KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

greenbee

Well done Oceanspirit!

And thanks for the laugh GQ.

Have a late work call, plus need to pack for a conference, so have used the time productively attempting to keep myself awake. I managed (FINALLY) to pack summer clothes away (I have a camphor wood chest that they live in, which smells wonderful), do some washing and drying so I can drop sheets off to be ironed tomorrow morning, sort out recycling and rubbish and do some filing. Oh, and finished cleaning the oven by scrubbing the shelves and then sticking them in the DW to wash when it next goes on.

My car is being serviced tomorrow and i've got a dentist appointment and a singing lesson, and I need to get ready for the 200-mile trip up to my parents to see my dad.

I have a few more bits of laundry to put away and my bed to make. But the spare bed that was covered with my summer clothes is clear, and the CoD in that room has been emptied - towels that go with that room are in one drawer, and I will put spare bedding in there as well, which frees up more space in the airing cupboard for laundry being processed and stuff I use regularly.

Rest of work clothes not needed for conference have been put away, so small spare room is starting to look civilised and should be fit for visitors before I leave on Thursday night/Friday.

elona

I am trying to keep a balance of having clear surfaces and not keeping stuff I will not use and still having spares of toiletries, dishwasher tablets, toilet rolls, laundry tablets, tins of tomatoes and pasta , rice, noodles etc.

Older dd popped in tonight for a chat and a bite to eat before setting off for Scotland on a business trip. She had a panic because she had set off in such a hurry she had not packed toiletries and cosmetics. The look on her face when I produced a pack with a toothbrush and travel size toothpaste, deodorant, travel shampoo. shower gel and lent her some basic make up - was a picture!!

I hang out a lot of washing today but it does not seem to have dried at all so the airers will be loaded up and cluttering the place up. I still have presents to wrap so they are cluttering the place up as well.

Every time I do something positive things look messier than before :eek: I do know it will sort itself out and am trying to make sure I do not add to "stuff".

It looks as if a Christmas present will be a visit to the theatre or pantomime which will be perfect.

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Another grey November day but I will not be disheartened, it's summer somewhere in the world every day.

Have just decided that a small knitting project isn't floating my boat, is just massively annoying me, and I'm feeling guilty about not getting on with it. So I shall pull out the bit I've done and re-purpose the yarn for something else. Life's too short, etc etc.

Working today, and nipping into the library afterwards and then home. Got a few things to do around the place which are heading towards tidyiness; have hopes of finding the sofa again.

There seems to be some kind of law in my life that if the tabletop is clear, the sofa is cluttered. It's probably quantum, or summat, but I shall try to fix this foible of mine.

Have a good day, everybody, and mind yer backs if lifting things.

PollyWollyDoodle

You have your sheets ironed, Greenbee? I bet they feel lovely - I don't bother ironing any bedding now, and mine are polycotton fitted sheets so hardly worth the bother. I do love getting into bed in new sheets, I always say that if I won the Lottery my biggest luxury would be clean sheets every day!

I need to do some serious tidying today. Kondoing is great but you do still need to put stuff in the places you've found for it, it doesn't put itself away. :rotfl: One of my Ik*a bookcases collapsed last week - second time this has happened - so it's time to look for a second-hand wooden one I think.

'Your house is just a cover for a pile of stuff'. That clip was both funny and painfully true, GQ. Have a good day everyone.

greenbee

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

You have your sheets ironed, Greenbee? I bet they feel lovely - I don't bother ironing any bedding now, and mine are polycotton fitted sheets so hardly worth the bother. I do love getting into bed in new sheets, I always say that if I won the Lottery my biggest luxury would be clean sheets every day!

sheets, pillowcases and duvet covers. It's my luxury. It's not worth anyone's while taking the rest of my ironing without the sheets either most of the time, so I use that as the excuse

Now the house is starting to be cleaner, tidier and less dusty I do in theory have clean space to iron in - but I'm very time poor so I know I wouldn't get round to it. My neighbour 2 doors down irons for me and a couple of other people. She needs the money, and I need the time. And she's MUCH better at it than I am

imataloss

Morning all.
Thank you all for your great posts. I`m still surrounded by `stuff` but am slowly learning to let go of things.
In the past week I have used some of my stash of baby yarn to make hats for a neonatal unit at a local hospital. Also surprised myself of how quickly I got them out of the house and in the post.
Really need to get the rest of my yarn/projects/patterns organised.
Have the ideas of how to do it but now just need the time to get it done.
Magazines are taking over again and I need a quick sort out to see what I want to keep and which I can pass on to my sister, who then passes on again or recycles.
Today`s task is something unrelated - to clean one empty bathroom cabinet and see what needs to go back in there.
Hope everyone has a good day.

greent

We have mice in our garage - we were going to leave them alone (the garage is detached from the house), but there are quite a lot of them and we do store some things in there which they like. We have a totally empty loft space in the house which OH is now going to board out tomorrow and the boxes of things which I am concerned about (4 boxes of hand me down clothes/ uniform for DS2 and DS3, previous years' business paperwork and such like) will come in, be inspected and go into the house loft over the weekend/ early next week. There isn't *that* much but it's a good time to go over it all again and weed out unrequired items. No doubt some things will have to get junked one way or another. The garage can then just have things in like tools, the bikes, the alcohol stash , garden stuff - and the guinea pigs (which is why the mice really like it in there - easy food and bedding! - 2 mice were stood on the edge of the hutch this morning staring at the 3 guinea pigs inside when DS1 when to get the g-pigs to put them in the run for the day! )

I am looking forward to the start of December - just so I get the bag containing all the bloomin' advent calendars out of my wardrobe! 4 consumable advent calendars (DD has already had hers sent to uni address) and 2 lego ones - ok, we'll end up with the lego left over but its only small and very joyful to my smaller 2

Right - I have 30 mins before I need to go up to school (early today - am watching smallest in something) - what can I get done in that time......?

x

VJsmum

greent wrote: »

I am looking forward to the start of December - just so I get the bag containing all the bloomin' advent calendars out of my wardrobe! x

Oh advent calendars..... THanks for the reminder. Mine have fabric refillable ones - DD's starts the day she gets home from Uni.. it means i have to dig them out and buy some sweeties for them.

Siebrie

Greent, please check the boxes from the garage inside the garage; you don't want to bring mice into your house!

A few weeks ago I wore a pair of jeans until they fell apart (on purpose), and ragged them. My first thought was: let's buy another pair of jeans to replace those! Secondhand, gifted, new, it didn't really matter. BUT I decided that I have many pairs of trousers in my wardrobe, including another pair of jeans, and that I will pick one of those to wear to shreds (aka 'homewear' ). I am now daily-after-work wearing a pair of gold velours T H1llf1ger trousers, which, I'm sad to report, are already showing signs of wear after about 30 'wears' and about 3 washes on delicate. I'm guesstimating that by the end of winter I can rag them. They are expensive, why do they last only one year?

maryb

VJ's Mum, my younger DD's advent calendar is 24 little knitted stockings with the numbers embroidered on in duplicate stitch, just big enough to hold a chocolate coin. I am under instructions to send the first 17 (term finishes really late) so that she can open them on the PROPER day.

Little madam.

She was actually home for the weekend and I suggested she took them back with her but no, that won't do, it's not as special as having them sent.

At least it won't cost as much as sending the absolutely essential textbook she left at home by mistake her first year then didn't open all year. And Teddy - we got a text on her second day of Fresher's week saying just "send Teddy" once she realised that everyone else had brought their teddy. No other response to parental texts enquiring if she was having fun etc