The KonMarie method

dragonette

Hmm, I may have spare pillow cases...

Thank you for the reminder!

mavvymoo

Thanks everyone on the info on bedding sets

1 x 1 superking Duvet cover
2 x 1 superking Duvet cover
3 x 1 pillow case
4 x 1 pillow case
5 x 1 pillow case
6 x 1pillow case
7 plastic belt (thought it was leather ) never wear it anyway
8 x Denim shirt not keen anymore:o
9 x shirt (sold e*ay posted and gone )
10 x bra new but dont like it (sold e*ay posted and gone)
11 x see though type shirt (chazzer)
12 x Junk mail (woohoo) For a hedge cutter :eek: Not sure if they are trying to tell me something

Mins game done and dusted for day 12 cant believe I am still finding this stuff.

Mav x

Floss

Mav I have 2 complete changes for both our kingsize and the spare king size beds, and 3 sets for the spare double bed.

GreyQueen

missyrichards wrote: »

I'm going to start using a microfibre cloth for my face so hopefully I won't need to buy a facial scrub.

I have been trying to get more minimalist with my 'beauty' routine, such as it is, as I'm already quite low maintenance.:D

Admittedly, if I was any more minimalist with my 'beauty routine', I'd probably be arrested, but I just use a regular cotton flannel and ordinary soap, followed by a quick splash of water.

Most people IRL are a touch irritated when they discover I'm 51 and not about 40..... less is definately more.;)

Have been busy all day but have a started a wee listy which I may post later this evening, it's still well below 12 items, tho.

Re bedlinen, I have two kingsize burgundy quilts, in a nice cotton, with 5 (was 6, one wore out) matching pillowcases. I also have a non-kingsize grey checked brushed cotton quilt cover which comes out when the nights get cold, and for which I have an entirely unreasonable fondness, it's just soooo snuggly. So fond, that I don't care about ruckling the king-size quilt into the double-size case a little. Family cast-off, not me buying the wrong size btw.

Apart from that, I have pure cotton flat sheets (about 10) and a similar quantity of random pillowcases. Which I am keeping and I will be good for bedlinen for about 20+ years, I reckon. They'll exit when they're worn out.

Hokay, if we're sharing the airing cupboard contents, let's get serious; how many towels have you got a) in total and b) with names?

GARY and TROPICAL towel are in the cupboard and SPORT was donated because I didn't like its texture. I also have a hand towel called MANISTA which is a motor product promo I was given (am a deeply-glamourous woman).

One of the Towels with No Name is out at the moment; candystripe one.

PollyWollyDoodle

Ahem.

I own a hand towel with Le Gavroche printed on it.

No idea how I came by that *whistles with hands in pockets*

greent

I don't have any towels with names on (although I may have a napkin called (the) Ivy.......:whistle:)


In our bathroom we have 2 bath sheets, 6 bath towels, 3 hand towels and maybe 3 or 4 flannels. All colour co-ordinated to our room and only for our use. DD has 2 bath towels, 2 hand towels, a dinky little teeny towel about the size of two flannels and 2 flannels. Again, all colour co-ordinated to her bathroom. The 3 boys have 6 bath towels, about 4 hand towels and 3 or 4 flannels. DC towels are kept in airing cupboard. Our towels are in a chest of drawers in our bathroom. Oh - downstairs loo has a total of 3 available handtowels, colour co-ordinated to that room.... (kept in airing cupboard)


Guests can use one of the many very thick bath sheets I had when I used to do massage. Not colour coordinated to any bathroom!


We also have a large beach towel each (so 6) and a couple of old spare ones which are used for sickness and any flooding (eg: when washing machine decided to empty itself!)


I love good quality towels - and have frequently been known to hang around towel departments burying my face in piles of them to check softness and thickness! They were a weakness of mine - I have weaned myself off now - honest!!! :p




ETA: Forgot that each child has a swimming towel (with badges on) and DS1 has a spare plain dark coloured towel for army cadet weekends.


I did say they were a weakness.......

uk_american

On the towels topic I have

-2 bath sheets
-2 bath towels
-2 hand towels
-2 flannels
2 beach/pool towels

So 1 set in 2 different colours to swap back and forth to match my bathroom. I end up using the both the larger towels in one go as I have long hair so like to wrap it up else I could probably lose the bath towels.

Growing up in the States, I lived a 15 min walk from a summer camp where well off families from New York would send their offspring for 7 weeks in the fresh air of Pennsylvania 2 hours away. A neighbor would do their post-camp clearance as these kids would leave a big mess.

As it was 2 weeks post camp, the neighbor could keep anything he found, and they preferred if he would, rather than costing them a skip fee. So he supplied everyone in the surrounding area with towels and t-shirts and we spent another year in some unknown child's nyc school gym shirt that was obviously a worn out discard.

It wasn't until I went to uni and left my neighborhood friends that I realised that...people had matching towels! People didn't have leftover Holiday Inn towels or ones with name labels. For many years, I used the likes of 'Jeffrey Epstein' and I had a flowery 'Gloria Barr' for a long time.

Side note, just looked up this camp cost. 7900-8700 USD for 7 weeks. 5143-5665 GBP, crikey! No wonder they weren't bothered with leaving their towels...

GrannyKate

Mins Day 12

1. 2. 3. Shoe brushes x 3.
4. 5. 6. 7. Shoe polish tins or pots - dried up or no shoes that colour
8. Late mum's paper pile - selection related to TV license for shredding
9. JW leaflet - picked up off door mat and put in recycling box as collection truck arrived
10. Paperwork from July holiday in Spain
11. Catalogue from junk mail
12. Random family history papers for names GH culled

I am actually tackling small amounts of paperwork.

Towels
6 bath towels main bathroom and 4 hand towels. About 20 flannels in drawer ( think I should cull those)
6 bath/shower towels in en-suite and 2 hand towels. 4 flannels.
Airing cupboard 8 swimming/Beach towels and 2 old mopping up towels.
In kitchen we have two hand towels.

GreyQueen

We have lots of uni student accomodation near here and you'd be amazed what they chuck out at the end of term. Esp the foriegn ones; I guess it isn't worth airfreight to take stuff back home. Someone I know got a superb set of speakers; they were better than his own so he kept the wombled ones and sold his own. Win-win.:rotfl:

I only own candystripe because someone dumped it at Mum's workplace, back in the day. Superb towel, they just binned it. One boil-wash later (almost nothing can live past 72 F in a wash) and it came to live with me, is in my bathroom now.

I love really good quality textiles, I love them unreservedly; terrytowelling, linen, pure cottons, cotton velvet etc etc - love 'em.

ETA: got my 12 for the 12th, major emphasis on recycling here, but the fancy jamjars were hoarded in the cupboard and hard to part with.

12th October – 4 glass vinegar bottles into recycling, 2 fancy-schmancy glass jam-jars into recycling, a plastic bank card cut up, pizza flyer, arrived today straight out into recycling, 2 cans and 2 tetrapaks.

short_bird

Ah, GQ, those fancy jam jars with the gingham tops... well, I could have brought them here to the new place. Instead, 8 went to a colleague with bees and 8 to an artist friend for her jam. And she does make fantastic jam