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Hey all
I'm still kondoing away slowly
I've been meaning to say thanks to whoever (Jinny?) mentioned using the little containers that grapes come in - they're just the right size for compartments in drawers etc and I wouldn't have thought of them myself so thanks!
And I must be healthier 'cos I'm eating lots more grapes now :rotfl:

Sorry I'm not posting much, RL is getting in the way, but I'm cheering you all on from the sidelines
Rx

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all,
Not a lot done last night but a coat on the to go pile got kondoed to DD3s fiance
Found another of my skirts I don't feel the joy for so that's going in the CS bag.

Edit
Just remembered I did do something last night! The kitchen radio had been broken for months as had the old kitchen scales and I'd bought a new steamer and the old tatty one was still still on top of the cupboards next to its shiny new replacement, so all 3 old items that weren't worth donating to the CS were bagged up and DH took them into work this morning to go into their recycling skip.

GreyQueen

If I'm suffering from inertia and have stuff to do (i.e. chores) which I can't face doing, I set my little digital kitchen timer for short bursts of time such as 10, 15 or 30 mins. It really does help.

When that timer dies I shall be bereft, it's lasted over 20 years already and did actually fall into a deep-fat fryer once at Mum's (it was fished out very quickly) and survived unharmed. Not bad for a little plastic thingummy.

I find in my own life that untidiness can lead to bad habits and more untidiness. I'm not talking antimacassar-twitching or worrying about dust, but more hardcore stuff. Such as the pan you didn't wash up after last night's meal, which is still unwashed when you want to cook tonight's meal, so you don't eat properly and graze on snacks. Which isn't good for health or wealth and the pan is still there............ It only takes 2 bowlfuls of unwashed dishes to reduce my tiny kitchen to unusability.

Whereas, if the kitchen is clean and tidy, I can throw a meal together very quickly even when tired.

What I'm finding in my life is that a 30 year history of ME, plus a 20 year history of another chronic illness, plus starting the menopause plus having a lot of things I like to do apart from go to work, means I have to get more efficient. What the older people like my Grandma used to call using your brain to save your back.

I try to make one trip serve multiple purposes, such as dropping into the pharmacy about my prescription on the way back from the allotment after I'd already bought the fencepost on the way up there, and nipped into a supermarket as I passed it.

Kondo-ing works very well with me for a drive towards efficiency. It's as she said in the book, she is lazy and disorganised herself. :cool:

ETA rosyq, the grape container suggestion came from me, they're surprisingly useful around the home, aren't they?

jinny

GQ I think you did mention fruit containers first
I think I just mentioned in a post what a useful size they were
So your mentioned in dispatches re grape containers

I would never take the praise for good ideas
I had enough of the beggers when I worked doing that!
Lol

I too have used wind up timers to get jobs done
I do like the pomodoro app though
it's a novelty I suppose giving me a little break after 15mins
Then getting me on my feet again....works for me
Im thinking I.could use it for shopping
Ian always missing the bus home with losing time in the shops
They are like las Vegas casinos you lose track of time.
I menu plan and make a list but I look around for alternatives on special

oldtractor

grunnie wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYgBKut4-8k
here it is if you have 5 hours to listen

Thanks for this Gunnie I'm about a quarter of the way through. its interesting.

Tea_Lady

Hi to all you wonderful Konverts
Been working 11 straight days, so trying to catch up with the thread.
Hugs to all of you that have debilitating conditions, chronic illnesses or who have lost someone close. I don't know how you do it, i'm fit and healthy and i'm struggling in some areas to clear my stuff. So hats off to you.
Bits of my home are still tidy. Other rooms have had the doors shut on them for now.

mrs-moneypenny

grunnie wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYgBKut4-8k
here it is if you have 5 hours to listen

Has the book disappeared from this link? I was about 3/4 way through and paused it because I had to go to work. Now I've come back it doesn't appear to be there anymore:(

Would someone mind checking and telling me if they can still hear it please.

CKgeordieinlondon

Hello all,
Well I’m flying through the paperwork. I hate shredding so I’m surreptitiously filling up the “Confidential Waste” bins at work.
I’ve done all my finance online for years so it’s really no hardship chucking out old mobile phone bills from 2002.
Then what should stop me in my tracks but he “Old Payslips” folder. Not payslips from my current job. I keep them in my drawer at work.
No, this is my collection. My first payslip from every job I’ve had (I’ve had quite a lot). I suppose I like to see how far I’ve come from the days when I used to earn £34 a week. Also in the folder are letters offering me jobs that I took and left years ago. What’s that about? Is anybody going to say ”I don’t believe they offered you that job 15 years ago, show me some proof.”
Am I so desperate for approval that I keep letters to remind me that I passed an interview? Truth is I probably was (note past tense). So all the letters and contracts will be binned.
The payslips will be photographed and maybe I’ll do a little online collage for my personal amusement. (The fun never ends around here)

Bigjenny

mrs-moneypenny says its no longer available because of copyright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYgBKut4-8k

Justamum

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Has the book disappeared from this link? I was about 3/4 way through and paused it because I had to go to work. Now I've come back it doesn't appear to be there anymore:(

Would someone mind checking and telling me if they can still hear it please.

It says it's no longer available due to a copyright claim by the publishers.

Oops - didn't notice Bigjenny had already said the same