The KonMarie method

Blue_Doggy

Have been keeping up with this lovely thread on and off while coping with the paperwork - I even found some utility bills from my (late) parents from 1994 :eek: . Like some others, I've found the paperwork is a hard category, loads of it, and it's rather like playing Submarine as there's no knowing where the next time-bomb (in the shape of old letters etc.) will be lurking.

Chairs
I had to have a quick count-up, and all I can say is there are some right amateurs here

I have:

Dining Room: 4 dining chairs (which match the table), 1 kitchen chair (refugee from the kitchen after the Dog Crates took over)
Living Room: 1 "cottage style" 3-piece, 1 Music Stool
Study: 1 antique folding chair, 2 Bentwood chairs awaiting repair + 1 dining chair used as desk chair
Bedrooms: 3 chairs + 1 stray Fireside chair
Room of Doom: 3 dining chairs (1 plain and 2 carvers from same set)
Bathroom: 1 folding chair (which I sit on when drying my feet!)
Kitchen: 1 chair
Garage: 1 ancient ex-kitchen chair ("might come in useful"), + 2 Fireside chairs awaiting disposal
Garden: 4 chairs (+table); 2 2-person benches, 2 adjustable cushioned chairs (really too big and awkward but ...)
Loft: 2 unmatching Ercol chairs

Total seating available: 36 Total people living here: 1.

In mitigation, the fireside chairs came from my late Mum's and were kept on the basis of being "too good to throw away" but CS won't have them as they have no fire safety labels. Also from Mum's were the 3 kitchen chairs, one garden bench, the broken bentwood chairs and the three bedroom chairs.

Blue_Doggy

One thing I did (apart from counting chairs!) in breaks from sorting paperwork, was revisit my chest of drawers: I hadn't bothered rolling my underwear, because it's all pretty much the same so could stay folded in stacks. Anyway, I bought a new and very joyful nightdress, which caused a bit of a reorganisation, and the undies are now rolled and standing on end, so my slips and camisoles now fit in the same drawer as bras, pants etc. and there is now a half-empty drawer awaiting its fate.

This rearrangement also brought the the fore a small drawer containing hankies - mine and a load of pretty ones which were my Mum's from when she got to the age where "giving Grandma some hankies" was the answer to the Christmas and Birthday dilemma.

Some can be used to make lavender bags, but what on earth can I do with the rest? Has anyone got any ideas? What do you do?

System

Blue doggy:eek:.... your not planning to move sometime in the future are you!:D

Blue_Doggy

Judi wrote: »

Blue doggy:eek:.... your not planning to move sometime in the future are you!:D

HaHa! :rotfl: That was one of the reasons for starting this exercise, but at the rate it's going I think that when I die they might just as well burn me in the house with all the possessions around me like a 21st century Viking fireship burial. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

chaliepud

7roland8 wrote: »

Oh don't you think they might purge stuff that they later regret.

Unlikely, it was mainly pictures they had drawn, certificates, old clothes that I'd like etc etc. I rescued anything I thought might be wanted later and put it in my keepsake box!

GreyQueen

greenbee, my neighbours (several nearby addresses) are always smoking pot. And selling it. Half my city seems to be stoned at any given time, you can be walking around business and shopping districts even in the middle of the day and people are smoking weed on the street, leaving contrails of skunk for several yards behind them as they walk. Amazing.

But that was an example of random feyness which suddenly popped into my addled brain and I felt it necessary to share.:p

Am grinning at the chair-ventories we're sharing here. Seems that having 4-5 sit-upons for each residential backside is normal.

Today, I have been to work and kondo'd three more [STRIKE]marr[/STRIKE] err supersized courgettes, which went in a hurry. I am eating courgettes seemingly with every meal, but they grow so very very quickly, and I just can't keep up. However, it's an easy way to be popular, far easier than baking cakes.;)

To the poster with the rammed-full lofts, I think you need to drag it down a bit of time and process it. Might a suggestion be for the stuff that is to be kept be to have an inventory, say in an A4 cheapy notebook. Under 'C' for Christmas, you could have the whereabouts of the tree, the decs etc listed, and so on.

Be a bit of faff to set up initially but as you're going to be pulling the stuff around anyway............. and would settle any future arguments about whether you owned X and which loft it was in.

I used to suffer from loft-envy, having only a concrete ceiling above my flat, but am at least glad I don't have to contort my lanky limbs around to climb in one. But I might go play in my parents' loft next week.

Some of the known contents; sunlounger, 30 years old, never used. Sun parasol for the outdoor table, itself never used, about 20+ years old. A dressmaker's dummy. A white pottery gazunder. More yarn than a large yarn shop, coned and balled, bagged and boxed Three cat baskets for a two-cat household ( which is mostly a one-cat household but the cat sactuary had them on bogoff). Several generations of suitcases, including the really old ones made of cardboard, and the wheel-less heavy vinyl ones you'd never take anywhere in this day and age. Two steamer trunks.

Some suitcases are holding fresh air. Some are holding unused textiles which have been unused for 25+ years. One day, gentle reader, all this will be MINE! And I don't want it, but will have to process it.

Oh, and there are boxes of ordinary old drinking glasses, cardboard boxes from a range of goods, bags and boxes of gawdknowswhat and more Misc than you can shake a stick at. Every pair of curtains which has ever hung in the house, apart from the 1970s fibreglass ones. They haven't moved house since 1971 and boy, does it show.

I've quipped that I'm going to get one of those airline emergency chutes, position one end of it over a skip, lever up some roof tiles and whoosh the stuff straight down.:rotfl:It will take several dozen skips.

Oh, and there are a few chairs and at least one stool up there, now I come to think of it.

Have a random thought to share, for those who may have stuff at home, in the shed or garage, which can't normally be taken to the tip; keep an eye on the council website for hazardous waste amnesty days and note them in your diary, so you can be ready to offload some stuff which you can't normally shed.

Quick quiz; how many knitting and sewing machines do people have?

Bigjenny

1 Sewing Machine.

GreyQueen

Bigjenny wrote: »

1 Sewing Machine.

Same as me. Mum has a singer treadle, a fancy-shmancy electric which needs repairing and two, possibly three knitting machines, none of which have been used since the early 1980s. They are behind the sofa at her place.

I have nightmares about that house.............:eek:

Floss

Blue Doggy I bought a reel of fine lavender ribbon and tied a length around securely & then in a bow, to use up hankies that are too flimsy for day-to-day use &made my mum & grandma's hankies into lavender bags. These now live in my newly-Kondoed drawers
Why not make a wall hanging by sewing them together as if they are patchwork squares?

maryb

1 treadle, 1 hand crank, 2 electronic and 1 overlocker. I'm keeping the manual ones for use when I have to tackle really heavyweight fabrics - or when the grid goes down and we all have to live like we did pre- electricity:rotfl: (sorry, I'll go back to the SHTF thread now)