KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Karmacat

Maddie, that sounds incredibly stressful - I'm glad its gone so well.

I'm having a bit of trouble doing anything until the last ten minutes - too many finance things needing doing on the computer, when I'd much rather be outside weeding the garden. That's for later, anyway.

Floss

kittie wrote: »

....Frogeltina, I have a bil, supposed to have been very close to my husband, he never came back from his very long holiday in nz, he goes often and stays with family. Never came to the funeral and never been in touch with me, not once in two years. I have not kept any photo with him in it, he has gone as far as I am concerned. I feel he let his brother down very badly. His own two adult children from his second marriage, divorced a long time ago, never communicate with him and his third relationship is a friend with benefits relationship

Karmacat wrote: »

... I feel your pain in that, and my sister's inlaws are very similar. I've kept photos of them strictly with the historical research - for the sake of genealogists in 200 years time rather than any fellow feeling.

I have two cousins both with children, and an uncle, husband of my mums only sibling. My dad & my auntie both died before my mum, but after my mum died in 2005 it was as if he thought there was no family connection any longer, so when his middle son (our cousin) died in 2009, we found out a couple of months later, through a chance conversation with an aunt on my dads side who had seen the obituary and commented to eldest brother on how sad it was. We still haven't been told by his family that he has died

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I need to get finished, I want to get outside, got work to do on the allotment and need to go on a short cycle ride but me, being capricorn, I am tenacious about finishing a poject. Suppose it is a good thing. MK has enabled me to actually combine clothes from my wardrobe eg the skirt and different top today and now a nice chunky cardi on top. This time last week it was same old, same old, jumper and (too) casual cheapo trousers. It has actually uplifted me, quite a lot

Another four skirts done today but three were hard to do and all four were lined in one way or another, it took me the whole day and a constantly set up steam iron. I have two more left to do and one difficult dress. If I had thought about the work ahead I might have not started but I deliberately didn`t look ahead as nibbling works best and then it eventually gets done. I`ll sleep well again tonight, always do after relaxing crafting

I am so glad he is out of the woods maddie

oh floss, that is awful. Just got to get on, haven`t we

wort

Thank you Maryb, saving dosh, and Floss will give those a try! Saves reading backwards!
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PollyWollyDoodle

Kittie, I'm in awe - I can sew and I could turn up a hem but the thought of unpicking waistbands etc has me shuddering - and you've done it on so many! Well done - it's great that you're enjoying the fruits of your labours already.

silvasava

Hang out the flags!!!! I've just done the first cull of the photos and two bin bags gone! We're going to to a family anniversary next weekend so some of the photos will be distributed among family members. I've still got some of MiL's albums to sort but I've broken the back of it.
Floss - families!!! DH wasn't told when his stepfather died & we're only 30 miles away Stepdad had re- married & DH wasn't in touch but he would have attended the funeral

Frogletina

Karmacat wrote: »

Is there anybody in the family who does family tree research that you could give them to? They might know who they are, as well.

I have one picture of a particular great great grandfather of mine, born in 1835 - he's on a choir outing on a charabanc in 1910, and even though its only a photocopy (from a researcher in Kansas, believe it or not!) its very precious, and I've taken a very high-res scan


Older photographs (like the one of my g'g'grandfather above) I've put with the family history research. For my grandparents onwards, they're in decades - and that's been interesting in itself, it looks like during 1935 they started to have a bit more money, and they used it on a camping holiday and a camera.

Thanks Karmacat and everyone who has commented regarding my photographs

I am the one in the family who is trying to do the family tree as my dad died when I was 8 and my mother when I was in my early thirties. My mother noted a lot of names on the photographs but not all of them, and I am still trying to identify where some of the people fit in the family tree. I haven't yet decided how to produce a record of this when it is completed.

My dad was a photographer and I have inherited a lot of his photographs as well as some photograph albums. I know who most of the people are from my childhood upwards, but I need to start labeling some of those or my children will have a problem too.

I've a lot of photos in a large album with slip in pages - each page holds 6 6x4 photos but some of them are quite small, and I've also enlarged photos to deal with.

Having them in this album, although sorted in chronological order, is not the same as having them displayed properly in smaller albums with notes saying who they are.

I held some of the wedding photos today and I was amazed how easy it was to tell which ones sparked joy.

It's going to take me a while to deal with this category - I even have some slides (but no slide viewer) and as some of these were of me, my brother and my mum taken by my dad, they are very precious. I need to view them, and see how I can get the best ones printed out. It is years since I saw them properly.

frogletina

Siebrie

Very interesting read about all the photographs. I used to take many and keep them all, until I realised that I don't actually look at them anymore, and that putting them in albums was a chooooooore! I decided to buy a small album wherever I was on vacation (lots of group vacations -I was single until 35), that would hold about 20 pictures, and that that would be my memory of the trip. Immediate culling, and nice albums (think bananaleaf, sari, etc.) that store easily. I have delegated the task of making albums for my dds to my parents, who have the time to have pictures developed and pick them up. They bring over a few pictures everytime we / they visit and we put them in their slide-in albums. All pictures are dated and described on the back.

Pooky

Frogletina wrote: »

Thanks Karmacat and everyone who has commented regarding my photographs

It's going to take me a while to deal with this category - I even have some slides (but no slide viewer) and as some of these were of me, my brother and my mum taken by my dad, they are very precious. I need to view them, and see how I can get the best ones printed out. It is years since I saw them properly.

frogletina

You can get slide and negative readers that plug into your pc now. Makes it much easier to then save the photos and print those that you want to.

Mara_uk7

Frogletina wrote: »

Thanks Karmacat and everyone who has commented regarding my photographs

I am the one in the family who is trying to do the family tree as my dad died when I was 8 and my mother when I was in my early thirties. My mother noted a lot of names on the photographs but not all of them, and I am still trying to identify where some of the people fit in the family tree. I haven't yet decided how to produce a record of this when it is completed


frogletina

Hi Frogletina, I use a website called Tribal Pages to store and update our family tree, you can add photos, and give a password to any family members who want to see it. You can ( if you really trust someone, gve them admin rights to add or update info ... I dont yet, too much of a control freak ....... but get info by email, check it out, then add it myself) It costs around £15 a year to maintain it, but it means its available to the wdely scattered family instead of sendng bits to various branches.