KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

VJsmum

Finally packaged up DD's Too-Big-But-Barely-Worn-Bras and a pack of pants i bought to send to Smalls for All.

Been meaning to do it for about 6 months Just got to get them in the post now.

Yesterday we Kondoed the compost bin - as in, it needed moving and i was reluctant to empty it thinking it would be minging. it was fine actually, took about 20 minutes, and I HAD MADE COMPOST!! :j Never done that before. It's now tucked in a far corner of the garden ready to start again. My runner beans have some good stuff to grow in, and i can move one of my glut of wheelie bins out of sight.

Floss

GQ, how is your horse tail growing this year? Is it just local to me where it is growing practically everywhere?!

Slinky

Greenbee, it's funny I was looking at roses this morning as I was delivering the last of my stock, not sure what OH would make of them, he curses when he gets scratched by our one large rose bush that attacks him when mowing. Whatever we do I think we need to put a weedproof membrane down before replanting.

Maddiemay, I've arranged for somebody to cut our grass, OH is working away from home during the week at the moment and I really don't want him wasting valuable weekend time on mowing. It was cut whilst we were away and it was so nice to come home and not have that job nagging away at us. Hoping that it's going to be cut again today, although I think the business we have arranged to do it have taken on a bit more than they can manage at times so it doesn't always get done when we hope it will.

Back's feeling much better. Was astonished to find tha Voltarol does actually seem to work!

greenbee

You do need to plan where to put the roses, and keep them under control. Back of the bed with something in front works best. Alchemilla mollis grows well in clay, and doesn't appear to mind being mowed...

I really should look for someone to do the mowing while I'm away, but the garden is such a mess they'd be pushed to work out what is lawn and what is flowerbed!

kazwookie

Under stairs is on hold, as I have been in the garden and Km weeds! sorted out where one flower bed ends and the lawn starts............

greenbee

You can come and visit with GQ Kazwookie!

GreyQueen

I think greenbee should host a mini kondo-traveller encampment in her garden. Have tent and will weed in return for food. I'm up for it.:rotfl:

mavvy, wow, oh wow, that's such a great thing that you're doing, mucho kudos to you (and the others involved). There's so much waste and to know that people are working so hard to avoid it makes me very happy.

I had a freegle pickup whilst I was at work, and these were of things which were perfectly useful but which I suspected wouldn't be economic for a chazzer to handle, hence my freegling them. Well pleased that they've gone into the hands of someone who can use them.

maddiemay, what does that abbrevition stand for, please? It sounds appalling but you must feel a sense of relief to actually have a diagnosis at last. Here's hoping you can soon be helped to better energy.

All this talk of understair cupboards reminds me of the last visit to my parental homestead. There was a part-used packet of floor tiles on the floor of The Off Room. I asked Mum if she wanted me to stash them under the stairs, which is boxed in and has a niche for things like spare tiles etc.

She said that they really belonged on the kitchen floor (i.e. needed to be laid to replace the damaged ones). Which were losing their surface within weeks of being laid, don't buy floor tiles from W**kes, is our experience.:mad:

Then she said that the understair cupboard really needed sorting out, so there's another project for me later in the summer - I visit about every 6 weeks or so. Gawd knows what's under there........

Re the value of items, when I was sorting with Mum, we had some pretty nice and originally expensive baking tins to sort through. I said to her; Don't think about how much they cost, think about utility, they're meant to be used not to be ornamental.

With that, she was able to make a balanced judgement on need rather than holding on because I-paid-good-money-for-that which is a prime cause of clutter, in my experience.

I'm just chilling out for a while before having an early meal and going off to pull some more weeds this evening. Just wish I didn't have toothache, but that's only been with me a few hours and if it doesn't get better, I know where my dentist is............

luxor4t

GreyQueen wrote: »

..... Re the value of items, when I was sorting with Mum, we had some pretty nice and originally expensive baking tins to sort through. I said to her; Don't think about how much they cost, think about utility, they're meant to be used not to be ornamental...... QUOTE]





So true, but I was surrounded by siren voices luring me to un-MK doom.......:rotfl:


Some decisions have been made:
The posh laptop bag and rucksack will be offered to the Dear Sons as they use that sort of thing (and are strong enough to carry them ).
The expensive rug/ blanket/ floppy wall hanging is going to the CS
The leather laptop bag and leather suitcase belong to DH so he can decide their fate.
I sorted through the box of fabric and have identified some that I can donate to the quilting charity, some that may well make baby bedding if DD is agreeable and several bits and pieces that will make up into items for the Brownie and Guides bazaar in December (I like sewing Christmas items in the summer ....:p).


It all went back in very neatly and the empty storage box is ready to stack with the rest in the attic room for when we sort out the inherited china etc come the autumn.


I have one problem left - a 1970s coney jacket. I think I'm going to have to bin it as I cannot find an organisation that will take it: the CS, drama group and animal shelter don't want it.

GreyQueen

Perhaps you could offer the coney jacket on freegle/ recycle?

Floss, my horsetail grows pretty much 365 days of the year, but in winter it's sneakily growing underground. This time of the year it pops up like cress and grows 1 inch in 24 hours (I've measured the blasted stuff).

I tug it up when it's growing amongst plants or fork it out when I am clearing ground between sowings. It's like death and taxes, it's always with us.

I have thought that if I had someone I really really hated who was also a keen gardener, I'd chuck diced horsetail roots into their garden as the gift which keeps on giving.

Fortunately, I don't do hatred, life's too short, but it has driven some people off our allotment site in the past. I just take it to the tip by the IKEA bagful and some more will be going tonight.

But first - ta da! - there will be SAUSAGES.:D:T

kazwookie

Greenbee I would love to visit, after all you did pop by here a few years ago, but sadly currently my time is taken up, with weekly trip in a day (my long drives) to Mavymoo land to visit. or working
One day hopefully xxx