KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Eirlys wrote: »

Oh Kittie I would love to have bought some of the Rowan books........Hang on! I am not supposed to buy anything until all my clutter has gone. Duh! I loved Kaffe Fassett's knitting kits also and wish I had some now. He produced some lovely knits.

Oh dear! Now look what you've done, Kittie!

Several times someone up here has posted about getting rid of something and I've caught myself thinking Ooo, I would've liked that! :rotfl:

I guess my reflexive desire for radom things is one of the reasons I have had so much in the past. Other reasons could be described as:

1. Fear of poverty; if I don't take it/ keep it now, it won't be affordable when I do need it.

2. Fear of Wastefulness; it's not really good enough to give away but it's still got plenty of life left in it, I should use it up entirely. I adore using things up entirely.

3. Lifestyle aspiration; wanting to be the kind of person who goes wilderness hiking/ does a thousand-and-one crafts/ reads Literature rather than crime novels........

4. Whatever (it's relatively early and I haven't had brekkie yet).

Still on annual leave until Monday but am easing into a day of questionable weather. If it stays dry, I will go to the allotment for a couple of hours, if it doesn't, I'll think of something else to do.

Pretty pleased about yesterday's mending as I re-sewed two trouser waistband buttons and re-stitched the corresponding buttonholes as they were becoming rather worn (linen trews, not jeans, so not the toughest of stitiching originally). As I was using some Silko thread off a wooden cotton-reel, I meditated to how these old threads are head-and-shoulders in quality over anything you can buy nowadays.

Quality, in everthing from sewing threads, to whole garments, to furniture, pans, appliances etc, has been sliding for decades now. Sadly, there are plenty of adults who don't know that fridges used to be made which would last thirty years, they think ten is a good innings. At the moment, in my neighbourhood, several private houses have skips outside and I can see they're having new kitchens and bathrooms. The kicker is, these houses are well under ten years old, I remember them being built!

This built-in obsolescence greatly contributes to the appalling amount of waste and fly-tipping in our society. I hope things turn around again and that in a generation or two, people will be looking back on the current era in absolute horror at how wasteful and stupid we are. And that they'll be living differently and less wastefully themselves.

I've long joked that if I was planning multi-generational familial wealth strategies, as in for hundreds of years down the line, I'd be buying landfill sites. I have every expection of landfill mining being a thing in the future, as we try to recover the resources which we're wasting now.

Kaffe Fassett had a wonderful exhibition in the american museum at Bath, I went there with dh, we both loved his work too Eirlys

I did the second look over my craft dooks in the trolley and have recovered, as in rescued, 4. I knew I would look at them properly today and there are many designs in those four that I would make for myself, not rowan books but the likes of Kim Hargreaves and other good knitwear designers. The 5 going out are all rowan but the likes of designer fancy evening wear and young person stuff like crop tops and menswear, none of which I will make in future. So the de-clutter in my cs trolley will be going to the cs shortly, a drive and a 40p car park fee but I`ll be glad to see them go

I don`t know what next, I wait to be inspired

wort wrote: »

Oh my I'm in tears reading that post, from Greent of Daisy s. Thanks for sharing Daisy. Would you mind if I share it??

Not at all Wort, if it helps anyone then it's all to the overall good

Daisy xx

Woohoo hoop de doop, just noticed I have finally got my new badge. *Off to change sig*

MaryB - if you clean & sand off the rust and then re-spray it with radiator paint it will probably last another 30 years! I was given a bow fronted fridge when I was a single Mum - it lasted me quite a few years and was then passed on to the local scouts group. It must have been knocking on for 30 years old when I had it!!
I was born 10 months after WW2 so the hanging on to stuff for Justin has been very hard to break but I'm certainly getting there - electric carving knife, a can opener and a slicer packed to go to CS
GQ - sad to say a timewaster on Freecycle but may have another one interested - fingers crossed.