KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

shanks77

Sorry for your loss Siebre xx

ScotinLondon

Quick visit, i have been reading but RL is too busy with DH being ill, FIL being ill and me studying.

Sorry for your loss both to Mavvy & Sebrie.

GQ - please take care of yourself with all the travelling.

Hugs to all those needing it.

No konding happening at my end, unless you count online lectures for my next exam.

SILx

3forholidays

So sorry for your loss Siebrie.

GreyQueen

It's less than an hour on the coach, SiL, but thanks for caring.

Just come off the phone with the parents. Today they didn't go to the bungalow but took stuff to cancer research where Dad is gift aid registered. Some more stuff exiting, drop in the ocean.

Mum and Dad and Aunt were all at the bungalow yesterday and even though Aunt has rhino-thick skin and is lazy and selfish, it seems that the steam coming out of my ears did just about register in her thick skull on Sunday and she has just about comprehended that your mild mannered forum pal was about to commit aunt-i-cide.

I'm flabberghasted that she noticed.............! :rotfl:

Good job for family harmony that I had to be back in the city doing my paid job this week or there may well have been some tabloidesque headlines in our part of the forest.

MiddleAged Woman Kills Pensioner Aunt in Row About Knick-Knacks. Family Say Aunt Had It Coming. see page two for full story.

WeeMidgie

Tomorrow I'm giving due notice that I'll be kondoing my job (taking early retirement) in the summer next year.:j This is over 2 years in advance of state pension age, but thanks to everything I've learned and put into practice from this wondrous website over the years, I'm confident that I'll be fine.

I've noticed various friends have looked younger and less careworn in the months after they retired.... something to look forward to, I hope! Any train tracks on my physog disappearing post retirement would be wonderful! (I have a permanently corrugated forehead at present):o

MMF007

Well I had to give the car buyer the bum's rush!
When he turned up he said he was sussing it out for another fella and if that bloke agreed to buy it from my friend we had to pay him a £150 finders fee. Let me tell you that he wasn't there long after that :rotfl:
So I didn't kondo a car today! Hoping to get a result at the weekend.

Anyhow, I did some paid work for part of the day and have been asked to look after someone's house while they go away for 10 weeks. Not house sitting but visiting regularly to check it over, collect post, etc. Before the lady goes she wants me to help her pack too (I am getting a reputation for that skill set ).

Kondo'd a couple of books to a friend, and some expensive teabags that I think she will like but I didn't :rotfl

ScotinLondon :hello: Keep up the studying, I am so impressed that you manage to do that with everything else going on.
VJsmum - excellent result re DH's shoes!
Mavvy you made me laugh even though it did stick with me all day! :rotfl:
ETA
Wee Midge - yes, go for it! I was told today how much healthier I look after finishing an office job in March!

ScotinLondon

Thank you MMF007, I am lucky with DH that I can get a break and ship him off to his parents every now & then. But such is life & we have to carry on. I do the studying so I can get the professional qualifications behind me to give us both a better life and to enjoy our loves too.

GQ - am glad that its not too far away and that it is not everyday as I can atttest that doing an hour's travel each way to work & back does tire you out...

On a separate note...radio 4 are doing a short series called 'objects of desire'. I haven't listened to them yet but the first one is about our relationship with stuff...thought it might be interesting to all of us on this thread.

Have a good evening all!
SIL x

mrs-moneypenny

4 DVDs in the CS bag today. Dh has the flu so day spent watching DVDs with him watched 3 and 15 mins of the fourth -which was long enough to ensure that I didn't waste 90mins of my life on it.
Knitted 4 mini Christmas stockings- project for school I need 30 by Christmas so will count towards stash busting goal.

Did the tip run so mils waterbutt, the old carpet and other bits have also been Kondoed.

Charis

I Kondoed the whole afternoon today (2-6pm) on messaging then texting my broadband supplier. Huge company but no idea of joined up thinking. Last evening I went through the rigmarole on their 'help' page to find out why my broadband speed was about half the claimed amount. I have the much vaunted 'faster fibre' and 'super router' and have just signed up for a new contract. It started late last night, after a visit to their website, and after an hour and a half I was squeezing under the table at 1am, taking the face plate off the master socket to test the line. It failed, so I contacted them after I got home from shopping today.

After ages faffing about, the first bloke said he needed 20 mins to test the line and I should message back. Of course when I did I got someone completely different man with no knowledge of the first call, who started from the beginning again and who got me right to the point of dismantling the socket when the message was cut off. By then I was losing it. Sitting on the floor, close to tears with only a mobile to contact the rest of the world, I messaged again and got someone who was able to give me the number to contact the engineers by mobile phone, so at least I didn't have to type every syllable. All contact had at that stage been done by message in a tiny font and half the screen taken up by the keyboard. The first call again ended with me being cut off. With the final call I finally managed to reach a woman, whose accent I could barely understand, although she was very helpful and agreed with me that it seems the master socket has a major problem and was very likely the cause. An Openreach engineer has been booked for tomorrow and on my own I did manage to get everything working again (slowly).

This doesn't seem to have much to do with this thread, but in just over a week I will have been doing a gradual Kondo for exactly a year. I started on a roll with clothes and books but was stalled by a family member wanting to 'leave some stuff' in the garage. About half a garage full, to join another family member's stored items.

I've been through all kinds of traumas during the year and have now learned to ask straight out for what I want and keep asking until I at least get a sensible answer. After years of being custodian to stuff kept for nostalgic reasons I realised that most of it just makes me long for years long gone and persons no longer here. Even my children have become adults with their own agendas, which don't include me much now. A lot of outstanding jobs that have bugged me for months, years even, are now being tackled head on. Once the ball starts rolling, the woo factor definitely kicks in. For example I wanted to contact the builder who did some work for me in 2002 but wasn't sure if he was even still in the area. He's in some directories but they are not current. This morning I saw him doing a job for someone locally and his van was parked there, complete with his phone number. I phoned him this evening and he will give me a quote in a few days.

Why have I spent so long waiting for the right moment and wondering why it never just automatically arrives? There have been a number of things this year that I would rather not have had to do but I've done them and felt so good afterwards. I get quite excited by a challenge now but I am looking forward to the time when everything is in its right home - including me, as I am contemplating a move and wondering where it might take me. I've spent fourteen years feeling that I'm in the wrong place - maybe I've been right all along.

milasavesmoney

Charis, excellent post. A lot there to think about and a lot that sounds like me.