Decluttering

I’ve had exactly the same experience. Parcel on the step, no knock (or possibly a ver faint one) photo of parcel ‘in the porch’ that is clearly not on a porch as we don’t have one. How do they get away with it? Does nobody check the photos? If a valuable item went missing (or was damaged in the rain) surely there would be complaints and it would be clear that the driver was lying?

I am not always happy to get things early. I do most of my shopping online and try to time deliveries so someone is in. If they say 3-5 days and it arrives the next day there is a good chance that it will sit on the step for 3 days because we are away. I just wish they would do what they say they are going to do, but in so many areas of life people just do what suits them on the day.

Yesterday I threw away one purple felt tip pen

This morning I threw away one Uniball pen (blue).

Small steps, small steps...

I did do some small repairs with my hot glue gun

Doodledog

I’ve had exactly the same experience. Parcel on the step, no knock (or possibly a ver faint one) photo of parcel ‘in the porch’ that is clearly not on a porch as we don’t have one. How do they get away with it? Does nobody check the photos? If a valuable item went missing (or was damaged in the rain) surely there would be complaints and it would be clear that the driver was lying?

I am not always happy to get things early. I do most of my shopping online and try to time deliveries so someone is in. If they say 3-5 days and it arrives the next day there is a good chance that it will sit on the step for 3 days because we are away. I just wish they would do what they say they are going to do, but in so many areas of life people just do what suits them on the day.

I do think that unless they have a photograph of you or at least part of you holding the product they do not have a leg to stand on,a friend of mine had this with Amazon they said they’ve left it ,Amazon replaced the immediately without question because there was no photo of her with it just a photo of the parcel in the doorway, somebody else obviously took it

How do they get away with it? Does nobody check the photos? If a valuable item went missing (or was damaged in the rain) surely there would be complaints and it would be clear that the driver was lying

I think they have limited options on their screens. I returned a substitution to Tesco last week and the driver was training a new driver so talking through what he needed to do, when he got to the reason he said to choose ‘customer changed their mind’. I objected (nicely) but he said there was limited choice of reasons.

MissAdventure

I did do some small repairs with my hot glue gun

Is that a blister on your finger? It's huge, must be painful.

My little grandson is obsessed with glue guns. I think he used one at school. Well, yesterday the man from Hillary’s didn’t turn up because something must have gone wrong with my online booking. But they’re sending someone out tomorrow so I might soon be able to have a shower without putting stuff over the window for modesties sake. And today a garage repair man came round and sorted out my garage door which had jammed and wasn’t opening. I found him in one of those free magazines and he was lovely. He obviously thought I was a batty old lady (which I am) and told me to remember to lock the door after he’d gone. I know I can use him again if I have a problem in future. I can now start putting things in the garage again. Every time anyone comes to the house I have to apologise for the mess and point to all the storage boxes explaining that I’m having a sort out. In the early hours of the morning I started thinking about getting rid of all of the toys that are everywhere. The grandchildren have grown out of many of them. Because my mum threw out all of my childhood toys ( including my teddies) I cling to toys. I’m going to contact a decorator I used to use before I became dependent on the village handyman. He’s far much expensive than the handyman but is more reliable. I really feel as if I’m getting somewhere…

Yes, it's a blister Rosie51 and yes, it did hurt.
Then the glue dried on it, so I had to wait until it was cool, before I peeled it off.

I'm better at gluing myself than other things.

New burglar alarm has been fitted. And the fitter also put my waspinator back: it had blown off the wall in last weeks storm. Bathroom blind will be fitted in a week or two. Now to start on the decluttering. I’m determined to decorate the living room for Christmas for the first time in six years.

Oh, that's great news!
I have man coming in to paint my kitchen, and put up a shelf in my bedroom, sometime within the next couple of weeks.
That's the plan, anyway.

Do you mean decorate with Christmas stuff, by the way, or paint type decorating?

What a feat you've achieved!

Once my bedroom shelf is done, I have a new kitchen rug which is languishing in there, which can come out and go down in my newly painted kitchen.

I'm just doing small decluttering for now, as I've a lot of health stuff going on, and a lot of appointments.

The top of the fridge is going to be cleared, one way or another.

I’ve ordered six large wall mounted coat hooks so I can hang things up in the bedroom. I just need to get the village odd job man to put them up for me. He owes me that given that I’ve had to find other people to do the work he usually does for me. I’d try to put them up myself but they will have to take a lot of weight and I know he does a really good job with things like that.I’ve also ordered those large vegetable bags to hang on them. I use them to store scarves, bandanas etc and I’ve got lots of hats because of my thin hair. Having seen a plea on Facebook I’m going to try to part with lots of toys that I’ve bought for the grandchildren over the years that they haven’t really played with ( the pandemic years were part of the problem). They said the charity shops are given lots of toys after Christmas but it’s before Christmas that they’re needed. I’m also going to what I think might be the only remaining used clothes shop in the area. I can’t afford to send shoes and dresses to charity shops that have never been worn. It’s Christmas decorations that I want to put up ( although I do have one small shelf with Christmas stuff that lives there all year). It was meant to be a display for different collections, to be changed periodically eg Snoopy stuff: wind up robots: Halloween etc but it never moved on from Christmas. I want my youngest grandchildren and their parents to come round for a meal, something I haven’t done for years because of the mess.

I'm convinced you'll be able to achieve all of that, and, I have to say, a little surprised; not just at you, at how much WE have done.

Just goes to show how far a little support helps.

There are still weeks before Christmas, too.
Comfy and cosy one for you, I'll bet

I’m really grateful for the support on here! It really helps when it all feels so overwhelming. I realised that what had happened is that I’d become dependent on the village handyman and everything was on hold waiting for him to do these jobs. Also, I’m not very good at badgering someone to do some thing for me. Those garden guys were the best thing that has happened to me for ages. Ok they charged me a lot ( and I mean a lot!) but to see so much work done in such a short space of time was amazing. Turns out the man who’s fitting the bathroom blind lives in my village and is going to put up one of the old blinds that I had to take down when I replaced the bedroom window which will save me a lot of money as they’re huge windows and the blinds cost a fortune. I put up some curtains in the early hours of the morning yesterday. Well, not exactly curtains but blackout lining that I’m going to draw across the window at night to keep the heat in. Something else I’ve been meaning to do for ages but put off because I’d bought some proper thermal curtains which I don’t really like.

Excellent.
Maybe try and find different garden people before next needing something doing out there, though?

The man who's coming to do my jobs - ooh he doesn't half like a chat!
It's all blokey stuff he talks about, too.
He knew the Krays, knows how to fight, did boxing...

I only care if he knows how to slosh some paint around the walls.

I've just decanted a few almost empty bottle contents into the new ones that are already in use.

I seem to have Boots the chemist under my sink, along with two inches of dust.

I think that will have to be done, as well as the top of the fridge freezer.

Turning my living room into a grown up room instead of the room I turned it into when I looked after the grandchildren more. Moving my cd’s into a different cupboard but, being very ocd I’m struggling with keeping them in alphabetic order ( they’re going from horizontal to vertical and it scrambles my brain). I doubt if I’ll listen to most of those cd’s again and there are a lot of them.But they’re an important part of my life. This is why I my house is so chaotic. Mess everywhere and I devote a whole day to rearranging cd’s and DVD’s.

Procrastination...
There are lots of explanations about why people (You, I, and almost everyone else) does it.

Been trying to declutter cupboards and the attic. Now the DC have said they'd like us to keep some for them so back it goes!

However, watching The Travelling Auctioneers this evening, I realise our house is quite minimalist!
What a lovely man, what an extraordinary collection.

I've not seen that programme.
I'll keep an eye out for it.

BBC1 7.30pm

Thank you,
I'd better declutter a bit before it next comes on, I think.

Allira

Been trying to declutter cupboards and the attic. Now the DC have said they'd like us to keep some for them so back it goes!

However, watching The Travelling Auctioneers this evening, I realise our house is quite minimalist!
What a lovely man, what an extraordinary collection.

A friend of mine is going to feature in the programme in January but I wasn’t sure when it was on so that’s worth knowing. Thanks. He said he found it more intrusive than he expected in that they wanted a back story to it etc. In the early hours of the morning for inspiration I rewatched an episode of Clean It, Fix It, my favourite decluttering programme.

Currently watching tonight’s episode of Only Child on BBC. Think I need to watch the whole series. In this weeks episode they’re decluttering the house.