KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

oceanspirit

MMF007 - enjoy your art class. Look forward to hearing all about it later.

A few more bits of paper left yesterday and many more were put with their categories so will be properly sorted later. Phoned to be removed from three mailing lists so fewer catalogues will be arriving.

Using up food stores gradually and trying new recipes in the process.

Yet more paper to deal with today. Can't wait to get stuck in but need to make a couple of phone calls first.

Have kept a few books that will be read again but most are read and let go. Also have many reference books and I know there is a lot of info available online, some books are much more in depth and I find easier to read than a screen.

Haven't counted but know there are more than 63 - probably between 200 and 300 plus OH has a similar amount so we both need to pare them down more before we move.

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I have been spinning, for days now but it does allow my mind to flow and have decided that I need to start on my utility room. I know it is not a category as such but it is going to have to be the whole room or none of it. It is a separate small room, contains the master radiator and all the eco house gubbins like filters, solar controllers, large tank etc. It has a humidity sensor extracter fan and is superb for drying washing. Contains a toilet, wash basin, shelves over the washing machine. Dehydrator and loads of things that I use but not every day, like jam making equipment. At the moment it contains 15 bags of wood pellet fuel too

This room needs painting, so I start today by first seeing what paint I have, rather than jumping in and ordering without looking. The whole interior is white auro paint, so overpainting is easy as all the white in the house matches. It is my MK training that is encouraging me to look first, normally I would just order x tins. This time when I order, I will get exactly what I need

I am in no hurry but this is the germ of an idea, I am going to do all this myself, really will nibble as I know this is how it will get finished. Maybe april will see it finished. The room is chocka full at the moment, stove cleaning gear, zillions of carrier bags. My aim is to end up with one shelf less, so I will remove the bottom shelf over the machine, undo the supports and fill the holes. I think this will immediately give the room, visual space. I have airing shelves over the rad, from the days when husband was an athlete as he had so many bits to dry, I am finding that I only need the pull out dryer. So I am not doing anything in a hurry, not yet, will have to think more and sleep on it but the room has the potential for a rather big kondo exercise. Maybe today, I will remove that bottom shelf but leave the supports for now, while I live with it, to see if it will work

Karmacat

Siebrie wrote: »

... I feel I am complaining without a reason.... I feel like a grounded eagle.

This resonates with me, especially now that I'm retired. I'm spending weeks and weeks (and will have to spend a lot more) clearing up all the stuff of my own, which I completely ignored so that I could carry on working. I used *all* my energy to work. And here I am, 62 years old, with a garden that looks like a hurricane's been through it (I'm not kidding either) a house with mould in all sorts of places and that needs a lot of remedial work to be safe and secure, and a lot of friendships on dodgy ground because I've ignored people for years. Plus no local friends because I haven't had the energy to go out and make local contacts since I moved here, I got really ill shortly after I moved.

You never get your time back. You can catch up with practicalities, yes, but you never get your time back.

GreyQueen wrote: »

I struggle with the useful as a category. Random tatt, knick-knacks etc just annoy me, so no problems shifting those, but useful stuff? Ahh, that's a whole can of worms.

Yes it is :rotfl: and I have another problem. I have a thing with a gifted knick-knack, actually - a client bought it for me as I was retiring. It's beautiful, very detailed, but it might as well have "client bought it for me" printed on it even though it's so beautiful, I think it's going to have to go.

oceanspirit wrote: »

MMF007 - enjoy your art class. Look forward to hearing all about it later.

Absolutely!

A few more bits of paper left yesterday and many more were put with their categories so will be properly sorted later.

Mine needs to be a list :
- still working on the stuff from the box that got damp some never made it out of the house, and I need to go through that and remove names and addresses.
- some needs to be checked and thrown.
- the probate people need multiple copies of things, and then *I* need to copy the whole bunch and get it out of the house on registered post.
- French accounts to finish, get emailed out and the papers filed in the office.
- current English accounts to be stuck in a box to deal with at year end.
- genealogy papers (letters that my mum wrote during WWII) to be sorted and filed.

At least there are options I have in the house when I get too tired to do the navvying in the garden :eek:

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silvasava

Just in the process of steam cleaning my sitting room carpet to freshen it up. Its also made me think whether to keep the steam cleaner - I've used it so infrequently, its quite cumbersome and takes up room in the understairs cupboard which is not easily accessible. I could borrow DS1's small one instead of my large one or even buy a smaller one!
TBH I could have done the carpet with a bowl of soapy water and a cloth!

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flipping capricorn, I wanted to slow down today but did I heck, once I get an idea then that is it, I start working on it. Emptied the shelves and spent a couple of hours sawing, sanding and putting screws in. Ended up with one shelf narrower on the back for 1/3, so there would be room for a standing charging device. Fits in that space brilliantly, then thought, what would my husband do? So I made a support leg at the front, it is supported on the wall at the back and sides but the front, next to the piece I cut out, needed more stability. Screwed the leg in place using two small brackets. Was so hard to cut that rectangular shape out, cut down ok but took quite a while to cut between the two slots. Kondo is now taking place, starting with one solid lump of washing soda, followed by a single sized induction hob that I haven`t used for years and bits in between

Gotto sit now, all afternoon, I am cream crackered

silvasava

Kittie - what's called a 'snowball' job - Well done you on the start!

GreyQueen

:T Well done, kittie, sounds like you're a bit like me, once I get the bit between my teeth I'm reluctant to stop. Love the sound of your utility room, so wish I had something similar. Envy is a corrosive emotions, GQ, don't succumb to it........... :rotfl:

Re solidified washing soda, I used to have a problem with soda cystals turning into bricks in their packaging, even ones only bought a couple of weeks prior and kept in the warm. What I do now is to decant them immediately on purchase into a 4 pint plastic milk bottle.

This keeps them dry and free-flowing, makes them easy to use (I use them to keep plugholes clean) and means that if there's ever a leak under the sink - and there will be one eventually unless you're very lucky - the powder stays dry.

Actually, I have one of these 4-pinters with soda crystals, one with auto washing powder and one with handwashing powder. All are labelled with a piece of tape stuck just above the handle.

Turfing out my under-sink cupboard is on my to-do list as things seem destined to get into a tangle under there. I reckon it's a lot of different things in a confined space. I'll tackle that in a quiet moment when I have nothing more compelling to do.

Am taking five between coming into work and going out to archery class - in honour of the day we'll be shooting hearts. Hmm, I wonder if I should break out my fluffy cupid's wings or whether that would be OTT?

springdreams

GQ, go on, take the wings .... you know you want to :D

GreyQueen

springdreams wrote: »

GQ, go on, take the wings .... you know you want to :D

They clash a bit with the horns and forked tail, tho.

What is the fashion-forward demi-demon to do?

mrs-moneypenny

Loving the vision of GQ doing archery with a forked tail and horns along with Cupid wings.
Kondoed a lovely lazy day with my mum, went for a mooch round shops and took her out for dinner. My niece loves baking so picked her up a couple of nice boxes of cake mix as a little birthday gift to make while mums looking after her. Saves mum buying it and bros house won't be filled with toys niece doesn't need as she already has loads. I bunged some cash in her card for when she needs/wants something.