KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

I kondoed a new box of tea to a friend. I don't like it (camomile honey), but she asked for 'relaxation' tea, and loves it. When she's leaving our house tomorrow, she can take the box with her. Small steps.....


The WI in my village (only it's called 'Femma' here in Belgium) has a pop-up sale soon, and has asked for clothes and accessories to sell. This evening, I'll go through my charity shop bag and wardrobe to see what can go there.

Hi everyone
Just de-lurking again to say hello to everyone.
I keep tabs on you all every week. Still lay in bed with a pot of coffee and laugh, cry ,celebrate, commiserate and cheer you all on from the side lines.
Greyqueen's tales from the parents abode are just like a soap opera, can't wait for the next instalment.
I myself have reached a milestone in my kondoing. After 16 months I finally emptied my freezer. After playing tetrus with the contents for about a year, I finally found the bottom. It took the next 4 months to eat the remaining items. It was all defrosted and cleaned, before I went away for a short break last week.
Now I'm back and I WILL only fill it with things that are clearly labelled and items we will eat in the near future and not with carp that I thought was a good buy at the time.
The rest of the house is still a joy to live in. it takes minutes per day to put back in pristine order.:
Still since I last posted lots of furniture has been thanked and showed the door, chairs, stools, bookcases and pictures have all gone to the furniture charities.
Every time a charity bag drops through the door I always seem to have something to pop into it. I don't know where it all comes from. Things that have survived the last cull seem to suddenly surface and in a LBM off they go out the door to clutter (sorry spark joy) in someone else's life.
Keep up the good work
Tea-lady

A while ago on here somone mentioned Hamster Baskets for organising in your chest freezer
I bought some and they are the best things we have ever used to make sure food does not get "lost" in the bottom of the freezer

Loving Tea-Lady's description of how much better life is in a kond'd house. I'd love to get my lovely (but cluttery) mother to that stage.

The next installment will be next Bank Holiday weekend as I will go over there for a couple of days and I am sure I can find something to declutter whilst I'm there.

Mum jokes that I give her a kick up the rear (metaphorically speaking) and only by example. When the clutter has been maturing for about 45 years, it can seem an insurmountable task to chisel away at it. She did ask about some bits of storage in her bedroom which I told her two visits ago were mostly full of fresh air whilst other things, which could have been contained, roosted on top of them several feet deep. I don't know if that means that she intends to do something or whether it was a casual aside. We shall see.

Came in briefly from work, out again to archery evening class, back again and jumped into the shower. Clammy evening here.

I have some more things to attend to before they can go; a minor repair to a jacket which will require the sewing machine, and then it can go (was laundered last weekend) and a few other bits and bobs. Will need to chase up the freegler who was going to collect something on Saturday and hasn't. I don't like hassling people but I wish they'd ping a quick message if they've changed their mind or something has cropped up which means they can't come until much later. It's embarrassing to have it open on the site, especially as I chose this freegler over another freegler, and if I turn around and offer it to them because of a no-show, will they be huffy?

Ach, I'm over-thinking this. Will message the freegler with a deadline of next weekend and if not collected, will get it out of here.

Onwards!

ETA; have messaged the other person and given them a polite deadline for collection which is several days' hence and more than a week after they said they'd collect them.

Bulky waste was collected today - king sized bed and mattress with 4 drawers, 'spare' double mattress (kept under my bed 'Justin Case' all DS3's friends visited at once), desk and chest of drawers.

Also finally made it to the doctor's (have tried and failed several times) to get the results of my blood tests. I now have tablets for a vitamin D deficiency. Just googled the symptoms - muscle and joint aches, bone pain, tiredness and depression. I can check all 4 although I went to the doctor's with the tiredness (sleeping up to 12 hours and still dropping off in my waking hours). Depression had come out of nowhere as I thought I was doing ok - I do have depression and feel it is now something I live with, but I have developed lots of tricks to get by and manage to be happy most of the time.

Still so good to know there is a physical cause as opposed to me being old and fat and lazy and useless (I was trying to make myself angry enough to start fighting back). I have learned to pace myself, alternate sitting and standing tasks, rest when I need to and accept that it is no use comparing myself with what I used to do and beating myself up.

Hoping to tackle either some physical chores or the paperwork mountain tomorrow.