KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

VJsmum

When we moved here, we came back from a two week holiday on the Wednesday and moved on the Friday. I was 8 weeks pregnant and had terrible sickness and I'd packed nothing. Oh i also had a two year old. There had been hold ups in the move and we were supposed to have been safely installed in new house before the holiday. it was very uncertain that we'd be moving at all which was why i hadn't packed. We were driving back from Portsmouth on the wednesday morning - having got off an overnight ferry - and i was ringing the removal company to come in and pack on the Thursday :eek: Luckily, they could.

I'm afraid the house was rather dirtier than i'd like to have left it and the removal people packed the lot, no time to sort. it meant unpacking took weeks.....

I walked out of the house with a mop in one hand and a bottle of gin in the other :rotfl:

Karmacat

VJsmum wrote: »

Well done Pooky, a true friend :T

From me too, thats amazing!

When I moved here, 7 years ago now, a friend from mse helped me, I don't know what I've have done otherwise. I was pretty sorted with regard to what actually went into the removal van, but I'd still kept too much, and I hadn't worked out how I was going to get to the new town. Or get from the estate agent to the new house. And when I freaked out at how small it was, my friend was on hand to commiserate and support. And she brought the bubbly. She was wonderful - I think its one of the most amazing things anyone can do :T

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VJsmum

VJsmum wrote: »

41 , 42 2 sim cards that were lurking in the bottom of DSs school bag for some reason
43. a kiddies book, that was DSs, found lurking in a cupboard that is about to get the "shabby chic" treatment. Same cupboard houses tons of 'lego'. My kids never really took to lego but don't want me to get rid of it. Go figure
44. A PS2 game, we are now onto PS4 and only then for FIFA (I hate FIFA, it definitely brings out the worst in DS)
45. A DVD pub quiz game. Probably only ever played once in about 10 years
46. a recorder from when kids were little. It never took off
47. A caravan manual for a caravan we don't have
48. A "Simply yoga" book. I don't do yoga at home
49. an old manual for our BT visiion
50. An old ruler that was lurking behind said cupboard
51. an old contact lens (in its case) of DDs ditto

52. an old doorbell sounder - bin
53, 54. 2 DVD's of me tap dancing in a show. i don't think anyone needs to see that. The shows are two or more hours long and i am in them for about 5 mins.
55. a boxed game of charades - if we want to play charades I don't think we need a boxed game. i don't think we have ever played charades
56. an old pair of specs for DD - i believe opticians send them to under developed countries

mrs-moneypenny

Finished fence painting for the mo so going to go and see what I can kondo before work.

Siebrie

Kondoed: 1 husband to Africa for 4 weeks
Lots of cardboard and plastic from wrapping and packages, where he only took the item, to save on space and weight. Now the guest bedroom is at least rubbish-free for my parents who are arriving today. I'm afraid they have to make their own bed With my current backpain I cannot turn the sofabed in the right position, and open it.


It's very kind of you to help your friend, Pooky. I have always helped friends move, and when we moved from the apartment to this house, I was 7 months pregnant, and my friends helped me. Due to their energy, we managed to completely empty the apartment in one day, packing and all.

MMF007

pooky :T:T:T
Now I understand the meaning of the phrase, 'A friend in need is a friend indeed.'

(I always thought it was a silly phrase until an auntie explained it as ' a friend when you need one is a friend indeed', but that doesn't scan! )

Right, dropped in momentarily, off to town to do some chores! DH working a long day today so I want to pick some nice fresh food to make something yummy for dinner.

Hope everyone finds some joy in the day,

M

Knit_Witch

Go you Pooky! When we moved the best thing that happened was friends of ours letting me sit in their house drinking tea and letting Dr Witch deal with the removal people

I am normally very on the ball but I had a bad fall the day before moving!:eek:

Slinky

Well done Pooky, fantasic friend, can I book you for some future date when we hopefully move?

Looks like our house purchase is going to fall through. Vendor is trying to hang onto a piece of land (pathway) we thought we were buying but which we will only have the rights to walk over to reach our back garden, which both OH and I agree is a deal breaker. He's been increasingly unhelpful through the process so far, and seeing he'll be our neighbour, we're getting fed up of trying not to show we're getting peed off with him.

GreyQueen

:T Oh well done, Pooky, what a rockstar of a friend.

I find moving quite entertaining and have volunteered to help many a pal with their removals. I sometimes get asked because I am known to have been White Van Woman and the prospect of getting my mitts on a long-wheel base Transit or a Luton van for a few hours is joyous. Plus those tail-hoists on the Lutons are such fun, aren't they?

Ahem, deafening silence, must be just me then?:rotfl:

Today I am weary but rather satisfied. We forcibly grounded Mum who has Parkinson's and needs more rest than she naturally takes. Dad and I took his car to Nan's bungalow to meet with his sister who lives close by.

This was the first time I had seen it since furniture and appliances started to be taken away and I was expecting to be distressed. Oddly, I wasn't. It was a trifle peculiar to have some pieces of furniture still in situ and some just gone, with boxes and bags and random piles of Stuff every which way.

I started by taking down two wooden pelmets and three curtain tracks and two sets of shelving units and boxing a lot of books after Aunt had taken what she wanted. Aunt and I then stripped the spare bed and made decisions on the extra bedding which was stored folded under the bedspread and in the divan drawers (mixture of family usage and donation and ragging and the cats' home).

I then removed the headboard and put in in Dad's car (saloon, seats down), added the two divan drawers and the folded over single mattress and the falling apart bedside table. We went to the tip on the way home and I learned that old curtains and bedspreads can't go in their textile recycling, only clothing, so they will go to the chazzer for their rag merchant sales.

Tomorrow, Mum will be rested enough to come also, we've decided she must spend every other day resting. She is proposing to take her circular saw and cut the single divan base into two, which will mean it can go into the car, on Sunday because we will obviously be three persons tomorrow and can't have all the seats down.

Tomorrow we will go through more household textiles and clothing and little things. Some baskets are going to be offered to the flower arranging ladies, they are of that ilk, to see if they want them.

Clothing and footwear have mostly been rehomed already and Cousin is due at some point tomorrow to collect external planters and flowerpots. She won't be able to take the shed tomorrow as it relies on a borrowed trailer which will not be available until next weekend. However, Dad will offer to assist her with dismantling Big Shed and to that end we have retrieved a pry bar from Mum's workshop.

Small Shed was dismantled and burned yesterday on a ferocious bonfire which I am disappointed to have missed but Dad wanted to take advantage of the good weather in case it wasn't dry today. We share a love of bonfiring and it got rid of garden rubbish as well as some wood wormy furniture.

Garden's still looking good and we've been giving away some of the standing crop to neighbours; marrow, leeks, carrots, and people seem to be very pleased to have an invitation to go down the garden and take what they like. No one's been grabby, there's plenty to share about.

I'll sleep like a log tonight, but we're getting there. Tenancy ends on 23rd so we've got to get cracking. It's still probable that there will need to be a skip but I have hopes we might be able to get the double mattress into the car as there is a surcharge if mattresses end up in the skip.

All in all, a productive fiver hours (plus an hour's travelling and the detour to the dump). And I shall soon be eating roast beef and all the trimmings, so that will restore some of the depleted energies.

MMF007

Well done GQ :T Sounds like you and nearest n dearest are pretty organised.
You are not alone in enjoying larger vehicles. We hired a large campervan a few years ago with the plan to share the driving. I bagsied first go and did about 450 miles in total before DH had to prise my hands off the wheel 5 days later, because it was such fun! And I have to say I have the reversing skills of Reginald Molehusband (anyone remember those public information films?).

Retrieved something from recycling bag, naughty M! Well I have been given a Kindle ( :j) but there is no cover with it. I realised that an old notebook had a lovely cover so I fished it out and it will fit perfectly once the scribbled-on pages are removed. So now I have to fashion a harness inside to hold kindle in place and I'll have a lovely Free cover!
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