KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Siebrie

GreyQueen wrote: »

What is a BBB class, please?

tighteningthebelt wrote: »

Back, biceps, butt?

Your thoughts are too clean it's Boobs Belly Butt. Usually taken before beach season, but our local WI offers it the first 5 Mondays of the new school year.

GreyQueen

:eek: Siebrie, your local WI are sadists, I'm getting tired just thinking about that.

Have been on an outing from 9 am until 4 pm and very lovely it was, too. Bought nothing whilst out but stuck the sticky admissions ticket from the museum into my diary and the photocopied site map into the recycling bin.

Also chucked out a fistful of pay&display carparking tickets from the passenger door pocket of Kid Bruv's car. The oldest was Oct 2015, I told him he was a sloven and I never kept a car like that back when I had a car.:rotfl:

Seredipitious, I have a bit of a war on mould. What I did in Jan 2014 when I got my current washer was to dry the inside of the door glass, the bottom of the door seal and the powder drawer with a microfibre cloth after each use. Result is no mould. I also try to leave the drawer open for a while after use, but it's difficult as the kitchen is tiny and therefore the drawer is in front of the sink when open.

A good trick for showers is to have a squeegee kept in there and squeegie down the walls after use. It really cuts down on the moisture in there, and keeps everything clean.

It's been scorching hot here today and I am tempted to hop into the shower with an old toothbrush and the cleaning product and give the grout a going over, then shower myself for the second time today.

If I did some cleaning while I was in there, I wouldn't feel over-indulgent in showering twice.

VJsmum

mins game days 12 and 13 - things

1 book to friend
3 packs of horrid travel wipes
1 pile of old receipts
1 broken cheap watch
1 pile of Birthday cards
1 old duvet that had been cut up for something
1 seed tomato kit, out of date by a few years
1 (another) smashed phone.

The remaining 15 things are random sheets of paper - old bills, etc

Serendipitious

Thanks for the tips, GQ. A few new habits will hopefully see it kept under control.

Glad you are enjoying some days out too! Much deserved!

GreyQueen

Thank you. We're having a family trip out tomorrow, can't recall the last time the four of us went anywhere together just for fun. Then, on Thursday, a quiet morning at home, visiting a relation in hospital in the afternoon and back to my home city on Friday morning.

It's so lovely to have a change. I've been kondo-ing on every visit to the parental home since last summer and it's nice not to do much.

Wanna laugh? Went to the downstairs shower room this morning and foung a middling-huge brown SLUG perambulating on the floor. Captured it and put it out on the bird table, organic pest control at it's best.:p

Tally thus far this vist; two huge spiders, a wasp and a slug. Gawd knows what the next critter will be.

Righty, going to gather my stuff and head into that shower room. I gave the grout a damned good scrubbing about Easter time but the grunginess is just starting to creep back in. It's just like that Joan Rivers said on the telly all those years ago; you clean, you dust, you hoover - and six months later, you have to do it all again.:rotfl:

Mrs_VP

No Kondoing for two days and probably won't get any done for the next two weeks. Boss on three weeks leave so I'm covering two jobs and working long hours. Will keep reading reading though as I enjoy everyone's posts.

GreyQueen

:eek: Another huge spider ejected from the house -downstairs hall - not the one thrown out two nights ago, this one was bigger. But more sluggish. I thought you needed to know that.

I persuaded the family to watch one of the video mountain, expecting that we'd be able to kondo it afterwards. Not so, it was so liked, she wants to keep it.:wall:

Some you win, and some you lose!:rotfl:G'night, all.

VJsmum

Do you remember when we used to hire a film for the night? If you liked it, you hired it again another time...

It wouldn't occur to us to buy them... When did that change, i wonder?

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

Do you remember when we used to hire a film for the night? If you liked it, you hired it again another time...

It wouldn't occur to us to buy them... When did that change, i wonder?

When they stopped being over a tenner each? The last secondhand DVD movie I bought cost 25p. Our library will hire them out for a week for £1.50, so I mostly wait and buy a secondhand copy, there are lots of chazzers here which sell them for £1 or so.

Picture this, the GQ family breakfast table, yesterday. Mum has washed up a 1 kg marge tub and asks Dad if he wants to keep it? I have cured her of marg-hoarding and now he has taken it up! Apparently they're useful to keep Stuff in - who knew?:rotfl:

There's another blinking spider in this back bedroom, a relatively small one this time. I've decided not to have forty-fits, it's still a bit early for shrieking etc, haven't even had my first cuppa.

Today we will go on an Outing. We're gonna cross the county line, will have to be careful in Forn Parts. Don't think I shall be doing any/ much kondo-ing, but will be attempting a pre-kondo, by preventing anything kipplish or kluttery coming back home with us.

Why, in the last two days, I have easily resisted buying wooden swords at the Castle and all sorts inc tea-towels, at the Museum.

Have a good day, folks, and those of us in the hot and sunny parts must be careful not to overdo it.

Igamogam

Item sold on FB and more things left out for freeglers Think I like FB selling - going to try more