The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

My bed will probably not make the move, it's old and being held up with bags of nappies.

The biggest items are the wardrobes, hence the eek, err, umm thing.

Sue, if the only really bulky items are the two wardrobes, don't worry...... removals men will move them really easily. What is a major problem to thee or me will be easy-peasy for them.
They have the knowledge of how to move things, and the expertise.

LydiaJ

Sue
So sorry you are losing the home where you feel settled.
Still, you are moving because your disabilities have worsened. It's already abundantly clear that you get worse when you overdo things. Trying to do your own packing and/or moving will almost certainly make you deteriorate. I wonder if the OT can recommend you for financial help with the cost of packing and removals, or something? Otherwise I will happily chip in towards it, and perhaps other NP will too.

Pyxis

LydiaJ wrote: »

Sue
So sorry you are losing the home where you feel settled.
Still, you are moving because your disabilities have worsened. It's already abundantly clear that you get worse when you overdo things. Trying to do your own packing and/or moving will almost certainly make you deteriorate. I wonder if the OT can recommend you for financial help with the cost of packing and removals, or something? Otherwise I will happily chip in towards it, and perhaps other NP will too.

^^^^^^ wot she said.

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

Sue
So sorry you are losing the home where you feel settled.
Still, you are moving because your disabilities have worsened. It's already abundantly clear that you get worse when you overdo things. Trying to do your own packing and/or moving will almost certainly make you deteriorate. I wonder if the OT can recommend you for financial help with the cost of packing and removals, or something? Otherwise I will happily chip in towards it, and perhaps other NP will too.

Thanks Lydia, I'm hoping she can come up with some suggestions on Monday. I know there was a grant available of up to £500 for a rise and recline chair or carpeting for the stairs when we were talking about the adaptations, so hopefully that grant will also be available for moving costs, I've no idea of their criteria but it would make sense that it would do.

SingleSue

The big question is.....should I get rid of my wedding dress?

It's been in a cupboard (a built in cupboard) since we moved here, I obviously have no plans on wearing it again, I don't have a daughter to pass it down to and of course I am now divorced....but do I get rid of it?

Think I am going to be pretty hopeless at this chuck out and de clutter thing :rotfl:

PasturesNew

I've just bought a kitchen wall clock.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/34cm-Wooden-Wall-Clock-Seaside-Nautical-Lighthouse-Coastal-Home-Decor-Kitchen/273080516817

I know it was rash ... but it's been something that "I'd have liked" for years - and now I feel it's the right clock to buy for that space.... and I can take it with me.

£12 ... but I have genuinely been looking in car boots and there's nothing out there that size and similar image... so I bit the bullet and that's one less item to think about sourcing.

Did it click/collect so I should have it by Wed/Thu.

I need curtain rings + the bits to go in the header tape next. About 30 rings, about 30mm diameter... so I'll be buying those in the next few minutes, they can just come in the post as they'll fit in my postbox. Then I can get the curtains up - they're the £3 ones I bought (still in the packet) a couple of months ago... then realised I really needed/wanted eyelet ones to avoid having to find/buy the right size/sort of rings etc.

But I've looked for nice/curtains - and realised, in this size, it'd take a long time awaiting .... so I've decided "I have these curtains, these will therefore do - and now I just need rings and they can go up".

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

The big question is.....should I get rid of ...

That's why vacuum bags are a dream... for material items, you can vacuum them down tiny ..... and put off the decision.

My sibling kept her wedding dress, in mum's loft. 20+ years later mum/dad moved.... all that time sibling's had a perfectly large/good/settled home and could've got it any time. It was only 35 years after the wedding, when clearing mum/dad's house, that she said to me "wonder where my wedding dress went".....

If she wanted it, the time to get it was when they moved from 40 miles from her house to 350 miles from her house.... 20 years ago.

PasturesNew

Right, curtain rings. Bit confusing... really need some to try, but that's not an option.

I've moved the corner chair and got the ladder up and held a bit of card to the end of the curtain pole and drawn round it. I've measured that drawing and have the exterior pole diameter as 25mm.

Then it gets hard as you can't "sort by price" on ebay .... each product for sale has a range of sizes and a range of packs. e.g. they might've added their multi-listing to include buying ONE/SMALL for just 1p ... but when you enter and choose the size you want and the number the price changes to £10-20.

I hate it when they do that - it's seen with lots of products. Range of sizes/pack sizes and when you "sort by price" it just picks the cheapest of that lot ... so a few sellers have "cheated" by putting in either a random other product, or setting the minimum price for the tiniest single item.

And I still need "the other bits" ... that go between the curtain header tape and the rings.

EDIT: I'd guesstimated I needed 30 rings. Another seller's telling me 1 ring per 10cm of pole length... so that's about 18. They say "more if heavier" but the newer curtains aren't heavy/not as heavy as the old... so I might be able to get away with 20, rather than 30. Need to get all the prices and compare to choose. I could be ... some time.

Each current curtain has 12 eyelets, so 24 eyelets across the whole width, which is where I'd guesstimated my 30 from in the first instance as I figure header tape will need securing more often than eyelets due to the difference in "the hang". I might just go for 30... "hap'orth of tar" and all that. We're talking at present of a total cost of about £9 for 30 rings... so not worth the further hassle to try to save just £2-3 when it could be "job done".

EDIT: Ordered. £8.60 to come to my house (not click/collect).

EDIT: Ah ... bit of a stumbling block. Thought I was on the home run there - "just" had to buy a pack of plastic curtain hooks... but now I'm scared/indecisive about whether the hooks will fit through the holes in the curtain rings. Theoretically you'd think "they'll fit, it'd be daft if they didn't", but then you wonder if those rings needed something thinner, or special ones.... I could be a couple of hours mulling it over....

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Right, curtain rings. Bit confusing... really need some to try, but that's not an option.

I've moved the corner chair and got the ladder up and held a bit of card to the end of the curtain pole and drawn round it. I've measured that drawing and have the exterior pole diameter as 25mm.

Then it gets hard as you can't "sort by price" on ebay .... each product for sale has a range of sizes and a range of packs. e.g. they might've added their multi-listing to include buying ONE/SMALL for just 1p ... but when you enter and choose the size you want and the number the price changes to £10-20.

I hate it when they do that - it's seen with lots of products. Range of sizes/pack sizes and when you "sort by price" it just picks the cheapest of that lot ... so a few sellers have "cheated" by putting in either a random other product, or setting the minimum price for the tiniest single item.

And I still need "the other bits" ... that go between the curtain header tape and the rings.

EDIT: I'd guesstimated I needed 30 rings. Another seller's telling me 1 ring per 10cm of pole length... so that's about 18. They say "more if heavier" but the newer curtains aren't heavy/not as heavy as the old... so I might be able to get away with 20, rather than 30. Need to get all the prices and compare to choose. I could be ... some time.

Each current curtain has 12 eyelets, so 24 eyelets across the whole width, which is where I'd guesstimated my 30 from in the first instance as I figure header tape will need securing more often than eyelets due to the difference in "the hang". I might just go for 30... "hap'orth of tar" and all that. We're talking at present of a total cost of about £9 for 30 rings... so not worth the further hassle to try to save just £2-3 when it could be "job done".

EDIT: Ordered. £8.60 to come to my house (not click/collect).

EDIT: Ah ... bit of a stumbling block. Thought I was on the home run there - "just" had to buy a pack of plastic curtain hooks... but now I'm scared/indecisive about whether the hooks will fit through the holes in the curtain rings. Theoretically you'd think "they'll fit, it'd be daft if they didn't", but then you wonder if those rings needed something thinner, or special ones.... I could be a couple of hours mulling it over....

completely agree with you re the ebay multi listings

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

completely agree with you re the ebay multi listings

It's a right sod.

When I buy things I type in the search criteria, then sort by lowest price. I then know the starting point for my search - and decide if I can continue to look, or abandon the idea of such an item.

Then I go down the page, looking for "the first one I am prepared to put up with" - and see the price. If the price is acceptable then I will realise I can buy something at a price I am prepared to pay and will then look around that price point.

Without this, you have to run a huge list in notepad/excel listing all those you've found and the price for the actual quantity/size you want - and that's a huge faff, so after an hour or so (max) you tend to just think "pfft".

Take curtains - I want 90x90/228x228, which might be, say, £30-£250 in price range. The multi-listings include a pair of £2.50 tiebacks, so "sort by lowest price" has ALL curtains costing £2.50.... most bl00dy annoying as none are at all! I am looking for the cheapest 90x90s .... Those sellers are "cheating" the system and people end up buying nothing as they tire of the game.