An in-between phase

Sallyforth

Oh please count me in on your March challenge although I fear it’ll completely engulf your personal diary? 

Funny though because I’m actually half way through a pretty challenging (for me!) “get stuff done and sorted so I can get on with living my boring little life” list.
So far - jet washed our little courtyard outdoor space; purchase and assemble a new patio table and chair set + an outdoor storage box (which is like a prone tardis = amazing); assemble a wheelbarrow to cart stored planters etc from A to B plus other bits (DH almost 80 and had a hernia op last year so all up to little old me now); put some spring flowers in pots and generally got my ahead around making my garden pretty. Oh and I also somehow managed to employ good tradespeople to re-grout our patio and paint all the fencing so it looks super ready for better weather.
Tomorrow’s job is fix the second new hosepipe to the wall (first purchase a disaster) and a metal plant pot holder to the wall. DH driving me to local handyman’s shop to buy various bits at discount because he used to work there many moons ago. This includes a bag of limestone gravel to fill in a weird little shady spot ready for an Etsy impulse buy to hide - a stone frog.
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PennysIntoPounds

You're counted in @Sallyforth! Though sounds like it might be you inspiring us for Smashing March progress, what a lot of great jobs done. And wheelbarrow will be handy if you need to cart DH around while he smiles and waves regally 😁
A hidden stone frog sounds delightful and frankly essential.

I don't mind people posting here at all but happy to set up another diary for the challenge if folk find that easier or more motivational 

My additional aims for tomorrow are:

Do the boring end bits of this piece of own work

Try on clothes from the pile I got the other day and take pics of all the items to sell

I came across a small piece of Wedgwood pottery in my Dad's bits, I know it won't be worth much but daft to have it sitting around not used, so I need to research that, take pics, and list it

redofromstart

I've done some garage and hall shifting round so the electrician can have a look at why the outside electrics have failed.  I had been doing this for the last week or so without any progress but it has absorbed all of today.

Along the way I tidied and decluttered as appropriate the contents of the writing bureau, a job I had been putting off since I left my job in December 23.  Does that count? 

KajiKita

In terms of a new thread, would you not feel a bit hijacked if we keep posting here about our lives and successes for the next two weeks or so? Or will it be like hosting a happy circle?

Kk

Blackcats

Perhaps a new thread would be good - perhaps you could put it on your "to do" list 😉

I have made a good start by writing my to do lists.  1 is for usual general things to do (13 items) and the other is the been putting it off list (19 items).  1/13 and 1/19 completed so far.

KajiKita

Two small things done this morning:
- Swept up Mr KK’s and my recipes in poly pockets up from the kitchen and filed in our respective recipe folders 😊
- Collapsed down the heated airer - I have a real mental block about this so this feels like a win 😊

Bigger one this evening:
- Updated my CV to current role and sent off to recruiter for Wednesday’s interview 🤞

KK

PennysIntoPounds

If it absorbs a day, it absorbs a day @redofromstart, you are making stupendous progress.
And the extra job counts muchlies and muchlies, 🍷 and 🧀 for you 😁
I bloody love a bureau. Do you have thoughts on how to best enjoy it next?

I'm fine either way @KajiKita, I appreciate people use their diaries in different ways but I don't feel like I need to keep mine onetracked for my own motivation, my diary I hope is more a living room where friends can come flop and chat anytime

Ha I was vaguely thinking to do it @Blackcats but now you've said 'to-do list' I have to, you meanie 😁
Those sound like most excellent lists 

PennysIntoPounds

Brilliant doings @KajiKita. Why do you think you have mental block on collapsing the heated airer?

Isn't it funny the random things we just don't want to do- I always feel particularly annoyed at having to put leftovers in containers. No idea why. Takes a few seconds, we have enough 'tupperware', they're reasonably well sorted and stacked. I don't have issue with food being left, I don't have issue with prospect of eating it, there's always enough space in fridge and freezer. It just gets disproportionately on my nerves to do the actual few second job!

PennysIntoPounds

Rightyhoo me dears, Smashing March diary here

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6595248/march-forward-into-spring#latest

foxgloves

I hear @KajiKita on the tediosity of putting away the heated airer. Once the dry laundry has been taken off it, it's a matter of under a minute for me to unplug it, fold it up & slide it all of 2 metres to its designated space in the utility cupboard. Yet this is accompanied by huffing & puffing in weary resentment utterly disproportionate to the task! 
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