KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

greenbee

Sounds like the tidal wave of incoming stuff has broken the dam GQ and your parents are going to let other stuff go out with it... I hope you have a LOT of annual leave left to use at Christmas!

I've been pruning. Which kind of counts. My garden has been seriously neglected since I moved due to work on the house (although to be fair there have been 3 random hedges and half a dozen trees removed). I'm finally starting to be able to see the potential. The next few weeks will involve locating all the roses and moving the majority of them into the bed along the back fence. So I've bought manure, compost, weed suppressant fabric and bark chips. I need to think about what to plant under them - I have a few hellebores, and need to scrounge (or maybe even buy) some more, and I might order a whole lot of tulip bulbs as well.

GreyQueen

Mum is admitting to feeling oppressed by Stuff, which is a turning point, so I expect that more Stuff will leave. Although we first have to finish processing Nan's things outta here.

There will be a few more things to come up to mine on another trip, such as the 5 ft standard lamp pole and a planter and some gardening bit & bobs which will be needed on the allotment like the pitchfork. Two of those will require the seat to be lowered and there won't be room for that and all four of us tomorrow.

One of the two city chazzers where I gift-aid is actually open on a Sunday for a few hours so we'll be taking some of the Stuff to them, other Stuff I will wally-trolley up to the other chazzer a bit at a time in the next week or so.

Some things will be freegled (or attempted freegled) and a couple of other things will be swopped out for less-good examples of mine own and the other ones chazzered or freegled.

Quite a substantial amount of Stuff will be moving tomorrow. Dad is ruminating about adding extra air into the car tyres. If ya sees a mondeo saloon running low on its suspension tomoz, do wave at the woman behind the wheel - could be me.;)

Can't wait to get this little lot off on its adventures into the world and into other people's lives - unshopping at its best.

Righty, got a few more items to sort out including - oh joy - a large quantity of placcy bags which are just crying out to be samosa'd.

Charly27

I am getting vicarious pleasure from reading about all your kondoing. I've done very little today apart from shopping in Tosca's with DH and sleeping with a little light reading thrown in. I have so much to do before Monday and have wasted whole day:eek: curious about mummified satsumas and placcy bag samosas. Good luck with car booties and all chazzering. One of my yoga mats has gone in those bags they post in your door with a pair of DH shoes and a pair of mine. Tbc Tuesday. Enjoy evening all:)

mrs-moneypenny

Hugs and good wishes to all who need them.
A load more DVDs have gone in the donate boxes, miles garden rubbish bin was filled this morning.

PollyWollyDoodle

I'm a big fan of Don Aslett, and Getting Rid of Clutter is my standby. He pretty much says the same as MK, but he doesn't approach it from the 'does it spark joy?' Question, which is the thing that has helped me where other methods fail.

Reading his book years ago really transformed my views about books; I still have a fair number, things that I know I'll read again or that would be hard to replace. Don points out (and my edition must be thirty years old - it's even easier with the Internet!) that there are few books that you couldn't get hold of if you wanted to, and he even advocates tearing out the pages you want and throwing the rest out! I've stopped short of that but it did help me to stop viewing books as sacred objects.

Great work everyone. I'm laughing at the satsumas. Did you think they were shrunken heads? :rotfl:

MMF007

Good luck with the sales Lizzie and well done on more lbs going :T
Greenbee, oh yes, good time to plant tulips is late Nov, early Dec. I absolutely love Spring gardens and DH always plants / encourages loads of bulbs for me

fell off the bandwagon in Sainsbobs today. Have now attained a new smaller size, rather than being between sizes, so seccumbed to cheapo jumper (just my colour, short sleeves so good for work), reduced to half,price but actually scanned as £4.20 Also found a sleeveless summer top in a very pretty design that I loved, half price at a whopping £7. My CS bargain top, bought in Sept in the hope of it fitting in a while now looks lovely on too
Definitely need to do an inventory to identify gaps in wardrobe but as still more weight to lose it is proving a little tricky. Don't want to buy much now, am saving myself for the next size down!

GreyQueen

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

Great work everyone. I'm laughing at the satsumas. Did you think they were shrunken heads? :rotfl:

Initially, I didn't know what the hell I was seeing, there was this brownish roughly-spherical thing lurking between stacks of bowls and plates. Then another, then another. I picked some out of there with the kitchen tongs, they looked a bit dodgy.

Woke with a cold this morning and have been sneezing and snuffling all day. Hasn't slowed me down too much, have pretty much been plugging away at things all day.

Today's weirdnesses include the mummified satsumas and a little box of misc foriegn currency including an aluminium coin from the German hyperinflation of 1923. This came from Nan's bungalow, probably from one or other of her brothers who were out there in WW2. We also found a stash of letters from Great Uncle L (her late brother).

He was describing house clearances. Nothing MK would recognise; he meant clearing soldiers from a German city with house-to-house fighting. Being a typical Englishman, his letter was very laconic. He also remarked that there was a lot of good stuff lying around for the taking but that they had no way of getting it home so had to leave it.

Thankfully, no lootings from WW2 have come to light, although the branch of the clan which lives in northern Europe did appropriate some chests of tea from retreating British forces early in the war, which kept the family going until the liberation.

Co-incidentally, I have myself acquired some packets of tea from Sainsbobs this afternoon. I did pay for it, tho.:rotfl:

ETA; the agricultural implement in the photograph has been identified as a Claas combine hervester from the 1950s, the kind which was towed behind a tractor. German-made, and apparently rather good, with a component which was said at the time to resemble the wing of a Stuka (sp?) bomber. My Grandad and his brother are two of the four men working on it.

MMF007

Igamogam wrote: »

Used my LC fondue set last night! Brings me great joy - OH bought it in the mid 80's when we were young and penniless - I gave him such a ahrd time for the 'frivolous' purchase - but we have used it lots since:D. Often have a Friday Fondue night with Fabulous Female Friends.............:rotfl:
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After we had just finished Uni and I was working pt for a charity and DH was a trainee in the public sector, he bought me a completely frivolous pressie and I was bowled over. I still love that he chose it. It was a beautifully presented posh box that contained some expensive choccies and a half bottle of fizz. It was soooo frivolous and sooooo posh! His other major success was tickets for the Spanish Riding School jn Vienna. So really,he is an MK man at heart, consumables or experiences win! :D

milasavesmoney

My DD1 has a truly marvelous kondoing method that she is teaching Sequoia (age 2). She will tell Qouye ~ X has invited you to their birthday party. Quoye then says, I have to get them a present and runs to her toy box, where she will pick out one of her toys for them. She never picks out her much loved toys but will give things she no longer plays with or has a few versions of... (no longer gives joy). Then, it's time to wrap the present with recycled (of course) paper and bows. Mommy helps a little with Quoye in charge of wrapping directions. One mother raised her eyebrows a bit at the blue haired naked Strawberry Shortcake doll given to her son :eek:, but then reported later that it was her son's favorite gift and that he played with it constantly, doing whatever he was doing. She said she decided Quoye knows best.

Wednesday2000

GreyQueen wrote: »

I like all his stuff but Not For Packrats Only is great, as is the book he co-wrote with his daughter about how to get your house to do the housework (designing it out).

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

I'm a big fan of Don Aslett, and Getting Rid of Clutter is my standby. He pretty much says the same as MK, but he doesn't approach it from the 'does it spark joy?' Question, which is the thing that has helped me where other methods fail.

Reading his book years ago really transformed my views about books; I still have a fair number, things that I know I'll read again or that would be hard to replace. Don points out (and my edition must be thirty years old - it's even easier with the Internet!) that there are few books that you couldn't get hold of if you wanted to, and he even advocates tearing out the pages you want and throwing the rest out! I've stopped short of that but it did help me to stop viewing books as sacred objects.

Interesting, thanks guys!:A