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Blackcatsreturns

I forgot the peril of using an apostrophe in my last post ...

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I just splashed out on packaging, I am in throes of sorting out the garage/workshop for moving, just keeping essentials handy. It is a good time for me to get most of the the garage `move ready`. Found a site called kraft packaging and they have just what I need. Ok expenses have to start sooner or later, so this one will just come out of what I was going to save this month. I am glad I was frugal last month. already paying dividends

tori.k

I'm lucky enough to get all that from work saves me the job of breaking down the bulb boxes.
Beginning to think we should advertised this place to include swimming pool for the next tennent
Garden is so waterlogged be glad when this weather front has passed day three of an annoying headache due to the low pressure, but probably more likely got to book into the opticians and change my reading glasses, this business of getting old is very tiresome an expensive

Blackcatsreturns

For a long time I did not even try to tackle the garage - it was OH territory. I know he would have wanted to tidy it up for me but time ran out for him so after he died I kept the door firmly shut. When I finally ventured in there I used to pick things up, move them and put them back down again. Once a heavy box fell on my foot so that put me off for another few months. Any excuse really.
However now I have really felt ready to start clearing things and progress is being made, slowly but surely. There are even clear spaces on the floor now. Some things have been sold, some dumped and some free cycled.
Tori I hope the rain stops soon and your new swimming pool drains away to give you the garden back.
I think I have also managed another post without a rogue apostrophe.

caronc

I'm trying to talk myself out of taking advantage of the MSE "Heartier" meat offer, I've used them before and liked their products but it is a definite "want" rather than "need" and I do have more than enough in my freezers. I've parked the thought just now but this is one of the areas where I know I can be a bit impulsive spend wise.:o

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blackcats, it has taken the MK thread and time and willpower to get through the garage. I have to consolidate today, try to make a space in the middle. I have my own hobby stuff in there as well as house maintenance stuff but already much has gone. I dreaded starting it two years ago but progress is good and at long last the walls are clear, high shelves and mezzanine (storage! ) emptied. I want to get to the tip early today, car is full and heavy, then I will start to load again, I am determined to get it all finished this week. I ached so much in bed, damped it all down with painkillers but the persistant shoulder ache remained all night.

Blackcatsreturns

On the subject of tidying/clearing it would be great to get some advice from the lovely, wise people on here. In the garage there are a few things that belonged to OH parents. I never knew his dad and there are a few things that belonged to him - not valuable items and whilst they might have some sentimental value they don!!!8217;t have any memories or sentimental value to me cos I didn!!!8217;t know his dad. There is no other family to give them too and I am in a dilemma about them. I don!!!8217;t want to box them up and put them away for a few more years and then have the same dilemma about what to do with them but I feel a bit strange about giving them away or throwing them away. Examples of the things are a Toby jug, some postcards from his travels with the navy, an old first aid book that he has written some notes in, his very old driving licence. So things that are personal to him but as I didn!!!8217;t ever meet him they aren!!!8217;t really personal to me but perhaps too personal to put in the bin. Any advice gratefully received. Thank you

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Blackcatsreturns wrote: »

On the subject of tidying/clearing it would be great to get some advice from the lovely, wise people on here. In the garage there are a few things that belonged to OH parents. I never knew his dad and there are a few things that belonged to him - not valuable items and whilst they might have some sentimental value they don!!!8217;t have any memories or sentimental value to me cos I didn!!!8217;t know his dad. There is no other family to give them too and I am in a dilemma about them. I don!!!8217;t want to box them up and put them away for a few more years and then have the same dilemma about what to do with them but I feel a bit strange about giving them away or throwing them away. Examples of the things are a Toby jug, some postcards from his travels with the navy, an old first aid book that he has written some notes in, his very old driving licence. So things that are personal to him but as I didn!!!8217;t ever meet him they aren!!!8217;t really personal to me but perhaps too personal to put in the bin. Any advice gratefully received. Thank you

No use asking me :rotfl: - I don't do sentimental - so I'd just be checking through for anything worth selling or that someone might like as a gift. The rest would just get binned.

Siebrie

A local or navy museum may be interested?

Spendless

Thanks for explaining its apostrophes doing it, Ive been wondering for a while!

Well, my working through the toiletries was working.
Yesterday DH told DS he'd gone and bought some more deodorants cos they werent any. There is but they are all tidied away in the mirrored bathroom cabinet when no-one thinks to look! So we now have more

On the plus side, almost at the end of the last but one body scrub, then can move on to the 'good' stuff. I have 8 mini body-washes to use before I will 'allow' myself to use the big bottle that was a present. It's unlikely that I'll use the minis before DH goes away and fetches a shed-load back from his trip, but I have a plan to be rid of the little bottles by my birthday at the end of September. DS should be starting Uni then and they will go to him as 'emergency' toiletries.

On the grocery front, I seem to be doing either well on the packed lunches, or well on the evening meals. I haven't seemed to co-ordinate both yet. Next challenge.