KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

MMF007

Genius Siebrie! He does, however, already have several small model planes on there

Floss

Can the small model planes go on a shelf above the boat?

GreyQueen

A couple of hours ago:

Mum; I'm not sure if we've got any pie plates left, didn't you carboot or donate them?

Me; truffling in the 1930s sideboard; There's two shallow pyrex dishes, 4 large pryex plates and one slightly-smaller pyrex plate.

I used one of the shallow dishes and a few mins ago Mum instructed me to take two of the four big pyrex plates to the bootsale. Result!

One of the pie fillings turned out to be an apple-and-blackberry so we had that and black cherry in the same dish. Tasted fine. Pie eaten at lunchtime, cans washed and in the recycling and pie dish washed and put away.

I was going to Make Buns this afternoon (to kondo excess inventories of bun cases, dried fruit and other ingredients), but the oven is hosting a large chicken atm, so that will be a game for tomorrow.

Righty, gotta get back to sewing up the WIP, downhill slope, gotta be finished tomorrow at the latest.

Oh, and Kid Bruv is presently in his room of doom going through his DVDs (thousands of 'em) to pull out ones for sale.

I'm kind of like yeast in the bread or grit in the oyster - irritating but the cause of stuff getting done. :rotfl:

MMF007

Thanks kittie and Floss. Yep, scheming is the way to go and yes, having a shelf for planes and the boat on the COD (thankfully, round in the alcove so never see it!).
It is weird because DH is so serious and mature but he treasures these few model craft. They obviously give him great joy and they are top quality you understand!

OK, as a reward for a few hours hard work i have booked some flights
Have been watching for offers for a while and today was the day, even got to choose good seats. So kondo'd a fair amt of money but we had saved specifically for this trip and,as my Nan always used to say, 'You can't take it with you'.

Right, cleaning downstairs to finish off. Looks lovely and tidy, and wm smells lovely!

Well done wrangling stuff for bootsale, GQ. Hope you have enough room in the car to get it there!!

M

greenbee

I was going to suggest hot cross buns GQ, but that won't use up bun cases! Sounds like you've got the family highly motivated and will be making a small fortune on Sunday. The only question is whether it will all fit in the car. Have you started packing yet and worked out your display and pricing?

Maybe you could sell buns too

MMF007 - is there room for the boat in the bathroom? And maybe the planes could be pinned to a ceiling (preferably one where they'll annoy DH and not you...)

GreyQueen

We'ew taking the older car, a 19 y.o. Astra with the seats down. No tables, just stuff in boxes and bags on a tarp on the ground.

I'm an experienced carbooter and will be pricing things below what they could probably command if one had intention of doing several sales over the course of the warmer months, but I really hope to shift quantities and am prepared to have a bit less cash in return for a quick sale.

It'll be a pretty random collection but that's the way the stuff falls out of the household(s); this one, some of Nan's, some of mine.

Won't be doing any baking for sale, think there may be regulations and really don't want to get involved with that kind of thing. I shall be making a couple of dozen buns for the family. This used to happen most weeks but with Mum having Parkinson's and not being too well, baking has more or less stopped and there are some backed-up baking supplies which need using up, esp dried fruits of various kinds.

Just taking a few mins online between sewing the WIP, am about to add the last strip to the blanket then it's done. Will be measured, and photo'd outside either today or tomorrow, for my album of Things I Have Made, which I can glance through from time to time.

Tomorrow will be the main day for organising the stuff for sale, pricing etc and we'll be up early on Sunday and just grab & go.

My cunning plan it to load straight out of the living room window -the window whose missing key I found just after Xmas last year - it'll be the fastest and quietest way to do it. Plus I'd do it just because I can.

maddiemay

Visited DM yesterday, having offered to Kondo a dusty and cluttered small utility area in a lobby 'tween SR and Utility Room. No big spiders emerged just lots of dust, junk and a few dust bunnies.

Although as she has become less mobile she hadn't been arrissed to do anything about this stuff for a good few years, she was great at saying throw it, CS or whatever. Some cache pots have come home with me for cleaning then onward to CS and stuff for shredding, but there is a black bin bag 3/4 full of paper from around 2007! it was too much for one session, think I need to convince OH that we need a small incinerator then I can bring it all back here for burning.

silvasava

The tatty fence is down & the lovely young guy who was doing the work put the old fence posts in our garden for DH to chop up for the woodburner. I've cleaned the back of my greenhouse and pulled all the ivy off it that I couldn't reach before. I wanted DH to move the water butt to a different place so while he was out I emptied the rainwater into watering cans and watered all my Camellias and Rhododendrons thinking if it was emptied he might move it over the weekend - he's done it today! He's also emptied a very large tall tub that once held strawberries which fell apart as he was emptying it. So that's another thing gone. I'll spend the weekend clearing the greenhouse properly - it hasn't been done for quite a few years!
Had a request from DS1 for my Apple Marzipan tart - my block of marzipan had dried out a bit so I put the grater disc on my FP and grated it as I couldn't roll it out - it worked a treat! Made a small one for DH otherwise he'd sulk lol!

GreyQueen

:beer: Hic, slightly tipsy, just helped kondo a bottle of prosecco.

WIP was finsished just before the meal and will be packaged neatly for sale as part of the things I will be doing tomorrow ahead of (hopefully!) carbooting on Sunday.

Came back yestereve to find a DVD copy of a fillum I'd asked Kid Bruv if he'd got in his DVD stash as I'd wanted to watch it again and couldn't see a secondhand copy. Turns out he couldn't find the copy he knew he has somewhere so had brought this copy for 99p secondhand. We will watch it en famille tonight then add it to the for-sale box.

I wonder how many of us end up re-buying things we already own because we've lost the original?!

camelot1001

Sounds like a good day GQ, I like your selling style - if you are going with the intention of releasing things then a realistic price will help enormously.

I am toying with the idea of releasing a lot of jewellery that was my DMs (and some even my GMs). I am not a jewellery person, just wear the same rings and earrings, very rarely wear a necklace and have a daytime watch and an evening watch. I think I will have a look through it all and maybe see about sending some to auction - does anyone have any experience of selling at auction?