KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Karmacat

Been away a few days (my laptop got clagged up with dust, now kondoed, along with a lot of other housedust) - and very interested to read the posts for older women's make up. I swore to myself that as of April I'd be focussing on myself a bit more, not just navvying in the garden - and here we are, 1st April. So, a bit of a haircut would be good, soon, and makeup for when I start going out again, sometimes. I'm definitely going to wear jewellery again - I originally got my ears pierced because I knew I wanted to wear something, and that was such an easy win - but I need to actually clean everything first, including the stuff I just inherited from my mum.

Loving the other posts too - about how fresh the house feels, and how easy things are. I really don't feel like I'm there yet, but I'm trying to get there while not submerging myself in to-do lists.

KW - so sorry to hear of your broken bones hope the healing goes well.

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oh thanks floss. I haven`t sold anything on fleabay for many years but think, yes about time. I have a large bag full of this yarn, in the hall, an interim step and four empty baskets

Eyebrows, omg I have no idea. Last time I plucked, from underneath as far as I can remember, was many years ago. I had the haircut about a year ago, the new me when I emerged as myself after hubbie died. Think Judi Dench, thats my hair and pure liquid silver

Today is going well, re lists, oh my goodness I never have much on them, just a couple of things to do and one or two meals, so I eat properly. I often go off at a tanget when I am doing things, so might add to the list after I have done them, haha makes me feel good. After lunch is always my time, no set jobs of any sort but I hardly ever sit if I am honest, just like being busy with hobbies, the allotment etc

I might well do a stage two on some supplements after lunch eg valerian. It was such a life saver after dh died but I don`t need it now. I will keep a small amount but ditch the rest. I did get enticing multi-buy offers from a practitioners only site, so I `saved the money` by buying them. How many times have I done that? also bought more stuff, all sorts of stuff, than I need just to get free delivery. In the end it has not made economical sense, for me

VJsmum

Thanks for the make up links. I will work my way through them.

I have been having my eyebrows waxed and tinted every month for the last 10 years. I have recently had to add upper lip to that and then the other day I found a humongous chin hair :eek: where DO they come from? One day nothing, the next an inch long hair so thick you could sew your jeans up with it

Off to the theatre, with DD and MiL. It's one of our Christmas pressies :T

PollyWollyDoodle

Interesting re lists, I've always been a great list-maker but realised a few years ago that having a huge list and not completing it made me feel bad. So I changed the focus and each weekend (I was working full time then) I'd try and think of three things I wanted to achieve before Monday and that worked much better- a lot of the routine stuff like cleaning gets done anyway, I don't need to list it. Now I only write a list if I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed as it helps me prioritise.

Very interesting re the make-up. I always feel as if everyone else learned how to do it and I must have been away from school on that day! :rotfl: I won't go out without mascara and I wear foundation if I'm working but never quite know what I'm doing with it, although my niece introduced me to primer which is a fabulous product. My skin's never been good, I think I may have acne rosacea but it seems too trivial to go to the doctor about it. My eyebrows however have often been commented on by friends! I'm very lucky with their natural shape and I tidy up stray hairs almost daily. Let's not get started on the extra uninvited hairs on my chin though ... anyone tried threading?

Wednesday2000

Next boss: We’re losing sales because people don’t want to buy more ‘stuff’ | London Evening Standard

GreyQueen

That's interesting, thank you.

I also think there are any number of reasons other than exeriential vs material spending.

A lot of the so-called millennials (I'm a so-called Gen X-er, how trite are these labels) have not been able to establish themselves with their own homes, due to inability to secure long-term work at a reasonable wage. Not to mention falling home ownership and galloping rent-inflation.

If you live in one room at your parental home, or in one room in a shared house, you're unlikely to be spending on furnishings, appliances and all the little things which make up a household. Even if you do start to build a bottom-drawer type supply, or to get your own place, there is an awful lot of Stuff out there which is pre-owned, in very good order and available either free or for pennies-on-the-pound of the original retail price.

Then, there's the aspect that the UK is about the only place in Europe which doesn't have a mandatory minimum standard size for homes and many of us are living in very cramped quarters.

All of these factors are adding up to the retailers' woes.

MMF007

(I thought i had posted earlier but it has disappeared?)

I have the national chest infection Thought i had escaped but began feeling a bit rough yester eve, now have scratchy throat, dry feeling but bunged up nose and lowered lung capacity. Am not yet at full lurgy stage so have got some chores done!

Did a mini kondo when putting clothes away. I have a pair of warm trousers that *nearly fit* but they take up lots of space in a fairly shallow drawer i have set aside for 'nearly fits' (!) (because they are insulated). I picked them out and realised that i they will not get worn until next winter and i really do not think i will wear them then. They are in CS bag now. Also, I sorted my shoe rack which had become a bit muddled, and have released a pair of sandals that i had bought in a hurry ages ago. They were slightly too big and i always felt as though i would slip over when wearing them. It's crazy that they didn't go in round one!! Also now in CS bag.

Small wins but somehow they felt really good, out of proportion, don't know why.

Right, have to go, DH has just come in with a gorgeous bunch of flowers 'to make me feel better'. How lucky am I?

M

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my to-do list of two things, will be done tomorrow morning, maybe. Food was on track but I got busy outside, potting baby pinks into a few empty troughs while my slave cleaned the whole kitchen/dining/living room floor.

I own up, again. I could not cope with doing all the jobs on my own after dh, like the dishes never put themselves away and he would always vacuum on a monday. Then I had maintenance as well as all the cleaning, all at once by myself. My neighbour had a cleaner, say £20 for the two hours every week but they used to feel that they should be out, so it was intrusive. I bought a roomba and it paid for itself in just a few months, he does an amazing job, all over the house and consequently there isn`t much dust either. So while I was happily potting, he was cleaning every bit of my floor, including rugs and corners. He parked himself, re-charging for the next job

I am interested in skin primers but not yet, I want to see if I can manage to stay mentally re-vamped first

GreyQueen

Afternoon all.

kittie, I was reading about your 'slave' and wondering what the heck you were up to - glad its a Roomba.:rotfl:

I spent part of the morning at the junk shop and one conversation went like this: (insert pal's name), can I put this sword somewhere else?

It was behind a door keeping company with a furled umbrella, a baseball bat and a napoleonic war bayonet and kept falling over because of the basket hilt making it top-heavy. It's now upstairs hanging on the wall. This is a tidying problem I never encounter at my own flat although I do have to be careful of the longbow. Longbows have to be stored flat, so under the bed is the usual place, but the bow is wide than the bed....... like I said, not an everyday problem for country folk.

Never try robbing independant shop-keepers, all the ones I know of have things like baseball bats or axe-handles to hand.

Am about to pedal off to the allotmentino via the dump. The dump will be getting the second boom-box and the allotment will be getting the seed potatoes which I will start planting and see how I go, energy-wise.

Oh, and I discovered the very easiest way to keep my bathroom basin immaculate at all times and to prevent a build-up of linescale around the plughole - a 20 second wipe-over with plain water and a scratchy sponge once a day. So easy, so do-able, can't work out why I haven't done this before.

Hokay, enough talk, time for action! Laters, GQ x

maryb

I'm also one of those who feels bad when I don't finish my list so now I don't write things down but use the number/rhyme system to remember. So 1= bun, 2= shoe 3=tree etc then you find something to remind you of the word.
Eg yesterday I needed new teaspoons (where do they GO???) a toothbrush and some eyedrops. So I pictured myself eating a bun with a teaspoon then taking off my shoes and cleaning my teeth ready for bed. 'See' rhymes with tree so the eyedrops were easy. and so on

It somehow seems easier to get things done when I don't have to refer to a list but can keep it in mind. The only thing you have to do is run through the numbers and their associated rhyme and it triggers your memory. And it stops you putting too many things on the list