The KonMarie method

GreyQueen

chaliepud wrote: »

There's this one..http://www.againstbreastcancer.org.uk/get-involved/fundraising/recycling/513/bra-recycling/

:j Great, and thanks also to dragonette, Icey77 and Sally A.

Just been scanning the list of bra bank places and several of them are accessible to us, including one in Big Market Town where we will be tomorrow. I expect it will be too late for Mum to find them before we head out tomorrow, so I will take them back to the city and put them in a bra bank there. As she's a breast cancer survivor, she should be pleased to have them go towards the cause. I have bookmarked the page.

:grouphug: To all you lovely peeps, you really are the bestest people to give support to those of us struggling out from under mountains of Stuff. Dad's quite miminalistic, Mum and kid bruv (who lives with them) are hoarders. The cats are pretty cool, as long as they are fed and can find enough space to curl up on bed or chair.

VJsmum

Bin day tomorrow - once again i am struggling to fill it now. Or at least with stuff that i am at liberty to chuck (i.e. mine).

it has to go down the side of the house to get to the front - past a whole load of carp that has been [STRIKE]dumped[/STRIKE] stored there. To be fair, most of it is stuff we can burn on our chiminea / barbeque, but some isn't burnable and, if i'm honest, we would need to have bbqs every day for a year to burn through it all. I walk past this stuff fairly frequently and don't really "see" it, if you get me. But, on looking properly tonight, I was able to get some bits of old bed in the bin, some random timber that I don't really know what it is, and three concrete garden animal ornaments. And i put out a deformed hanging basket for the scrap metal man. :T I think i will gradually dispose of the pile there - either in the main rubbish bin or the garden recycling bin.

I also kondoed a peppermint footspray today (honestly, who needs that?); DS's school notes that he no longer needs now that he's in sixth form (he doens't want them); and one of the fruit bowls. I know this isn't categories as such, just random Komono, but it is still stuff out so it's all good. Oh and a fairly freaky looking dolly of DDs is on its way to the chazzer also (I was giving it a bottle and burping it in front of DD [STRIKE]because i thought it was funny[/STRIKE] to see if she had second thoughts when my friend turned up for coffee and caught me. :rotfl: ). Said dolly's basket is now empty and i thought "ooh I could use that as an additional laundry basket" - till i brought myself up short and put it in the ever increasing pile of empty storage containers, that I think will also eventually be Kondoed.


I have been reading back some posts on the Minimalists website and rather like their 20:20 rule (if it costs less than $20 or takes less than 20 mins to replace, why keep it JIC?). So i am employing a 20:20:20 rule - £20, 20 mins or 20 miles. Things like cinema 3D glasses have fallen into this category as have several school pencil cases with felt tips and coloured pencils in.) Sorting out these latter has meant that I have found a rather decent pen that I had been sad to have lost.:T

One indirect positive of this whole process is that OH put an inherited fobwatch into the jewellers to be serviced - I picked it up yesterday to be informed that it is worth £600!! :eek: It is solid gold and nearly 100 years old - it is unlikely he will sell it, but is a good thing to have knowledge of should the need arise.

maman

greenbee wrote: »

I use old bits of china for this kind of thing. Saucers for soap dishes, china mugs for toothbrushes etc. Nothing precious, so it doesn't matter if they get broken, but it's nice to have pretty things.

Am I the only person who is sad enough to be waiting for the next update in GQ's holiday saga? Probably... I'm busy procrastinating as I should be either working or doing some tidying away of stuff that I may need to move for the builders... :cool:

supersaver1000 wrote: »

Do you have any PVA glue and fabric? I saw someone on Pinterest had covered a plastic container with cute fabric. I've got a little icecream tub in the living room for our 3D glasses so may try it.

I've tried various options for storing things and am still moving things around. For example I put a small vase in the downstairs cloak for DDs toothbrush but now it's in my drawer with tweezers etc in. I've also used old iPhone boxes etc for bits and pieces.

My best buy was a lovely doulton plate from the CS that I was going to use as a fancy biscuit or cake plate. But then I decided it fitted better on my deep bathroom sill and holds all the face washes and other bits.

I'm thoroughly enjoying GQ's 'blog' of her holiday at home. It's amazing, would make a good subject for a soap. The family sounds great.:)


Thanks for the further ideas about storage. Funnily enough I was thinking along those lines myself.


I have some Portmeirion saucers that I use for plants which gave me the idea that maybe some crockery might work. Nothing too precious but joyful like you said. I already store pencils in Burleigh mugs which are a bit crazed inside.


I'm part way through doing my sitting room and need to cover a footstool so when fabric chosen I'll have some scraps I could cover a box with. So another good idea.


No kondoing happened today but I did get to the bottom of the ironing basket.:D

mummyroysof3

Yesterday I tackled the airing cuboard and coats....only 4 items gone but looks much more organised. I now have an empty under bed draw to put Christmas shopping in out of sight from kids lol

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Welcome to the new konverts
I read a book a couple of years ago by Liza Jewel (I think) called the house I grew up in. It was about a girl who mum had been a compulsive hoarder and when she passed away the daughters were face with the task of decluttering their family home and slowly going through room after room of clutter to get the home back from a warren of small tunnels through piles and back into a home with rooms, and how they came to terms with the effect all that extra baggage had had on their lives. I remember thinking after I read it I need to get a grip on possessions NOW!
our dining table has disappeared again under a stack of quilting, knitting, cross stitch (all ongoing) and a couple of singing dancing penguins that found their way into our home last weekend, they are cute and make me laugh but the will replace the snowmen of the same size that no longer sing or wiggle. I also have the new term guidelines and handbooks to read and file that I was given yesterday.
DD3 popped in last night she has a large amount of stuff stored here that she is currently tying to sort through, some is being bayed the rest may be carbooted or CS, she has then said that I can get all her stuff down out the attic and she will decide on the clothes she has stored up there.

Re bras, I took mine to a local oxfam shop that had a large box in the shop labeled bras for Africa, don't know if they still do that. I read somewhere that women and girls are less likely to be abused if they are wearing underwear. Apparently it enters the attackers! .the mind boggles but if it works they were welcome to my still in good nic but slightly unjoyful underpinnings.

Have a good day all

just_the_two_of_us

Morning everyone
GQ I am loving your posts!
Does Mum really need to get rid of all pre-mastectomy bras? When I had mine done - nearly 20 years' ago now! - the hospital would sew a pocket into two bras per year - not sure if they still do that but if Mum has some favourites perhaps worth enquiring?


I am drowning in stuff and have a hair kondo appointment this morning followed by a full day volunteering! so will catch up with you all tomorrow.

greenbee

just_the_two_of_us wrote: »

Morning everyone
GQ I am loving your posts!
Does Mum really need to get rid of all pre-mastectomy bras? When I had mine done - nearly 20 years' ago now! - the hospital would sew a pocket into two bras per year - not sure if they still do that but if Mum has some favourites perhaps worth enquiring?

Don't put barriers in the way of GQ getting SOMETHING out of her parents' house!

GQ - if the GP surgery don't take the magazines, be clear they are too heavy to carry home and drop them off at the nearest paper recycling facility. Maybe google it before you leave home...

Good luck with the next stage.

Really need to get on with clearing the unfinished presentation from my list :cool:

GreyQueen

just_the_two_of_us wrote: »

Morning everyone
GQ I am loving your posts!
Does Mum really need to get rid of all pre-mastectomy bras? When I had mine done - nearly 20 years' ago now! - the hospital would sew a pocket into two bras per year - not sure if they still do that but if Mum has some favourites perhaps worth enquiring?


I am drowning in stuff and have a hair kondo appointment this morning followed by a full day volunteering! so will catch up with you all tomorrow.

She knows that they can be altered but they're not particularly expensive or special bras and she made the decision that she's happy to buy the special bras from the breast clinic with the pouch to hold the falsie.

Oh, here's a laff; Mum's first falsie (silicone) developed a leak, happily the day before she was going to the hospital with Nan, so she nipped into the clinic and got a replacement, but there arose the question of what do you do with a defunct silicone t*t? We're mad keen on recycling and avoiding waste as a household so wanted to get it right. After checking with the clinic the answer was to double-bag it and put it in the general refuse.

Seems to me that there ought to be a silicone boob recycling service up at the hospital.:rotfl:

For the first time in days, it's clear and sunny, we're all up and about, the cats have docked with the mothership and been fed (Wild Thing in particular treats the house like a drive thru restaurant between March and October). Just drinking my second pint of tea as we're going off to Big Market Town once the workaday people have finished with the roads.

I have been promised a cuppa and a bun in the community cafe - life with GQ, livin' it large. And we'll be back for lunch and I will be changing into my scruffs and getting coat 3 of the emulsion on the walls.

Getting a bit cream-crackered now; before I got ME aged 20, one of my nicknames was Tigger - I'm naturally quite bouncy and enthusiastic.

Have a good day, folks.

mrs-moneypenny

GQ when I went on a recent bra buying expedition to debenhams to was given a couple of post surgery bras to try on. I haven't had surgery and the fitter said don't worry they are exactly the same as any bra but just have a little panel sewn in for post surgery ladies to insert their falsies. Those bras are really comfy and fit beautifully I ended up buying two because they hadn't got underwire so and just felt so nice. She commented that they don't have vat on. So that may be another place for your mum to look. They were about £25 each not sure how that compares to the ones she gets at the hospital.

iQueen

Morning, Konverts! :coffee:

Wow! SO much progress going on! Well done, everyone. :j

One thing that has struck me, which cropped up early in the year, on MNet - the number of Konverts who are/were teachers! Do we have a 'special' clutter-gene?

When I was teaching, my desk top was always cluttered, and my lockable drawer, but my classroom was tidy. Yet, when I was a secretary, I loaded my desk in the morning and it was totally cleared by home-time!

PO this morning to move some cash between accounts. A BFL of books will be going to the PO/mini-mart/cafe, too. Then I will be un-filing the papers I need for the solicitor tomorrow and getting the clothes for that laid out. Also, need to load the car with 5 sacks of clothes and curtains etc, for CS and 2 boxes of electrical komono for the tip (tomorrow), while it's not raining. Oops, too late! Maybe it will dry up later.

RL is piling up, and I need to get on with some baby-knits for GC2's arrival in November - nothing finished yet!

I MUST move faster! :eek:

Wishing you all a good day! :dance: