Redsquirrel's 'Striving For Better Days' Diary

Karmacat

Awwww! Absolutely

redsquirrel80

Thankyou :rotfl: Honestly, I really do not need anything else. Except for getting some shoes and boots re-heeled.

I just counted how many skirts I've got as I was putting them away and there are, erm, 25.... :eek:

Karmacat

Uh-huh! This is becoming downright funny! They're certainly going to take up less *space* now that you've organised it all!

redsquirrel80

That is ridiculous isn't it? Most of them I've had for years but still, I didn't realise there were so many! Well, at least now they're hanging up all tidy I can see them all and I might actually wear them. And then I can have another clear out in a couple of months and get rid of the ones I haven't worn.. that's the theory anyway...

Karmacat

Good theory! I shocked myself a couple of months ago when I found a pile of ironing from last *year*, and it made me count up how many T shirts of various sizes I had - 36 in all!

skint_spice

I feel like I have hardly any clothes compared to you too but then again I've not counted the pairs of black trousers....
Hopefully when you get up tomorrow and go to get something to wear you'll get a wee boost when it's all nice and tidy - I know I do! Sad but true... it's one of those things like getting into nice fresh sheets (even without Daniel Craig)...

redsquirrel80

Hehe.. you're right Skint, I'm really loving the new tidy flat and it's rather nice having all my tops hung up instead of on the clothes horse/ chair/ floor. Unfortunately I ran out of coathangers yesterday, so still got a pile of things to be hung up (it's a very neat and tidy ironed pile of things though!). Going to pop out to get coathangers then, and pay the cheque I found the other day into the bank, then back to finish the wardrobe and maybe tackle the tangly tights drawer.

Got a few surveys in my email this morning (including a £3 one from Ciao - bet I don't qualify for that!) so have to do them later as well.

Have a good day all! x

Karmacat

Hangers are important, aren't they... for years, I was making do with wire ones from dry cleaners, or nasty plasticky ones that came free with clothes. Then about three years ago, I got really fed up, somebody mentioned to me about how nice it was to see clothes well hung.... and I started going to cheap hardware/chandlers shops, not quite pound shops, but close. I'd get solid wood hangers, cheaply made, but still solid, 3 for £1.50, and I'd buy one or two sets a week, for weeks on end. And now, apart from hangers that were small sets I bought, or gifts over the years, all my clothes are on solid wooden hangers. Its nice - and its surprisingly cheap. Go for it!

redsquirrel80

Totally agree, got a mixture at the moment but I'd like all wooden ones. Got some fantastic 'vintage' ones with old tailors' names on etc that I've acquired over the years.

I'll see what I can find!!

In_Search_Of_Me

ikea do lovely hangers and they look so much posher when clothes hung on em! wel doneon tidying...looks like you have pleanty of clothes! alas I have loads the dont fit and few that do!! keep up the good work...must get back into surveys as been a bit lax of late...