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Finally reached the goal of 100 books culled!
Teacher Terry
9-2-18, 3:21pm
Great job Rosa!
Good for you! I have not been motivated lately, but I should have more energy if fall ever gets here. More 90's with high humidity this week.
August saw 6 quilts made for my charity group which means 22.5 yards of fabric and the associated batting/thread put into actual use.:cool:
Another 4 are made/quilted and I need to stitch the binding down. All will go to my charity group. Another 16.2y of fabric put into use. I had nearly a 40 yard month! Wohoo!!!!
I have placed a barely used waffle iron into the thrift store box. It was new 2y ago. I just don't like it. Fortunately I had kept the old semi-sticking one while we tested the new one. I'll just keep using the old one thank you very much!
Gardnr: I am taking 28 quilts and 38 pillowcases made with a friend of mine to the Flying Horse Farm next weekend. I need to stop with the fabric acquisition.
ps: there is a quilter's garage sale Thursday. Good intentions out the window.
Gardnr and Sweetana: Good job with the quilts, and helping your good causes as well!
Yppej: Can you believe the weather this summer? The past few days have been amazing. I can't believe we're going back into the nineties again!
Chicken lady
9-2-18, 5:46pm
I moved two carloads of stuff that belongs to my Dd out of my house yesterday.
Took two grocery bags of books to donate
Gardnr: I am taking 28 quilts and 38 pillowcases made with a friend of mine to the Flying Horse Farm next weekend. I need to stop with the fabric acquisition.
ps: there is a quilter's garage sale Thursday. Good intentions out the window.
I'm doing well this year. I have busted 183.5 yards so far this year and I have 3 more quilts that just need binding stitched. I have acquired 216.6 yards so far this year.
I've been tracking since the beginning of 2010.
Quilts finished: 196
Stash busted: 968 y
Stash acquired: 1084 y
I'm just 57 so I'm good with where I'm at:cool: When I'm off work on staycations or mountain weekends, I sew a lot more. I don't sew much on work days...too long and I'm too tired. I can smell retirement.....I'm 33 months away!
I threw out 50 papers. If it's a multipage document I count it as 1 item.
Teacher Terry
9-3-18, 3:30pm
Took a trunk full of stuff to thrift store. My husband is cleaning out the garage. Yppej, don’t you have air conditioning?
Only upstairs where we have two room units. I sleep in the guest room at night when it is real bad but during the day I am downstairs so my electric bill doesn't go sky high. Already my son is running the A/C in his room pretty much 24/7.
Teacher Terry
9-3-18, 4:02pm
When we lived in Wisconsin we only had window units in the bedrooms upstairs. The house was big so nothing downstairs for the same reason. Plus some summers you don’t need ac but with climate change that has changed.
My 7-year-old daughter and I weeded out 41 books from her bookshelves at the beginning of the summer, and they've been sitting in a box in our dining room all summer because she said she wanted to give them to a teacher at school. Finally today we brought them in to her new teacher. My daughter caught a glimpse, though, of one book she decided to keep and snatched it out for me to bring back home, and I did.
We also passed down a dress of hers to a friend. Total for month: 41.
I also returned a table runner to Amazon: 42.
Teacher Terry
9-4-18, 10:58pm
You are teaching your daughter well:))
A promotional comb that I got from a political candidate last election cycle. It was grungy and I replaced it but I got two years use from it.
As soon as my sister arrives with her SUV, we'll be off to Saver's to get rid of a pile of books, an old kitchen table, 4 guitar stands, and some little odds and ends from me, as well a large bag of clothes from her.
Good work folks. I cleaned a bookcase and donated 8-10 books to the library book sale and I have 4 to take to the reading room at school, a couple saved for Great Niece. cleaned another bookcase and got a PILE of magazines into the recycling- picked up yesterday!
Feeling real good about that!
Old pictures I took in Jr High and High School are being tossed. I don't ever see any of those folks, and it's been 50 years in some cases since the pictures were taken. The actual album they were in was tossed into the dumpster a couple of days ago. I kept pictures of family, and a very few that hold good memories.
3 pieces of summer clothing have been donated as I put them on and realized they don't fit/I don't really like them. I have sorted my summer clothes so that I will wear or at least try on everything at least once before things get packed away for the season. I live in AZ so 'summer' lasts until sometime in November.
Most folks here now don't remember that I am the anti-Fawn. She was minimalist, I once counted just my dress slacks and had over 80 pr. I found several more after that. I am at a much lower number of clothes, especially since I retired, but it is still a work in process which started back then, maybe around 2000?
Threw out a pair of shoes that were worn out: 42 for month.
Resumed my photo scanning project yesterday. Actually organized school photos of each of the kids and the sports photos of two of them. Two photo binders in the donation box and two on standby in case I need them later. Hope to scan the photos today.
Passed on a teddy bear my daughter got as a gift and wasn't interested in: 43.
rosarugosa
9-10-18, 2:11pm
I went through my candle cabinet and candle drawer and culled a large quantity of candles for donation. I want to just stick with soy and beeswax, so getting rid of Yankee Candles and similar.
PS: I cannot help but picture Ultralight shaking his head in amazement at the idea of a candle cabinet or a candle drawer, let alone both in one small household.
PPS: I am going to make it a mission over the winter to go through all my neatly stashed caches of superfluous stuff. Just because something is stored neatly doesn't necessarily justify its existence in our house.
iris lilies
9-10-18, 2:22pm
I went through my candle cabinet and candle drawer and culled a large quantity of candles for donation. I want to just stick with soy and beeswax, so getting rid of Yankee Candles and similar.
PS: I cannot help but picture Ultralight shaking his head in amazement at the idea of a candle cabinet or a candle drawer, let alone both in one small household.
PPS: I am going to make it a mission over the winter to go through all my neatly stashed caches of superfluous stuff. Just because something is stored neatly doesn't necessarily justify its existence in our house.
Honey *I* cannot understand a candle drawer or candle cabinet. People occasionally give me these things and I just am wilted at the idea I have to use them up.
I know The Candle Lady at St. Vincent De Paul thrift store. She is part of the Ladies of st. vince t De Paul and her volunteer effort is to spend a few hours each week melting down candles that people donate and forming them into new and attractive candles. I asked her “why do poor people need so many candles?” Because she claims they sell oit. Her answer didnt satisfy me. I am so not a candle person that I do not even know where these candles are placed in the store, and
I shop there often.
rosarugosa
9-10-18, 3:27pm
Well St Vincent De Paul sounds pretty catholic, so people might be lighting candles for loved ones in heaven or intercession from the saints or something.
I used to burn candles a lot more often for the ambiance, but since Silvio the psycho kitty joined the household, I'm much more leery of open flames (he jumps up on tables and shelves, and I have this nightmare vision of a cat running about with his tail on fire).
There is something lovely about a good book and a glass of cognac by candlelight on a cold winter's night. I also don't have a fireplace, so maybe a candle is the poor woman's fireplace. :)
Teacher Terry
9-10-18, 3:49pm
I am not a candle person either. Straight to the thrift store. Took another box of dishes today
Chicken lady
9-10-18, 4:30pm
I know this is off topic, but does anyone else wonder if ultralite has a candle? You know, for power outages. And maybe romantic dinners. Or does he use a flashlight because he can camp with it? Or just his phone?
I don't use candles either; too much can go wrong, and they get wax all over everything.
I might invest in some battery-operated faux candles if I wanted that kind of ambience.
I have a couple of flashlights for power outages, but I usually just go to bed.
Teacher Terry
9-10-18, 5:06pm
Flashlights.
iris lilies
9-10-18, 5:38pm
I know this is off topic, but does anyone else wonder if ultralite has a candle? You know, for power outages. And maybe romantic dinners. Or does he use a flashlight because he can camp with it? Or just his phone?
I would bet $10 that he has no candle. He might have a flashlight, but
I doubt it. Dont smart phones act as flashlights these days?
rosarugosa
9-10-18, 5:56pm
I am going to light a (beeswax) candle for you poor folks who have no poetry in your souls. Flashlights are wonderful, but not for ambiance! ;)
OK. I like candles.
I even light them outside around the yard just to enjoy little spots of joy.
Oh, and my porches have candles.
When we have friends over - jars of candles light the stone path to the front steps because I don't want anyone to fall and dang it I can't get the husband to put up any outdoor lights in the front.
The other night...I had floating candles in my little pond (ok, that was a fail when they floated over by the waterfall).
iris lilies
9-10-18, 8:21pm
I am going to light a (beeswax) candle for you poor folks who have no poetry in your souls. Flashlights are wonderful, but not for ambiance! ;)
Haha, ok. I did get some of thise faux candles with batteries. I think they are pretty realistic. But we do have a woodburning fireplace, so we do enjoy that on chilly nights.
rosarugosa
9-11-18, 5:56am
OK. I like candles.
I even light them outside around the yard just to enjoy little spots of joy.
Oh, and my porches have candles.
When we have friends over - jars of candles light the stone path to the front steps because I don't want anyone to fall and dang it I can't get the husband to put up any outdoor lights in the front.
The other night...I had floating candles in my little pond (ok, that was a fail when they floated over by the waterfall).
I'm glad I'm not alone, Float On! We sometimes light up our little gazebo with tealights on a summer night, and the effect is rather magical.
When I was young my sister and I had a candle lit dinner for Barbie and Ken dolls. But we wandered off for a minute and came back to a plastic table on fire and our bedroom curtains in flames. We managed to put it out and our parents never knew or asked where the one set of curtains went! Both smokers and 8 kids so a curtain wasn't a high priority! But since then,I am not a candle person, haha!
Teacher Terry
9-11-18, 1:24pm
I use solar lights to see outside. Plus I have asthma and many candles are scented. Too funny about the doll party:))
Replaced the broken tape measure. I feel like I don't have that much clutter but I do have a lot of broken or grungy things that need to go.
Replaced the broken tape measure. I feel like I don't have that much clutter but I do have a lot of broken or grungy things that need to go.
It's interesting the differences in humans. Something broken is either repaired or trashed in our home. Grungy clothes are the most worn in our home...until there are too many holes for public display in the front yard-then they hit the trash. That said, I will not speak to "his" woodshop.:~)
Well it kind of sort of worked, but the end wouldn't stay down and you had to be careful or it would whip loose and hit you.
My net purges are about zero, but I am following the "one in-one out" rule. I have been upgrading some of my clothes, for example, getting ready for Fall.
A pair of shoes that were starting to smell.
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