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Well the intention was to finish off the kitchen today, after doing the food cupboards yesterday. Unfortunately I didn't get round to all of it:(....just the cleaning stuff/vases/tea towels etc from under the sink and the big corner cupboard. Not sure I will get round to it in the week, so might have to wait till next weekend unless I get chance after work one day. Cleaning stuff looks lovely and tidy now, can't believe how much old stuff I had that was way past its usefullness:rotfl:

somerandom

Welcome Aaleigha sorry your post got missed - sounds like you've made a good start !

drusilla

Not done much this weekend but what has been done is still tidy. Also OH has started to get rid of his holey pants. I rolled them all so that he could choose from any of them. He said that he can find his old ones and decide if the are for ragging. Who would have thought!:rotfl:

Thanks to you lovely lot.

Wooftastic

I finally got round to ordering the book!! I can't wait to curl up with a mug of coffee and enjoy catching up with you all!

tooties

Evening All,

I have been revisiting our great leaders book today in between nose blowing and coughing. DH kindly passed his cold on.

I had an idea of where i was going wrong with my kondoing, yes, i was starting a category, getting so far through and then moving onto another one.

Now the restart can fully begin again tomorrow minus clothes, books and toileteries as i know they are totally kondoed.

I washed the dogs blanket today and i knew that when it came out of the machine i would have the odd million dog hairs to kondo from the washer.

MINGING POST ALERT.

I thought for the last month or so that our dirty laundry was overly fragrant but put it down to DS's work clothes as he works in catering and likes to let his laundry pile up before putting it in the laundry basket. He also has the most rank socks in the world. Anyhow, whilst cleaning the rubber seal on the washer i discovered the cause of the awful fragrance. It was a load of black, smelly, sticky disgusting stuff that i discovered within the folds of the rubber door seal! OMG it really was awful.

I bunged in some daz, vinegar and bleach and gave it a run on a hot wash and the fragrance has gone thank goodness.

I used to be a nurse working in the care of the elderly and i needed a pretty strong stomach for that job but this was really revolting.

I never wash laundry below 40 and once a week DH's overalls get a 90 wash so i am a bit miffed as to how the rubber seal got into that state but i will clean it periodically now.

If nowt else i guess the washer got a good kondo.

regards

skeeter93

emg wrote: »

Wow! But I dont understand why the Estate Agent has posted up some pictures that only show the clutter with no indication of which room it is meant to be, how does that help the potential buyer?!

It's got me scratching my head as well. Though, after looking through a lot of ads and going to view places in the last few months, I wonder what real estate agents are thinking in general. And also how some people ever sell their houses at all. There's me hiding the toiletries and bath mats so the bathroom looks nice and no-one wants it - give them a place with junk all over and they're fighting over it!

Thanks for the sewing and pressie articles - I am loving this stuff!

jinny

Aaleigha

So sorry you got lost in the posts
The thread is huge now and very popular.
You are most welcome and come on in.
It's great you've made a start.

purpleivy

Well, am doing great with my clothes but going to have to be clever with husband. He observed that I had organised his pants drawer. I hadn't, I had just put his preferred stretch trunks folded neatly on one side. Kondo style with the woven boxers (which he has stopped wearing, but wants to keep to wear instead of jimjams in the summer) behind them. Other random stuff in a heap. Explained this.

Asked if he needed any new t shirts for the summer. He said he would have to sort through the ones he has already. Result! Commented that a couple of current long sleeved ones were scruffy, so that has been remedied. He needs to know that he has enough of a category before he can part with the old ones. I'm so clever. 2 pairs of work dress trousers out too scruffy and 2 new ones in. Getting there.

Coulddobetter

Hi

I have read the book and started folding and throwing lots of items. Like many I cannot explain the joy of a tidy knicker drawer:rotfl:

I am doing a little often rather then everything all at once. It is just too much but I have reclaimed large areas of my house and it feels good.

I have given away a printer and a coffee machine to my son which we not been used which he really wanted. A result, saving him cash and clearing some clutter out of my house.

I have hung new pictures up and removed those that don't give me joy. I have send numerous ornaments, bowl and jars to the CS. I have 3 pairs of new shoes to go an ebay. How can I have shoes that have not been worn, it is potty.

This process will take a while but I walk into a room and it feels calmer so something is working.

Keep up the good work.

Could do better x

GreyQueen

tooties, washer seals are b*ggers, aren't they? As I moved into a new washer in January, I am determined it won't happen here (have had a slight black mould problem at bottom of the doorseal on previous washer).

What I do now is take out the washload and spend about 30 seconds with a microfibre cloth doing the following; quick wipe around glass on inside washer door, then ease the rubber seal slightly and use the cloth to blot the water from the lip of it; most is at the bottom of the seal. Open dispenser drawer and use cloth to blot water out of the there.

I leave the dispenser drawer open as long as I can (it was open overnight from yestereve's wash), although I can't leave it ajar permanantly as it's right-angled to the sink and I'd catch my hip on it. Washer doors should always be left ajar, too. HTH.

Today is a work day, and I'm continuing the project of consuming my way through the random hoard of pencils and the scrap paper in the course of doing my job. For some bizarre reason, my handwriting is neater in pencil than in biro, who knew?:p

Life isn't kondo-perfect, chez moi, but it's getting noticably better and my drawers are the source of a continuing quiet joyfulness. Keep on the good work, fellow Konverts.