The KonMarie method

jinny

mavvymoo wrote: »

GQ Sorry but your post did make me laugh :rotfl: It sounds like Clutter/carp 2 GQ 0 at the moment .But hopefully that score will change in your favour soon I hope your head is healing well.

Well I had the conversation with the people we decided not to buy presents for this year on Christmas eve It went like this.

Oh we didnt buy for you this year as we thought it pointless.As we didnt want you to be dissapointed again this year and ruin your Christmas as thats what you said last year The last 2 years now we have managed to get things soooooo wrong With us getting the wrong colour or you just didnt like it etc etc etc.

So (opening the horrible Christmas card with the tatty £10 in it to share between the 2 of us.) Gave it back to them and said you treat yourself with that and we will do the same with what we would have spent :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Do you know what I enjoyed every second of that convo.Think I may have been struck off both the Birthday and Christmas list now Every cloud and all that

No feeling fuming when the gifts are returned to us Boxing Day as they are not right :mad: last year I even left the reciept in the parcel But they couldnt be bothered to go all the way into the city to change it :eek: Could I do it :mad: Used to spend £50 on each of them so think I got the better deal this year :rotfl:



Mav x

Just edited to say Last year he kept going on about new wellies like Hunters with the adjustable buckles on the side.So I got him a good pair for £50 with adjustable buckles ..........But he was so dissapointed when he opened them as he wanted Hunters !!!!! At £100 and I thought that was a bl**dy cheek as my wellies are fine and only cost £3 Who would ask for a £100 gift unless you are related to Sir Alan Sugar and even then you probaly wouldnt ! xxx

Good for you MM I'm proud of you. I still have nightmares how I used to take my mils crap especially at Xmas. She used to ask for cashmere sweaters then spend the minimum on you. I know it's not the giving not getting but a bottle of shampoo from the local chemist in return or a child's size cheap necklace that wouldn't fit. Blaming my fat neck! Grrr she's out of my life now but I wish I had stood up to her more she was a bully. When I did speak my mind she kept away for weeks heaven. She eventually learned some respect for me but a very difficult woman.

GreyQueen

Oh my dears, if you could have been hovering at my shoulder this aft, you would have been p'ing yourselves laughing.

Found; a tin containing an unopened pkt of Sains blueberry muffins. We could identify them only by the wrapper; the contents were shrivelled clinkers more like coal. Another tin half full of boiled sweets which had set into a solid mass. Some dried fruit from King Tut's tomb.

I moved the wine rack (wooden, sitting on a melamine counter) and wondered what that light brown flour-y stuff was - turned the rack around and discovered the woodworm. Rack has been chucked into the back yard, pending incineration, with a strict maternal admonishment to KEEP IT AWAY FROM THE SHEDS!

We have a 6 ft long counter in that room, which was piled high with Misc, and which is intended to be kept clear enough to use the Kenw00d Chef on. It is now accessible. There might even be baking done at some point.

There were also wall units containing Stuff which was unused whilst the used Stuff was in teetering piles on the counter. That situation has now been reversed. Some tins have been washed for donation, although Dad had to be told that deep Qual St tins are now irreplacable sacred objects and must be kept for the buns (and posterity). And one for the hair-dressing kit. And one of the stationery............... it's weird here, my lovelies.

Two bags are going, one already packed with unused glass storage jars and china (all freshly washed-up) so I can drop them off at the chazzer.

I have taken about 5 tubs and tins of misc pens into the sitting room to go through this evening whilst in the armchair. I will still be under Stationery Mountain when doing so, only hope the stationery will be stationary tonight.

The forehead contusion is giving me a certain raffish charm. Isn't nearly so good as when the 2 inch surgical scar across my cheek was visible (it healed invisibly). Back then, I used to tell people in all seriousness that it was a duelling scar............:rotfl:

mavvymoo

jinny wrote: »

Good for you MM I'm proud of you. I still have nightmares how I used to take my mils crap especially at Xmas. She used to ask for cashmere sweaters then spend the minimum on you. I know it's not the giving not getting but a bottle of shampoo from the local chemist in return or a child's size cheap necklace that wouldn't fit. Blaming my fat neck! Grrr she's out of my life now but I wish I had stood up to her more she was a bully. When I did speak my mind she kept away for weeks heaven. She eventually learned some respect for me but a very difficult woman.

Thanks jinny and I am sure you would have stood up to her if it were now Why do people do it I will never know.

The first year they returned both gifts as one was the wrong colour :eek: and the other wasnt the right one :eek: I was so upset and it really did bring me down big style.

Last year with the boots when he brought them back in the box and put them on the worktop in the kitchen.I said oh no are they the wrong size for you ? Oh no he said I didnt even try them as they are NOT what I wanted :eek: I was so shocked and speechless really at the complete lack of manners.

But again last year I did have the last laugh again as yes I made the trip to the city (which is 25 miles more for me than them) I took them back and got my £50 back spent it on myself and never mentioned it again :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:as I was so bl**dy angry

They are the losers jinny not us xxxx

Mav x

short_bird

Weeping with laughter, thanks all!

greenbee

What are your parents going to do with all the space GQ? They'll be getting agoraphobia if you're not careful!

I had lots of lovely tins before I moved, but got rid of them as I hadn't used them much since I started working from home (no victims to offload the baking onto when you don't go into an office). I did keep the deep roses tin, and my mum still has two of the glass roses jars. The deep tins are also useful for keeping shoe-cleaning stuff in... (mine lives in a metal ammo case, but that's another story entirely).

I'm experimenting with blocking up the door between the kitchen and hall. You can still access it via the utility room and out through the back door, or through the sitting room and dining room from the hall. It gives me a LOT more useable space in the kitchen (one wall has the utility door in it, one is open to the dining room, one is mostly full of window, and this one has the door to the hall about 1/3 of the way along) so if it isn't too annoying I'll get the builders to block it up. I found a piece of furniture to make the most of the space in the kitchen and have managed to unpack a few more of the crates stored under the tables that make up my kitchen surfaces. Some of this stuff hasn't seen the light of day since I moved in...

I have been told in no uncertain terms that I have to have a working cooker installed by next christmas, as it's my turn to host it, so I need to work out a kitchen plan and get a cooker in and working, even if the rest of the kitchen won't be done for a couple more years.

GreyQueen

short_bird wrote: »

Weeping with laughter, thanks all!

I only wish I'd paid attention to the muffin packaging to see how long it took to reduce them to shivelled coal status...... we've chucked them in the bin, but best guestimate is one year +.

Many random things were also found, inc some nasties like seeping dead batteries. That, and the woodworm, made the clear-out worthwhile of itself. We also found two bottles of wine we didn't know we had, so one is chilling in the fridge and will be enjoyed this evening.

Righty, better see how the floods are going, then go tackle biro mountain. This household has always been infested with more stationery than a large R ymans.:rotfl:

mavvymoo

GreyQueen wrote: »

I only wish I'd paid attention to the muffin packaging to see how long it took to reduce them to shivelled coal status...... we've chucked them in the bin, but best guestimate is one year +.

GQ You may have kondoed truffles :rotfl:Sounds like they could have been passed off as them

Mav x

VJsmum

I am taking that it could be more worrying if the muffins hadn't deteriorated :eek:

Why did they have a set square? I know, just in case...;)

Came back last night from Christmas away, but most stuff isn't additional "stuff". There are a lot of toiletries and choccies (some choccies will be donated to the office kitchen), one new cookbook, some PJs (old ones will get kondoed), some earrings (small ),

Unfortunately DS got a new guitar, which is bliddy massive :eek: we now have four guitars and two ukuleles in the house, with associated stands and cases.

I have purchased s pair of trousers. In the sales. I bought them from ethical company Peopletree and I do really need them.

A New Years resolution is to 1) not buy new clothes at all unless necessary 2) buy from charity shops where possible 3) buy ethically if new.

jinny

GQ it must be like living in a sitcom at the parental abode.
My parents house was much like yours. My brother still has my dads elastic band ball in his garage. It was as big as a football some 0f it has perished though it's well away from harming anyone.

I genuinely got a black eye by bumping into a door a while back.
The looks I got nobody believes you how you got it.
I ended up making up a fantastic tale of getting it in a citizens arrest
They didn t believe that either as a changed the story each day ha ha

jinny

My local charity shop before Xmas was stuffed to the rafters
It must be with people reading the book. The manageress was so stressed she hadn't heard of Marie Kondos book. I told her to brace herself as a new one was due out soon.
I haven't the time to volunteer in the shop at the mo but I think I will offer to sort out the stock room for her until the van can take some stuff away to the warehouse.