KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

pavlovs_dog

it's an ikea varieria for £22



my mission tonight is to search to see if I can find a bathroom caddy might might do much the same type of thing

GreyQueen

Evening all.

Blinking perishing here so I am decluttering a tinned pie from the storecupboard into me. Fine dining it's not, but it'll stick to my ribs.

Just checked in with the folks' back at the hometown. Today's planned activities went off smoothly depsite vile weather. The chazzer donation bags are at the chazzer and the dump run was accomplished with the recyclables including Trigger's Bicycle, Dad's old warhorse made from spare parts wombled here and there from the 1950s, 1960s and even 1970s.

I asked him if he felt a pang of regret as it was wheeled off into the rehoming shed and he said not.:rotfl:Sheet glass and a big bag of batteries has also gone up to their HWRC.

Not planning on a lot bar eating some stodge and reading a humourous book off my to-be-read list, which will then go in the donation bag.

GreyQueen

OK, have added the two bagsied cooking tins from the parental home into the pan drawer under my stove and evicted two others into the chazzer bag to take their place, plus added the book I finished 10 mins ago (itself a chazzer buy in the past couple of months) and the steel flasks which I am sure will thrill somebody.

Or give them a concussion if smacked upside the head with one. I did swither about them (one is a proper steel thermos) but I already have a proper steel thermos which is going to last forever, I reckon, having had about 20 years of misadventures in my keeping already. So, off they both go and someone will be pleased to have them.

Just going to visit my to-be-read shelf to select my next victim. Do I go for easy gains, such as a thriller with lots of dialogue, which I can whizz thru in a few hours? Or do I select the tome of historical stuff which has lingered awhile?

Decision, decisions........ aha! I spy a Robert Crais, probably about the only one of his backlist I haven't read yet. I shall go for that in paperback then something weighty in hardcover. One hardcover takes up about twice the shelf-space of a paperback book and therefore one gets more space-gain for one's reading time.

Never mind the quality, feel the width.

maddiemay

OH and I retburned home a few days early after our 3 week holibobs touring parts of the UK, another one here with lack of energy conditions, sunny weather allowed lots of kondoing the laundry and spent yesterday blitzing the food storage cupboards, not much to be thrown, but lots of consolidation done, I used to bake a lot before I became ill, I hate food waste so really need to schedule baking into the better energy days. Today is not one of those days, totally crashed!!

Slinky

Have just caught up on 10 days of posts having been on holiday. How sad about iQueen. Having only finished reading the 2015 thread about 3 weeks ago her spirit is fresh in my mind.


Have managed to put on 6lbs in 10 days so will have to be back to low carb with determination. I could see the weight gathering on my waist, but hey, it was a holiday we needed. Only brought back a bottle of wine for us, plus 2 tea towels as small gifts. Probably the least things we've ever brought back from a holiday.


P'eed off with the weather today. Have my physical part of my job this week, lost a day yesterday with the BH but OH said he would help me as he's not back to work until tomorrow. Got nothing done as it is impossible to do the work in the rain. Plus I tweaked my lower back first thing this morning, which is not good news with all the lifting and carrying I have to do this week. Holiday seems a long time ago already.

Floss

GreyQueen wrote: »

...but I already have a proper steel thermos which is going to last forever, I reckon, having had about 20 years of misadventures in my keeping already. So, off they both go and someone will be pleased to have them...

We have a 0.5l one which is fab...we did have two but one failed after jumping out of the cupboard once too often and it stopped being thermal!

greenbee

So today we have sorted out the sitting room - this started with taking up some of the existing patchworked underlay (under the patchwork carpet) and replacing it with the underlay removed from one of the bedrooms. This means that the whole of the sitting room now has underlay - which hopefully will help it to be warmer.

We then decided that the HUGE oak table that was evicted from the kitchen doesn't work in the dining room, so moved it to the hall (actually, it's a bit big for my house really). A lot of time was then spent working out what to put where in the sitting room.

So... the desk that was in the hall is now in the dining room as a kind of sideboard, the bureau that was in the sitting room is now in the hall under the stairs, the big sofa has been moved to the end of the sitting room and the little one is in the middle, the CoD with my gym kit in that was annoying me in my bedroom is one side of the big sofa, the blanket chest from under the stairs is by the fireplace, and by shifting things round I finally have room for both my chairs in the sitting room.

The only slight oddity is that the log basket is behind the door, in front of a bookcase.

I also have a bit of wall to paint which used to have a radiator on, but was going to be behind the bureau so didn't matter...

I'm working tomorrow, and my parents are off to see my brother, so I suspect most of tomorrow's efforts will be in my office, which is currently a complete tip!

Oh... and I changed the sofa covers (my ancient Ikea sofabed was delivered with two sets of covers, although I only paid for one...) as I decided I have enough time coming up dust-free for it to be worth it. I now need to find out whether the lady who does my ironing will deal with them if I wash them. Otherwise I'll have to send them to the laundry, which means looking for one that doesn't use stinky detergents!

Igamogam

GreyQueen wrote: »

When we're all fully-kondo'd this probably won't be an issue but until then, here's a fast way to be company-ready:

1. Limit the places your company will see such as the hall, sitting-room, cloak room if you have one. Blitz these.

2. Untidiness is more obvious than dust or dirt. In a rush, tidy rather than clean.

3. If you can only do a little, walk through the public areas of your home as if you were your guest. Sit where they will sit, and look at what's in their eye-line. Tidy/ clean or dust that.

Exactly what I will be doing tomorrow

greenbee

Having a break from housework today to do some work work...

silvasava

I was given a lot of small gifts on my birthday - all the wine and alcohol will be kept as it formed the bulk but there are some decorative bits that I will never use so they will be going to the CS. Luckily they are from people who do not visit my home (probably why they are not to my taste!) It does seem somewhat ungrateful but I know I would just put them away until they died in storage and they do not bring me joy!