KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

PollyWollyDoodle

I loathe new tea-towels; they don't dry up properly! I have a drawer full as I like to change them frequently. Many are faded, they get a hot wash along with towels or other linens - they're one of the very few things I used to iron, but since MK I roll them up and they seem fine.

I have several sets of towels as I often have visitors, but I seem to have lost the lurid beach towel that I use for cat emergencies, I can't believe I would have thrown it out but it's nowhere to be seen. Puzzling.

GreyQueen

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

but I seem to have lost the lurid beach towel that I use for cat emergencies, I can't believe I would have thrown it out but it's nowhere to be seen. Puzzling.

It's fallen through the gaps into C-space and will shortly be materialising in someone else's cupboard.

On the off-chance it materialises in one of our homes, can you describe it a bit more thoroughly than 'lurid' so's we will know it when/ if it re-appears with us?

I wonder if it's run off with Karmakat's single duvet cover? Not ideal, but better than running off with a married one, I suppose.

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

I wonder if it's run off with Karmakat's single duvet cover? Not ideal, but better than running off with a married one, I suppose.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I was lucky I wasn't drinking tea when I read that

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GreyQueen

I have my moments. As my parents always say, they like to have me visit 'cos I make them laugh.

Bit like a cut-rate court jester, I suppose. Better to play the fool than be one.;)

loocyloo

Karmacat wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I was lucky I wasn't drinking tea when I read that

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I WAS !!!!! luckily managed not to spit it all over the laptop!


I keep taking full bags to CS, but keep finding more to take!

kboss2010

My kondoed living room just makes me happy sitting in it. We recently redecorated and it's so nice to come in to a tidy room which has a place for everything and room to spare! I never thought having empty storage space would make me happy but just looking at it seems to improve my mood.

MMF007

Ooh, empty storage space, yeah! Following a big kondo of multipurpose room (m.p. room), AKA the back bedroom that is also my study, craft room, library, diy storage room and latterly Keep fit room, I am keeping it lovely and tidy, accessible and fully functional.

Last night I had a little panic because we have to temporarily store a large carrier bag of things to take to family at xmas. With so little space in this house every item is a possible nuisance if the correct location is not found quickly.

I almost literally scratched my head as I stood in said m.p. room wondering how on earth I could store it without tripping over it or having to move it frequently. We've all been there, right?

Inspiration struck. I had in fact kondo'd the 3 cupboards in there ( A small row, half depth, sort of kitchen cupboards but on short legs. IE, not much room inside them!) and released quite a lot of Stuff. Sure enough, there was, to my astonishment, enough room in one cupboard for said bag. Phew! Prior to kondo I could not have fitted another sheet of paper in any of the cupboards!

Kon Marie, the joy that just keeps on giving :rotfl:

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GreyQueen

Another raving fan of empty space here.

I'm just loving being back in my wall cupboards (still have the doors ajar in case any vestigal moisture in the party wall-o-damp). Things went back and have empty space around them, there's even about 18 inches of completely empty shelf at the top of one cupboard, which I just adore lookng at.

Was chatting to the folks on the phone last night and Dad said he'd taken two more bags of Nan's stuff to the charity shop. I was incredulous that there was still more to find, as I thought the lion's share of the remaining had come up to the city in the car the weekend before last.

The issue was that there is nowhere in their home which was empty (or even empty-ish) to receive Nan's stuff during the process of sorting and donation. Therefore, bags and boxes and stray loose items ended up dispersed all over their small 3 bed terrace and two of the three sheds. It's taking quite a while to round up all the items.

Things from Nan's received into my home; a microwave, two wooden spoons, three seasonal teatowels, four boxed cotton hankes, two unused dishcloths, a new flannel, a microfibre cloth, a standard lamp (not here yet), a pitchfork, a hand cup and an onion rake (ditto), two scaffolding poles and a galv metal bucket (also ditto), a small plate, a tea tin and two other small tins, a nut-cracker, half-a-carrier bag of broken candles and a few balls of yarn. Two CD players. Oh, and a scarf and a pair of gloves, a small clip-board ...... and I think that's it.

Pretty eclectic haul and almost all of it is already being used, already.

I think my 19 y.o. CD player is on the way out so am keeping one of the two from Nan's as a spare, as I suspect I could be only weeks or months away from needing it. The other will go to BHF.

maddiemay

I am still chuckling at the thought of the eloping towel and duvet cover, thankfully tea had already been consumed.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

No Kondoing here really this week, normally OH is out cycling on 2 weekdays and this is my time for pottering, Kondoing and sometimes a bit of pampering, but the weather has put the mockers on it. I really do enjoy sometime to myself at home, as does he, if I hesitate about going to my craft group on a Wednesday he practically ushers me out of the door:rotfl:

Keep warm and dry everyone:D

oceanspirit

Got rid of wall cabinet from bathroom so main cupboard kondoed again and many items which survived last time have now found their way out of my home. Bathroom is now finished as far as I am concerned so now it's a case of making sure nothing goes in that doesn't need to be there.

Bedroom is very nearly finished - went through another cupboard which had already been kondoed but still found more which could go. Living room just has a couple of piles on coffee table to go through then will be finished. Kitchen well on the way.

Study still crammed full with stuff despite papers constantly being sorted and removed. It looks worse now than when I started some months ago! Hopefully this is the tipping point and it will start to look better very soon.