Watty's Awakening

KajiKita

I buy all my curtains from T3rry’s - you can get TCB for them as well. 

Sounds like you are making really good progress and how lovely that the space is starting to feel like yours now 😊❤️

KK

savingholmes

Glad your home improvements are coming together. I got new bedding and new curtains for some of the rooms after the divorce too. It does help.

Humdinger1

Congratulations @Watty1! Delighted but not surprised love Humdinger xx 

Bargainhunter30

Dunelm have an Easter sale on curtains. I just had to buy a new pair after washing mine and not thinking about the blackout lining, which melted and stuck together 🙈

Watty1

Thank you for the tips on buying budget friendly curtains.  I will investigate further.

I'm going to try to get the kitchen blinds cleaned.  They are rarely used, all downstairs is open plan but these are rarely closed as the kitchen window and part kitchen part dining room are not overlooked. I had a good look at them yesterday and they are in excellent condition just dirty and they are lovely blinds.  For some reason they do not remind me of the ex.  Perhaps because I had a local shop make them and hang them and he was not involved.  Anyway they are nice enough to keep so i just need them cleaned.

Have started moving  "stuff" from downstairs into the spare room as mid week the decorator should make it downstairs.    I am realising I need to be so much more disciplined in my decluttering as I still have too much "stuff" in the house.  The joy of the place I rented during the separation was i only had what I had chosen to take with me whereas here I have the accumulated stuff of a house that has been lived in for many years but that no-one really wanted but is just "left".

greenbee

Moving stuff for redecorating is a good time to sort through 'stuff' and liberate it. I'm currently in a state of perpetual motion as I'm renovating, and when you're constantly packing and unpacking and repacking it does focus the mind!

One thing I have done here (partly to stop myself rushing out and spending on curtains I then won't like later) is put up a lot of roller blinds - either thermal (N/E/W facing) or light filtering/privacy (south facing). It does help to have something covering the windows while you make up your minds, and places like blinds2go always have sales on. Or there are people like me selling old ones that don't fit their new house on FB  

Watty1

@greenbee I've just found your diary and loving it.  That will be a happy distraction from work today    Roller blinds an excellent idea.  thank you!   

greenbee

You may find yourself nodding off @Watty1 🤣 It certainly doesn't feel like a moneysaving diary right now - I've just paid a monumental CC bill for furniture, I have a regular cleaner and handyman/gardener to help keep on top of things, when this week's snagging is done I'll have electricians to pay. I've also just paid the decorator, and am spending far more on the cats than is reasonable! I won't even think about the cost of getting the garden sorted out or any of the future work. 

Watty1

@greenbee  that is funny.  As you have noticed I have a huge WattyDog a cat 3 horses and a cleaner and am throwing money at making the house to make it mine and I still think I am having a "no spend year" other than recovering from my ex - which redoing the house is partly about.

I was adding up my spending the other day and the VNM mentioned he would hate to see what a spending year looked like

daisy_1571

Hahaha, its all relative!  All sounding great

Daisy xx