The KonMarie method

Blue_Doggy

Good Morning, Konverts! Happy September to you all!

I see that a lot of us are getting to the shed-and-old-tools stage of Kondoing. When you (or your OH-es) are scratching your heads wondering what to do with all the old tools, could I ask you please to consider Tools for Self-Reliance, which is a charity helping to relieve poverty in Africa by sending tools to support artisans in rural communities. http://www.tfsr.org/how_you_can_help/donate_some_tools/tools_we_need/

They don't need all our old [STRIKE]junk[/STRIKE] treasures, but some may find a useful home.

greenbee

Blue_Doggy wrote: »

Good Morning, Konverts! Happy September to you all!

I see that a lot of us are getting to the shed-and-old-tools stage of Kondoing. When you (or your OH-es) are scratching your heads wondering what to do with all the old tools, could I ask you please to consider Tools for Self-Reliance, which is a charity helping to relieve poverty in Africa by sending tools to support artisans in rural communities. http://www.tfsr.org/how_you_can_help/donate_some_tools/tools_we_need/

They don't need all our old [STRIKE]junk[/STRIKE] treasures, but some may find a useful home.

Another idea for GQ's parents

iQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

Was that with or without shoes, IQueen?

And what's this about a spinning wheel? You never mentioned that in the five hours we were yakking? I would love to be able to do that.

Am mourning the end of the hols today - and painting tables. A rucksack has been kondoed because the frame was poking through the canvas - there was a time that would have gone in a cupboard "just in case"

I only went shoeless, in a flowered maxi-skirt, during warm weather! :rotfl:And hardly ever at home, with 2 Lego fanatics, at the time!

Wot? We missed out the spinning wheel? We ONLY had 5 hours! (As I said, barely scratched the surface!) Let me know when you're over, and have a day to spare - I'll bring it over and teach you.

I used to hate the end of school vacations - born Earth Mother - unless I had another course lined up! All the best for the new term!

maman

just_the_two_of_us wrote: »

Bit miffed as dragged two enormous bags of books 250 miles to his O***m bookshop and didn't get so much as a thank you - that's the last time!!


Need to get on today as work and mess is piling up and it's getting me down.

I've had that in CS:mad:. Fortunately there are lots in easy reach for me so I tend to share the things around otherwise I always end up at the easiest to park cancer place.


I must achieve something today too. Could be MK or ironing or BOTH!!;)

chaliepud

5 kitchen cupboards done this morning, I can't believe how much was out of date or yucky, that another bin liner to stick in the garage! Really need to a do a tip run today but waiting in for a washing machine engineer!

GreyQueen

Oooff. Most of second coat done. Have to do a straight run from the front door (as was, it's now an internal door) up to the kitchen door, then the bit over the door top and a wee strip down the side and that's coat 2 all finished.

Am having a bit of a rest whilst I digest lunch and the kitchen gets washed up and the table cleared off again. One of my vaguely-held ambitions is to decorate a place which isn't actually being lived in at the same time. Both cats are still grey and fawn-grey/white, respectively, and completely emulsion-free. Unlike myself.

Dad ; You're barefoot again and you have paint on your feet. Why don't you wear your slippers?

Me Because then I'd have paint on my slippers and it's easier to wash it off my feet than out of fabric slippers.

There is a reason for my actions which makes perfect sense to me, if not to all onlookers, at least until it's explained to them.

Have dispatched two carrier bags of books out of the house today, which leaves a mere 10,000 behind. One of those bags was stuff cleared for donation and buried in the hall late in 2014, only to come to light yesterday. I rebagged them, gift aid tagged them and virtually stuffed them into Dad's hands on his way out the door.

Honestly, I admit that I'm a bossy person, but I'm driven to it by ongoing disorganisation.

I have been studying on the light levels and a part of the problem is the window of reeded glass which is opposite the bottom of the stairs. This was formerly the front of the house but 30 years ago it had a brick porch with two windows built on. There is one external window directly lined up with the reeded glass, but that is itself patterned obscured glass.

But the real problem is the pile of boxes (of books) blocking most of the window. I have discussed (OK told him I wanted it done) that brother move those so not blocking so much light. This house faces east and that side of it gets lower light levels anyway.

Sadly, I'm not allowed to paint the wooden record cabinet. I am planning to take the little c-of- d which roosts on top of it back into my custody. It was mine, I fished it out of a skip all on my ownsome, but I can't get it home on the bus and it may not be given back. This house is like the part of the ocean where the winds don't blow and the tides don't move and where things get becalmed for ages and ages.

Righty, bit more interwebulation then on with the graft. I am going to have a trip to a Liddly as a reward. I can forsee my immediate future and it looks something like this:

:EasterBun

Oh, you'd laugh, as mentioned yestereve, the pile of coats from the hall is on the bed behind me. Kid bruv comes looking for a coat, has a rummage and grins delightedly about how that's where the black anorak was. I did point out that it was on the coat hooks the whole time and he could have found it easily, but it must have been in the understrata and not actually visible.

It's a shame I have to go back to the city and my regular life in a couple of days (family will no doubt be relieved) because there is considerable needs for re-oraganisation in this household.:p

VJsmum

Question - how many fruit bowls does one household need?

I am pretty sure it isn't 5! :eek:

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

Question - how many fruit bowls does one household need?

I am pretty sure it isn't 5! :eek:

Perhaps someone heard about the 5-a-day and thought it referred to the bowls not the contents....?

iQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

Question - how many fruit bowls does one household need?

I am pretty sure it isn't 5! :eek:

I've got 1, but never use it! My fruit stays in the kitchen rack, as I regularly eat it, while it's there... got fed up with the fruit bowl constantly producing a puddle of wine/vinegar at the bottom.. :rotfl:

Kondoed 2.5 hours on the phone - someone rang me, so not planned!

Going to find some lunch and then make an appointment with solicitor to discuss Court papers that arrived this morning. Then I shall make the Family Fruit Cake and go upstairs to do some kondoing, while it's baking. I'm planning to load up the car for CS and tip, for when I go into town later this week, for the appointment. Will free up quite a bit of space. :j

I'm loving the exercise of going up and down stairs. DD1 gave me a fabulous bouquet (Wa1tr0se!), when she visited, which is on the landing window-sill - sunflowers, soft orange gladdies, and the most wonderful, dinner-plate sized, white lilies - their delicious scent is all over the house - sort of nutmeggy! LURVE it! :dance:

maddiemay

The entire contents of our wendy house on wheels (caravan) have been kondoed into the house and garage so that it can have the first year service and warranty check. It is like a garage sale/car boot gone wrong here:eek: every time I go to get something from the garage utility, the hall or the bookshelves in the sitting room a bag, box or pile of something has to be moved:( Fingers crossed that there are no problems and that it can all be shunted back in there tomorrow.

The better news is that one wax coat, 2 pairs of sandals, 2 pairs of shoes, table lamp, large vase and 2 Dartington paper weights have left the premises for ever:D

One thing that this proves to me is that no matter how long it is taking me to Kondo my home very few things that are not consumable will ever be allowed in, the aforementioned clutter is driving me mad.

One thing that is making me smile is dear dog, she has around 20 soft toys in her toy box in the dining room, most of them she knows by name (attempt to keep border collie brain active and out of mischief), but she keeps sneaking around the back of the chair and quietly removing her two caravan toys and bringing them into general circulation, it is a little game between her and me and I am not going to win this one:rotfl::rotfl: