A grey and wet day here. Forecast says it's going to rain until 14:00 tomorrow with over 20 mm of rain today and flood warnings.
So I haven't been out. Today's outfit is three leopard prints
I only wore the heels for half an hour while doing some tidying up. I came across them in an earlier session of tidying and couldn't remember exactly why they weren't with the rest of my heels so I slipped them on. After a while realized why: my right heel slips out of the shoe too easily. So they will be dumped in a charity collection bin.
It's a bit warmer today and my heat pump even on its lowest power setting has raise the temperature indoors so I've taken off my tights as well. I'll have to find a better pair for tomorrow anyway because these are laddered now. Am I especially clumsy and more careless with ragged fingernails than average or is it normal for cheap tights to last less than a week?
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Did more tidying up today. Threw away some old curtains that had been taken down when the new triple glazed windows were fitted while I was on holiday. Put some net curtains that were grubby but whole in the laundry bin ready for the next wash. Added a few more things to the recycling pile that I'll heave into my car next week and take to the recycling station. They have a section where you can put things that are simply not wanted so that others can take them if they want them instead of putting them in the bins to be crushed.
Found a number of items that are simply rubbish to be discarded, they are now in the bin. Found some decorative candle holders that had dangling glass ornaments, I've taken them apart to keep those parts ad I'll turn them into earrings one day.
@ninalanyon I do like the idea of a "not wanted" section at the recycling centre. It's something I've often thought we should have here in the UK, but learn from Norwegians, foreigners???? That's just ridiculous!
@22Michelle The problem is that they don't allow any electrical goods there. So I see perfectly usable electronic items, televisions, computers, laptops, white goods, etc. in the skips every time I go there.
In the old days it was much less organized and we would go there out of hours and ransack the skips for computers. I think all three of my sons had fairly decent computers that we cobbled together from parts recovered from the dump. In many cases they had been left out in the rain and the snow but after careful and thorough drying they worked perfectly.
Luckily we also have a national online trading site called Finn.no that has free ads and a lot of people list things that they would otherwise throw away. My washing machine finally died after thirty years earlier this year but I got another one only five years old for nothing within a week. Sometimes people will advertise a fitted kitchen as free to collect with the proviso that you have to dismantle it first.
As for not learning from foreigners, that's pretty much universal. I wish my kommune would do what a lot of US towns do and that is designate one day a month when you could just pile up stuff at the kerb for people to take and then the next day the refuse lorry comes and takes away what's left. A friend of mine in the US got a huge Weber gass grill that way.
