Put away your purse & become debt-averse

foxgloves

@Pixiehouse55 - When I went for my first vaccine, I was asked if I was driving home or if I had somebody with me. As Mr F was waiting outside for me, I said I wasn't driving & was allowed to leave straight away. If I'd been driving, I'd have had to wait in an area of the hanger with socially distanced chairs for the specified 15 mins. I think it's sensible really, as even disregarding rare serious reactions to the jab, lots of people feel a bit faint after a needle, don't they. My arm was sore for a long time too & still sometimes feels a bit prickly & irritated.

F x

foxgloves

Hello chilly mortals,
Another cold day. No ice here this morning, but there's a fierce wind. A mixture of activities today. I've baked bread rolls & made a pizza base (just need to top it to eat later), taken down my Easter tree & wrapped the decorations in tissue paper to put away for next year, sold an ebay item, chatted to my sister on skype, done lots of piano practice, finished knitting bedspread square no.80 (out of 144), finished writing the grocery shopping list & done a few greenhouse jobs.
It was too chilly to keep going in & out of the greenhouse blasting plant babies with icy cold air, but I did manage to pot up 40 rudbeckia plus a tray each of bedding asters & cerinthe. Must pop back down there in a minute to cover everything up again. It's a faff I am usually not carrying on with into April, so I hope the nights warm up a bit soon.
All good wishes for cosy & relaxing evenings for you all,
F x

Baileys_Babe

Baileys_Babe said:

We too like the "really useful" boxes, lots of different sizes and robust.

foxgloves said:

@Baileys_Babe I do keep a selection of cardboard boxes, but I store them flat, so if I can't fit any more in where they 'live', then that's time for refusing further additions.

Really useful boxes is a brand 

Honeysucklelou2

Great success with the Rudbeckias. I never seem to have much joy with them, though I do love the flowers.

foxgloves

They can be a bit tricky sometimes, @Honeysucklelou2. They seem to need starting off sufficiently early to get them to a decent size for planting out, but if a late cold snap arrives, as we have at the moment, they can sulk, their growth is set back & it seems to take a while for them to get going again. I have heaps of plant babies in my greenhouse & will be pleased when the nights get a bit warmer so I don't have to bother with cloches & covering up. 
It will be worth it in summer though, when I am walking down a flowery garden to the veggie plot to pick nice things to eat.
F x

maryb

Hah!!

I'll see your loft and raise you - CELLARS!!

Yes, that's plural.  Our house used to be the servants' wing of an old Victorian house and of course they had massive coal cellars.  We don't actually have an attic.  The Victorian mansion was demolished after the war but the servants' wing made a small standalone property.  So we still have cellars under the entire house.  Stuff expands to fit the cellars available  Most of it is DH's tools and gubbins but he hates getting rid of stuff and I can't do it without him

We can never move!

I have already apologised to my DDs and said when we are gone, just hire a skip (or two, or three)  

ladyholly

maryb said:

Hah!!

I'll see your loft and raise you - CELLARS!!

Yes, that's plural.  Our house used to be the servants' wing of an old Victorian house and of course they had massive coal cellars.  We don't actually have an attic.  The Victorian mansion was demolished after the war but the servants' wing made a small standalone property.  So we still have cellars under the entire house.  Stuff expands to fit the cellars available  Most of it is DH's tools and gubbins but he hates getting rid of stuff and I can't do it without him

We can never move!

I have already apologised to my DDs and said when we are gone, just hire a skip (or two, or three)  

Lucky you. I would love a cellar or two. So much more accesible than an attic.

foxgloves

@maryb - Yes, I imagine cellars fill up just like lofts. We nearly bought a Victorian house with big cellars, but the housebuying 'chain' didn't work in our favour & we lost it. As the house had an attic too, I think we just would have ended up with double the stored clutter top & bottom. Probably a lucky escape, lol. 
F x

Tescodealqueen

Our two up two down victorian semi has a cellar(basement kitchen now) and an attic. My dad calls it the tardis and claims you need an oxygen tank and a packed lunch to go from bottom to top with the steep stairs. Until recently the attic was my craft room so all our "stuff"including the cardboard boxes my OH also insists on keeping just in case is in plastic boxes under  the eves.  
I've moved downstairs now (took 2_days to move all the crafting "essentials") and so pleased that we won't have to do all that again.

DawnW

Our loft is 'converted' into an extra (spare) bedroom, reached by a fire door and an additional proper staircase, so in theory the junk storing possibilities are limited to the cupboard that runs the length of the eaves. It is understandably low, so you can't properly stand up in it. I store lots of my sales stuff in there, plus the usual junk. Often it overflows into the bedroom, and that generally indicates that it is about time it is sorted out (again!). Due to the various lockdowns the spare bedroom hasn't been used for its proper purpose for over a year now, so there has been no frantic tidying the day before a guest is expected. It actually isn't too bad at the moment though.

I can't blame OH - though he is a bit of a hoarder, he has the smallest bedroom to keep his collections etc, and a workshop for his tools, and I expect him to limit it to these spaces rather than fill up the rest of the house as well. Apart from my sales stuff, which is largely kept in plastic boxes, most of the junk is kids' stuff - fireguards, stair gates, bed guards, toys etc. I must sort through it, as my youngest GS is 3 now, and some of it is now redundant. I don't THINK there will be any more grandchildren!