KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

I am still gathering junk in some hotspots but all the drawers, cupboards and shelves have remained clear and ordered. I know where everything is in my house and I love it!

For me, that is the absolutely best thing about an ordered household. I loathe flailing around trying to find things.

Particularly when it's a tool/ implement needed to do something else. The actual job will take 5 mins once you can find whatever it is you need to do the job. If you have to spent 30 mins searching for something, chances are you'll run out of time/ grow too exasperated/ lose the can-do mood. And whatever-it-was stays undone. Well, that's me and everyone else I've ever noticed is pretty much the same.

Multiply that across the weeks, years, a whole lifetime, and you have a lot of wasted and unproductive time.

I'm perfectly fine with unproductive time if it's doing something I want to do, like internetting, or reading a book, but I can't abide grubbling around in carp trying to find stuff to do stuff.

Been out and about running a couple of errands and have dropped into a couple of shops where I know the proprietors for a natter. Have now come home, made a batch of bread rolls and a cuppa, which I will enjoy before heading to the reclamation yard (useful junk central) where I will buy a fence post for my allotment.

Oh, and one of my shopkeeper pals has promised me some pig netting sections from home, to incorporate it the allotment fences. I call 'em Trigger's Fences because, like Trigger's broom, they have been made and remade over the years from whatever I can drop my hands on.

I have a proper allotment - all repurposed stuff.:rotfl:

Igamogam

silvasava wrote: »

Had a small joyful moment today -I bought so emushrooms to make soup and some more of my knickers have been Kondoed in to the container - small things

I read that as you had made soup from mushrooms and knickers:rotfl::rotfl: The down fall of skim reading to catch up:D

wort

Greenbee I hope you get to spend time with your dad, as I found that is a regret I had. Remember memories are kept forever, they won't be kondoed.

I wish the people at work were more tidy and put back things they've used. As grey queen says there's nothing worse than looking for the stuff you need to do a job.

I need to go out later to buy a couple of bday pressies. One is for dgs and so will probably be in toy shop! It's so difficult when birthdays come right after Xmas.
The weather is windy but not too wet ,though we did have a quick downpour of hail :eek:
Have a good weekend all .x

Igamogam

Very quick catch up today Weather half decent - cold but dry and the garden beckons - its been a long old not-quite-winter and a few things need attention.

Cling film: bought one roll. Hated using it. Never bought again!

Committees: have now got it down to one which I still enjoy giving my time and contribution to.I too am treasurer for tat but its all done on line and makes life soooo much simpler I will have been involved with this committee for 25 years later this year and I always said I would finish when I hit this milestone........and I think I probably will at the next AGM:)

Previous occupants possessions in loft: an accordion, a cast iron oven door, scientific instruments, music rolls for a pianola ( how weird as we have a pianola ourselves!) a mandolin in its case with A beginners guide to playing marked 2'/6d and parts of a large weaving loom We told the previous occupants they had left stuff but as they had never been in the loft they suggested is was previous owner to them. Now we happened to know who that was so let them know we had all this and they said - "that was all there when we moved in!" Guess what ....we knew previous owner to them too as they still lived in the village but he claimed no knowledge and in fact hadn't realised there was such a large space behind the room ( loft is accessed through a small door in wall of an attic bedroom. The door not 'being there' when he lived in the house) but we knew where the previous owners to him were...........in the village churchyard:o So we kept the rolls and the mandolin. Gave the accordion to an enthusiastic friend. The mandolin has been used and we are debating whether to display on wall or sell now - DD2 did teach herself to play using old book but is not interested in it. The oven door is now a decorative feature in the house. The loom parts were given to a weaving hobbyist friend and we sold the scientific instruments...........we felt we had done our best to reunite it all with the owners:rotfl:

PollyWollyDoodle

Haha I love that you know where all the previous occupants are, including the deceased ones! That sounds like a real treasure trove.

mrs-moneypenny

In childhood homes things I recal us finding were, a bone handled carving knife set on top of a kitchen cupboard.
A family bible tucked behind the airing cupboard my mum found and started to read, she was then convinced it was haunted as she starting hearing strange things in the night after reading it. It upset her so she got rid of it. I still think it should have been put safely back where it was found. I thought it was fascinating.
A really old children's wooden spinning top that appeared in the debris when a ceiling collapsed in a very old bake house we lived in. In that house there was also a glass display cabinet filled with blown birds eggs in a room above the unsafe ceiling so we weren't supposed to go in there but did - probably why the ceiling collapsed!!!!
The bird eggs always made me feel incredibly and as a child but I loved the bible and the spinning top.

tibawo

Woke up and still in a productive mood. Part of yesterday was spent re homing things into more logical places. I was also sorting through some work papers and putting them away properly, therapeutic but one of those jobs that look like you have not done anything!


The weather is not fab today so I am hoping to carry on. One of jobs is to take some stuff up to the tip. I have decided to have a car boot at the one where it is only a fiver, anything left will go straight to the tip. Least that way i feel i have tried to get some money towards my bills from my wasteful spending!


It is a weird but liberating feeling to get rid of things I have hung onto just because one day i might need them. In the cupboard i have more than 12 wine glasses... I keep them just in case one breaks. they are the bog standard ones you get everywhere. There are three people in our house!


Although not perfectly tidy I can see a big difference in the amount of clutter that also used to haunt us. I think the mantra of 'do you really need this?' is starting to work with the 'does this bring you joy?' or 'will it bring you joy?'


I am also chuckling as DD2 is playing with Lego as the kids know when I am on a mission will now and again blitz their rooms and get rid of things they don't play with. Yesterday she had her doll box out. Think she is worried!

GreyQueen

Morning all.

Well, I stayed offline this morning and cracked on with some of the to-do stuff which was littering the home.

Within 30 mins, I'd re-elasticed a pair of trousers and mended a bag strap, which brings both of those items back into use.

Then I sat down with my personal accounts, which I keep for my own amusement, and caught up with the last 3 months of 2015. Did some filing, and some personal administration, inc chucking some stuff out, so all up-to-date.

We control freaks like to be up-to-date, it makes us joyful.;)

Going out to post a letter and run a couple of errands in a while, otherwise will get cabin fever.

Igamogam

Large bag of books and some odd things to CS yesterday - came ut with a paperback but that will be read and returned at some point. Adding 25 to my tally

OH has just come and asked me for a bowl that I long since kondoed - it didnt match anything we had in shape size style so was always awkward to store...........apparently this was his 'favourite':mad: Cant tell me to to get rid of stuff and not help and then complain.......:mad: :mad:

Also kondoed 2 pieces of work work that have been hanging over my head for too long - part of the millstone I have mentioned before. I think I have now completed it all but need to check before I am satisfied the entire millstone has been kondoed.......once gone I am going to feel so much better and with the traditional week ( Feb half term) for me to do a deep spring clean fast approaching it will mean I wont feel guilty about putting 98% of the time into the house

Slinky

Greenbee, sorry about your Dad.

Some small progress has been made here, OH asked me how I wanted the towels folded, then folded and stored them as requested! He has also given me permission to throw away some old logod shirts from a company he no longer works for. Previously these would have been 'decorating' shirts (heaven knows we don't decorate that often!).

If you recall I was investigating irons last weekend. The new one turned up on Friday and I was reading the instructions today, and discovered my existing iron (whose instructions I probably never read.........) had a slider I hadn't spotted. Made a change to the position of the slider and it's no longer spitting out gallons of water. So the new iron (whose cord is really a bit too short) will be going back 'up the river' next week and I'm £43 back to the good.