BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 04:55 PM

Always be sure to sign your name when you're a guest, Morgan, so one of the Joe Clones doesn't delete shred you! :)

I didn't know you spent time in Tuscany, Maeve! I envy her the space and time and money she seemed to have to do all of that work. And I love the poetry of how she describes it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 11:37 PM

Between the group we set up and the Facebook list (there are several hundred Mudcatters over there now) I think we'll manage to survive for a day or two as Max moves things. Kat is in the process of getting signed up at Facebook--who else is on there?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: maeve
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 05:59 AM

Not I, SRS. My connection makes it inaccessible, and I'm underwhelmed by its tendency to sent out email invitations to everyone on your contact list, as it has done to two of my friends who have joined.

See you at the groups you and katlaughing have set up, and I'll also be checking the "faelte folk" site John set up.

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 10:31 AM

I've dumbed down about every setting I can find in Facebook. I don't join most of the groups, I don't accept invitations for this and that cause. The only thing that seems to arrive there is an invitation to add a new friend, who has specifically invited me. Sometimes I see an email about someone making a remark, but most of that is suppressed. I don't want to see those things in my email.

I took a look around the house this morning, and I see a general settling of things of once-open surfaces. Not necessarily stacked wide and deep, but now there. So I'll plan clear up and hope to report on is the general surface survey and dusting project late today when Mudcat has moved, and I have found it. This is one reason for sticking with Facebook, Max will post the new network address. We can put it in the group page as well when it turns up.

This morning I turned on the new laptop from work. Even new, they take a little while to set up, to put in helper programs, but it is a little strange with two computers in front of me at once. And of course, looking at one screen and typing on the wrong keyboard. Or moving the wrong mouse. [Slaps forehead!]

Looks like rain today, and we need it. But I was hoping for weather that would let me work in the yard this weekend. We'll have to see if it clears up in time for yard work or mowing. Maybe I should mow at lunchtime today. It needs it!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 07:22 PM

We came throught that transition easily. Max didn't have to de-clutter, he just moved the entire thing. ;)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: maire-aine
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 07:43 PM

I was out running errands most of the day, so I wasn't without the 'cat, really. I took all my paperwork to the nice lady that does my taxes. She saves me more that her fee, so better she does it than me. And besides, I really begrudge the time I spend when I do them myself.

After I left her office, I took my cuckoo clock to the repair shop. It's about a half-hour away, but they're really the best around here for that sort of thing. But after lunch, I found myself RE-cluttering, you might say. I stopped at a big antiques "mall" and found a teacup/saucer with heather flowers that I just had to have, and 3 water goblets that were so cheap (half their usual price) that I had to buy them. Now I don't have to worry about breaking them.

Sort of out-of-my-way going home, I stopped at another shop with multiple dealers, and found 3 pieces of Wade Irish Porcelain (search this phrase on ebay, and there are always some for auction). I had told myself "no more", but these were kind of special-- a pitcher, a large tankard with a harp-shaped handle, and a little urn-shaped vase (about the size of an eggcup) for small flowers. But-- an here's the good part-- I did NOT go to the big antiques SHOW nearby.

Will try to restrain myself in the future,

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 08:34 PM

No good feeling guilty over adding new treasures! One must treat oneself now and then, you know, esp. if one has been making space for new things. And, they are not going into storage never to be seen or used!:-)

I took photos of some of my mom's old bottles to put on ebay this weekend, I hope. I also have more patterns, but I think I will bunch them according to style and size rather than list them individually. Maybe no one sews any more? I've had a few looks on each but no bids. And, the teletype roll I put in has one bid, one watcher, someone who also sells them, though theirs are more historical AND I don't think they will get what they've started out the bidding at, but we'll see.

Taxes...*mutter*...*mutter*...must do something this weekend!

Maggie, thanks for the call and advice re' facebook. I haven't had time for it, today, but I remain leery and unconvinced at the moment.:-) Who'd a thunk it? ME, a Luddite??!!

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: maire-aine
Date: 27 Feb 09 - 11:36 PM

Like Kat, I have a few reservations about Facebook too. I do have a LinkedIn page, but that's mostly business. I get invitations from people to join this group and that, and they all mean that you have to set up a page on each site. The latest was something called "Flixter", I think. It all seems a bit too much. I mean, these de-cluttering threads have been going on for how long now? since last June, right? Each post is like another little tidbit to learn about each other, and the pace is just about right. Some of this Facebook stuff is, like, too much information too soon.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 12:49 AM

More like almost a YEAR, Maryanne!**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 01:37 AM

I set up an event on Facebook today, and as I worked through it I realized I need to set up an entity there for our library and I'd be the administrator. Oy. More work, but it won't look like it's little ol' me inviting library deans and directors of area universities to our lecture next week.

I've picked up around the house this evening, put some donation items into a box that were scattered around. The trick will be to follow through and take them somewhere tomorrow so they're out of the way.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 12:32 PM

I was supposed to be sorting the loft today... as it's now 5.30pm (and still light, Spring is on its way!), I guess that'll happen another day, and thus, another month now.


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 12:46 PM

I just started another month--with spring cleaning in mind. Great minds think alike!

March de-clutter.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: maeve
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 02:51 PM

Finished removing most of the lath and plaster on the wall we've opened up. This morning we filled the van with chairs, cushions, tiles, books, ...all kinds of useful but not needed things to the local swap shop.

Subject: RE: BS: February Declutter - keep the faith!
From: Penny S.
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 05:49 PM

Bad news. The surveyor looked the place over, and decided it was over priced, due, basically to failings in maintenance. The vendor disputes this and will not reduce the price. I am not going to pay what he asks as I will have a lot more work to do to satisfy the lenders.

I'm giving the agent a week. If the sale fails, he is going to dump the vendor.

I'm practically in a state of hoping he doesn't shift now.

I don't like this game. (Bluebottle voice, Goons fans.) Why is it that if you sell any other thing than a house, it has to be fit for purpose.

Penny