KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

mummyroysof3

I don't have spare curtains. When I wash them I put them back up to dry with dehumidifier on all day or put them on line if weather good. The living room ones are big so I can't put them both in washer at same time lol

mavvymoo

GQ Sorry to hear about your Nan hope she recovers quickly.

Shepherd boots are most likely wondering why they have extra views today :rotfl:They are also so comfy I wore mine on a 15 mile sponsered walk once Everyone else was in trainers and walking boots and laughed at me in my boots saying you cant wear them ;)Think I was the only one not complaining about aching feet at the end of it

I have done a bit more kondoing today and added to my 3 item chazzer bag is
1 x pair of trousers (too baggy around the legs)
1 x pair of shoes always slipped off when I wore them
1 x jumper a bit bobbly I have nicer ones
2 x handbags liked but didnt love them
1 x One jumper kept for years as it was my posh one and kept for best Now I dont even like it for cleaning out the chooks :rotfl:So you could say died in storage
1 x pair of jeans (that I am wearing ) too big around my legs now will wash and add to bag
1 x fleece everytime I wear it in the chooks it ends up getting loads of shavings stuck in it.Drives me insane picking them out :mad: Lifes too short so in the bag it goes

You are never fully kondoed :rotfl:ever

Mav x

VJsmum

We've had dead birds, and live ones, in the loft.

My expensive (for what it is ) but worth it puchase were two micro plane graters. Nearly £20 each (for a grater :eek:) but are like magic....

Also GHD hair straighteners, which are also like magic on my unruly curly hair..

maddiemay

grunnie wrote: »

Hope this works
http://shepherdofsweden.se/en/retailer/


Just type in your town in the space underneath Swedish suppliers

Thank you, none near me that seem to be stocking the boots, I will see what I can find for next winter as even most of the web sales don't seem to have my size left

gallygirl

maddiemay wrote: »

Thank you, none near me that seem to be stocking the boots, I will see what I can find for next winter as even most of the web sales don't seem to have my size left

Amazon have them as well

GreyQueen

Have been up in the loft and dragged down two of the Suitcase Archive, cardboard ones from the 1960s. One of which holds the cache of brushed cotton sheets, which Mum was quite chipper to hear I'd uncovered.

The other holds some of the curtain cache. It is no exaggeration to say that there are enough curtains in this place not actively in use to re-curtain the whole house from scratch thrice over. Although most of them would need to be altered to fit.

I am taking a breather mid-process from measuring and listing them and folding them neatly into one of the old cases. There are a couple of dubious entries which I want the maternal decision-making process on after lunch. Well, they aren't mine, my decision would be to jettison the majority of the stash this week.:rotfl:

Have managed to discuss a huge bale of curtains of various lengths but matching fabric as not really to our taste (another lot of gawd knows where this lot came from) and these can be donated. I shall be measuring and re-folding them as they are presently in several bags, ready for donation. The chazzers will not know what hit them, darlings.

Have also discovered a thin vinyl underbed storage thingy which was in the loft and had died in storage and got brittle, so that's in the bin now.

Oh, and the tongs have been retrieved from the loft and carefully washed up to prevent dead-bird germiness.:D

I reckon if the sheets can come down into service, we should be left with a mere three large suitcases of unused curtains...................!

Hell, at least they'll be contained, labelled and stackable, unlike present situation where a lot of them were floating around up there in large plastic bags. Thank goodness we've never had rodents in this loft, just wasps and the odd bird.

It's beginning to look slightly spacious in certain quadrants of the loft. Plenty more work for me to do, but I think the next pass will have to be Easter - if we're spared.

Karmacat

It sounds *so* good, GQ :j:j:j


I'm continuing my ever so gentle kondoing of books. In this case, little bowdlerized, abridged versions of classics (smaller than A5 size) which I read when I was a child, but which were actually textbooks my dad had. As a genealogist I've been scanning the scribbles he made in them - mostly his signature, to be honest and I'm going to bin them. They were printed in the 1920s, so even the paper is very old, and they just feel *dirty*, sadly. And nearly all of them are falling to bits. Still, the title pages will live on in scanned form :beer: which is better than nothing - my mum was ready to throw them out about 30 years ago

dragonette

Morn-afternoon all sounds like there has been good progress going on. Not much here, and oh I am lusting after shepherd of Sweden boots and slippers now! On a site with a small % sale and 10% off for signing up for the newsletter (which I'll then unsubscribe from). However it would allow me to get rid of several pairs of mostly dead but still unreplaced boots and shoes.

I have managed to do some clothes mending and reorganising, which I'm very happy about.

GQ hope your nan picks up soon, and oh so many curtains! Sounds like excellent progress, I hope your pacing prevents any consequences from the loft

MMF007

Well the kondo-ing of clothing was dual purpose. I did it while i was putting away my holiday clothes (they are for very hot weather, so remain in a suitcase in the loft when no prospect of hot!)
Some will be off to CS, some to rags (after removal of trimmings that will go into my craft stash).
Out, duly thanked, are
a vest top,
2 nighties that have seen better days,
a floaty but short skirt that does NOTHING for me (no idea why it escaped first cull, months ago:eek:�)
There will be more being released over the next few weeks :T

The remainder are kondo- folded and fit beautifully in the small-ish case.

I also put away all freshly laundered smalls - our first steps into the Magic world of MK about a year ago Folks, still bringing joy - the simple delights of a stress free start to every day! ☺

DH gave me a lovely Valentine card with mention of me being a star (as in film star - the theme of the card being an old film, not that I am glamorous :rotfl: or a good actor ). He said he'd like to give me an Oscar for each year we've been together. I confess to a momentary panic about all the clutter THAT would be. :rotfl::rotfl: Luckily we had already agreed on a joint present, a very joyful wallhanging.

So, nice pause for lunch over, must get on with the Magic tidying.

PS - only 5 weeks of employee-dom left. My lovely older friend has said she'd like me to help her out more, on a paid basis!, and her friend has asked me to call round to see if I could help her with shopping trips and some of the household chores she is struggling with. This could hardly be further from my career to date but when I volunteered for redundancy I realised just how much I had grown to dislike the job (a job I loved for years), and while pondering what to do next I had ruled out even thinking about the
same profession. This could be just what I need, a complete change. I am definitely feeling re-invigorated. The Woo strikes again :T

Have great kondo-ing day everyone,

M

GreyQueen

Well, parked a stool in the bedroom and Mum and I had a happy forage in the suitcase of bedlinen. Three fitted sheets have come out, two died in storage and will be added to the drop-cloth bag for decorating, and one good one which will come back into use.

The flat sheets are flannelette inc two of the old candystripes from the sixties and some even older white ones. Gosh, but you can't get this quality nowadays, even half worn out, they are better than the new stuff from the likes of JL etc. She's pretty pleased as some three of their warmer sheets have gone home this winter. These were the overflow from downstairs and have probably been in the loft for about 20 years, but as I was the one who organised them being put away in the first place, they were tidily done and labelled clearly (I hadn't allowed for them burying the suitcases under other suitcases and forgetting that they were there, but no system meets the real world and lasts for long, hey? )

Have paced what is probably 1.5 hrs effort over the whole day, with frequent breaks. Am shortly to have the loft open again (too darned cold to have the hatch left open) and I will get my little brother (all 6 ft 2 of him) to post the cases up to me. Quick tidy around and then hatch down and a bit of organising what I am taking with me to the city to donate up there and what I need to bag, place prominently, and harrass the household until they get them to the chazzer here.

Oh, and another two pairs of curtains from the last suitcase have been released for donation. I think we're up to about 7 pairs, some of which are 8 ft drops, out this time. I'm losing the numbers slightly as I have stuff in three rooms, the hall and on the landing right now.

I'm labelling the cases as they go back with their contents and today's date as the date they contents were last seen.

Onwards and upwards!