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  • Floss
    Floss Posts: 9,008 Forumite
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    MMF007 wrote: »
    Blue Doggy I really love your sig! I am sitting in my parents' house with my dad writing a list of jobs he wants us to do before we go home. There's quite a lot left on it even though we've been beavering away all week and as we are leaving for our return trip he will say, 'before you go can you just..........' :D:D

    My FIL does this to DH, when we have a 4hr drive home and are stood with coats on & keys in hand!
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  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    Charis wrote: »
    I'm loving this thread, have bought and read the book and am finding it very liberating. Things are being re-homed much faster than they came in. I thought I had resisted the clutter bug but, apart from the clutter I had accumulated but stopped really seeing, there are several boxes of memorabilia from Mum's home and all those (unlabelled) photos...:o I don't want the smell of mildew to be the scent that gives my grandchildren flashbacks to Nanny's House.
    :) I was teasing Mum about some clutter (she was telling me about something she'd heard on Radio 4 this afternoon about what people keep in their lofts).

    Yeah, I said, some people even have pictures of people who lodged for a few months with their own Mums back in the early 1950s.

    She started to say how ridiculous then began to laugh when she realised I meant her.......:rotfl:

    The average pile of photos contains the following categories:

    Landscape shots from God's Own Country (because only He would have a clue where they were taken). Inc pictures of random rocks, trees and rivers.

    Pictures of people you used to live near/ work with/ met once on holiday/ parents of kids your kid knew 30 years ago.

    Fuzzy out-of-focus shots of mystery persons. Or people with no head, or half a face. Or somebody's arm or leg intruding into the shot.

    10,000 pix of your kitten or puppy.

    Shots of you in front of some famous landmark, in case you're ever called upon to prove visually that you went to the Taj Mahal or the Eiffel Tower. Although photo-shopping has made these easily forgable.

    1970s pix which have developed very strange coloured auras. I mean, it was a strangely-coloured decade anyway, but this is extra peculiar.

    :p I could go on but you'd probably rather I didn't..........:p

    I also reminded Mum of a box which had been kicked out of the loft by me but not dealt with. It's a smallish box for the 2-handset landline phone she isn't using because its batteries keep dying. And the box has to be kept because the phones still work (sort of) although they were such a nuisance that they've been replaced with a bog-standard plug-in phone.

    So they'll go in their box and be not-used there, as opposed to being not-used on top of various bits of furniture, gathering dust. And then the box will go Somewhere in the House (I have begged that it not be the loft).:wall:

    My attitude is; you replaced it because it wasn't satisfactory. If the replacement dies, these things will still be unsatisfactory and will be replaced by another replacement. Never gonna use them, is she?

    :p Oh, and it did turn out to be the door-curtain from the flat I used to rent up in her loft. For 10+ years. She said it can go and I will be sure to get hold of it next time I'm over there. It cost £1 from a jumbly and doesn't owe me anything.

    Righty, must mosey along to the tea kettle.
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • I've got two very very old mobile phones:o. They died before I could delete my data - contacts and texts only as I couldn't do email or log into websites on them.

    The fact that I haven't been able to wipe my data has stopped me recycling them. But am I being too paranoid?_pale_ Or should I just chuck into bin and leave them to take their chances in landfill?

    This is sort of dilemma that leaves me stuffing things back into bags and giving up on tidying.

    Definitely a case of these possessions giving me weariness:eek: (GQ's signature is so right!)
  • GreyQueen
    GreyQueen Posts: 13,008 Forumite
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    I've got two very very old mobile phones:o. They died before I could delete my data - contacts and texts only as I couldn't do email or log into websites on them.

    The fact that I haven't been able to wipe my data has stopped me recycling them. But am I being too paranoid?_pale_ Or should I just chuck into bin and leave them to take their chances in landfill?

    This is sort of dilemma that leaves me stuffing things back into bags and giving up on tidying.

    Definitely a case of these possessions giving me weariness:eek: (GQ's signature is so right!)
    :) Please don't chuck them in the bin as they contain things which will be harmful in landfill and were expensive to the environment to obtain. Donate them to charity - mine go to a local cancer charity for recycling. It's a good cause. Unless you're some kind of celebrity, I don't think that anyone is going to combing through the data saved to phone memory - your dead phone is merely one of tens of millions of dead phones floating around the country.
    Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    Veni, vidi, eradici
    (I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    MMF007 wrote: »
    Blue Doggy I really love your sig!
    I love that poem too! John Donne married Anne Moore, and played on their names, "done" and "more", for all he was worth. The man coulda beat Clive James at How To Be Witty. But he was A Good Bloke too.

    Happy sigh ...

    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Sorry I forgot to wish you Happy Birthday yesterday IQueen, hope you had a great day xx

    Didn't get time to come on here yesterday with update because we spent the day painting our summerhouse. It took most of the day to just do the front and one side - beginning to wish I hadn't had such a big one now! Same again today but it didn't take so long - did manage to kondo around 10 foam rollers though. Lesson learned today: don't buy cheap rubbish from pound shops, they don't last and you'll end up buying them in decorating store as well!

    So..... Day 3, 3rd November..... 28 items

    1. Book
    2. Overdoor hanger
    3. Canvas bag for life (past its best, used for taking charity shop stuff to shop)
    4. Plastic crate without a lid won with contents at an auction 2 months ago
    5. CD player - part of said auction lot that I didn't want
    6. Pepper pot in shape of a mini - minus its stopper
    7. Glass bowl with hole in, obviously meant to be a cake stand type thing
    8 & 9. Hand towels that no longer bring joy
    10. Another book
    11. Bucket with split in it - we had a pot of paint standing in it as advised by shed co. - I wondered why I was standing in a puddle!
    12. Bottom part of a slow cooker that died weeks ago - bowl already disposed of
    13. Tablet container
    14 to 23. 10 cheap foam paint rollers that died as we used them.
    24. Shower room sponge cloth that disintegrated leaving blue bits everywhere
    25. Pencil case excess to needs
    26 & 27. Two pretty teapots that bring joy, but not as much as others I have left
    28. Picture frame

    Day 4 - 4th November - 27 items

    1 & 2. 2 scrapbook page planners
    3. A saucer
    4. An old diary
    5. Another pencil case
    6. Scraps of fabric being kept 'just in case'.
    7. Bottle of poster and water colour varnish
    8. Dead tube of UHU glue
    9. Shoe box (I know, I have wracked my brains thinking what to do with this, but it's the hinged lid type so not suitable for shoebox gifts)
    10. Hair slides
    11 & 12. Two pairs of psychadelic socks (going to friend for fundraising prize)
    13 to 17. Five pairs of children's socks going to same friend
    18. Vanity bag - friend for fundraising
    19 & 20. Eye shadow set - friend for fundraising
    21. Eye shadow and lip gloss set - friend for fundraising
    22 & 23. Two packs of loom bands - friend for fundraising
    24 & 25. Two Pary Eye sets - friend for fundraising
    26. Mega Nails set - friend for fundraising
    27. Large eyeshadow set - friend for fundraising

    Phew, sorry for long post again. To explain: I bought tons of stuff in the Claire's Accessories January sales, most things cost me 50p. I always do it, buy tons in anticipation of tombolas and raffles as I like to help out my daughter's friends with their fundraising. (They all have disabled children so we help them, they help us).
    Keep Calm and Carry On Kondoing




  • short_bird
    short_bird Posts: 4,013 Forumite
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    In for the Mins game,, but somewhat erratically :D

    So... 1 pair of shoes retired, 2 lip glosses that have given up the ghost, 2 wicker trays that contained Ikea ornaments and 2 cushion inners that were well past their best. (I cannot tell you how long I debated over keeping them to stuff draught excluders.) 5 books due for the charity shop.

    By the way, if the Minimalists come back to the UK, go and see them as they're lovely chaps and give great hugs. :D
    ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ David Lynch.
    "It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.” David Lynch.
  • iQueen
    iQueen Posts: 810 Forumite
    Did my errands. Dropped off a bag of books to the local cafe that sells them for RNLI.

    Treated myself to a large Full English, that I normally have there on my birthday, but couldn't yesterday, because I had 'been told to expect a delivery'! :D

    Got charged half-price for it 'because you missed it on your birthday'! :money:

    Did small grocery shop. :money:

    Got back home to find I'd missed the postman with a 'sign for' delivery. :(

    Followed instructions of the card, went online, booked delivery for Friday. :j

    Packed up Russian dolls for Lisey Loo! (Do you think LL has read the MK Bible? :rotfl:)

    Put groceries away. Re-arranged freezer drawers to make room for half-price fresh chicken. :money: Discovered frozen Seville oranges... need to make marmalade... SOON... before the new season's are in the shops! :o

    Found an email from a 96 year-old friend, who was widowed in June, after 71 years of marriage. He had received a spam email 'routed' through my email address (I've had a couple too!) Wrote him a long email. :)

    Realised that I will be out at GP appointment on Friday! :eek: Ordered re-delivery for Saturday. Found contact address for Royal Mail and wrote explaining, quoting enormous Customer ref number, and asking them to cancel first re-delivery request.

    Trying to figure out what delivery can be. :j (Last time it was a Chr****** card from my DD2's partner's parents, without a stamp... 9 miles of petrol and £1 something to collect from depot!) :rotfl:

    Kondoed half a dozen washed plastic/tin containers, from draining board, to RC sack. :D

    Got an email from DD1 - Nand0's dinner that she took into the hospital yesterday has done the trick... SIL improved again - may be home at weekend! :j

    Keep :dance: Konverts. Joy to you all! :)
    Needs, NOT wants!
    No food waste since November 2010. :j
    No debts.
  • iQueen
    iQueen Posts: 810 Forumite
    Thank you for the birthday wishes, loopychriss! :T
    Needs, NOT wants!
    No food waste since November 2010. :j
    No debts.
  • GreyQueen wrote: »
    :)

    The average pile of photos contains the following categories:

    Landscape shots from God's Own Country (because only He would have a clue where they were taken). Inc pictures of random rocks, trees and rivers.

    Pictures of people you used to live near/ work with/ met once on holiday/ parents of kids your kid knew 30 years ago.

    Fuzzy out-of-focus shots of mystery persons. Or people with no head, or half a face. Or somebody's arm or leg intruding into the shot.

    10,000 pix of your kitten or puppy.

    Shots of you in front of some famous landmark, in case you're ever called upon to prove visually that you went to the Taj Mahal or the Eiffel Tower. Although photo-shopping has made these easily forgable.

    1970s pix which have developed very strange coloured auras. I mean, it was a strangely-coloured decade anyway, but this is extra peculiar.

    :p I could go on but you'd probably rather I didn't..........:p
    .

    Crikey GreyQueen, I'm looking round my living room for the hidden camera!

    You've just described with uncanny accuracy the contents of my photo collection. I started sorting these over a week ago and am still trying to finish. I've lost interest to such a degree that I'm seriously considering chucking the whole bloomin' lot.

    That's not counting the 4000+ :eek: on my laptop. Every time I sit down at it, I delete ten pictures. At this rate it'll take a while ...
    Life is mainly froth and bubble: two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.
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