency pizza (although it's more like beanburgers/fish and chips here, but there's a Coop five mins walk away if emergency *pizza* is specifically required!). Glad all was not lost!