You'd be amazed at how much of the problems are caused by all the chemicals they put in food
New year, new paperwork UGH!
I will say--my DS has gotten bettter , hard to say how much is maturity,(20- how mature LOL) but he's also become selfmotivated with exercise and healthy diet.
Have you seen Gitas thread
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1157624/
Its really hard to say how much of our (me too, boy o boy) disorganized days are true ADD. I function more efficiently when I HAVE to due to crises or time limits. Somebody said "Any idiot can handle a crisis; its the day to day stuff that wears you down" I certainly could be more organized, use checklists, etc, like workplaces use. Instead I hit the computer for unspecified time.
Wow Gals - So full of knowledge and willing to share it. Good going. I am like Crit and it is only I who have labeled myself with any of the disorders we speak of. I can remember about twenty years or so ago speaking of these sorts of things with a therapist I was working with at the time and she pointed out that she believed in my case, it was simply having too much to do and not really classified as diagnosis of any of the the labels.
BECKY~!!! I am so glad to see you. I think of you often and have been wondering how things are going with you. So great to have you chime in. Thank you for the links. I will check out a bit later. I might have another supply of K-cups to get together and send to you. I seemed to have over ordered and won't be drinking all the coffees I thought I would. O/C anyone? If one box of coffee is good, isn't six better? hahaha
John and I have been under a time restrainst as far as getting some clutter out of here. I decided a month or so ago that the things I was sending out the door to Goodwill and Salvation Army might be worth something to someone who might pay a dollar or two for it. I contacted a friend who runs an auction house and she agreed to take our items and fit it in with some other sellers. We have been told twice now that she has to set the date back. That suits us fine because each time it gives us another week to get more things together. Heard yesterday we won't be in this week's auction, so we now have time to pretty much finish with the shed and it many contents.
Along with sending these things away, I am also washing and packing up items that I will at some point begin selling on an online antiques/collectibles site. This is how I used to spend my time some years back. I lived within a couple of miles of the auction house during the late 1990's and early 2000's and attended lots of auctions there. I would come home with car loads at the time. Our former house was double the size of this one and I had space for everything there, though I would every so often, pack up some of my buys and send back to sell on another day. I also had an online shop and did a bit of ebay selling too. When my dad died in 2003, I stopped doing all of that until now. I have oodles of things that have been packed away waiting for me to get the itch again to begin selling and hopefully get to a point where I can once again find a need to do the fun part of the hobby, which is the buying part. hahaha
The de-cluttering has been necessary before I can think of doing the online selling, because of the chaotic state of everything. My hubby has joined in and been a real trooper about cleaning an organizing the shed in order for me to have a space to warehouse some of the items. Working towards this end started last fall when I had finally had enough of the clutter. I didn't set out with selling in mind, but figured that I would give it a try once again since I often found it to be very enjoyable the years I did it.
As always, it is enjoyable to read all your posts and hear what everyone is up to during the months when gardening isn't taking over our minds and bodies. I love all you gals and look forward to hopefully seeing some of you during the upcoming year. No plant swap at our place this year, but hopefully by the next one. Two thousand and twelve, Crozet bound by those of you north of me.
Thanks everyone.
Ruby
Just swapped all my 2010 biz files to the other file cabinet, so much fun!!!
I have been getting rid of a few things here and there not a big get in there and clean out but I go thru a file or two at a time. I am going to burn old checks next I have a whole bag of them. You know the kind of checks that make a duplicate. I have boxes and boxes of old duplicates. I'm putting them in the coal stove a bundle at a time.
Much faster than shredding that's for sure!
Beck,
I scored 64 in the test (first link)..
Moderate ADHD....
Of course--since they do not ask for an age-range, the replies that
have to do with inactivity may be just due to natural aging process.
Gita
Don't forget that this is merely a questionnaire & should not be seen as a diagnosis whatsoever - it's something that needs to be discussed with a physician...self-diagnosis is like self-medicating - shouldn't be done
Yes--Bec
I do understand all that.....and it even so stated in the questionnaire----
Over and over---Kind of a self-protective/required disclaimer....
I am not medically ignorant....I know quite a bit about this field..
Just saying that I have a "tendency" to be ADD. The hyperactivity went long ago.
I will be 74 in one month. The "hyper" anything has come and gone....
One must know and understand oneself......and live with it. Good or bad--
Pills are not necessary....
Gita
^_^ I wasn't questioning your medical knowledge...I think we all have a touch of "ADD" at one time or another, I forget what day it is on a regular basis ^_^
Bec--
Please don't get me wrong---That was not implied.....not at all!
It was more like "knowledge" of how I have lived forever and ever....
and--how frustrated I am because of it....and, helpless to change it.
Add advancing age--and the forgetfulness that comes with it--
just makes it more so...
"Senior Moments" are a daily thing...and I feel so helpless when they hit...
like, not remembering someone's name......a Movie's name---name of a song, etc...
Oh, well......Gita
I hate it when I can't remember my name! LOL j/k
I blanked out on my cell phone number last week..Ya know you never USE it!
I don't know many phone #'s any more since everything is in my cell phone I just find the name and push the button. I only know phone #'s that I call from the house. I know Jen's and Jamie's numbers as they are local calls I make from the house phone but Julie and Josh get called from the cell phone. I couldn't call one of them without my cell phone to save my life. LOL Well I did get those old checks burned put some in the stove and let the bag sit back there and Ric burned more of them everytime he feed the stove. I have cleaned out one of the desk drawers. Found supplies from a 4H Horse Clinic I ran about 15 years ago. LOL
OK! I have a T-Mobile cell phone---NEVER use it! Except if I get lost
and need directions....Hoping it is charged up.
It "lives" in my purse and goes dead...then I charge it up and put it back in the purse....
Then it goes dead in about 4-5 days, etc....etc.....
And--NO! I do not know my cell phone number either.....
And--NO! I still dial on it--rather than look up the numbers in the "phone Book"...
Mostly--b/c I am not comfortable using a cell phone. Don't have time to meander
through all the "options" till I get where I want to be....
Dialing is quicker than relying on stored #'s. Assuming I know the numbers...
Like to my Daughter or work...
I just am NOT, mentally, in the Cyber World...."Old World" works OK for me.
G.
One day I copied all of the phone # off of my cell phone to a 3x5 card and taped it to the side of my computer....back up to back up
Ihave found it useful to me to have 2 of the same cell phones and three batteries. Got them on ebay. That way, I can carry a phone and spare battery with me. If my cell phone is turned off, or the battery is out of the phone, the charge will hold for a week or two.
The Christmas I picked up a dual solar powered or hand crank charger for two cars and one for emergency drawer. I think they were $8 at TJMaxx. There are 'extended life' batteries available for most cell phones. Best to let charge run out before recharging for longest battery life.
Oh, you may wonder why I have more than one? Suffice ti to say that my DPs's middle name is Murphy as in Murphy's Law which I have come to know up close and personal.!
Went through a pile of clothes today--really dug in.
Have 3 bags sitting to donate.
Yesterday--I vacuumed floors of the hallway, my Computer room
and my bedroom. Cleaned everything in my BR.
Pulled out all the 3 racks of shoes from my BR closets and went
through them. Cleaned the floors in the closets and put the racks back.
Was going to continue vacuuming today--but then started sorting
through 3 closets of clothes. That too needed to be done....
Tried on some of my older dresses. I can still get into them, but the
mid drift on me looks yukky---fat!...I used to have a waist....:o(
Was toying with the idea of how nice it would be to lose 10lbs.....Yeah?
Hope I keep going here....Gotta work tomorrow--off Monday.
This was still a moderetly careful "getting rid of..."
Baby steps...baby steps......Gita
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YAYA YAYA YAY !!! Three cheers! We know that was not easy! Big guilt relief!
Hooray! RAh rah! Well done!
You are moving right along Gita. Just a bit at a time will get you there. So now I have two desk drawers cleaned and repaired. The bottoms were loose.
Good going Gita. Baby steps will get you to the desired location as well as any other means. What I have found and heard others who agree that once we get started on the de-cluttering and cleaning, it becomes habit forming and we actually enjoy doing it. Getting started is the hard part usually.
What has happened in my household without saying the first word to any one is that both John and my son Tucker have both begun their own de-cluttering processes too. Tucker is a real clothes hound and in the past whenever I would ask if he wanted to donate anything he didn't use, he would always say no. Over the past couple of months, he has given me quite a few things to get rid of for him. Amazing......
John too has been taking some baby steps in ridding himself of some of his excesses. For six years there has been a small painted wooden box sitting on the end of a tall kitchen counter. It usually held things that came out of John's pockets. On morning a few weeks back I noticed it was sitting there. John told me that he had disposed of the items in the boxes and they were no longer needed. That is progress on his part. yippie.
Now, I have been aware that the other members of my household had been influenced by my de-cluttering. Little did I think that it would carry over as far as my older son who lives about twenty miles from us. He called yesterday during a break from cleaning out and organizing his outside storage building. I thought that was really funny indeed. I suppose that the evening phone calls when he checks in via phone while on his lunch breaks at his job, he has heard so much of my daily tales of sorting and disposing that it also got him thinking about the same thing for his home.
There is another lady on the Clutter boards here who says by her example many folks in her neighborhood in Las Vegas have also taken up the de-clutter challenge. We are winding down from the major work load this project has been. Only a few loose ends to be taken care of. I have found that many things are on-going and need to be done time and again. My kitchen's main food cabinet, plus the cabinet that holds tupperware types of storage containers are places that in the past six or so months I have had to re-arrange several times already because they tend to get disorganized quickly.
Oops....stepped away from computer. Guess that means I have talked enough for now. Hope you good folks are having a good Sunday afternoon.
Ruby
Good work for you too Holly.
Ruby
And a back pat for Ruby! and the boys!
Tell you what- watch one of those 'hoarding' shows on TV and feel REALLY good in comparison- yeegads!!!!!
ruby.....would you come do my house????? lol Just moved here a year ago but there is a lot of stuff should never of been moved, just gotten rid of.
I agree sally! I LOVE watching Clean House. Makes my house look terrific!!! Not dirty and not really cluttered, just not Better Homes and Gardens, if you know what I mean
Rofl Crit, I know EXACTLY what you mean, I just spun my swivel chair around and did a 360 on 'not quite BH and G'
lol sally ..... i get it!
Yeah, I have watched some of the hoarding shows as well as Clean House too. My place doesn't compare with these places unless I am in the middle of a project such as de-cluttering and when the day's steam is gone, it is gone and I usually end up leaving my packing supplies laying around in places where they don't look so tidy.
I hit pay dirt earlier today. I have been de-cluttering my many jewelry boxes. I decided to sell broken pieces and pieces I didn't love. I was written a check for over seven hundred dollars earlier today. That is a much large figure than I expected.
Let's just hope as I continue getting rid of some of our excesses that the good luck continues.
Ruby
ruby--
Must have been a lot of gold in them there drawers......as in the commercial....
Gold prices are out of this world today!
Just hope they did not cheat you out of more money--like, maybe, there was something
really worth a lot more...... Where did you take your stuff?
Care to share with us what kind of jewelery you sold?
Does old costume jewelery have any great value? Lapel pins? Remember those???
Does sterling go for any kind of money?
I have a lot of jewelery too--but I don't think I would part from it...As you know by now--I hoard things...
Have two old, small gold watches....not the chains--just the watches themselves.....Hmmm???
Gita
ruby, that's terrific!!
I went to a recommended (by the lawyer) local jeweler for appraisals on Moms stuff, THey examined everything closely for the 14k mark or whatever. Some gold chains have a tiny tag by the clasp. Gold and sterling have value. Silverplate flatware has some too, it can be scrapped, but we won't get rich on it LOL. Silver small dishes etc have to have a Sterling stamp on the bottom. Cruddy old black 'silver' that is not stamped, he won't buy, that is a low quality plate of some kind. That's why you see unpolished 'silver' at the thrift store.
True sterling jewelry will be stamped with .925
Jen, I was quite surprised with the pile of sterling they picked out of the two large gallon freezer bags worth of things I took them. Since sterling didn't bring nearly the value of the gold, I took back a few of the sterling items and will at some point try to take some pics of the few pieces I kept.
The .925 marking applies to silver used in the USA. Other countries have no law regarding the marking of silver, so sometimes a piece is sterling but unmarked. That is where the acid tests they performed on unmarked pieces yesterday comes in to play. Mexican silver is usually unmarked.
Gita, the funny and thankfully beneficial part of the sell yesterday is that this was all pieces I regarded as junk. I still have many, many pieces that I want to hold on to. Yes, costume jewelry has value but not to gold or silver buyers usually. There are many jewelry collectors who collect certain manufacturers. You can use a magnifying glass or a jewelers loupe if you have one around, hahaha to find markings such as Dior, Liz Claiborne, Avon, Gucci, etc., etc. I cannot recall some of the more popluar makers at the moment because I sold these items about fifteen years ago.
I went through my mothers costume jewelry and took it to first of all a jeweler and gemologist I knew personally. She bought some of the pieces for her shop, gold and silver pieces. She then referred me to another shop that specializes in second hand jewelry and she put many of the the things on consignment for me. I didn't get rich, but every penny helped. I remember one set of gaudy looking things that she marked to sell for over three hundred dollars. Sadly, I didn't wait long enough for them to sell in her shop and took them back and really sold some nice stuff one desperate day at a big loss. Oh well.....
If you are interested in possibly selling some of the costume jewelry Gita, look in the yellow pages for jewelery buyers and see if they mention buying costume jewelry. You might also call some of the higher end consignment shops and see if they will consign it for you. Yes, there are many people who collect the stick pins. That is one of the cases I stopped at yesterday and looked at the unusual and very beautiful things this establishment was selling.
We had two gold tooth caps that brought over two hundred dollars. I can remember years ago being irate at the dentist who put a gold cap on my back tooth because he didn't ask about using anything else and just put that in without any input from me. When the cap fell off, I saved it and got back a tiny portion of what I spend that many years ago.
Out of all the things we took for them to look at yesterday, most of it returned home with us. I will try selling them on the online shop I plan to open within a month or so. Stay tuned....son wants use of computer. Gotta run.
Ruby
You can check out some fashion jewelry prices here
http://www.collectorsindex.com/index.htm
Thanks Jen, I will definitely check it out.
Ruby
Interesting sight. I expected things from the 60's and older would be worth more.
Thanks, FowAjen---
I bookmarked this site. Sent it to a slew of people too.
I thunk we all have jewelery from our Moms and our own youth days....
Never know.....
I would so love to see all the jewelry you guys have....I used to be assistant merchandiser at JCP in the jewelry dept years ago...loved it!
Jen--
My daughter, Aina, worked at "Impostors" (do you know that store--now gone?)
It was a glitzy, faux gold everything.....SOOO beautiful!
She loaded up on glittery "gold" jewelery and rings. SOOO many!
She was also a asst. manager at JCP here--but of the merchandising/design team.
Now she works as a designer at our local IKEA---5 minutes from my house....
Small World! Gita
Imposters sounds familiar
How long did she work for JCP?
I was there for 13yrs worked my way up from part time to senior merchandiser and on district buying team of children's division. The only thing I miss about working retail is doing the buys and floor lay outs...so much fun,
customers and dealing with the associates....not so much
I finished cleaning off the metal shelf that has been sitting in the storage bedroom for the last year or two. Ric moved it outside to the garage yesterday. I was so good There were 3 bags of pamphlets, magazines and fliers that had been picked up at garden and home shows. You know how you get a bag and pick up interesting info and put it in the bag as you walk around. Well these bags were brought home set on those shelves and never picked up again. I started out tossing vendors info and then started looking at the interesting info stuff and as I was thinking where do you want to put this I realized that I hadn't looked at it in a year or two and any info I could get online so I tossed all of it. Really all three bags went out with the recycle.
Holly, much of the paper clutter I have been ridding myself of is of the same sort. I have a tendency to pick up travel brochures/area attractions whenever we visit a new area. I could start a welcome center for some states. The only ones I held on to and didn't trash were from Cape Cod. The pictures in some of these were beautiful enough that I will be looking at them again and again. Others went bye bye. Good work and keep up the good work girlie.
Jen, I had you on my mind the other day when selling the silver pieces. One piece I almost took back and now really wish that I had and let you take a look see. It was a sterling silver, unknownst to me till that day, bracelet. It looked much like the marcasite that you said you loved so much. I purchased it at JCP a few years back and I never wore it even once. I almost took it back after they werighed it and am now kicking myself that I didn't bring it home.
Interesting employment back ground Jen. I would be in bad, bad trouble trying to work all day around jewelry. It was very difficult for me to be around all of the beautiful things where we sold the other day and not purchase anything. Here I am trying to get rid of jewelry and just this week ordered a pair of earrings from another Dave's member who makes them.
During all of this going through old items I found a few things that I have had for at least fifty years. I let my sterling silver charm bracelet go the other day minus a majorette whose baton twirled. I brought her home with me. I had so much fun being a chubby baton twirler as a child. It will bring back pleasant memories each time I see this piece.
I am glad that your love of jewelry has lasted even though not currently employed in the field Jen. Your love of it most likely made you excellent at the job. I would probably be good at it, but be in the poor house at the same time if I were to try workiing with it.
Thank you ladies for the fun this thread is. Love it, love it.
Ruby
LOL Ruby I have not started going thru my travel papers yet. I was thinking about it as the largest drawer in my desk is filled with maps, books and brochures from our many trips. Not to mention several piles in other parts of the house. I may start going thru them and at least organizing them. Just really happy to have gotten rid of the Garden/Home Show papers and I will try very hard not to pick up too much at the shows this spring.