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Written 13th February 2025
It was grey, miserable and raining all last weekend so we tidied my garage.
We found a few things we no longer use to sell on, we binned some bits that I'd been saving 'just in case', like old fence preserver paint pots washed out, old wicker hanging baskets that had perished, old cement that had gone hard (so annoying). It was fun, it was quality time with my partner and free. It was fresh air and exercise. I can now find things so the garage is much more user friendly as I know where everything is.
We also fixed a stopped working wood chipper shredder thing, a shoe cupboard that had a busted hinge, a laundry basket with the same issue, the waterbutt overflow that was leaking and rehung a cupboard that was coming off the wall.
Yes, we weren't doing anything exciting by todays standards, though personally I prefer doing stuff to just watching other people's lives or their views online or on TV. More importantly though, we didn't spend a penny to fix things that if we'd needed to replace would have cost £'s.
A simple weekend.
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