KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

elona

Tea Lady

You could either use the cup to fill with candle wax and a wick or else fill it with home made sweets and wrap in cellophane.

SIL was going to come round for a bite to eat but we forgot Leedsfest was on so traffic is horrendous. I suggested that he just got himself home safely and he could pick up stuff another day.I now have four portions of spicy chicken and mushrooms with rice ready to freeze and portioned up in lidded containers.

GQ

Good luck at the weekend.

My new bank card finally arrived this morning so I was able to order some items online. I really need to look at the integral garage but it is so hot and I don't want to be tripping over things. I might wait till the weekend when dd and friend come over and get them to help. I took advantage of various deals and have lots of toiletries and cleaning materials but need to get them stored properly so I can find them easily.

Karmacat

GQ, I'm loving your friend's shop almost as much as your mum and dad's place keep going, won't you! Hope it's cooler than today when you do the journey.

MMF007

Karmacat, soon be the day after tomorrow!

GreyQueen

Karmacat wrote: »

GQ, I'm loving your friend's shop almost as much as your mum and dad's place keep going, won't you! Hope it's cooler than today when you do the journey.

My friend's shop is a ramshackle Victorian terrace with a back kitchen, a cellar and 3 small rooms above. It has the dust of ages, marble busts, swords, shooting sticks, swagger sticks, pith helmets (I do like taking the pith ) and more random Stuff than you can possibly imagine. It's a kondoite's dream come true.

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OK, will whoever has swopped my Mum stand up and take a bow. Spoke to her just now and she told me that she had been slinging photo negatives away. Completely random and spontaneous kondo. One day she may move onto the photos. We have pictures of people who used to lodge with my Grandma back in the 1950s. And millions of pix of God's Own Country (cos only He could know where they were taken).

After many years of pictures of rocks in drizzle, sheep in drizzle, lakes/ tarns/ lochs in drizzle and misc grey stone buildings (in drizzle), my Dad was told not to take any more of them.:rotfl:


Went to a Liddly and got a 6-pack of lavender. Planted it. Rinsed the punnet then stopped to think.

These things are too flimsy for much more than the single use they're made for but they are tempting to keep. It's normal to sling them in the shed with bits of compost adhereing. Which then falls off, adding to the grubble in the shed. Spiders then set up housekeeping in them and give you a fright when you move them to get to something else. If you don't break them by standing on them, you find that they have gone brittle and split when you do go to use them. So they get binned anyway, but with at least a couple of years of nuisance factor before that happens.

So, stood there with my empty punnet and all the above flashed before my eyes. I washed it under the allotment tap, slung it into the bike basket to drip dry on the way home and then popped it into the communal recycling bin as I came back to the block.

:j I am learning new habits, yay!

short_bird

GQ, what I like about your mum's decision is: she hasn't considered keeping them Justin Case she doesn't have a print from that negative. Whoa... or should I say wooooo?

GreyQueen

short_bird wrote: »

GQ, what I like about your mum's decision is: she hasn't considered keeping them Justin Case she doesn't have a print from that negative. Whoa... or should I say wooooo?

:o Ssshhhh!!!!!!!!!! Softly, she might hear the whispers on the wind. They got duplicate sets of prints when most of them were developed, anyway.

I have hopes that I might be able to kondo some cookbooks. I have tentatively broached the subject in the past few weeks. Mum doesn't particularly like cooking and the family excluding me don't like eating anything other than very plain cooking. So, a cookbook is a pretty redundant object in their house but I rounded up upward of 25 of them in a demonstration bout over 25 years ago and I don't think any have left since then.

Obviously, certain cookbooks have Sacred Object status, such as Grandma's Mrs Beeton that I recovered in the 1970s with brown wrapping paper. And Mum's own Mrs Beeton. Plus the Good Housekeeping Cookery Encyclopeadia - probably all sacrosanct. But there are plenty of others which are totally un-used and can free up some badly needed shelf space.

Karmacat

MMF007 wrote: »

Karmacat, soon be the day after tomorrow!

It will, it will :j thank you for remembering :kisses3: I've already kondoed a big piece of foam that was only used once weekly. Art stuff will go to my craft stash for now; except the wax crayons, which I believe in prepperdom land can be used as firestarters? The toys will go to a charity shop (I may keep the fluffy cat with the kitten sewn to its mouth and take pictures of it for my cat blog :rotfl:). The zip of the sleeping bag is metal, and I suspect I can recycle that at the tip eventually. Most of the foam has made to measure covers, which can be cut off and washed and sent to rags to the charity shops.

By next week, there's going to be an awful lot less in my house :j:j:j


ETA - the foam itself is old and grubby, can't be reused for anything, I need to thank it and put it to rest...

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MMF007

Confession time ...
I read some of the Christmas thread just now. I know, I know. The thing is, we are away for a week in Sept and then I think the planning for Xmas can commence in earnest, ok? The KM magic sparked though, as I was reading the xmas planning forum..
I have begun a present stash, based on the antiques / curios I bought last weekend. I have put them all together in a box in the study/craft room/library :rotfl: I realised that this is not the best place and that it is difficult to see what I have at a glance. I think they would be better in a drawer, with a contents list for quick reference! I have started gift list, with names and gifts itemised, to save duplicating.

I also make poor use of underbed storage and need to rearrange/relocate some things.... You can see where this is going.... a game of tetris! Should keep me busy for days!!

This weekend will therefore be devoted to rearranging my drawers, as it were! :rotfl:

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GreyQueen

One more sleep until Retirement Day, Karmakat!

Dunno if I can get any kondo-ing done today, will be working and probably with a pal in the evening, tbc on the latter. Am working through stubby pencils and scrap paper at t'office, tho, so thinning that category of kipple.

And a pair of socks, themselves cast-off from Mum, suddenly developed a mega hole and will be laundered and recycled. Plus a bead-trimmed top which I was delighted to receive from Mum (I'd long admired it) has proved a PITA because of catching on things, so she's fine about me donating it.

Have a good day, folks, and mind the heat, was over 30 degrees here yesterday!:eek:

PollyWollyDoodle

You are so right about those plant punnets. I keep the bloomin things - visualising them filled with home-grown seedlings next year - never happens, and as you say, they're brittle and don't last. I must have enough plant pots to restock Kew Gardens - and they're only in use for a few weeks each year anyway before the occupants are planted out.

I'm slightly relieved to hear that others are still making purchasing mistakes - I hardly buy any clothes these days but have still managed to get a t-shirt in a colour I don't love. Luckily it wasn't an expensive one, but note to self: I need to remember the Rule of Three. Before I buy anything I try to visualise three things (already in my wardrobe) that it will go with, and three occasions when I'll wear it.