KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

PollyWollyDoodle · 2 September 2017 at 9:36PM

Oh Charly, big hugs go out to you. No words help, it does get better as time goes by but it takes a long time. So sorry to hear it.

Slinky · 3 September 2017 at 7:15AM

Charly & Pooky, so sorry to hear about the loss of your beloved pets, they are more than animals, they are family and we feel their loss as much as our human family.

Mila, good to see you back, haven't seen you post for a while.

Kittie, I did wonder if we could be cutting fruiting buds off, but the year we didn't cut the tree back we got no more fruit than the previous year so I don't think that it's that. We used to have another apple tree and got more fruit when we had that one, so I think it's a polination issue. TBH we only have the tree as it was here when we moved in and it provides a bit of privacy cover from the footpath behind. If I want apples I can always buy them (they're only cookers anyway), or sometimes a chap across the road gives us some of his. We give him some of our pears. Today I will probably be making pear and blackberry crumble!

[Deleted User] · 3 September 2017 at 8:04AM

MM, yes and I think that it would do any restless soul good to have a good browse through rightmove, then look at the satellite picture and see what the EA photo missed on purpose. I looked back at my adult roots, I lived two miles from a small market town in s wales and loved it there but the ideal would have been to be to live in the town/ large village.rightmove example: terraced, re-vamped, 3 small bed, large clinical kitchen, bedrooms with low ceilings and a clinical living room with a door straight onto the road and masses of traffic fumes. Over 530k, I nearly choked on my drink. Not a cat in hells chance for any youngsters to live there, so a future wealthy oap ghetto in the making

I am looking out my window now and watching the laden apple tree branches swaying in the breeze and there is a sheep looking in

It is a carp indoors day, so I will make some effort to sort a cupboard or two, I can`t be spending my whole day pottering with hobby stuff, listening to the radio. Must do some `work`

Wednesday2000 · 3 September 2017 at 9:31AM

Pooky wrote: »

Charly, so sorry x I know just how you feel as we had to make one of those very adult decisions yesterday at the vets with one of the most brutish, soppy, thuggy, softie cats we've ever had the pleasure to know. He had a wonderful life with us and will leave the biggest hole.

Charly27 wrote: »

August ended with us saying goodbye to our lovely collie cross rescue dog Charly. [she was the inspiration behind my name on here]
I can't believe how much of a hole that girl has left behind her. DH is reeling too. Our lives for the last for the last 11 1/2 have her routines entwined through and around them. All four of our children have left the nest - although they pop in and out for varying sojourns- and we never had children together. So that crazy hound was ours.
I can't bear to walk in the house, it feels so empty. This morning I hardly knew what to do with myself.

I'm sorry to you both.xxx

I have had to have 2 of my cats put to sleep in the past three months, it was so hard but they were both very ill and not getting any better.:(

Wednesday2000 · 3 September 2017 at 9:31AM

I meant to post this here.

Typical! My husband is a lot more hoarder-like than I am and he chose to keep his old stereo instead of getting a new one. I said to him that I bet when he gets it out of storage that it won't even work. He tried to get it to work yesterday and it is broken in some way!:mad: It is from the 1990s and is huge, it has been taking up about half a cupboard to store it along with the giant speakers. He now wants to try and fix it rather than buying a new smaller one.

So annoying.:rotfl:

Ellidee · 3 September 2017 at 12:34PM

De-lurking to post this

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/02/my-fathers-hoarding-inspired-me-to-change-other-peoples-lives?CMP=fb_gu

Knit_Witch · 3 September 2017 at 12:58PM

Sorry to hear about those of you that have lost much loved furry family members

Charly27 · 3 September 2017 at 7:13PM

Can I just say a big thanks to all of you for being so understanding about Charly dog and so sorry for Pooky and Wednesday too. DH and I are rattling around in the house at the moment but trying to get through and get ready for work tomorrow as well. We're both still a bit choked at the moment so patting each other for any little jobs completed, ironing (he did that whilst watching GP), mowing our little lawn (4 baskets of grass) lord knows what Lottie will be like! We've planned meals and shopped. Baby steps xxx

camelot1001 · 3 September 2017 at 8:22PM

So sorry Charly, Pooky and Wednesday, life will seem very empty for you for a while.

Unexpectedly kondo'd a pair of 'laptop' glasses to the bin today, I've had them for years and the leg fell off today. Good job I have spares (£2 from Primani).

All the glass jars have been filled with jam, chutney and onion marmalade today, seems better to see them filled with something rather than laying empty.

GreyQueen · 3 September 2017 at 8:31PM

Just kondo'd a couple of hours chatting around a mate's and took two niggly little hand-sewing jobs with me to do. One of which has been waiting for weeks, one since last weekend. Both now done, put away, and the sewing supplies put away. Feeling happy.

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