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Thread: Decluttering support thread
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Brenda Clough
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If papers and photos become too bulky, it is (in theory at least) possible to scan them and save them electronically. Sharing also then becomes tons easier; you can email the images to relatives.
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Wesley J
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An inspirational thread. Time I clocked in, too. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I'm another one of those newpaper hoarders. Currently 2013 and some 2012 ones left. Luckily, those are in one place, or let's say, one area... - the more recent, 2014 ones, however - all over the place! I really need to get organised.
However, I love looking through old papers again. So much gets forgotten and is no longer newsworthy a year or two later. In that sense: a useful exercise. Now, if it just were not for those old newspaper clippings... - the plan is/was to scan them. Hm... They're just hidden away in plastic boxes with lids, in my spare room. Oh dear. Will need to tackle that at some point.
On the up-side: the recent decluttering of my 1TB desktop puter plus 3TB main external harddrive was successful: I had inadvertently put a music folder in twice, once hidden away, with the same files. Checked and deleted on puter and backup drive - about 600GB of space gained. And more cleanup to follow. At least you can comfortably sit on a chair for that and don't have to go through boxes of stuff. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Keep up the good work, all. I, on the other hand, shall try to keep pace with all of your sensational efforts!
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Doublethink.
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Have you considered an electronic news subscription that you could save to a hard drive.
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Wesley J
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Oh, in fact electronic access is included in my hardcopy subscription. But I just like the feel of paper. And it doesn't need electricity. - Though I guess I could save the pdf copy of what I'm interested in. Hmm...
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daisydaisy
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Just decluttered my emails, and refiled some of them - I hope I can find them when I need them!!
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Zoey
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As yet, I've never had the time or inclination to sit scanning stuff onto the computer in order to dispose of the hard copies. However, last night I realised that this is a genius option when it comes to old school photos. I don't really want to display or give storage space to pictures of the whole of Year 11 and the whole of Year 13 from the late 90s, but I might want to have them available for reference at some point in the future - hello, scanner.
On a different matter which has arisen as a result of my decluttering activities and unearthing things I haven't used for (cough) some years:
What's the advice in the UK about disposing of leaking batteries? Can they go to the council battery recycling place along with their non-leaking cousins?
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Mrs Shrew
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Zoey - maybe take them to your local recycling centre and ask? They will probably have staff there who can advise you. I guess it depends on how they recycle them and what actually gets reused - i really have no idea what this is though!
It is misty and cold out in York today, making it perfect declutter weather. I have to pop out for an errand first thing but then I shall be continuing the mission.
Today's ambitious task - trying to approach my yarn stash. I have lots of very beautiful knitting yarn, but given how long I have had most of it, I know that realistically it isn't being used. But trying to consider getting rid of it is a little heartbreaking. I'm planning to pass bits off to friends slowly. Must. Break. Emotional. Connection. With. Clutter.
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ChastMastr
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Part of our extended family (a couple) needs dishes and glassware and mugs.
And it so happens that the sets of such things we have are really too many for the two of us in an apartment. About... twice as much as we need.
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Golden Key
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I'm making some progress.
Chast--LOL. Nice synchronicity.
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Huia
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Well done on the progress, Golden Key.
Yesterday the sink bench was totally clear and clean. I should have taken a photo.
I have cleared my table because tomorrow my new computer is being delivered and we may need space to unpack the boxes. I hope the company setting it up includes taking away the old one as I don't have a way of taking it to be recycled. Actually the best plan would be to take the old computer away in the new computer's box, thus sorting all the junk at the same time ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Now all I have left to do is clear the computer desk (sigh).
Huia
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Mrs Shrew
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Rats. I just completed an impromptu cupboard clear out thanks to flour weevils.
I suppose at least that cupboard is now completely clean, and I no longer have any stash of baking ingredients to declutter ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Apparently burying a dried bay leaf in your flour-bin helps keep weevils away.
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Mrs Shrew
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Oooh thank you Piglet, I shall try that.
I had not been keeping dry goods in plastic/glass jars until now but having just thrown away a whole cupboard full of baking ingredients I am ordering a collection of pots to keep flour in.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Mrs Shrew:
Oooh thank you Piglet, I shall try that.
I had not been keeping dry goods in plastic/glass jars until now but having just thrown away a whole cupboard full of baking ingredients I am ordering a collection of pots to keep flour in.
If your shelving is made up if boards or similar which join together, give the shelving a very good wash and airing. There could be eggs in the cracks which will start the whole cycle over.
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Moo
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quote:
Originally posted by Lothlorien:
If your shelving is made up if boards or similar which join together, give the shelving a very good wash and airing. There could be eggs in the cracks which will start the whole cycle over.
There are kitchen-safe sprays you can buy to use in the cracks.
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Lamb Chopped
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You want to keep flour etc. away from light and warmth. I'm told the eggs are there dormant in the food itself, but until light/warmth awakens them, you're good. After that, no amount of sealing will do, you'll have bugs.
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Golden Key
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I don't know the details, but I've heard of people freezing flour, etc. overnight when they get it. That's supposed to kill any eggs, I think. Should be info online. YMMV.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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I keep my flour in my fridge because I have a very large fridge and very little cupboard space.
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Huia
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I wondered about doing that Moo. Do you bring some to room temperature before you use it for baking?
Huia
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Welease Woderwick
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Straight out of the fridge would be perfect for making pastry!
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Roseofsharon
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After weeks of clearing out all the unwanted stuff from the shelves, cupboards and boxes my "sewing room" is lovely and tidy, but my hall and dining room are still full of the clutter I removed.
The person who wanted my freecycle stuff didn't turn up at three arranged appointments - with plausible excuses the first two - and has now gone silent.
A pile of paper & card destined for a montessori nursery school has been cluttering up the sideboard for a week as the director hasn't managed to pick it up (she's just promised to come at tea time today - my fingers are crossed).
And there are boxes of vintage knitting and dressmaking patterns, craft books and other related stuff are piled on the dining room table while I research, repair and price them ready to sell (I hope) at a craft event next month.
The feeling of achievement at managing what was a mammoth task is rapidly melting away.
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Moo
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quote:
Originally posted by Huia:
I wondered about doing that Moo. Do you bring some to room temperature before you use it for baking?
When I use my bread machine, I always put in the ingredients and wait about two hours before I start it. I have noticed that the bread rises higher when I do that.
When I'm not using my bread machine I just put the flour in straight from the fridge. It may cause the dough to rise more slowly, but it doesn't seem to make any other difference.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Not so much Decluttering as transcluttering at the moment.
The plasterer comes tomorrow, so that is the glass and bottle cupboard, 2 walls of the kitchen/spdining room, one side of the hall and areas of the bedroom and study to be cleared.
So far there is a disappointingly low ratio of chuckable from all that.
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Panda
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Today it was confirmed that with new jobs on the horizon, we will be moving in February, so I have a feeling I'm going to be on this thread a lot more!
We'll have been in this house nearly 8 years by then, which I guess isn't that long, but there were three of us when we came, and now there are five. And all the attendant equipment/clobber/junk that accompanies that.
But - rejoice with me! I've secured a table at the next 'Nearly New' sale for babies' and kids' stuff, and with a little organisation (oh yes) should be able to shift really quite a lot of it. And may even end up with some cash in hand.
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Huia
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Transcluttering, I like that word. It sums up what I do best ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Golden Key
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I've gotten a LOT done, so far, this weekend.
Re transcluttering: sounds like playing the Freecell computer game that comes with Windows. You move *this* card so you can get to *that* card. Eventually, everything gets sorted out together.
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Firenze
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Well we now have one tidy walk-in cupboard (but, unfortunately, another five that aren't).
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Huia
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My next task is to re-arrange the house so I can call the electricians to come and re-wire it. It's a 1950s house and it's never been done, so this is a matter of safety. After that I can ring the contractors to fix my earthquake damaged driveway. They said to leave it until last, so none of the tradespeople damaged the new laid concrete.
The difficulty is of course that all rooms have to be done at the same time. ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
Huia
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Roseofsharon
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The stuff I put on Freecycle has finally gone to new homes - with the exception of five sturdy cardboard cartons. But I have found a use for them!
Mr RoS's bedroom is full of bags & boxes of stuff he can't face sorting. I am emptying them, and packing the contents neatly in the cartons - which have lids and can be stacked. I can then put all the old, dilapidated boxes & bags in the recycling bin.
It's just tidying, I am NOT sorting through all his rubbish for him. I've got enough of my own to deal with, and he needs to make his own decisions on what needs keeping.
In the meantime, having priced most of the stuff I'm putting on my Second-hand and Vintage stall, I am going through the dressmaking patterns making sure they each have all the right pieces, and the instructions.
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ChastMastr
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Cubby was in the hospital again recently, and when I found out he was coming home, I went into a quick dash of cleaning his room and his bathroom, doing dishes, etc., and all are much nicer now.
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Huia
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Much nicer for Cubby to come home to as well.
I have bits and pieces of my old computer scattered about the house and will have to collect them up for recycling, then find a friend to take them to the depot.
I think someone in my local freecycle group may be interested in the monitor, so that's a start.
Huia
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cattyish
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Moo, do you use warm water in your bread machine? I use 1/5th ish water from the kettle to 1/5th ish water from the cold tap in my quick bake cycle.
Just popped in here to say that I'm currently having the builders in and it's been amazing what I've been able to get rid of in the process of downsizing. Suddenly I find I don't need a lifetime's supply of scrap bits of fabric or all the paperbacks I've ever read. I have a sneaky suspicion that soon I won't need my VHS player and cassette tapes. Maybe one day I won't need three sewing machines, but not today.
Cattyish, wondering what to do about all the stuff I've collected for youth work.
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Mrs Shrew
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Pleased to hear of so much progress!
I have been doing a spot of transcluttering today, in preparation for Mrs shrew-in-law. I am blessed that she is wonderful and will not judge me for the mess (besides anything she does know what Mr shrew is like!). Still there is some kind of instinctive urge to make everything spotless and dust the tops of all the doors.....
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Originally posted by cattyish:
Moo, do you use warm water in your bread machine? I use 1/5th ish water from the kettle to 1/5th ish water from the cold tap in my quick bake cycle.
As I said upthread, I don't start my bread machine for at least two hours after I put all the ingredients in. I use water from the ice water dispenser on my fridge door, because it is filtered. I store my yeast in the freezer, and it's very cold when I put it in the machine.
The two-hour wait insures that everything is the same temperature.
Moo
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Pigwidgeon
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A week from Thursday I'm having two rooms carpeted, so they need to be emptied. The guest room won't be so bad, but -- the second room is my office. I've been working on it a little each day, decluttering a bit as I box stuff up, and I hope to declutter a bit more when I get around to putting things back.
Maybe I should just keep the faded, worn, ugly carpet that's here.
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Huia
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
A week from Thursday I'm having two rooms carpeted, so they need to be emptied. The guest room won't be so bad, but -- the second room is my office. I've been working on it a little each day, decluttering a bit as I box stuff up, and I hope to declutter a bit more when I get around to putting things back.
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You are so brave. I've put off any idea of having carpet laid for a while. Mind you this morning in bed I was thinking through the logistics of getting the re-wiring done and decided it may be more simple than I thought. Move stuff away from plugs and switches but leave space under lights clear. I may have to move a scotch chest into the wardrobe but that's about all - apart from cleaning up the floor - gravity can be so annoying ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Huia
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Roseofsharon
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We've needed re-wiring and re-plumbing for several years, and the damp-proof & timber-treatment guarantees have run out, but the prospect of having any whole-house work done is more than daunting.
It's not so much the moving things out of the various rooms, it's that the house is so full of 'stuff' that there isn't anywhere to move things too.
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Welease Woderwick
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I feel your pain - I am a would be minimalist and likely to stay would be forever!
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Golden Key
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(((((All of us)))))
Making progress.
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Huia
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Hi Golden Key, that's good news.
I handed on my monitor and two small speakers through freecycle to a woman whose grandson has end of year school assessments due (which is a really bad time not to have a computer.
Also found a home for a large button phone that doesn't quite go loud enough for me any more as well as giving one of my bikes to a group that fixes and gives bikes away
On the other hand I appear to have misplaced a packet of dry cat food and Georgie-Porgy is most displeased as I replaced it with some cheaper stuff ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Huia
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I just got four pretty bowls from the charity shop for 10p each (I ducked into the charity shop to browse because the queue at the greengrocers was so long!) so I've been able to de-clutter my distinctly inferior bowls and the side plates that go with them. I've also been upgrading my cutlery, because I was sick to death of the old set with crappy green plastic handles (and why do I need six of everything anyway?) so I've now got some gorgeous spoons, forks and knives that are a delight to eat with, all from local vintage shops.
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Doublethink.
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I have started to declutter the kitchen, given it is relatively tidy, this involving more replacement than anticipated. I have swapped out all my kitchen knives, and now I need to do a tip run. And trying to organise the store cupboard is making me think I need a spice rack, and some effective food storage jars.
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Firenze
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On the spice front - most 'racks' are built to accommodate half a dozen jars, which is absurd. A few years ago I had a chap make me two little matching wall-mounted units which hang either side of the cooker, each with three shelves, each shelf holding about 10 jars/packets. It holds - just - all my spices, herbs, mustards, stock cubes and seasonings.
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Pigwidgeon
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Still working on clearing out my office for the carpet which arrives on Thursday. I swear someone sneaks in here and keeps adding two piles of stuff for every one pile I clear out. And the dust is so bad I've been wearing a mask.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Firenze, I have an entire drawer under the hob, stuffed with herbs and spices in those little square jars that used to hold cheats' garlic and ginger. Had to eat a lot of those, but that was no hardship! The fact that they're square keeps them in neat lines, and I have other, less tidy stuff, at the back. Best solution I've come across yet
In other news, just back from 12 days in Peru. Total of purchases = one scarf and six small keyrings with model alpacas attached. (Those are to keep me from losing the keys to the new windows.) I was saved from buying any more by the thought that when I have to clear out the Dowager's home, there's enough Peruvian St*ff there to keep me busy, without my adding more!
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'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
In other news, just back from 12 days in Peru. Total of purchases = one scarf and six small keyrings with model alpacas attached. (Those are to keep me from losing the keys to the new windows.) I was saved from buying any more by the thought that when I have to clear out the Dowager's home, there's enough Peruvian St*ff there to keep me busy, without my adding more!
Mrs. S, who negotiated unsuccessfully for a vicuna lawnmower
That would have made a wonderful souvenir.
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Nenya
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Originally posted by Eigon:
I just got four pretty bowls from the charity shop for 10p each
I like buying crockery from charity shops, you can get such pretty stuff. I also like the mixed bag of designs it gives to ones dinner service. Having said that, I'm gradually moving to an all-white, not necessarily completely matching, look.
My next area of decluttering is my dressing table - the scene of several previous unsuccessful attempts.
Welcome back from Darkest Peru, Mrs S. I was wondering where you were.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
Mrs. S, who negotiated unsuccessfully for a vicuna lawnmower
That would have made a wonderful souvenir.
From Nen's post on another thread, I could probably have sold her a similar one! The camelids really are unimaginably cute. (Didn't see any vision-impaired bears, though )
Mrs. S, who had to mow her own lawns on Thursday
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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ChastMastr
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I keep my spices (bought in bulk, and massively cheaper, though not much bought at a time) in little plastic bags. If I had a wee jar for each of them they'd take up massively more room.
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