KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

PollyWollyDoodle

GreyQueen wrote: »

Turfed the bag of stuff out onto the kitchen table and it was a mare's nest of knitting stuff, sewing stuff, papery misc etc etc. It included; a part-completed cat blanket, payslips from the early noughties, 9 tape measures (4 cased, 5 regular and unravelled), an almost complete cross-stictch project, several stray crochet hooks and sock needles, several mismatched knitting needles, buttons, zips and oddments of yarn.

I'm both cringing and laughing as I read that. Do you think your mum was related to my (much loved and sadly departed) mum, GQ? I can picture the contents of that bag with terrible clarity! :rotfl:

Good luck with today's exploration. At least if you need to measure anything you'll have a tape measure handy!

GreyQueen

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

I'm both cringing and laughing as I read that. Do you think your mum was related to my (much loved and sadly departed) mum, GQ? I can picture the contents of that bag with terrible clarity! :rotfl:

Good luck with today's exploration. At least if you need to measure anything you'll have a tape measure handy!

Quite possibly!

It was an actual massive snarl of unravelled small balls of knitting yarn and the tape measures, with everything else tangled up inside it. I shot it out onto the kitchen table and we picked thru it together.

Have just finished breakfast and will get cleaned up and dressed (4 in the house, we're taking it in turns). Told Mum she was to read the sunday paper at the kitchen table, her normal habit, and I shall gut out the cupboard and she will be called upon to arbitrate later.

She teased me by trying to day she didn't feel 'up' to it but she was just pulling my leg. Dad said anxiously that I wouldn't leave their bedroom in a mess, would I? Think the poor bloke had visions of having to sleep on the sofa downstairs if I was still using their bed as a sorting platform come eveningtime.

I snorted with derision and pointed out that the BCofD hasn't even been closable for 8 months. It was worked over last year when several stones of magazines were removed, so many that they had to be fed into the recycling wheelie over a few weeks.

I have an approximate idea of the probable cupboard contents; clothing, footwear, bags and baggage, bags of old socks/ tights, unused slippers bought for Justin and the Panasonic ghetto blaster we're keeping for him, too.

There will be yarn, there are definately a few thousand knitting needles and I am sure there will be s p i d e r s, too. Hopefully there will be something really funny to share with you all.

Laters, GQ xx

Karmacat

Morning!

GQ, just your normal way of putting things is funny enough, believe me. There's also admiration in there ... I certainly admire your facing the eight legged folk on behalf of your parents.

I'm currently kondoing old passports before I go out to my sister's - I'm having a few moments about these passports somehow being re-used by criminals, so I'm going to be extra careful about not only shredding my own details, but cutting up the security paper.

in_need_of_direction

Omg, I thought I'd returned old passports to get new ones. No idea where they would be.

Karmacat

I kept them with old papers, sort of archived, INOD, but I'm chucking out the archive anyway and there's all this mustiness, plus the very oldest one now has actual mould :eek:

GreyQueen

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

Omg, I thought I'd returned old passports to get new ones. No idea where they would be.

I'm on my 2nd passport and you do have to send them off when you renew but they send the old one back with one of the corners cut off the cover.

Well, it took all of 10 minutes to totally cover a double-bed with some of the cupboard contents and 50 minutes to go thru them. We are now breaking for tea.

Conclusions thus far; we have achieved Peak Photo Album, have more socks than a regiment would need, and have found three more bags of used tights. This is after a mahoosive amount of tights were cleared out over Xmas/ New Year.:rotfl:

Justiin's slippers were tried on (several pairs). Maternal quiotes were :

I forgot I had these! I bought new ones I didn't need! These don't fit.
Ask your father. Bend the sole and if it cracks, bin them.

Several knackered toiletry bags have been binned, several good items of misc have been added to the donation bag, 5 skirts which were hanging up in there have been examined and 4 have died in storage, two will be debuttoned before ragging, one is actually in good nick and is now in the laundry bin pre-donation.

We have also found a good fleece dressing gown which is to be laundered and brought into service and I am going to lobby for the knackered fleece dressing gown which is at least 35 years old and which is reserved for my use when visiting, to be junked.

I have only just skimmed the surface in the BCofD, the bed is still covered with Stuff but we are taking a tea break; slow and steady wins the day.

I think I may eat some chocolate to keep my strength up. No spiders, DOA, seen thus far, but plenty of dusty webs. Further updates to follow - prize thus far for Weird Sh*t is a dead heat between the soft falsie Mum had immediately after her mastectomy and a plastic teen barbie knock-off doll which she'd acquired somewhere to make one of those knitted toilet roll cover dollies from.

I have persuaded her that this is an abominable idea............ never did like dollies, wonder if one of my action men will come to light soon.
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PollyWollyDoodle

In need of direction they send back the old passport with a corner cut off. I've kept mine as a sort of history but even 40 years ago when I got my first one there were very few stamps unless you go outside Europe. My first ones were the nice hard-cover navy blue ones, the EU ones don't seem the same somehow (and that's not a political statement, just an observation!)

GreyQueen

:eek: OMG, have found another mare's nest of yarn etc but this time it's a Sains orange bag-for-life and thus twice the volume of the carrier-bag size one we sorted yestereve.

We've got the washer on and the stuff to be re-purposed/ donated is in there now. Mum's accusing me of being a slave driver...............:rotfl:

ETA; have found more unused photo albums (and a tin full of photos still in their developer's envelopes), a hanging bag was found to contain 3 x 3 packs of thermal socks and another hanging bag to contain a brand-new pair of slippers, size 11, which I have just thrown downstairs at kid bruv with the instruction that he is to change them out for the knackered ones he's wearing.

Am now about to try tetrising the socks into the drawers. It's bonkers, this cupboard isn't much more than 4 x 4 ft and there's stuff in there that no one remembers buying.

Also found the BT home hub which was superceded by another home hub some years ago so that's one for the electronics section on the next tip run.

Still no spiders.

Triker

Morning all,

Yesterday Kondo'd a person on FB who annoys me.

Visualised the room (in this case my kitchen) and wanted my eye to be drawn to colour rather than clutter. So used a shoe rack which has been repurposed to become a display shelf and I've placed all my lovely brightly coloured pottery on to it.

A great source of irritation to me is the lack of proper fencing on one side of our garden so no real privacy from my (very lovely) neighbours and their children.

I cannot afford to fence it yet in the way I'd like so instead purchased a gazebo from Lidl, complete with two sides and managed to put the whole thing up by myself (hubby away for weekend).

I now have a beautifully private space to sit with my coffee, there are (unused for 3 three years) tealights scattered about and it also at the moment doubles as a shelter for the boxes of komono that are leaving the house.

Joy joy joy....grinning like a cheshire cat about this.

I have a slowcooker on with a spaghetti sauce in using up a whole load of veg that would usually rot away before I used up.

I've already started kondoing my cutlery drawer and an unused electric knife has also gone.

I've 'found' the breadmaker instructions so I'll see if I can produce a decent loaf of bread again and figure out whether the breadmaker does indeed spark joy.


Off to kondo the mysterious pan lid collection, mysterious in the fact that there appear to be at least a third more pan lids than pans.

Then I'm going for a drive and potter about as the weather, so far, is much lovely than predicted.

Have a great day all.

VJsmum

Kondoed a pair of trousers on a walk yesterday though i am not sure if they got caught on something or just split where they were very thin. They were quite old, but i liked them and they were flattering.. Luckily it was on the lower thigh and not anywhere more.... revealing

Midway through Kondoing another book - i am on a book amnesty until i have got down the pile of unread books - Marie is right, unread books just ... accumulate .

At some point next week another 5 things will go to the chazzer - OH had a suit that is no longer suitable (see what i did there? :rotfl:) to which i've added a book i finished last week and two cds - I never like to donate fewer than 5 things to the chazzer so have to cast about to make up the number. I am starting to struggle to find things now, though. My white 70's style Abba suit (:eek:) has survived yet another cull - even though i can't really think of when i shall be called on to wear it again ....