KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

maddiemay

greenbee wrote: »

Probably. I've been digging out spanish ones for three years and they still keep coming back... I've even sprayed them and they don't seem bothered. The only thing I can suggest is digging out or cutting down so the bulbs eventually starve. Someone else may have other ideas.

My natives, of course, as very shy and not multiplying at the rate I'd like!

Yes, to keep digging at them is my best thought to date, although I had wondered about painting weed killer on to the leaves, like I do to next door's generous offering of bindweed:eek::eek:, whenever I think about spraying anything, even with a little trigger spray
the wind seems to get up and the things that I want to grow for me are precious.

No natives bought for here yet:(

MMF007

Have just battled for an hour to recover a couple of passwords and amend accounts, created a new email address for DH (he had been sharing mine but one firm we both use wants individual ones), and added printer app to his tablet so he doesn't pester me for printing...

Been meaning to do these jobs for a while but, er, hadn't got-round-to-it!!
DH away today so have taken advantage of the peace and quiet

Added caller ID to phoneline while I was at it and we are going to get a new phone set, one part tethered phone with answerphone, other part cordless for upstair/downstairs arrangement and this will have caller id facility (our current very basic phone has no such functionality).

Whilst pondering this marvellous upgrade (:rotfl:) I realised that as i no longer have to plug in a laptop via ethernet cable (work* required secure connection rather than "secure" wifi) so I can move the router out of the office and that will help better locate it. So rather than our current long extension from incoming landline up stairs to router, i shall re-site router near to socket :T

All sounds a bit messy but an hour's work and a LBM should make quite a difference day to day.

*Yes, it has taken me a year to realise this :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

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The new feng shui book came today, the one that GQ read, It`s good, much more appropriate for our western ways. I am about 1/3 of the way through, been sitting outside but am too hot now. Spark joy suggested putting washing up liquid under the sink, did that, still in the storage that hold other things. Looked clearer and better alread, so what`s next? It has to be the knife block, the expensive one that I treated myself to three years ago, black and silver and smart. No reason for it to stay as all the knives fit into my cutlery drawer, it sticks out and my kitchen surface is very limited. That will go into the shed, for a transition period, could be a long time :cool:

Same with the cutting boards neatly arranged in a stand, all now, stand is going out, in a drawer, standing up in front of bowls and the three old ones in there are out.Now I can see my different teas, the three caddies, all in a neat row, for now

While at it, I emptied my over sink window, leaving three plants and a kitchen roll. It all looks so much better, haven`t cleaned it (kitchen surfaces) yet, need a five minute break first and have bread to finish

New feng shui book says very much that one thing leads to another, it certainly does, a bit here and a bit there and she says that it is energising. It certainly is, had such a little sleep last night and no sign of flagging

GoingToDoIt

My living room has been bugging me for some time, so I just re-arranged it. I figure it will mean it's had a good spring clean if nothing else. It's definitely not the "right" configuration of tv/table/sofa if you were a room designer. But this room is very warm and I need to have more air flow, with everything flat against the walls there is more air already. The former "cosy" configuration can always come back in October, a change is as good as a rest etc.

Charis

I was having an email chat today with a non-kondoing friend and the subject of manuals for household electricals came up. I have found it difficult to actually use those supplied by the manufacturer's website as the pdf's sometimes come up too small to read, or are alternately arrange in landscape/portrait positions and 'self correct' when I turn the screen around to read them, making them awkward to use while trying to fix an appliance. My friend has a slightly different slant on how to store them, which some may find useful.

I agree wholeheartedly about the tiny sizes of manuals on a phone - impossible to read, useless. And iPads are no better. I do the opposite to you - I print out the English language pages from the online manuals and keep them all in a file entitled 'The Science of Appliances' :rotfl:. I like to scribble things on the pages to remind me of whats/whens/hows/whos and stuff like that. Online manuals just do nothing for me

Next time I get a new appliance, I think I will try her way - although I might just cut out the English pages - as I do like the feeling of knowing something is available in tangible form and I can easily read it when scrabbling about on my knees trying to find the way to fix something. If they all end up online, which is the way they seem to be going, and we only get the 'quick start guide' in the box, I will print them out, in a readable size, all the same way up and highlight the bits I need so they are readily visible if I have the same problem again.

wort

I've just ordered the feng shui book, £2.39 on bay of e . Bet someone somewhere is wondering why there's been a run on it!!
Also ordered the kindle version of spark joy, as it was only £1.99.

Got dgson to try on some joggers that were at my house , 3 pairs going in charity bag ,plus a dressing gown and cagoule.

Slinky

Got around to planting my onion sets today, plus Kondo'd some weeds. OH cut the grass, not much came off.


Spotted a chopping board in the kitchen cupboard that can go. It's a wooden one that got put on a gas ring by mistake and has a burn on it. I don't use it, it's been kept for Justin, will sneak it out when OH isn't looking.

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I finished the book, it has been a good read but I skipped the colonic stuff near the end. Lots of common sense and obvious stuff but it is always good to read that we are on the right track

I am bursting to sort my food in the kitchen but am desperately sitting on my hands. I absolutely do not want to do any more this evening, I stopped at 5ish but am still feeling flipping energetic. The kitchen looks so nice, I gave the tops and sink a good clean and polish and am thinking that I can stay on top of it

KM has been so engrossing that my mind is whizzy, what can I tackle next? I have to come back down several levels and go and read a mindless book in bed, otherwise it will be another long night

GreyQueen

Morning all.

I decided to have a screen-free sunday as the weather was so gorgeous and I wanted to be out in it and also get some work done on my WIP, which has a completion deadling of Easter Saturaday as it is going to be offered for sale on Easter Sunday. Nothing like a deadline to kill the old procrastinator in me ........

Got another area of ground forked thru (blasted horsetails!) and sown to potatoes, allotment rapidly filling up. Thank goodness I'm on annual leave between Easter and May Day bank holiday as I have loads of gardening to crack on with, such a busy time with most of the seeds to be started and the weeds a-coming.

Oh, and Sat-Sunday, I went to bed for 11 hours, most of which I slept, and felt much better as a result, with the horrible cold on its way out.

Regarding lists, I tend to use them sparingly. I can be very absent-minded and am perfectly capable of going out with about three or four things to do and forgetting two of them, so I used lists to prompt me for that, and lists of things to do/ pack before going away.

But lists in general? I started to become aware that it was easier just to do some small jobs than to write them on a list to do later!:rotfl:

Siebrie

GreyQueen wrote: »

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.

Admit it, GreyQueen, you are secretly flyladying, just not in the kitchen, due to your rebellious streak :rotfl:

DH and I have kondoed dds for two weeks to my parents and his sister, who all live in our hometown up north. DH was looking forward to being even lazier than he usually is, I'm looking forward to redecorating the living room. I've persuaded him that NOW is the time to do it (he has been suggesting for about 3 years that it is something we really should do when we have the time....), we have bought all the wallpaper, etc, and he got carried away and also bought wallpaper for the guest bedroom and dds' bedroom. We'll see how far we'll get.... Tonight: removing the old wallpaper in the living room