KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Fen1

There are lots of shoes and sandals and slippers that are designed to take orthotics, but take some looking for, as I have experienced. 'Shoon' shoe shop sells a range.
I really hope you find something that will be comfortable for you, from one limping Lizzie to another.

smeeth

Serendipitious wrote: »

Might have to list a pile of DVDs on Music Magpie or similar, as these are in a box forming part of the hall heap. Tried fleabay with a couple of unwanted new ones but received no bites, sadly. Has anyone tried Music Magpie recently ? Thought I might give it a shot before donating them.

Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine.

I used MM last month for a big box of DVDs I wanted rid of, most only worth about 30p each but got £15 altogether and it was paid the day after they received it and within a week of it leaving my front door by their courier. If they have any issues they'll send you a revised price which you can either accept or decline.

HTH

greent

I generally use Ziffit for cds, dvds and books - sent off £100 earlier this month. And cashback through Quidc0
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Igamogam

Serendipitious wrote: »

Might have to list a pile of DVDs on Music Magpie or similar, as these are in a box forming part of the hall heap. Tried fleabay with a couple of unwanted new ones but received no bites, sadly. Has anyone tried Music Magpie recently ?

I have just used Ziffit - only because I had an email with an extra 15% added to total - never used one of these set ups before.........anyway thats just over £12 for a few books and DVDs and an old cardboard box. Usually I would donate books etc to CS but the £12 will come in handy!

Kondoed a load of old raspberry canes from garden today - they have been here for as long as we have and in all that time I have never done much to them other than cut our the old canes - anyway they have become too overgrown and intertwined with the gooseberries ( even older I think!) so they have been dug out and the gooseberries severely thinned out - may even lose one in favour for a modern red variety

Recycle boxes out for collection tomorrow. More things ready to go on fr**cycle and an old lawn mower in boot ready to go to recycle centre:)


ETA: Greent - impressive amount on Ziffit!!

Serendipitious

smeeth wrote: »

I used MM last month for a big box of DVDs I wanted rid of, most only worth about 30p each but got £15 altogether and it was paid the day after they received it and within a week of it leaving my front door by their courier. If they have any issues they'll send you a revised price which you can either accept or decline.

HTH

greent wrote: »

I generally use Ziffit for cds, dvds and books - sent off £100 earlier this month. And cashback through Quidc0
X

Igamogam wrote: »

I have just used Ziffit - only because I had an email with an extra 15% added to total - never used one of these set ups before.........anyway thats just over £12 for a few books and DVDs and an old cardboard box. Usually I would donate books etc to CS but the £12 will come in handy!

Kondoed a load of old raspberry canes from garden today - they have been here for as long as we have and in all that time I have never done much to them other than cut our the old canes - anyway they have become too overgrown and intertwined with the gooseberries ( even older I think!) so they have been dug out and the gooseberries severely thinned out - may even lose one in favour for a modern red variety

Recycle boxes out for collection tomorrow. More things ready to go on fr**cycle and an old lawn mower in boot ready to go to recycle centre:)


ETA: Greent - impressive amount on Ziffit!!

Thank you all, will look at both of these later, even at 30p it looks like there will be just over £10 worth, but still worth having. :money:

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Been up at the crack of dawn and staging an intervention at our communal refuse bins. I know, I know, livin' the dream or what? :rotfl:

Got home at 9.30 pm last night and had a chat with neighbour SuperGran on the phone. She's a feisty sepugenarian and told me she'd done something at the weekend she'd never done before (ooo-err missus). Steady on there at the back.

What she'd done was retrieve a whole load of perfectly good towels which a neighbour who had moved out had dumped in our big skip bins. Another neighbour had run them through her washer (SG doesn't have a washing machine) and SG is doling them out among our neediest neighbours.

And I gave two to

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and he was thrilled, she reported with joy. She was, however, fretting about the communal bins being completely overwhelmed by our outgoing neighbour's Stuff, which is the second time in two weeks when an outgoing neighbour has spat on us like this. They were moving out with several vehicles and we are a mile from the tip so there was no excuse for it. Bins aren't being emptied until next week for refuse although the recycling bins will leave today.

Anyroad, I dressed in my gardening duds, slipped down there at 06.30 am and pulled stuff around, getting a lot of cardboard out of the refuse and into the recycling bins, so the refuse bins now have a modest amount of capacity. I did indeed find one bath towel which SG and her Pal had missed, and it's sloshing around in the washer now. Don't need it for myself but I am sure SG can find someone in the block who'd like it.

I'm a practical sort of environmentally-aware person. Sometimes, you have to be.

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all well done to GQ and SG for their recycling and rehome get efforts it stops stuff going in the landfill.
Took 6 bags and the fish tank set up to the CS and they were very pleased and said it should go quickly.
Rang work yesterday as I walked by the play school black and stopped the mother of all wasps nests in their roof space which is directly over the back play area so would be hazardous, think the local wasps are Loki g for homes as I found a big one in our attic while tidying up there, then another checking the shed out and two were plotting in the kitchen.

Mils weeds and excess lawn growth were Kondoed over the bank holiday.

Operation finish our room starts this week - new carpet has been ordered so I need to have all prep and decorating done by half term. I know we should kondo by category not by room but nothing is coming back in here that's not loved or useful so it's being blitzed. (I have assured DH he fits very comfortably into both the loved and useful categories so he's safe)

Right, need to find a bowl a sponge and a scraper, I'm going to see how easy it is to kondo a wallpaper border.

GreyQueen

Just made a 20 second phone call to SG to tell her what I'd done this morning and that I'd reported something else via an email, something she'd asked me to do last night. I like to keep her in the picture.

Am now about to head out for the day's graft. Am contemplating a further intervention at the bins later today, once the recycling has been taken, to shift some recyclables from refuse into recycling, which will free up the refuse bin space.

This doesn't personally benefit me, as I only produce about a carrier bag of refuse per month, so can always squeeze that in somewhere. But, if the refuse bins are full, the neighbours will put their black sacks on the ground around them and our urban foxes will rip them open and the place will soon deterioate into a slum. And that does bother me as a resident, frankly.

I'm not the only interventionist, SG and her pal, both in their seventies and of reasonable height, struggle with these big skip bins anyway, but stick their oar in, as do a few other people.

OK, out to work, have a good day, one and all. GQ xx

Serendipitious

I feel very lucky here, GQ, as our HA is on-the-ball with this sort of thing. It seems to be a multi-pronged strategy. We have a concierge whose duties include tidying the recycling bin area daily. Then we have the reletting team who arrange for any heavy/bulky items to be removed after a tenancy ends. And if someone leaves their place totally empty, tidy and clean, they get a handsome £££ bonus for doing so.

Sometimes after a quit, there are bulky items left by the bin area, old electricals etc, but these are rarely there for a full day and never overnight. And we never see inside the 'proper' bins as we have a chute on every floor which empties into containers in a dedicated refuse room.

Karmacat

GQ, you and SG really are stars. I was reading this article this morning, about the way neighbours can really bring an area back from the brink (Birkenhead was the next-door-town for me when I was growing up): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/30/life-after-community-death-food-bank-lesson-labour I think that, or things like it, happen much more than we realise.