KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

silvasava wrote: »

Polly - your Nan loved you and wouldn't want you to injure yourself on her knife - so thank it for its sterling service and let it go.
My very unjoyful dining room suite will be going in the next couple of months TBH i can't wait! Had a LBM too - I was going to buy a dresser that would fit into an alcove but have realised that as I get more Kondoing done I'm not going g to need one! Woohoo!

:T Isn't that the best feeling, not needing a whole piece of furniture?! Excellent work. I love spaces more than things to put in them.

greenbee, I'm not on commission but I do get my lunch bought for me once a week and, if I can any find dust bunnies, I'm allowed to keep them.:rotfl:

28 rows left on the WIP rug, each row 90 knots wide. Gonna sit down and do some counting of yarn to make sure I use as much as possible of colours which are nearly used up, so I tidy up the overall rug yarn and minimise stuff on the premises.

You can call me a (rug) hooker if you like......... ;)

silvasava

Haha GQ - many years ago as a single mum I'd bought a second hand cooker - perfectly preserved under a layer of grease! Took me a week to clean it - my DS1 in front of my parents told me what a lovely scrubber I was.My dad's face was a picture!

Siebrie

Last night and tonight I brought out a box full of electrical and computer equipment for dh to sort. The boxes had been put in front of him before, but he pleaded tiredness, three weeks in a row. So, yesterday I decided to make it easier for him: I held up every single tangled piece of wire, every weird plug, every bit I could not name, 3 dead iphones, seven remote controls, and he had three options: throw, keep, mother country. I am so happy about the space in the office!

Frogletina

Clothes category completed today! I was dreading doing this category but it was fine. Took two or three days once I'd started.

5 dresses have been transferred to sentimental, and the ones that don't spark joy are still here waiting disposal.

My bedroom has a slim chest of drawers which holds my underwear, tights, leggings and nightwear. I also have a half height wardrobe where I've hung all of my tops, skirts and cardigans/jumpers. I have actually got three half height wardrobes with rails, but I've used one as a linen cupboard, and the third I will use for storage. I've put my suitcases in there now but will add other items as I go through different categories.

I now have my dresses and shoes in the same wardrobe in my spare bedroom - they weren't in the same room before!

Also coats and jackets in an adjacent wardrobe which is less wide and now has my winter hats and scarves at the bottom of that - again, previously they weren't in the same room either.

A chest of drawers in there holds the holiday clothes and swimsuits, plus other items not needed on a daily basis.

Unfortunately I cannot keep all of my hanging clothes in one bedroom as my apartment is a penthouse with built in wardrobes and my bedroom, which is the bigger one, only has half height wardrobes built into the sloping roof.

frogletina

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electronics is daunting siebrie, only yesterday I was hunting high and low for a charging adapter for my labeller. Yes, typical, it was one of the few that did not have a label on it. I tend to put electronics into zip lock bags when I can, they can get so jumbled. I am getting my labeller out today, so much more effective than a pen, except for the RU boxes, that are see through, I tape a paper hand written label on the inside.

Had a good clean and vacuum in the garage yesterday, it has a soft spongy jig saw foam floor, so feels nice. I can see the end now, moved loads, all my masses of carving wood is now stacked horizontally on existing wide chrome shelves on a rack. These racks were expensive but the shelves can be moved and they will be fought over when I pop my clogs. Last rack is arriving today, 46 cm square and 2m tall. The boxes are ready to load and suddenly I do see an end. Yesterday in the shed, I moved a 50 cm led strip, solar powered via a leisure battery, moved to the side of where I will be carving, when I carve in the shed. One 1m led strip at each end already, all switched separately and works so well and brightly. The shed now brings me great joy and I know that any existing bulk will start to reduce eg wine, dehydrated foods, soft drinks, flour (lock n lock boxes)

Last session today, will get that rack done and empty the top of my lovely solid garage workbench and this evening will have that small bottle of champagne that I bought for myself for christmas. I never, in a million years, thought I would ever manage to make the garage and shed into two joyous useful workspaces for me. 20 months ago I kept putting off the first phase, I know it was not MK but I had to do this one nibble at a time and now I feel as though I am flying.
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PollyWollyDoodle

Wow, well done Kittie - sounds fabulous and I'm really envious of your work space!

Karmacat

Loving the posts over the last 24 hours

I'm focussing on kondoing in the garden right now - I've been nibbling away at the laurel on the back hedge (metaphorically speaking ) then yesterday and again today it's the broken wooden shed - tell you what, because the roof caved in, there aren't many of those big 8 legged whoozits in there, it's no warmer than outside :eek: So the collapsing roof and the rusty **stuff* and a few traffic cones (delayed adolescence again?) are chucked into my front yard - a week tomorrow, I've got my brother and a 6 metre van turning up to go to the recycling centre.

The kondo bit is the garden, but the chance of a big van going to the tip is too good to miss - so old foam that needs to be gone (20 years old, needs to be properly gone, I'm afraid, not offered on freegle etc), old paint (maybe 15 years old?), that sort of thing.

The house is still in utter uproar, but each room is maybe 20% improved from this time last week, between rearranging and throwing out. Thats a big percentage :j

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Slinky

silvasava wrote: »

Haha GQ - many years ago as a single mum I'd bought a second hand cooker - perfectly preserved under a layer of grease! Took me a week to clean it

Similarly I bought a second hand cooker from a work colleague, sight unseen but described as being in good condition. I went with my Dad to pick it up. It absolutely reeked when we got it into the car.

A week or so later the work colleague and another one came and had a nosy at my new house. I was almost embarrassed about the difference in the state of the cooker, which had taken hours and hours of scrubbing with Brillo pads to remove the grease, but which of course I didn't mention to the previous owner. It didn't look like the same ugly beast that had arrived. I don't think the previous owners realised that you could practically take the cooker apart to clean it, as they obviously never had.

Siebrie

That's wonderful, Kittie! I, too, am looking forward to our home office being easily accessible and actually used by everyone in the household when they need to do admin, homework, or anything that needs concentration. It is a pleasant room, the only one with wall-to-wall carpet, and I would love for it to shine.

Floss

Karmacat wrote: »

....the chance of a big van going to the tip is too good to miss ...

Does your tip allow vans in? Ours doesn't anymore as white van men were dumping their business waste for free.