Simplifying Life

Olliebeak

Welcome back to the fold, novicemoneysaver (oops AND moggins)!

Now, as your penance, repeat after me:

Home-made is best!
The family that eats well and together is a happy and healthy family!
An organised family home is a well-run home!

THEN get your backside to my house - cook our evening meal from scratch; tell my family that I've cooked it - and they WILL appreciate it; and get my house de-cluttered!!! :rolleyes:


Awwww sorry, hun! only taking the proverbial!! Seriously though, I'm sure you and your family will soon begin to reap the benefits of returning to your OS ways.

squeaky

novice_money_saver wrote: »

Good Morning Everyone


I thought I was enjoying myself . But lately my life has seemed shallow and empty, way too much focus on work and material trappings and not enough on home (I mean REAL home, not just the house I've been filling with gadgets and gizmos), family and friends.

I was in hospital ealier in the week and have had to have the week off work. It's given me some time to reflect on what is important to me and I've decided I want to strip a lot of the complications out of my life and get back to basics. So can I come and join you OS'ers to try and focus on the important things in life and wean myself off my recent reliance on (and obsession with) material things?? :embarasse

My new slow cooker arrived yesterday (£16.64 from Amazon) and I'm so excited about making real slow food.

Is OS the key to contentment?

Hiya

We have a great and very supportive thread currently running which should be the ideal home for your post.

Posts are listed in date order, so you'll need to read from the beginning.

I'll move you across now.

Good luck

novice_money_saver_2

Olliebeak wrote: »

Home-made is best!
The family that eats well and together is a happy and healthy family!
An organised family home is a well-run home!

I feel better already! Thanks Olliebeak!

Ellidee

judderman62 wrote: »

Morning all :hello:

Morning Judders ! Lovely day here. What are you up to today ? We are off to my dh cousin's this afternoon. Bite to eat there and then off to see cousin's daughter who is in a play. Can't wait ! In fact I need to get off here and get on.

Ellidee

P.S. Hello to Novice too. You will find a lot of friendly, thoughtful and helpful peeps on here. Right MUST get my lazy a*se in to gear.

mary43

Hello all !
Well, I've got a mental list of 'stuff I could do' today............
bookshelves (OH conveniently gone to meet his mates in the pub so daren't touch his lot....lol) ?
Make Easter cards...........maybe.........?
Have another look -if I dare- at wardrobe that nearly exploded on me when I hung something up last night ?
Start filling in 'memory book' for grandchildren ?

Great one for being undecisive which normally means I end up doing nothing at all.
Can't go on wasting my days like that.............so..........which of the 'stuff to do' will give me most pleasure and make me feel good about myself ?

Clearing my half of the books............be a pleasure having a quick look at some of them again and make me feel better for placing them all in a box ready to put on freecycle.

Yep.............decision made.................(please..........make me stick to it !!!)

rosieben

Welcome Novice, glad you are getting yourself off that mad roundabout of earn/spend with no time to enjoy anything; and Welcome to Moggins - you're Moggins of the famous household organiser :T Great to see you back

I've now filled about a third of my new bookcase. Its very tempting to think 'oh, I havent read that for ages, I'll put it aside to read later' but I know I'd end up with a huge pile of books on the floor, so might as well sort them now and I've promised myself a leisurely stroll through the shelves later to catch up with a few favourites!

Mary, can I ask please how you are making the memory book for your grandchildren? I'd like to do something for my dgd and not sure how to approach it.

I'm making bread this afternoon adn might do some baking. I plan to try out the butter recipe I got from another thread. wish me luck!!
have a good day all :j

mary43

rosieben - I started a Memory book s few years back..............it was in mums 'Yours' magazine so she sent off for it. It was just a folder really with ribbons to tie the front and back together. The suggestion was to start off with the first memory you can recall and go on from there. It was amazing how many things came to mind once I started. I added photos to it as I went along to make it more interesting and it got to present day and was almost like keeping a diary. Sadly when Mum was taken ill it all came to a standstill so I'm way behind with it and it'll take an age to catch up.
Then I found a book in help the aged..........bit like a family tree book but with quite big spaces to add things about your life...........interests, how you got on with siblings, what you argued about (not enough pages for that.......lol) Be easier for me to do that at the minute although I think the original idea was the best and I will catch up eventually. Hope that helps.

Well........(hangs head in shame) I by-passed the bookshelves in the end and hot footed it to the junk room............cleared out two drawers.....found roll of wallpaper must have been there for years........can't remember when one of the boys rooms was wallpapered with silver wallpaper............lol All sorts of other odds and sods..............then I started on my neatly arrange shoe boxes........emptied on into another with the stuff I took out.
Old bero flour bag, old suet packet (unused so still flat pack),german tea towel, embroidered, milk checks from days long gone..............so, I shall stick it on freecycle and see what happens. I'll give it a week then I'll ring ex foster girls sister and give her the task of disposing of it. In fact, I think I'll give the bits that might fetch a few quid, like the old bero bag.......she could pop it on e bay and I know she could always use the money.

So.............I'm getting there..............think I've created a bit of a muddle around myself but its been fun..................lol:rotfl:

Have to add............just rung ex foster girl to get her sisters number.......seems her sisters been made redundant from her part time post office job (village post office closure !) so she'll be thrilled to have anything she can e bay............looks like I could be sorted and it''ll help her out in the process. Ex foster girl is gardening and found loads of wild poppy plants.........they're now destined for me..................!!

rosieben

Thanks for that Mary, I'm very into making my own books so I think I'll design my own for this. I like the idea of ribbon ties, that will be a nice touch. I'll work something out using some of my digital scrapbooking, altered art, journalling and other craft ideas so who knows what I'll end up with but it'll be a lot of fun

I think its great how so many of your ex foster kids keep in touch, proves what a great job you do in helping them! :T

Edited to say, lucky you getting the wild poppy seeds!

mary43

I keep saying I'll decorate my 'Memories' cover with some nice old images. Did it on pages that sectioned off my family tree -put a lot of old shoemaking images for the branch of the family that were all cobblers; farming for the ag. labs and for grans page I did a lot of flowers and old sewing stuff, household things like the old washing dollies.
Dad being a drummer had a lot of sheet music on his and Mum a lot of flowers. Just makes it all a bit more interesting for anyone to read.

Just checked my e mails and had one from freecycle refusing my post !!! Apparently I've filled in the subject line wrong..............lol I put Wallpaper oddments and they've shown it as Oddments wallpaper !!! Wouldn't have thought it mattered that much. Anyway, I've re-done it and if its not right this time then I shan't bother. Phoned ex foster girls sister but had to leave a message so hopefully will catch her later.

Got the 'go ahead' from OH to randomly go from room to room filling a box with all the odds and sods that are cluttering up everywhere so I'm starting to feel ever hopeful. :j

Chappie has been and collected speakers !!! Well, all except one he forgot......so no doubt he'll be back............lol OH did run up the road after his car with speaker in hand (don't know what the neighbours thought..........lol) but he didn't here or see him.