Hello Dear Reader.
Blimey, my dining room is starting to resemble Steptoe’s yard! In fact, my yard does look like Steptoe’s yard. I remember one reader called my house ‘a whole heap of nothing’ which didn’t bother me, I don’t know the person from Adam and nobody likes everything. I’m quite happy that my house functions, albeit on the cheap and if I have what I need then that’s fine. As those of you who read regularly know, I’d rather spend money on enjoying life, walking, reading, visiting places than I would on matching plates and cutlery.
We’ve taken all year to budget and put money aside for carpet and it’s going down on Tuesday and Wednesday which meant that we took the remains of the old carpet up and took that to the tip today. I’m such a Womble that I had to save the two kitchen stools that were just about to go into a skip. I’ve already wombled a breakfast bar and now I have two kitchen stools to go with it. They were tarnished so I cleaned them off with wire wool and then used some oil on a soft cloth to bring them to a shine. A bit of a sand of the seat and some furniture polish and they will do just fine.
We are hiring a U-haul type trailer to take in December when we become owners and I’m going to take as much as I can with me. I have enough of most things to take half of them out there and store them in the flat until the house is ready. It’s going to be furnished and renovated on a budget or dare I say on the cheap and will be very much make do and mend. If only I had a trailer today as someone was getting rid of doors and as we have to divide rooms us and create walls and add doors, they would have been just fine. I’m certainly not ashamed to ask and no one has ever said no yet. I’m far from a hoarder but I always find it a shame that people didn’t find a new home for it, whether a furniture bank, clothing bank, charity shop, freeads or Freecycle. I grabbed some firewood too just as that was about to go into the wood skip. I’m not allowed to get into the skips and take wood out but I would if I could!
Over to you Dear Reader, any other Wombles out there? Making the most of the things that we find?
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxx
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