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

Cheery_Daff

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Well I'm glad I'm good for something 😂😂

Had a sort through another two drawers while I was in there - one with assorted hair removal accoutrements, and the other where I stash unopened boxes of prescription medication.

Two more to go now (well, there are another 2 small ones but they're Mr C's and I'm not sorting them out). And there's an assortment of stuff out on the counter - we have a difference of opinion about stuff remaining visible at all times which I'm never going to win 😬 I'll at least try to get things sorted out and tidied up!

Not sure what room to move on to next 😁 I did just broach the subject of working towards finally getting the fancy roll top bath out if the garage but I'm not sure it'll happen any time soon... Might measure it tomorrow though...

rtandon27

Cheery - I love that I'm not the only one who had an old bottle of that Avon stuff! Mine was over 20 years old! In fact the Scottish Aunty who gifted it to me has been dead and buried for at least 10 of those years which is probably why I hung on to it! I can vouch for the fact that when it is a fresh bottle it really does keep the mozzies away and it is not as poisonous as Deet!

Greying_Pilgrim

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Am I talking rubbish, or is that product - in that form - no longer available? We've got the 'skin so $oft', but it's now a dry oil spray - the original (jojoba) is touted as the one to keep wee biting beasties away (and in our experience it does). I know it just looks like I'm hair splitting (not my intention), but I'm pretty sure that the dry oil is more expensive than the lotion ever was - which is the down-side, as we need to use it even in the garden ☹️not just when yomping through a forest or across a moor ☹️ It is on sale quite frequently though, as an upside.

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Wow, 20 years old is quite an age! So you actually use it? I think this bottle came from a charity shop, and I'm not sure I've used it, it's pretty full and I have an actual bug spray somewhere. No idea if it's still available - as you say Greying it's likely far more expensive in its new form!

Feeling good about decluttering at the minute and keen to crack on 😁 woke up thinking about prescription medication 🙄😂 I've still got some old HRT patches - I switched to gel before I'd finished them and was keeping them in case I switched back, but I've been on gel for well over a year now and I'm much happier with it. Feels like a waste but it's no use sitting in my cupboard and I bet they're out of date too by now.

I've got a bag of ancient tablets cleared from Mr C Snr's house AGES ago that I kept meaning to take to the pharmacy for disposal but never did - wonder if I can locate them and take them all today? A job ticked off!

And tomorrow I'm going near the tip in the morning - I could gather a bag of glass bottles in the spirit of going little and often...

Glass bottles are a nuisance. They don't collect them in our kerbside recycling, and there's no easily accessible disposal point so we take them to the tip. Our rather we don't, because it seems a waste to go to the tip without a car full. No restrictions at our tip or permits, but our nearest is actually is a different county and they've introduced a new scheme where you're meant to register your car registration numbers - and we can't because we don't live in area. Nobody's checked yet but it puts me off as I don't want to be turned away when I get there!

Problem solved, as I now go to slimming world every Saturday morning which is near our actual tip in our own county which we can legitimately use 😁 but its too early in the morning to be sorting anything out before I go, so it needs to be ready and at least BY the car on Friday. A new habit to get into - bet I could get rid of a couple of things every week until the garage is empty!

And can certainly keep on top of the glass bottle recycling 😂

redofromstart

I keep finding bottles of that spray too, at least ten years old. He swore by it for walking and I vaguely remember him insisting on buying lots when it got discontinued.

Baileys_Babe

Our kerbside glass collection stopped about 15 years ago and the glass used to build up until it became a big job. Currently I attend a weekly group which is next to a glass recycling point so it take the glass weekly, I will need to find somewhere else to recycle them over the summer as the group has a break for June, July and August. Since I started recycling our glass weekly other members of the group now do the same. Little and often has made it manageable and easily incorporated into my week.

I like the idea of a little and often approach to sorting the garage.

We are using a similar approach to sorting the loft, in our case it is little and occasionally due to me needing to be available and it be convenient for the person whose room the loft hatch is in.

rtandon27

…the version I had was the dry spray on oil - honestly I can't remember how much it cost in dollars! …and no I didn't use it, only kept it for sentimental reasons as it was a gift, it must have gone off ages ago as it smelled a bit strange and i eventually decluttered it! I've had several bottles bought here in the UK and used - it's that particular scent that works I beleive - and I think it's the dry oil we used to get recommoneded for mosquito season back in the homeland!

VintageHistorian

I have a feeling that next year more councils will have to accept glass as there's some kind of unified system coming into force in England. My local council is changing our bin types this year ready for the changes and it's got lots of people up in arms (mostly because people with small gardens don't want big bins, which I understand but I absolutely hate the plastic bag situation we have at the moment).

Cheery_Daff

Are you keeping your 10 year old spray bottles @redofromstart ? Glad to hear you decluttered yours eventually @rtandon27

@Baileys_Babe little and often is definitely the way with the loft I think!

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Our local council does collect glass, we just don't have a glass collection because we're on the rural round - awkward people without big enough access for the wheelie bin lorry. So we have a smaller truck, one of those cage ones, and they won't tip glass into it (presumably because it could smash and come flying out). Hey ho.

Cheerful day today :) Breakfast out, counselling, another cafe trip, lots of charity shops and pottering about. Some errands - picked up a prescription, found the bag of ancient tablets and dropped them all off at the chemist for disposal, filled the car up with diesel, bought some oil for the other car as the light flashed on and off briefly yesterday. And we nipped to Mr Al and picked up some supplies.

Worn out now! Both been loafing for an hour with a nice cup of tea. I really wanted to get out into the garden and do another barrowload of mulch - going to need to go soon or else it'll be dark!

Noticed there's a bit of a stain on the drive, under the little car, but not under where the engine is currently parked. So one or both of them may have been leaking oil at some point - obviously I suspect the little one. Going to top up the oil tomorrow rather than tonight, and it's going to the garage on Tuesday for a quick adjustment to the brakes, so if it does turn out to be leaking tomorrow, I'll just leave it there on Tuesday. YAWN.

Right, best get outside - I reckon I can squeeze in barrow number 6 of 32 before it goes dark…

Cheery_Daff

Barrow number 6 done! And I was rewarded with the sight of Barney, the local barn owl, skimming over the field 😊😊

Transplanted a few flowers out of what will be the potatoes row too, into the flower bed. But by that point it was getting a bit dark to see whether I was digging up flowers or dandelions so I've come back inside 😂

Busy one tomorrow. Slimming world first thing, and I'll have to be there by 8am (not leaving home at 8am as usual) because I then have to go straight to work for an event 😬 Not sure how long that will last. Mr C has a gig in the evening and is staying over with friends, but I'm not going on this occasion - I'm going to get on with my barrowing and have an early night.

Need some food now though.