KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Slinky

Siebrie wrote: »

We kondoed a very busy, but enjoyable, weekend. Dd2 (5) had a ballet performance, it was a real show with a storyline connecting the dances of all 216 pupils. Dd was a flower and was on stage for about five minutes, with a huge smile on her face - she loved it! She had to perform Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.
Dd1 (8) had horseriding lesson yesterday, outside, and then forgot to bring her normal boits back home, so I had to drive there to pick them up today, 40 minute round trip. Thank goodness dh has a company car with fuel card.
Today we put up the temporary greenhouse that I got for my birthday in December, and the first seeds are sown; it makes me so happy Old gladioli and verbena stalks have been removed from the garden and added to the greenwaste bin. Aquilegia is coming up nicely, I love that plant! Buddleia will have to be kondoed, because it selfseeded in front of my vine, and I prefer the vine
Our lawn is full of Jacobaea Vulgaris, which is poisonous and killed dd1's pet rabbit last year. Any idea how to get rid of it without resorting to poison? I'm hesitant to walk on the lawn barefooted, because I'm afraid the poison will go through the soles of the feet and accumulate in the liver

Apparently this has a lot of information from a Dutch lady who lost a horse to ragwort poisoning, am I right in thinking you speak Dutch? http://www.jakobskruiskruid.com/index.php

Slinky

Finally got around to putting the last dregs of candles in glass jars into the oven this evening and melted the wax. Tipped it into the bin and wiped the jars clean with some kitchen towel ready to be recycled.


I did speculate on microwaving them, I'm glad I didn't as it turned out there was a small piece of metal at the bottom of each jar that the wick was connected to. Thought I'd post on this to warn anybody thinking of microwaving candle jars.

WeeMidgie

Yesterday I helped a friend kondo a cupboard of doom... she is a (very good) art teacher, and it held materials, resources and folders going back over her 30 year career. I handed things out to her and she deposited them in the relevant boxes - you know the drill: keep, charity, dump, recycle. Lots of stuff had died in storage, loads of dried out tubes of paint and glue that was past it; or she had forgotten what she had
and had bought more. Shelf upon shelf of stuff, all jumbled up, stuffed in disintegrating plastic bags. And very dusty.

She hadn't been able to face it on her own. I must admit there was a point at which I felt I'd had enough, but persevered, and then finally got the satisfaction of hoovering out and washing the shelves and seeing the pristine space we had created.

She now knows what she's got is useful and has made decisions on what she's still prepared to teach, so no more children's art classes meant a whole load of materials could go.

We celebrated by kondoing a celebratory Indian ready meal with a single portion mini bottle of wine split between us, more in her glass than mine as I needed to drive home.

She felt bad it had got out of hand, but I said to take pride in what she has accomplished over the years, (lots of happy children and adults), and thank what had died or was no longer needed. A good day on the KM front.

SmlSave

Slinky wrote: »

I did speculate on microwaving them, I'm glad I didn't as it turned out there was a small piece of metal at the bottom of each jar that the wick was connected to. Thought I'd post on this to warn anybody thinking of microwaving candle jars.

Pops up from lurking....... apparently as long as the metal isn't touching the sides having metal in the microwave won't cause damage. My new microwave manual says it but I've never given it a go.....lurks back down

Siebrie

Slinky wrote: »

Apparently this has a lot of information from a Dutch lady who lost a horse to ragwort poisoning, am I right in thinking you speak Dutch? http://www.jakobskruiskruid.com/index.php

I do; thank you!

Frogletina

Friday afternoon
Sorted out my ex-husband's paperwork

Saturday afternoon
Sorted more of my photographs

Saturday evening
Worked on my family tree

Sunday morning
Sorted out my daughter's paperwork

I'd like to continue with my photographs in the morning but I've neglected my house and there is clothes washing, and dish washing to be done tomorrow and I need to kondo some dust. I'm not happy with my surroundings at the moment.

frogletina

greenbee

Siebrie - ragwort is a notifiable weed in the UK due to the risk to livestock (not that you'd notice by the amount on verges and in fields in the past few years), however it is the seeds that are the big risk as most animals avoid the plant. walking on the grass barefoot doesn't put you at risk. Eating the seeds will cause liver failure. To stop it setting seed you can mow it. If you want to get rid of it weed kill or pull using a rag fork.

You also need to work out where it is coming from as you need to deal with the seeds that are being blown into your garden if you want to have animals grazing.

Mara_uk7

SmlSave wrote: »

Pops up from lurking....... apparently as long as the metal isn't touching the sides having metal in the microwave won't cause damage. My new microwave manual says it but I've never given it a go.....lurks back down

Not worth the risk, I put a plate in mine, forgetting about the teensy bit of gold coloured paint on it. sparked and banged like mad for the few secnds it took to get back to it ! Just pour very hot water in the candle jar, wax will soften and fall out, taking disc with it.

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I think I will try and kondo some self sown strawberry runners. Must have been a strawberry I threw on the gravel a couple of years ago. There are half a dozen good runners up there. No harm trying in a couple of troughs I have got, already have compost here

edit, got 9 plants in three troughs and left 4 runners. All come from one discarded strawberrey, the miracle of nature

Lovely sun here, calm music, washing going out as soon as the loads are finished, knowing that it will all have a defined space later

Might do crocs later, bought several pair at one time, dislike them but handy for walking on the gravel. Hardly any wear, so in all honesty I only need one pair and a spare

Quick whip around to clean now, very quick with no clutter

PollyWollyDoodle

I'm definitely feeling the benefit of some extra tidying last week. Quick question - does anyone know if charity shops still take cassette tapes? I'm guessing they don't, but online research is inconclusive.

Why on earth I kept these in the first Kondo round have no idea. I've chucked the home recorded ones but still have twenty or so commercially recorded tapes. Mainly 80s music and I couldn't have told you what they were, so I'm not going to miss them!

I'm repurposing the vinyl case to hold reels of sewing thread.