Still Knitting, Still De-Cluttering

I'm still plugging away at the 'Super Simple' Wrap I'm knitting - I've now made it to about the half-way mark.  I did take a photo of my progress, but it was so dark and dreary here this afternoon that the picture was pants.  What a difference to the weather of yesterday - today is all about grey skies, rain and virtually no proper daylight all day, very lowering to the spirit.  Thank goodness I went out yesterday.  Today I've only ventured as far as the post office - and that was because it was an absolute necessity, otherwise I'd have stayed in all day if I'd had the choice.

Tomorrow a new double bed is being delivered which has meant I've had to empty the four drawers under the current bed.  Who knew you could fit quite so much junk into under-bed drawers - not me, that's for sure.  I thought one bin bag would be enough for the contents of two drawers but, no, each drawer had so much stuff in it that it needed a whole bin bag per drawer.  The trouble is that the new bed base has only two drawers so I'll have two drawers of 'stuff' left over.  Some I've managed to get rid of, or squeeze into other nooks and crannies, but there's still a frightening amount of 'stuff' to be re-housed somewhere.   I've had the bed base for well over 20 years and it is in a very perilous state now.  Whilst emptying one drawer I found that a whole section had completely collapsed and was dangling into the back of the drawer - no wonder my back's been playing me up lately.  I'm not looking forward to single-handedly manoevuring the double bed out of the bedroom but I am looking forward to getting into a new bed tomorrow night.

Roadkill money rolling total - +1p = 4p.  (I actually pcked this one up literally from the middle of the road.  Probably not the cleverest thing to do as I could have been run over at any minute - but I figured that at my size and in my bright-red fleece I'd be a fairly visible object to any on-coming drivers!)

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[French Knots]

My 5 year old son is keen on finding treasure ( money) and his eagle eye spots it when we are out and about. He like to keep it in his money box then take it out and count it. Good habits for the future I hope!

[Kim Cranson]

Hi,
I know what you mean about stuff. We've just moved our iron bedstead & all the boxes under it to decorate. There was so much stuff under there that I'd forgotten about. I feel a big declutter coming on(maybe? perhaps? possibly? Lol)

Kim
Hereford uk

[Colleen]

I do find your roadkill updates amusing. My partner is a gardener at a couple of schools and digs up and picks up money all the time - shrapnel we call it here - which goes into a charity box. The kids have also furnished him with some excellent jackets and scarves at the end of the school year when al the unclaimed lost property is up for grabs. Don't their folks wonder what has happened to them?

We have no shame...