Decluttering

If you are just selling some unwanted items that have been laying around your home, such as the contents of a loft or garage, it is unlikely that you will have to pay tax.

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Ooh yes.
I'm still shrimp saving, here.
I have decluttered some of the tank equipment, so I suppose that's something.

I'm afraid it went in the bin.
I could have sold it, probably, but I'm wary of selling things, in case the dwp think it's fraudulent to sell things which I bought in the first place!

So, it's give or dump, and I've been grumpy, so dump it was.

With a spoon from the jar
With icecream sounds like a good idea too.

MissAdventure

Waste not, want not.
I think you owe it to the environment,somehow (I haven't thought of how or why yet) to eat it.

Have it with ice cream. Calories are halved on Saturdays, so save it till tomorrow?

Thanks.

Never mind the calories!

Waste not, want not.
I think you owe it to the environment,somehow (I haven't thought of how or why yet) to eat it.

I found a jar of very out-of-date salted caramel spread in the cupboard.

One spoonful tasted delicious. Should I persevere and eat the whole jar?

I'd risk it. If something passes the sniff test I'll eat it.

Did you throw it out, or are you going to risk it?

I cleared a kitche cupboard a few eeks ago, found tin of soup dated 2002.

MissAdventure

I know this is daft, but I need to phone up and book a car for a hospital appointment, and I feel as if I can't do any decluttering until I've done that.

Ridiculous. Utterly bonkers.

I keep putting it off, though!

I am the same. I'm told that this is a symptom of ADD - I forget what it's called, but it involves not being able to do things if there is an appointment later in the day. I now make appointments as early as possible, if I have control over them, or a 3.00 hair appointment would write off the day.

I annoy myself, but I can't help it.

I've done it!!

The thing is, I'm supposed to have had a blood test when I go for the appointment, but I can't find the blood test form in all this clutter!!!

MissAdventure

I know this is daft, but I need to phone up and book a car for a hospital appointment, and I feel as if I can't do any decluttering until I've done that.

Ridiculous. Utterly bonkers.

I keep putting it off, though!

No, it's not ridiculous!

It's normal, well, I think it is but then I'm probably bonkers too.

MissAdventure

I know this is daft, but I need to phone up and book a car for a hospital appointment, and I feel as if I can't do any decluttering until I've done that.

Ridiculous. Utterly bonkers.

I keep putting it off, though!

Yes. I’m like that, too. Which is probably why I’m in the mess I’m in now. Also facing the prospect of having to have a knee replacement and living in a house that wouldn’t be out of place in one of those extreme hoarder programmes.

I know this is daft, but I need to phone up and book a car for a hospital appointment, and I feel as if I can't do any decluttering until I've done that.

Ridiculous. Utterly bonkers.

I keep putting it off, though!

I am away at the lodge now, and have decluttered here, as I can't do it at home. I have clothes that have been in the cupboard since last summer - I've basically used the wardrobes here as storage - and I've gone through them to get rid of anything I won't wear next summer. It's surprising how many there were.

I'm planning to sort out the million DVDs we have here. The internet connection can be a bit iffy, so when the weather's bad the TV sometimes drops, and we have DVDs to watch instead. Again though, they've crept across like refugees from home-based culls. There is a sideboard full of them, and they are now taking up space in bedrooms, so I'm going to get rid. The site has a system of putting things like books, toys and DVDs in a central place for people to take if they want them, so to be fair to everyone I'll do that at the weekend when there are more people around. Mr Dog can take the clothes to the local charity shop.

Charity shops are always looking for bedding as it sells well.
My decluttering habit is simple, I have a new rule that each time I go to the charity shop I volunteer in each week I have to take a bag of things I no longer need. I have to do it as it’s the law !

Oh for an edit button !

MissAdventure

Maybe a school or a village hall
could use your tree. It deserves somewhere with enough space and to bring happiness to as many as possible. I hope you find it a living home.

Ah, it'll come right in the end.
It blooming costs, though.
Usually £5 here, £10 there, that kind of thing, £15 or 20 for a light to ensure the plants grow.

Mine are nano cherry shrimp.
Bigger than sea monkeys, and all kinds of colours. (Mine are red)
A lot of mine had babies, and they're all gone.
Some pregnant females, all dead.
So, it will be quite an outlay to start things up again.

Sorry to hear that, MissA. Are the shrimps those sea monkey things that used to be advertised in the classified ads of comics back in the day?

Its such hard work (for me!)
Because I have to get the water to consistently good levels, I have house plants roots in the tank, which grow their leaves outside it, and act as filters, and under water plants growing in potting soil, with a layer of gravel over it.

It's all wasted now.
I will need to dismantle, clean, and set up the whole system again, and wait for the right amount of beneficial bacteria to grow, so that the tank itself is like a living being.
Blah, blah, shrimp, plant, blah, nitrate, nitrite, blah blah, ph levels blah blah... zzzz zzz zzzz

Oh no!!

Well it was.
Now I have 2 shrimps left out of 100, plants all scrumpled up, and everything coated in battery acid.

It does sound interesting.