Storing off season clothing

I wasn't thinking of bottled beers, though some live bottled beers do age and condition in the bottle... I was thinking more of the old fashioned Bavarian dark lagers aged in oak lagering tanks, and some of the stronger live beers produced that are cask conditioned for a month or more before being ready to tap.

This topic is a hoot for some of us, which a means of commiseration (?) for others. Thanks for the chuckles. Cabin fever has set in.

Sharon, looking at new snowflakes coming down again this morning in my gritty Pennsylvania city. Ugh!

Yes, tho rather inferiour beer if you leave it too long in the bottle.

Nope.

Ain't thread drift fun?! :)

I know exactly where our metal lathe is, although I certainly haven't used it for 40 years.

Ooops: Kate,"The Drawing of the Dark" is a very good SF novel about beer, amongst other things, by Tim Powers.

To Rod Speed: You're dead wrong about OCD, and I suspect you might be compensating. Kate is definitely not suffering from OCD - neither of us could live in the same house if she were.

Duh! Silly me! I KNEW I should have gone and checked... It'll make a nice change to read it again after reading all that Alex Rider stuff at the weekend! ;) Mind you, with over 3000 books in the house, I cannot be expected to remember who wrote every single one of them, even if I have read most of them, and a good half more than once!

Murder would be done! I don't obsess about being tidy... I just NEED to be well organized to compensate for the short term memory problems caused by dyslexia. And I dislike dirty rooms. No way can you CLEAN an untidy place!

Sorting and facing bills isn't difficult, particularly if you've designed and made your own wallet and have five separate bill pockets. Time saved taking the money out of the wallet far exceeds time spent putting it in. Not to mention that I rather like having some idea as to how much money I have.

Joy Beeson

Easy to claim.

If you'd actually seen my place, even someone as stupid as you would actually notice that I cant be.

Plenty manage to live in the same house as OCD pathetics.

Thanks for that evidence of OCD.

Only the pathetically anal OCDs CLEAN obessively.

Or those of us who own Collie dogs (who need LOTS of outdoor exercise no matter how muddy it is outside), indoor cats (shedding AND shredding), and boyfriends who throw cheese in the air (for the aforementioned fuzzy folk to catch)!!! Scotty's last bath included (but was definitely not limited to) the removal of dried cheese bits from his fur!!! :-)

Erin

LOL! Thank goodness I'd finished my cup of tea BEFORE reading this!!! :-)

Erin

Nah, that was Stewball! Dontya remember Peter, Paul and Mary singing "Stewball was a racehorse, I wish her were mine, he never drank water. . ."

Erin (who seems to be a real smart alec today!) :-)

Thats not cleaning obsessively.

I just have two cats of the indoor/outdoor/eveywhere variety, who go out and catch small furry livestock to bring home, play with, eat all over the floor, and who then abandon the bits they don't wish to consume so the pink blobs can clear it up, a 12 YO son who plays football, rugby, cricket, and other sports at school, and does judo and walking from home, and gets clarted to the eyebrows every time he does any of them, and a hubby who can ALWAYS find a clod of earth to tramp into the house...

And I cook. Being less than obsessive about hitting the bin with the veg peelings, the kitchen floor needs regular de-coking, too... Ho hum! Then there are the threads, fabric scraps, and escaped beads/feathers/sequins/pins and other fall-out from the sewing. Some of those can be dangerous if not properly cleared away, and I've no wish to be sued by a customer for injury due to having something like that embedded in a foot!

The gents of the house also indulge in model making, with accompanied glue, paint, plastic sprue, compressors, air brushes, scalpels, etc. and those and the mess created also have to be cleared up and cleaned or the glue is wasted, the air brush breaks down and clogs, expensive paints and brushes are wasted, and I don't have a clean and cleared run of work surface/cutting table on which to cut out someone's white wedding dress.

I don't clean obsessively. I clean enough to keep the house liveable and usable for all its several purposes by all its occupants.

When my girls were young, they gave me a small cutting board with a cord to hang in the kitchen. It says: "My house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy." That's the way I attempt to keep it; and I must say it is much easier now with just DS and me, although if I get busy sewing, some things are left undone. Emily

Usual mindless slogan. You dont need to clean the house for that in the modern first world, its basically about clean drinking water and vaccination.

Untidyness hasnt got a damned thing to do with healthy.

And disagreeing doesn't necessarily have to be disagreeable. Interesting concept, that.

Doreen in Alabama

He's a misc.consumers.frugal-living regular. And people think alt.sewing is nasty.....