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And here too GQ, you could see t'illuminations while you visited, fill your lungs with Irish Sea air and laugh out loud at the Comedy Carpet below the Tower Oh and do a fly-by Kondo!

MMF007

Igamogam, I couldn't agree more aboutthe book. I started the MK method soley because of the inspiring posts on here. I have bought the book, mainly because i felt i owed it to MK, having got all the info for free in the first place! If i had started with the book I am sure I would never have taken up the reins!

Have done quite a lot of housework today while DH did lots of gardening for my elderly auntie. Only v minor kondo-ing, a couple of bits in the charity bag, some beautifully rolled knickers (yep, it is barmy and, yes who'd a thought it??! but it works a treat at keeping the smalls drawer neat and it's always easy to find stuff in there now), and re-purposing of 2 more nick-nacks into the 'presents box'.

Mav, I bought a really joyful, brightly coloured top in M &Sparks yester. Had my eye on it a couple of weeks ago but it is soooo bright that I dithered. Anyway, it was in the dregs of the sale at £7.99 so I couldn't resist any more and in the spirit of bright joyfulness I gave it a home. Won't be able to wear it to work but defo wearing it when I meet some friends for lunch in few weeks' time

Right, DH says it's time to kondo a dvd, as it's a bank hol weekend and we are relaxing after a busy day, dinner in oven. (We are both working tomorrow, I'm helping him out on my day off )

M

GreyQueen

Perhaps I should quit the day job and spend my life on tour in a cimper vin (kiwi accent joke) visiting you all around the country. I love nothing more than a cupboard/ loft / shed to turf out.

The parental home has suffered a bit from lack of attention to decor, due to giving such a lot of time to caring for relatives. Mum is also getting rather shaky (just developed Parkinson's) and I feel the need to be more hands-on.

The debate about the hall went something like this:

Me: (whilst washing walls) It really needs painting, I could do that, I haven't painted any walls for ages, please let me do it. Pleeeze!!

Mum; we haven't got enough of the green to do it again, and if you paint the hall, you'd have to do the stairs and the landing and that'd be too much.

Me But it'd be best not to paint it green again, it's very dark in there. We could have a pale colour. I think there's some of that apple white from your bedroom up the corner ( a corner inside the built on porch which is buried behind Stuff and which would take about 30 mins excavation to reach, btw).

Mum There wouldn't be enough of that, either.

Dad; Out in thge shed there's two part-used 5 litre cans of white.

Mum, you can't paint it white, it'll show the dirt and look like a hospital.

Me; We're not that dirty, besides it's washable paint. I could use the white to tone down the green and then we could buy some cream paint for the topcoat. Cream won't look like a hospital. It's a bank holiday, there might be sales.

Dad; What's the point of having the white paint unless we use it?

Mum (gives in suddenly) Oh all right then, you can paint the hall white, just don't get any on the carpet.

Me Yippeee!!!!!!!!!! Bounces around like Tigger on speed.:j:j:j

:oI'm quite full on, in person, but things do tend to happen when I visit.

katsu

We have given up decorating for ourselves so you would be welcome to come and paint here GQ! It is so hard to find good people then get a date for work! Reliable work people (whether plumbers, chippies or decorators etc) are worth their weight in gold!

I'm currently doing some cleaning/tidying using Kondo principles as we've got visitors coming so I need to move things to get the folding bed unfolded. Whilst I'm doing that it makes sense to let go of things we know don't bring joy or don't fit our current/currently planned life.

mollymunchkin

I read the book about a week ago and have made a good start, albeit in a rather ad hoc method. The wardrobe has considerably more room and the knicker and sock drawers are lovely and neatly folded. The bookcase, shoe cupboard and linen cupboard have also been started. I took a load of the cast offs to a car boot sale this morning and instead of bringing the leftovers home again I dropped it off in a charity textile collection bin thingy. So I came home with nothing!

I've decided when I tackle the loft I'm not going to try and sell what's in there as it will just delay the process so I'll just drop it off at the charity shop straight away. I just wish I'd read the book at the beginning of the school holidays and not the end as I go back to work on Tuesday and now I want to get stuck into the rest of the house.

greenbee

GQ - sounds like the way to get your mum to make changes is for her to see it as doing you a favour (Or just to get a bit of peace and quiet )

Just out of interest, would she be happier to let things go if she knew someone else would make use of them? E.g. 'one of my friends is looking for a second hand sewing/knitting machine - would you consider loaning/giving/selling them yours?'

GreyQueen

I'm a PITA and it's easier to give in than wait for me to change my mind.

Mum's a very generous soul but giving stuff away in their town has proved problematic. She signed up for Freegle and got immediate responses to stuff offered then 100% no-shows, which soured the whole thing. Some items she has Isshews with (short-version; childhood in and out of care, acute deprivation, malnutrition, lots of trauma) so she can be resistant to getting rid of stuff, even if it isn't being used.

We are also shedding an Ewer, an old jug which would have once been part of a basin and ewer set. Found it in the shed with the emulsion and was baffled as had never seen it before.

Turns out, they got it foisted on them by Auntie R, who herself got it foisted on her by a decluttering neighbour. I shall take it up to the city where there's a market for such things and foist it on the charity shop, who I expect will sell it the first day of offering.

Righty, have done the sock-darning with some help from the cat, and am now about to go offline and do some knitting and nattering downstairs. Have a good evening, lovely peeps, I have the bit between my teeth and the scent of emulsion is in my nostrils.

S0d Proust and his flippin' madelaines, I love the smell of volatile organic compounds in the morning.

maddiemay

So much good work being reported by you all, well done, you guys keep inspiring me, although without the book I don't think I would have got my head right for releasing sentimental items or things that probably cost quite a lot of money:)

Kondoing going at snail pace, due to lack of energy (long term problem and the acquisition of a foul and disgusting head cold), but what has been done is staying good. A goodly amount of un-needed treasures to leave tomorrow to be sold by a family member for funds for a very important event which they had to postpone this year because of ill health:D

Went through make up and am discarding quite a few things that really don't suit me anymore, being much more ruthless than in the past.

I so wish that we could have a run of nice weather my really pretty summer dress has only been worn once:(:(, today I am wearing leggings, cami-top, medium weight tunic and proper winter wool cardi, even so am still cold indoors that I have my electric throw switched on and am cuddled into it. I hope that it is a better day for everyone for the bank holiday tomorrow.

mavvymoo

Ironing done at last and only 2.5 hours of misery Which TBH the saddo that I am.I quite enjoyed it think its the just getting it done and out of the way I enjoy.
Blow up bed and bedding all back in the loft labelled up;)

I do also agree about the book and the odd way it comes across but somehow it does go in the old brain How why or what I have no idea :shocked:

MMF007 Good for you buying your joyful top . Bet more people speak to you when you are wearing it and you have a lovely time I love bright colours and am making more of a statement than ever now :rotfl:

The good news is I have so many spare coathangers now and I will not fill them up again

Mav x

fpcat

I've just whizzed through my dried goods cupboard again (did about 6 weeks ago) and thrown away flour, open but with those little black beetles, specialty flour, sealed but 18 months out of date and noodles which were 2 years out of date! Now how did I miss those first time round? I also looked at the herbs and spices which are kept in 2 wooded boxes. I have found lots of unopened but out of date spices and herbs. I've ditched chinese pepper, and nutmeg which had faded and smelt odd. I only use fresh grated nutmeg, so why had I kept that? Anyway, ood and unopened spices - do I keep and hope I'll use them or accept that they are never going to get used, and give myself some space? I think I'll need to buy more black rubbish bags if I keep this up.