Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2019

Hello, i havent been around very much recently but i have had some wins recently which i am pleased with.
Minimise
We had been renovating a house and had the remainder of our furniture and boxes of stuff delivered a couple of weeks ago. Wow, that was overwhelming! Having lived with much much less for a couple of years as we renovated and were “camping “ it has been a shock, but alo meant i have sent 4 boxes of books and crockery straight to the charity shop, and todays foray has brought forth 2 more boxes of books and another couple of boxes of bits and bobs.
Shocking how much stuff i had, and dont need, we were lucky that we hadn’t been paying for storage. I hust need to persuade OH to look through his things!

Mend
I have finally repaired a fabric basket which i have had for a while but not used because the velcro that held it to the frame had come off. All fixed with only 10 mins pinning and sewing.

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Been busy last week since purchasing an old writing bureau, I am supposed to be upcycling. got it I to my head to see how much I can fit in it appropriately. I am still working on downsizing clerical stuff!! since being here for 4 years now its still work in progress. I have managed to clear a shelf in the living room which goes across a 5foot alcove.( There were 3 when we moved in) so are now down to 1:T. This now looks a lot more calmer. The upcycle will have to wait for now.;) I would consider that a bit of minimise and make do for now.

Enjoy the rest of the summer team:beer:

Cut off feet of girl's tights to make leggings.
Threw out (ragbag) two pairs of girl's tights, deciding they had too many holes even for me to mend.
Mended three socks (mine), which means I now have enough pairs to last two weeks. Good, I was thinking I had to buy new ones, but won't need to just now.
Took handful of sngle socks to my parents, for them to match to their singles. We spend a week at eachother's place every six weeks, so our laundry gets mixed occasionally.
Mended a hole in dd1's cardi.
Mended two of dh's boxershorts.

I have started a new job on Monday, and hope to minimize me a little bit. Not much, it's just that my clothes are getting a bit tight. I will bring my snacks for the whole week on Monday, drink lots of water and tea, and take the stairs whenever I can. My new commute has about twenty minutes brisk walk (going to the busstop on both ends). I'm 11st5 now, and would like to be no more than 10st12; I'm 6".

Back on the MMM trail again - I seem to drop off in summer, perhaps due to holidays and wanting to be outside when the weather is nice. De-cluttering for me is definitely a cooler weather thing.

Make Do: The usual using-up of bits from the fridge and most of this week's meals coming from freezer/stores.

Mend: Our glass vinegar bottle has an annoying habit of leaking from the threads of the screw-on lid so DH did a mend today by wrapping some plumber's tape around the top of the bottle and then replacing the lid. It works a treat.

Minimise:
I have lots of small oddments of wool to use up (most of it came as freebies with knitting magazines) so I've gathered them all together and am knitting a throw with them. Nothing elaborate, just garter stitch strips - knit with one colour until it's finished, then join in a new colour and so on, then sew the strips together. It will be a (very) multi-coloured affair but it's good TV knitting. Weighed them and there's a total of 760g of yarn!

Made a start on clearing out unwanted paperwork and have shredded quite a bit today, but there's more to go. I thought I was pretty good at keeping it to a minimum so I'm puzzled as to where it comes from! '

Another bag of unwanteds ready to take to the CS later this week - mainly bric a brac and a couple of paperbacks.

Mended: husband's winter hat, dd1's youthclub T-shirt, dd1's tights, hid some thread-ends that had come undone on dd2's cardi that was knitted by my Mum.


Slowly working my way through the mending pile......