KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Slinky

Love butternut squash. Didn't even occur to me that we could grow it in the UK. May have a go if I can get a decent sized squash - the ones in Mr T yesterday were tiny so left them behind.

I stopped growing runner beans, they were cropping faster than I could pick them to freeze, then had the same issue with french hanging beans. OH likes the idea of growing stuff, but even if he's here (and he works away from home a lot), it's always me that ends up dealing with the crops, and I get cross throwing stuff away as it's got too big and poddy.

Can't grow broad beans, I was in the middle of dealing with an overcrop issue when Dad died, so they bring back traumatic memories. We just binned the whole lot at the time as you can imagine.

Probably going to grow onions again this year and see how the strawberries and raspberries crop. Hopefully the rhubarb has been hiding under it's dung mountain ready to spring into life soon.

mrs-moneypenny

My fil used to grow runner beans and always had too many. The kids used to call them grandpas squeaky beans, because of the squeak you get when eating.
I grow them now and always think of him when picking them and they are still called squeaky beans.

Going to kondo a pair of tights as I put my hand through them at work today so have a huge hole.

Floss

I grow 2 or 3 runner bean plants a year on the lottie, purely to make chutney from! I can't stand them, they were a regular in my parents' tiny garden but I never liked them. I do grow French beans, as we eat them from fresh or frozen and they make a fab curry Onions, garlic & shallots are already in, my purple sprouting broccoli will be shaping up for picking soon, and then sowing will start in earnest.

Silvasava chard is ok if picked small - the bigger the leaf, the more bitter it can get. Why not try a few dwarf French beans? You can get yellow or purple podded varieties which look fab (but the purple goes a dirty green on cooking!).

GreyQueen

Evening all.

Been busy since came in from work and have vacuumed thru inc the tops of the walls where the cobwebs seemt to have appeared all of a sudden.

Finished one of the book stash today and have started another, one I think my mother might enjoy after I've read it; she can have first dibs.

In the past 24 hrs I have kondo'd two duvets, a worn-out cotton hankie and several magazines.

I have also accidentally kondo'd Arachne. I hadn't seen her hanging out alongside the plug and wasn't expecting her to have crawled inside one of my marigold gloves. Put them on, standing over a bowl of hot sudsy dishwater, and suddenly there's a largish spider trying to crawl up my shirtsleeve.:eek:

Gah - not a happy circumstance for an arachnophobe. I screamed, flailed a bit and she disappeared, I assumed towards the floor.

Only, when I emptied out the dishwater through the old sieve I keep to spare carp going down the plughole, there she was in a scrunch and very dead.

Not so much swimming wiv da fishes as swimming wiv the dishes. That's the first and last time I'm going to make a pet of a spider, I feel as if I've murdered her but it was an accident, I would have fished her out if I'd known she'd landed in the drink.

Ach well, these things happen.

spendinglikemad

Going to join you guys on this thread - Grey Queen love your piccie!!

Tidying a lot and ebaying stuff at the moment hopefully getting ready for a house move and planning allotment planting for the year !!! Tying to save as much money as possible by sticking to meal plan and not buying extra stuff!!

So nice to get rid of a few boxes of stuff no longer required - quiche for tea and spuds in oven with some salad

SLM

Siebrie

We received a bagful of dressing-up clothes, have tried all of them on, passed two clearly boy's dress-up sets to our guest for his little son, put three in the mending pile. Four sets are now left, and dd2 picked out one for carnival on Friday. Dd1 is also sorted, hurray! And my parents will be here to see the carnival tour of the village's schools.

I need to start packing for our week in England from Saturday, but instead I am here.... what did Mari say about procrastination?

silvasava

Floss - Thanks for the advice on Chard - perhaps I'll have another think! I do grow French beans from time to time but as I've got limited space runners are more practical as they crop so heavily and i pick every day while they're young.

Floss

silvasava wrote: »

Floss - Thanks for the advice on Chard - perhaps I'll have another think! I do grow French beans from time to time but as I've got limited space runners are more practical as they crop so heavily and i pick every day while they're young.

If you keep picking French beans, they will keep cropping!

GreenBitterfly

Yesterday, I kondoed three bags of food and toiletries down to the Food Bank, they were very grateful, as their stock levels are low. I even got a handshake from the lady volunteering there after she'd chatted to me about how busy they'd been (210 referrals since January)

I also realised I've kondoed some odds and ends that have been sat around in drawers by listing them on eBay, like CD singles (some that never came with a case) that have been sitting around waiting to be listed. Whether they'll actually sell or not is another matter!

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Got an aching hand and arm today, my right arm, the one that I used for the hard work of fretsawing rusty bolts. I suppose I did the opposite of kondo yesterday but I have a wall greenhouse with polycarbonate panels and I have a pack of new polycarbonate panels, safe but high in the garage. Two panels were yellow and dark and manky so I replaced them, a job that I thought would take 2 hours but took me five. Doh, should have taken photos before I took the aluminium edges off. You can guess, I put 4 out of 5 back on the wrong way around and the many short bolts were very hard to screw on. It would have been easier if my arms were not short. Anyway job done and is good, so I suppose I kondo`ed in that I now feel joy. Kondo has come into its own though, I could easily find every tool that I needed

Nothing else forseen today except the postoffice as I have sold another quality book.:D

I love runner beans, well I do now that I discovered the little shredder device. I grow one called moonlight and they are lovely with no strings. I used to hate frozen beans but am enjoying this variety frozen, also very good kondo`ed in a veg soup or in the veg layer if I cook a full meal in my rice cooker. Only 6 plants for me but enough for the year. Broad beans too, love them, got the sutton and just throw a few into a soup, then whizz. I will have more parsnips in the freezer next year, am having great success partly roasted and then frozen. I have turned more of my allotment over to flowers, gorgeous flowers to cut for home and friends, carnations, dahlias, alstoemeris and lots of roses spreading happiness is good

I digress, see how the mind wonders. Much kefir is transformed into space in my freezer, large cubes of it as I had a glut, so kondo`ed into a form that gives joy. Today I must rest, I cannot be bashing my joints without consequences and I must find a podiatrist as I see arthritic joints developing in one foot