KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Igamogam

greent wrote: »

Whilst we want our children to appreciate the value of money we don't feel the need for them to go through what we went through! As it is, I'm still probably the last of our friends to put the heating on (making the children put a jumper on etc first) and use the tumble drier far less than most people I know.
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I am glad I havent had to go through what my children have gone through though..........I never felt pressured at school to perform like a circus act. Never experienced unpleasant 'friends' Never worried about the future from an age when they should have no worries............and our children have had a fairly good experience of school and friends compared to some I and they know:eek:

We are from the 'put an extra layer on' brigade too:rotfl: and we have never possessed a tumble dryer!

gallygirl

Another ice inside the windows here - even though I had the hot water tank cupboard in my bedroom so used to have the door to that wide open. Mum and dad got double glazing and central heating AFTER I left home. Harrumph :rotfl:. I hate being cold, it takes me ages to warm up so I will put heating on early (we live in Spain and I have been known to say 'I didn't move out here to be cold' in my best spoiled brat voice ).

Will shortly be KM'ing my colon as off for bowel cancer screening :eek::o:p.

elona

After a few weeks of dds and sil promising to take all the cardboard away to the tip, I managed to drag it all outside this morning hoping that the recycling people will pick it up.

I still need to do a bit more wrapping and have some birthday presents for early January to get sorted out.

Middle dd came round last night for a bite to eat so sent her off with two cartons of frozen soup and two frozen home made meals.

silvasava

Galleygirl - my Mum used to tell me my bedroom was the warmest 'cos I had the airing cupboard - unfortunately I was between our bathroom & next doors and faced north. It was about as warming as a candle in a cathedral lol. I've had a tumble drier for about 20 years and only ever use it to air clothes so I don't have to iron them.
Been kondoing the RoD - lots of paperwork gone. Lots of filing done and some maps offered on local Streetlife. If they dont go there I'll put them on Freecycle. A new bag ready for CS items. DH emptied the glass bin and swept the front of the house so neat and tidy at the mo.

Slinky

We had almost no heating in our childhood house, a single panel radiator in the downstairs hall with the idea it was supposed to heat upstairs. It didn't. A 2 bar fire in the lounge, a convector heater in the dining room. No double glazing. Ice on the inside of the windows and a tiny hot water tank meant even if you had a bath there was never more than 4 inches of hot water in it.

I look back on it with no nostalgia at all. It was horrible, I hated being cold. Blankets piled on the bed so thick you could barely move.

I wear thermals under my clothes from neck to toe from October to May, jumpers on top and still feel cold if I'm sitting in my office working so the heating has to go on. Roll on summer!

camelot1001

We were lucky, Dad had a tied house with his job and didn't have to pay any electricity bills so we had oil filled radiators in each room. My parents bought a house on the south coast for holidays and weekends that had no heating apart from a monstrous boiler in the kitchen that took forever to heat up. I think I preferred the colder house, always felt more lively there.

The joys of KM! I've rolled all my vest tops that I wear under work clothes, they all fit in the drawer and I can see at a glance the colour of each one. Gosh I'm happy!

Slinky

Does anybody live in a house with an east facing back garden? I've mainly lived in houses with south and once a north facing garden. What's an east facing garden like?


Could you put a conservatory up and not fry in the summer?

GreyQueen

Slinky wrote: »

Does anybody live in a house with an east facing back garden? I've mainly lived in houses with south and once a north facing garden. What's an east facing garden like?


Could you put a conservatory up and not fry in the summer?

With your garden facing east, the conservatory will only get the sun in the first part of the morning, once it's high enough in the sky, it will shine over the roof of your house and leave the conservatory in shadow.

This mean that there will be very little solar gain and the conservatory will remain cool, possibly even cold, which sort-of negates the purpose of having such a thing, really.

Full disclosure; I spent the bulk of my childhood in a house which faced east (including my bedroom) and lived for 10 years in a flat with both the bedroom and the sitting-room facing NNE (and it was bliddy cold on that side of the house, very much warmer on the other side, even though the building was only a few paces deep) HTH.

ETA; some plants are shade lovers but most veggies and fruits require full sun to grow properly, so an east-facing garden is far from desirable.

Slinky

It can be surprising how much a small amount of sun will heat a conservatory. We had a north facing one and it used to get just a strip of sun through the gap between our house and the one next door, for a couple of hours. It used to be over 80 degrees in there in the summer when we came home in the evening, hence our current south facing house has a proper tiled roof on our sunroom. We're looking again at an east facing property as a potential place to move to. The garden is about 50 feet long so it gets sun at the bottom in the evening.

Floss

I once lived in a house the front of which faced east - the back garden backed onto fields, and we had a conservatory on the back of the garage at the end of the house, and was a lovely place to fit & watch the bats & owls. I wasn't into gardening then so didn't really take much notice of what grew.