The KonMarie method

GrannyKate

Mins Day 22

Catching up this evening so some license taken with this list: Serious kondoing again tomorrow.

1. Unsubscribed to 5 more email newsletters
2. More OOD vouchers
3. Cardboard packing for new stools
4. Plastic packaging
5. 6. Old kitchen stools x2
7. Labels and packaging various Christmas items bought for stockings
8. Bag of plastic bags for RC
9-20 garden seat cushions in their bags and to loft for winter storage
21. 22. Bowls to CS

mrs-moneypenny

GQ hope everything goes well in the parental attic and you manage to kondo what needs to be done.

jinny

[QUOTE=GreyQueen;69385188

Actually, I have one of the Doolux Kitchens paint range in my kitchen, a colour which is humourously entitled Sundried Tomato, which I fancied as I do a fair bit of tomato-based cooking and thought it'd hide any splashes.



Oh my days!:rotfl:so funny
Nearly choked on me spagg bol which incidently is splashed all over me kitchen tiles. I kondoed the splater guard this year as I wasnt using it. I did have some enamel paint once called chilli red now thats an idea??????????

GreyQueen

:rotfl:

Lol, jinny, gawdelpme if I'm responsible for choking accidents! I really do plan things like that colour choice. I remember thinking once I'd opened it that it was like no sun-dried tomatoes that I'd ever clapped eyes on. And wouldn't've eaten if I had, in that colour.

As an anti-splatter measure, it's not too effective as most of the wall is hidden behind a symphony of white melamine cupboards, so the overall read of the kitch is plain white, even though the bits of walls visible are mivvi-coloured.

I was making final plans for the parental trip up in the car tomorrow when Mum suddenly said Love? Are you all right, love?

I'd been stunned into silence. Someone using her voice had just said something I'd not believed I'd heard correctly, so I said it was a good job I was already lying flat on my sofa or I'd've fallen over.

Hoarder Mum said, unprompted, You can have too much Stuff.

I heard it with my own ears! Had to get her to repeat it, thought it was a happy hallucination. And she has recalled that there is a jumble sale in early Nov and another in Feb in Nan's village and some Stuff can go there.................!

Let there be rejoicing in the land, let there be fanfares of trumpets, let there be fireworks of celebrations, the world is changing in my parental home. Serious WOO has been achieved.:rotfl:

silvasava

GQ - are you very sure you've not been transported to a parallel universe????
Polly- you've made a very good point about rooms for study, craft etc instead of using the sitting room. I think this also leads to families be coming isolated from each other as there is no interaction & that's how we used to get interested in various crafts and hobbies. Don't get me started on children having their own TV's in thier room at a very young age!!
Mrs Grumpy signing off:)

GreyQueen

I've just spent an inspiring 45 mins or so listening to Bea Johnson of zerowastehome give a presentation of the ZW lifestyle at Google. She's sweet and funny and that English with a French accent is devastating.

I have now fashioned a notice (from recycled cardboard, natch) for the inside of my mailbox hatch, to see if I can dissuade postie from delivering any more junk mail.

Typical afternoon chez moi; come home and unlock external mailbox. On a bad day remove up to 4 items, all unaddressed, and take them straight to communal recycling bins. Then go back to door, unlock and go in. Such a waste of time.

I've unsubscribed from everything and if it's unsolicited addressed, it gets spat back at the company via the postal system.

It's the other stuff which crazes me; takeout leaftlets (never eat takeout), buildings insurance guff (dudes, it's a block of flats, the council hold the buildings insurance), doubleglazing companies (lookit, we have it already and even if we didn't, it's a council towerblock, we're not going to be calling you as individuals), invitations to your churches (am a stroppy atheist and can find churches perfectly well on my own if I want them), exercise class promos (you've gotta be kidding me, I have ME), gardening services (a little research would have stopped this before it started ) and on and on and on until I feel I'm being drivelled to death.

Oh, the poor poor trees who died so this can happen.

It's so tempting to just seal the darned mailbox and then see what they'd do. Actually, postie is a nice guy, we've had the same one for years, I shouldn't take it out on him. I wonder if he's allowed to obey my express written instructions not to deliver this stuff (I said please!) but we will have to wait and see.

LittleVoice

GreyQueen wrote: »

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I've unsubscribed from everything and if it's unsolicited addressed, it gets spat back at the company via the postal system.

It's the other stuff which crazes me; takeout leaftlets (never eat takeout), buildings insurance guff (dudes, it's a block of flats, the council hold the buildings insurance), doubleglazing companies (lookit, we have it already and even if we didn't, it's a council towerblock, we're not going to be calling you as individuals), invitations to your churches (am a stroppy atheist and can find churches perfectly well on my own if I want them), exercise class promos (you've gotta be kidding me, I have ME), gardening services (a little research would have stopped this before it started ) and on and on and on until I feel I'm being drivelled to death.

Oh, the poor poor trees who died so this can happen.

It's so tempting to just seal the darned mailbox and then see what they'd do. Actually, postie is a nice guy, we've had the same one for years, I shouldn't take it out on him. I wonder if he's allowed to obey my express written instructions not to deliver this stuff (I said please!) but we will have to wait and see.

If the Royal Mail postie delivers unaddressed mail (and not all of the leaflets may come through RM) then your asking him not to deliver them should not have the effect of stopping them. It is his job to deliver what RM tell him to. However you can ask RM to exclude your address from such door-to-door deliveries. Go to http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/how-do-I-stop-receiving-any-leaflets-or-unaddressed-promotional-material and follow instructions given there.

oceanspirit

Loving the buzz around job changes, home changes and parental loft decluttering etc.

Had become a little stuck with reducing paper mountains so have changed the "does it spark joy?" question to "will keeping this help me to move forward?" and it seems to be working. Just need to remember to use it now.

Mins day 13

1-5 lists
6 Christmas meal plan from 2 years ago
7 card
8 pyjama top
9-10 pyjama shorts
11 book
12 ood jar of capers
13 magazine page x 2

Mins day 14

1-9 greetings cards
10 Wedding service sheet
11 wedding invitation (from 1997)
12 rosette
13 newspaper section
14 book

GrannyKate

In TK*** when DH said 'can we get these cereal bowls as fed up with the ones we have' difficult to store and bulky. LBM - remembered I have 6 of the ones he liked in a cupboard 'waiting for the others to chip or break '. No idea why I was not using them already. That gave me 5 bowls for CS and 5 items for the mins list.

GreyQueen

LittleVoice wrote: »

If the Royal Mail postie delivers unaddressed mail (and not all of the leaflets may come through RM) then your asking him not to deliver them should not have the effect of stopping them. It is his job to deliver what RM tell him to. However you can ask RM to exclude your address from such door-to-door deliveries. Go to http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/how-do-I-stop-receiving-any-leaflets-or-unaddressed-promotional-material and follow instructions given there.

:T Thanks for that. I shall still put the notice up on the inside of the mail flap, to dissuade random leafletting, although I think RM are responsible for 90% of them (disclosure, I have been a postie myself as a temp) and the leaflets I get when I'm at home for the day all arrive at the same time as the postie.

I have used the opt-out. Excellent resource. I'll share it with family to see if they want to avail themselves of the service, too. Thank you very much for putting that up here. GQ x

ETA; Oh I don't flipping believe it; you send them an email and they send you an email back with an attached form which you have to print off and sign. And it only lasts for two years. What a cop-out, you can do a lot of stuff online - why not this? Have they no idea how many peeps are using devices like phones which don't actually have anything as quaint as a printer attached? I do happen to have a desktop PC and printer, but I seem to be in a minority. I shall do it but I think it's a naff and outdated way of going about things. Grrrrr!!

Done it. And no, RM, I am not printing this in bliddy red ink as per your Adobe document, I shall overide it and you can have it in greyscale and I'll save my colours for better purposes. No consideration of the prices of ink cartridges.......grumble grumble, need more tea.