This past week it’s been all about the school jumble sale.
If you’re a regular reader of ‘Thrifty Finds’ you’ll know that I’ve spent the last couple of months decluttering and donating to the jumble sale. In the end we gave away about a dozen bin bags (and could have given more) but I just didn’t appreciate how much other STUFF everyone else had donated too. Sorting through the jumble took the committee seven hours to do on Friday! And even though we were busy at the sale (and made an amazing £1000 for school funds) we still spent a couple of hours clearing it all away at the end. There is still SO MUCH left! And now we don’t know what to do with it!
I was very restrained and only picked up a few items that I really needed:
1. This blue enamel dish which will have many uses in the kitchen. I also got a glass kilner jar and this gorgeous Moomin tray. I also picked up a travel game and Jacqueline Wilson story CD for the girls.
2. I bought two items of clothing. The blue top had never been worn and still had a £26 price tag on it!
3. Jumble Sale aside, my other Thrifty Finds included baking a big batch of cookies from some unidentified frozen dough in the freezer (turned out to be banana and chocolate chip cookies).
4. I’m still addicted to podcasts. This weekend I listened to Part 1 of Radio 4’s adaptation of HG Wells’ ‘War of the Worlds’ ( one of my favourite books). You can find it here
5. I have just joined a new Facebook group organised by Zoe from the ecothriftyliving blog. It’s all about reducing food waste and using up those items lurking at the back of your cupboard, freezer etc. I’m really going to try to tackle our food waste (and packaging). I’ve been rather lax with this lately as I adjust to a new and busy job, but want to get better. You can find out more here
On a final note I’m running the next Repair Cafe on Saturday so will have a few mending tales for next week:
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Great that you are running a repair cafe! And of course, so much money raised for the school. Sounds like a very successful week 😊
Yes, thank you, Helen. And the jumble that was left over is slowly going to good causes: charity shops, local refuge and other people in need. It’s great to work with a really committed group of volunteers both at school and at the Repair Cafe. Have a nice weekend 🙂