KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

:beer: Well done, MFF! I've lost 0.3 kg overnight, too. Tell ya, paleo/ primal is such an easy way to lose weight, says she chomping down a huge plateful of salad.

mrs-moneypenny

Five children growing up here and over 30 years in the same house does tend to accumulate stuff. The girls have left but not all of there stuff did and given dd2 cluttered and cramped state I'm not about to ask her to take what's hers, I think the kindest thing I can do is sort some of it. A shoe box full of jewellery I found yesterday was punky plastic barbed wire type stuff and cheap metal things that smelt of horrible metal and we're going green in the box. I will have to decide myself about that as she will have forgotten its there but if gets shown it will rekindle sentimental attachment. She has told me she hates throwing things away even if they are rubbish as it means she wasted money. I need to get her to read our bible.

Off to work now, be joyful.

Slinky

Well I've just had the final bill for the car - over £700, which added to OH's near £700 bill the week before last for his car and my over £350 bill to get mine serviced when we discovered this expensive problem, has made it a very expensive month car wise.

Siebrie

Ouch! Read the book again Slinky! I don't think you were supposed to kondo money

Slinky

I've got some small dents on the doors where stupid people have banged their car doors into them, and a load of chips on the bonnet where stones got thrown up where it was resurfaced. And the radiator grill has a split where OH hit a suicidal phesant. I was considering getting them sorted, but I think the budget has been well and truly spent!

silvasava

Makes my £57.00 vet bill seems small! Apparently puss has managed to infect what we think could have been a sting so 2 jabs of antibiotic and a follow up in a fortnight. Vet seems to think it should sort it - fingers crossed. She's now sprawled across my desk using my mouse as a pillow.
No kondoing done yet,apart from the dirty bed linen but I do have a couple of ideas simmering........:)

oceanspirit

Numerous bits of paper either shredded or put in recycling bin today. Plenty more to go but every little helps and now the momentum is up I'm taking as much advantage of it as possible.

Managed to put a clothing catalogue which was full of pictures of pretty ocean-style things into the recycling which was hard to do but I have too many clothes already and a shrinking of income on the horizon so wearing what I have seems the only sensible way forward.

Serendipitious

Can you put your car on a dealership service plan Slinky? Mine costs 13.50 pcm, covers MOTs and services till 2017 and have had one major and one minor service out of it so far with another 15 months still to go.

JuC

Hello! I finally got around to reading the book last week in preparation for my week off this week and I was determined to sort out my clothes.

I have been through them all today and quite a few didn't 'spark joy' so they have been put in a bag for the charity shop :j

My question is for you all is around the folding technique. I have tops which I keep folded in two drawers. I would like to try this folding style but do things not get creased with the number of folds? I don't want to spend my time doing it if I end up having to iron it before I wear it (I iron very little at the moment!).

Any tips or advice gratefully received.

Karmacat

I have a question too ...;. would a school be interested in the hundreds of postcards I'm gradually liberating from my stored paper? They're of historical sites, tapestries and woven goods, broadly "educational", I suppose. At the very least, 7 year olds could create and then put together jigsaws from them