KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

PollyWollyDoodle

That's fascinating about the silver, that some people's skin actually cleans it - I'm glad to find I'm not the only one whose skin has the opposite effect though!

You are so lucky to have conduits GQ - I have bad memories of having a house rewired. Why don't they put them in as a matter of course? It would make life so much easier.

mavvymoo

I saw Back in time for the weekend Mrs Mp I did see the shirehorse :rotfl: In the room where they were talking to the camera with the horrible striped wallpaper in Red Blue and Yellow My Son had that same one in his bedroom with matching curtains and bedding ! :o:o:o:o What was I thinking :rotfl:

Also the 'Smokey glass tea coffee and sugar canisters in the Kitchen I also had those I must have been a slave to the trends in the 80s :rotfl:

I love this programme as its so true to the time.I got married in 1980 and wore a power suit with massive shoulder pads in a Bright Blue:rotfl:

I couldnt believe that when a video recorder came out it would have cost £1900 in todays money :eek: Shocking


Mav x

lollyfin

Hi all not much kondoing going on here but the house is still clean and organised which is great.
Mavvy I have splash back in my kitchen and bathroom instead of tiles. It's black with silver sparkles through it and I love it. It's so much easier to clean than tiles and was really easy to put up, basically cut it to size, it's 1/2" thick wood, and glue it to the walls. It worked out cheaper than tiling as well

GreyQueen

Yes, I'm very lucky with the conduits. This is a late 1970s block of council flats and was built like this. It makes the rewiring pretty easy, unlike having to put up coving to hide the wiring and then mini-trunking the rest.

I do have some small bits of trunking at my own request, to bring the cabling from an inaccessible plug socket into an accessible position, which means it's actually usable, and to run up from an under-counter socket to create a position for an over-counter additional one. They're only fairly short bits and well-hidden, though.

Almost wishing I'd a telly so I could have squealed with recognition over the 1980s programme. I had a curly perm back then, I show the pix to make people laugh. If every anyone didn't need extra volume in their barnet, it was me; took 2 hairdressers 40 mins to put the rollers in, my hair is so thick..............:rotfl:

One thing which was very pleasing about having the flat well-organised and clean was that I didn't have to rush around doing that before the sparkies came. Yes, I had to move some Stuff, because of accessing the sockets, but it was no biggie. They were really pleased to have an orderly environment to work in (and not having to contend with carpets) as I don't have any and my rugs were rolled up.

Just going to make some labels for my plug sockets; loads of plugs around the pooter and it can get a bit complicated. As I can, I shall make them neatly on the pooter - I'm cooling my heels waiting for the gaffer and can't really crack on until he's been and gone later this morning.

silvasava

Just popping in to say that silver jewellery cleans beautifully with talcum powder ( or face powder if anyone still has some!) and a soft cloth. Fiddly bits can be cleaned with an old toothbrush. Then rinse and dry - comes up beautifully. I only wear silver and I was told this years ago.
Lolly - my kitchen is going to be updated and I've been thinking of glass up stands and splashback instead of tiles - does anyone have any experience of them?
Delivering the boxes & bubble wrap to DS1 today & then down to the boat to do some more jobs before she goes back in the water in April. Hope we can get back early enough for me to get the carton of fabric down from the loft.
Have a good day all x

mrs-moneypenny

I recognised quite a bit as we married and set up home in the 80s we were skint so had a bamboo conservatory suite instead of a 3 piece thankfully being so busy paying the mortgage we never felt tempted to buy our own shire horse or faux Ming vase. Our problems started when the kids came along and we discovered other people's cheap cast off tat at carboots so we ended up filling our house with that.

I had a curly perm in the 80s as well, lol I looked a bit like Marc bolan My hair was that thick.

Slinky

I missed the programme but I too had bamboo conservatory furniture in my first house in 1995....... it had probably been hanging around since the 1980s!

As a child I always wanted a china shire horse, but never had one.

mavvymoo

I have been laughing at the 80s styling :rotfl:
Cane/ bamboo furniture I reckon I can beat all of you in the rank of nastiness
Pride of place in my lounge in 1980 was my parents old Gold Dralon 3 seater sofa and 2 chairs with a Brown fringe round the edges and wait for it ........ A cane peacock chair :rotfl:Which I had saved for and was so proud of On the floor White Marley tiles (couldnt afford a carpet. A secondhand Brown rug with an Orange edge and that was it
But I had managed to buy a Brown Flock wallpaper in a Square pattern.
We just loved Brown in the 80s I wonder why puzzling really


I was the complete follower of fashion or the sucker that brought in to this carp


Mav x

GreyQueen

Mavvy, the floors in my flat are beige Marley tiles, with dark brown and white strips in them. I think the aesthetic effect was meant to be something-approximate-to-marble.

It missed by a country mile. Some of the brown streaks are very brown and bear an unfortunate resemblence to something rather insanitary. I've tried to clean one of these brown streaks off before now, there's one very prominent tile which keeps catching my eye in this way. Ick.

I'm thinking about my parents' 1980s suite which was beige floral moquette type fabric with marshmallowy contours and a really stupid fringe of nylon beige and white loops which kept getting trodden on by people's heels/ clawed by the cats/ sucked into the vacuum cleaner.

Dreadful thing, gone the way of all rubbishy furniture eventually - the tip.

I can remember those cane suites with the lurid floral foam cushions very well. It was sort-of suggested as a good way to start your home, make do with those for a while then move them into your conservatory when you could afford a proper suite (and a proper conservatory, presumably).

I spend the 1980s gypsing around with a 400 mile range and didn't actually own a single piece of furniture until well into the 1990s, which saved me from some atrocities, I'm sure.:rotfl:

DawnW

I remember the 80s well, and would definitely have succumbed had I not been so skint at that time that I couldn't afford any new furniture - Strictly hand me downs / junk shop stuff here (still got some of it :rotfl:)

I probably felt a bit deprived at the time, but am breathing a sigh of relief now in the sure and certain knowledge that there are no incriminating photos ..... at least in that respect :rotfl: