KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

MMF007

I felt like cancelling our forthcoming long weekend away because i want to get stuck in with another round of MK magic tidying! Instead i shall do a sensible thing and write a note of categories i want to get together and some thoughts on items I specifically want to subject to the spark test.
I am being niggled by some clothes that are neatly kondo-folded. They are all a bit too small! I have more weight to lose but a temp halt has occurred due to horrid cold (not over eaten but needed more comfort food, so a few more carbs meant no weight loss). I am torn between keeping them because they should fit within a few months, but they are getting on my nerves because I don't want this many clothes. The obvious answer is to get on with losing the next stone in weight, of course! I had better write that in my action plan as well :rotfl:

GQ, as someone probably said in Star trek, beware of the Galaxy!

GreyQueen

The carbooty pile at the end of the sitting-room is growing. I have been in the loft and retrieved the sunlounger (frame and padding are separate) and the roll of new carpet offcut.

Looking at quantities and assessing probable-sale vs capapcity of vehicle, the sunlounger will likely not go. We'll load the rest and I think that will be testing my abilities as a Tetris Grandmistress to the limits (why-oh-why don't cars have expandable gussets?!)

Mum has truffled around and found some more bits & bobs and finished a couple of books and added them to the pile, it's an exciting looking bunch of Stuff.

Thinking we'll probably going to risk it tomorrow, this will be the first sale that a lot of folk will have shopped at since last year and they may have wallet-fever (y'know, when you just have to spend the money which is burning a hole in your wallet) so I want us to be out there with our Stuff.

Slinky

Well done on everybody's efforts, 'stuff' is being moved all over the place.


We've been decorating. Have done a 'feature' wall in our bedroom, and also one wall on the landing. These had been the planned projects for this weekend, we didn't think we'd get much more than these done, however the bedroom was completed yesterday, the landing today, plus the first drop of a wall in the hall. We're out visiting tomorrow afternoon so we're planning on doing some more small repairs tomorrow morning plus reassembling our bedroom furniture (we were using it for wallpaper prep area today). Hopefully we'll finish the wallpapering in the hall on Monday, however we can spill into Tuesday as OH's contract finished on Thursday and I'm on an admin week so we can keep going until we get finished. After that we've just got one more lot of wallpaper in stock to do a wall in the other bedroom, that will have to wait for another time as I think we need to paint the ceiling in that room before we paper the wall.


Nets have been taken down and washed, OH is washing the insides of the windows between helping me with the wallpapering and he's also started on rubbing down a shelf which needs repainting.


Feels like some progress is being made.

silvasava

Greenhouse totally emptied - cannot believe how much stuff I've been keeping for Justin. Lots of things to be sorted and put on Freecycle. I only need about a dozen pots for seeds as I'm getting very selective on what I grow now. I've a stash of terracotta pots that I never use. I've a lovely plastic pharmaceutical box that I'm going to reorganise to store the various feeds and chemicals (not nasties - try not to use them) Had a word with DH as he put a path in the centre of the GH and I was going to plant in the ground but it's not feasable so I've always grown in containers. Now I've cleared everything out he's going to to slab the floor for me which will make it easier to keep clean and tidy. Found a piece of plastic tubing down the back of the rack - when I upended it to check for s p i d e r s it was a nesting place for snails!!! Threw them on the garage roof for the blackbirds and thrushes - win win

GreyQueen

He he, organic pest control, love it!

Me and Dad went for a walk to admire the cowslips (as you do) and the setting sun through the trees. Startled a roe deer hind out of cover and a pheasant nearly gave me a seizure by taking off just under my feet.

Am pleasantly tired now. Have been monitoring the weather forecast as we go through today and the start of tomorrow's wet weather has been put back from about 7 am til about 10 am (lovely clear evening out) and so I reckon Thunderbird will be launching tomoz.

Will check in with y'all tomorrow aft or evening, hopefully while singing I'm in the money.....

Off for an early night, GQ x

wort

Today was the only day of weekends forcast with sun ,so hubby wanted to go somewhere! !
I said I was planning on painting downstairs loo ! Luckily although sunny it was with a freezing wind so I got my way.
2 wrought iron candle holders and a large pottery duck have been kondoed. Plus 2 dark grey and 2 cream walls are now a pleasing shade called jurassic stone. Even did ceiling and woodwork.
My arms hands and neck are protesting , but I'm still glad I did them today.
Hubby cut the skirting piece that's been missing (20") and painted it will fix on tomorrow, and he painted the damp stuff on wall in conservatory as the rain gets in the cavity and comes through the weep holes.
We are at sisters for a bit of a get together tomorrow, and may laze on Monday ,or if not too hung over go to ike@ for a new kitchen drainer, as I fancy a single story instead of a double one so I can see straight out the window then.:T
GQ good luck with the boot sale, hope weather holds off.

Igamogam

Miserable chilly day here today - feel sorry for all the weekend visitors looking for the 'best view in the UK'..........not going to see it today

I am wishing that I had 'cracked on' last night instead of giving in to a glass of wine and hour in front of the TV.......what wasn't finished is of course still here this morning looking at me - swear the piles and 'collections' have grown over night :eek:

Anyway onwards and upwards.........weekly deep clean of kitchen first with Archers going ons

Karmacat

Igamogam wrote: »

I am wishing that I had 'cracked on' last night instead of giving in to a glass of wine and hour in front of the TV.......what wasn't finished is of course still here this morning looking at me - swear the piles and 'collections' have grown over night :eek:

I didn't have the wine, but "yay" to everything else, Igamogram - my internet connection has been so spotty, I've been working on a paper project, but lots more printing (unusual for me) and collation needed, which I didn't touch still, the printing means it will soon be out of the kitchen and up to the office :j

First use of the dehydrator this year :j lemon balm - I aim to powder green stuff from the garden to make my own pesto. After this, its fresh bramble leaves, nettles, chives, oregano, and anything else I find out is edible I also aim to sit out there with a book and a cuppa tea

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Charly27

Hello all. I returned home last week some time as I spent a couple of weeks with my dear Dad and Mum. He's in better form after second chemotherapy than after the first.
You have no idea how good it felt to be home. I did have to Kondo 2 vases of daffodils and their water almost immediately. These appeared to be invisible to both DH and DS! That said it was very easy to unpack and return my clothes to wardrobe and COD.
Though I did some gentle Kondoing at my mum and dad's it was only the dressing table. The one I shared with my sister when I was 18. I took a photo because I realised how much better I slept when I was faced with simplicity and calm. I'll try and share it.
Since returning I have Kondoed my car windscreen :mad:, two front tyres and some kind of 'bush' for my car to pass its MOT on the second attempt. Lucky I have a mechanically minded DH. Still I'm looking forward to pay day as Kondoed far too much money on birthday's, travelling and cars.
Small victories at home since then: the old paper shredder (bit with the plug joined broken hairdryer in small electricals) and the base in rigid plastics at local recycling plant. Something to do whilst waiting for car. Also one of those annoying underwire bras with one of the wires escaping. Definitely didn't spark joy! Enough for now. As I say very baby steps. Off to lunch with a dear friend, back in time for Grand Prix. I'll be either ironing or pottering in the garden. Enjoy the rest of the day all. I've loved reading about all your kondoes, big and small. Thanks

Charly27

https://flic.kr/p/TkMbJE The vase is not mine but I liked it enough to have it centre stage. Make up bag and styling brush, perfume, body spray, bracelet and candle.