KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Slinky

Another storm here like the one we had on Tuesday. Small amount of water in our garage and through the cat flap like we had before. I heard sirens a while ago, I really hope the poor folk who were flooded out on Tuesday haven't been hit again. There was plenty of sand and stones on the road when we drove through yesterday, I can't imagine that the drains have been flushed through yet and are probably full of silt still.

WeeMidgie

I was kondoing in the garden today - 3 carrier bags of glass to the local recycling centre, along with umpteen broken plastic plant pots. I've another run in mind for tomorrow with assorted oddments of wood and other odd bits of debris.

Re CDs, DVDs, I used Ziffit and along with books, made about £130 in three separate lots recently. I've kept the creme de la creme, gave what Ziffit didn't want to the CS and haven't regretted any of it. In fact just yesterday I found myself casting an appraising eye over the bookshelves, and realised I need to start reading some golden oldies to enjoy them again and decide whether they are still such keepers as fond memory has made them.

My mother died 17 years ago and left me her jewellery. In February I decided that it was time to dispose of her engagement ring from her second, later life marriage. Looking at it only made me sad, no spark of joy. So it was recently sold via a reputable auction house, for enough to buy me a lovely joy-sparking Sheila Fleet ring, make a donation in memory of my mother and step father, and put the balance into savings. Better than resting in a drawer, invoking sad feelings whenever I opened the box it was in.

MMF007

GQ is correct, if starting paleo or Atkins diet, ie, very low carb, best to taper off carbs rather than just go from eating as you do today to stopping carbs tomorrow. Otherwise you will suffer from 'low carb flu' - ou feel yukky for 2 to 3 days and often have really bad headache for first 2 days. I tapered, but only for 3 days, then went onto full blown Atkins. Felt a bit headache-y for 2 days, no biggie. It is also true that the real dips during the day just don't happen! The crash, after insulin has worked overtime on the carbs is banished.

As I said earlier I am quite carb sensitive and I have to stick rigidly to the very low version or my weight loss stalls, although I don't gain. I am also convinced that if I did let rip with the carbs again I would really struggle to pull back. I am happy without sugar but the potatoes/bread aspect would be my downfall.

GQ :T, that's a great achievement and isn't it encouraging to 'rediscover' clothes! I am only at the beginning of my journey, still plenty to go, but I just know I can carry on (with other diets I lose hope, feel hungry, go astray and never pick it back up).

So, I kondo'd the HM cake to in-laws (they are carb addicts!), and tried not to look smug as I scoffed whipped cream and low carb jelly.

Have spotted a few items that had become invisible (you know how it is ) and shall deal with them tomorrow so they can be released to be happy elsewhere

MMF007

WeeMidge, that is a brilliant way to deal with the ring, brilliant. Everyone benefits, you have something lovely, the sadness is gone :T
I've got a Shiela Fleet necklace!

love the internal convo GQ. I wonder if putting it like that will help my mum (whispers - she has done some kondo-ing and seemed very pleased with it, so maybe we can continue when I see her next!

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GreyQueen

And another 0.1 of a kilogramme has disappeared overnight and I am starting to see my waist again, lol.

Yes, getting back into smaller clothes is fantastic. Another 5lb off and I will have lost 2 stone since the beginning of March. Very encouraging.

Of course, I don't know how many pounds or kilos of Stuff I have shed but I have made several unshopping trips to the chazzer, gone in laden and come out and come home empty-handed. Far more fun than shopping.

One of my neighbours is in process of moving out. Identical flat to mine which is absolutely tiny. They've been carting bags and boxes of Stuff out of there for days. We're boggling, how could all the Stuff have fitted into the flat in the first place? With someone to give me a hand shifting appliances and carrying one end of the sofa and mattress, I could be moved in half a day or less. Not planning to move, but I like the flexibility of knowing that I could do so quickly and easily.

MMF - positive news about you Mum. My Dad has been sending occasional reports of things found and evicted from his shed. Well, the parents have three sheds, and the biggest and messiest is Mum's workshop shed but I don't think he's allowed in that one. I might see if that is the next project as it's a hell hole and would need to be done in summer, really, as the contents would have to come out onto the patio for sorting.

Righty, off to the kitchen to create two bumper salads, one for brekkie with boiled eggs and one for lunch with something else. Then it's a work day followed by an allotment visit. I may see about getting around to the tip on the way home - it's a diversion, not on the way - and offloading some garden waste and some other bits & bobs.

Hope everyone has a great day. GQ x

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Still can't get over how physically draining it was to deal with dd2s stuff yesterday. They just have too much. I skip would have been the move helpful moving gift we could have given them, but it has all been shoehorned into their new home. I think they both felt as inundated by it all as we did. I've promised that I'll try to go back over if I get a full day off work to help her to try and sort out things that aren't needed.

I'm in work all day today so won't even get anything done here.

Have a joyful day all.

wort

Well the rain has finally made it to my corner of the north west of England, it started persisting it down on Sat ,which my daughters were treating me to a gluten free afternoon tea in Manchester. Since the weather has been great since I returned from holiday on the 26th May I shouldn't have been surprised! But when we'd been planning to sit outside the bars in the village later it was a damper
On top of which after I'd eaten I started to be sick so ended up being taken home by my daughters boyfriend! Whilst I insisted the others stayed out.
Was fine yesterday so picked up some compost and manure and had a afternoon repotting some shrubs.was quite delighted that the hydrangea with black stems that my sisters bought me for my 50th a few years back divided itself into 2 :T as I was potting it on.
Done today's cleaning and it's been lashing down since 1st thing so no chance of gardening today, so will have a mooch to see what I can kondo inside!,

short_bird

ooh, I forgot the Kondo-ing on holiday. Took underwear and socks that were on their last legs and binned them after wearing. Also abandoned a shirt (wrong colour and doesn't suit me), 2 pairs of unflattering trousers and some sunglasses. Might also be Kondoing the music festival I went to as last year's audience were far nicer.

Wednesday2000

I got rid of an uplighter lamp that I really hated over the weekend. I found I had put a desk lamp away in a cupboard (as I didn't have the correct bulb at the time) so I will use that instead.

I also went through my kitchen and threw away a couple of out of date bits.

Have a good day everyone.:)

Serendipitious

6 years bank statements were shredded last night so another victory. And the tin in which they were kept has been recycled today.

But joy of joys, when I went to bed and when I got up this morning, I really appreciated the extra space in the bedroom (it's where that old pc used to lurk.) No plans to fill the space at all - I like it too much.

I don't know about life-changing but I do sense something shifting, I am feeling happier for no reason at all.