KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

VJsmum

DD arrived home yesterday, from uni, with two years worth of stuff

:eek: and and :rotfl:

It's all over the conservatory....

I don't even know where to start....

I'm drowning........

:rotfl:

Floss

VJsmum wrote: »

DD arrived home yesterday, from uni, with two years worth of stuff

:eek: and and :rotfl:

It's all over the conservatory....

I don't even know where to start....

I'm drowning........

:rotfl:

I take it that's a hysterical :rotfl:?!

I would loan him the MK Bible, and set a deadline before the stuff goes to the CS or tip

Igamogam

VJsmum wrote: »

DD arrived home yesterday, from uni, with two years worth of stuff

:eek: and and :rotfl:

It's all over the conservatory....

I don't even know where to start....

I'm drowning........

:rotfl:

DD2 just finished A levels last week - I have kept very quiet since January about the ever increasing pile of 'revision' paperwork that has grown in the corner of the DR and the ever increasing mountain of ring binders that have multiplied in her sisters room ( when said sister came home for a weekend she had to manouvre around it all ) and of course the 'floor robe' in her room. There is also the matter of 2 large storage boxes which came out of her room and into our bedroom in November when her room was extended into loft and redcorated, on the basis it would be dealt with 'when exams are over' - all stuff in the category of 'time to put away childish things'............. She is off for a week with friends next week and I have given an ultimatum - the paper and clothes HAVE to be sorted before she goes. Big sis bedroom can wait......havent seen much progress so far other than a mountain of laundry appearing:o

VJsmum

Floss wrote: »

I take it that's a hysterical :rotfl:?!

I would loan him the MK Bible, and set a deadline before the stuff goes to the CS or tip

Can't. She is taking it all back again in September for her final year. I will sort some of it, stash some under her bed, but the rest will have to stay....

Serendipitious

14 items to charity shop today. :T That's 369 things gone this year so far.

And DD might (but only might) have the redundant bedroom cupboards to put in her garage to store decorating stuff etc. So I will give it another week and if there is no promise of movement, I will freegle them or similar.

I was thinking earlier as I loaded yet more bulky bags into the car, that one day surely there must be less requiring shifting? I seem to spend half my free time shifting 'stuff' from A to B. But as I've stopped buying non-essentials, there must come a time when there's nothing to be moved? I hope so.... I can't wait!

Been there, done that with the Uni stuff. My sympathies. It's always worse when it is isn't your own clutter. But it's great when they're older and get a place of their own, they can have it all back then, and you get to add in all those little extras like old school books and trillions of photographs.

GreyQueen

It does thin out and thus slow down, but so does your tolerance for clutter, so you tend to find a few more things each month, that had either hidden from you before, or which you had attachments to which you weren't yet ready to sever, for whatever reason.

I'm finding as time goes past, that my attachment to things weakens. Specific things and things in general. I don't think that I will ever end up in a white-painted studio with a carefully-curated (a sniggersome phrase from my pov) collection of objets, but I am heading towards fewer things than I have owned for some years.
No will I ever become one of those people who obsessively itemise their belongings and strive to have 100 things or 500 things or whatever. I have no idea how many things I own in total and I'm not about to start counting them, either.:rotfl:

Good work with your cupboards and I think you are very wise to put a timescale on their removal, or they could linger for months or years. With a timeline, your DD will have to consider if she really wants them now and is prepared to find space for them now and fetch them now. All this is much more challenging than thinking that at some unspecified future point she can get them from your place. By which time, if it ever comes, they may have died in storage.

ETA; Have stashed 3.2 kg of broad beans in the small freezer and have plenty more on the plants still to be harvested, but that's a job for another day.

MMF007

Great work everyone! Great bean-growing GQ!

Had a busy day with a wide range of jobs to tackle, many done, one biggie still to do (making roast for tea now, so will have to wait).

A few more clothes tried, no joy because they are Too Big , into CS bag. Kept one long-sleeved top that fits ok but is a poor style for me (another silly style from M n S), it will be good for days when I am doing chores at home because we have a north-facing living room and I need sleeves in there! So although Marie says to always dress up I shall get joy from the warmth rather than the style!

Pulled relevant paperwork for forthcoming long weekend from the extremely orderly filing of travel docs (route map, tickets for two days of events, hotel confirmation, car park passes, the lot, all in organised wallet!). It was so easy and stress-free. Now safely stowed in travel bag.

Mum rang to ask me to go to shop about 10 miles away to purchase a couple of things to take up to her. The shop is part of a chain that, amazingly, sells online, who'da thought it?!. I have no idea why mum chose not to order online but to task me to run up mileage (think there was postage cost if she'd ordered online !). Not only is the shop some way away but there are Major roadworks on the approach. Needless to say I ordered it online for del to Mum. :rotfl:


confession - have ordered a pair of sandals. I have put 2 pairs ready to go to the shoe bank, so don't feel bad about it.

Right, off to kondo a big plate of veg and roast beef.

Have a lovely evening All,

M

oceanspirit

Went through the pile of "don't know" papers and managed to get rid of most, plus OH helped with a file by looking at some numbers for me so I could get rid of related papers.

Filing drawer has had a good clean and there's lots of empty space in there. Scrap paper pile has been replenished (yipppeee, can write lots more lists :rotfl:).

One item of clothing packed up ready to return as it does not suit me at all.

Tax return started and some phone calls to make this week to get missing information sent.

Haven't been able to look at the next book shelf as planned today - there's always next weekend. Am very pleased though with this weekend's efforts and disposals.

mavvymoo

Hello all its me

I havent had time to catch up with your posts but I will I promise.

Lolly is doing well and growing so quickly The Mum cat with the 5 kittens hasnt been seen (since the trap arrived) So sadly I think she has moved on but I do keep looking out for them all.

The sale was amazing :eek: It was so busy we blocked the road :rotfl:they were outside 45 mins before we opened and we made £280 on just the clothes and £161 on Tea etc in just under 2 hours.
Which at £1 an item and 50p for childens was pretty full on I can tell you

So we have kondoed at least 280 items out of the door.People were made up with the bargains they snapped up. So kondoing hasnt hit our area hard thank goodness.

So all in all everyone happy The Charity shop, Us,The charities we are supporting and the people who got a bargain and it stayed out of landfill So cant be bad :T

Mav x

Now for the next on

Karmacat

Amazing news, well done Mavvy!

I've been kondo-ing sleeplessness

And now I'm doing a double whammy - scanning some letters for my genealogy files to get rid of the actual ones (they'll be history in a little while, because of where and when they were written) and stamps - lots of mint unused, and *more* franked envelopes discovered! Unused decimal are actually sold at a *discount* on ebay, I've discovered, so they're definitely best used as postage. They take up a lot less space this way, until they're gone altogether!

Hope everyone has a good day.