KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

mavvymoo

Yes I do have the full set of the pigs There are 5 of them they are the wade ones At the moment drying off on the windowsill before I shove them on the shelf They are my Sons so he can do what he likes with them. Up to him if he wants to sell.Thank you for the info Igamogam I will let him know

I am feeling quite down today and I think its photos of my old house looking so fab(I loved that house) :cool: and all my old Cats and Dogs I have had over the years its making me feel quite sad People I did know along with people I didnt know got rid of nearly all of them Am left with very few.Just making me feel really old I guess Dont really know why as I have had those photos for like 100 years and never looked at the once but now they have gone it just makes me sad

Onwards and upwards a lot of those photos had died in storage so not a lot I could do anyway.


Mav x

GreyQueen

Dunno if it's the grey weather or just being a bit whacked out but I'm feeling slightly blue today. Normally I'm pretty insufferably cheerful, but today is a bit bleughh.

Actually, I think the music playing in the background might be something to do with it. It's burned cd from years ago, something a friend insisted I take, all flute-y and oriental acoustic stuff. Bit melancholic. I was playing it to decide if I wanted to keep it and have now decided I don't. Will give it to a pal who has a cd recycling collection at their workplace.

Have just altered a curtain for Mum, which is the other half of the back door curtain which got injured in the Great Caustic Soda Fiasco of 2012. Had to strip the header tape off the junked one, launder it and re-attach to the good one (which was lurking in the loft). In case you're wondering why I just didn't do this at the folks' rather than drag it home, there are good reasons.

Mum has two sewing machines. One is an electric one which needs repair and hasn't been taken in yet. It's been out of action for a couple of years and this isn't the first project I've dragged back to mine to work on for her. The treadle Singer in its cabinet is buried behind a ceiling-high wall of boxes in the extension room and is too hard to access.

And I have, finally, after several years of keeping them in their presentation box in a drawer, unboxed the fancy-schmancy secateurs which were a gift from my parents. I felt that they were too good for me to use on the things which I need secateurs for (brambles growing in from other people's allotments mostly) and that I should somehow save them for best.

Best what? For when fate lands me in a Georgian rectory and I take up wandering around my rose garden in a floaty dress, straw hat and trug, snipping my prize-winning roses to display in my beautiful home?!

Yeah, right. I've swithered long enough. They're going to the lottie to be used, and the useless ones, cast-offs from other people who had treated themselves to better (2 prs) can go to metal recycling, which is about all they're fit for.

ScotinLondon

Thanks QreyQueen for the suggestion, will look at the insurance paperwork tonight.

Thanks Greent - thankfully, apart from the steak pie (which was eaten the day the freezer decided to KM itself) we don't have meat in the freezer....am a veggie & whilst OH is an omnivore.

This morning was spent clearing out the freezer and worked out that it was frozen curries in there more than anything else & few soup tubs. Nearly all labelled and the ones that aren't, I know what they are. So am lucky in the grand scheme of things.

It's raining here in London, so also feeling a bit bleurgh too.....

When we were growing up didn't have the natwest pigs, we had the Griffin from Midland bank....still have the elephant piggy bank from Midland bank, all my spare change is dropped into there. I do remember the natwest pig adverts tho.

Right back off to revision for the dreaded exam.....

All have a good rest of the day whatever you are doing.

msgnomey

Dreary day here weather wise too, makes me feel a bit bluergh

Finally decluttered a hideous ornament that was a gift years ago, never liked it...the gift giver is never likely to visit...has also divorced the chap she married (and gave the gift for my help at the wedding)...I picked it up to dust and though...this DOES NOT give me joy...so in the bin it went

MMF007

Ooh, GQ, what a coincidence! I also dragged a bag of orangey/red erm sauce-type stuff out of my freezer this morning. I am pretty good at labelling but this must have been thought so obvious on the way in that I didn't bother. It smelt of tomatoes. I chipped a bit off and the taste was toms and sort of smokey.
I decided to make minestrone soup, having enough LO veg, 3 small sausages and 2 pieces of bacon to add. I added pasta and a small onion n half green pepper, cooked it up for a while, then I realised that the sauce was actually remains of a batch of tomato and red pepper soup (obviously!). (Not exactly a true italian version but I thought it would be edible!)

DH has been sanding down skirting boards and doors in the lounge and I've been trying to find a home for some Christmas consumables (yep, it's been a while but we have been away and otherwise busy ), re-organising my craft stash, releasing some books and komono to CS....
So, a late lunch of yummy minestrone soup, if I do say so myself :T

Have decided to donate the beautiful-looking Sainsbobs xmas cake to my brother and his family. They can stand the calories a lot better than we can :rotfl:

Checked the to-do list that I wrote whilst on hols and it is coming along nicely. Have stalled a bit at kondo-ing due to other commitments but still chipping away. Grey hair to do this afto

PS - the decorating stuff was easily retrieved from the strong plastic box in the loft, where it had been kondo'd to last year.

It is very foggy and rainy here but I reckon decorating and colouring hair will cheer me up! It was a bit of an achievement to get DH to agree to the very pale grey skirtings againt our cheery but
delicate yellow walls. Let's hope he likes the new hair colour too (no grey there, no siree, , not by teatime anyway :rotfl:)

Wishing you all happy thoughts. Mav, I think it's a bit of nostalia, no harm in that, just remember there's plenty of OS pleasures round every corner. GQ, the electricians will soon come and go and the disruption will melt away.

M

pollys

Hello
I've put back the room I've been decorating. The beds made up with the new bedding and looks lovely. I've got a boot full of stuff for recycling, charity and the tip. I'm hoping to get rid of most of it tomorrow.
The kitchen is staying organised now there's not so much clutter. I've still got plenty to do, we did manage to use up some decorating stuff stored in boxes in the garage - sandpaper and masking tape.
Have a lovely evening.

Polly

mrs-moneypenny

Worse thing I ever did re Frozen FoS was made a beetroot crumble, thinking it was plums.

There is still a shire horse in mils attic - it can stay there for the foreseeable.

If the nat west pigs are to be sold make sure the ad points out that they have the original stoppers that adds to the value, unscrupulous people got themselves an extra set by claiming there's be broken in transit, the bank asked for the bungs to be returned as proof of ownership so there are lots for sale with no bungs/ stoppers
These aren't as collectable.
Random fact I remember reading once.

Bag of cake icing stuff got swapped from dd2 to dd3 after sitting in my house for a week.
Dd1 was given a pair of trainers I don't wear Anymore for her to wear at work.

White blouse I'd kept as it was joyful, is going to have to go, it's about 10 years old and the fabric has started holing and going really thin under the arms. I'll thank it and add it to the ragbag.

Currently knitting 2nd ball of wool from stash into a jumper for DGS

Only little bits but they are leaving

Siebrie

Dh and a friend constructed a fold-away desk in our office/guestroom. Dh had to clear out the office in order for them to do it, so it is now lovely empty. I will have to check what he actually threw in the recycling, because I know he did not check, but I will do that tomorrow, as I have been in bed with a stomach bug for the last three days.

ScotinLondon

So tonight's dinner was puff pastry pizza using deforted puff pastry, pasta/pizza suave & sweet corn....Was good as even OH ate it!

Tomorrow lunchtime, leftover puff pastry pizza plus sweet corn fritters I think and then dinner will a cauliflower & pea curry I think. Slowly but surely, all frozen food will be eaten.
V windy round this was today, hope all are ok with this wet n windy weather....

Igamogam

Bleurgh here too.:( Dehydration headache I woke up with this morning turned into migraine so all I have managed to do today is kodno some prescription drugs which knocked me out and then catch up on iplayer and itvhub in bed. Just finished a bit if a carb fest with a packet of malteezers and now feel wide awake:mad:

GQ we share the same garden:rotfl: have always thought I would get to the point where I would float around my garden with my flowery gloves snipping perfect blooms an carting a lovely trug handmade by yours truly of course. .......The reality is I have a stonking great big wheel barrow various gorilla tubs and some very utilitarian thorn proof leather gloves - which cost me a fortune but are my pride and joy - and seem to remove from my garden every year a small NT walled garden :rotfl:

Hoping for a more productive day tomorrow but have some work priorities to tackle first