KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

MMF007

Igamogam wrote: »

TBH not many bloggers I have read have very interesting lives...........a lot of what I have come across is badly written inane drivel:eek: Thats not to say that there isn't some worthy stuff out there but you have to wade through so much rubbish to find the gems, and BTW your tales GQ are not boring! Quite the contrary. Its your style of writing GQ that would make the ordinary everyday stuff entertaining:rotfl:

Hear, hear! :T

Pooky

Igamogam wrote: »

TBH not many bloggers I have read have very interesting lives...........a lot of what I have come across is badly written inane drivel:eek: Thats not to say that there isn't some worthy stuff out there but you have to wade through so much rubbish to find the gems, and BTW your tales GQ are not boring! Quite the contrary. Its your style of writing GQ that would make the ordinary everyday stuff entertaining:rotfl:

What she said!!!

Maybe we should start a petition

luxor4t

Folding some of my holiday clothes after washing them - a favourite cardigan just failed the 'joyful' test. It is now sitting in the clothes recycling bag - we are both surprised!

oceanspirit

Mins game off to a flying start 55 items of paper from one of the infamous piles either shredded, recycled or in the scrap paper drawer. Should have been packing though, oh well that'll just have to be done today instead.

A long jobs list today so will have to be good and delay Kondoing until jobs all done.

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
I've often said to my Dh that GQ on mse should write a book/blog as her style of writing in the posts makes the most day to day of kondoing interesting and amusing to read.

Sewn together 3 smoothie hats and 4 for the local scbu got another smoothie hat on the needles.

Went carboot this morning and bought quite a lot BUT it is all joyful and wanted - a lot of bags of sweets for Halloween, I live near the school I work at so get loads of trick or treaters who all know my name. Dh has given up answering the door as they ask for me to show off their costumes and get me to guess who's under the goul paint. (Couldn't spell goul properly as mse seems to think it's a swear words and !!!!!!s it out)
Some lovely pieces of fabric that I'll use for making hair bands and book marks for school.
A pair of converse in special joker design for ds2s young lady
Tubs of nuts and edibles that have a past Christmas date on them and are far cheaper than well get in the shops once the boots fininsh.
And a few bits I can use as Christmas presents.
Plus the obligatory packs of Christmas cards. A guy was selling packs of 12 similar cards for £1 can't imagine the "one I love" or "darling husband" selling in job lots but I got some of those Christmas greetings from "a local named town" the one dd3 lives at which will be ideal for her to send. Because I have 3 DDs I was looking at a pack of daughter and partner cards the guy was refusing to split a pack for a lady who just wanted one. So I bought the pack and let her choose one she was surprised I wouldn't take anything for it but it's just nice to do the good deed when you can and it's less to but in the Christmas box for a couple of years.
Most joyful item of the morning was a 50s dress pattern that looks very 'mad men' in style.

I may feel the need to get the sewing machine out later now I have lovely new fabrics to sew.

Have a joyful morning all.

tibawo

morning all! well despite failing to finish my mins game from September I am not too disheartened as it did motivate me to get rid of some stuff that otherwise would probably just sit there. I wondering how to set a target for this months as i know our calendar is quite hectic.


DD1 did her craft stall yesterday. It was so poorly attended and one crafter packed up and left early as they had made no sales. I have to give DD1 praise even though she made less than a fiver after paying for the stall she says that at least she has the stock now and would have only to pay for stall next time. She is actually half way to her fund raising target now.


The only downside is that stuff is lying around whilst we wait for the next one. Hopefully this will be in a few weeks. i will then need to decide if I am doing a Christmas one for me this year or having a rest!

GreyQueen

Now you've got me all embarrassed. Thank you. Still don't have a blog so the only place you can read my blethering is on MSE, lol.

Had a lie-in and didn't roll out of bed until nearly 8 am, which is astonishingly late by my standards but, as it is Sunday and it was raining here first thing, I decided I didn't need to hurry myself anywhere. Have had a pyjama morning lying on the sofa reading an I@n R@nkin thriller.

Have stuck a couple of things on freegle, stuff I'd been meaning to list since last Sunday, when I was out from 6.45 am until 8 pm and it's taken me all this time to return to an energy equilibrium.

One of the items is a slightly-unsatisfactory something which was replaced with an entirely-satisfactory something. Justin wanted me to keep the original but I smacked him upside the head and prised the item from his claws. He's over in the corner now, sulking.

Am I bovvered? Nah.

The other item comes from the parental home and represents the tip of a very large iceberg of items of the same category. I will be releasing them into the freegle-sphere sloooowly so's not to swamp people.

mrs-moneypenny, congratters on your car booty bargains and fingers crossed for your SIL is making money hand-over-fist. I know there have been times in the past (when I had a car) when the £££ taken on a Sunday bootsale were of crucial importance. Please update us on how it went when you hear from her and all the best of luck for her to get a new job.

Still haven't got the wall-o-damp dried out but a few days ago I had a LBM before I went out and bought a dehumidifier.

Said LBM is that I pay a fixed monthly service charge for heating and that by putting it on, with the kitchen window open, I could speed up the drying process. So this is what I have been doing.

I check the wall once a day with my fingertips and it seems to be getting less moist, but at a very slow rate. I reckon I shall be moved back into my kitchen cupboards by Xmas.:rotfl:

One excellent thing about having the food cupboard contents in a crate on the sitting-room table is that I have to rummage for things. And said rummaging brings things to light which have lurked for a while, like a couple of cans of coconut milk. I will make a curry which includes one of those at some point in the coming week, which will mean fewer things back into the cupboard when I can eventually re-load.

Hmm, now I am stuck between fininshing my thriller (which is kondo-ing due to it going into a donation bag when finished), finishing my smoothie hat, adding a bit more to my WIP rug (which is kondo-ing the raw materials) or having lunch and tidying up.

Decisions, decisions.............

greenbee

Good call on the heating GQ - maybe with the 'saved' money from the non-purchase of a dehumidifier you should get yourself a moisture meter? I have one for my logs, but it comes in handy for other areas too.

My dehumidifier is currently being moved between two spots that had leaks during the building work that I failed to deal with adequately at the time - I've just messaged my brother to see whether he still has one I can borrow...

GreyQueen

There's a thought.

Probably won't as these flats are normally bone dry and beyond snug. Typical comment from someone coming home with me is to ask for the heating to be turned off.

Even in the winter months, I often have to retort that the heating isn't actually on and hasn't been for weeks, the computer fan and the stove can easily make this tiny space uncomfortably toasty.

It wasn't so much the purchase price of a dehumidifier which put me off, it was that I would have one more Thing in my life that I would have nowhere to keep when not actively in use. And which would be in the way in use, too. I decided that was the deal-breaker and that I would try this route to eventual dryness and snugness.

It's had unexpected benefits in that I have turfed out quite a lot more stuff, mainly plastics, than I would have probably done if they were lurking behind closed doors.

Ooo-err missus, I feel a country & western number coming on. Since I can only carry a tune in a bucket, you may count your lucky stars that you can't hear me warbling.:rotfl:

Going to wait a little longer for luncheon to settle, then will bike slowly up to the lottie to rake out the bonfire ash. I don't plan on doing much more gardening than that.

I like to leave a bonfire to smoulder down in an ashy pile, then rake it out to cool properly. With certain bonfires (not this one) I have burned wood which contained nails etc which I hadn't been able to remove, so I would want to take them out of the ashes.

I discovered that nails can still be too hot to handle more than 24 hours after the bonfire was lit. GQ, doing stupid things so's you don't have to.

Once the ashes are flat, I shall use a watering can to quench the big bits of wood in there, which won't have had sufficient time and heat to burn down. In a week or so, they will be gathered up and put in a paper potato sack in the dustbin on the lottie, to form the kernel of the next bonfire. You must be sure to wait until everything has gone completely cold, which can take days, sometimes.

The cold ash will be turned underground to fertilise it. It really seems to give plants a boost, especially spuds in my experience.

My lottie shed will be much tidier without the burnables being carefully stored. It's looking pretty darned neat in there right now, which is just as well as I'm very nervy about pulling things about in there in case I annoy the really big s p i d e r s.

mrs-moneypenny

GQ it's mmf007 who's sil is doing a boot sale, so hopefully she will be selling all her stuff and making some funds.