When I'm discarding old bank statements and the like, I tear off the bits with address and account number and so on and put them in the compost bin. Then I can put the anonymous rest of the sheet in the ordinary recycling.
@Eigon, I do the same as you. At one point I was going crazy with shredding all my Dad's stuff and by the end decided as long as there was no point of identification, that it would lessen our admin burden considerably. He had kept everything even down to the administration of his own grandmother's estate. My glory, it was a lot.
I'm sorry to double post, I forgot which thread I was on. Today has been a disaster day in terms of making our Christmas cake, which has made me a bit down, I really wanted to get it done today while it's cool.
However, it is a problem I can deal with and instead I turned it into the opportunity to clean our very dirty oven. I can actually see through the glass of the door now, which I consider to be an achievement. A mix of very strong oven cleaner, then once the worst was gone, I used some toothpaste to scrub the glass and (hopefully) not scratching it.
It will need another go to get some of the racks really clean, but its 90% better than it was.
Once I get back to the Christmas cakes, I can even bake them at night if needed.
When I'm discarding old bank statements and the like, I tear off the bits with address and account number and so on and put them in the compost bin. Then I can put the anonymous rest of the sheet in the ordinary recycling.
That's a method I have used in the past, but it is just a bit fiddly and I'm a bit lazy so
the pile that needs doing at the moment and which is, of course, increasing monthly, is daunting. At least the pages that need dealing with are all together, not still with the statements in the original envelopes.
I just need to sit down and get on with it.
@Cheery Gardener I like the idea of toothpaste as an oven cleaner.
I'm bit wary of baking as the last time I used my oven has to grill meat. The meat was too close to the element and wrapped itself around it and caught fire. I had to get a a new (second hand ) oven, which I have been reluctant to use in case it catches fire. I know this is silly, but I thought I'd get the friend for whom I'm baking the first cake to be present when I bake it so he can perform any heroics, if necessary. Once I've actually used it I should be fine.
I was really surprised @Huia at how well it worked! I am very pleased with the result.
That sounds like a really scary meat accident and I understand why you would want someone in the house next time you use the oven, it might not be necessary but you have someone there for reassurance and aid if necessary. Perhaps they can also help to stir up the cake too - I found doing a double mixture this year really heavy going!!
YaY my lovely neighbour has said she will come over when I bake the cake. It's an easy recipe with a kilo of raisins soaked in rum in an oven bag in the hot water cupboard for a few days. No creaming the butter, but its rubbed in to the dry ingredients (I use a pastry blender). I don't make it for myself, but the friend I make it for takes it to a gathering he attends after Christmas to share it around. I only hope I can find the safe place where I put the recipe and don't have to search for the book in the library (again). I will also make one for my brother up north if I get my act together in time.
In the distant past I made a number of cakes and puddings that I posted to various family members, but now it's only one.
Useful tip - never try to use baby shampoo as an oven cleaner. It sort of sets into a tenacious gel over all surfaces, takes ages to get off, doesn't leave your oven any cleaner, and imparts a soapy taste to everything you bake for some time.
How do I know this?
When my children were very small I had a rare trip to the hairdresser, who said that my hair was in poor condition. She said she hoped I wasn't using my kids' shampoo as "the no-tears formula means that it is so alkali you could use it as oven cleaner!"
I was extremely sleep-deprived. Instead of parsing this as "She is trying to convince me that I need an expensive shampoo, which she is selling, to improve the condition of my hair" I heard "Baby shampoo is a child-safe oven-cleaner! Who knew!"
That night I comprehensively smeared the inside of our oven with baby shampoo.....
When I'm discarding old bank statements and the like, I tear off the bits with address and account number and so on and put them in the compost bin. Then I can put the anonymous rest of the sheet in the ordinary recycling.
I do the same except that the addresses etc go on the fire (wood burning stove)
You must have been really exhausted that day @North East Quine. Fortunately now the kids are big, I don't think we have any baby shampoo left in the house!
Not much tidying has been done over the weekend, but I'll do a bit tomorrow as I start putting out the Christmas decorations.
I'm very happy to have picked up a small plastic box with a lid at the Swedish shop this morning and I think it will be good to keep a couple of sentimental work books from my school days.
I found myself doing some unplanned moving around of books over the weekend.
There is a bookcase near the front door the top of which used is mostly as a staging post for things on the way on or out, One shelf holds a massive torch/flashlight for emergencies, and a big glass vase, in case someone should bring me a big bouquet (Hmpff!), and a few books. There are some books on the other two shelves but they go unnoticed, the front door not being a place we loiter.
Being by the front door, and mostly walked straight past, the shelves get pretty grubby from dust walked in, or blown in through the cracks on the almost constant wind round here, and it had reached the top of the "I really must do something about that" list.
On Saturday I found myself with enough 'spare time' to unload the shelves and give it a good clean.
Mr Nen has the bit between his teeth about sorting and clearing and has today taken another load of stuff to the local Sort-It Centre and various charity shops. He has always been of the "pack it into a box and pop it in the loft" persuasion so it's good to see it leaving the house. I have noted, however, that it's mostly the children's (mostly unwanted) things. Anything of his, no matter how historical, tends to be consigned to the "I'll sort that later" category.
I've also noted that we tend to hold on to the things that would mean the most to us. He, for example, retains a lot of electronic-type stuff - even little kits the children had that don't really do anything. I tend to hold on to sentimental paper-type things - there was a little card written to our daughter by our son when they were clearly quite young. I don't suppose either of them wants it, but I've kept it as a keepsake of their childhood . I've also been a bit sad to see a few of the books that our son has left here as unwanted; one of them I gave him as a Christmas present one year, thinking he'd really like it.
In the sorting a few weeks back I came across daughter and son-in-law's engagement cards. I assumed she'd want them so I took them over last time we went. In hindsight I should have asked, as she simply took them from me without comment.
I have noted, however, that it's mostly the children's (mostly unwanted) things.
Only mostly unwanted? 😱 They do get a chance to keep it, don’t they?
Of course! These are the contents of their bedroom cupboards of which they've both said, "I don't want anything that's in there." It's me that filters things and says, "Are you really sure about this...?"
I have noted, however, that it's mostly the children's (mostly unwanted) things.
Only mostly unwanted? 😱 They do get a chance to keep it, don’t they?
Of course! These are the contents of their bedroom cupboards of which they've both said, "I don't want anything that's in there." It's me that filters things and says, "Are you really sure about this...?"
No piles of books by the front door, Puzzler, as I can't cope with much that is down at floor level. The books were transferred to the sitting room, where I have an adjustable work table set to the right height for me to stand and do those tasks normally done seated, bending or kneeling.
Cleaning the bookcase by the front door was just the start, two more bookcases became involved before I'd done.
In other news, at the weekend I had a small clean out of magazines and books. I've only kept the current year's magazines and I've removed a couple of books from the shelf, because I've had them for 10 years and not gotten around to reading them! I had hoped to remove them from the house today, but husband has needed to take the car (at the last minute). So there go my plans!
I have enjoyed putting out the Christmas decorations because as I go I dust and put away some things and replace them after the New Year. The flat surfaces get a good dust before the Christmas things are put out and of course I have to vacuum to get all the shedding from the plastic tree.
I'll be doing the same in the next day or so, as the furniture gets moved about to accommodate the Christmas tree. There will also be dusting; and then no more of that until the decorations come down again in January .
I have to confess that I've taken back one of the books, but do have the car today and tomorrow, so will be able to do a drop-off before I weaken any further.
I'm already moving the decorations around and tweaking them, must stop that as it's a distraction from proper work.
While the Christmas decorations are out of the spare room wardrobe, I've re-arranged things to make more sense storage wise and have tossed away a couple of postage packs that I was hanging onto but have not used. Feeling good that I've managed to be consistent, even if what I'm doing is only a tiny amount. I figure lots of tiny amounts do add up.
My visitor yesterday saw I had refreshments on the dining table (placed ready to bring through) and opted to sit there, with a view of my kitchen which was not especially tidy, rather than my newly decorated and Christmas tree- decorated tidy living room.
Don’t! Apart from a few things I want to keep, my loft space is practically empty. It was full of stuff which had been there untouched for the ten years since we moved here.
The increased storage is mostly going to be filled with our son's stuff - stuff he wants to keep, but also doesn't want to move into his current rented accommodation. He's been living away from home for years, and we want to use his bedroom as a study for my soon-to-retire husband. Of course, it will still be his bedroom when he visits, but up till now, between his visits home it's been an entirely useless room.
My husband has had a desk in his own bedroom since lock-down, and it would be far better once he's retired if he had a separate bedroom / study.
Also, the contents of my husband's office at work have to go somewhere, and we'd rather his professional books they go in the bookcases in our sons room, than that those book cases continue to be filled with our sons books.
(When I say my husband is going to "retire" I mean that he's going to stop being paid, and stop having an office at work, not that he's necessarily going to stop working! )
Just a quick finish to the saga of the bookcase by our front door:
There were a number of children's books on there that are at the reading level ourSecond Youngest Grandson is just reaching, so I decided to add them to the ones in the sitting room which are now right for his younger brother - except that there wasn't room.
So, first task was to move books belonging to Mr RoS that were on the bottom shelf of that bookcase, and which he found an inconvenience and a pain to get at. They are now on the top shelf of the front door bookcase.
However, the bookcase I was now moving things from was not easily accessed by the children, so another bookcase had to be emptied of large reference books as that was ideal for the children' books, being near the toy corner and in sight of the seated adults.
Having dealt with that I was left with a whole shelf-full of books that I had completely forgotten about, various 'classics' I thought I had disposed of when we moved, but cearly couldn't bear to. I still can't.
At least they came off the bookcase in small groups sorted alphabetically by author, so were easy to return to the bookcase by the front door.
So that brings me back to the place i started - an unplanned moving around of books.
A small-scale version of removing a picture from the wall and ending up having to redecorate a whole room - but I think I will leave our paintings and photographs in situ for another day/weekend/ house-move, including the cobwebs.
I was helping a friend pack up her china cabinet today, which was fascinating--I've never had so many breakables, or so beautiful, to pack for anywhere (we got our current tchotchkes while living in this house). I was surprised to see how many boxes it took, since we had to pad everything so thoroughly!
@Puzzler, do you want to display the photos, or if not could you put the photos into an album? Would you prefer them in a different room? Lots to ponder.
@Lamb Chopped packing china is always fun!! Had your friend kept any of the original boxes that stuff came in? My Mum had kept some boxes, but the label on the bag indicated a location for the items, but in reality she'd moved them around and they weren't there. She had also bought a ton of tissue paper, which she'd used to pack our wedding dresses as well as stuff of her own and my sister and I were very grateful for their pre-preparedness!
When I moved house I loved using light plastic shopping bags (discontinued here) as packing and void fill. Now if I even find a plastic bag I hoard it jealously!!
It is going to be very hot over the next few days, so I think I'm going to bring inside all my garden pots that can go to be recycled. I'll wash them up in the laundry and dry them outside and I can get rid of them at the garden centre. Not part of tidying the inside of the house, but will certainly make the outside look a bit less yuck!
(When I say my husband is going to "retire" I mean that he's going to stop being paid, and stop having an office at work, not that he's necessarily going to stop working! )
I have a number of colleagues who have retired in this fashion. Most of them love it, because they get to keep doing the fun things, but nobody can ask them to do management or any other tedious nonsense.
I am not sure I have forgiven my husband for retiring like this. I feel he deprived us of time to enjoy life together before his health declined. And left me with all his stuff to deal with.
I have no idea what "retirement" is going to look like in reality. But the tidying and re-organisation of the house is going to have to happen if he's going to have a proper study.
Garden pots have gone to the recycling, but I did find another couple which I might hide in the garage!
I don't know if there is a right or wrong way to retire, it looks different for each person, but if you need a study, then you need a study and creating one is definitely a project.
I consider us very lucky to have found what might have been an ex-motel desk, which is about 2.5 metres long, so takes husband's computer, several screens, printer/scanner and filing cabinet underneath with ease. Sometimes I think finding a desk that works is a major part of the solution - we've had other desks with were OK, but nothing really worked because things kept getting in the way because the surface top was too small.
When Cheery daughter works from home she manages with the dining table and her computer monitor sitting on a cake box to make it the right height. She doesn't require any reference books, or need several monitors like the husband. Horses for courses!
Are your new desks working out well for you @Lamb Chopped ?
Um no. What we have is a dining room table (very large, but is it large enough for four computer stations?) plus a desk-to-be-dumped/recycled, which is currently outside on the back patio in the rain; plus a desk and chair, in pieces in my husband's car, hopefully to vanish before ever it comes into a house that was overcrowded to start with, and Mr Lamb KNEW that was the case when he agreed to accept them, much to my wrath. Auuughhh!
My garden office is being fitted mid-January. It will take 2 days to build the wooden cabin, the next day for the plasterer and then probably a couple more days to co-ordinate the electrician and gas fitter (the latter to attach the air pump). Then probably a month to move all my stuff from the study into it, lol. But it does mean that by the spring we will be able to decorate the old study to make a new spare bedroom. We need another room because we have a small 3 bedroom house with no dining room and currently only have one spare bedroom (our sons shared a bedroom) so can’t put up both sons and the youngest’s girlfriend at the same time. This Christmas my eldest son will be sleeping on the sofa. Building a heated cabin is much cheaper than buying a bigger house in Cambridge (especially as most of the year there are just 2 of us here) and we have a 100 foot garden to put it in.
Our long term plan is to decorate all 3 bedrooms in turn. We will decorate the old study to make a new spare bedroom and fit that with furniture from the other spare bedroom. We will then decorate the original spare bedroom and move our stuff in there from our bedroom. We will then decorate the final room and either move our stuff back in or fit it out as a spare room. A great opportunity for a huge clear out.
I love the sound of your plans @Heavenlyannie! The opportunity for a clear out is one to be taken advantage of and I hope all your plans come to fruition. I think often it feels like moving deck chairs around, but it's well worth it when done!
We did a big clear out in 2018 when we moved house and that was really cathartic for me. I loved my trips to the rehoming facility and the chance to be unburdened from heaps of stuff. We did a tiny bit of redecorating in our new place before moving, but I hope to do a bit more in our retirement.
Perhaps some new carpet and even though probably not a new kitchen, certainly some new doors and drawer fronts. What I would really love is a rangehood that has the motor outside and thus is much quieter in the house. The noise of our current one really grates on me.
I'll have to start doing some number and some investigations so that I can get moving when my superannuation starts to kick in
Now that the Semester from Hell is over (never eleven classes again! Never!! I did eleven last year and thought this year would be different and I was ever so wrong!), I’d like to make the apartment nicer. Two people sent me Christmas cards I didn’t get to open yet and I can’t find them!!
I hope your Christmas cards have now appeared @ChastMastr and even if they haven't you will know they contained good wishes for you and you will get a second lot of wishes when the cards are found.
I mislaid the birthday card, that my good friend had sent me and I found it about 4 months later when I had a mega-tidy. Fortunately, because I recognised her writing before losing it, I managed to get an email off to thank her for it!!
I am hoping I have gotten a jump on the tidiness for next year by purchasing on sale a bag to store our Christmas tree and another for our wreath. We have had a Christmas tree bag previously, but it disintegrated in the heat of our garage and we've been managing with plastic wrap for the last few years, but I think a better solution was due and getting them both in the sale is a bonus!
I hope your Christmas cards have now appeared @ChastMastr and even if they haven't you will know they contained good wishes for you and you will get a second lot of wishes when the cards are found.
I mislaid the birthday card, that my good friend had sent me and I found it about 4 months later when I had a mega-tidy. Fortunately, because I recognised her writing before losing it, I managed to get an email off to thank her for it!!
I am hoping I have gotten a jump on the tidiness for next year by purchasing on sale a bag to store our Christmas tree and another for our wreath. We have had a Christmas tree bag previously, but it disintegrated in the heat of our garage and we've been managing with plastic wrap for the last few years, but I think a better solution was due and getting them both in the sale is a bonus!
I am now going to pack away my box of new cards, declaring that I have finished writing for this year. There are enough left for one or two more years, but I shall still have to buy some more as those I have are not all suitable for all recipients.
I shall put them in the same cupboard where I keep left over bits of wrapping paper, unused tags and the red scarf and other accoutrements I need for Christmas concerts.
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However, it is a problem I can deal with and instead I turned it into the opportunity to clean our very dirty oven. I can actually see through the glass of the door now, which I consider to be an achievement. A mix of very strong oven cleaner, then once the worst was gone, I used some toothpaste to scrub the glass and (hopefully) not scratching it.
It will need another go to get some of the racks really clean, but its 90% better than it was.
Once I get back to the Christmas cakes, I can even bake them at night if needed.
the pile that needs doing at the moment and which is, of course, increasing monthly, is daunting. At least the pages that need dealing with are all together, not still with the statements in the original envelopes.
I just need to sit down and get on with it.
@Roseofsharon I do sympathise, but having gotten all out of the envelopes and together ready to go, I think that's half the battle!!
I'm bit wary of baking as the last time I used my oven has to grill meat. The meat was too close to the element and wrapped itself around it and caught fire. I had to get a a new (second hand ) oven, which I have been reluctant to use in case it catches fire. I know this is silly, but I thought I'd get the friend for whom I'm baking the first cake to be present when I bake it so he can perform any heroics, if necessary. Once I've actually used it I should be fine.
That sounds like a really scary meat accident and I understand why you would want someone in the house next time you use the oven, it might not be necessary but you have someone there for reassurance and aid if necessary. Perhaps they can also help to stir up the cake too - I found doing a double mixture this year really heavy going!!
In the distant past I made a number of cakes and puddings that I posted to various family members, but now it's only one.
How do I know this?
When my children were very small I had a rare trip to the hairdresser, who said that my hair was in poor condition. She said she hoped I wasn't using my kids' shampoo as "the no-tears formula means that it is so alkali you could use it as oven cleaner!"
I was extremely sleep-deprived. Instead of parsing this as "She is trying to convince me that I need an expensive shampoo, which she is selling, to improve the condition of my hair" I heard "Baby shampoo is a child-safe oven-cleaner! Who knew!"
That night I comprehensively smeared the inside of our oven with baby shampoo.....
I do the same except that the addresses etc go on the fire (wood burning stove)
Not much tidying has been done over the weekend, but I'll do a bit tomorrow as I start putting out the Christmas decorations.
I'm very happy to have picked up a small plastic box with a lid at the Swedish shop this morning and I think it will be good to keep a couple of sentimental work books from my school days.
There is a bookcase near the front door the top of which used is mostly as a staging post for things on the way on or out, One shelf holds a massive torch/flashlight for emergencies, and a big glass vase, in case someone should bring me a big bouquet (Hmpff!), and a few books. There are some books on the other two shelves but they go unnoticed, the front door not being a place we loiter.
Being by the front door, and mostly walked straight past, the shelves get pretty grubby from dust walked in, or blown in through the cracks on the almost constant wind round here, and it had reached the top of the "I really must do something about that" list.
On Saturday I found myself with enough 'spare time' to unload the shelves and give it a good clean.
I've also noted that we tend to hold on to the things that would mean the most to us. He, for example, retains a lot of electronic-type stuff - even little kits the children had that don't really do anything. I tend to hold on to sentimental paper-type things - there was a little card written to our daughter by our son when they were clearly quite young. I don't suppose either of them wants it, but I've kept it as a keepsake of their childhood
In the sorting a few weeks back I came across daughter and son-in-law's engagement cards. I assumed she'd want them so I took them over last time we went. In hindsight I should have asked, as she simply took them from me without comment.
Only mostly unwanted? 😱 They do get a chance to keep it, don’t they?
Of course! These are the contents of their bedroom cupboards of which they've both said, "I don't want anything that's in there." It's me that filters things and says, "Are you really sure about this...?"
Yay!! ❤️
I have similar hoards of cards for various occasions, Nenya.
I have reached a long pause in my decluttering, but I sometimes open a drawer and realise I must continue.
Oh dear. They should see a doctor…
Because, deep down inside, I’m twelve
Cleaning the bookcase by the front door was just the start, two more bookcases became involved before I'd done.
In that case, so am I ...
In other news, at the weekend I had a small clean out of magazines and books. I've only kept the current year's magazines and I've removed a couple of books from the shelf, because I've had them for 10 years and not gotten around to reading them! I had hoped to remove them from the house today, but husband has needed to take the car (at the last minute). So there go my plans!
I have enjoyed putting out the Christmas decorations because as I go I dust and put away some things and replace them after the New Year. The flat surfaces get a good dust before the Christmas things are put out and of course I have to vacuum to get all the shedding from the plastic tree.
I'm already moving the decorations around and tweaking them, must stop that as it's a distraction from proper work.
While the Christmas decorations are out of the spare room wardrobe, I've re-arranged things to make more sense storage wise and have tossed away a couple of postage packs that I was hanging onto but have not used. Feeling good that I've managed to be consistent, even if what I'm doing is only a tiny amount. I figure lots of tiny amounts do add up.
My husband has had a desk in his own bedroom since lock-down, and it would be far better once he's retired if he had a separate bedroom / study.
Also, the contents of my husband's office at work have to go somewhere, and we'd rather his professional books they go in the bookcases in our sons room, than that those book cases continue to be filled with our sons books.
There were a number of children's books on there that are at the reading level ourSecond Youngest Grandson is just reaching, so I decided to add them to the ones in the sitting room which are now right for his younger brother - except that there wasn't room.
So, first task was to move books belonging to Mr RoS that were on the bottom shelf of that bookcase, and which he found an inconvenience and a pain to get at. They are now on the top shelf of the front door bookcase.
However, the bookcase I was now moving things from was not easily accessed by the children, so another bookcase had to be emptied of large reference books as that was ideal for the children' books, being near the toy corner and in sight of the seated adults.
Having dealt with that I was left with a whole shelf-full of books that I had completely forgotten about, various 'classics' I thought I had disposed of when we moved, but cearly couldn't bear to. I still can't.
At least they came off the bookcase in small groups sorted alphabetically by author, so were easy to return to the bookcase by the front door.
So that brings me back to the place i started - an unplanned moving around of books.
A small-scale version of removing a picture from the wall and ending up having to redecorate a whole room - but I think I will leave our paintings and photographs in situ for another day/weekend/ house-move, including the cobwebs.
@Lamb Chopped packing china is always fun!! Had your friend kept any of the original boxes that stuff came in? My Mum had kept some boxes, but the label on the bag indicated a location for the items, but in reality she'd moved them around and they weren't there. She had also bought a ton of tissue paper, which she'd used to pack our wedding dresses as well as stuff of her own and my sister and I were very grateful for their pre-preparedness!
When I moved house I loved using light plastic shopping bags (discontinued here) as packing and void fill. Now if I even find a plastic bag I hoard it jealously!!
It is going to be very hot over the next few days, so I think I'm going to bring inside all my garden pots that can go to be recycled. I'll wash them up in the laundry and dry them outside and I can get rid of them at the garden centre. Not part of tidying the inside of the house, but will certainly make the outside look a bit less yuck!
I have a number of colleagues who have retired in this fashion. Most of them love it, because they get to keep doing the fun things, but nobody can ask them to do management or any other tedious nonsense.
I don't know if there is a right or wrong way to retire, it looks different for each person, but if you need a study, then you need a study and creating one is definitely a project.
I consider us very lucky to have found what might have been an ex-motel desk, which is about 2.5 metres long, so takes husband's computer, several screens, printer/scanner and filing cabinet underneath with ease. Sometimes I think finding a desk that works is a major part of the solution - we've had other desks with were OK, but nothing really worked because things kept getting in the way because the surface top was too small.
When Cheery daughter works from home she manages with the dining table and her computer monitor sitting on a cake box to make it the right height. She doesn't require any reference books, or need several monitors like the husband. Horses for courses!
Are your new desks working out well for you @Lamb Chopped ?
Our long term plan is to decorate all 3 bedrooms in turn. We will decorate the old study to make a new spare bedroom and fit that with furniture from the other spare bedroom. We will then decorate the original spare bedroom and move our stuff in there from our bedroom. We will then decorate the final room and either move our stuff back in or fit it out as a spare room. A great opportunity for a huge clear out.
We did a big clear out in 2018 when we moved house and that was really cathartic for me. I loved my trips to the rehoming facility and the chance to be unburdened from heaps of stuff. We did a tiny bit of redecorating in our new place before moving, but I hope to do a bit more in our retirement.
Perhaps some new carpet and even though probably not a new kitchen, certainly some new doors and drawer fronts. What I would really love is a rangehood that has the motor outside and thus is much quieter in the house. The noise of our current one really grates on me.
I'll have to start doing some number and some investigations so that I can get moving when my superannuation starts to kick in
I mislaid the birthday card, that my good friend had sent me and I found it about 4 months later when I had a mega-tidy. Fortunately, because I recognised her writing before losing it, I managed to get an email off to thank her for it!!
I am hoping I have gotten a jump on the tidiness for next year by purchasing on sale a bag to store our Christmas tree and another for our wreath. We have had a Christmas tree bag previously, but it disintegrated in the heat of our garage and we've been managing with plastic wrap for the last few years, but I think a better solution was due and getting them both in the sale is a bonus!
I found the cards!! ❤️❤️❤️
I shall put them in the same cupboard where I keep left over bits of wrapping paper, unused tags and the red scarf and other accoutrements I need for Christmas concerts.