KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

pollys

Fish.....urrgh!

I've re visited the underwear drawers and had a bit of a change around. My woolly tights are now much easier to get to and I've put the navy blue at one side of the drawer, black at the other, separated by the coloured pairs. No more squinting in the mornings checking that I've got the right pair.
Whilst I was in the mood, I looked over my clothes. A few items have been placed in the charity bag.
I then moved onto toiletries and binned quite a few items that have been open for too long and now smell a bit funny.

Hoping to get more done later, bad weather has cancelled sons football match.

Polly

elona

GQ

Are you sure the place does not need fumigated or exorcised before you go into it?

Surely the smell of fish cannot entice customers (unless you are by the seaside), Visions of "Auntie Wainwright" come to mind :eek:
She would probably charge for smelling the oxone :eek:

Middle dd is coming round soon and staying over and another three offspring coming round for lunch tomorrow. Will get dd to help me assemble the steam cleaner while she is here and do a mad dash round with it later.

hebwood

Hi everyone


Not been on for a while, lots of things happening RL, but have lurked and caught up!


Hugs/condolences/sympathy to whoever needs them and well done to others.


Magazines are the stuff going at present - managed to get rid of a large pile of beading mags. to a fellow crafter, 2 v large piles to my sister (only trouble she gave me more back!), working on several food and gardening stashes to be gone after Xmas. Overall they are reducing.


I am afraid I have sinned - bought a lovely bookcase from a charity shop - badly needed for storage. Really pleased with quality - joyful.


Also a new washing machine - old one gave up, and new (to us) car - old one just too expensive to mend.


Funny how 'maintenance' items seem to come all at once!


Pouring down with rain, with a gale coming in tonight.


Stay safe, warm and well everyone.
H

mavvymoo

Afternoon all

The twice yearly litterpick was today and remember last year I told you we had found a bike (which was returned to owner who had forgotten he left it there :rotfl:) and a catering stainless steel double size deepfat frier complete with dirty oil :mad:

Well today I found

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a stolen handbag yes dumped in a dry ditch by the side of a wood.Hung on to it until I got home it was a posh make leather bag with matching purse.Full of bank and credit cards but no money. Found concert tickets with owners address from a town 30 miles from me and also a reciept dated yesterday at 8.20am from Mr S.
So put a post up on that towns local FB site and within 2 mins the owner had been found :T

It was stolen from her office desk drawer yesterday morning at 9.30am :eek: She had £80 cash in there which was gone and gift cards worth £150 but all the bank cards were still there.

She came over with her daughter within the hour to collect and was so happy to see her bag but was so shocked at knowing someone she worked with had stolen it. She brought me a bottle of wine and chocolates to say thank you.They were both such lovely people I was so happy I could reunite her with her bag.:) The police have been informed its been found and updated with my details.

The other thing I found which was most odd was a striped mans M&S dressing gown :rotfl:Did ask the bags owner if she had had one taken but she hadnt.:D

So was wondering if any of you ladies are missing one. There was no beach towel or any other linens with it.Just a Blue and Red striped dressing gown under a tree sheltering from the wind :rotfl:I mean how the hell does a dressing gown end up on a lonely lane in the middle of a wood .

Even on a litterpick my life is never boring.:rotfl:or normal There was 10 of us picking up litter in all areas and no one else found anything exciting just me

So my good deeds done for the day but the icing on the cake would be to find the dressing gowns owner and find out the story of how it got there :rotfl:



Mav x

carrielovesfanta

mavvymoo wrote: »

I mean how the hell does a dressing gown end up on a lonely lane in the middle of a wood .

Mav x

Because the killer used it to wrap the body in and then got rid of it


:eek:

VJsmum

Well done, Mavvy :T

Another one who doesn't really want anything for Christmas. Even more difficult as it is my birthday on the 18th.

Whilst in s. Africa a lodge we were staying in was talking about getting a sewing machine to help with the girls education so I donated my birthday gift from OH to get one for them.

We do often get theatre tickets between us which is nice and MiL is having one too. It gives her something to look forward to.

The number of people I buy for has drastically reduced, some are deceased but mostly it's children who have gone beyond our cut off age or people like teachers, childminder, cleaner etc that we just don't have any more. My list has reduced from 45 :eek: to 21:T. I have just sent a message to siblings to ask if vouchers attached to a small (probably chocolate based) gift is acceptable for their children (who are all teenagers, bar one).

My sister and inlaws will probably get cinema vouchers.

I really CBA to go shopping for tat.

One year I asked my sister to buy a load of paperbacks from the chazzer as I could read them in the bath without Worrying too much about wrecking them. She was loathe to, but did. And I loved them.

I'd like some nuts and fat balls for the birds...

GreyQueen

mavvy, I just read what you wrote about a striped M & S man's dressing gown and I was half-way up out of my chair to check that mine was still hanging on the bedroom door by reflex.:rotfl:

It's still there, but it's green and white stripes, anyway.

Very well done on re-uniting that lady with her bag, horrible experience for her, how lucky she was that you found it and so very soon after the theft. Must be the power of woo.

Been gardening this afternoon and then swung by a pal's on way home where we've been hanging out, drinking tea and nattering. Nice break (no fish was involved).

Have decided to start the process of re-melting old and damaged candles from Nan's into new candles. I make mine stripy so I need to let each layer settle before adding the next one. The candles will be a consumable gift for a pal.

They will also use some of the prungle tube stash, which I have been saving for just this very purpose, a bagful hanging up in my bicycle shed. I have just set the first one up now and am about to get a-melting.

If I don't get a wriggle on, it'll be xmas before I know it and the candles will be part of a little gift for a candle-mad pal. I have some brand new beads of scented wax, which are a bit overpowering en masse, but I will add some to each candle.

See, multi-layered kondo-ing of craft materials and accessories.

claigt

I just read a great list that might help some who won't know where to start purging.
citywasteservices.ca/2016/11/17/decluttering-ultimate-list-300-things-throw-away-today/

Good luck!

wort

Hi Mavvy , can I ask what happened to the litter of kittens you found?
I've not been on for a while so apologise if you had already updated us x

MMF007

The 'spare' roll of wallpaper I found a while ago (had bought another roll for the job, postponed the work and, er , forgot about it)...... I have repurposed it as wrapping paper :money:
It is the kind you apply paste to, not ready pasted, so it should be fine.

Detatched the lid from a smallish basket to make it far more useful. Lid [STRIKE]binned[/STRIKE]released. The lid never opened properly and was just in the way most of the time! The basket is now joyous (GQ, are you with me on this?)

Sorted some admin that was a hangover from my employee life (took me over an hour and I have made sure to keep a copy this time because work had lost the original doc I dealt with over a year ago :mad:). The joy being that the matter is now dealt with! It is 8 months since I 'retired' and I rather hoped it was all behind me

kondo folded dry washing and relished how my tops are resting, neatly lined up in a drawer and yet they are not creased :eek:

Treated myself to a (YS) bunch of flowers to celebrate the 2.5 stone weight loss, after confirming the latest weigh-in was not just a blip :rotfl: Am aiming for another half stone by first week in Jan (family party for MIL who will be 80). As someone said last year and reiterated last week, it is a lifestyle change, isn't it?

Right, off to bed, .ots to do tomorrow while DH away for the day