KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

mrs-moneypenny

Glad it's not just me greent, I find it therapeutic as well, but need to be in the mood. I have learned to keep up now rather than put it off for too long.

Triker

Kondo'd the frugging most annoying phone we've ever had.

Trills instead of rings and its a digital thingy but the answer button takes about 4 presses to connect the call. Then you could hardly hear the other person.

Anyways, gone, binned, no use.

Replaced by a brand new £1.50 phone (charity shop) that rings and has a long cord for moving round the room.

Hubby on board and we're moving furniture around and decluttering the stuff that was left behind about a year and a half ago because we thought it was 'essential'....however haven't touched, used or looked at it since.

My mega car full that went to the charity shop has made way for more 'stuff' to be decluttered and if necessary, this stuff can be car booted if we have the time, space and inclination.

So off now to declutter and Kondo the cupboard in my newly appointed office in the house.

Then it can be moved onto the landing for towel storage.

LittleVoice

Triker wrote: »

Kondo'd the frugging most annoying phone we've ever had.

Trills instead of rings and its a digital thingy but the answer button takes about 4 presses to connect the call. Then you could hardly hear the other person.

Anyways, gone, binned, no use.

Replaced by a brand new £1.50 phone (charity shop) that rings and has a long cord for moving round the room.

By "bin" I expect you meant "to the Council recycling centre" or whatever is the appropriate place in your neck of the woods.


Well done on getting your OH on side with the task in hand.

GoingToDoIt

Hi Kondoites,
Just kondo'd a cardigan I had on today, it failed to spark joy even as I ironed it this morning (GQ this was not because it requires ironing! I like ironing). Now have a decent ragbag of items to kondo to the recycle bin st the weekend.
All the talk of fold up washing baskets got me thinking - I have a flimsy lightweight ike@ washbasket, light enough to pick up and carry but I never do - because it's full of "other" washing. And this basket being cheap, and ike@ always a pain to get to, I have a spare unused one under the bed, waiting for the current one to expire.
So now I'm just using the two baskets at the same time, one for darks, one for lights. No more sorting washing. Easy carrying to and from machine. The most blindingly simple and obvious way to make my life easy since I realised I could lower the shelves in my cupboard. Thank you MK, and all contributers who led me to this with talk of washing baskets!

flubberyzing

Hello all!


I was proud of myself the other day! I was in town for a school-related purpose and thought I'd just nip into Primark... The other week I got 2 long sleeve t-shirts that have been really soft and nice to wear, and I thought I'd see if there were any other colours I particularly liked... But then I remembered Kondo-ing, and the drawer-full of tops I already own, and swiftly left the shop!


Did someone mention ironing? I grew up in a household of my mum ironing absolutely everything, from bedsheets down to hankies. IMO life is too short for that! I now haven't ironed a single item for coming on 8 years!
I randomly do own an iron ("inherited" from an elderly friend after she went into a home), but don't have an ironing board. I just CBA with it!


Anyway, I've just been sitting here watching a rainstorm roll in. There were a few rumbles of thunder, but there were sunny skies over my place, but now it's virtually dark and raining heavily. Glad to not be out in it!


I saw one of you was going to get rid of their T**co card... I must say, I appreciate mine, and as that shop is the site of my main food shop each week, plus petrol, the points do add up.
But I was sad yesterday to get a letter through saying they are getting rid of the double-value boost events. The last one is going to be later next month. I'm pondering using this last one to get something a bit special... A TV for the bedroom. I've never, ever had TV there, but I feel like maybe it would be fun. With the points I've already got, doubling them up would pay for a sizeable chunk of a smallish TV...

Triker

LittleVoice wrote: »

By "bin" I expect you meant "to the Council recycling centre" or whatever is the appropriate place in your neck of the woods.


Well done on getting your OH on side with the task in hand.

Yes, binned means recycled!

And...I've found another phone :rotfl:

Just done furniture swopping.

One heavy pine chest of drawers emptied and brought downstairs in readiness to be moved to my daughters asap. Ditto the 'spare' iron

The cupboard sideboard that housed the towels now swopped with a glass fronted narrower cupboard and the towels are all neatly rolled up and I can see them.

A huge binbag of rubbish gone, another huge bag for recycling and another two boxes and a very large ikea holdall now filling up fast with items that are either to be car booted or charity shopped.

My office area feels more inviting and is becoming much more organised.

Random items found, a selection of foreign coins, a compass, a ball of string, a phone , the lost earring to a set I really like, now reunited, some information regarding an old mortgage I had that I will explore whether I had PPI on it.

anamenottaken

flubberyzing wrote: »

I saw one of you was going to get rid of their T**co card... I must say, I appreciate mine, and as that shop is the site of my main food shop each week, plus petrol, the points do add up.
But I was sad yesterday to get a letter through saying they are getting rid of the double-value boost events. The last one is going to be later next month. I'm pondering using this last one to get something a bit special... A TV for the bedroom. I've never, ever had TV there, but I feel like maybe it would be fun. With the points I've already got, doubling them up would pay for a sizeable chunk of a smallish TV...

I'd check the letter and what is excluded. I think you'll find that TVs are excluded from the Boost promotion. See https://secure.tesco.com/clubcard/boost/CMSAssets/UK/rewards/default/pdf/whats-in-whats-out.pdf

GreyQueen

Morning all.

It was me who posted about kondoing her clubcard. I am a very small spender and it was only worth keeping on with because of using the vouchers on the boost. Now they're stopping that, there's no point for me.

I appeciate I'm what the trade calls a 'small basket' and not a priority customer, unlike those ladies who are shoppin' large for a whole family and spending many thousands a year in the store.

Am assembling a few items which will be taken back to the hometown next week when the car comes to bring me back and to do a few errands. Gotta take advantage of not having to lump things around on the buses.

Today I will be w*rking ('scuse my Klatchian) and then going over to the parental home to share in the fun and games with doors which don't unlock and ditzy mogs like Wild Thing. I'm sure that I could be fully-employed over there a-kondo-ing but for pesky facts such as it not being my Stuff and having to live my own life and earn my own living up in the bright lights *snigger* of this city.

Have a good day, folks. GQ x

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Today is wear something blue day in support for a local footie team that apparently is doing reasonably well at the mo. Quick rummage reveals today's attire options are a blue patterned dress I made a couple of years ago, or jeans and rifle through the lads Tshirts to find something blue with a suitable slogan or picture once they are out. Have opted for the blue dress, funnily enough I do like the colour blue so can't believe I only have one blue thing in my wardrobe. I won't be rushing to the shops to stock up as plenty of other colours were available.

Started a book yesterday while in the waiting room, it felt like reading lists of descriptions and as was pointed out in this thread we don't get a test at the end of books read for choice or pleasure so it's been put into the CS pile.

Need to return small fish tank to school today and remember to take the pile of Sains school vouchers I have amassed in my purse. And bag of cleaning rags plus some plants should be going to dd1 over the weekend.
Also a huge punchbag Dh and I repaired a couple,of months ago has split again so he's said he will start using the spare that was hardly used but kept for Justin and the split one can go.
Only little bits but at least they are leaving.

Have a joyful day all

PollyWollyDoodle

Wow, progress on all fronts and I can't wait to read about your weekend at the parents' GQ! I wonder what treasures you'll discover this weekend.

I spent last weekend with a friend - 'would you help me tidy out the shed please?' Ooh what a treat to Kondo someone else's stuff! Two lawn mowers, a push mower Justin case its too wet to use the electric one. Six bikes (there are only four in the family). A sad deflated football 'Justincase we go to the beach' - I pointed out three other footballs reposing in the garden!

The saddest thing was vast quantities of craft stuff - paper, paint, beads etc - much of which had Died in Storage due to not being accessible or being crammed into drawers. I suggested a 'like with like' approach and we managed to empty some plastic storage drawers and repurpose them. She'd begun with a plan to move a CoD out of the bedroom and put it in the shed Justin case somebody needs it in future. Halfway through she changed her mind and decided to donate it instead, a much better plan. I did my best not to bully her, honest! :rotfl: Shes been on her own with 2 kids for some years so it hasn't been easy but now her new OH has moved in they need the space.

It was very satisfying and made me realise how much I've changed over the last year.