28-01-2025, 08:04 AM
One thing I rediscovered while doing this latest declutter exercise was that same small pleasure that comes from giving stuff away. I still sell the odd thing but it is a lot easier to just bag up the good stuff and drop it off to the free library, or one of the op shops. And having the big waste bin parked outside my kitchen window was a huge incentive to get rid of the stuff not worth donating.
I had an email last night from my online typewriter expert friend telling me he has been able to get both my dead machines up and working again, and that they'll be coming back to me this week. One of them is one I found for someone else, it came from a recycling centre in Wellington and cost more to ship than to buy, but now, as a working machine it is worth a whole lot more than that investment, so I hope she likes it. If nothing else it is the colour she needed it to be - she is very disciplined about everything being blue, lol. I like blues but couldn't say no to so many other colours, especially the singing brights and jewel colours.
Which might explain why I have my eye on a certain hot pink jacket for this weeks fritter money. We'll see if the universe decides I can indulge in that bit of frivolity!
I had an email last night from my online typewriter expert friend telling me he has been able to get both my dead machines up and working again, and that they'll be coming back to me this week. One of them is one I found for someone else, it came from a recycling centre in Wellington and cost more to ship than to buy, but now, as a working machine it is worth a whole lot more than that investment, so I hope she likes it. If nothing else it is the colour she needed it to be - she is very disciplined about everything being blue, lol. I like blues but couldn't say no to so many other colours, especially the singing brights and jewel colours.
Which might explain why I have my eye on a certain hot pink jacket for this weeks fritter money. We'll see if the universe decides I can indulge in that bit of frivolity!