KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Floss

I tend to combine tail-ends of bottles to make a new "flavour" and use that for both bath & shower. Currently my shower wash is a mix of vanilla bath crème, honey body wash & coco butter body wash and it smells fab! The bottle of bath jollop is a lavender & orange combo - great for easing allotment aches!

Karmacat

So many products in the bathroom, it's true! I decant into a purpose-made hand pump thing, in a holder thats screwed to the wall, but the pump has broken down, and I need to buy another - can't put a soapdish or an ordinary squeeze bottle on the sink itself, the taps are canted and take up all the space

Books! I've more or less finished kondoing them, and the only ones left are to be sold, when I'm ready to do that in October. But I finally managed to check online for a particular hardback I bought in a charity shop not long ago - it's one of those that go for 1p, which gives *no* profit at all for a domestic seller, so it's off to the charity shop again

Will look for a hand pump thingy that goes in *this* particular ring holder, grrr.

tibawo

Mins game Day 3

Whilst I was watching TV yesterdayI thought I would scan a few more photos but the scanner just would not work. Tried everything. Woke up and wondered if it would work from the app on the iPad and it does and so much easier too. As much as I am tempted to do all my challenges for mins game on photos I have set myself a new rule that it can never be more than half of that day number e.g. As I doing reverse, today's challenger is 28 so I can only do 14. It means I can still make headway into the photos but can also attack other bits too!

So far today 14 photos scanned, the originals shredded.
DD School report and a badge has not just been taken upstairs but put in her keep sake box.
Unused plastic tub straight to car boot box.
More later

GreyQueen

I'm making a real effort to get through the books To Be Read, and started a fresh one last night. When choosing, I selected a large format trade paperback, on the grounds that reading and donating it would give me the most bang-for-my-buck in terms of space saved once it was gone.

Oh dear, I must have kondo-fever.:rotfl:

Books, like toiletries, are easy to acquire in quantities greater than can be used in a timely manner. OK, books don't go 'off' but sometimes our interest in them does, and they sit in limbo.

I have to tell myself that a book isn't an object which should be put on a shrine and tended. It is a format to hold information or entertainment. These qualities do not seep out through the binding just by having books in your environs, you actively have to interact with your books to get the benefit.

Righty, off out and about getting some groceries and gardening, will catch up with you lovely MSE peeps later. Have a good day. GQ x

elona

I still have a skip outside :eek: and it ain't pretty. I phoned the builder a couple of days ago but as there is illness in the family I don't want to nag.

I would love to kondo some weight and have joined older dd in not drinking alcohol in September so hope that helps.

I realised I have Bessies in my wardrobe but some of them are in different sizes and I hope to work my way down. I now have decent jeans, trousers and tops for the winter and am going to make sure the ones in my current size get worn and enjoyed.

One bright spot is that I am going to a christening in a week or so and have a couple of smart dresses, shoes and a new cobalt blue jacket in the wardrobe so there is not a panic stricken dash to shops in town, grabbing stuff off the rails, queue for fitting room etc.

Didn't some author say that if she had her time again she would light the pink candle shaped like a rose and then that melted in storage.

Maybe we should tell ourselves "we are Bessie" and to enjoy and use what we have .

GQ

During exams I used to hope the "osmosis" theory worked and sleep with the book under my pillow (after having skimmed it).

greent

GreyQueen wrote: »

Dunno what it is about toiletries but every single woman I know (even myself) plus a fair few men, seems to have unused toiletries quietly expiring in their bathrooms, shower stalls and cupboards. This must be one of the commonest categories of wastefulness. Yet, of those ladies I know well enough to visit their bathrooms, none of them are wasteful in other aspects of their lives. Most puzzling.

I think that women are often the recipient of such things as gifts, though - My stash (declining) is a result of presents - between Xmas, Mothering Sunday and my birthday (all within a 12 week period) I get loads of the things - usually they are all lovely and of the brands I like. This is partly because I'm seen as difficult to buy for as I don't collect anything, don't particularly like ornaments (even before KM) and am very fussy on clothes and jewellery. Therefore most of my presents are vouchers, smellies, edible/ drinkable things. Not generally a problem, but sometimes a glut arrives. I try and use them in order and think that everything I currently have unused is from last Xmas onwards (with the exception of a couple of bottles of shower gel which I'm getting OH to use as I'm concentrating on using the expensive-received-as-gift would-never-buy-it-myself stuff instead and 1 bottle of my most favourite ever bubble bath which is no longer made but I rarely have baths so it's lasting me and I will use it as shower gel if it hangs around too long ) I get rid of items from sets which I am unlikely to use straight off (ebay for high end items, donated to local crisis charity for more run of the mill) However, I know that I won't get to the stage of running out before Xmas, when a new batch of things will arrive (and again twice in March) I'm not ungrateful - I like getting such things (I'd be buying smkt own shower gel otherwise - it's fit for purpose, after all) but I had 3 identical gift sets for Xmas last year - and 2 more of the same brand in March! :rotfl: Still - I do get to use joy sparking, lovely smelling smellies every day and lovely face creams.

Not much KMing planned here today - bit of paperwork to sort (but not much will leave) and back-to-school prep to finalise. If I go to smkt I will take CS box and bag of items for foodbank, otherwise it will be status quo here I suspect

Happy Saturday!

x

GreyQueen

I am still working my way through the Xmas 2015 bath jollop. It's lovely but at the time it arrived, I had not finished the Xmas 2014 stuff. It's a lovely probem to have, tho. There is also a spare bottle of bath product and another pump bottle which matched the hand wash (a hand lotion) which I will get into after having got through the mini-tubes.

I did get a bottle of nice shower stuff last Xmas which contains SLS which upsets my skin. So, that was donated to the chazzer right away unopened, so someone else with a less picky skin could get the benefit.

What I have done with the extra toiletries is to put them at eye-level in a non-food kitchen cupboard, so I don't overlook them. My bathroom has no cabinet storage, just a little wicker drawer thingy which is too small to host bottles. For sake of an uncluttered appearance, and to use up bottles in a timely manner, I only have one bottle of shampoo and one of bath jollop out at any time. Them, when each has been used, it's given a quick wipe with the towel and thus is never smeary or dusty.

VJsmum

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm making a real effort to get through the books To Be Read, and started a fresh one last night.

Same - I am on "a no book buying until others have been read" amnesty. Although I have acquired one or two that caught my eye - but I have read them.

elona wrote: »

I would love to kondo some weight and have joined older dd in not drinking alcohol in September so hope that helps.

I can't quite bring myself to say none :beer: so i am doing 'none at home', which frees me up for the few times i am out.

Min's game day #3

things:

One acquired book read and put aside to be given to friend or, if she's read it, the chazzer
2 plastic 'tupperware' type pots - one is useless and one has split (so useless).

Photos

Thought i'd do some digital - 3 really wouldn't be much, so first i was going to do 3 minutes but it went beyond that. I have edited 3 albums on my laptop. Loads deleted but mainly random (ex) work type things no longer needed. Multiple shots of the same thing. And anything blurred.

And, bizarrely, one of the underside of my dad's foot. he can't get down there now and wanted to see the state of his psoriasis - it was clear :rotfl:

greenbee

Congrats on the weight loss GQ!

Re. the mini-tubes. I have masses of these from work trips, and I DO use them when visiting friends. I find the handcreams useful for keeping in my handbag rather than full size ones.

Today I need to gut the kitchen ready for the next round of work. But as usual I have to clear up the rest of the house to make room for the stuff from the kitchen, so it will be a chaotic weekend.

I also need to ensure I don't get rid of stuff that I'll end up needing to replace, just because the current state of the kitchen means there is nowhere to keep or use it.

In preparation for being kitchenless I've acquired a bullet blender. I have a smoothie most days, and it's great for that - much easier than washing up the full-size blender. I should also be able to use it for various other chopping duties as well, so the kenwood and magimix are gong to be packed up. I'm undecided as to whether to get rid of the glass blender - I have a plastic one for the kenwood, but that's not heatproof. The sensible thing would probably be to get rid of the current blender and buy a glass jug that can be used on the kenwood when I actually need one.

I want to concentrate on getting the 'kipple' out, as it needs to stop circulating.
Mins game so far day 1: mini-padlock and 2 keys for the CS; day 2: random mini-padlock key in bin, small cotton bag to CS; day 3: random individual wet-wipe used, weird copper lampshade to CS

I may try to get ahead as I'm away for rather a lot of this month!

MMF007

4 books to CS this morning.
Gently asked DH whether he would like to put anything in the CS bag as I was going anyway. He said there is nothing he wants rid of. Doh. He has a chairdrobe at the mo, which is not like him. I wonder what is clogging up the COD and wardrobe that has made him do this. I thought, as today is rainy and dull here, it would be good to have a kondo of men's things - seems not!

Well done GQ, on steady weight loss. :T

I have stalled this week and don't know why, which is bugging me. I nearly, so nearly, fell off the wagon and had full-on carbs a few days ago but I had a stern word with myself to remind me about my achievement so far (40% of target reached), rather than dwell on one week of not achieving mini goal.

On reflection, isn't that part of the change in mindset KM brings? No good worrying about any 'failures', eg overstocking, unsuitable clothing, Justins, etc. We have to be positive about our
achievements and not look back and punish ourselves for things we can't change, right?

Off to sort out what to pack for a week away - bit trickier at this time of year, I think.