Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

ladyholly

My prescription meds are in the bedside table - the ones in current use (just the strips in the top drawer and all stocks in the 2nd drawer. Everything else is in the bathroom except a pack of paracetamol which is in the kitchen with dog stuff in case he needs them. I think mr LH has a big 1st aid box in his junk room. This he acquired when he was driving cars to auctions etc when he found it in one of the more high end vehicles.

KajiKita

Our conservatory ends up in a state similar to this at times. Well done for getting stuck into it. I can see why the recycling bins will help so much. 

You could invite Country Living to do a ‘before and after’ piece on you with a house rearranging specialist to help you … 😉

KK

Jellytotts

They problem I’ve found with day beds/trundles that form a double is that if 2 people are sharing, one has to climb over the other in the night for bathroom trips, if possible I’d set them up as singles.  We were looking at one for my craft room but as most of our visitors are of the “bathroom visits in the night” age we just didn’t feel it was comfortable for them.

Cheery_Daff

Jellytotts said:

They problem I’ve found with day beds/trundles that form a double is that if 2 people are sharing, one has to climb over the other in the night for bathroom trips, if possible I’d set them up as singles.  We were looking at one for my craft room but as most of our visitors are of the “bathroom visits in the night” age we just didn’t feel it was comfortable for them.

Ha, good point! I might make a judgement for each set of guests 😂 Most of our friends who would be in a double are on the cusp of night time bathroom friends, but they're all still quite capable of clambering 😂 (although I'll have to check they're not going to end up pushing the beds apart and ending on the floor 😮😂)

rtandon27

@Cheery_Daff - Have you thought of a bed bridge to hold the two mattresses together?  Not sure if it would work with that particular daybed set up, but it does work for two single mattresses in a double frame.

Cheery_Daff

rtandon27 said:

@Cheery_Daff - Have you thought of a bed bridge to hold the two mattresses together?  Not sure if it would work with that particular daybed set up, but it does work for two single mattresses in a double frame.

Yes, I was looking at those yesterday and that may well be what we end up with,  possibly along with some kind of mattress topper. The trundle is quite light, so there's still may be an issue of it slipping if there's too much clambering 

But I don't want to get too elaborate - it'll likely be used a max of 4 times a year, probably by people who are a bit drunk and would sleep well even if they were on the floor 😂😂 

Momentous night here (and I appreciate this is quite ridiculous) - I actually went to bed while in the house on my own 😂😂 I've traditionally been quite jumpy when on my own in a house, and since moving in with Mr C got into the habit of sleeping on the sofa when on my own. Not entirely sure why - initially just dozing in front of the TV i think, and in the old house our bed was on a kind of mezzanine 2 floors up so I was less jumpy if I was nearer the front door and could reassure myself nobody was breaking in, rather than just imagining I could hear noises.

He's only away very rarely, so I never really got chance to get over myself 🙄 and I usually sleep reasonably well on the sofa. But I slept so badly on the sofa last week (not helped by a mouse running around the living room making a racket 🙄) that i promised myself I'd force myself to go to bed this time, and I did! 😃😂

Slept terribly though 🙄 NOT helped by the snow melting on the roof, creating a couple of quite loud avalanches 🙄 I'd anticipated this might happen and knew what the noise was, but it still woke me up with a jump, both times. 

Anyway, I planned to get up early and start work early but when I woke at 7am I decided I'd have a much better day if I had an extra couple of hours of sleep... so here we are...

(Yes, I am in my 40s and should know better 🙄😂 I've never lived on my own though, and was usually in shared houses before Mr C, and he doesn't go away much, so I've never had much time to get used to it! Oddly enough I'm FAR happier and less jumpy out here with the nearest neighbours half a mile away than I ever was in a city terrace - possibly because any neighbours noise I heard back then I assumed was in my own house, whereas here I just assume nobody's going to bother breaking in 🙄😂)

Anyway, now I'm awake I should probably get up 🙄

scandimore

I think I'd be the same cheery, I've never lived on my own either. 
Medicine wise I've seen a wall cabinet you can buy for medicines which looked quite useful.
We've a small upper kitchen cupboard for meds (it is a stretch to reach it due to its location). We each have our own tray in there with our own stuff, plus I've got a pill box for my weekly bits and bobs. I have a separate emergency burns kit and first aid kit which I keep in the utility room for quick access. I've a fear of Mr S injuring himself with all his workshop hijinks and been proven correct a few times. I've got a whole box under my bed with my son's extra bits but his are all quite large and won't fit anywhere else.
Oh and gaviscon, calpol and painkillers in the upstairs bathroom too as they're the usual nighttime occurrences if there's going to be any! 
Well done for having a sort out in the offshot. I'm trying to get round each room and it's like someone is following me messing it up again argh! 

EssexHebridean

We have a basket in one of the kitchen cupboards which has the regular day to day stuff - painkillers, throat sweets etc, plus the thermometer and things like antihistamines. Upstairs in the dressing room our tall chest of drawers has two small drawers at the very top so one of those takes stocks of the regular stuff, plus my prescription stuff and supplements etc. Then there is a little basket on the bookshelf in there with easy to grab if needed overnight painkillers plus indigestion tablets. 

As for being a but unnerved by being in the house on your own I think that's pretty normal for anyone who usually has someone else there with them but then finds themself on their own. It's more often me that's away overnight than MrEH, and I certainly wouldn't describe myself as nervous when he's not there, but unsettled would be a good word - and yes, that does play in to mentally overreacting to any unexpected noises! 

greent

Adding to the meds details: my prescription meds (and a supplement to help counteract s/e of them) are on my bedside drawers - in-use straps are sat  out and boxes of spares are piled up at the back (not many - I only get 2 months'supply at a time, but I have a part pack of 1 brand that I don't like the s/e of, so take 1 of those every few weeks so as not to waste them! 😃 as the s/e don't really xome into play for one dose) I also have paracetamol and OTC co-codamol in my top drawer. 

All 3 cars and the motorhome have small first aid kits in. DD's prescription are in her room (she is 27..) and then we get to the kitchen..... on top of the microwave is a sharps bin and DH's testing strips, kit and boxes of needles for insulin. In a small corner cupboard is his in-use prescription tablets, a large tub of paracetamol (pur hated in USA) and some small boxes of cold/flu, paracetamol and ibuprofen in case people need to take them anywhere. Then there's a large tub with large dressings, plasters, micropore tape, throat spray, prescription strength co-codamol and diazepam and ibuprofen rub and lozenges etc in. 😀

fannyadams

scandimore said:

 I'm trying to get round each room and it's like someone is following me messing it up again argh! 

Yep, there's only me and HWTHMBO in the house. I often say "There must be people living in this house who I haven't met"...