Joblessmuse on twitter, just tweeted this site about decluttering and selling unwanted items. I''m in the process of this (as always) so here are a few ideas.
www.joyfullyjobless.com/blog/2010/04/spring-cleaning-for-fun-and-profit
Then you can buy and sell a few items on ebay from a police auction.
www.west-midlands.police.uk/police-auction/index.asp
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Life is like a garden.
Life is like a garden, and right now the one I have is flat, lacking in colour and uncaptivating to all the senses. The former owner told me he hated gardening, and decided to slab over three quarters of it. I personally don't want to spend too much time 'working' in my garden to enjoy the seasonal pleasures and rewards that come for a few weeks each year. But this garden is barren and bleak in the extreme!
However, when I stand at the upstairs windows and notice the neighbouring gardens full of colours, fruits and vegetables and exotic trees, I have a little frown at how little the previous owners had wanted to invest in my now newly owned garden. In fact, they even stole the fences when they left! At the back are a few brambles of blackcurrants that have, by their own mercy, sneaked through a garden fence and a couple of potentilla and aquilegia plants that a bird must have granted me during an Mercy Missions Air Drop. The rest are weeds, that for my sins, I must scrape out of the cracks of the bland matrix of paving stones, for a couple of weeks each year.
Yes, gardens like life, require some forward planning and long term vision for the future. What yields do you want it to produce? Is it all recreation or will it need to produce food, if not for yourself, at least for the wildlife? Will you be 'too busy working to put food on the table' to enjoy it as a resting place or would that extra hour at work be better spent producing food in your own garden that create savings in your purse? Do you use it as a social meeting place and talking point? Yes, its a balance between time invested and long and short term, perceived rewards.
So last week I invested in a few more plant. Some long lasting bulds. they are primarily for my other home, but I may sneak a few out here and add a little colour to the front of my house. Am I prepared to invest in the ongoing and enduring commitment required to maintain this colourful landscape? I don't know. I'm thinking I barely have enough energy, mental or physical, to wash my car at the moment, but how long will it take to cut out a few sections of grass and plant a floral patch? Is it a bit 'feminine' to do that? A bit 'old ladyish'? Am I creating more work for my solo self in the long run?
At some point this week I expect to get the bulbs into the ground outside. I have already potted a few indoors because they were sprouting out in the bag as I brought them home from the store. Last years fruit bushes were late to planting, so I missed out on one years worth of fruitful crop. With bulds and seeds, just as with life itself there is a window of opportunity in natures cycle of scheduling and timing, that once missed can not be regained until the next season (unless you have a hothouse or artificial environment). A little added nurturing from BabyBio and John Innes and the birds, bees and bugs will be visiting in their delighted droves, bringing good and thankful karma, I expect.
So, I aim to get them in on nature preferred deadline, and have them sprouting and blooming to the shock and delight of my passing and peaking neighbours.
Photos I expect will follow. :)
However, when I stand at the upstairs windows and notice the neighbouring gardens full of colours, fruits and vegetables and exotic trees, I have a little frown at how little the previous owners had wanted to invest in my now newly owned garden. In fact, they even stole the fences when they left! At the back are a few brambles of blackcurrants that have, by their own mercy, sneaked through a garden fence and a couple of potentilla and aquilegia plants that a bird must have granted me during an Mercy Missions Air Drop. The rest are weeds, that for my sins, I must scrape out of the cracks of the bland matrix of paving stones, for a couple of weeks each year.
Yes, gardens like life, require some forward planning and long term vision for the future. What yields do you want it to produce? Is it all recreation or will it need to produce food, if not for yourself, at least for the wildlife? Will you be 'too busy working to put food on the table' to enjoy it as a resting place or would that extra hour at work be better spent producing food in your own garden that create savings in your purse? Do you use it as a social meeting place and talking point? Yes, its a balance between time invested and long and short term, perceived rewards.
So last week I invested in a few more plant. Some long lasting bulds. they are primarily for my other home, but I may sneak a few out here and add a little colour to the front of my house. Am I prepared to invest in the ongoing and enduring commitment required to maintain this colourful landscape? I don't know. I'm thinking I barely have enough energy, mental or physical, to wash my car at the moment, but how long will it take to cut out a few sections of grass and plant a floral patch? Is it a bit 'feminine' to do that? A bit 'old ladyish'? Am I creating more work for my solo self in the long run?
At some point this week I expect to get the bulbs into the ground outside. I have already potted a few indoors because they were sprouting out in the bag as I brought them home from the store. Last years fruit bushes were late to planting, so I missed out on one years worth of fruitful crop. With bulds and seeds, just as with life itself there is a window of opportunity in natures cycle of scheduling and timing, that once missed can not be regained until the next season (unless you have a hothouse or artificial environment). A little added nurturing from BabyBio and John Innes and the birds, bees and bugs will be visiting in their delighted droves, bringing good and thankful karma, I expect.
So, I aim to get them in on nature preferred deadline, and have them sprouting and blooming to the shock and delight of my passing and peaking neighbours.
Photos I expect will follow. :)
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