The KonMarie method

MMF007

Sorry, making this my last post today, I promise!
wort, I read your post with dread, I thought there was going to a blood bath! Well done for persevering, i bet it looks great now

just to report that the cd drawers have been re-purposed already. Thinking along the lines I was already going with relocating diy stuff made me realise how badly located our spare bulbs and batteries are. Not any more! Yup, they are in the strong cd drawers, all easily accessible but out of sight.

I thought I had better tell DH what the plan was but convo went like this;
Me, I was thinking the bulbs and batteries would be better in the cd drawers, what do you think? slight pause. Well I 'm putting them there anyway, so I hope you think it's a good place.
DH, OK.

Result.

I am overly happy! :j

M

Karmacat

MMF007 wrote: »

Karmacat, I understand you looking forward to next August but don't put things on hold till then. If you can add to your life one thing that you enjoy, that you don't do now, start today or this week! Remember the simple joyful things like a walk in the park on a sunny day, a coffee with friends, taking some home baking to a busy family or single friend, can all give you a boost even while you have to take care not to over-do things because of varying energy levels.

Completely get what you're saying, 007, but I assure you I'm not putting things on hold till August, thats not what I meant at all.

I can manage a walk in the park - taking someone some home baking is a non starter - I don't have the energy to bake for myself more than once every couple of months! And what friends I have are in different towns, and one has shunned me completely for the whole of this year. Didn't have many to start with! Don't have the energy to travel on public transport and then socialise, so thats a non-starter too.

I'm quite severely affected, so "normal" suggestions like that just don't apply, I'm afraid. A walk (on any kind of day, it's a victory to get out of the house), a chat on the phone to my sister or my business partner, half an hour in the garden, watching the local cats do their thing, thats as much as I can cope with in any one week.

GreyQueen

Evening all.

Came back in about 6-ish and decided to call the family and my landline was down. Played around with the plugs and got neighbour SuperGran to loan me her phone and it was still down. Was live-chatting with a feller at the ISP/ phone company, had just started that convo and then landline came back up agian!

WTH, I didn't even know you could have the phoneline not working for calls and have the t'interweb still working. Ya lives and learns.:rotfl:

So I have kondo'd a phone fault this evening.

I did have a bit of a moment when I remembered that I had kondo'd the spare landline phone to the chazzer in the last few months, but relaxed in the thought that I do have pals very close by who'd lend me a phone just to test the line in this circumstance.

I do like to be independant, but I do need to be able to trust that friends will help me out with a problem, as I would them, and we don't each have to own every possible thing we might need, all the time.

Debsnewbudget

We had a discussion about keeping the plug in phone only on Friday
We made the decision to keep it just in case for this very reason

GrannyKate

Kondoed 3 bags of garden stuff to tip yesterday and then today 5 bags of books to bhf book bank. Small bookcase to DS along with 3 spare kitchen storage pots. Tidied utility room and redid shelves in there.

Floss

Have tidied my floordrobe today, and hung everything back up

Also found my blow-up boot trees, so they are all nicely standing in rows in my wardrobe rather than fighting in a heap!

Have 2 bags for CS tomorrow, and will be going through my work wardrobe in the morning...i need to put away the slightly smaller sized things rather than have them confusing my choices early in the morning. Am aiming to KM a stone through upping the exercise and changing my diet, so don't want to chuck them just yet. It's all classic work dresses in my colours, nothing too trendy!

Also KMing a heap of cardboard boxes "saved" jic by DH...he will be on a plane so won't see them go!

greenbee

Sorted out the work wardrobe. One pair of shoes added to CS bag (which was also tidied), and the rest put away in ik*a shoe boxes I bought months ago which were buried under rubbish on the bed.

Tissue paper (which I use for packing, so have masses of) folded and packed into a storage bag. I can now see the bed

The room my work wardrobe (and most of my suitcase collection) is in ends up being where the junk lives. There is too much furniture in it for it to be used properly as a sewing room (original plan). But I'm going to be moving rooms round once the next phase of the renovations start and moving the kids in there (nice, light, west-facing room) and putting the work stuff, bed and my sewing stuff in the north-facing, darker room. Looking at the furniture in each it should fit better. Not that any room in this house has anywhere sensible to put a wardrobe...

GreyQueen

greenbee, I've often thought it would be sensible, if one had a room which didn't actually need to be assigned to another purpose, to turn a small room into a walk-in wardrobe.

A small room with purpose-built storage could serve as an entire family's wardrobe and would make putting clothes away so easy. It could also have an ironing board ('scuse my French) and storage for the linen baskets.

A Family Wardrobe Room could free up space in all the bedrooms currently devoted to clothes storage and make it usable for other activities.

greenbee

That's a fabulous idea GQ. And you could have the airing cupboard in there too.

I need beds in all these rooms as people keep coming to stay... although when I'm here on my own for a week or two I'm frequently tempted to remove my ensuite and turn it into a dressing room. The moment I have a houseful I'm relieved I have my own bathroom and everyone else is sharing!

Compared to you I have a huge amount of space per person - mostly it's just me here. Or no one if I'm travelling. But I work from home. The reason I moved to a bigger house is that a. I was finding myself getting claustrophobic confined to a small house pretty much 24/7 and b. when people visited it was incredibly cramped (after all, a certain amount of space was dedicated to work).

Even now I find that although I have an 'office', I only do phone-based and admin work in there. Anything creative is usually done at the dining table or on the sofa where there is more space to think.

I think if I went back to working in an office every day I could manage with less space (depends on the frequency of visitors though... although I guess they seem so frequent partly because I'm away so much) but in my field office-based working is becoming less and less common (or necessary).

PollyWollyDoodle

You know that thing where you write a letter to your younger self? ...

Dear Polly,

Over the next 30 years you're going to spend a lot of money on cameras, on film and developing. That dandy SLR camera you bought with your 21st birthday money will be stolen in about 1998, you'll replace it with a much more convenient pocket camera but you'll still be getting film developed for a few more years. Don't bother.

30 years from now, you're going to be looking at a lot of photos. Some of them will be of people whose names you can't remember (yes, really). Some of them will be of couples who've separated and some of them will have just disappeared from your life. And you know that beautiful sunset/rainbow/loch/beach/view of the Peak District? Enjoy it, see it, and store it in your memory bank. The photo won't do it justice and you're much better off living for the moment, not trying to capture it.

Try to keep only a few photos of each trip, holiday or family event - you'll remember them without that. Put them straight into an album unless you want to devote several days of your rapidly shortening life at a future point into sorting them out. Oh, and believe it or not, one day you'll be able to take photos on your phone. No, not THAT sort of phone - one you keep in your pocket. Yes, really. Same rules apply - only you'll have ten times as many photos to sort out, and stored on your computer (yes, you'll have one of those too) nobody will ever enjoy them.

Oh, and by the way in about 1984 your hairdresser will suggest a perm. Say no, and definitely don't let your sister take a photo of you till it's grown out .... cos that photo is one that'll never be deleted! :rotfl: