The KonMarie method

Becky_2

I went through my winter coats / jackets this afternoon. 1 coat and 1 jacket have gone in to the charity bag together with a trouser suit that someone gave me for free which was too big for me.

dragonette

1 sewing machine, currently on loan to a friend. Today I've been pottering over some cleared out areas - still not managing to do things by category.

Living room now has almost all the storage clear and well organised in cupboards, some decorative items on display. There is still more to go but it's almost there. My bedroom doesn't feel so good, needs more work! But not this evening - pacing myself is more important.

Confession time: there is a lot of stuff at my mum's I should get rid of. Every time I mention it, her reply is that she still has plenty of space so it doesn't matter. I want to sort it, but would need her help. So I guess it will wait a lil longer.

GreyQueen

I checked - there are actually two knitting machines at Mum's, the Knitmaster and the Brother. One has a ribber bed, which she thinks was confusing me into thinking there were three of them.

Of course, they've been incestously behind the sofa for about 30 years, so they could have spawned a whole new hybrid machine which is plotting world domination for all I know.

Titter ye not, we only had penicillin when we had it because someone went on his holibobs without cleaning up the petri dishes in his lab first.

VJsmum

Ah, you know the old joke. Everyone in our family is musical. Even the (one) sewing machine is a Singer.

mavvymoo

Yay We have made so far £1358 :beer::beer: We still have a bit more to come in Plus the stuff I have still got to sell in the new room of gloom or doom what ever you prefer to call it

So very happy with that result Not so happy with the spare room

Will crack on and start sorting that in the morning or at least thats the plan :cool:

Mav x

katsu

IQueen it is Revlon colorstay gel envy. Costs around £6.99 a bottle in boots and superdrug (where I got it so I could pick colours) but there seem to be some good deals on it on eBay.

I can put a single coat on my toes and it looks great 7 days later! It goes on very shiny and glossy and a decent depth of colour.

greentiger

BlueDoggy, you could use the hankies as patchwork squares and make a pretty spread. Or you could do something quite radical like me and use them as hankies! I decided, quite soon after discovering Kondo, that doing this meant I wasn't bringing in other stuff and that it was in line with MMM and I could save money by not buying tissues!

VJsmum, my sewing machine is called Pearl - because "Pearl's a singer ...." Oh dear.

FurryBeastOz

Hi there. Kondoing commenced with a vengeance - and I haven't got far into the book.

Office chair offered on local facebook page was collected - £2 but better than the dump!

Gym kit - I wore it this morning for a workout, but it only does not bring me joy, I actively dislike it. Will be going to charity after washing.

1 sewing machine - used 2 years ago to make curtains. Will be needed once I have Kondoed and can get to it, to provide cushions for soon to be reupholstered 3 seater sofa.

Definitely more than 1 seat per behind here. But I can't be bothered to count them tonight. Off to bed.

Well done mavvymo on the takings. And enjoy the cashmere. I bought some clothes when I was away. The navy trousers bring me great joy - they are not black. Will be CSing a pair of old black ones in exchange. Wore my suede CS coat this evening for the first time this year. Definite joy moment. Got lots of compliments:D

SpikyHedgehog

A_Frayed_Knot wrote: »

I used to hate/hardly ever went into the loft, then I got a proper loft ladder installed, now its no problem, being in the house alone, worries me slightly, so I always take my mobile phone with me - you never know.

My mum went up her loft last week (to get camping stuff down for baby sis who is off camping this weekend), came down the ladder holding something and slipped bashing her head on the ladder. Phoned baby sis & asked for a lift to A&E where the cut in her head was nicely glued back up :eek:

I don't go in my loft as I don't have a proper loft ladder, which mum does, and tell DS1 not to go up the ladder into the loft unless I'm home and upstairs to pass/take stuff.

My plan is that when stuff comes down from it, it doesn't go back up. I want a shelf in my built in wardrobe above the hanging rail to put Christmas stuff on.

mavvymoo wrote: »

....Another thing is I lent my Bible to my 82 year old friend and she just rung me and said yesterday I was half way though that book and that bl**dy women drove me mad whittering on so I put it down in disgust. But I started tidying :rotfl:and do you know what'I have lived in this house 30 years and I still have stuff packed from when I moved 30 years ago. She then said as I was looking at all this stuff the Bl**dy womens words were in my head. And I realised I have never completely moved in to this house in 30 years:eek: She said in my head I have never moved in I have been keeping all this stuff as I needed it in my past life and for my kids ! But my kids wont want this will they ? I am living like this for someone else and not myself :rotfl: Can you pop down next week and help me clear out clothes and shoes that I have hung on to since I retired from work in the 80s:rotfl:I am just bl**dy stupid arent I

Maries magic is starting to work and she is going to finish the book today

Mav x

Looking round the house, I think that, not having completely moved in is such an issue. When we moved into this new build here, ExHusband was very firm that we not do things to the house that we'd have to patch up when we moved out such as putting hooks on the back of the bedroom doors for dressing gowns*, and it just seemed very temporary. Except instead of saving money to move to his dream house, he wanted us to spend it on stuff like expensive TV & surround sound system and holidays abroad, and then left to move in with his girlfriend. So the boys and I are putting our stamp on the house, but I realised earlier when thinking about storage that I still have a "Well, we could make do with that for now..." attitude. Leading to shoving books etc on this place or that place as there's room for them, not keeping them sensibly together.

* Please note that the housing association were and still are quite happy for us to put hooks on the back of doors for dressing gowns, and this was one of the first things we did when he'd moved out.

tibawo wrote: »

....Off to tidy now, having a candle party this week, I never normally do this as house is usually so bad with clutter that I am petrified to invite people in. Even when family comes for birthday teas I get so stressed tidying, hiding things in cupboards so that I can pretend I am on top of things. It will actually be nice to have time to make nibbles again.. BIL has already told me I better make extra cake pops for him since it's a girls only thing!!

I've offered to have my friend's three children including a toddler round while she has an PD day at work, so must be feeling that the house is getting somewhere towards hospitable :rotfl: though the living room seems to still be the main dumping ground for everything so will need a quick take things to my room before the kids get here. Ah, I've got a week as yet...

One sewing machine here, a Pfaff that MIL gave me when she got a new one. I use it nervously, but am getting more confident.

Chairs:

'2' seater sofa in the living room (that both boys and I can snuggle up on), 1 swivelling computer chair, 1 dining chair used at the other desk;

4 dining chairs in the kitchen and 1 folding stool (dining table extends to seat 6 so we have 6 chairs to match it;

Last dining chair in DS1's room, used as a computer chair;

Beanbag in DS2's room snuggled nicely next to his bookcase at the end of his bed;

Small stool currently in my room as DS2 took it out of his room. I need a stool for getting to the top shelf in the airing cupboard so won't get rid of it until I've got a folding stool;

1 dining chair that my brother made at college in the loft... It got damaged by an ex boyfriend using it as a computer chair and rocking back & forth on it, has been mended but I don't want anyone heavy sitting on it, so it lives in the loft bringing joy to no-one... So will have to vacate our house when I get as far as the loft.

Kondo'd 1 book of children's knitting patterns today and various paper patterns into the chazzer bag. Bag mainly contains DS2's unwanted books - we went through 1 bag and he kept 3 books and wanted to pass a set of books onto his cousin. Recycling bin and green waste bin out ready for the bin men - did lots of tiding in the garden over the weekend so the green waste is pretty full and the garden looks more respectable and less like a lost garden .

Igamogam

greentiger wrote: »

VJsmum, my sewing machine is called Pearl - because "Pearl's a singer ...." Oh dear.

Almost choked on my porridge:rotfl::rotfl: