KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Karmacat

Another one totally agreeing with sorting before it gets beyond you.

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

I'm single and have no children, and although like you, I hope to have a few more years on the planet I'd like to leave my lovely nieces some happy memories. The worst legacy I can leave them would be a house full of Stuff that's neither useful nor beautiful!

If I'm stuck deciding whether or not I want something, I try and imagine them opening a cupboard and coming across it in thirty years or so. It helps.

Yes! I do the bolded thing :j

At the moment, the thing I'm kondoing, genuinely kondoing as in "getting it all in one place" is my first aid kit/medicine cabinet. There's quite a lot

Siebrie

I've managed to kondo six courgette seedlings and twelve cosmos seedlings, and I think I've lost two dahlia's that were just poking their heads out of the soil. After two weeks of decent weather, and one beautiful day, there was one night with -6 degrees, and my thin plastic greenhouse was not warm enough Ah well, I'm a practical gardener: if it grows I'm happy, if it doesn't, well, it doesn't, it's not the end of the world. I still have some seeds left and may try again, it's not too late.

LizzieR

Karmacat wrote: »

Another one totally agreeing with sorting before it gets beyond you.


Yes! I do the bolded thing :j

Another one in agreement here. The idea of someone else having to sort out all my stuff is awful. Although only in my early (well middish) forties I have suffered with quite a lot of back problems in the past so am aware how easily I can lose mobility, energy and therefore motivation, so it's important to me to get things sorted before I have to rely on others to help me clear stuff - although I do have a stubborn independent streak and sometimes should just ask for help!!

Slinky

We've spent most of today kondoing weeds etc in the garden. Have put down a load of gravel on top of weed proof membrane down the side of our sunroom which has tidied an area waiting for the past 9 years. We've also dug out a flower bed we started clearing last year, have got all but one plant out. Was thinking about trying to salvage some lungwort but it was so mixed up with perennial weeds I passed 3 onto a neighbour, moved another 3 elsewhere in the garden and binned the rest. OH dug out and lowered the level of the bed and hopefully tomorrow we'll put membrane and more gravel down, and plant some new plants we bought this morning.


We've also identified some other plants that have gone leggy and no longer spark joy, so over the next few months we will try and replace them.

GreyQueen

I have kondo'd weeds and had an attendant robin with me for three hours kondo-ing grubs as I turned them up.

Ye New Courgette Bed is shaping up nicely.

Siebrie, sorry to hear of your frost-killed plants. It's a beggar being a gardener at this time of the year, we had - 4 celcius one night this week and I was so glad I'd not sown anything, even in the cold frame, which is frost-tender.

Two IKEYA blue bags of nastiness taken to the tip on the way home and all I need to do now is stop the aching joints and all will be well with the world.

Onwards! (to the kettle)........ :rotfl:

Charis

MMF007 wrote: »

Not kondo-ing but my day might give you all a laugh -

DH, who is an excellent navigator set us off across country and we saw beautiful Herefordshire in spring but then.....
Missed a right turn on to trunk road because it is only signposted from the opposite direction!
Followed signs for a nature reserve to find nowhere to park at all and the road was a dead end with no turning point! I reversed for about 1/4 mile
Turned off main road to take in more countryside to find this was also an unmarked dead end (sign said 'no vehicular access to river' not no through road!).

Just one of those days. :rotfl:

Par for the course in Herefordshire I'm afraid. I live on the cusp of the Three Counties Herefs, Worcs and Glos) in a market town with the famous and much filmed cobbled street which has a lovely church at the other end of it. Driving to Malvern last week all traffic was diverted because another car had left the road and rolled over a 150ft drop. Driver got out through the sunroof, shaken but not stirred. Our roads are full of potholes because Herefordshire is sparsely populated, so badly funded, with lots of roads used by heavy traffic by huge lorries. The Hereford to Pontrilas road has a regular run of huge timber lorries. I have a friend who has lost at least three tyres to the potholes. Three summers ago the County Council saved money by not trimming the grass verges or overhanging trees. We couldn't read the road signs, the speed limit signs or see past shrubbery. My newish car was hit up the back by a man coming off a roundabout at speed who hadn't seen me. A lady was killed while walking her dog in a village with overgrown verges, and a young man, also speeding, also lost his life because he couldn't stop in time. The verges have not been neglected since.

On the bright side, there is lots to look at locally. Hereford, Ledbury, Malvern and Worcester are worth a visit if you like priories, old churches and cathedrals. Queenswood Arboretum near Dinmore Hill on the A49 is pleasant if the day isn't chilly. Symonds Yat is famously lovely for views and Wordsworth wrote his Tintern Abbey poem there. There a Castle at Eastnor, near Ledbury that I haven't been to yet (only been in Ledbury for 16 years) Details of open times and activities are on their website. Sadly the Tourist Information Centres were closed down but the locals are very friendly and most of the hotels and places of interest have information racks. I hope you enjoy your stay :beer:

elona

DD came to stay over last night and did some painting in two of the upstairs bedrooms while I emptied three large cardboard boxes and sorted out the bookcases. I also emptied some of youngest's belongings into two large suitcases so the room looked a bit tidier.

My new bathroom scales arrived and I stepped on them this morning only to find I have put on all the weight I lost :eek: Back to eating sensibly etc and trying to kondo the excess pounds - er mumble - stone

Garden has grown while I was away especially the weeds so need to phone the gardener and let her know I am back so it can get sorted out.

Charis

GreyQueen wrote: »

Thank you.

The decluttering guru Don Aslett suggested that about aged 50 is a good time to declutter with a view to passing on. Not because most of us are due for the grim reaper at this age, but because health, strength and eyesight will weaken and it will all become more onerous with each passing year.

Hmm. I know someone who is forty, and still his belongings are deposited with others. Some in a garage not far from here and the rest, including his grandmother's ashes and part of his father's ashes, are in a garage in yet another county. Maybe I'd better send him a link to the Mins video, and book my own burial. Justin Case.

PollyWollyDoodle

Ah, the 'ashes-in-the-wardrobe' - surprisingly common, not because people want to keep them there but because they don't know what to do with them. A considerable number are never collected from the funeral directors.

I love my nieces dearly, but I can picture them very clearly, laughing hysterically as they hold up X and saying 'what on earth did she keep this for?' :rotfl: It's a great motivator.

greent

Charis wrote: »

On the bright side, there is lots to look at locally. Hereford, Ledbury, Malvern and Worcester are worth a visit if you like priories, old churches and cathedrals. Queenswood Arboretum near Dinmore Hill on the A49 is pleasant if the day isn't chilly. Symonds Yat is famously lovely for views and Wordsworth wrote his Tintern Abbey poem there. There a Castle at Eastnor, near Ledbury that I haven't been to yet (only been in Ledbury for 16 years) Details of open times and activities are on their website. Sadly the Tourist Information Centres were closed down but the locals are very friendly and most of the hotels and places of interest have information racks. I hope you enjoy your stay :beer:

And a trip a little further down to see the beautiful Gloucester Cathedral is always worthwhile It originated in 678/9, the Cloisters (earliest known fan vaulting of its kind) were used in Harry Potter films, the tomb of Edward II, beautiful architecture and stained glass.... and much more. Tewkesbury Abbey is also nice, but I admit to being rather biased about the Cathedral, just in case you couldn't tell! :rotfl: Even Kevin McCloud of Grand Designs rates it highly