KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

You can get wooden or plastic knobs in hardware stores. They are easy to put on saucepan lids (we've done this many a time as a family) and cost circa £1 or less, usually. They usually have a threaded bolt on them, puch them thru the lid, add a wing-nut and you're done. Great and economic way to bring a lid back into use. HTH.

Serendipitious

GreyQueen wrote: »

You can get wooden or plastic knobs in hardware stores. They are easy to put on saucepan lids (we've done this many a time as a family) and cost circa £1 or less, usually. They usually have a threaded bolt on them, puch them thru the lid, add a wing-nut and you're done. Great and economic way to bring a lid back into use. HTH.

Thank you.

I kept the threaded bolt and nut for Justin, so will see what I come across this week. It's also occurred to me that DD with her high-spec new kitchen just might be junking something for Andy. (These guys do have their moments. But only sometimes... can't have them getting excited...)

Floss

Kindles 4 hours on the lottie today - picking another kilo of rasps, cutting back the tomato jungle and weeding turning & raking over the beds for leeks & purple sprouting broccoli, while DH disposed of a now-dead wasps nest in the shed, picked apples for wine and siliconed my polycarb greenhouse.

Now kondoing 4kilos of rhubarb into jam - half with ginger and half with rosewater - for chrimbo pressies.

Also kondoing a glass of sherry while watching the jam thermometer!

Mrs_VP

Floss it sounds like you have had a productive day. Today I've Kondoed some of the apples I have been given into apple, date and cranberry chutney for Christmas gifts. I've also made a start on Kondoing my extensive glass jar collection in the garage.

milasavesmoney

9 washed glass jar taken by DH to the glass recycling bin this morning before church. I save them up as it is a trip so always glad when they go.

mrs-moneypenny

Havent done any kondoing today but finished a paperback book yesterday that will be passed on to my mum and as well as the CS run I dropped spme coat hangers into tescos recycling bin.

Hope everyone is as well as can be.

milasavesmoney

Oh heavens, we just found three sets of controls to electric blankets I now longer have, a dead hairdryer from one of the kids (youngest now 30 yrs) and an old cable cord. I haven't looked in that drawer in a while. All cheerfully winged into trash by DS2.

greent

Today's efforts -
- vacuum cleaner freegled (we still have another 3 here and sent DD off to uni with one on Friday....)
- Nat Trust rucksack sadly binned - zip broken, mesh inside ripped and inside coming away from outside. Good bag.
- more cardboard and scrap wood burned by DS1 (am seriously thinking about freegling our shredder - I much prefer burning it all )
- book finished last night put to one side for my mum when she visits later in the week

Small steps of progress.....
x

GreyQueen

Serendipitious wrote: »

Thank you.

I kept the threaded bolt and nut for Justin, so will see what I come across this week. It's also occurred to me that DD with her high-spec new kitchen just might be junking something for Andy. (These guys do have their moments. But only sometimes... can't have them getting excited...)

We bought a wooden knob to repair an injured saucepan lid. Mainstream DIY barn-type, possibly even Bee and Queue.

Anyway, we didn't have the lid with us and as these are mostly meant to be cupboard knobs, we chose a larger size than was ideal, appearance wise. There were smaller ones, we just didn't get it right when chosing out of context. We weren't fussed enough to change it but it does look a tad amusing.

Might be a good idea to take the lid with you to the store? Asuming DD & Justin can't help out.

milasavesmoney

We've gone on to start on the shelves. I'm getting excited because it's looking so good.

I am the proud owner of 17 large boxes of freezer guart sized bags. :eek: I can't blame this on prepping because what if the freezer went off from no electricity? I certainly would not need freezer bags!
Anyway, in the meantime, I'm set for years, maybe decades... being very :money: I wash mine out and reuse them.
(GQ we must have a common ancestor, on your mother's side, that emigrated to my side of the pond:rotfl: )

Small debate on what-to-store-where in the newly freed drawers earlier but that was resolved.