Watty's Awakening

JGB1955

Garden waste bin collection?

Slinky

Professional society memberships? How do you pay your water bill?

Watty1

car taxes paid monthly but I need to put aside an amount for the mot and service bits. Good reminder there.
Boiler service payed monthly.
Chimney sweep a good spot tho. Thank you

Watty1

Rained hard for most of the day so sorted out some things to go the tip - and think we have had a lucky find in the roof of the barn. The dishwasher had leaked for a while and the kitchen kickboard or plinth is badly stained. And it was badly cut by PPH to fit the dishwasher and the gap has irritated me for a while

Anyway in the roof of the barn is some softwood timber that I have no idea what it was for. PPH left it behind so I assumed it had no value but it is the right size to make the plinths from. If we paint it a dark brown it will go with the kitchen which is oak and has a brown granite worktop. We are really excited about this as the timber is here so it is just a pot of kitchen cupboard paint. VNM going to get the timber down to check we have enough but it is an exciting find.

KajiKita

Oooh, you are sounding like Mr KK. He always has ’useful’ bits of wood lurking. An absolute pain when you want to move house but fantastic when you just need that one small piece … 😊👏

KK

Watty1

There seems to be enough of this timber to actually re-do the kickboards throughout the kitchen. A couple of tester pots on their way for paint colours and it has a lovely shape so will look really nice (rather than the plain flat surface that is more usual).

PPH took everything he could from the barn that he could sell or find a use for. Clearly this just didn't fit either bill. He also left scrap and rubbish. We cleared some of the actual rubbish but VNM is often triumphantly finding a use for the scrap. He says it gives him great satisfaction to find a use for something that man left behind that now saves me money.

No rain today so hopefully we can finish outside the front of the house (although one of the stables has a leak so we need to fix that first)

rtandon27

Awwww - what a sweet thing to say - your VNM is romantic! 💕

Suffolk_lass

I am married to a former engineer who became a woodwork and metalwork (Resistant Materials) Design & Tech teacher. I know I need say no more on here about stashes of "useful bits". Suffice it to say, we have a few piles, pots and various stashes

daisy_1571

Whats treasure to one person is scrap to another and of course vise versa. Id love to have enough space to properly store stuff that will be useful one day, I have barn envy 😍

Dxx

Slinky

I've been having some joy in letting go. This week I've rehomed 2 computer monitors, a desk, an office chair and 4 books, all given away free, but not gone to landfill. I also donated a coaching horn that we had no space on the wall for (for the past 20 years!) to a pub with an appropriate name. Tomorrow a trip to the tip will involve letting go of OH's old laptop, a floor protector that has disintigrated, some other odd bits and pieces.