Mellow Fruitfulness

KajiKita

Made more progress on clearing the office drawers. All decisions are made on top two drawers in each unit (the filing filter can sit until a wet weekend or the Christmas break), the cards I don’t want are heading off to the CS and all ‘occasion’ cards have been segregated and bagged up separately, which will save me loads of time when looking for something specific. 

KK

badmemory

I wonder if they would pay anything for virtually every Agatha Christie book in paperback.  Probably not as they have almost all gone brown with age.  I really, really must do a tip run.  Just need to make myself check the current rules!!

greenbee

Sandals that were out of stock with a restocking alert came back in, so have ordered those.

Electrician is booked, so just the plumber to go and then I can arrange for the carpet to be removed and will have a project plan for the next round of work and a deadline for emptying my bedrrom and cupboard. 

I do need to choose and order wall lights for the hall. And pick paint colours. 

rachmac3

I just sorted and disposed of paperwork and ring binders and poly pockets that an old colleague gave me when she left 8 years ago. That's not the astounding bit though. I actually got rid of 'barely used' poly pockets!! I put them to one side to take up to my office then had a word with myself about when the last time I used them was, and whether I was likely to use the 50+ I already had.
Who even am I ??!!??!!??

PennysIntoPounds

Hope you're not thinking of taking readable books to the tip @badmemory! *clutches pearls* 😁

Ooh choosing wall lights and picking paint colours @greenbee 😍

That is the work of a strong woman indeed @rachmac3

Cheery_Daff

Thank you for the new thread @PenniesIntoPounds and well done so far everyone with your autumnal OATs! 

A small OAT for me today - I rotated the mattress, which I've been meaning to do for a while. Almost got the drill out too (Mr Cheery made the bed several years ago, and the screws in the legs could do with tightening a bit) but it would have made me late, so I've put it off for another day.

Wish I could have channelled some of my own good sense this afternoon - I took some books back to the work library (another OAT, hooray!) but in the process made myself late for the dentist 🤦‍♀️

Fortunately they saw me anyway, and I'm going to count that filling as an OAT - I've had that hole for a while and it's good to have it filled 😂 giving myself extra points because I had it without local anaesthetic (I don't usually, but this was pretty straightforward) so no dribbly face and an earlier cup of tea 😂

badmemory

PennysIntoPounds said:

Hope you're not thinking of taking readable books to the tip @badmemory! *clutches pearls* 😁

There are several (its small) car loads to go before I sink that low & actually get near to dealing with the loft.  It's a good job it is dry up there.  I do really need to do it.  I had a couple of years (pre hip replacement) when I couldn't but I really need to pull my fiinger out.  First job is to see if the tip rules have changed since covid.  I suspect backside kicking may be required.

weenancyinAmerica

@badmemory - can you try a little library? Older looking paperbacks may be worth as they may be first editions. Have a bookstore check them out.

Wanna_Bee_Free

@badmemory Totally agree with @weenancyinAmerica about first edition checks. If you scan the back and see what it says. There are a few apart from Booklo0p, When I decluttered books a few years ago I used music magpie and Ziffit and We Buy Books and went with the most money. Sometimes what they offer is very different. 

I tackled an OAT yesterday and moved the bed out and moved my sewing stuff into a drawer under the bed that isn't blocked by furniture and actually opens. My OH doesn't realise how lucky he is that my fabric stash fits into this one drawer. Now I might have to actually sew something. I stsrted making a bag for a friend for his birthday in April 2024. Oops. I should do a little more on that soon. 

My other big OAT is continuing to list the stuff from storeage we've decided can go now.  We put stuff into storeage to help sell our house but are now staying put. But while some of the stuff was packed away for 2 or 3 months we found out we didn't miss some of it at all. 

redofromstart

I found the only place that would take the older browned paperbacks was the charity shelves at the back of the supermarket @badmemory

Things may have changed a lot (I spent my 'drop out' years working in a second hand bookshop) but it is rare for paperback fiction to have any value. Just the odd thing like the first printing of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and only because it was only published in paperback so it is the true first edition.