Living Large, on a Small Income, by the Sea.

jwil

Great veg box again.

When I did my books, I kept all the ones I love and will read again, and for the ones I wasn't sure about, I read again and made the decision as to whether I wanted to keep them or not.  It was a slow process, but satisfying.

doingitanyway

Thanks @Sun_Addict and @jwil I will get rid of the read ones. I like your approach @jwil so will take the slow road 
A bookshelf arrives this afternoon. So, I will go through the books as I put them on the shelf

Bins and recycling done and plants at the front watered. I had a geranium indoors not looking happy so that has been planted out before it dies.

Veggie box from R arrives this morning. I had a credit so wanted to use it up. I won't be reordering. My new plan is to buy a Mr L box three times a week for the princely sum of £4.50 plus free exercise 

Slow cooker going on. A turkey leg for soups and a salad later.

Getting ready for the GP queue...

Weather dry

Have a good day

in_need_of_direction

Mr L boxes are £2.50 in NI.  they very rarely deliver value for money

Skint_yet_Again

Hope your new bookshelf has arrived and you have enjoyed sorting through your books. 

Great plan with the veg boxes 

PennysIntoPounds

Great to be decluttering but if you're a book lover don't be hasty about getting rid of ones you're unsure about in a fit of productiveness, when you're feeling more settled you might regret it, and you will feel more established in your new life as time goes by.
But if you do get rid and can be bothered, check if one of the usual sites will pay you a few pence per book, none of them pay well but any quid are always good news when you know there are household costs to be met! I prefer Z by miles as they allow you to keep your basket of what they've accepted for much longer so you can keep adding to it 

teapot2

I've been decluttering books and made just over £100 with WBB and a bit more than that with Z.  I've done it slowly over many months and sometimes books are rejected one month but accepted the next presumably depending on their stock.  I've also taken books that will never sell to charity shops, a few at at time as I'm walking there.  I fell out with MM over their rubbish customer service but the other 2 have been fine.  I just had a box of heavy hardbacks collected for free yesterday going to WWB, only 9 of them but they offered over £3 for one of them and several went for 50p so it does add up though most books go for far less.  Despite all that decluttering I still seem to have hunners of books 🙄

doingitanyway

Thanks everyone. I am taking my time with decluttering, so hopefully, nothing going out that I will regret. I have 60 cookery books. I have decluttered 10 so far. And I am still convinced that no-one needs 50 cookery books when so many recipes are online anyway! I am hoping to whittle away at the remaining 50! As suggested @PennysIntoPounds and @teapot2 I will get a few pennies back in as I go too. 
As @Skint_yet_Again suggests I am enjoying sorting through books 

Sorry your veg boxes in NI are more expensive and less good @in_need_of_direction I have found them variable depending on where I go, but I am very pleased with the ones here so far. 

So, yesterday and today have been mainly clearing things so my friend can help with moving furniture tomorrow...although washing was done, just as well as the rain is back again!

Yesterday I had a lunch at a catering college with friends. It was good!

Today, I have had catchup calls with friends and I've had my usual Saturday saunter although nothing actually purchased...Oh, I did buy a whisk as I keep putting off making cakes when I read 'beat sugar and cream together until light and fluffy' hmmm, nope. Whisk costs £14.

Off to a free talk this evening (very MSE) meeting friends there

Happy saturday everyone 

jwil

Enjoy your talk!

I only keep recipe books where I want most of the recipes.  If I only like a few I take photos of the recipe and then get rid of the book.  I one day will have a nicely catalogued folder of recipes!

biggerpickle

That's a lot of cookbooks but if they bring you joy, enjoy sorting through them! 

The photo idea of @jwil is a good one, I did similar years ago on a skint Christmas and put all my Mum's recipes scrawled on paper and torn from magazines into a plastic wallet folder so instead of them stuffed between pages in her many cook books she now has a folder of them to refer too and I know she uses it regularly. Good food and feeding people is one of her great joys, family lore has it way back in the day she was in a pre-televised heat of the original Masterchef with the bloke who has been known to lend his name to cooking sauces!

jwil

biggerpickle said:

That's a lot of cookbooks but if they bring you joy, enjoy sorting through them! 

The photo idea of @jwil is a good one, I did similar years ago on a skint Christmas and put all my Mum's recipes scrawled on paper and torn from magazines into a plastic wallet folder so instead of them stuffed between pages in her many cook books she now has a folder of them to refer too and I know she uses it regularly. Good food and feeding people is one of her great joys, family lore has it way back in the day she was in a pre-televised heat of the original Masterchef with the bloke who has been known to lend his name to cooking sauces!

That sounds great.  I have a book where I used to write down recipes and I do use it a lot.  It then occured to me that it would be quicker just to take a photo!  I just need to get round to organising them and labelling them now.