KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Had a bit of a crafting and tidying weekend so feel like a few small bits left the building.
Today I have a small sick of cards to be sent. Then I've got an appt to have split ends and grey roots kondoed. After that I've got plans to pick out all the little buttercup plant lets that are starting to show through on the front garden, I did pull a group of large weed like plants out yesterday and it looks so much better for that. I have a large box of seeds to sprinkle over once I'm done so hopeful I will have colour later in the year. I do have a few joyful mass of daffodils there I will be working round.
Well that's my morning planned. Then I have work followed by an afternoon of cleaning and tidying I think.

Wishing you all a joyful day, wrap up warm it's cold out there.

Floss

GQ I do envy you being able to have fires on your lotty. We're banned, even around 5 November and we can't use wood burners in our sheds either due to the occupants of a newish small block of flats complaining 3 times in the last 2 years. Wouldn't mind but the allotments were here first and the wind generally blows away from them :mad:

mavvymoo

Morning fellow kondo fanatics

Another nice day here Always makes you want to get on with something when its nice dont you think.

Today I have got to go over to the dress agency which I took some of my better stuff too. Have some money to collect which is great but have to collect the unsold not so good. But there is a nice Charity shop just around the corner so think I will just run it round without looking at it :rotfl:Or I might look and see if anything is joyful as I cant even remember whats there

As I am on a not buying it mission at the moment I will NOT look around the shop I will keep my eyes firmly shut


My paint work in everyroom in the house looks really carp and scuffy Its only been done a year but feels sticky and chipped and nasty. So had a look at the reviews of the paint the decorater used (which I had bought) Its a Dul*x so should be good but no 194 :eek: reviews saying how bad it was and its wrecked everyones paintwork etc etc etc As it doesnt seem to harden when you try and rub it down it leaves big lumps and its a nightmare to do anything with :mad:

Not good and not sure what to do with it really but going to have to do something as its looking worse everyday :mad:

Think I will have to rub it down the best I can and then use an oil based primer and see how it looks. pretty fed up about it really but hey ho these things are sent to try us :mad:

The name of the paint is Dul*x Satinwood quick dry dont use it if you are thinking of painting (read the reviews first) xxx


Mav x

GreyQueen

Floss wrote: »

GQ I do envy you being able to have fires on your lotty. We're banned, even around 5 November and we can't use wood burners in our sheds either due to the occupants of a newish small block of flats complaining 3 times in the last 2 years. Wouldn't mind but the allotments were here first and the wind generally blows away from them :mad:

We have strict rules, and burning is only allowed 1st Oct to 31st March. And only of materials generated on the allotment, no importing of burnables.

Bliddy annoying about the flats. I take complaints calls at the council call-centre and people in new-builds are some of the worst whingers, in my experience. Particularly those who have bought in areas of mixed usage and have decided to set up home opposite a factory and then complain about noise from delivery lorries - doh!

There is a definate culture on our lotties, with some of the oldest old boys having had their plots over 50 years, and some old boys had their old Dads on the site before them. So there are ways which things are done. Etiquette is that you only burn on days where its either windless, or the wind is blowing away from the houses (this is the opposite direction to the prevailing wind). I was told this as a newbie myself, and have passed it on to other newbies in my turn.

I do often wonder if people who complain about intermittant nuisances from allotment sites ever pause to consider what the nuisances from having more houses over there would be...........:rotfl:

ETA; Mavvy, I'm a Doolux girl but wouldn't hold any truck with that paint, gotta be gloss for indoor woodwork for me. Good gloss should last for decades.

mavvymoo

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ETA; Mavvy, I'm a Doolux girl but wouldn't hold any truck with that paint, gotta be gloss for indoor woodwork for me. Good gloss should last for decades.[/QUOTE]

Me too GQ The only reason I got the quick dry stuff was I didnt want the dogs hairs to stick in the skirting boards so wanted it to dry quickly. But I should have stuck to what I know So I will rub it down the best I can,prime it as I think I am going to have too and then gloss it and hope it lasts longer than a year


Mav x

Slinky

The one thing I've noticed about gloss paint, we had somebody in to paint the tricky woodwork up the stairs, they used Trade paint. It's stayed white far longer than the ordinary gloss white paint, so when we've bought white gloss since, we've paid extra for the Trade version.

Karmacat

Thank you GQ, thats lovely detail on the bonfire. Good to know that the soil creatures wouldn't be unduly affected at this time of year. Maybe I'll aim for mid-March to kondo all those branches - I'm a bit stressed with one thing and another, mostly family arrangements, ridiculous, really.

I do love kondo-ing though

GreyQueen

Slinky wrote: »

The one thing I've noticed about gloss paint, we had somebody in to paint the tricky woodwork up the stairs, they used Trade paint. It's stayed white far longer than the ordinary gloss white paint, so when we've bought white gloss since, we've paid extra for the Trade version.

Funnily enough, it's the reverse in my flat. I had a limited amount of white gloss work done by the council's contractors in my bathroom 3.5 years ago and that has gone yellow. The Doolus pure brilliant white gloss I bought from the hardware store (ordinary household paint) which has been on years longer than that, is still brilliant white. Go figure. I shall re-do the gloss work as it looks naff alongside the pure white bathroom walls, plus I can paint a lot better than that contractor was allowed time to do so, and it isn't up to my standard.

Karmacat, worms are at dramatically different levels in the soil even on consecutive days in the same part of the lottie, depending on how warm it is. I dig with a fork not a spade as have pernicious roots to remove (horsetail, chiefly) and on a warm winter's day, the worms might be 2 inches under the surface. On a colder day, they might be 5 + inches down. One of the many fascinating little observations which gardening opens you to.

Couple of years ago, when I cleared the area of the allotment formerly known as The Rough, I had a major burn-up on the cleared ground and forked a large amount of woodash under. Then forgot about it, covered the area with rows of spuds and wondered why an approximately round area stretching over 3 rows had much more vigourous foliage and much bigger spuds (about 25% better than the surrounding crop).

Puzzled at it for a while until the penny dropped - that was the bonfire ash spot. I have arranged matters so that the October and Feb bonfires were on an area where there will be spuds this year as they really seem to like it.

Taking the opportunity of having had almost everything in the flat pulled out to do some re-arrangement, which had resulted in some kondo-ing. I shall be getting frequent flier miles at the chazzer at this rate.;)

Anyone else finding that they have developed a different relationship with Stuff, as in thinking of it as items which are just passing through? As in, one will use them and enjoy them, and let them go off to bring joy to someone else?

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

Funnily enough, it's the reverse in my flat. I had a limited amount of white gloss work done by the council's contractors in my bathroom 3.5 years ago and that has gone yellow. The Doolus pure brilliant white gloss I bought from the hardware store (ordinary household paint) which has been on years longer than that, is still brilliant white. Go figure. I shall re-do the gloss work as it looks naff alongside the pure white bathroom walls, plus I can paint a lot better than that contractor was allowed time to do so, and it isn't up to my standard.

Depends when you bought the paint - they changed the formulation and there were lots of issues with it.

Generally I prefer matt paint to gloss, but it depends on the colour combination and room size etc. My downstairs loo is dark blue on the walls with dark grey gloss on the window/skirtings/door. It needs gloss in the small space.

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

Karmacat, worms are at dramatically different levels in the soil even on consecutive days in the same part of the lottie, depending on how warm it is.

There's something else that I didn't know that I didn't know about

I dig with a fork not a spade as have pernicious roots to remove (horsetail, chiefly) and on a warm winter's day, the worms might be 2 inches under the surface. On a colder day, they might be 5 + inches down. One of the many fascinating little observations which gardening opens you to.

I prune and weed, as opposed to actual "garden" - the other thing is that my soil is **extreem** (sic) clay, I'm really not sure they can get down there This is the kind of thing you wonder about when you don't know *anything* about the topic, but find it interesting in any case

Couple of years ago, when I cleared the area of the allotment formerly known as The Rough, I had a major burn-up on the cleared ground and forked a large amount of woodash under. Then forgot about it, covered the area with rows of spuds and wondered why an approximately round area stretching over 3 rows had much more vigourous foliage and much bigger spuds (about 25% better than the surrounding crop).

Puzzled at it for a while until the penny dropped - that was the bonfire ash spot. I have arranged matters so that the October and Feb bonfires were on an area where there will be spuds this year as they really seem to like it.

Brilliant! Thats the kind of effect I'd like to see :j

Anyone else finding that they have developed a different relationship with Stuff, as in thinking of it as items which are just passing through? As in, one will use them and enjoy them, and let them go off to bring joy to someone else?

A little bit ... I certainly find that I don't *need* to keep hold of every book I've ever read, or every letter I've ever received. The concept of letting Stuff bring joy to someone else is wonderful, and for things other than papers, it really works. I love it.