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A weekly hour long effort on a Monday cleaning and tidying the house using the following checklist keeps the house pleasant to live in. I do also do a daily vacuum of room(s) which need it,as well as all the other daily housekeeping tasks (wipe the loo,clean the sinks,do dishes,clean up [...] This morning was spent helping my newest local friend Janet tidy up our next door neighbour’s garden. Janet is a trained horticulturalist and has many years of experience under her belt. Despite being retired for several years she maintains a number of local gardens and has a huge wealth of knowledge which I was very [...] Most UK supermarkets have a no-frills range now in easily identifiable packaging. Since downshifting radically in July 2006 I have become obsessed with how to get maximum value from a minimal household budget especially when doing the weekly supermarket shop). Here is a record of which products are worth buying and which have been a [...] My kids started preschool today which means that I now get a guaranteed two and a half childfree hours each day to crack on with some of the chores &projects I have put off or felt unable to do whilst looking after 3 year old twins. Suddenly I feel overwhelmed by the number of [...] My poor mother is completely perplexed by our move away from high earnings,regular social occasions,City based careers and all the fancy things we wanted to buy. Each time I speak to her on the phone I am invariably enthusing to her about some small achievement in my quest to downshift massively and to [...] I’ve managed to make our new home (we are renting a large Victorian country house) more cosy and beautifully furnished by visiting the local charity shops once a week (there are three in the local town) and trawling the weekly car boot sale every time it is on. Some people have an aversion to all [...] I had employed a cleaner for the last decade to come to my house twice a week for a total of 5 hours a week in order to vacuum,iron,scrub toilets,wash baths,floors,windows. I had never lifted a finger in my own home and had no idea how to. After we moved [...] Since we downshifted to rural Worcestershire and I left work to be a fulltime mum I have started to manage the family’s weekly and monthly budget (before this move I just spent). If I saw something I liked I generally bought it. No wonder I ended up with a house full of stuff and no [...] Suddenly it is Autumn and we are no longer able to dress the children in their summer clothes and thin pyjamas but where are their Autumn/Winter ones and how many still fit? Also how many clothes do I actually need for each child? I seem to have oodles thanks to the generosity of grandparents trawling [...] | ||||||
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