KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

8 bagfuls is awesome, bet you really notice the difference now they're gone.

I'm getting around to a much-procrastinated sorting and freegle-listing of certain items, something I've been meaning to get a round tuit for a while now. The bag has been on my sitting-room floor, hiding bashfully among other bags of things to be donated/ recycled, but now that its companions have been dealt with, it's really getting on my wick.

Hokay, back to work, I will not skive off before this project is done, I promise myself. Once it's listed, it's out of my hands and into the magic world of freegle.

ETA; got interrupted by a phone call in the middle of that prep but everything now listed on freegle. Will go out for a play in the dirt (lottie) and check back in later so see who wants what (I hope!). Have a good evening, lovely peeps.

mrs-moneypenny

Ds1 went camping with friends last night, his search for a suitable tent revealed one of the pop up ones is broken, it's one of that pings out and puts itself up, but because of two snapped Carbon rods it had the potential to ping out and stab someone in the eye or the kidneys - I do have a rather vivid sense of peril when it comes to family members but as alcohol was being consumed prior to the tents going up I vetoed that one and have snapped more rods to render it useless, it's now on the bin pile. Camping went successfully even using the tent with no top cover just the mesh part- I think it's called the fly sheet that's missing. (luckily no rain) tent really needs binning or offering on freecycle incase anyone has the missing part to marry it up with and replacing.

Just been into town to get tickets for the forthcoming glen Miller band event now I'm in the garden knitting a sock to go with a previously knitted one. To use up stash and just because it's something I've never done. Random act of kindness was to leave a parking ticket with 2 1/2 hours still on as good old council make you pay for 3 hours to just near theatre just to nip in for tickets.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Libellula84

Has anyone watched this programme with the ubiquitous Phil Spencer on C4 catch up?
A family with loads of stuff, they call in an organising expert and then shock, horror (!) A guy who is sticking loads of extra storage eeekkkk!!
All I could think was get rid of all your crap!!!
The organiser was actually OK, no Marie Kondo but at least she was being productive.
I Kondoed an old tin of hammerite from my friends house and finally painted my extremely sad looking clothes poles, so it was a win for both of us!!! Weather is glorious here in central Scotland so indoor activities can wait!!:j

Libellula84

The programme is called Big British Spring Clean, this seems to have disappeared!

mrs-moneypenny

Thanks for the lovely Scottish weather report libellula84, dd2 is currently there for the weekend with her family on one of the 'free' sun holidays. She chose Scotland on the theory she'd never been and as it was a cheap holiday she'd like to try somewhere new.

Just waiting for dd3 to come round with her partner for tea and to watch a DVD with us.


Not seen that programme it sounds scary, the idea of getting extra storage now instead of getting shot of stuff fills me with dread.

Libellula84

Oh lovely, where abouts in Scotland? Right enough it's been about 20 degrees everywhere every day for at least a week .
We always say that if you had this weather in Scotland all the time you would never go abroad, but I guess everyone in Britain says that! We just get really excited when that big yellow ball appears in the sky :rotfl:

mrs-moneypenny

Not exactly sure where she is, I'll find that out once she's back.
I've only been aboard once when I won a hol to disneyworld Florida apart from that I always go to Norfolk. That's is my go to piece of paradise. I think if we had enough money I'd buy somewhere there. I'm waiting to see if mavvys dads cupboard is big enough to rent out as a timeshare place for us;)

Igamogam

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Kondo'd some frozen damsons into jam yester, shall be giving it away next week. So damsons and jars will be released Freezer still all neat and tidy and I can lay my hands on any required item without flinging stuff out and cursing!

Thanks for reminding me......I have a box of frozen damsons ready to be made into damson cheese ( curd) Also some figs from the tree last summer which need jamming

Kondoed a few more froggy jobs in the garden today and met up with a chum for a chat over a coffee at our local community cafe. The weather has definitely helped this week

greenbee

I think the baggage allowance is designed for commuters GQ. So I need to get onto the local team and get them to come up with a solution.

Friends dropped in on their way home from holiday, so had a lovely catch up with someone I hadn't seen for ages plus her husband and kids. They brought their food with them as they'd been camping, and fed, bathed and changed the kids before setting off home.

Am just eating a random selection of leftovers and dealing with washing, then I plan to have a bath, followed by an early night and a lie-in...

GreyQueen

Well, have brokered freegle pickups for most of the items offered for tomorrow pm (I will be out but they can get them from the little outdoor hidey-hole) so that's very pleasing.

These items had been offered before with no takers but I dis-assembled them and offered them separately and that seems to have done the trick - well, parts have gone and other parts will be offered later and then we'll see. If I offered them at the same time, the freegleverse might twig that they were the same as no one had wanted before.

The depths which one has to go to, to get things rehomed responsibly..... :rotfl:

Have transplanted runner beans and courgettes on the allotment and will be back up there tomorrow to attend to a few bits of sowing and weeding.

It's getting a bit crowded up there as the taters are taking up a lot of space. I've got the courgettes interplanted with the baby lavender bushes and the runner beans hiding among the feral chard. Tomorrow, I will be sowing some more radishes but these ones will be alongside the strawberries, or maybe I can get a catch-crop between the onion rows?

Hmm, the dominant theme of my life, at the flat, the lottie and the parental home seems to be playing tetris.:cool:

ETA; Actually, I inadvertantly told you a porky-pie; the courgettes are beside the lavender and alternating with a row of gooseberry bushes (£land this spring, growing away like good 'uns). See, it's so crowded even I'm getting confused.

Heaven knows where I'm gonna fit the two pumpkins plants someone gave me. They're a variety called Invincible, so I guess they'll tough it out wherever I can fit them in.