Goodbye dear old friend

It’s sperrmüll time again here and that means there are piles of junk on every street corner in our town, along with tons of white panel vans with Polish license plates cruising around. The vans started appearing on Saturday morning already, waiting with...

That’s not shopping at all

After the visit to the doctor today, we ventured over to IKEA (yes, twice in one week which is scary to us too) and thought we were going to pick up the DVD shelves and chest of drawers from IKEA. We noticed that everything was about to go up in price with the new...

Recycling old candles

We weren’t really feeling like doing anything too physical today so we decided to try something else new – recycling a big basket of bits and pieces of candles that was left in the house when we moved in. We’ve thought about doing this for a while,...