Travelling On

Karmacat

A partial solution found, that enables me to carry on shredding for now: fold things so that I can shred just on one side of the blockage.  It'll be slower, but hopefully it will carry on working until I've done this lot.

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like a good compromise KC, good luck!

I had a pile of confidential stuff that I was going to bury under a layer of compost in the garden to rot down 😂 Never got round to it - it's still sat in a pile somewhere 🙄

Karmacat

The main chunk of confidential recycling is sat by the back door cupboard for exactly that - and when I cut my hair, I put the clippings in that bag too 😲 so I know exactly what you mean!  The stuff I'm currently dealing with was *in* the shredder compartment itself, rendering said shredder unuseable 😬

Watty1

Shredding is such a very satisfying activity however recalcitrant the shredder! 

Karmacat

It really is!  I'm very happy about it all I'm also trying to get as much garden rubbish as I can into the green bin, recycling tomorrow - I'm cutting things back, as I don't want to dig when the soil is this wet: rhodendron, laurel, buddleia, the neighbour's leylandii, the neighbour's ivy, a few brambles (of course!), and honeysuckle stems and raspberry canes in the laurel.  Mad Cat is running about the garden desperate to be stroked, and offended when I use the loppers 😾  It's going well!

Karmacat

Almost lunchtime I *have* been doing my stuff: chat with sister, little bit more shredding, which has expanded slightly: 
- big box file was full of ridiculous stuff - installation guides for taps and my shower screen, for example, I really don't need that!  Some of that is in my accounts, so that can be moved over and stored in one place.
- clothes - Tshirts and blouses are getting a bit sparse on the ground, so I've hoisted out my stash, sitting in a drawer in my spare bedroom for a million years.  Might have a modelling show later in the week   I've been thinking for a while that storage in the house isn't suiting me, and this is part of that.

Also paid my tv licence; more shredding to come, and I have two bags of books to take to a local charity shop container, one of those six foot tall metal things.  I'm just desperate to get things out of the house 😁  once Agent Million calls in the next few days, I'll want to move anyway 😁

badmemory

I too am waiting for agent million & will also move & pay someone to get rid of all the "stuff" in this house.  I've got things that were put in the loft & others in cupboards that haven't been touched since I moved in over 30 yrs ago.  I am very slowly going through things & trying to empty the loft before I really can't get myself up there. But it is VERY slow.

themadvix

You sound like you are both making great progress though!

Karmacat

Thanks madvix - I'm doing this right now almost by accident, and it would be wonderful not to have to play tetris any more if I want to fetch something out.  

Badmemory - when I moved here, I decided I wouldn't put anything at all of mine in the loft (and seeing as I've had rats in there twice, I'm glad of that!).  So at least there's nothing up there.  

I've put the two bags of books into the charity shop bin, but I'm taking a long break now, I'll do a few minutes here and there of the shredding, but otherwise I need to stop - I'm off out early tomorrow, our Spaceflight Group at U3A is going to have a play with a toy rocket, so I need to be well up for that  

Going to watch Sewing Bee now  

Karmacat

I'm just shutting down now, but a column from one of my favourite political pundits has made me thrill to have the internet: John Crace on Martin Lewis and Olena Zelenska: how to be trustworthy: not big mentions of either of them, but it made me happy.  Try being trustworthy! Martin Lewis’s advice to MPs seeking to restore trust in politics | John Crace | The Guardian
Martin Lewis is the most trusted man in the UK.  Fact.