Countrymouse Posted November 2018
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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Pam- congratulations on your 40th anniversary, too. How did you celebrate it?
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/10/covid-vaccine-cdc-says-heart-inflammation-cases-in-16-to-24-year-olds-higher-than-expected-after-second-shot.html
So far, it's a very small number reported, but it worries me. What else will be reported in a year, 2 years, etc. down the road.
Sounds like a fun time at the lake house.
Here's hoping for the best. :-)
Happy Anniversary! Hope you both have many more wonderful years ahead.
The CDC in the United States considers this serious enough that they called an emergency meeting to discuss this rare side effect.
In Canada, the same side effect has been noticed, too.
In Germany, the government actually just announced their recommendation that healthy young people should avoid the vaccines.
As a parent of 2 teenagers, I should know all the risks and benefits before committing my children to taking the vaccines.
Here's from the CDC: “CDC continues to recommend COVID-19 vaccination for everyone 12 years of age and older given the risk of COVID-19 illness and related, possibly severe complications, such as long-term health problems, hospitalization, and even death,” the agency wrote.
I saw that report. I am not an alarmist but I think the facts speak for themselves. Yes, side effects are rare. Still, side effects are reported and studied. I am glad that it is being taken seriously. I have had doctors tell me that they ‘practice’ medicine and there are no guarantees that things will always work out perfectly 100 percent of the time. Very true statement! It’s important to follow up on any concerns.
There will always be a chance of something going wrong in medicine. It’s concerning. All we can do is look at all of the facts, weigh pros and cons and decide what is the best option for our own individual needs.
I think the CDC statement ‘given the risk of COVID-19 illness and related, possibly severe complications, such as long-term health problems, hospitalization, and even death’ was about Covid, not the vaccine. Thank heavens!
If I’ve got the maths right, my blood clot risk with AstraZenica is .003%, 3 in 100,000, and it isn't necessarily fatal. I think the Covid death rate in the US was a lot higher than that.
The older kids, at nearly 13 and 17, are in the process of getting vaccinated with Phizer, at their request and their father doesn't see a good reason to say no. They are both heavily involved in sports and do not want to miss games and mess up practice schedules again this year if they are exposed to someone with covid. There's a minor thought their vaccination could prevent the younger kids (and others who cannot get vaccinated) from possibly getting covid.
So far my family has been lucky. No one in the immediate extended family has gotten covid, although several members of the extended family have had covid and a couple has spent several weeks in the area hospitals. The worst was my uncle and aunt, who after delaying getting the shot, came down with covid in April and spent several days in the hospital. At their ages (75 and 72) we were very worried.
The other day sitting peacefully on my sofa I felt something crawly on my neck and swiped at it and it was a big black beetle -about 2" long with long feelers and legs. I know it came off me but I didn't see where it went. It must have come in on the firewood I had brought in a little while before. I don't know how it got on me. I took off my outer clothing and shook it all and put it in the basket for the laundry - not that those things couldn't survive a wash cycle or three.
I haven't found it yet so I guess we are living in some strange kind of truce. I keep hoping the kitties will find and demolish it, though they tend not to kill the bugs they find, just play with them.
Meanwhile, every time I feel something on my skin - like my clothing or my hair, I suspect a revisit from Mr. Beetle. Eeeeeew!!!!!!!
Off and on, I have been doing a little bit of getting rid of things. It’s amazing what we keep due to it being sentimental.
Well, I had my husband help the other day. He took objects out of my hands and said, “Really? You want to keep this? Why?” It really helped! LOL
I want to know how people downsize for a ‘tiny home.’ Geeeeeez! I can’t imagine. Not that we are going to move into a tiny home but our real estate agent says that we should get rid of as much as possible to make our move easier.
I have decided that we are not going to pack up ourselves and hire professional packers. They charge by the hour. So, that is another incentive to remove as much as possible. We have a huge kitchen in our house and I removed bags of stuff just from the drawers. I still have the cabinets left to do. I don’t cook for an army like I used to when I cooked for my entire family and extended family. I had so many things that I don’t use anymore.
The other thing that I am concerned about is photographs. I have so many! Have any of you thrown out photos? I have too many. I am not a scrapbook person to do any of that.
I have things from my husband’s grandparents that I cherish but I don’t want to keep everything. The kids don’t want it. Not everyone is into antiques. Any ideas?
I have a huge attic that has tons of stuff in. It’s all got to go! Who knows if my daughters will ever have children? Do I still keep the crib, changing table, stuff like that? I kept them because I bought expensive ones but don’t those change as far as safety standards go and so on?
I have wedding gifts still in the original boxes! Beautiful gifts but I never used them. Some items I completely forgot about.
If anyone has been through this, please tell me what you did. I don’t think that I will miss things that I never use. Do I donate? Rent a dumpster? LOL or what? I am not a hoarder. I have a lot of space that we filled up over the years and inherited many items from my husband’s grandparents. I don’t think that I want to rent storage because like I said, our children have their own tastes and they have very limited space.
That is a creepy feeling! I don’t want to feel anything crawling on me! LOL
The cats will get them. My cat went after lizards in the yard.
At present I have lost motivation to even sort my desk.. but I will follow & cheer you on.
We are looking to downsize within a few years, kids don't want it need our stuff.
I can rationally think 'I never use that', or I don't need that anymore' but I still can't seem to throw it away 🙁.
DH is good at clearing out MY stuff but has his own... shed + garage piled with 'things that might come in handy some day'.
I DID rent a storage space. It gave ne more time to go through stuff. I had to declutter my home to get it on the market. But I gave myself 6 months to finish cleaning everything out of that storage space.
The stuff that I kept (and which is now in my 2nd husband and my storage space) is mostly my kids' stuffed animals, books and stuff like that. My daughters were happy that I kept their (and my) dolls and dollhouse.
In terms of my mom's house, I was fairly non-sentimental. I hauled a lot of stuff to Goodwill and put stuff out by the curb. Word went out and lots of folks who looked like they didn't have much to their names showed up and took home goods. It made me feel good that kitchen stuff was going to be put to use.
Your advice is exactly what our real estate agent said, that we have to set a time limit on it. Otherwise, it is too easy to procrastinate and not get the job done.
I have a beautiful doll house in the attic. I have some dolls that my oldest daughter loved as a child but she hasn’t taken them. My youngest daughter hates dolls and clowns! LOL She says that they are creepy and isn’t having any part of them. She never played with or collected any dolls. Although, she did take a few Barbie dolls in the bathtub with her. My mom would pitch a fit because she ruined their hair! 😆
Thank God that I don’t have a basement! Basements can hold a lot of stuff! Just like garages. Some people don’t have room for cars because of all the junk in them.
Yes, this is true. Men aren’t as sentimental about our belongings and they keep weird stuff! LOL
I dearly loved my mother in law. She told me the funniest stories about my husband when he was a young boy. My husband had a key collection as a young boy. He took them everywhere he went. He was fascinated with keys. He would carry them in his pockets to try to open doors with them. LOL
One day, his mom took him to buy clothes from a department store. They arrived a few minutes early and were waiting outside for the store to open. Sure enough, he reached into his pocket to get his keys to try and open the door. His mom was used to him doing that and of course, he was never able to unlock a door and it kept him busy as a young child. This particular day, his key had unlocked the door! His mom was floored! Hahaha 🤣 She had to explain to the manager that her son collected old keys. He still has that key collection in his nightstand drawer!
Need - 3 piles -donate, toss and keep. At some point a dumpster can be useful.
Like others I have things that my kids and grandkids don't want. In a spare bedroom, I am getting down to the old family photos, which ideally I would scan and send to each of my kids, but life is not ideal. The other spare bedrooms are fairly well sorted. I'm accumulating some things in the garage for give away. It's not a fun task.
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Golden,
It isn’t a fun task. It’s hard to stay motivated.
Llama,
Don’t get me started on cards! 🤣 Geeeeez, it seems like I have millions of cards!
If we are honest, we will admit that the more space available, the more inclined we are to fill it up.
I have a friend that went through the extreme coupon savings! She became very proficient with it. She had her huge walk in closets filled with her items. She had enough products to donate to the military troops, the homeless shelters, her church and so on. It took hours for her to do this type of couponing. It’s like a full time job! Eventually, she stopped doing the extreme couponing because it was consuming all of her time and her closets were full!
Recently when we got EVERYTHING out of the attic (and that wasn't the first time we had done it), the strategy that I used is I looked at everything very fast/quickly - else if I looked carefully at every item, I would never get finished and I would keep a lot - far too much!
We had our DD's Barbie car - in rough shape. I asked DH where it was, but it already removed it from the house and put in a trash bin.
Very smart! We can’t keep everything. It’s too much. Even if it’s organized well, it’s excessive. We fall into the rut of, ‘What if I need it one day?’ Items are stored away so long though, we forget we have them! Or, how about the excuse of, ‘It’s such a good price, I better get this now while it’s on sale.’ My husband says, “It’s only a sale if you need the item!” I am coming around to his sense of logic!
Barbie has more belongings than some people have! LOL 😆 She has a fancy car, a ‘dream house,’ tons of clothes and shoes, etc, etc, etc.
One thing that I didn’t think she had when I was a kid was a ‘handsome’ boyfriend! LOL, I thought Ken was dorky! My brother’s G. I. Joe was my Barbie’s boyfriend! Heehee