KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Pooky

All hail the key!!!!

My Mum kondod a couple of gift bags of wool to me for Christmas, she was getting so dithery about what to get me and I said I'd just love some wool, any sort, any amount, just anything. She went through her boxes of yarns and actually sorted all the odd balls my way, ideal for granny squares and a load of stuff out of her house. She used to knit daily but she had a brain haemorrhage nearly 2 years ago and hasn't been able to get back to it.

I seem to have kondod the last of a box of matchsticks - orange flavour, of course and I've lit the fire so I'm set for a while.

Slinky

Oh well done GQ, what a great Christmas present!


We had a good Christmas day, we'll buy a turkey crown again in future instead of a whole turkey as it worked very well, much less faffing about, far fewer leftovers, although we like them, and cooked in only 2 hours. Tasted lovely and was really moist (followed Jamie Oliver's suggestion of smothering the breast in butter and wrapping tightly in foil).


Only received one gift we had no use for - a salt pig. Don't have the space or desire to clutter up a kitchen worksurface with it, so managed to take it back today and swap it for limoncello and chocolates.


Got to do some work for my business over the next few days, hopefully if the weather is good and my knees behave themselves, we may finish in 2 days. At least it will be good exercise to burn some Christmas calories.

MMF007

Well it was VERY windy here today, I mean Very windy. No apparent damage and we survived a brisk walk

No-one ate too much yester, we just spread 3 courses over the whole day.

I got a fabulously bright rucksack, a diary, a road atlas and some posh nuts! All wanted and indeed joyous

Birthday number 1 is being celebrated today. Fried breakfast for some, salad, pate and turkey for lunch, pizza for tea - birthday boy's choice!

Kids being very good, dog being very cute

Knit_Witch

Bows down in awe to the KondoQueen GQ :rotfl:

GreyQueen

Thank you.

Hearalded by the recovery of a tin of pears (BB 2009, blown) from the depths of the 1930s sideboard in The Off Room *, a cupboard which has to be searched using a torch, it's so deep and dark, Mum has decided she wants the small amount of tinned and processed food to be removed into the 1960s sideboard (in the main kitchen).

We keep linens, board games and the 20,000 decks of cards in the other sideboard - era unknown, probably mid-century - in the sitting-room. This household may reasonably be said to have a Sideboard Fixation. We are the Warren Buffets of les buffets, if you see what I mean.

* a small doorless room off the kitchen, orginally a coal shed, long-since debunkered, carpetted and decorated. It even has a radiator as well as a side board and wall cupboards.

Playing the fool (always my best instrument) I clutched Mum's arm a-tremble with excitement and asked if I could swop the cupboards' contents around tomorrow? I can, yippee.:j

mrs-moneypenny

Well done GQ what a brilliant thing to find the key after all these years.

Had a lovely Christmas, toiletries food and drink wool and crafting things which will all eventually be used eaten or drunk, absolute best and most unexpected gift was when all the kiddies clubbed together to give us a hamper with various items of food and drink treats a shopping bag with a photo printed on and a pair of tickets to see KISS the whoo is definitely hooing we saw them about 10 years ago and it was rather brilliant so the memories of that occasion will benift from a top up.

Normal kondoing will be resumed in the new year, which I hope is lovely for everyone.

luxor4t

GreyQueen wrote: »

:..........Playing the fool (always my best instrument) I clutched Mum's arm a-tremble with excitement and asked if I could swop the cupboards' contents around tomorrow? I can, yippee.:j

:j I was going to start my new book tomorrow, but I shall postpone it and do good deeds instead, in anticipation of reading your adventures later on

GreyQueen

luxor4t wrote: »

:j I was going to start my new book tomorrow, but I shall postpone it and do good deeds instead, in anticipation of reading your adventures later on

Don't let me delay reading a new book, you've time to do that and follow the kondo-fever here.. As a wee taster, I shall drop a hint; if you need to know who bought all the pie-fillings but didn't make the pies....... :rotfl:

Mum being Mum, there's bound to be something slightly insane, either in the pannage and casserolage of the kitchen sideboard, or the food contents of the other one. I can hardly wait until tomorrow and think I shall go down and peek now (have been told I can't start until tomorrow but I have had a chunk of the sitting-room at sixes and sevens for hours already - all put away tidily now).

Cover me, ladies, I'm going in!:j

mrs-moneypenny

Re food I have an embarrassing admission to make ds2s gf stayed over last night (on the settee) Dh was telling to help herself to what ever she wanted for breakfast so she started making a sachet of microwaveable porridge Dh went in and she was in the kitchen studying the box she asked him if he thought it would still be ok - it being the best before 2013 porridge sachets we've got 5 boxes of in the cereal cupboard. I thought it was a while since anyone had eaten porridge here. The birds will be having oatcakes made fr them in the next couple of weeks to use it all up.

mothernerd

Many congratulations on the key GQ.