The KonMarie method

PollyWollyDoodle

Green tiger, that's very spooky! Do you think it metamorphosed one night, having got fed up with being a spoon?

I've lost one dessert spoon - mine is Viners, but not the same pattern as yours, otherwise they might be spooning somewhere! It's irritating but I rarely have more than four people for a meal. Having said that,move just realised how easy it is to buy spare items, having Googled Love Story to see what pattern it is!

I still have the solid wooden box they came in. It fits my Christmas nativity figures perfectly!

YORKSHIRELASS

Aaagh Christmas, hadnt thought about that, what are we going to do with all the stuff we are given? I might have just finished Kondoing this house by then only to be given another 10 bottles of bubble bath. I feel panicked at the thought.

I intend to do more over the weekend. Long term my goal is to have as many clear surfaces as I can in the house to make cleaning easier. I have a few issues with OHs bedside table. MK says just to sort your own things and other people will follow but what if this doesnt happen?

Oh and we have a set of 3 rather nice steak knives. I am sure we started out with 6 long ago. Have no idea where the rest went!

GreyQueen

I reckon there is an underground railroad type of cutlery liberation thingy and all our cuttles have hied it off to liberty in far-flung parts. Still haven't found the knife, but then I haven't been searching any more since I last posted.

:j I have just had a LBM and was right; the orange-handled everyday scissors which live in my desk caddy and have also been missing for weeks could have been put back into the bigger, deeper compartment at the back and be out of sight- yup, they were. Which mean the kitchen scissors can go back where they belong, on the magnetic strip on the wall.

Dad reminded me the other week that they used to accidentally destroy little wooden-handled veg knives at home, by bundling them in a newspaper with peelings and chucking the whole lot on the fire under the 'copper'. The knife blade would get raked out with the ashes........ much better to compost them, at least you stand a chance of getting the utensil back in a usable condition, said the woman who found two of her own teaspoons and a spatula in her compost bin a few weeks ago.

Have been tidying up on my allotment and have sorted out all the bean canes and condemned 9 rotten and spilt ones, and have snapped them up for the burn bag, to make sure they don't escape back into circulation. The decent ones are tied in bundles and popped up into the apex of the shed roof in their sling, which keeps them out of my way.

Didn't feel energetic enough to do a dump run with the allotment stuff, as had been woken at 4 am and not been able to get back off to sleep. Never mind, I left two Ikeya bagfuls ready to go first thing tomorrow.

I also accidentally broke a plastic container which holds some stuff in the allotment shed. I have an identical container which was going to be recycled after I'd used up the last of the product here, but I shall switcerooney them when the time comes and recycle the broken one.

And I have vowed to stop procrastinating and to actually wash up and recycle the adorable little stubby jar the mustard comes in. It's cute, but there will be more coming down the line in a few weeks. But it's hard to part with glass jars, don't you find? The prospect of turning into one of those hoarders is all that controls my packaging kleptomania at times.

mummyroysof3

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Sadly not, they are those huge about 3ftX2ft Jobbies, that came in coroguatted cardboard 'envelopes'. The envelopes did get kondoed to minimise the space they were taking.

Just had a phone call to say my windows have been corrupted and I have a virus, Ds2 was nearby so I asked would he hold for the IT dept, I got quickly asked if this was not a residence, Before La Laing for a bit then putting DS on, he got told about the virus then said in his best deep voice That he very much doubted it as here at the police station we have very good anti virus and phone tracing technology. Guy on other end went very quiet, then muttering how sorry he was hung up quickly:T:T:rotfl:

I told them. Don't have a computer so that can't be right 😀

GreyQueen

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

I told them. Don't have a computer so that can't be right 😀

Ooooh, you fibber, you! I am desperate to get one of these calls so I can torment someone but they don't seem to have my number. The folks get several of them a day, but no one wants to try to extort money or take over my computer.

Just think, they could get all my important data like ..... err..... my recipes?

loislane999

I borrowed from the library and read Marie kondos book this week (had time to read at last cos was off work with stomach bug). Inspired after years of being surrounded by 'stuff' and more 'stuff'. Time to get a shifty on and sort things out, so started with my clothes tonight. Took about an hour. Discarded sooooo many blouses I thought I loved ( not easy this). I also discarded virtually every pair of nickers I own. Now left with two pairs ( and the ones I am wearing). Two observations really. Just how uninspiring my underwear iwas, but also I am going to have to go to the shops tomorrow to buy some more, hopefully joyful, underwear. Doesn't this defeat the object slightly!
Btw, discarded more than half if what I had. :T

greent

greentiger wrote: »

Hi. I've lurked and popped in on a couple of occasions. I was laughing over the cutlery stories, because it reminded me of mine. 40+ years ago I got a beautiful set of Viners Love Story pattern cutlery. It was (and still is, sorry) kept for best, ie any celebration, visitors, so it does get used quite a lot. But there is a very, very odd thing, which I can't explain. It's a 6 person setting - dinner knives & forks, dessert knives and forks, dessert & soup spoons and teaspoons. A few years ago a dessert spoon went missing. That's not odd, I hear you say! It happens all the time. Yes I agree. I discovered it when I was setting the table. I laid all the cutlery out, looking for the missing spoon and discovered there were 7 dessert forks! I cannot explain it. I don't know anyone with the same cutlery. Very odd!

I have Viners Love Story - I started buying it before we got our first home (24 years ago) and have always used it every day (My mum has the same set but keeps hers for best) Spares/ extras can be easily obtained on ebay I'm actually considering getting rid of mine when I can find something more joyful - but have been looking on and off for about 2 years and can't find 'exactly' what I want!

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

Aaagh Christmas, hadnt thought about that, what are we going to do with all the stuff we are given? I might have just finished Kondoing this house by then only to be given another 10 bottles of bubble bath. I feel panicked at the thought.

Use it as shower gel, decant it into the handwash bottles by the sinks - it'll soon be gone! (I got rid of all my weird ones into the handwash. I use my favourite bubble bath as shower gel, as I had 6 or 7 bottles of it - and only have a bath about twice a year!)

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

I told them. Don't have a computer so that can't be right 😀

Tell them you have a Mac!


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MMF007

Not much kondo - ing here this week, working late a few times and lunch with a friend one day meant no much time spent at home.

However, while fretting about the 2 LARGE boxes of brand new, expensive items of stationery (e for envelopes, as we know), I had a really bright L B M.
Back story - for a while I sold gorgeous 'Paperblanks' notebooks and journals ( and other high quality makes). Inevitably some stock remains. I feel I would benefit far more from the space but the question is, what do I do with the surplus. All my friends have already had their share!

Well, I mulled it over, thought about giving to the PTA but the school is very well funded and I'd prefer a more needy cause. Then it came to me, I'll donate to the Salvation Army. My great granddad was a Captain in the SA and they do such good work without all the publicity the seems to dominate some charities.
Now, after dreading tackling the room of doom I am looking forward to cracking on tomorrow MK is right, the right place for things will appear and it's not always our own home, is it?!? :D

M

drusilla

Laughing myself silly. I have just had a phone call telling me my computer isn't working. I couldn't keep a straight face and did think about passing to the IT department.

In the end I just kept saying thank you, oh that is so helpful, how kind of you with long pauses whilst the Indian chap told me what was wrong. Apparently I had a virus on my computer. In the end I said I didn't know how they knew because I haven't got a computer. He then tried to tell me it was on the smartphone and Internet. I finished by saying but I only have a telly but thanks so much for your help.

I wasted about 5 minutes of his time so not too bad.

YORKSHIRELASS

GreyQueen wrote: »

But it's hard to part with glass jars, don't you find? The prospect of turning into one of those hoarders is all that controls my packaging kleptomania at times.

Oh that's so true! I thought it was just me, I love glass jars. In fact I admit to keeping one that came with some posh jam in at Christmas. It's such a pretty shape. But honestly what do you do with them?