KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Sayschezza

catshark88 wrote: »

My kids are tech mad too. I fight it, but it!!!8217;s a losing battle.

We!!!8217;ve started to eat together most evenings now. Takes a bit more organising, but we!!!8217;re really enjoying it.

Can anyone tell me why I am seeing !!!8217; and other random numbers in this post? Can anyone else or is or just me?

GreyQueen

grunnie wrote: »

GQ only you could the story of fanheaters sound fun. I have a dead one in the garage waiting for a year or so to be taken to the small electrical items at the dump. It seems to get forgotten about every dump trip.

I had fan heaters on my mind because there was a pile of them at the top of the cellar stairs and they definately hadn't been there the last time I went down, hadn't even seen a single one of them down there, and suddenly there's a heap of the blessed things.

I'd dearly love to teleport you lot into that cellar for a gawk-around, it's a fascinating place full of what the hell?! stuff. Pal is a wee little bitty of a hoarder, in the nicest possible way. :rotfl:

I'm at the parental homestead until early tomorrow and on Dad's pooter. We were just going to print something, I turned on the power button on the printer, it went on, then off and is now dead to the world.

Lawdy lawdy, that's two poorly printers in three days, I'm a plague mary for technology. I've checked everything's plugged in and think a fuse may have gone in the plug but I'm not minded to sorth that out tonight, Dad can do it tomorrow.

I have spent some time this afternoon kondoing mending jobs for Mum and have bought two injured towels back into service and also done some mending of my own, stuff I bought with me specifically to do in idle moments. Have handed off five books to kid bruv (three of them were presents from him to me and now he can have them back and sell them online) and borrowed another two from him to read. It's handy having an online bookseller in the family, I reckon he's got more books than most branch libraries.

I've turned down the offer of Jac0bs cracker box to store things in my shed (I have plenty of similar things) but it was hard. I can hear an echo in my head of Mum saying I'll keep it for storage in the shed whenever I'm tempted to hold onto stuff.

Another pal, who has a small farm, laments that when you have a large farmhouse, a barn, a granary, stables, garages, tack rooms etc etc, and no need to ever have clear out, you hang onto everything.

He's got some unused fenceposts. His Dad bought them. He can remember the price and it was in shillings fgs!

And we think we've got problems, hey?!

ETA I see random numbers, too, thought it was just me:)

Sayschezza

Glad I am not the only one. Have asked on the tech thread, just waitin g for an answer if there is one.

pavlovs_dog

I believe the numbers are due to an issue with apple devices on the forums. The forum team are aware of it and are working to fix the bug.

Sayschezza

Thanks Pavlovs I am using my ipad so makes sense.

Siebrie

catshark88 wrote: »

Gosh Igamogam, that is v interesting and terrifying too.

Table manners are a tricky one. I am a stickler for them, but it is quite hard to answer the why do I need to, type questions beyond saying it is polite to not make other people see your chewed up food/ be poked by your elbows etc. I must admit to being reduced to the cos I say so defence more than I would like to!

My family seem to exist in a benign (usually) acceptance of what we see as each others crazy foibles..

When I worked for a posh law firm as a typist, the partners would take all the law trainees in the firm out to a posh restaurant (multiple sets of cutlery, butter dish, etc) and only those that came through without a hitch, were considered for an offer of employment. The trainees were not told, they just thought it was the company’s semi-annual trainee dinner.

PollyWollyDoodle

Yikes - that's a bit harsh, you could have good table manners but still not know what to do with all the cutlery. And you might know exactly which fork to use but have appalling manners.

We were brought up with 'don't talk with your mouth full, elbows off the table, ask someone to pass it don't reach for it' and there have been many, many occasions in adult life when I have wished that others had also had this training!

Yes I'm seeing the numbers, and I'm also using Apple - glad it's not just me.

Floss

Re: manners - DH once had words with DS2 about one or two foibles (he was then President of his SU and was also Youth Trustee for CAFOD) as he had been invited to a black tie dinner including various Honourables and an Archbishop...DS2 reluctantly accepted the "it's who sees you at a dinner might be in a positon to help your career" argument, but only after they had a huge row about it

P..S. I'm seeing numbers too...but that might be down to too much rugby this weekend

Fen1

I was watching an American show yesterday that had Honey Boo ( 12 years old ) her big sister ( 18 years) and their mother. They are all on a diet, and were in a dietician's kitchen. She'd prepared them a very nice looking vegan meal. Honey took one forkful , and then opened her mouth to let the food plop on the plate. Her big sister proceeded to do the same. " I hate it. It's horrible."
The mother said nothing.
Goodness knows what the dietician was thinking.

Incredibly bad manners on so many levels.

Sadly, I've seen such behaviour in public eating places with not-so-young children who should (and do???) really know better. Not even going to comment on the parents.

Siebrie

4 tiny bottles of hotel shower gel finished and in recycling.