KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Karmacat

Anything BIG you need to get rid of Karmacat! I occasionally give stuff to my brother to take to the tip if he comes over in the van - anything I can't deconstruct enough to fit in the boot of my car.

Absolutely, anything big, that takes priority – thats why I'm focussing mostly on the laurel, because there's so much of it. And it all needs to be done quickly – my brother lives up on Merseyside, and we've only hired a van because of the amount of stuff my sister needs to bring back from her French house, which will be sold by this time next month. So this is very much a one-off
Future branches: they'll go into the incinerator, tiny little thing I just bought off Amazon for £12, but it will just be the keeping-up-to-date stuff after this

greenbee

Use the 'barbecue' as a firepit (which it looks like) until it wears through. And as long as you're not cooking on it you can burn your garden rubbish and have a nice warm fire in the evening while sitting in your newly tidied garden with a drink

Fen1

Thank you for all the advice on racking. I don't live near a Costco, unfortunately.

This afternoon will be spent measuring in the freezing cold garage. Such fun!

Tibawo, does your daughter have any other friends apart from this user? Perhaps she is stuck with this girl because there is no else?

Karmacat

Hi Greenbee! I answered your first post today separately - thanks for posting again, we may have crossposted and you missed that I'd followed up on your input.

The bbq thing could well be used as a firepit, couldn't it - thing is, it *has* worn through, the body looks hollow and there's sort of straw (it can't be straw, but thats what it looks like) coming out of the body. I think it might be quite dangerous to have a fire in it now .... _pale_

I'll certainly keep the grill-type thing that goes over the top, that could be quite handy for a rocket stove built of bricks or something

GreyQueen

:eek: Karmakat, that 'straw' isn't possibly asbestos by any chance?!

Taking a few mins at home having had a lovely walk to and fro the lottie, done some work and even *evil cackle* had a small bonfire. I have also placed eight semi-rotten old fenceposts which were removed from the fenceline due to being rotten, and stacked them into a wig-wam to get nice and dry. I'll burn them in March (I think) just before the six-month burn ban kicks in.

Beautiful day here, bitterly cold, iron frost and flawless sunny sky. I shall go out again in a few minutes, to take a donation bag to a chazzer which is open for a few hours on a Sunday. Will also take the mobile phone and printer cartridge, as the chazzer that takes those is sometimes open on a Sunday, too.

Plus three batteries are now in the recycling tub at the supermarket. Every little helps, as said the feler who p'd in the sea.;)

Siebrie

Dh's old study books are in the attic, space in cubbyhole is taken by the two shoeboxes with maps and touristy information, and some dictionaries. Reorganisation of this cabinet means that I still have one empty cubbyhole!

DH has sorted through his things in the study (the discussion seems to have worked), and now the b1lly shelving unit is half empty, the printer has been put on one of the shelves, and the little tv stand on wheels that housed the printer, could be taken out of the study. DH is on his way to a friend's house to drop off tv stand and cd cabinet. I did have to pay attention, because he would put everything he didn't understand on the 'discard' pile, including several manuals and the warranty certificate for our heating system (aaargh!).

To reward ourselves we just had a family walk in gorgeous weather, and I will bake a cake with dds.

ETA: the cubbyhole now holds my mending and sewing kit and items to mend, behind a closed door; it has cluttered the landing window sill until today

GoingToDoIt

Gentle hugs to all who need or want them.
I've got my "Kondo flow" back and resorted the kitchen cupboards. The paint/tools category was all spread out, duplicate Allen keys recycled and useful grumble (spare fuse, rail plugs etc) re-bagged and moved to a drawer together with screwdrivers and tape measure. Paint tin collection and hammer, sander etc have been stacked neatly in a "hard to reach" cupboard. The "easy to reach" bitin front is now home to my mixing bowl, ceramic dish and bun tin, all easily accessible. Small pans on the shelf above, large pans in a different cupboard.:A

My consignment of 3x24 toilet rolls just arrived....they would fit nicely in my cupboard which is full of photos and mementos, a category I have not quite finished or revisited as yet. So for now I might be living with it stacked in my bedroom. It's a good job I don't get many visitors isn't it:rotfl::

littlegreenparrot

Karmacat That barbeque pot is lovely.

I'd line it with plastic and plant it up with something pretty.

Or line it, pop some pebbles in the bottom and create a little birdbath.

Igamogam

Been away a week from MSE and the thread has moved on soooo quickly. Wish I had time to catch up but RL and WL just sapping my time ATM A steady filling of a carrier bag over the week which I dropped off at CS - I promptly bought 6 books for work though and they have stayed in the boot ready to take tomorrow! One of the things I took to the CS was a child's lift out jigsaw my DDs had - baring in mind one is now a post grad and the other is an under grad :eek: It had a piece missing but I knew the other piece was in the house and during the week it turned up in a little wooden set of drawers from the Scandi Furniture Shop, that sits on book shelf in office with all sorts of 'interesting' but ultimately just detritus, in its cute drawers. I felt vindicated that I had hung on to the jigsaw as it didnt take up space rather than just bin it! Anyway its gone now

Siebrie

OS_QS wrote: »

Siebrie....sorry I couldn't get past the fact you said your husband wanted to go to IKEA....I have to petition mine for months, then have to do a mad dash round it before he gets annoyed!! It's like supermarket sweep!! Regardless you are totally correct, how can you consider storage when you've not completed clearing out....you may not need any there's no point making headway if it's in the wrong direction

You seem to be getting on great guns, it's really pleasing when you realise that everything is (getting!) where it should be.

It's worse.... DH would gladly get rid of all the antique furniture I collected over the years and replace them with 1kea.. Even the four door art deco (burl?) walnut wardrobe that we were given is not appreciated, because it does not hold all his clothes; he already has more than half of it, and I try to persuade him that 25 pairs of jeans is maybe too many I've even labelled the shelves with which item is kept there, but he still goes through all the piles to look for a certain item, and puts it all back where he sees space, not where it is supposed to be kept. It's frustrating, but it's also his part of the wardrobe, so I just close the door and do not bother


On a more cheerful note: one dishrag and one towel for ragging.