Simplifying Life

ceridwen

....and for a new word to add to my vocabulary, ie "repurposing" - ie the concept of using an item for something totally different to what it was designed for.

Due acknowledgments for this concept to a blog I think I may not have mentioned before (sorry Hester!):

todays post in:

http://chilechews.blogspot.com/

good point thinks me - having earlier this evening thought "hmmmm - that storage dish with lid will do nicely for a button box" - so have already done my little bit of repurposing for this evening. Thinks: his idea of pill bottle for sewing needles - well, I was wondering what I could use for that purpose earlier today, as my last bit of repurposing for them is about to fall apart.

Ellidee

mary43 have you got Wickes near you ? I saw some nice tiles in their Wrexham shop and they seemed quite good value. Can't remember how much though. Also Topps Tiles- do you have them your way ? They sometimes sell off ends of lines etc.

Ellidee

loupylou21 & Aril I love this thread and your posts too, Thankyou

ceridwen

Well I make a comment about having a vision of how things could be and then come across this online novel - no idea what its like, but I shall be going in for a read and might as well share it now:

http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/D80-THEWAY-Prt1-Day1-Morn.html

Rowan9

ceridwen wrote: »

Well I make a comment about having a vision of how things could be and then come across this online novel - no idea what its like, but I shall be going in for a read and might as well share it now:

http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/D80-THEWAY-Prt1-Day1-Morn.html

Thanks for the link ceridwen. i have saved it and will have a good look tomorrow.
Toady I managed to fill the charity bag and included some jewellery. Now why do i wonder if i should take a couple of necklaces out in case my DD wants them?? This may be me procrastinating in the job of actually getting 'stuff' out the door but dang! I'm off to take at least one necklace out. It's 8am on Sat morning for her in Australia right now and I have a feeling she wouldn't appreciate a call asking if she wants my cast-off 'jewels'

ecoelle

Hello all, enjoying reading the posts today, had a good week at work and managed to have 3 no spend days, alse got out in the garden one day this week and decluttered the vegie patch. Thanks for the useful posts on the simple life and the idea of 'repurposing'. This is something i try to do before i throw things away i try to think if i can use it for anything else. I have talked to some people at work about this site and am helping my friend to declutter her finances this weekend, i love helping people save money and get them onto the site. Have a good day tomorrow all and speak soon, keep up the good work

Charis

rosieben wrote: »

Hoping to persuade my ds to take me with him on one of his forays to Hay-on-Wye this summer; I recommend it as a fab day out for a booklover and especially nice if you take a picnic to enjoy by the river

Thanks for reminding me Rosie. I live an hour's drive away and have been meaning to visit. We were going to go last year but my friend had breast cancer and spent most of her time back and forth to radiotherapy for five weeks, then she was really tired. She's fitter than ever, thank goodness, and a fellow writer, so we will get there this year. :j

Charis

moanymoany wrote: »

The lady asked me one day if I had heard of the film 'Carve her name With pride' I said - yes, it was about a woman called Violette Szarbo who was a spy with the SOE during the war and she was murdered by the Germans, the same German soldiers who murdered the entire population of Oradour in France.

There's a museum dedicated to her memory in Wormelow, Herefordshire.
http://www.violette-szabo-museum.co.uk/foyer.htm

According to Wikipedia she was only 23 when she died.

rosieben

Charis - I didnt know that museum existed, thank you!

auntymabel

Re Ceridwen's post on repurposing, does anyoneone remember a TV programme in the eighties called "Low Tech"? There were 2 young chaps who gathered all sorts of unwanted stuff, a lot from skips, and made it into useful items - of furniture mainly. They also published a book and I wish now that I'd bought it as the series was quite short-lived and not repeated.