The KonMarie method

PollyWollyDoodle

Haha - thank you, those have both made me laugh and move me to tears! VJs mum, you're an inspiration - from A-level failure to PhD, if only more people could see that you're not defined by a couple of bad exams in your teens. I was focusing on the photos but if I could really write a letter to my younger self, I'd say 'don't worry so much - whatever happens, it'll all be ok'.

In reality though, have no regrets about things I've done in my life - it's what got me to here, and here is pretty good. Happy Monday all, and Kondo on!

silvasava

Loving the letters - hindsight is a wonderful thing lol!!
Mine would be don't marry the first boy who asks you & don't be influenced by your friends when young!
GQ- our landline went dead on Friday (cable) but interweb all OK - engineer has just been & apparently they cleaned out the control box down the road and re-connected us on the wrong circuit. All OK now so I can kondo my list of calls to make (mobile signal not brill where I am)

Karmacat

Lovely! Came to this thread first thing when I got on here just now, has definitely brought a smile to my face

ivyleaf

VJsmum wrote: »

Still an advert, i know, but this is amazing....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ3ePGr8Q7k

<Sniff> Thank you VJsmum....That made me cry, especially as so many parents find it hard to give their children all the time they need.

Jo4 and carolbee So sorry to hear about the loss of your beloved pets (((HUGS)))

fpcat

I've been avoiding my ironing pile, but today is the day... I've spent about 2 hours so far, all tops, blouses and shirts done. I'm having a break at the moment, I can't face the trousers yet. I offered DH the opportunity to learn how to iron, but like all the men in his side of the family he declined. I pointed out that his 85 year old uncle (by marriage) did the ironing, but DH said " but he was also a professional football player". What has that to do with it but if that's what's needed to be able to do the ironing I don't qualify either!:D I bet most of you don't or am I missing some essential qualification to be a housewife?

GreyQueen

Perhaps you could point out that soldiers, including elites like the SAS, are trained to iron impeccably? And he isn't going to out-macho them.

All this photo-chat has caused me to review my albums. I mean, mentally review, I haven't actually picked them up. Do I really need pix of people I was with college with 30 + years ago? It's not as if they're compromising, in which case, one might want to save them for [STRIKE]blackmail [/STRIKE] ooops, I meant to say posterity.:o

So, I can see a bit of a mooch around the albums coming on. I rarely take pix these days as I've found that the shots never match the actual experiences and it is so much better to simply experience the moment rather than trying to capture it for posterity.

After all, if we're not interested in them, no one else is likely to be, are they?:rotfl:

Have used up some more scrap paper and finished up a pencil at t'office today; I was suffering from pencillitus and didn't think the chazzer would appreciate a load of half-used pencils, so have been making a point of using them up. It's a lot easier to acquire writing implements than it is to use them up, isn't it?

And don't even get me started on the perils and seductions of 'too nice to use' notebooks.

jinny

I go look on a lot of blogs for hints and tips usually through Pinterest
I have to watch though I can kondo a lot of time on there.
Most of the blogs are American and they have closets for clothes. Tbh I would find it op tempting to fill them up with not only clothes but junk. I bought a 2ft fancy white rail from Argos and I can fit my very reduced wardrobe on it.
I noticed I the blogs they have laundry rooms in their homes with a rail across where they hang clothes straight out of the washer. I read that Americans hardly ever iron don't know if that's true but when I had a house I had a nook I could hang stuff on a clothes rail and indeed most of the stuff didn't need an iron
Sorry I'm like GQ mentioning ironing
I will go and wash my mouth out.

My advice to my young self
You didn't have to take the ****
He wasn't good enough for you
His mother wasn't a strong woman
She was just a bully
She wasn't an expert on babies
Stand up for your self
Like your older self does
Your loyal honest and reliable
Your ok
Bad decisions aren't always forever
Well maybe the photo of the 80s
Joan Collins outfit, curly perm mullet
And big earrings that you could possibly tune in channel 4

PollyWollyDoodle

Aha, the notebook stash! Yup, got one of those.

I couldn't sleep last night, so at 3 am I got up and finished the photos while watching some trash tv. I've condensed two storage crates (each only half full) and two archive boxes into one archive box and half a dozen albums. This has freed up a storage crate and the space it lives in, to hold my wool stash. (Er, well, half my wool stash - clearly I need to do more knitting!) I must say its been tedious but I have found a few gems, which will be scanned and sent to the subjects, and everything is now in albums, so if I want to show them to anyone - and they're of limited interest to most people, if I'm honest! - there they are.

I have still got a bag of childhood photos - I need a separate album for them, and it's unlikely I'll throw many of those out, so I've allowed myself a pass on that one!

You know what, for years I've said 'ooh, one evening in the winter I'll get the photos down and go through them'. I can tell you now, that was never going to happen and without this thread, I'd probably have given up halfway through and just put the box back. It's been a really hard task.

yellowbear

GQ - A family walk-in wardrobe. What a wonderful thing that would be.
Free up loads of space in the bedrooms. Washing could be taken into one room, sorted and put straight away instead of having to put it on my bed and sort it and wait for the kidlets to drag themselves away from whatever it is they were doing.

GreyQueen

Just been in one album and have culled 32 pix. The 33rd I've saved and will mail to the subject when I send his Xmas card - gosh were we ever so fresh-faced and young?!

Errr, in about 1990.:rotfl: