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

Cheery_Daff

dawnybabes said:

We have an odd sock drawer, they sit in it till I’ve some time then I pair them up ! 

That's what I was planning to do, but some of them just never showed up! 

This morning I organised what's left on my clothes rail in the bedroom (just tops, it's not long enough for dresses) by colour 😂 Surprised at how many black/navy things i have! 

I also decided to chuck away a cardi i knitted myself. A friend bought me vouchers for a wool shop for my birthday, and I bought wool and knitted a cardi. I loved the process,  I loved wearing it, but it wasn't a particularly flattering style, and when we moved it got a rip in the back, which I repaired badly and made a very visible bump. I've not worn it since, but been reluctant to throw it as I made it myself.

Properly got it out today - there are now several raggedy moth holes in it now too. So out it goes, and with it goes all guilt and feelings of 'i should fix it! I should wear it even though it doesn't fit!'. Nope - I made it 15 years ago, I wore it a lot, it's had its time.

Going to have a completely minimalist home after all this 😂

Banks checked. Remaining budgets half way through the month

Food & household: £247.90/£350
Diesel & parking: £200.42/£300
Joint treats: £112.50/£200
My spends: £100.55/£150
Mr C spends: £141.70/£150

Mr C was delighted to find another £7.50 in cash in a jacket pocket yesterday. Clearly he's going to subsist on jacket pocket cash this month, but that is a finite resource! (And is also previous budget just hiding!) Still, he is enjoying the frugality and the challenge so I'm not complaining.

I might reallocate yesterday's pie from my treats budget to the food budget though - it started as a gift for my mum but actually ended up being general lunch for everyone, including Mr C who originally wasn't going to be there. So I might get that £5.75 back into my treats budget 😂

Bargainhunter30

I'm assuming the budget resets at the end of the month, so even if he finds loose change all month, come October he'll still only have £150 to spend? Loving his technique though 😂

Brewerspride

Please could you send me a few of Mr C's magical jackets?

rtandon27

@Cheery_Daff - I know this is an 'anti-decluttering' thought, but if you love the sweater that much, perhaps turning it into a cushion cover for your most cosy chair might be an idea?  I'm team 'Messy' all the way - drives OH mad!

Cheery_Daff

Bargainhunter30 said:

I'm assuming the budget resets at the end of the month, so even if he finds loose change all month, come October he'll still only have £150 to spend? Loving his technique though 😂

😂 Ha, this is a new way of budgeting for us (we don't usually have such a strict assigned budget separately) so not sure how it'll work next month yet. But the Magic Jacket Money did pay for both of us a cafe trip this afternoon so... 😁

Brewerspride said:

Please could you send me a few of Mr C's magical jackets?

😂😂 I might start rummaging through a few of them myself! There's a seemingly endless supply of jackets in our house 😬

rtandon27 said:

@Cheery_Daff - I know this is an 'anti-decluttering' thought, but if you love the sweater that much, perhaps turning it into a cushion cover for your most cosy chair might be an idea?  I'm team 'Messy' all the way - drives OH mad!

Not a bad suggestion at all! Might require a bit of figuring out to stop it unravelling. But the nice bit is the yoke round the next and the buttons, so that might work well on a cushion, thank you!

Cheery_Daff

In case you're curious, it's this pattern

https://www.soulemama.com/soulemama/2010/02/tea-leaves.html

But in a kind of bright teal green. I might try to keep the opening style at the front by putting something underneath (kind of like you'd have another top under the cardi). 

Will report back.

Incidentally, I miss that blog. I loved it. She had a very different life to me (homeschooling 5 kids 😂) but it was such a gentle, peaceful place to hang out 🥰 I miss blogs in general, most of the ones I used to follow have stopped now 😕