KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

greent · 18 October 2016 at 6:18PM

Sorry to hear about your dog, Mavvy

Box of items delivered to CS today (mainly some unsold items from the NNS at the weekend + a couple of other items) along with a small bag of rags. Cheques posted out to all of the sellers at NNS (I'm treasurer), just leaving me the cash to bank which I will hopefully get done tomorrow

Some more paper stuff recycled, and that's about all I've achieved kondo wise

x

Karmacat · 18 October 2016 at 6:22PM

GQ, thanks for that post - I'd no idea of any of that

though my Nan lived in council housing all her life, and only left it to go into (council) sheltered housing ... I was 300 miles away, a flibbertigibbet in my 20s enjoying the Lunnon scene ... I suppose nobody told me

such things were "kept from us" in my family in those days.

Thanks also re the bonfire, lack of accelerant. I thought there'd be a pollution issue, but also thought I might be overthinking it. Drat that its mostly about it being dry! It rained for about 36 hours solidly over the weekend

I've been cutting and chopping and taking the stuff into the front yard (which means launching it like spears over the broken garden gate, which can't be opened) and the pile is now about four feet high, four feet wide, and up to eight feet long. And I'd be really surprised if that was more than a quarter of it

mavvymoo · 18 October 2016 at 6:53PM

Thank you everyone for your support

I have been keeping myself so busy (mainly shopping):mad: and other things but I know I need to stop ! and its just all hit me at once.

But I will take it one day at a time and I will get there.

Lolly Lola and the kits are all doing well. 2 of the kittens have been spayed as I couldnt catch the others at the time

Any other time I can stroke them but I am sure they knew something was up the day they were booked in. They keep me on my toes as they sit on the door step making such a row until I feed them

We are going to try and get the others in this week

Might need a bit of luck and fingers crossed on that day.

I do think the others are Boys so the vets are happy to leave it another week or so just sheer luck I caught the 2 little girls on the first attempt.

Also the grown up (was baby) massive Rabbit still lives on the garden and think he/she is miles too big for the cats to tackle so they just ignore it totally :rotfl:and just pretend they dont see it. The Cats are also terrifed of the Witch of Eastwick (chicken) who chases them and steals their food if she gets a chance :rotfl:

Life goes on in this madhouse

Mav x

Karmacat · 18 October 2016 at 6:59PM

:kisses3: Mavvy, it sounds like all the animals might be a distraction, in a good way. It's lovely to hear about it.

3forholidays · 18 October 2016 at 7:13PM

Mavvy Sorry to read about the loss of your beloved dog.

GQ I must commend you on the very comprehensive account of how local government financials work.

PollyWollyDoodle · 18 October 2016 at 7:25PM

Mavvy, so sorry to hear it. Anyone who's lost a beloved pet will know how hard it is. Glad you have the cats to entertain you, but nothing really helps with the ever day sadness of missing a familiar companion.

Definitely time to step back and let others do the work (or not!) for a change.

mrs-moneypenny · 18 October 2016 at 8:04PM

Hope everyone is as well as they can be.
Sorry so many people on the thread seem to be having a difficult time of things at the moment, I hope the worries problems or concerns that are weighing you down ease soon.

Stairs and landing carpet swapped this morning so kondoing the old carpet to the tip tomorrow along with mils old leaky waterbutt and a couple of other bits.
Wrapped all the Christmas pressies for my mum, sister & brother plus their families along with birthday gifts for the rest of the year, they are all going to mums tomorrow along with a bag full of books I've finished with and a pair of shoes I think mum will like(if not they will go to the CS in her town)
Have done all the shredding this afternoon so that's out in the recycling now.

Going to read a book now

GreyQueen · 18 October 2016 at 8:35PM

Karmacat wrote: »

GQ, thanks for that post - I'd no idea of any of that though my Nan lived in council housing all her life, and only left it to go into (council) sheltered housing ... I was 300 miles away, a flibbertigibbet in my 20s enjoying the Lunnon scene ... I suppose nobody told me such things were "kept from us" in my family in those days.

Thanks also re the bonfire, lack of accelerant. I thought there'd be a pollution issue, but also thought I might be overthinking it. Drat that its mostly about it being dry! It rained for about 36 hours solidly over the weekend I've been cutting and chopping and taking the stuff into the front yard (which means launching it like spears over the broken garden gate, which can't be opened) and the pile is now about four feet high, four feet wide, and up to eight feet long. And I'd be really surprised if that was more than a quarter of it

My employer is one of the hundred-odd english councils who still own their own stock, a lot of councils have sold theirs off to be housing association stock. I do know that here, if someone has lived in a property for 50 years like Nan has lived in her bungalow, we'd not charge the estate, but she's in a different council area, so I don't know what their policy would be.

It's a point of honour to us as a family that everything will be tickety-boo and spotless.

I'm grinning at the thought of you hurling spears of cherry laurel over the broken gate like some madcap Boudicca. Certainly sounds like you have a job on there.

Where I've had to burn branch wood, or rain-sodden and rotten timbers, I've stood them up together as if wigwams for a few weeks. This maximises the airflow and speeds the drying. One time, I inherited a pile of rotten and sodden timbers behind an old lottie shed. They'd probably been re-usable when stashed there but had been in contact with the soil for years and were rotted and so waterlogged that they were very heavy and completely unburnable.

I dragged them out to a bit of open soil and stood them on end in a wigwam and left them to the winter sun, the breeze and the occasional rain for about three weeks. They completely dried out and went up in a roar when I did burn them.

Perhaps you can look at making temporary wigwam piles (I've also done this with snarls of green bramble canes) and letting them dessicate for a few weeks? You may well have to have a succession of fires if you have a huge volume of biomass to get rid of.

Hell, wish I was a free agent not tied to a job or I'd offer to come and help - will garden for food.

Whilst I've been away, have had a long chat with the folks about progress at the bungalow and also been over to a pal's for an hour or so. We had a good old natter plus I was able to declutter a birthday present and card, so that counts as kondo-ing, right?

silvasava · 18 October 2016 at 8:52PM

Mavvy - so sorry to hear of the loss of your furry friend. Do find some consolation in that he was dearly loved and cared for all his life. Glad you are taking a break for a while - sounds as if a few people are in for a shock wake up call.
Managed to get a few bits photographed to sell on FB but it much else done on the kondo front today

Slinky · 18 October 2016 at 8:53PM

Mavvy so sorry to hear about your dog

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