Frugal Frump to Fab - 2015

lessonlearned

maman wrote: »

Loving it LL:T


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s


Thanks all for the tips about packing and Kindle.


I've done a little bit of Kondo. All my jumpers and tops, undies and nightwear are suitably folded. What's amazed me is how having sorted them I've kept them that way for months. Will take the tip and transfer it to my packing.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Ah thanks for that.

Funny you should choose that one. Whenever it came on when we were out OH and I used to do a little homage to Abba....... well I told you he was a party animal.:D

I had to smile last week, my OH had a collection of very loud Hawaiin style holiday shirts. He had one which was bright day go orange - this was always worn on the last night of the the holiday - a tradition......

Last week my DS1 went to a 70s night, out came the wig and moustache, fake medallion and the Orange shirt!!!!

Like father, like son......

Speaking of fathers and sons have now booked rail tickets to Edinburgh to see FIL, for two weeks time. So now I need to book a hair and a chiropodist appt.

I too have been Kondoing as I have been sorting out my bedroom, everywhere looks so neat and tidy. I will have a go at Kondo folding for my trip but I do want to travel light. Having said that travelling light to Scotland is quite difficult because of the unpredictable weather. You can have 4 seasons in one day........:rotfl:

I have decided to give Glasgow a miss, I will just visit family and "do" Edinburgh.

Weather disappointing here, my Lithuainian neighbours fault, they are having a big family party, such a shame after yesterday.

So today I shall finish organising the study and then one final go at my bedroom. I need to sort out my lotions and potions.

Have a fab holiday Greenbee.

greenbee

lessonlearned wrote: »

Have a fab holiday Greenbee.

Sadly I'm travelling for work. If it was a holiday I wouldn't need to pack NEARLY as much :cool: I have worked out my laundry days carefully ... 4 cities, 4 flights & one 5-hour train journey... However, I'm meeting up with friends and seeing places I've never seen before. I'll try to enjoy it!

3forholidays

lessonlearned wrote: »

You can have 4 seasons in one day........:rotfl:

Today's weather is exactly like that! Wind and rain interspersed with sunshine.

lessonlearned

greenbee wrote: »

Sadly I'm travelling for work. If it was a holiday I wouldn't need to pack NEARLY as much :cool: I have worked out my laundry days carefully ... 4 cities, 4 flights & one 5-hour train journey... However, I'm meeting up with friends and seeing places I've never seen before. I'll try to enjoy it!

Sounds like you are going to be busy......enjoy your "down time" with friends.

maman

I'm like Pavlov's dog with Dancing Queen. The minute it comes on I'm up on the floor in a flash!! :rotfl:


One day we will explore Scotland but I have been to Edinburgh and loved it. It had been the plan to take in Glasgow too but we had 5 full days in Edinburgh and never ran out of things to do so it didn't happen.


Travelling by train or car it's not so essential to pack light as wheelie suitcases are a joy to manoeuvre compared to the old days. Fortunately for us the local airport is very close but Flybe have the smallest cabin bag size rules so we wanted to be OK for city breaks.


I've got as far as folding clothes with Kondo. I've ordered the book from the library but the thread on here is so big it's put me off wading through. Any tips for other things than drawers of clothes?


Hair still looks good today. Why is it that professional blow drying always lasts longer? As my hairdresser is now sharing his time between here and Spain I've made an appointment for 6 weeks time when I know he'll be here. It'll cost a bit more than waiting until it looks scruffy but will add to my fabness so I'm going with it.


Weather is good here. I've got some paperwork to do and more washing but may go out for a while later, see how I feel.


Back soon.:)

liltdiddylilt

maman - the book will open it all up to you, but she advocates having less STUFF in general, and more of the things that you love.

Books - you might have a shelf full of books that you read and enjoyed so therefore kept. Are you likely to ever read them again? Think hard. The ones that you have genuine intentions.. for instance going on holiday soon and will take them with you, keep. The rest have served their purpose, thank them and throw them out (but don't, give them to charity of course, or sell them!!)

The books that you have kept but have never read because you will get around to it one day. She advises that these books have passed their time of usefulness, and if you genuinely meant to read them, then you would have done when you got them. Therefore their purpose was to show you that they were in fact not books that you wanted to read. Thank them and pass them on. :rotfl:

She is as nutty as a fruitcake, but the one thing runs through all of her advice. If it does not give you joy, and its usefulness is not pressing/immediate or genuine, then remove it from your life after thanking it.

She also advocates clearing out categories, not rooms, because as she points out, you don't keep everything together. You may think you do but if you are anything like me, your bedroom, living room, & bathroom all contain toiletries of various types. I also have cleaning products scattered to the four winds. Only by getting all things together in one place, can you see just how much you have and sort through it effectively. You can then put the hopefully much smaller pile back neatly and tidily in one place, a *home* for it, and then your cleaning becomes a matter of putting things back in their homes. You'd be amazed what you can find duplicates of. I've the same Christmas book 4 times :rotfl: and far from being with the Christmas stuff (one was)... one was in a junk cupboard, another in with the books in the cabinet. One in with my daughters books....

I could go on forever, but I have friends who have cleaned out their entire house in this fashion. And one now has endless storage boxes piled by the front door ready to give away.. after so much left her home that she had no use for the storage bought purposely to contain the overflowing chaos! xx

lessonlearned

I treated myself to her book. She is a tad eccentric but very sweet and endearing and I have to say what she says makes so much sense, even if she is as nutty as a fruitcake.

Now that I have read her book (and of course thanked it!!!!) I shall be taking it with me to Edinburgh for my 30 year old neice. Bless her she has Aspergers and is a hoarder of monumental proportions. She lives in a flat and apparently it is packed to the gunnels with stuff, my SIL is in despair., although in some ways she is just as bad.

My niece plans to let go of the flat and move to Malta, so this coming winter she is going to take a four month lease just to to make sure Malta is really right for her. Then my SIL will also move to Malta when FIL has passed and she retires.

So they both need to have.a massive clear out but the Aspergers is getting in the way. I'm Hoping that this little book might help them both, it's quirkiness might just appeal to my niece and she might finally "get it"

I have definitely made some serious inroads into my stash, although of course ive also got mums treasures now so I am feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment.

With each bag I get rid of I feel like a load is slipping from my shoulders. I aim to live a very simple minalmalist lifestyle, with fewer possessions in the future.

Maman, the author suggests you do it in a strict order, starting with clothes and leaving personal stuff like photos and memorabilia till last.

One thing she doesn't mention but which I read somewhere else is if you are really strugglingto part with something but you know you really have to then take a photo of it. So that ball gown which brings back such happy memories, or a piece of furniture that you cannot take with you when downsize.

I agree with what she writes about storage solutions. I seem to have spent most of my adult life trying to come up with ingenious storage solutions, buying storage chests and boxes, bookcases etc.

Guess what!!! I didn't need them.......All I had to do was pare down my collections. Doh. When I stop to,think how much money I have wasted on storage solutions and how much time and energy has been spent sorting, cleaning and storing stuff .........

Never again.;)

I am so looking forward to the day when I too will be able to dispose of no longer needed storage boxes.

Pure bliss.

Oddly enough I have even started Kondoing the garden, changing the layout and going for a much simpler planting arrangement and fewer colours.......

I tell you this Kondoing lark is life changing. :rotfl:

lessonlearned

Ps forgot to mention, the money raised from everything I sell is going into a seperate mad money fund, holidays, special treats - nearly £600 so far........and ive still got mountains of stuff to get rid of.

Caribean cruise next winter??? :rotfl: trip on the trans-Siberian railway, or just loll around Italy until ive spent it all......

Decisions.......

3forholidays

lessonlearned wrote: »

Ps forgot to mention, the money raised from everything I sell is going into a seperate mad money fund, holidays, special treats - nearly £600 so far........and ive still got mountains of stuff to get rid of.

Caribean cruise next winter??? :rotfl: trip on the trans-Siberian railway, or just loll around Italy until ive spent it all......

Decisions.......

Decisions indeed! :T Well done on raising so much money.

Rummer

Maman, I am another book fan and love the feel of a book however my Kindle is fabulous for travelling and I take it everywhere with me. My case has a light on it so is perfect for reading when camping.

Not read back through all the posts I have missed so I am off to catch up