Decluttering and home maintenance

@Determined

2 large garbage bags gone off your desk = 🙌🙌

Two bagfuls is pretty substantial @Determined. You'll get there. 🙂

The little spare desk space I had has boxes of precious books from Mum and Dad's place filling in the gap. Really need more book space, dunno whether it should be via a book cull or via extra shelving. Possibly a bit of both.

Really got things the wrong way around today. One thing led to another...

Got some "reduced to clear" meat last night at the supermarket that needed to be cooked today. While fishing things out of the freezer and cupboard to go with it, I came across other less perishable things that also really needed using up.

As a result I've made hedgehog slice from bikkies that were past their "best" (tastes yummy and fudgy); I've reduced some stale bread to breadcrumbs to make it easy to use up; the cheap chook bits from last night have been cooked in a curry mix that included some ageing coconut and curry leaves; the cheap turkey bits are slowly cooking "confit" style in the dripping I found in the freezer; I've done a good tidy up of half of a small kitchen cupboard and turfed some rubbish.... and the lovely sunny perfect-for -gardening day outside is reaching it's end, and it's due to rain tomorrow. Waah!

@Smc Productive day = 🙌

It did not go unnoticed that you got half a small kitchen cupboard tidied.😁😁😁

And a bit less cluttering up the pantry, fridge and freezer...

The pantry in particular has become too cluttered here. One of the many things I "used to do" but which has dropped off is baking. Because I was baking/cooking/preserving a lot from scratch, I'd bought up lots of ingredients for assorted recipes, but I've been lacking time and energy (mostly energy) necessary to put them to good use. So they sit there gradually getting stale.

If I can get enough of the pantry contents used up, I can make a fresh start with things I am actually likely to use at the moment, and maybe slowly get back to the more exotic cookery I used to do.

Already updated this on my usual thread but had extra that more suited here. And I thought it may give some who don't follow my thread a laugh.

We had a home maintenance win here today in that we finally located a water leak that I initally attributed a damp area to holding water from rain (it is a low area with a clay base and there is drainage points in place due to this. Anyway to alleviate my darlings fears I began monitirong the water meter and concluded that we were using more water than we should be.

So I began digging and could not find the pipe where logic said it should be. So I decided to dig a trench just inside and along the boundary. Srarting in line with the meter and out 2m each side. When I finally found the pipe (2m from where I thought it should be) and followed it I came to the conclusion that it must have been layed on a Friday afternoon after a few too many Friday coolies. Not only does it not start out in a logical direction it is not in a straight line lol. Even from the t junction out the pipes head off at a bizarre and illogical and wandering route.

Anyway despite further monitoring required I think our problem is solved 😁

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It is always a bummer when home maintainance is a result of things breaking rather than planned renovations @Determined.

Trust you make good progress this week at your parents place @Smc.

Lol @Former-Member if it was only me I had to worry about I would be happy to live in a shed.

@Former-Member, battling with feeling overwhelmed. And cold.

Did make a little progress today by deciding that the number one priority was making floor space in the lounge/dining area... being someone who hates waste, it is so hard to deal with a whole lot of craft oddments that I would never have bought myself in the first place, but I really don't know if anyone else will want them. Half finished projects that will never get finished, small scrappy oddments and suchline.

I also got outside this morning and cut back the massive Bird of Paradise plant that's outside one of the bedroom windows. When I opened the blind in there, it made no real difference due to the huge leaves slap bang against the outside of the windows. Now some light can actually get in. And there's a huge pile of giant sized leaves and stems to dispose of. I might just cut them into shorter lengths and leave them around the plant to rot down.