KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

MMF007

In came 4 books (pre-loved, £1 each, couldn't resist ), out go 6 books to CS tomorrow.

no time to do much else, except kondo a LOT of food, catering for family over the weekend! RL is in the way til Weds when I should get chance to do some proper kondo-ing, fingers crossed

Will have to ring HMRC tomorrow. They are planning to claim some tax from me that I paid back in Dec. I have the receipt but am expecting the process of convincing them to be a pita. Wish me luck!

M

mrs-moneypenny

Hope you get it sorted quickly MMF

Oh just remembered I kondoed a load of old batteries in the recycling bin while I was down the shops

FLA27

Finally I have made some real progress with actually getting some of my Kondo'd stuff out and gone. Three large charity bags have been collected today. I have another bag for a charity collection going out on Wednesday so hopefully some more will get to then. The rest of my stuff can be carried directly to charity shops in the next couple of weeks.

Mrs Moneypenny - I have a bag full of old batteries sat in the corner of my living room which I have been ignoring for too long now. I have been Kondoing them in as I go along and have ended up with far more than I could have believed possible! I think mine are going to have to go down to the tip when I get to go next week when I have a lift from a friend.

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

oooh, greenbee, sympathies on starting the building project. Mind your backs when shifting furniture.

I'm sure you're on it, but don't discount the humble drop cloth (or old bedsheet) as a way of keep dust and grime off your belongings. It's a lot easier to shake one of these out and launder it than it is to chase dust and debris of a pile of misc possessions full of nooks and crannies and different materials which require different cleaning strategies.

I have told the apprentice I'm holding him responsible for every speck of dust It isn't too bad so far, and they've had to scrape the JCB-yellow paint they found under the wallpaper off the walls as there was no mist-coat 30-odd years ago. I've already done that in two rooms, my cousin has done another two, and the builder has done one. I have rolled up old duvet covers/sheets/bedcovers blocking the bottom of every door, and the stuff in the spare room (including the rocking horse) is draped in indian cotton bedcovers as I have a whole lot of spares and they're easy to wash.

On the plus side, although it stops me running (can't get changed/showered during the day) I have got a lot of work done, as when I'm not on the phone i'm in a cafe without wifi and distractions.

mrs-moneypenny

FLA most supermarkets have a battery bin mines in the local Sains which is quite small, I just bung a bag full in my shopping bag when I think about it.
I think our tip has a battery recycling bin so yours probably has as well.

Night all.

whiteguineapig

FLA they have a battery recyling bin at both my tesco and booths stores

mavvymoo

Morning all
A productive weekend The outcome I no longer have winter/summer clothes stored they all fit into the wardrobes and drawers I have, with 4 drawers spare So very pleased with that.The funny thing is I am no longer looking in any shops as I do not want to bring anymore into the house under any circumstances.
Started painting again yesterday after giving myself a week off and to be honest I have no idea where the week went.But it is starting to look better but that maybe as I have filled in the cracks.:mad:
House looks clean (dont look too close) and very big now the furniture has gone and I am enjoying it.
BTW I have ordered 'spark joy' just want to read it really and will then most likely pass it on.
Well done to everyone and keep plodding away :T

Mav x

GreyQueen

I think it's the law that any shop selling batteries also has to have a collection point for old ones. In some shops, it's more obvious than others.

In Liddlys and Aldees, they seem to be on the packing bench once you've gone through the till. I tend to put any spent batteries into my jacket pocket, so that I can drop them off when I see the recycling tubs. Obviously, not so easy if you have a kilo or two of them!

You'll probably have a battery collection point at your HWRC, too.

I wouldn't hang onto these for too long at home as they will eventually corrode and start to seep the nasty stuff inside. Plus, they add to domestic chaos by causing you to wonder which are the good ones and which are the duds.

Not a lot of kondo-ing going on this week, just the usual processing of scrap paper and wee pencils thru my office job, but will be taking a pile of books and a few other bits to the family home on Thurs evening, and then - ta dah! - there will be major kondo-ing over the weekend. I shall keep you lot posted.

Mum's up for it, things have reached crisis point in the Bedroom of Doom. There is a pile of Stuff there which is surely quivering in anxiety as I have my sights set on it. Trouble is, she doesn't hold onto actual carp, so it isn't a case of out into the landfill bin or the recycling, there will be hard decisions to be made.

Decisions are the tough bit, everything else is just logistics. Frustratingly, because it's a Bank Hol weekend, I will have to rely on the family to get the Stuff slated for donation outta there once I'm back home. And there has been problems with this in the past, not rebellion, just absentmindedness and disorganisation causing donation bags to lurk for week and even months.

Slinky

Arggghhh, just had a conversation with OH on the phone, can I get rid of a coffee and tea storage jar we don't use 'well they were expensive' 'but we don't use them' 'let me get back to you on that'

What's the bloody point. I just wish I'd got rid of them.

GreyQueen

Slinky wrote: »

Arggghhh, just had a conversation with OH on the phone, can I get rid of a coffee and tea storage jar we don't use 'well they were expensive' 'but we don't use them' 'let me get back to you on that'

What's the bloody point. I just wish I'd got rid of them.

Perhaps you could mention the term 'sunk costs' which is economist-speak for money you can't get back again.

They may have been expensive but the cost is sunk. And a chunk of it would have been VAT not a reflection of the intrinsic quality of the items. If you don't use it, and you don't get a thrill just looking at it, an item just becomes a dust-gatherer. And one day you may break one of them, and be sad because they 'don't match' and the survivor will end up in the chazzer anyway.

You may have noticed, as I have, that canister sets in various materials for tea/ coffee/ sugar/biscuits are very common in charity shops. This is because they're not the most practical of items, take up a lot of scarce counter-space, get splattered by kitchen fallout, become unfashionable and don't 'go' with anything else and generally annoy their owners.

And, of the breakable ones, one inevitably breaks and the orphan(s) go to the chazzer.

You could short-cut a lot of aggro by letting them go now, if you can get the hubby on-side.