Cleaning up

Somehow it's much easier for me to clean up if someone is with me - so, since hubby is home, I decided to tackle the pile of books and so on in the bedroom - & doing some much-needed dusting!

Made a pile of books for re-cycling to the used book store - & a pile for the thrift shop - & a pile "to read" & a pile of books to keep - (lots of them were on Zen...so my heart is in the right place, anyway...)

Organizing my yarn stash - put some into a large black shopping bag in the living room & some more in the top & bottom of a very large black paper box I was given after Xmas  (they are so good for storage). I put all my knitting needles in plastic bags from the morning paper (good shape), & tried to sort the yarn according to color... I like to use what's on hand, because, frankly, all those plastic storage boxes and so on are too costly for me! (I am collecting all the newspaper bags in tissue boxes to better organize them & have at least 2 boxes full of them.)

I have salivated at magazine & internet spreads about the "well-designed closet" - but who can afford THAT? (I did, however show it to hubby to give an idea of what SOME [people do DO...so he would understand my frugal efforts...)

Ha! We are so old school, we even do all of our own house cleaning!  I tidied also up the bathroom sink area & he then washed it for me. Used some celluloid "cup" shapes I had received with a present to organize all the little tubes of skin stuff, etc. (& recycled a tube top when the little top from my eye roller went flying....I like to collect a variety of tops, to use when the others eventually go missing...)

Looked up the silver plate hand mirror I had picked up in a thrift shop in Sacramento.  It was worn - but the flower design was nice & I could tell it was old due to the aged & beveled glass of the mirror.  There is a silver mark - but it's faint & I can't make it out - but it's certainly worth more than I paid for it! (under $5 or so - as I recall....)  Estimate it's pre-WWI - so about 100 years old.  I can only collect cheap & slightly flawed antiques - but even that is fun...& one must remember that a collection can be recycled for money, if the occasion calls for it!

Oh, and hubby & I  also took down our Xmas decorations yesterday & packed them away for next year - and hubby bundled them off to storage. Are you all cleaning out, too?

3 Comments

Lady does Her Own Cleaning

Cleaning always makes one feel down to earth...