KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

mrs-moneypenny

Morning kondoers, hope everyone is well.
Plan today is to box up the ornaments ready for the CS. There is also a collection of Buddhas in the attic that can go with them.
I've finished a paperback book and a tube of hand cream this morning, book can go in the CS bag, it was quite depressing - about how a family try to cope with their aged senile incontinent grandma. It obviously wasn't going to have a happy ending but I stuck with it, I should have let it go after the first couple of chapters but carried on reading even alough it became a bit of a chore. Hand cream tube is now in recycling.

Need to try and get mils cleaning done as well at some point.

Have a joyful day all.

GreyQueen

Morning all.

I always used to feel that I had to finish any book I started, even if I wasn't enjoying it. Only woke up and smelled the coffee a few years ago; life is short, I'm not going to have to write a report on this for school, I'm reading for fun and if it isn't fun, why bother?

I have been contemplating the linen basket. By which I mean the circular lime green rubber basket. Due to severe space constraints I don't have a bin for dirty clothes, they get slung in the washer until it's ready to run and anything which isn't compatible with that colour is temporarily removed.

The linen basket doesn't really have a home, it squishes up the corner of the bedroom (a rigid basket of the same size wouldn't fit) beyond the bed and gets dragged out a couple of times a week for me to offload the washer and transport the wet clothes all of 5-6 ft to the clothes airer. For months, when this item was being re-purposed for storing yarn, I used a large plastic tray which conveniently stands down the side of the washer anyway. Even that isn't strictly necessary as it wouldn't be grossly inefficient to just pull the items out a few at a time and rack them nearby.

The lime green basket cost me naught - was wombled a decade ago - and I think I shall put it somewhere like the bike shed for a while and see if I miss it. If I don't, it can go.

DawnW

Just a thought GQ, but would one of those plastic laundry bag things, such as can be purchased from pound shops / markets, substitute for your washing bin? It would fold or roll up when not in use.

For dirty washing, a large drawstring cloth bag (such as can easily be made from any old fabric, even by ham fisted people such as me ) hung on a peg on the back of the bedroom door can take the place of a dirty laundry bin. I saw pretty ones in one of those home design magazines that people round here hate :cool: Those were some daft price of course, but I have made a couple using fabric from a pair of pretty CS curtains (which cost me all of £2.50 )

GreyQueen

All good ideas for some homes but not needed here, beside which those areas are already very actively used for storing other things.

The problem with my home is there is literally nowhere to stand/ hang anything for dirty linen, whether a bag or other receptacle, although keeping it inside the washer drum works for me.

Have just hauled the washing basket out and have loaded it with yarn for the WIP which will keep that a bit more orderly.

mrs-moneypenny

I'm getting better with books GQ, I did stop reading one a couple of pages in a couple of weeks ago. It was highly commended and passed to me by someone I work with but it got onto the subject of child abuse and I just can't read books of that sort so it quickly got donated.
I think the reason I found this one hard going was that the grandma was so like my mil who is getting increasingly frail and cantankerous so I think while there was nothing wrong with the actual book or story I saw some of the dilemmas and guilts I'm facing with her at the mo. And I suppose I don't like the inevitability of where we are also heading and the issues that will bring.

gallygirl

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

:rotfl: loving the translation! I'm not sure what Marie would say about the flowerpot, though.

Well darling Marie obviously never tried to hack the bottom out of a massive plastic flowerpot the day before the Carnival then drill holes in it to attach 'braces' then spend hours sticking flowers etc on it. If I can save someone the pain of that then they're welcome :T. Could also be turned into the bottom of an Easter Egg, a cocktail glass etc. So Justino Case wins .

Another book chucker here. Started with We Need to Talk About Kevin. 1/3rd way through I wished he'd turned the gun on his mother as well then she couldn't have written the stupid book . Straight into a Ryanair rubbish bag. That brought joy :rotfl:.

PollyWollyDoodle

GQ, someone on here posted about using one of those collapsible plastic crates for wet washing, which I thought was a brilliant idea.

I have a washing basket. It used to live in the bedroom, usually full of ironing that never got done, clothes that needed mending etc. Clearing it was a major achievement but now it lives in the wardrobe and I never remember to bring it down, so I just carry wet washing up the garden in armfuls. I think it's time it went, but it's useful at Christmas for transporting presents!

Dirty washing goes in a large duffel bag made of plasticy fabric. My sister and I saw these on a trip to Paris, and we each bought one and we're still using them. Er - that was in 1980! :rotfl: it's still joyful to me though.

Karmacat

I have a matching laundry bin and washing basket bought from Habitat, if you please, which are now, um, over 35 years old :eek:

The bin is still used to store laundry waiting to be washed, it now fits in a little alcove. The basket is used to store shoes that have a bit of life left in them, but aren't much good Thats where I discovered my iron has been hiding too The basket would go to the chazzer, except its still acting as a space saver, and the shoes it holds are useful for saving wear on the shoes I actually like. I know there's something wrong with that logic KM-wise but when it stops working for me, they'll go, I promise :rotfl:

Wednesday2000

All rubbish is going today, I might throw some soapy water over the bins when the rubbish men have gone, probably not a good idea to throw water over the bins when the men are there, lol.

I am using up the last of a scented candle and having a sweep through the fridge to see what needs to be used up. Bottom of the fridge meals today.:cool:

GreyQueen wrote: »

I always used to feel that I had to finish any book I started, even if I wasn't enjoying it. Only woke up and smelled the coffee a few years ago; life is short, I'm not going to have to write a report on this for school, I'm reading for fun and if it isn't fun, why bother?

Yes, I came to the same decision a while ago!:)

tibawo

feel sorry for anyone who goes away for a week or more with no internet as i have only been away for three days and had to zoom through the posts!


I have been a bit naughty today but it feels good. I only have a small back yard, parts of which are too shady for things to really grow. Not having enough pennies to constantly buy bedding plants i have over the last few years bought a perennial plant so i don't have to buy as many. Anyway just bought some artificial ones for the wall baskets in the shade. Washing up just now it looks good not looking out on a blank wall!


need to get on!