KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

mavvymoo

Been at the gym all afternoon most of it spent in the hot tub and the rest in the pool and steam room So feeling better than I did it was a really dreary day like everyone else said and that didnt help I suppose

Looking at some of these photos I have decided on a few things which I will share with you :rotfl:

1, I look better now than I did 20 years ago which is a plus
2, I look worse than I did 30 years ago which is a minus
3, If I ever go for a shaggy perm again I need shooting at point blank range :rotfl:
4, If I ever Henna :eek: My hair again same as above shoot me
5, Bay city Rollers outfits are no longer to be worn EVER:o

6, Punky type clothes are still cool in my eyes No matter how old you are
Feeling ok now onwards and upwards and just think tommorow is another day


Mav x

PollyWollyDoodle

Haha Mavvy, doesn't everyone have a bad picture of themselves with a bubble perm? I even have one somewhere of my brother with one - how on earth his wife persuaded him I don't know.

I put on a dress yesterday for an event I was going to. I love this dress, it's in muted colours which go with my other stuff and a soft, drapy fabric. Unfortunately as soon as I put it on I recalled that despite its loveliness, for some reason when I wear it it always looks as if I'm wearing a sack with a piece of string round the waist. I'm going to release it to someone with a different shape who will look good in it and appreciate its beauty.

Oh, and that rectory garden with the trug and the roses? Funnily enough that's how I always imagine gardening is going to be, rather than the thorny, back-aching reality of clay soil and rampant brambles.

allybee101

You lovely folks have had me laughing and smiling at shire horse funeral pyres, unidentified frozen objects and mice!

Yesterday I had a visitor over and it only took me about 90 mins to tidy and clean in preparation for their arrival. Normally it would be an all day mammoth task. There was a bit of hiding stuff in the room of doom but I can cope with that. I spent the rest of the day doing various jobs and then tackled more paper in the evening. The next recycling bag is filling up fast and I have a tray of shredding to do soon.
Right, a few more minutes on the Web then I need to get started on the day.

Siebrie

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

I put on a dress yesterday for an event I was going to. I love this dress, it's in muted colours which go with my other stuff and a soft, drapy fabric. Unfortunately as soon as I put it on I recalled that despite its loveliness, for some reason when I wear it it always looks as if I'm wearing a sack with a piece of string round the waist. I'm going to release it to someone with a different shape who will look good in it and appreciate its beauty.

Hi Polly,
Could you lose the belt and loops? Anything accentuating my waist is never in the right place and gives a very distorted body image. I always have the scissors out when I buy a cardi or dress with a belt, and get rid of the belt.

Slinky

When will this perishing wind stop blowing? I've never known a winter like it. We put the new cover on our garden table yesterday (had to buy a new one, the previous one got ripped in the wind), the new one has blown off already. OH is inspecting to see if there is any major damage to it.

I've been and dropped a big bag of clothes hangers in the recycling bin at the supermarket, and another bag of torn carrier bags went into recycling also. Still got about 2 more big bags of hangers to go following my clothes clearout, but they'll have to wait for another trip.

maddiemay

this morning I have been Kondoing bathroom Komono and carp. I like to keep small bottles, jars, pump dispensers for decanting products into for times away from home (often), I have also quite a selection of pumps from bottles that had pump dispensers. So far so good, particularly as I am really struggling with lack of grip in both hands and cannot get creams from tubes or shampoo or shower gel etc. from plastic bottles, totally impossible with wet hands in the shower and darned difficult other times.

The problem is that they have been breeding while I have not been looking and I seem to have rather a lot of them:o Now all retrieved from their various hiding places and waiting to be part of the chosen few to keep or discarded into the recycling bin. The pumps are a pain to re-use as bottles come with different threads and if the tube on the pump is longer than the height of the bottle I have to cut them down, often to find that they will not fit anyway:eek:

I think that I am going to treat myself to a few new pump bottles from Muji, they are not very expensive and I am sure will help cut down the amount of bad language while I am struggling with my ablutions each day:D

Sunny and windy here, need copious amounts of pegs on the washing:rotfl:

PollyWollyDoodle

Thanks for the suggestion Siebrie, but it's a jersey wrap style dress - a style that usually suits me, it's something about the cut of this one. Been trying to remember where I got it, and it was a cast-off from a friend - so it owes me nothing. Time to face reality, no matter how long it stays in my wardrobe it's not going to change!

I might try cannibalising it, one of my aims for when I'd finished tidying was to learn to use my overlocker so this could provide some test fabric.

dragonette

Afternoon, I'm finding this weekend pretty grey and miserable too. I've been social for the last 36 hrs and today is a much needed rest! I must confess to buying things to cheer myself up - but i can justify the reasons so I won't feel too guilty about it.

What I should be doing is some housework, funny how it never seems to be the highest priority....

Slinky

I had to have my computer wiped and software reloaded about a month ago, so down from the loft came a large box labelled software. Everything seems to be running OK now so I'm confident the software can be returned to the loft. Before it went back I had a good clearout, threw away a load of stuff for tech we no longer own, and found a backup disk for something I thought I'd lost 11 years ago in a crash, so have reloaded that onto my current computer.

Huge recycling bag filled with boxes, paperwork and CD cases. Rubbish bin filled with old software disks, including floppies..... Feel guilty about the stuff that can't be recycled, but not much I can do about it.

Went through the filing cabinet in my office and got rid of a load more paperwork. It's pretty good in there now, there's 3 large boxes of shredded paper going out this week.

GreyQueen

Gosh, if I ever get a Georgian rectory with walled rose garden, I know I can count on your ladies to arm yourself with trugs and flowery gloves and descend en masse for a bit of quality snipping time. And a cuppa, of course. We can pretend we're in a Laura Ashley advert or something. And a wasp will sting me, because even my Fantasy Self is prone to pratfalls.:rotfl:

Meanwhile, back in the real world, I spent over 3 hours on my allotment (on the top of a long slope, very windy) being blown around. I was wearing army surplus trews, DMs with steel toes, a man's anorak and my black burglar hat whilst I wielded fork and spade and wheelbarrow.

Photogenic? Err, no, but I got a lot done and came home to have a lovely bath and hairwash so am now clean & casual as opposed to scruffy and manky.

You can always tell the newbie allotmenteers. Veterans dress like Wurzel Gummidge and have serious boots. Noobs are hatless and wearing floral wellies. It's very difficult to be taken seriously in floral wellies, isn't it?:rotfl:

The only feminine things on my lottie are my two giant barbie pink trugs. Mum rang me up, having spotted them and told me they came in black or bright pink, which did I want? I said black but when she went back, they only had the pink ones. I was a bit dubious at first, but the great thing about them is that you never accidentally leave them anywhere......

Have had a random supper of things found in the freezer defrost and leftovers all combined. Surprisingly tasty.

I now have my sitting-room floor covered with balles of yarn, all donated, which I am sorting by colour to make choosing for my blanket squares easier. Isn't there something lovely about a lot of yarn all over the place? Or is that KM heresy?

I admit to kondo-ing nowt but the recycling today. Plus I planted the onion sets, so I suppose they technically got kondo'd out of the shed and into the ground.