My New Toy

 

 

With some of the money that we raised through selling my Dad's hoarded goodies at this summers car boot sales I decided to buy myself something that seemed very fitting.  After all, the stuff we were selling was clutter and this will cut down on lots of the clutter in our house and make our next house move even easier.

 

I am also allowing myself a small allowance to put some books that are my forever books, those by my favourite authors and books that I love to read and re-read on to it.  The hard copies will then be sold either on Amazon, Ebay or saved for next years car boot sales, to raise yet more money.

 

Now I'm not a very technically minded person and it took me ages to even realise how to turn the thing on.  I had charged it up overnight and I was sort of waiting for it to announce that it was ready, but no, it just lay there.  The instructions that come with is are only about charging it up.  All the other instructions are on it!!  It's a good thing there is a page of instructions actually on the Amazon Kindle page online.......phew!

 

I have downloaded about ten of the classics that are available free of charge and a couple of books that I really wanted, so now I am slowly getting used to it.

 

But you know what....nothing really replaces a good old fashioned book, that you can hold in your hands, smell the pages of and look at the lovely cover when you put it down, and I wouldn't dream of having any of my recipe books on it.

 

Have a good weekend everyone.  I'm gearing up for something on Monday, so I'm having a quiet weekend for once.

 

Sue xx

Seeds

Remember this, my lovely little 10p car boot sale buy seed box, full to bursting with my packets of seeds last year.  Well this year I have two sets of seeds to store, my seeds and my Dad's seeds.  When Dad gave up the allotment he handed over to my safekeeping (and growing and eating) all his seed collection.

Well looking at how full my box was already I knew I would have to find an alternative storage container.

And here she is, a bigger version, also bought at a carboot sale a couple of years ago, a lovely rustic handmade drawer.  It was under someones stall with a handful of old chisels and spanners in it, I asked the elderly gentleman if the drawer was for sale and he was amazed, 'why on earth would you want that' he said,' just because it's so nice' I replied.  It has lovingly carved out little dovetailed joints and a neat ancient handle which had all caught my eye.   He smiled and said 'she's yours for a pound', so she is, all mine and I used her on my stall to display lavender bunches, I used her under the bed to hide away little bits and pieces and now...

.. with the addition of a few of Lovely Hubby files ...

... a few freezer labels and a bit of cutting out.

She's my seed store. 

Taking care of my seeds and Dad's seeds.  Bringing a smile to my face when I sort through the packets, bringing happy memories of car booting, planting and talking veggies with my Dad.

Memories in a one pound drawer - priceless.

What bargain lights up your life when you use it?

Sue xx