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

Cheery_Daff

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81927412#Comment_81927412

😂😂 I think it's very satisfying! I'd far rather be cleaning out someone else's cupboards, I think 😂

Zoning out a bit this evening 😬 Didnt quite get enough sleep last night, and it's been a long day with an early start and another long day tomorrow, so I might aim to be in bed by 10, if not before.

In the meantime, I'm going to put on a podcast and tackle another bathroom drawer 😱 Wish me luck! 😱😂

Cheery_Daff

OK, are you ready for today's drawer inventory? Not quite as shocking as yesterday but bad enough 😬 I'll attempt some sorting

MEDICINES

• 1 tube HRT gel
• 1 athlete's foot spray
• 1 bottle bug repellant
• 3 opened packets of cold & flu tablets
• 2 opened packets of assorted painkillers
• 1 packet of Wellwoman capsules, free in a race goody bag 😂
• 1 tube germolene (wasn't there one in yesterday's inventory too??)

DENTAL

• 4 used toothbrushes
• 5 loose dental harps
• 1 travel toothpaste

HAIR

• 1 bottle hair serum
• 1 hair brush
• 2 electric razors & assorted attachments
• 1 unused disposable razor
• 1 tube hair removal cream
• 2 spirit level contraptions for cutting own hair
• 1 pair kitchen scissors

MAKE UP

• 5 lipsticks (2 unused, 3 only usable with a brush)
• 1 ancient dried up mascara
• 12 pots of nail varnish, in all manner of colours including gold glitter and glow in the dark
• Eyelash curler
• Blusher brush
• Vaseline lip gloss
• 1 unused eyeshadow pallet

OTHER THINGS

• Wooden body brush
• Another half used packet of cotton wool pads
• 1 pink sock
• Travel shampoo
• Travel moisturiser
• Empty travel moisturiser pot
• 1 sachet of peel off face mask
• 4 loose herbal joint pain patches
• 2 wash bags- 1 empty, 1 unpacked from last weekend away, containing largely travel toiletries from the hotel
• 1 bar of solid aftershave
• 1 nail brush
• 1 Green whiteboard marker
• 1 pumice stone
• 1 tube mouldy vitamin c tablets (lid not on properly)
• 1 tealight candle
• 11 hair bobbles
• £1.18

😬😂😂😂

rtandon27

Oh Cheery - I may need a little lie down after that list! - are you going to have a little purge? - I'm thinking anything mouldy can go?

Cheery_Daff

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81927483#Comment_81927483

Ha, yes don't worry, I'm not just listing stuff then putting it ALL back 😱😂 even I'm not that bad 😂😂 part of the reason for listing is to horrify me into getting rid of most of it 😂

Yes, mouldy vit c tablets have gone 😂 Travel sized things have been packed up in a clear bag, along with washbags. Nail varnishes purged and the remaining ones put in a container. Hairbrush thoroughly scrubbed using 2 of the old toothbrushes (which have now gone in the bin). Ancient makeup, crappy herbal patches, loose dental harps etc all gone in the bin. Lipsticks held together with a hair bobble and ONE put in top drawer for use until gone (top drawer does also need a sort out as I suspect there are probably another 2 lipsticks in there but that's a job for another day).

Sock in the wash, unworking pen in the bin (actually 2 pens 😂). Hair removal items (non-electrical) dispatched to the hair removal drawer (and yes, that will need a sort out but again, not today 😂)

Anyway, things are looking much better and I am feeling very satisfied 😂

Now eyeing up the bottom drawer…goodness knows what's in there. Bedsocks and more washbags for a start. But NOT TONIGHT! 😂

VintageHistorian

Just a note that foodbanks also give out hygiene items so if you've got any unopened toiletries that you're looking at and thinking "will I really use this?" then pop it in a collection basket next time you're in town, saves it sitting in a drawer or from the bin.

Cheery_Daff

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81927566#Comment_81927566

Excellent reminder, thank you! Not chucked anything like that yet but that may give me an incentive to pass on stuff that I might have kept because it's too good to chuck

Jessy103

Ok, I have to know. Do you know where the pink socks partner is?!

Cheery_Daff

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81928807#Comment_81928807

Ha, probably in the odd sock basket upstairs! 😂 This one's on the line now.

Glorious weather! I've got one wash on the line, and I've put on what is possibly my first ever 90 degree wash 😱😂 Hoping it will both brightenen up a few dingy white/grey things, and give the washing machine a good clean. We'll see.

Last night I cleaned out another two basket drawers in the bathroom. It was late but I felt an itch to keep the chain going... These were just 2 small drawers with sanitary items in, but I've still thrown away a couple of empty packets and reorganised things so everything is nice and neat.

One big drawer left, and six small ones... 😬

Cheery_Daff

Glorious day today! 😃 As I was working at home woth no meetings, I got 3 loads of washing done and out on the line 😃 Unfortunately I sneaked off to meet Mr C for a coffee at 5pm and didn't bring it in first, so by the time I got back it was all a bit cold... Having a quick radiator dance now and should all be fine tonight.

Signed the LPG contract - 4p a litre increase on our last one, but fixed price for 2 years which is always good. Waited til we'd had today's delivery (charged at the old price) so likely won't need any time about October now anyway.

And now on to tackle the second big bathroom drawer! 😃 Stuffed full, but with some bigger things, so not such a massive list. Are you ready?

CLOTHES

• 1 pair jogging pants
• 3 bed socks
• 1 pair stripey normal socks
• 1spotty sock
• 1 bra
• 4 pairs of knickers 🙄

TOILETRIES

• 1 ancient bottle Avon skin so soft (bug repellant! 😂)
• 1 empty bottle facial wash
• 1 travel bottle of sun cream
• Eye drops
• 1 bottle hair serum
• 1 packet imodium (German! From our trip to Berlin, at least 2 years ago 😂)
• 1 almost empty tube canestan
• 1 box throat pastilles (miraculously in date)
• 2 trial size perfumes
• 1 lip gloss
• 1 tiny jar of coconut oil

OTHER THINGS

• Handful of plasters (wrapped but not in a box)
• Pen
• Small plastic tupperware tub
• Hair grip
• Whole packet of hair clips (which I don't use)
• 1 unused disposable razor
• 2 loose dental harps (bloody things get everywhere)
• 2 interdental cleaners
• 4 hair bobbles
• 3 empty wash bags
• 1 wash bag unpacked from last trip (yes, another one!) - I won't bother listing the random stuff in there
• Portable bidet 😂 (squeeze plastic bottle with a spray nozzle)
• 3 empty plastic bags
• AAlmost empty dried up face compact thing
• 1 emery board
• 1 tampon
• 1 unopened bag of makeup sponges
• 1 set of false eyelashes (black this time)
• 2 boxes of those herbal pain relief pads (I saw the colleague who recommended them yesterday and as I never found they worked I might donate these 2 unopened boxes to her)
• 9p 😂

For goodness sake 🙄

beanielou

Oh well. At least you are making us laugh 😹