KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

kazwookie

Mav, good luck for today, hope you make loads of money.

maddiemay

Mav - hope it all goes well and you take loads and loads a money.

Karmacat

maddiemay wrote: »

Mav - hope it all goes well and you take loads and loads a money.

From me too. Fancy that woman donating all those Jacques Vert outfits! It's going to be some sale, thats for sure

I need to get to the bank, and I'll make sure I take the stack of charity shop donations when I go ...

grunnie

Mav good luck for today - just don't do too much and tire yourself out.

mrs-moneypenny

10 bags just dropped at the CS, they were really pleased. Is it sad that I've had to stick my head up into the attic this morning to admire the space I've created. A couple of carrier bags of books will go to sheringham with us as there's an indie bookshop there would may be interested, if not a CS there will benefit as they aren't coming back home.

Think weather is looking good in mavvyland so hopefully large amounts will be raised and stuff will find new homes.

Have a joyful day all.

Catslovelycats

Clutterfree wrote: »

You are so right!
From our last home we took all the curtains. One pair we made do with until we changed them and only one other set was kept.
As you know, we hope to move in the next few weeks and our buyer asked if we were leaving the curtains.
We said probably not.
Anyway a few days later we realised that all the windows at the front were altered to fit the unusual sized windows and of the ones at the back the only pair that were newish cost about £45.
We decided it really wasn't worth the hassle of taking them down.
I also think homes look quite sad once empty and at least it may look a bit better when she moves in if the windows are dressed.

Our vendor is leaving her curtains which really aren't to our taste at all but the property has sash windows so will probably be expensive to replace. They will do for practical not aesthetic reasons until we decorate.

Mav, hope the fete goes well and exceeds your expectations. Good luck and may the weather be kind to you xx

Very true. It's made me realise I either need to pass on to charity or make use of them in the winter for the rabbits!

Serendipitious

Mavvy, good luck for today, I can't wait to find out how it's gone. (The operative word in that sentence being gone, I think, with all your stock.)

Go forth and make a profit, as my Uncle Ernie always used to say. A kind soul and a dear family friend who often used to clear stuff out for me to boot-sale, back in the days when. (Actually for days, read decades, such a long time ago now.) Through knowing him, I learned that it can feel just as good to let others benefit from the intrinsic value of an item, whereas hanging on to it in case one day you decide to try and make ££ from it yourself, can be most counter productive, as you have to give it house-room meanwhile.

Towels, yes, I have enough to see me out, although DD hates me using that phrase. But it's a truth of being in one's 60s, that you come to realise that some things will never need to be bought again.
I don't even use the big ones - I just hop out of the shower into a towelling robe - so only hand towels get used here.

As for curtains, I bought some full length full width patio door ones for the last place, a sale bargain at £50 till I took them for dry cleaning and they wanted £45 to clean them. So I didn't bother, I just took the linings out and then machine washed the curtains and they were fine.

GreyQueen

It's a nice idea to leave the curtains/ blinds if you can as it at least gives the new people some privacy whilst they sort themselves out with curtains to their taste.

Emailed the supermarket before 8 am to say that I'd be bringing their abandoned trolley to them by 9 am, had nice thank you email back after only about 30 mins and the store manager had been rung to say what I was doing and insisted I have a couple of items of my choice from the store as a thank you (!) I was extremely pleased.

The person who'd fly-tipped the trolley had left a till recipt in it - had been shopping there yesterday morning and had paid by card. I gave that to the store, too. I know, I know, what a stirrer....... :rotfl:

I expect mavvy is full-fete about now, hope the weather is kind, it's muggy and showery here atm.

Going to have a late luncheon and go to the lottie. I have been kondo-ing in the upstairs rooms of my pal's [STRIKE]junk shop[/STRIKE] err antiques emporium. So much more interesting than kondo-ing at flat.

luxor4t

Hoping to Kondo a chest of drawers and my rocking chair to DD for future grandbaby's room... I'll recover the chair as I don't think pink faux-Cath Kidston floral will suit!

Just a little story about the chair: we bought the rocker and a matching armchair from a newspaper small ad back in 1988 as we could not afford new and needed to sit on something comfortable. DH went to pick them up and found a kindly older couple who had just retired and were passing on their cherished Parker Knoll fireside chairs as they had indulged in a pair of recliners. The chairs have done us sterling service ever since.

Under the influence of the shabby-chic thread about 7 years ago I sanded off the brown varnish, painted them cream and replaced the loose covers (beautifully made by their original owner). They became bedroom chairs when we moved things round as our family grew up but are still going strong. I imagine their original owners have gone to their reward, but I was thinking of them as I measured up the chair today.

PollyWollyDoodle

How lovely that you still remember the original owners. Pretty much all my furniture is second-hand, a lot of it family hand-downs and I think of my mum often when looking at some of it. Greenbee I feel exhausted just reading your list of curtains and blinds. Are they Roman or roller blinds? I don't think I've got the patience to make them.

Good luck Mavvy, hope the fete's been good.