Well this Thursday, I didn't have a great long list of errands to do, so it was relatively leisurely.
I did my usual dog walk and gym visit, bought a couple of fresh grocery items on the way home. I noticed that a couple of new shops/cafes had opened near the gym.
The shop sold artisan bread and gorgeous looking pastries. Just a pity that I never eat these things, as I can't justify the empty calories. I'm sure they'll do well though.
The cafe looked interesting too, but I do sometimes wonder how many cafes the local area can support. Seems like an indefinite number where I live, as there are just so many of them. Obviously cafe life is a very popular occupation amongst Londoners.
Anyway, for the rest of the day I didn't really have a plan. I did a bit of blog reading, laundry, washing up and rubbish sorting for collection on Friday. I didn't feel like doing any ironing, so I left it for now.
Later, I decided to do a bit of a spontaneous declutter of the sewing room. I went through most of my boxes of fabric and pulled out any that I no longer wanted to keep. There were quite a few.
I've decided that I need to streamline things here, as there is just so much and I'm never going to use it all. I kept my favourites and a lot of the rest I let go.
I've now got a big pile to bag up for donation. Hopefully someone else will be able to use it for quilting or other projects. There's still a lot more work to do in this room, but I couldn't easily get to some of the drawers full of fabric, as the boxes of donations were in the way. It'll keep until another day.
Later still, I also got inspired to do a bit of a declutter of a couple of my kitchen cupboards, after watching a YouTube video on the subject. I have to say it was one of the worst videos I've watched in terms of camera movement. By the end I felt sick because the camera moved around so much. I didn't realise that watching a video could make you feel so unwell. (I say this, because I was feeling fine before I watched it, but I suppose it could have been something I'd eaten that made me feel ill) Anyway, I got rid of a few out of date food items that I'm just not going to use and a couple of other items that we no longer want to keep.
It was nice to spend an afternoon and evening concentrating on getting rid of more stuff. I wish I'd thought about how much time it would take to declutter things when I bought them in the first place. I could have saved hours of my life.
I finished off the kitchen cupboards today. Not a lot went into the donation pile (I have gone through these a couple of months ago) but everything is cleaned out and put away neatly.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed a new building going up near our Walmart over the last 6 months. They have finally put up a sign as to what is going in the space. A Mr. Mikes steak house...hmm, oil has had a major downturn, people have lost their jobs and still are. I don't know how they think we can support another eating establishment when 3 have shut down.
God bless.
I guess they maybe think that people will always want to eat so it's less risky than some other business enterprises, but only time will tell. I would have thought that in a downturn eating out is one of the first things to get cut back.
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