KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Slinky

Debsnewbudget wrote: »

Thank you to whoever mentioned Hamster Baskets. I apologise for thinking you had misspelt something :rotfl:
I went online, did my measurement of my freezer, spoke to the nice people in their offices about which way round I should measure, and then ordered.
My baskets arrived yesterday and I can honestly say they are wonderful. So much joy has been sparked by their arrival
I have a chest freezer and can now easily organise all the same type of food in each basket and can see what I have at a glance.
They are not cheap but they are immensely joyful.
Thank you

Edit - it was Slinky who mentioned it, so thankyou Slinky

You are most welcome. Somebody else recommended them on MSE quite a while ago, it took us a year to get around to ordering them. They mean that you can actually use all of your freezer and locate exactly what you want in seconds. Glad they bring you joy.

wort

Siebrie what a wonderful friend you are, definitely should be wearing a halo!

Mavvymoo I'm so jealous I wanted a peacock chair, I remember going to view our first house and the owner had one of those wicker chairs hanging from the ceiling ( I was hoping she would leave it) and the porch door was orange bubble (glass) plastic in a white frame. If you remember I mentioned she took that with her when she moved along with the light fittings!,:eek:
When we moved in we took out the old style stone fire place and replaced it with ....... drum roll ....... A red brick fireplace that ran the length of the room and bought an orange and brown carpet with leaves on it!! We had a Draylon suite but it was beige and quite nice no fringes in sight :rotfl: The kitchen we had that tiling on a roll stuff .;)

GreyQueen

wort wrote: »

Siebrie what a wonderful friend you are, definitely should be wearing a halo!

Mavvymoo I'm so jealous I wanted a peacock chair, I remember going to view our first house and the owner had one of those wicker chairs hanging from the ceiling ( I was hoping she would leave it) and the porch door was orange bubble (glass) plastic in a white frame. If you remember I mentioned she took that with her when she moved along with the light fittings!,:eek:
When we moved in we took out the old style stone fire place and replaced it with ....... drum roll ....... A red brick fireplace that ran the length of the room and bought an orange and brown carpet with leaves on it!! We had a Draylon suite but it was beige and quite nice no fringes in sight :rotfl: The kitchen we had that tiling on a roll stuff .;)

:eek: Arrgghhhhh!!!!!!!!!! Just flashing on a small terraced house where I lodged for a while. It had the bedroom doors remade with orange bubble glass which rattled and the stairway had open risers (a source of deep anxiety since an unfortunate encounter with that style of stair in a public library in the 1970s). Think that house was made over in the fashions of the 1970s, shocking way to treat a blameless Edwardian terrace.

((((((siebrie))))))) well done, you!

Been busy climbing Mount Washmore and gardening. Have assembled a luvverly pile of brambles and other rubbish which my lottie neighbours allow to grow on their plots and thus into mine. I used my new secateurs. And I plan to kondo a lot of Stuff tomorrow - with a match.:D

Things are a-swirl at the parental home, with a new TV which came this afternoon which necessitated the re-arrangement of that part of the sitting room. I reminded them that the portrait head I made 30 years ago is frost proof and will be perfectly fine out on the patio and no, I won't be offended a bit about it being outdoors instead of indoors. A few other re-arrangements have seen some other items slated for removal, too.

mavvymoo

Siebrie a really lovely story I am glad you got the KM halo Its very deserved

Wort I was the envy of the Street with my peacock chair :rotfl:I also loved those hanging chairs and would have loved one.

I cant remember anyone with Orange bubble glass (thank goodness)
I really also wanted a Red Brick fireplace but could never afford it

I remember also wood cladding a couple of walls in the lounge and then staining it Mahogany.:eek: I also remember ripping it off a couple of years later.

The Orange and Brown Nylon carpet with leaves on is wait for it still in my FIL bedroom :rotfl::rotfl:but has been updated with badly painted Lilac walls.I cant tell you how bad this is but he really has no taste at all and it shows in all aspects of his life.


We also had a play with matches again yesterday nothing better than a bonfire did some pruning and got rid of the lot.

Since the couple of TIAs Dad has given up driving so for his Birthday we got him a Senior railcard and booked him a trip on the train for yesterday. Problem is havent heard from him since :rotfl:Lets hope he didnt end up in Scotland nothing would surprise me really. So will keep trying to ring him and keep my fingers crossed.

Better go Chooks to clean out and bedding to go on the still smouldering fire.

Keep kondoing and I will try and track down my Dad today. So if anyone sees an 83 year old hanging around a station (he could be anywhere in the Country ) can you please stick him on the train back to norfolk Cheers x

Mav x

ScotinLondon

Yay Siebrie :T..

On the other hand, my new freezer is getting stocked up and all leftovers which are for the freezer are all labelled. hopefully, not more unidentified frozen leftovers.


MMF007 - I would love to get to the non-scatty brain stage, but I am still at the scatty stage - well apart from the freezer anyway - lol!


I know I will get there in the end and it will take time, but RL has lots of dramas at the moment.


All fun & games in this life so far this year.


Everyone have a good and warm day today.

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all

Well done siebrie, the halo is well deserved.

Last night I went through my knitting pattern folder and culled a load of patterns I'd printed off multiples off or will never realistically knit so they are in the recycling.
This morning I kondo a load of weeds from the front garden it looks much better now that the rather joyful daffy that were hidden by said weeds can be seen.
Yesterday afternoon we heard the fence at the bottom of our garden may be replaced imminently we back onto a pub carpark and brewery had agreed to emplacement the whole run of six houses last year as a one off. Yesterday morning aneighbour knocked to say she'd heard work is starting on Monday! Cue us quickly removing garden decorations hanging baskets and insect houses quickly from fence just in case .

Plan to knit this morning
Have a joyful Sunday everyone.

mavvymoo

Update Found him He is home safe and sound and had a great day just forgot to ring me and let me know.

He is off to London next week :eek:

Mav x

MMF007

Organisational Woo strikes again (I'm on a roll :j) - last evening I was sorting out pending birthday card, Easter and Mothers Day (not in that order, I know!).

I have quite a few cards to send in the next 6 weeks and once written I was not sure where to store them in the meantime. I wondered about paperclips on the calendar but that was a non-starter, obvs. I know you can buy calendars with little pockets at the bottom for such storage but I have a cheap but pretty calendar already.

then, as MK said it would, the answer popped into my head. AGES ago I bought a little canvas bag with a pretty scene painted on the front, as a holiday souvenir. Now the bag is only the size of
a round of sandwiches and it in fact quite delicate looking. So, I hung this on the calendar's picturehook and hey presto, the cards are peeping out awaiting the appropriate dates. I suppose many people have thought of something similar but I feel pleased with myself that I have found a good use for my pretty bag and solved a small tidying/organisational prob too. :j

Right, off to make a Mothers Day card from my craft stash.

Have a pretty and joyful day All,

M

mrs-moneypenny

Mavvy glad you found him.

Mum I need to make my Mother's Day card as well today so thanks for the reminder.

Karmacat

I'm liking the "cards waiting to be sent" solution, very nice

GreyQueen wrote: »

Been busy climbing Mount Washmore and gardening. Have assembled a luvverly pile of brambles and other rubbish which my lottie neighbours allow to grow on their plots and thus into mine. I used my new secateurs. And I plan to kondo a lot of Stuff tomorrow - with a match.:D

GQ, can I ask, how do you prepare the stuff for match-based kondo-ing? I have an awful lot of stuff I could do that with - everything from brambles, twigs and small branches, cherry laurel and leylandii. I'd quite like to torch it and put the resultant ashes on the garden, to help the soil along - do you have any tips?