KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Karmacat

I'm in the middle of several "pushes" - I've bought too many packs of dried beans, for heaven's sakes! And now I have to store them in rough date order ...

I had to be at the front of the house yesterday in case Wilko called with my order of compost and bark chippings etc, so I attacked the leylandii at the boundary fence. The neighbour has always been very good about keeping them well under control, but there's been life threatening illness going on, so I'm doing a bit on it now - 3 bin bags after standing on a chair, will need a stepladder to get further, and then its about the shoots on their side of the fence, which will need a chat with them when they can.

Lots of scanning and ordering things around on the computer yesterday - its all very well scanning to declutter the way I do, especially when its about the genealogy notes I inherited from my mum, but I have to make sure they're accessible once they're on the computer.

Not too much kondoing today - I need to start deep cleaning a few areas. Yuck!

tibawo

Morning all.. blue sky here so washing out. DD2 has an outdoor cooking thing for guides later so am pleased with the weather as nothing worse than becoming a drowned rat!


For the last few months i have been plagued by DD1 school books strewn all over the floor. As i kondoed i gave the girls a drawer in the unit as they don't have anywhere downstairs to put things. This worked well and dd1 uses hers for her school stuff. This is now so full that every time she empties her drawer looking for something. She never puts them back in straight away and it does my head in. As i have now two larger surplus tubs in the unit in the other room I have given them one each. So far so good as she can 'see' everything and does not have to empty it.

luxor4t

Wot? no post from GQHQ yet? :eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Yesterday's birthday was very nice, and very MK friendly indeed as DH replaced my now dead hairdryer (I can't work out how old the dead one is: at least 20 years, we think :shocked: ) and I shall work my way through the chocolate biscuits slowly (yes, honest! )

Now we are going to paint the middle bedroom

GoingToDoIt

A day at home doing sorting and tidying, very tired this week and thankfully the house has held me together through it, but there's carp all over the place. This is still KM magic to me, that I can fall out of bed late for work and be out of the house in 15 minutes with all the correct items and a decent lunch in my bag.
I almost walked into a shop "for a look about" last night then I realised "I don't need anything else" similar this morning, do I start cleaning or head out to the shops? But I don't need to go out! This frees up a lot of time and money as well as energy for me.
I have a night out for a friend's birthday tonight so I'll potter about at home and (stalk this thread awaiting GQ's update) get ready for later and the week ahead

grunnie

GQ how is the loft? Love your adventures.
This morning I went to a coffee morning for the local WRI and bought an armful of crochet and knitting magazines for the grand total of £2.:jAfter I have read them will pass them on to some friends who will be interested so KMed already.
The factory shop had an ad for Judge cutlery for £15 and as my cutlery which is Judge is nearly 30 odd years old and showing signs of wear as it used to be washed in my old dishwasher. I KM ed the dishwasher a few months ago so the new cutlery which will be handwashed should see me out. :rotfl:
Didn't even look around the shop just asked an assistant where I would find the cutlery and made straight for the till.
Off to sit in the garden in the sunshine and read my crochet mags to my stray cat.
Have a nice weekend everyone

GreyQueen

Hi guys, first report from GQHQ (love whoever coined that term).

Was wide awake and raring to go at dawn and up at 6 am (Mum especially is an early riser too) and had breakfasted and was up that loft at 08.00 on the dot.

In seconds, the three large appliance boxes hit the landing; flat-screen telly, sound bar and a DVD player box. Dad took them into protective custody and broke them down and flattened them neatly around the edge of their recying bin. The inserts (polystrene, dammit ) are bin-bagged and mostly in the landfill bin which is to be emptied on Monday.

Like most parts of the country these days, they have refuse taken one week and recycling the other. Due to ardent recycling, refuse for this three adult-two cat household is less than one bin bag per fortnight so it's highly unusual for the refuse wheelie to be full as it is now.

There's a smaller quantity of polystrene which didn't fit and will have to go into the bin afterwards and leave in the next cycle.

I was prospecting gingerly across the joists on J's side (the loft is named after the ladies of the houses on either side so if we say to each other that something is up the far end on J's side, we know what we mean. ).

I was particularly ginger as this is the area where I damn nearly knelt. put my hand down on the mummified sparrow. No such ick this time. I opened up the two cabin trunks labelled blankets and noted which blanlets in my little notebook. I then retreated towards the hatch, tidying a little as I went. I also went over to S's side and stood the projector table upright against the gable and investigated some further receptacles.

The bulk of the Stuff is in the two mid-sections of the loft, the one where the hatch opens into, and the one immediately behind it - there are three sets of A frames supporting the roof, so four sections, if that makes sense. The section I shall dub section 3 (3rd from S's side) contains the luggage fleet and the cat baskets, mostly. Section 1 contains a spare roll of loft insulation, a cardboard drum full of crochet yarn and some other bits and bobs, section 2 contains most of the yarn, the decorating supplies, the gazunder, spare curtain tracks and Misc.

I brought down the clear plastic bag holding the folded-up pad for the sunlounger and this was investigated and is sound. Mum offered the lounger to the carboot without prompting, and the roll of carpet which was cut out of the room-side remnant when we re-carpetted the hall in Nan's bungalow a few years ago, can go. It's presently in a clear plastic bag under the eaves - I shall be bringing that forward as it's going a-booting at Easter.

That was the first hour-and-a bit, then I came down for a tea-break, Mum and I strolled to Liddly for a few bits inc a plant, came back, washed all the outdoor flowerpots and Dad planted the new plant in the empty one (which came from Nan's and was orginally bought by me as a gift). Lookin' good.

I found a tatty old jam-jar up the corner of the garden, half buried and full of dirt, which is now soaking in the leftover water from pot-washing and which I intend to get cleaned up enough to go into the recycling bin.

Oh, and Mum and I between us cut my hair - she does the bit around the back, I do everything else. All that was done and dusted, plus some knitting on the WIP, by 11 am.

We're about to break for an early luncheon, have washed my hair and Wild Thing is sunning herself outside and The Queen of Sheba is crying like a rusty hinge because she wants a lap and people are busy.

Afterwards, there will be a small digestive break and then I intend to head back into the loft to continue re-arrange Stuff and work on the inventory and see if there's anything else which can go - I have to be extremely tactful otherwise Mum will get stressed and I'll be ordered out of there and to stop pulling things around.

My parents joke that I am exhausting company but I do tend to motivate them to get things done. Pre-CFS, my nickname was Tigger and it's a good thing for people in want of a quiet life that I tire easily.

GreyQueen

Three manky old pillows (feather) are now in the landfill bin, plus the very cheap and very old rubbishy metal detector.

A sort-of eiderdown is airing on the linen line in the lovely sunny breezy weather. It was stored clean but in plastic and is a bit stale. Reckon to let it have a good blow today and tomorrow and then it can go booting at Easter.

The things destined for bootsale (carpet remnant and sun-lounger) are stashed near the hatch and a lot of other things which were floating about in clear strong plastic bags are now neatly in half-a-dozen holdalls which were in a messy pile (all empty) in the luggage section.

All of these have very large cardboard labels tied onto them with their contents listed. We are officially SABLE for bedlinen, curtains, blankets, tea towels and probably oven mitts. Oh, and gift wrap and Xmas cards.

The yarn section is still a mess but I might leave that for another visit and spend some time going out for a nice walk tomorrow as the weather is so gorgeous and all work and no play makes jill a dull girl.

VJsmum

Slightly shocked cos we seem to have kondoed the caravan...

We went to a dealer just to see if they would sell on our behalf and they are going to buy it off us. Its going tomorrow :T

kboss2010

I'm having a bit of a "can't be ar*ed" day today. I've moved a bit of furniture round to make room for a new bureau desk. My flat needs a bit of a tidy & a general spring clean but I don't want to start dusting & vacuuming until I've tidied as I'll just spend ages moving stuff out of the way and I can't be bothered starting. The weather is lovely so I just took my cat out on his harness for a mooch round the back garden.

I'm hoping motivation will strike once I've had a cup of tea lol.

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

Slightly shocked cos we seem to have kondoed the caravan...

We went to a dealer just to see if they would sell on our behalf and they are going to buy it off us. Its going tomorrow :T

:j Oh well done, what a mega-kondo. Bet it's a super caravan, and just the right time to sell it with people starting to think about their holibobs.

I'm working on the second of the two last sections which will make my WIP blanket (the second) complete, did the sums on Thursday and realised I was two sections short, each section representing about 2-3 hours' knitting. Will do some more making up this evening and then some more once I get home, not long til Easter now.

Looking forward to giving my lovely Mum her mother's day pressies tomorrow although I went to the shop with her today to choose one of them (the outdoor plant)/ She gets a lot of joy from the flowering shrubs in the half-dozen planters in the back yard, some of which were even hand-built in clay by my own fair hand.