KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

mavvymoo

GQ I have been laughing at the goat photos :rotfl:I remember years ago.My friends husband bringing a goat home (random I know) It was a bit of an odd place where I lived He put it in the back garden and it ate 3 of her kids school uniforms which were hanging on the line :rotfl:
She had to send them to school with a letter explaining why they were not in uniform :rotfl:
The goat was given to someone else (due to its crime ) and I then saw it about a week later running down the road dragging a garden fork behind it which it must have been tied to and a sweaty man chasing it.
It finally went to a lovely country home with a large paddock where it escaped from all the time as it used to jump on top of the fence and then over it

Anyway enough Goat talk for now

Gunnie Good luck with the book I have to do the laundry room tommorow good job I havent got one Done the whole list for today and its going pretty well.At least I dont have to think what jobs to do

Mav x

Slinky

My school friend's mother decided to adopt a couple of goats. One had only one eye and an open socket on the other side, not nice to look at, was a bit scary.


Today we attacked the weeding in the garden. OH was going to try and mow the lawn but the mower has been in for repair for a month awaiting new parts. I spotted our old one in the back of the shed last week but when dragged out, won't work. Can't work out if it's the mower or the lead. Can't imagine we'd have kept a mower that doesn't work, but until we get our newer mower back and can swap the leads we can't tell where the problem is. So the grass just keeps growing.....


Anyway we Kondo'd some stuff from the shed. Still quite a lot of carp in there but got rid of a load of paint/varnish tins with rusted lids, some old canes, some bubble wrap, some clay cat litter we have no idea why we bought, some cement and other assorted junk. Had a tidy and there's actually about a square metre of floor space now which wasn't there before.


My neighbour was having some repairs done, I managed to get their chap to come and look at a problem we had which he sorted for us. Had only been a problem for about 8 years, and he sorted it in about 15 minutes. Asked him how much and he said nothing. Gave him £40 as it was worth it to us, and was a very specialised skill, was just pure luck that our neighbour mentioned he had this chap in.


Keep Kondo-ing ladies, we're all doing great things.

ScotinLondon

Forgot to add, we also got gave to a friend, 8 glass ramekins. They will be used by the friend. I'm having the mini clear out of that cupboard, we also found apack of 4 dipping bowls that we both forgot that we had. They will now get used. They are nice ones.

Not sure what we will do tomorrow apart from cleaning the car. It will be an adventure if it rains.

silvasava

Clay cat litter is good for soaking up oil spills - maybe that's why you bought it Slinky

Slinky

silvasava wrote: »

Clay cat litter is good for soaking up oil spills - maybe that's why you bought it Slinky

I think you may well be right. We had a brand new block paved drive put in then within a couple of weeks I had my car serviced and the new oil filter leaked on the drive - you couldn't make it up. We got some very expensive 'stuff' which biologically broke down the oil stain, but I think the cat litter may well have been a first attempt to clean it, heaven knows how it ended up in the shed. We have a cat but the one at the time was using paper cat litter so it wouldn't have been for him.


The bag was leaking so fun and games getting rid of that also.

gallygirl

GreyQueen wrote: »

We also have a lot of power cords belonging to gawd-knows-what

Don't suppose you've come across a power lead and foot pedal for a Toyota sewing machine have you? I finally unpacked the machine that was here when we bought the house and the lead is missing . I know I haven't come across it elsewhere and thrown it out .

Lots of goats and goat dogs where I live and we often used to walk through herds of them. A dog tried to round up my friend one day - we think it's because she had a high ponytail and it thought she was a strange goat .

mavvymoo

Morning konverts

Ceilings to be painted today not looking forward to it one little bit
Good thing is it will not take very long to clear the rooms as there is not a lot left in them I am loving the space but as its so clear I can see all the little imperfections and scrapes.

So will do that and try and also do day 3 of the cleaning book :rotfl:there is a lot I dont have to do.But I do hate the mess while decorating so should work quite well.
Then just enjoy the 2 others days of the Bank Holiday doing something joyful

Have a nice day all
Mav x

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Just turned wet and miserable here.
7 bags went down the CS yesterday so that was joyful.
Just going to remake ds1s bed and dyson his room ready for his return later.
Family round for dinner tomorrow, I've bought bars of choccy rather than eggs, less packaging and more chocolate.

Don't forget to spring forward your clocks tonight.

Be joyful. X

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Was a bit pooped last night by the time I went to bed, but up and at it again today. I hadn't quite finished resolving the card issue (a crate-ful) yesterday when I lost the will to continue, so these were spread about the sitting-room.

Have sorted out some notecards which we don't use for donation, ditto unused postcards, married up Xmas cards with their envelopes and put all the plain cards and birthday cards together in one large tin.

After discussion with Mum, we thought it was silly to have a large liddled plastic crate in her bedroom 24/7/365 when it contained Xmas cards and tags only needed once a year. So that is now in the loft and the much smaller tin containing the birthday cards etc is to live on her bedroom shelf. Oh, and there are some HUGE cardboard boxes in the loft which the new telly came in last month, which are to be kept for a few months. I could have cried to see the loft space filling up again.....

Sooo, two crates from the parental bedroom (which were blocking the wardrobe doors) are now outta there, one is emptied and in the porch with some metal odds & sods for the HWRC - they'll take the car up there at some weekday in the next few weeks and get rid.

I have expressed my opinion that she has achieved SABLE for Xmas cards and must never buy any more in this lifetime.:rotfl:

Can't do too much today without stressing and tiring Mum because we're having an early lunch and then driving to another town to see Nan up at the hospital, which will take most of the afternoon. I shall practise my driving - if you get cut up by a woman driving a Monde0 saloon this afternoon in an English market town, I'd just like to say ..... mwhaah ha ha!!!

ETA; just cruised the surfaces in Mum's bedroom and came down with 6 magazines from 2011 (recyc) and a bag of odd socks, which I managed to turn into half a bag of odd socks and 6 pairs which have now been put to the drawers of the people owning them.

Karmacat

GQ, I can understand you don't like to see the loft space filling up so soon ... I suppose its necessary until you're sure that the TV won't need the box to go back for repair or something. Would it just have been sat on top of other stuff if you hadn't cleared that space?

Hope your visit to your nan goes well.

I'm at the computer looking through emails etc, and while waiting for pages to load, I've been either scanning or looking for free pdfs for books I want to throw out. I found four They're all books I had at college in the 1970s two are poetry books which I actually look at, one is on economic anthropology, and the other is the Marine Insurance Act of 1906 All this paper is old and dusty and not nice to have around the house. It doesn't clog the computer up very much, honestly ... please don't throw me off the thread