KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

YorksLass

Floss wrote: »

YorksLass I actually quite like the sewing-up, It's the actual knitting that gets me down! If you are ever over my way on the Lancashire coast, bring your bits of knitting with you!

Oh lors, they're not bits - I'd need a whole suitcase!

Floss wrote: »

First arrival, first sewn...;)

If I knit and you sew, does that get me to the top of the queue?

Floss

YorksLass wrote: »

Oh lors, they're not bits - I'd need a whole suitcase!
If I knit and you sew, does that get me to the top of the queue?

I'm sure we can some to some arrangement

LizzieR

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

You have all made me feel so much better about my UFOs/WIPs, thank you!

Me too! My oldest is a mere 18 years old.... A cross-stitch embroidery to celebrate the millenium Maybe I'll set myself a 2020 deadline

Shortie

Evening all

I'm in a weird mood, pensive over emails that were flying around this evening and at times like that, I tend to be great at decluttering - is it a distraction technique? No idea - am I the only person who does this?

Anyway, some more stuff Kondo'd. Books organised, bits thrown and the CS bag is now full ready for Saturday.

I can see the vast difference in the space I attacked and that feels good

Igamogam

LizzieR wrote: »

Me too! My oldest is a mere 18 years old.... A cross-stitch embroidery to celebrate the millenium Maybe I'll set myself a 2020 deadline

I think I have the same one................OH bought me it and I was keen at first............maybe I will look at it again and set myself a deadline too!

grunnie

I have 8 WIP so instead of leaving them at the back of the wardrobe or dumping then in a CS I have decided to make them into cushion covers for my kitchen chairs. Will crochet the back for them and use up some wool as well. :j

Igamogam

So OH decided to go into the attic.............:eek: Have removed box of craft stuff that I have put on fr**gle. If it doesnt go I wil take to work with me next week. Also old dolls pram that was going to be a renovation project for me...never going to do it. A few empty boxes. discovered where an item of mine has been lurking which is staying out for now and a few boxes of kids toys which looking at Eb*y they are fetching nice prices.....so that is where they are going. Couple of big toys belonging to DDs are boxed up and staying there for them to decide what to do with when the time comes. There also a couple of things that came form my grandparents house that I will have to do some research on before I let go - dont want to keep but if they have a value I am not going to just let them go..... OH parted with one ski bag - better than nothing and removed a box with his train set in but I feel that may go back in.

Not content with venturing into the Big Attic OH then decided to look into Small Attic - a small space you cant really get into unless you lie down but if standing on step ladder can put boxes /stuff in if passed up to you IYSWIM......anyway out came box of 'sensitive papers' no longer needed and now incinerated in the fire basket in the garden ( I did that before there was a change of mine and boy did it feel good ) Also a box of course notes belong to OH from study many years ago which he going to 'check' and case containing electronic gadget which I rescued from a skip and have never really found a use for...so that is ready to go to recycle centre later today. In went two framed prints that OH brought from his mothers when she died........he took them out of SA 2 years ago to check out and they have leaned against a wall ever since....now back into the dark - he will deal with them at some point but they are not under my feet anymore:o

On a roll again. Planning a trip to CS tomorrow as now a great deal of 'stuff' is exposed and out in the house and unless I think I can get some cash out of it , it is going out the door one way or another!

Slinky

Load of money kondo'd to the opticians today. Both OH and I were overdue eye tests, we've both gone for reglazes on existing frames which we like and are in good condition even so that was best part of £400. Came home and I've ordered a pair from an online company which have transitions lenses that tint in the sunlight so I only have to take one pair on holidays. I would have got by with my old pair for a while longer but the transitions bit no longer works. OH has also ordered some spare pairs online so we're up to nearer £700 today. However BIL was telling us at the weekend that his single new pair were in that ballpark due to the strength of his prescription so we got away reasonably lightly. Just hope that the online company make mine quickly as they can take up to 28 days. We'll be on holiday by then......

On the way back went via the tip and got rid of clut that's been building up in the garage for about a month and bunged it mainly into the recycling bins.

LizzieR

Igamogam wrote: »

I think I have the same one................OH bought me it and I was keen at first............maybe I will look at it again and set myself a deadline too!

Good plan! If it's the same one as mine it was all the gold swirls that defeated me - I did all the interesting bits, but just stitching one colour got really boring - I picked it up for a bit about 5 years ago and then decided to take another (extended) break from it!
I've set myself deadlines in the past for finishing embroideries and it really has worked, and helped me focus on completing them. I did the same with my Mum a couple of years ago - set her a deadline of her birthday (approx 3 months) to finish an embroidery she'd been doing since I was a child - we think it was about 33 years - probably 90% complete, but she just didn't get round to the last bits. By the deadline it had been finished, professionally framed and is hanging in pride of place in her lounge :T
In order to get all my WIPs finished I think I need to ask all my friends to stop getting married and/or having children as I seem to feel obliged to stitch them something for these events, and it puts anything I'm sewing for myself on hold....

Charis

I've been listening to a series of The Minimalists' podcasts . Amazed to find that Justin is an occasional friend of theirs . I listened to The podcasts on Media, and on Clutter where the old subject of clearing a deceased relative's estate comes up. They are actively telling the younger generation that no one wants your parents' things. Sounds harsh, but they are warning that of all the trinkets people leave behind only one in a thousand is really worth anything. They advise to check the market and dispose of stuff advisedly once they know its possible value, rather than, as most of my generation seem to, stuff a lot of things in the attic, garage, outhouse, shed, to be dealt with 'some time'.

I wonder if there is a podcast on how to get your offspring to take the stuff they have left with you, while they go off to have a life? The podcasts are quite long, some very long, like their book 'Everything That Remains', which is on there. It's funny listening to them, like we are in a cult that uses all the same jargon. They are a genuine pair of guys and have made me want to get my house in order (getting there, have been gently Kondoing through various family crises) and I have a fresh desire to get out there, enjoy the company of others, and live my life free of all sorts of baggage, mental and/or physical. It's taken me almost eighteen months to get this far, but recently it's as though I have finally released a log jam. I've even started drawing and writing poetry again.

I read this thread almost every day and am grateful for your news and stories. There have been days when I wondered what I had started, when discontent seemed unavoidable because there is so much left to go through, and a lot of it not mine. Actually I've started to release a lot of my things that I didn't think I would, tools and equipment and loads of books. I just love the feeling of lightness of having less to curate, dust, insure, renovate and carry through life. Onward and...onward :j