KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

silvasava

Looks like we're all on a roll at the moment. Got in last night from my yoga session & DH said not to use the grill on my cooker as it was overheating and the deflector thing is breaking down. I've only had another cooker in the garage for 3 years so now it will be fitted at long last. My old one has given faithful service for the last 23 years and is looking its age as all the enamel has broken down - I'm so happy!!!!

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yey, wd camelot, that is one nice extra space

I wasn`t going to do any MK today but realised that my small breadbin was in a cupboard and containg a 1/4 of a lovingly crafted hm sourdough, put in over a week ago and yes, gone mouldy. I want that nice breadbin out and had to do that MK thing, holding and deciding and my very old masticating cranks era juicer, taking a large space on my worktop, has now gone, together with all the added bits. Heavy and with a long ugly nose and used far too infrequently these last two years because of the cleaning rigmarole. I am replacing it but with a modern and much smaller easy clean, vertical masticating juicer. Look I am facing facts, I used to grow barley grass for juicing and cannot be without the facility, I juice lettuce, cucumber, celery,kale, broccoli and so on but the cleaning was overcoming my juicing desires. I did the research and have ordered one and anyway much cheaper than a modern mobile phone, which I do not have

silvasaver, your happiness is infectious

Slinky

What's the wierdest thing you've ever contemplated keeping for Justin?

We recently missed out on buying a house which had a stairlift in it. Seeing that we could possibly need one one day, and they are expensive to buy and almost impossible to sell for decent money as they are made to measure, we vaguely contemplated keeping it in the garage in case we ever needed to have one installed.

I don't think we would have kept it in the end, and we didn't get the house anyway, but Justin nearly had a stairlift.

What have you contemplated keeping?

kboss2010

Slinky wrote: »

What's the wierdest thing you've ever contemplated keeping for Justin?

We recently missed out on buying a house which had a stairlift in it. Seeing that we could possibly need one one day, and they are expensive to buy and almost impossible to sell for decent money as they are made to measure, we vaguely contemplated keeping it in the garage in case we ever needed to have one installed.

I don't think we would have kept it in the end, and we didn't get the house anyway, but Justin nearly had a stairlift.

What have you contemplated keeping?

Everything from offcuts of butchers block kitchen worktop for chopping boards to childhood board games.

I'm trying to stop hoarding things as I think my hoarding is/was a symptom of poor mental health. So I'm being successively more brutal with each kondo round I do, trying to use up my stockpiles and only replace things that have run out. I'm getting there slowly but there is still probably a lot of stuff I could turf out.

iamsalt

Kboss - I am definitely seeing an improvement in my mums mental health as she throws off the shackles of hoarding. It's still tiny steps, but it's been remarkable how much less oppressed she and the house seem with each day. We have a long way to go still and I hope we can crack through much more before she needs to move, but it needs to be done and led by her and we are going at the pace she wants. It has also been a relief to me as I know moving her will be less stressful when the time comes.
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GreyQueen

I can vaguely recall inner converstions in which I've talked myself out of keeping completely random things which could, in theory, be used if X, Y or Z happened. But the probabilites of X,Y or Z are vanishingly small.

One example was a half-dead stereo which I could keep as a decoy stereo in case I ever had bailiffs come to seixe my goods for any unpaid debt.. I am not currently, nor have I ever been, in any debt whatsoever........ nuts, isn't it? Where do these thoughts come from, I consider myself a sane and sensible person, as do onlookers.

I have a couple of things on freegle which haven't presently got any takers. Have decided that they will be going to the electronic section of the tip at the end of the month if no one asks for them. One was asked for and the person was a no-show, which is annoying. I feel people like that bring the whole freegle/ freecycle thing into disrepute.

Later this morning, I will be heading off the the junk shop to bully/ encourage my pal with his decluttering. He's a terrible hoarder and has had this shop for 45 years. The quality of the Stuff there can be anything from marble portrait heads to old fluroescent tubes, and there are whole ecologies living in the cobwebs in the storage areas - and probably a lost clan of film-makers doing a wildlife documentary. Nothing much would surprise me.

I mean, I found a sink in one of the rooms. Attached to the wall (no plumbing, mind) which had long been buried under the carp. In places, the ceilings have started to fall down on the clutter, which is...... interesting, shall we say.

Apart from the shop floor, there are three small upstairs rooms and the back room/ kitchenette and a cellar. I think the cellar is older than the building on top of it, a phenomenon not uncommon in parts of this city.

It's a fascinating place for a kondo-ist/ nosey parker.:rotfl:

greenbee

Maybe you should just move in GQ and excavate from within?

It sounds like you're doing a fantastic job for your friend - I'm sure it's appreciated. And I hope that he is either paying you or planning on giving you a very generous Christmas present! It sounds as if you are more than earning your keep in tea...

oceanspirit

Cleared more off the reading pile this morning. Lots of little jobs to do today including going through everything on desk as after a busy few weeks it's very messy again and am not sure what's on there.

Need to pace the energy today as another busy week coming up.

Slinky

Kondo'd a load of weeds from the garden, and OH cut the grass for the first time this year. We had a terrible weed problem in one bed last year, with some very leggy hebes which we dug out last year. I've had a good go through, we need to get some weedproof membrane down and replant the bed.


I planted a lilac tree a couple of years ago, just wanted an old fashioned lilac coloured lilac. Got it as a bare rooted stick from somebody on ebay, it's grown a fair bit, I'm hoping we may get some flowers this year for the first time. Had a good look at it, can't tell whether the shoots will be flower shoots or just leaves yet. Here's hoping.


I'm aching in all sorts of places I'd forgotten I'd got, it's hard work kneeling and weeding. However I've made good use of a piece of leftover underlay as a knee pad.

MMF007

Agghhhhh, I want to kondo my latest artistic endeavour! I spent 5 hours at an art class today but it was too advanced (I am an absolute beginner) and i have bought home a very bad, very unfinished picture. I *think* I will try and get it nearer to finished but at the moment it is so unjoyful I want to bin it
I know things can be changed with just a few strokes of the paint brush, if you know what you are doing! But I don't!!

I suppose I can paint over most of it and start again, making it far more simple than the picture we were supposed to use as a reference. Doh.

Rant over!

I need to relax for a little while and then I shall start packing for a week at my parent's . Inevitably this will lead to a mini clothes kondo because i am getting more ruthless with practice :rotfl:

I also need to write a 'to do ' list because I have lots to fit in next week and I find it really helps get it all in perspective (pardon the art-y pun) if i can see everythjng written down, in a sensible order. Then i will see that it is achievable and will stop flapping :rotfl: