The KonMarie method

iQueen

Wow! You have been busy, all of you! And the I've been cracking up with laughter, as usual, with all the jokes! :rotfl:

Thank you for all your kind thoughts.

So, far my weekend with genealogy has gone very well. Family trees seem to get harder and harder, as time goes on. People become hard to find in the records, and many older generations had masses of children, who all, repeatedly, used a handful of forenames for them. Very difficult to sort out who belongs to whom, when children were born over a thirty year period and the same with their parents!

Today, I will be working on one of my gt gt grandfathers' branch - same names, same geographical area, and a surname that is as common as clotted cream, in Cornwall, and nearly all of them were tin-miners! :eek:

I've been putting this family strand, and 2 other similar ones, off for years. So, lots of paper, dates, and mini-trees to be produced! Joy, oh joy! Hopefully, the paper can be discarded today, when things start coming together and the information is input to the computer.

All your posts have fired my kondoing urge - I want to fill bags of Stuff, boxes of bric-a-brac, and tackle the kitchen! :rotfl:

I may float around between the laptop, and the CS bags today! That will probably satisfy all the urges. A simple grill salmon steak and salad lunch is on the cards, so no real interruptions planned.

Wishing everyone a happy day! :dance:

Goodintentions

Operation loft has begun!! I upset DH as I was ironing this morning, to his surprise I told him that I was doing it, so he wouldn't waste valuable time doing it, when he should be in the loft, as promised! I have told him numerous times that he does the jobs I can do, leaving the ones that I can't (I don't do ladders!). He went off in a huff!
As a result, he has been throwing down bags of clothes (that I thought had long gone!) and cardboard packaging. Now, I know it takes me a while to get around to things, but I definitely didn't put the stuff up there!!! He is a master procrastinator

I have sorted through a few bits, and unpicked my DD1's embroidered name from a PE skirt before putting back in the CS bag (she is 23!) and wouldn't have worn her PE skirt for at least 7 years!

I need to do a food shop, so I may take the CS bags with me and get rid.

dragonette

Barely done any tidying for a day or two, and the flat is still decent! very happy with the reduced effort needed to keep it tidy enough I don't get stressed. Still finding things that annoy me and need dealt with (ofc), but a lot of the 'big' things are done

katsu

Been in the loft and cupboard finding items in storage we can release. So many things that fit old lives!

The loft is crying out for a re arrange so like things are together eg all the DIY items, all the books etc. They are all nearly boxed but efficiently stacked by size rather than type. I've asked DH if we can find some happy way of combining efficient stacking with grouping.

Several more bags for the charity shop are ready to go

ali-t

Ive revisited paperwork for the 2nd time being much more ruthless. P60s that declare do not destroy must have scared me the last time as i found some from over 15 years ago! Now they are all bagged and ready for our next fire. I think i have kept 3 years worth as proof of income but once my tax returns are done they are ready to move to interim storage before being destroyed.

i also cleared out a couple of storage containers that must have been invisible to me previously. Komono appears in the strangest of places!

katsu

I have just put some old payslips for shredding but kept the P60s and HMRC paperwork.

I need to revisit my paperwork archive in the loft to see what more can go, but it is all in one box so I won't end up with more storage space from it so I don't feel any sense of urgency to review old bills and payslips until more areas elsewhere are cleared. A nice winter job to review my files one wet day

I've traditionally done more organised filing than MK does - which did make it handy when DH received a nonsense letter this week saying he owes erudio money... around 15 years after we paid off our student loans! A quick trip up and the box produced the wallet with his paperwork in, ready for when we get their promised proof of this outstanding money. He was more polite to them then I would have been I think. I was stunned they could claim that there was effectively a one month shortfall in payments from years ago. I imagine many people would end up paying it to avoid problems, but I knew I had the final letter confirming the SLC had been repaid filed with his other student debt clearing.

Right. Back into the loft

Igamogam

Slow kondo here. RL making demands. However have put into recycle box some old baking sheets and in the CS bag goes some flan rings which I can't even remember ever using. DD also put a few things in CS along with some odd bits I stumble across. Been through the large food cupboard and discarded some empty packets???!. Used up some bananas pecans and some sad blueberries in loaf cake and OH is struggling with his paper work mountain range........multiple boxes of paper which "he always deals with as it comes in"........clearly not. I don't think he believed me when I pointed out just how much there was that belonged to him.

in_need_of_direction

Just sorted the contents of the magazine rack disposing of quite a bit including a 2012 ikeea catalogue.

bossymoo

I had bought DD a cube storage thingy with canvas drawers to go in her built in wardrobe as she has no drawers. So have sorted her wardrobe this aft. Have also liberated a modular shelf thingy - was only using the bottom part, but you've all given me ideas of using it in the loft to stack xmas decs on - currently in tatty cardboard boxes on top of each other and I can't see what I've got. Will sort that in the next few weeks.

Have lots of canvas hanging storage that's not in use... Wonder if I can repurpose these in the loft too... A couple of hooks and a tensio. Rod I also found might help. Hmm...

mrsmac10

ali-t wrote: »

Ive revisited paperwork for the 2nd time being much more ruthless. P60s that declare do not destroy must have scared me the last time as i found some from over 15 years ago! Now they are all bagged and ready for our next fire. I think i have kept 3 years worth as proof of income but once my tax returns are done they are ready to move to interim storage before being destroyed.

i also cleared out a couple of storage containers that must have been invisible to me previously. Komono appears in the strangest of places!

I am not a regular poster here but pop by now and again
Can I say that I believe HMRC suggest that you keep the last 7 years We have to keep work records that long and was told personal stuff was the same

I have rolled up jumpers and finding a place for most things as I slowly declutter

I have been looking for new clothes and yesterday I could not byt a few that were only ok tops yesterday as they were not bringing me joy :rotfl:

Thanks