KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

ivyleaf

Our neighbours used to have a female ginger cat about 20 years ago. She was a friendly little thing but had a really small head - I think she must have had microcephaly.

Mavvymoo So glad your friends have found a house! Did you actually find it for them?

Siebrie Sorry about your rabbit I hope your DDs won't be too upset. Our DD2 reluctantly agreed to take on a rabbit which needed a home when its owner had to move to a new home where pets weren't allowed. DGD was very keen to have it but you can guess who's ended up having to look after it....not DGD of course!

I kondo'd loads of stuff from behind my chair a couple of days ago. It turned out to be mostly notes from an OU History module I wasn't able to finish, and some notebooks, two of which had never been used (thought they would have been if I'd been able to keep studying. One's pink and one purple, so I won't bother offering them to SIL (mature student atm)

Serendipitious

Sorry about your rabbit Seibrie. Horrid when it happens when you're on holiday. Hope your DD understands.

I had a close call with rabbits yesterday. Got to DD's to deliver stuff and await the man who was fitting new window blinds and felt sorry for the rabbits in their hutch on such a hot day, so I let them out for a run. It's a large garden and they run free on a daily basis, so no harm was possible I thought...

Until I couldn't see one of them and had to comb the entire garden, poking around in shrubs and bushes but no luck. I was just confessing all to DD on the phone when the rabbit in question blithely strolled across the lawn. Never been so relieved as I had no idea how I'd explain it was missing to DGD.

Igamogam

Today it has been plastic storage box throwing - well broken ones have gone to 'hard plastic' at recycling center and all the decent ones have gone on fr**gle. All these empty boxes are the result of kondoing - forgot I had put so many stacked up at back of shed.....Justin?? Anyway now dealt with

GreyQueen

I want to claim today's prize for the most astonishing thing found kondo-ing - waitforit - a R0LEX watch!

Seriously, a genuine R0lex pocket watch wrapped up in a bit of bubble wrap and stuffed into a carrier bag in my pal's [STRIKE]unk shop[/STRIKE] err antiques emporium. He remembered buying it but forgot where he put it so it's been hanging around for a while.

His clutter is so much superior to my own clutter, I do enjoy helping him sort stuff out in there. I also fell over the Napoleonic war bayonet and found an Italian fascistic medal for motherhood. And one silver earring without a mate. And a 2016 calendar which he didn't know he had so he's bought one back in January. This one is nicer and is now on the wall, on the principle that it's better late than never.:rotfl:

Have been feeling a bit off-colour today so haven't done an awful lot other than work op my WIP rug and read my library book. I am pledging to alternate library books with books already on the premises until I have caught up with the backlog. So easy to buy more than you can read in a timely manner, don't you find?

shanks77

Just popping on to record that I have lost 4lbs. A long long way to go but at least it's in the right direction.
Hope all the others trying to lose weight are having a successful time xx

GreyQueen

shanks77 wrote: »

Just popping on to record that I have lost 4lbs. A long long way to go but at least it's in the right direction.
Hope all the others trying to lose weight are having a successful time xx

:T Well done, shanks!

MMF007

:T Well done Shanks!
I too have plenty more to lose but every journey starts a), from where you are, and b), with that first step!

I have been away for a week and am looking forward to stepping on my scales as I think I've lost another 1lb, can't be sure of bona fides of family scales that I used a few days ago!

In the end Mum did not add anything to the sheets she let go (sorry Greent, no pillowcases), but they asked us to move 2 big, very old chairs out to the garage, along with a cute COD, that they have arranged collection for next week. The COD is not valuable but is really solid and could be upcycled very simply. I was half tempted to take it off their hands but it is just a bit smaller than I need. I had a little talk to myself and invoked KM and managed to walk away without it!

I have a backlog of tidying magic I want to get to grips with but some involves DH making a few decisions and he has been so busy lately it seems unfair to add another job to his timetable. I'll have to be patient

Am loving reading the thread, as usual. I know I am a bit behind with it but I'd like to share my rabbit story - when I was 5 or 6 I had a lovely white rabbit, inevitably called snowy! I had him for at least 5 years and he happily played in the garden, being taken for walks on a special harness. Last year, on my 52nd birthday, we were reminiscing about our many family pets when Mum announced that Snowy had in fact been replaced, Twice, during the 5 year period, due to it having died! I never knew!!

We also had a retired donkey that we rescued from giving rides on a beach. He was thought to be 40y.o when we got him. I was 2 & 1/2 y.o. and when he lay down I used to snuggle up and rest my head on his chest. Aren't donkeys just so calming?

Happy days.

M

Siebrie

Thanks for all the commisserations, much appreciated. We have not told dds yet, we will tomorrow after breakfast. Eldest dd has à habit of wallowing in grief and prolonging agony, so we did not want to tell them before our vacation was over. The pet sitter has buried the rabbit in our garden and we will make à tombstone next week. The vet asked 40 euros for disposal, but suggested à home burial for free.

GreyQueen

Morning all.

It's a bright sunny day and I've been up for hours already. Not natural virtue but inconsiderate people who lump up and down the stairwells talking at the top of their lungs whether its 3 am or 3 pm.

Never mind, I've checked out the online newspapers and wandered by apartment therapy's site where I've been happily reading in the decluttering pages and have been inspired.

Out into the chazzer bag; another bag, a top, a CD, a couple of books and a cushion. Some more may leave later but I'm having breakfast then heading out to play on the allotment for the next few hours.

Have a great day, folks. GQ xx

Sweetpea69

Good Morning All

I've been MIA for a few days, though reading along - well done Mavvie on your brilliant sale!

I'd hoped to have moved this week but things have ground to a halt, bl**dy solicitors!!! �� Still packing bits & bobs (movers are packing most of it) and trying to keep the house and garden in good order for my buyer.

I've kondo'd a lot to the charity shop and recycling centre. A friend is doing a car boot in aid of charity, so quite a bit gone to her with more to follow.

Isn't it wonderful how stuff that has been kondo'd stays that way? It made showing the house easy, not embarrassing to open cupboards where 'stuff'was neatly folded or stacked.

Onwards and upwards!��

SP69 xx