KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

:T everyone is doing so well!

I've not used freegle very much, it seemed very awkward to me. I tend to offer things up on fb/to friends, then sit it outside with a note if not snapped up. After a few days I call the council for an uplift. This is what will be happening to my old coffee table soon as it is too scratched for any CS to take

A new thing has happened - I seem to need more dish cloths/kitchen hand towels (I air dry my dishes so its never been an issue before). First instinct was to look to see if I could find any I liked to buy, my new plan to check my fabric stash to see if I can make some I'm sure that amongst all fabric there will be things I can hem to use to dry my hands!

Morning all.

PWD, sterling silver is only worth a few pence per gramme and the trophies would only have scrap metal value. Most of the value is a silver (or gold) item is in artisanry of the manufacture and, if no one wants it as an object, it will go for melt.

A friend of mine deals in many items inc scrap silver and gold. He is often frustrated that even very attractive silver items will not sell, even if offered at, or even just below, scrap price; no one wants them, even if he has them on display for years. This is true across the trade, so they go for scrap and are sold up in Hatton Garden.

The perceived value of the trophies which are silver, as opposed to plated, is likely to be far less than you might think and, meantime, they are the cause of anxiety and a possible incitement to thieves.

The decluttering writer Don Aslett wrote about trophies and how useless most of them are. He suggested that instead of offering a trophy as a prize, something like vouchers for goods or experiences be given instead.

Several members of my family are rather good bowls players and acquire a lot of trophies. Some of them are great big silver objects which are kept for a year then handed back to the club to be awarded to the next victor.

Many of the trophies, however, are one-deal little plastic jobbies which have no intrinsic worth, no utitlity, and are not even that attractive. When my aunt and uncle moved house a few years ago, a big chunk of the contents of their skip was this kind of trophy for their bowling. What a blinking waste of everybody's time and the earth's precious resources.

Luckily most of them are modern cups and not of great value but some are very old. We have had a couple that were damaged and needed repair and they were worth significant amounts - the problem is that we just don't know!

We have more than 200 and they save us a lot of money as winners would otherwise have to be given a medal, which is non-returnable and costs us about £5.

The committee is one of the things I'd like to Kondo. Monday night saw several references to a person I've grown to loathe. This person is responsible for all sorts of annoying and time-consuming jobs that never get done. Trouble is, I've never met this person. They go by the name of 'Somebody'. As in 'Somebody needs to ...' or 'somebody should have ...' :rotfl:

WE've a load of football trophies that DS has collected over the years. None are worth anything - in fact, the cleaner broke 2 of them :mad: and replacing them is difficult as they change the designs every year.....

On the upside, it's one reason why we are Kondoing the cleaner next week. Being non-confrontational I am not looking forward to it, but as
1. our income has gone down now I've stopped work for the student life, and
2. because we have to avoid being here when she is, cos she chats instead of working (meaning I can't work, so I might as well clean!) and
3. now that we have less crud on the surfaces it is easier to clean them

I can't really justify it. It will save us around £1200 a year :T

DS is going to do his bedroom and the hoovering, OH is going to mop the other floors and i will do kitchen and bathrooms and flick round with the duster... Wish me luck

Kondoed a shirt yesterday - i like it but it mugs me off. The buttons keep coming undone and it looks like a bag of rags very quickly. Previously I would have persevered because it is attractive, but it doesn't spark joy - just stress when i wear it. So it's going. We also started watching a film last night (Mr Turner) that was sooooo slow. So we turned it off and i am adding that to the bag :T As i always like to donate at least 5 things, i will have to seek round for three more.

On the downside, it cost me money to Kondo the shirt as it was mugging me off so much that i just had to stop wearing it, so I went in a chazzer and bought a designer 100% cashmere cardi :eek: It cost me £25:eek::eek: - from a chazzer!! the most expensive thing I have ever bought from one. But, even in Tosspots, cashmere is around £60 and this was L K Bennett so I am reckoning it was originally in the £'00s. I am very happy with it, it's luuuuurvely

VJsmum Talking Cleaners I kondoed mine when I came home early and found her and a person I cant stand sitting on my sofa drinking coffee. The said person had knocked to drop something off and the Cleaner had invited them in for coffee:rotfl:I can laugh now but at the time I was fuming. So they were both almost shoved out of the door and neither of them have ever set foot inside my door again

Today I am going to have to do some cleaning as I have been enjoying the weather and doing things that bring me joy for the last week or so.So need to get back on top of it which wont take much to be honest as KM works so well

trophies and Cups we have loads of the things down at the Village hall stuck in the shed :rotfl:as when someone wins one they say 'can I keep it here' as its a standing joke if anyone wins one as they are so big and awful Out of about 30 trophies and Cups I would say we have at least 25 in boxes in the shed :rotfl:

One lady new to the Village won 5 last year so she was the only person who took theirs so thats the missing 5 accounted for

Reminds me we will need these in July so will need to clean them as I am sure they will all be Black apart from the 5 that are out.



Mav x