KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GoingToDoIt

A productive day - I finally got around to tackling my bedroom, which I've been itching to do for a few weeks now. Because things were not stored well, they were starting to pile up. I have a wardrobe and two ottomans (ottoman? Ottomii?) I only wanted one but they came as a pair, then inevitably got filled up. I use one as a bench for my dressing table.
Anyway I have thanked and exited two pairs of shoes, two handbags, plus for the chazzer a pair of boots, three books, a cd, a DVD. Also I have intentions to offer up a DVD and a pair of shoes to relatives who might like them. I also filled the ragbag and a small clothes recycle bag (cheap items no use to chazzer).
I've re-arranged storage with shoes at the top of the wardrobe and books at the bottom.It makes more sense as the shoes are now in my eyeline. The books (around 30) are re-read and each has special meaning attached however I don't need to see them every day! So it feels a bit wrong but I'll try it and see how it works for me.
I've dug up my purse of holiday money to take to the forex coin machine, except for Euros as you always need those. I doubt they will be worth much, but they might die in storage otherwise, so off they go, back to their country of origin I guess.
Last week I cleaned out my cupboard, and listed some items on the bay, one has just sold for £10.

In summary- stuff out, money in

GreyQueen

:T Nice one, hun.

I was laughing at myself a couple of hours ago. Had taken two garments down off my hanging rail, one jacket and one dress. The dress was a F@tF@ce one which I'd bought from the Everything 50p chazzer and was going to slim into. Well, I am nearly slim enough to wear it without looking like an over-stuffed sausage in a too-tight sausage skin but I'd tried it and decided the style wasn't really me.

I'd been seduced by that bargainous price, y'see.:o

S'OK, I thought, it's a decent brand, nice nick, can sell it at the bootsale. Was folding it into the bag and noticed that there was a 2-inch wide hole in the back. Seriously, I had laundered, ironed and tried on this garment, how the flip had I missed seeing this before?! So glad I didn't show myself up by offering it for sale or putting it in the chazzer donation bag.

It's now in the textile recycling bag - I could mend this hole but it's very large and very prominent and the wearer would look like they hadn't a penny to bless themselves with, so I'm ragging it.

Sheesh, what a waste of time owning that garment was, can't believe I did that.:rotfl:

PollyWollyDoodle

GoingToDoIt surely more than one ottoman must be expressed as ottomen? :rotfl:

Charis

I know some of us are fans of the Minimalists. I think you might like this fairly new video of Joshua Fields Millburn being interviewed by Lewis Howes. I found it really inspiring and worth making notes on, if that is your thing (it is mine). It's not so much about the 'how' as about the 'why'. What difference will it make in your life? His defininition of minimalism is reassuringly not living like a monk in a cell. It's quite a long interview but worth sticking with it until the end. He has some memorable insights. Joshua seems to radiate the life he describes as he answers some thought provoking questions about what motivates him to live with less.

GreyQueen

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

GoingToDoIt surely more than one ottoman must be expressed as ottomen? :rotfl:

Love it!

But it begs the question of grammatical correctness; there was an Ottoman Empire, not an Ottamen Empire, which is surely more logical.

Easing into the day ahead of the family visiting. We are going to shuffle some Stuff from their home and garden to my home and allotment.

Incoming;

Nan's standard lamp (minus shade).
2 wire gardening baskets
a pitchfork
a broken-and-mended ceramic planter
2 duvets
shopping bag of small garden misc inc seeds
a bag of tapestry wool

Outgoing

a handknit blanket
2 bags of misc and one of clothes (booter-bound in April)
3 big tins of pink salmon
1 Mystery Object (sports accessory) - booter.
another, smaller Mystery Object (reproduction of a famous artwork) - booter.

The standard lamp is replacing the £10-type uplighter in my sitting room, one which I wombled. That may move into bedroom where I have no lamp or may move into the dump - it's plaster-weighted base is wrapped in clingfilm to keep the crumbling plaster from falling out.

One duvet is feather and totally unused. I will road-test it and if satisfactory, it will replace my knackered down duvet. The other duvet is hollowfill and will be freegled.

The wire baskets, pitchfork and gardening tools are heading allotmentwards. I will burn a very knackered 1950s shopping basket I have been using up there in my next bonfire to make a space for them.

The planter is a broken-and-glued together one from my parents' patio, and will join a similar one on my allotment patio. I was going to bring a nice ceramic planter from my Nan's then thought it would be a temptation to thieves and, as the parents had this damaged one already, how about swopsies? They thought it a good idea.

I have also emptied a partially broken plastic planter up there yesterday and that will go to the tip.

The tapestry wool came out of the loft last visit and is to be offered to a pal for her projects - she's been asked ahead of time if she'd like it and said she would.

Sooo, mega-shuffle but, once things have been sorted out, not too much net gain of Stuff either here or on my allotment.

Pooky

Having had lots of luck on the local FB sites and the bay of E this week, I've found s whole lot more stuff to go. Currently awaiting a "Bayer" who won and wanted to collect at 8.15 this morning on the way to work. Even had a courtesy call to say he's on his way....why aren't all people so thoughtful?

I've destashed my wool stash and been very realistic about what I will use. After GQ and Kittie mentioning about what can be used in a lifetime I realised there's stuff that even with 3 lifetimes, I'd rather go buy something else to use. A lot of this wool came from job lot purchases so I've used my monies worth. I've got a big sturdy bag that 2 pillows came in, stuffed to the point of not being able to do it up, full of the stuff I won't need, I'll offer it up as a job lot for a small sum that will go towards my new bathroom.

grunnie

I destashed my wool stash a week ago . First I offered it to some pals and some of the wool went. Then I took it to the women's guild coffee morning and just over half went and the rest went off to a charity shop. :j
I have just finished crocheting a blanket except for the border and when that is finished I will make 2 cushion covers to match with the remaining wool.
I had a tidy out of my wardrobe yesterday. Checked to see what I had for the summer as I am having a week in London. Did the same as I did when I started nearly a year and a half ago. Dumped all my clothes on the bed and what gave me joy went back in the wardrobe. Two small bags of clothes to the CS. Success!

GoingToDoIt

Just a line to say I meant to type "ottomEn" in the brackets! I need to Kondo autocorrect

In any case I have two; the aim is to reduce to one, and flog one, in future.

Igamogam

Made good in-roads into the study/office yesterday - spot!fy on shuffle and loud helped:) I managed to burn a lot of paper based stuff, recycle some bits. Got a box of things to take to work and a bag filling up for CS run next week. Also a box of stuff to sell and a couple of things have gone on fr**gle. Did get me thinking that we probably only have so much IT stuff/paperwork/work related stuff/books/photos and a general collection of life detritus because we have the luxury of a room we can use as an office. I need a work space as I bring work home. OH just likes to be able to use PC and play his music out of the way of the general traffic, but really we have just filled the available space

Anyway I can see most of the floor now. OH has a pile of his extreme sport gear in one corner and that really needs a good going through but its his domain and he has a pile of paperwork that I could probably deal with but on principle I am not....maybe now I have cleared what is considered my 'junk' he will see that this clutter has not always been a one sided thing :mad:

Today I intend to finish the office of what I can with a vacuum dust and de web. OH's detritus will really stand out then! Then I am going to tackle the porch,give the kitchen its weekly deep clean whilst listening to The Archers - guaranteed not to be disturbed and put the lamb on for it 7.5 hours slow cook - yum!

If I finish the day with a massive Eb*y hit........ I will be on track

Igamogam

Pooky wrote: »

Having had lots of luck on the local FB sites and the bay of E this week

I am hoping for the same.........and wanting a new bathroom;)