KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Floss

Mavy do you think your dad's giant cupboard was meant to be a boxroom / spare bedroom?!

Slinky

There's a man konding 2feet off the leylandii hedge that backs onto our garden. That is giving me great joy. It's not our hedge. At one point a few years ago we had to go round and ask them to cut it when it was about 10feet higher than now and they showed no signs of cutting it. After they had it cut down, I think they saw the huge benefit of light into their back rooms and it's been better since. I have a feeling this is the second time they've cut it this year, which is a first. I'm wondering if they are moving house as I saw an enormous skip out the front crammed with 'stuff' last month, and an empty one there yesterday which may have the hedge going in it.

If they are moving, I hope the new people keep the hedge trimmed! There's a public footpath between us and them so they aren't actually neighbours.

MMF007

Took my lovely friend to lunch and then moved quite a few bags and items from her spare room into the garage for when AgeUK come to collect it next week. She said she was fretting about getting it all done but it took me less than an hour. Some of it was heavy (too heavy for her anyway) and other stuff was just bulky. Now all neatly arranged for collection. Little effort from me seems to have lifted a weight of worry from my friend:)

My friend gave DH the complete boxed set of Laurel and Hardy dvds that her late husband bought some time ago. DH is delighted, I am worried about storing them! In fairness he laughs so much at L&H that I don't mind at all. In fact, if they ever consider a remake of 'The Laughing Policeman', I could just record DH watching the dvds! :rotfl:

Busy at work tomorrow and Thurs but have plans for Fri and Sat

GreyQueen

Love your description of your home, Tea Lady. What a brilliant lifestyle.

I'd like my parents to have some of that but at the moment, they are thrashing through the fallout from Nan's home. Just come off the phone with them.

Today, Dad and Aunt went to view Nan's body at the chapel of rest and then on to Great-Aunt XXXX (the next eldest sister) to visit with her for a couple of hours and to hand over custody of the WW1 medals etc from eldest daughter to next-eldest daughter. Those are the only things Nan owned with significant cash value, but they're not on the market.

Tomorrow, Mum and Dad have a two hour window to get her wheelchair to the Red Cross, they've made phone contact and asked if they would like it. It's a manual chair, only lightly used, that we bought so we could take Nan out on excursions when she got a bit too frail to walk far or stand much. It's served its purpose and needs to go to assist someone else.

Besides, it takes up a lot of space, even folded.

Kid Bruv has taken some more donation bags to town. They're giving their regular chazzer a rest as they took a carload to them yesterday and found them rather overwhelmed with Stuff and their smallish stock-room rammed.

A lot of people are clearing things out, apparently. D'you think kondo-fever may be spreading across the land?:rotfl:

I did a chazzer run with two trolley-loads, mainly clothing and knick-knacks, so have rehomed most of the Stuff I brought back from the hometown on Sunday evening. Good to have that gone.

The parental house is still pretty cluttered but things are being shipped out there as fast as possible, but it all takes time and energy, to make sure that you aren't accidentally getting rid of something you or another relation would like to keep.

After the funeral next week, the folks will take a bit of time out to rest before bringing the bits and bobs which are coming to live with me up to my flat and allotment. All this rushing about is taking its toll on them, they're in their early-mid seventies and it doesn't get any easier to deal with things.

mavvymoo

Floss wrote: »

Mavy do you think your dad's giant cupboard was meant to be a boxroom / spare bedroom?!

No I dont think so as its right next to the front door which leads to a tiny hallway where this massive cupboard is along with another massive (but not as massive) cupboard :rotfl:Both cupboards on there own are bigger than the hallway.

I think this flat was designed by someone who had a hoarding problem as there is so many cupboards you could hide everything you own in them. Or maybe a lady shopaholic who I can picture coming home and shouting 'Darling I am home' and then opening the massive cupboard and hurling all her bags in there :rotfl:

Dads flat has the most storage I have ever seen in any house let alone a 2 bed flat


Mav x

ps didnt even start the Northface or even get the iron out

GreyQueen

Mavvy, I think my whole flat could fit in your Dad's hall cupboards! Has he ever considered sub-letting them as a money-making enterprise?

mrs-moneypenny

lol I read the line in the middle of mavvys post as she was moving into the cupboard.
I have thought about asking if you accept holiday lets in the bijou cupboard

GreyQueen

Heck, if thais flat was in Lunnon Town, I bet these cupboards would have already been tenanted.

I don't miss many things about my previous flat, such as the perishing cold, but I do miss the several walk-in cupboards. It was the basement of a mid-19th century house and I think they were larders etc. One was about 6 ft square, one was corridor-style and about 4 ft wide by 15 ft deep, another was L shaped.

Being able to store stuff behind closed doors was delightful.

Today, I have to declutter a hospital appt before w*rk, then I will make sure to shred the letter afterwards. I also spent a little time yestereve after going offline disassembling two things from Nan's where various new items of household textiles had been used to make, resectively, a shepherd and a pair of pantaloons. These were sold as fundraisers at the fete, I think, but never disassembled as intended and brought into use.

The trunk of the 'shepherd' was a rolled up sponge scourer which had died in storage, the rest is going into service.

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Hope everyone is as well as can be
Gq hope the appt goes ok

I'm busy all day today so won't get much chance to kondo anything

Have a joyful one

greenbee

I have finally emailed the local homeless charity and asked them about dropping off some stuff that hopefully can be of use.

I really should do a tip run before my next meeting... or at least dump the garden waste that's bagged up from Sunday's efforts. And could do with a walk to the bottle bank too...