KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

milasavesmoney

Mrs M that's a hilarious story! I wonder which of you will inherit this treasure? I have always heard 'making bacon' in the context of making money. I like your mom's rendition much better!
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PollyWollyDoodle

I'm gobsmacked at the tasteful pig garden ornament. Your mum must be very tolerant, Mrs MP. Any 'friend' who thought that was an appropriate gift and who also insisted that it was to be kept (think I'm almost equally shocked at that!) would be a long way down my contact list.

I've gradually divested myself of various cat, chicken and bee ornaments given to me over the years, keeping a few that I really like.

My sisters and I always exchange Christmas lists and this year I've really struggled to come up with anything that I really need or want. I've asked for experiences - a day out at a garden or stately home - or consumables.

maryb

The pig ornament sounds just the sort of thing that some teenage trick or treaters would think it funny to run off with, doesn't it ? (She says innocently)

VJsmum

Igamogam wrote: »

Hung up the sleeping bags and down jackets in the hanging space

Hmm, there's something I hadn't thought of, hanging sleeping bags... Thanks, I will do that.

I can't even be bothered to think about Christmas this year. I just don't want to shop for it. It isn't the money but the sheer nonsense of getting lists buying it and then wrapping as tho a surprise. I am going to buy a small, low price, something that I want to give people and then give money. My own kids are a bit different - I will get the relatively high value whatever it is that they want and then bits and pieces that I know they will like.

My Christmas people list stands at around 25 :eek: so quite a lot really. Two have gone this year - not cos they've died but friends' children who have gone past the 'cut off' age for pressies.

Igamogam

VJsmum wrote: »

Hmm, there's something I hadn't thought of, hanging sleeping bags... Thanks, I will do that.


Down sleeping bags should always be stored not in their storage bags so OH informs me - has technical knowledge;) and certainly never in their compression sacks:eek: same for down jackets.

I can't even be bothered to think about Christmas this year. My own kids are a bit different - I will get the relatively high value whatever it is that they want and then bits and pieces that I know they will like.

I rarely give Christmas a thought in the sense of over-buying-over-eating-Christmas-hype-tat kind of way. Not a Bah Humbug sort of person....I enjoy the season and the essence of Christmas,the smells the traditions and the food of the festival but decide many moons ago not to be sucked in to the Coka Kola commercialism of it:mad::D

My Christmas people list stands at around 25 :eek: so quite a lot really. Two have gone this year - not cos they've died but friends' children who have gone past the 'cut off' age for pressies.

Like you VJ we buy a 'costly' item for the DDs with a few small bits as surprises and of course always have to have a stocking;) but my list consists of 2 DDs, a secret santa for my close circle of friends, and I get my staff'a little something'......but I get them something at the end of each term anyway cos they work bl00dy hard for peanuts. OH and I do not buy presents for each other....if I need something I will buy it....same for him:p

If I get presents from anyone else I am very grateful.....most people know now I dont buy "just because". If it offends ...nobody has said!


Right back to it......been at it, on and off, 18 months........and still not got to the back of every cupboard,nook and cranny or emptied every book shelf, box or drawer:eek:

greenbee

Another tip run done - rest of CoD took minutes to deconstruct with a screwdriver, and all the bits of staircase that will fit in the car are gone. The rest need a saw - or a van - if I'm going to get them to the tip myself. It would be nice if they were gone as it would make the garden look a LOT tidier!

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Did a CS run this morning and three large bags/boxes of stuff have been kondoed along with a baby bath.
A load of plastic coat hangers went in the recycling bin at Tesco
Got a paperback I'll finish today that mum will enjoy reading.

Glad you all found mums pig funny, I will make the suggestion to her it could easily be stolen by naughty trick or treaters and see what she says. I think it's the sheer weight of it the means it stays there but each year it gets hidden more by the hedge as mum deliberately cuts it a bit less in that area so just the one pig can be seen.

MMF007

Well it's a bit of a mixed bag this morning. Started with me getting cross with DH who would not part with a hard hat he used for work YEARS ago, that had been sat on the bookshelf in multipurpose room until I gave that a really good kondo.
Said hard hat was trying to loiter in the kitchen, nearer to the backdoor but still not evicted! DH was on his way out, taking a lot of stuff to brother and mum, so I gave him the hat and said to put it in the bin. He could see it was on borrowed time but suggested CS.
Well an item of protective equipment that is so old it doesn't have the correct safety markings cannot be resold so I said to put it in the shed (so I can take it to the tip myself, sigh). No, sez he, I don't want it out there, it'll get dirty....
Queue outburst from me that I have spent over a year trying to get rid of Stuff we never use and
will never use and just when I am getting somewhere he insists on keeping something last used before the millennium. :mad::mad::mad:

Suffice it to say the hat is no longer on the premises, what DH is going to do with it I have no idea.

Right, back on track of tidying, getting jobs done that have hung on, etc - I have cut the wall tiles, affixed them and am waiting for the adhesive to 'go off' before I try and sort out the border tiles. As I checked what was needed and how to match in with the gap (water heater was removed from bathroom wall a while ago.....) I realised that the professional tiler who did the work a couple of years ago had, er, not exactly lined them up at the corner. This was hidden from view while water heater was there.
I shall ponder if there is a way to make it look ok. It is a very old stone house and none of the walls are remotely straight in any case!
I think I can pul it off, as I am on a roll, having wasted no tiles whilst cutting them with new gadget (cost £20, saved getting someone!in)
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GreyQueen

Oh lawdy, there is no good deed which goes unpunished.

I just bumped into the slight acquaintance to whom I gave the hat yesterday, and he has given me a small gift in return, a trinket of the non-consumable nature which he has owned for 50 years.

I shall put it in a drawer somewhere and it can be kondo'd at some future point, hopefully a long way down the line when he has forgotten it/ passed beyond all cares (he's a retired gentleman).

I was wrong-footed and it would've been incredibly rude to refuse it, I feel.

Righty, off to visit my much-neglected allotment which has been fending for itself for most of October, due to family issues around Nan's passing.

I shall smile to see the yellow and the orange English marigolds, still flowering bravely. I collected the seeds from her garden years ago and have deliberately let them self-seed all over the lottie. Unless they're specifically in the way of something, I leave them to bloom and provide bee-fodder and simple beauty.

Have a good day, everyone.

Fen1

I am going to make a big banner from a spare wallpaper roll. It is going up on the bedroom wall. It will read:

DOES THIS SPARK JOY?
WOULD YOU PAY GOOD MONEY FOR THIS?
MEMORIES ARE NOT MEMENTOES.

…….…...


Good idea, or just a wee bit crazy?

P.s. WHY THE F**K DO YOU STILL HAVE THIS?