Comments on: Beautiful Choices

By: Jenny Moss

Jenny Moss — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:38:33 +0000

Have had a holiday house for several years that is filled with some bits and pieces that I really love and enjoy becasue they are lovely pottery and music.

But we have finally accepted that we do not use the house often enough to justtify the cost and upkeep. It is on an island in Bass strait so it is very expensive to ship things back to the mainland.

Now I was very keen to do that thinking that we would have extra linen etc plus spare whitegoods and furniture that might be useful sometime.

But having put the house on the market and having someone wanting much of what is in the house I had a real awakening. Apart from the music and pottery I really do not care about the rest of the things plus the cost of bringing them back to the mainland and then paying to store them was a foolish waste.

So with the proceeds of the sale we are going to have the new kitchen and garden room we have always wanted, plus a few other modifications to make live easisr as we get older and will invest the rest to fund future holidays that some one else will cook the meals and make th e beds etc etc etc .

Thanks Angela you are slowly but surely moving my thinkiong. The Sallies got six more bags last week and more to come.

By: Anne Maybus

Anne Maybus — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:37:08 +0000

I have so many pretty things given to me over the years. When I had children I started to put these things away so they wouldn’t be damaged but that means I don’t see them. I have started to sort through things recently and I am loving it. i find crystal that brings my nana back. I have old clocks that are grandpa. I even have a piece of twisted wire jewellery that was made by my first ever boyfriend during maths class! The items are lovely but it is the memories that make them precious to me.

Thank you for your article.

By: janice

janice — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:05:01 +0000

When Karen told me this month’s theme, I panicked. So much choice, it was like a blank cheque. Like you, I find beauty in everything, but you hit on one of my passions – crockery! I don’t have collections of anything, but I seem to have acquired a lot of crockery that inspires me and I choose to use it all. Even when mugs get slightly chipped, if they’re favourites, I plant cress or herbs in them and keep them on the window-ledge.

I’m gutting my home at the moment and have let go of fifty years worth of possessions that no longer energise me or earn their place by being beautiful or functional or both.

Thanks!