KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

WeeMidgie

Ahhh lovely photo. There is such peace in simplicity. Thanks Charly27 for sharing with us!

greent

Love the unusual vase/ pot, charly

Day two of the garage yesterday - mouse had been eating the bait, so hopefully that problem has been solved....

Ladder taken from bottom of drive (had a sign on saying please take me) - currently have a tub chair sat there seeing if it will also go (will take to CS if not) Released loads more cardboard boxes and some kitchen cupboard doors and some too-thin-to-be useful mdf, a folding stool, an old garden chair and a large old wooden ottoman to recycling centre. Packed up my wedding dress to send off. CS pile has gained some outdoor toys, a squash racket and case and a pin-board. Bin gained lots of old, manky toys. Large pile of items identified for selling - some via fleebay, some fb00k, some NNS. Had one fleebay sale yesterday and another today

Offered to take smalls out today but they aren't really interested. Not complaining as it's quite chilly out there! Will hopefully price some items for NNS and list some on fleebay instead and maybe even do a bit of housework

Egg hunt done in the garden - children suitably high on sugar - but smalls have been working some of it off on the rowing machine in their own competition!

x

GreyQueen

Am EXHAUSTED but made just over £50 once the pitch fee and petrol taken off. Some serious amounts of Stuff have exited, not everything, that would have been too much to hope for, but a lot has gone.

Some good things didn't go but most of them will be going to a charity shop sometime soon. It started early - we were unpacking at 7.20 am and back home by midday.

I bought absolutely nothing new-to-me but Kid Bruv has bought himself a few books, we're a family of bookworms.

wort

Happy Easter all :easter_os
Absolutely pickling down here , have cleaned house ,made pizzas for the freezer, plus one to take with me for sisters, done the ironing. So I can enjoy rest of weekend, wine and fun this afternoon, with family hope everyone is enjoying their day x

Pooky

Great result GQ! All that stuff shifted will be a great motivator to your parentals.

DH and I are still trying to recover from this tummy bug. Utterly exhausted from a stressful week with DD2s surgery and little food for the past few days there's no hope of kondoing (other than weight - 8lbs down for me, 10lbs down for DH). I'm supposed to be kondoing the entire bathroom by Thursday for dad to install the new pipe work.....we'll have to see how I feel later in the week.

GreyQueen

Sorry to hear that you and the family have been going thru the mill, healthwise, Pooky, hope the next few days see you out the other side of it.

Just been hanging out downstairs with the folks. The Queen of Sheba had about four drops of rain land on her, which caused her to dash back indoors and cry like a lost soul to be picked up and cuddled. This is an animal who really doesn't like discomfort of any sort. Her sister, Wild Thing, rocks up a few times a day for food, and it otherwise Out Doing Cat Things for 6-8 months of the year.

Mum volunteered the suggestion, apropros of nothing, that 'Christmas Roses' can come down out of the loft, be treadle-washed in the bathtub and then offered to charity/ attempted to sell. This is one of the readicut rugs from back in the day and has been up there since Noah was a lad. I was quietly astonished - all we need now is a hot spell of weather and I'll do that job.

I will be going loft-wards tomoz to retrieve some yarn for Mum's next knitting project for herself, we're going for red & black so should be exciting. I'll drag 'Chrismas Roses' towards the hatch so's it's nice and accessible for when my visiting co-incides with some scorching hot weather.

The sunlounger sold, as did some other random stuff, including the two clay flowerpots (minus drainage holes) which came with my liddly herb bushes last month. I could have kept them around in my lottie shed, shuffling them from spot to spot, getting in my way and providing habitat for s p i d e r s until they eventually broke.

Or I could just sell 'em when they were in good nick, which is what I decided to do..... :rotfl:

Shortie

Afternoon all. Trying to catch up on the thread but it's moving faster than I can read it, lol xx

We went away for a week, opted to Kondo my job (I don't find out if I am chosen for quite a while yet though), had a difficult week in work and having a busy Easter break, phew!

I haven't been Kondo'ing in the house as I've been making use of the weather and Kondo'ing bits of overgrown garden and weeds.

And then also adding to the things in the house - went yellow sticker shopping yesterday and my g*d what a haul. I now have tonnes of food to deal with so that I don't waste it

I've frozen what I could, made some things up (and then frozen some), and have a list I'd like to try and make tomorrow. Lots of salad stuff in now for Mr Shortie and lots of fruit in too

I need to up the 'proper' Kondo'ing though

GoingToDoIt

:EasterBun:icotbaskeAnyone else spending the day kondoing chocolate?
:icotbaske:EasterBun

I've started to clear the place of choice bunnies and eggs, might take me a few days:rotfl:

silvasava

No chocolate here - not keen on it. DH & I havespent the day re- slabbing the floor in the greenhouse. We've used medium density concrete blocks as it's only 6x6 but my the things are blinking heavy! All done now and level. Starting to put back only the things I actually use - there's definitely more being left that was for Justin. Where did I get 4 Kentucky trays from? I've only ever been in one once and that was over 40 years ago and honest guv I never pinched any trays. We're somewhat knackered now so I've slammed in the lamb and we're having a little sherbet before dinner.
Hope every one has had a good day

PS: well done on the booty GQ!

WeeMidgie

Well done GQ, your car Tetris must have been good to get the Sun lounger in along with everything else - and it was a one way trip for it too.

You revived a memory of my late father saying he worked on a Readicut rug in the 1950's. I never saw it.... maybe it never got finished. Kondo'd by the time he mentioned it.

My father in his later working years was on various Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships, and said some of the men were into knitting and needlecraft in their off duty time on board. That would have been around the time of, and after the Falklands war. His ship was one of the last ones home, months after the cease-fire. He was affected mentally by his experiences in the South Atlantic, as so many were.

But it's touching to think of those men, using their creativity to make something, often for loved ones, when so far away from home. Maybe it would have been a small focus of comfort for him to have had something like that to do in his spare time, but the Readicut rug as far as I can remember, was his only foray into fabric crafts.

Thanks for the memory! They may lie dormant, but never get totally Kondo'd!