KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

wort

Vjsmum , I always end up cleaning the wrong way round and have to redo floor etc as I usually find something else to clean after I've finished!
In general though for my weekly round house clean I pick up all stuff off the floor starting with living room shake out rugs and throws ,wet dust and hoover , kitchen wash up and clean worktops and splashback hoover and then mop all through , usually making cup of tea when I boil water for mopping I put that next to chair I'm going to finish mopping at! So I can drink whilst floor dries.
Bathrooms and bedrooms I do separately but in similar way.
Crazy though it seems I watched a yoo tube video once, of someone going through cleaning routine, but I picked up a couple of tips including one for the toilet brush which is left to dry between the toilet rim and the toilet seat with the lid up !

VJsmum

I usually do the floors last but as DS is at school it was a good opportunity to get them done. Kitchen done, bathrooms done, floors mopped.

Having a break for brekkie and coffee and browse.

Then dust and Hoover each room. I may have to leave DSs as there are revision materials all over it....

Perhaps Inadvisedly I am leaving the two untidiest most troublesome rooms till last...

Oh and the first thing I did was make soup.... :rotfl:

silvasava

VJ'smum - I feel your pain! I tend to do the upstairs one day (two bathrooms - one is a pig as I chose black granite tiles ) Get DH to do the stairs and the downstairs another day. No real set routine - just when I can start to write in the dust lol, but the kitchen/breakfast room & utility gets a lick and a swish nearly every day as its the most heavily used area.
Kondoed some mince into a batch of Chilli - ironed 6 shirts and 8 pillowcases and the steamer ran out of water so I'm leaving the remainder until tomorrow. Nipped into MrM this morning - if anyone is interested they have their plants in - I can vouch for the thornless blackberry - bought one the year before last and the berries are as big as your thumb! The red gooseberry is lovely too - thorns though but the fruit is lovely and sweet. Also got a dozen pink geranaiums for my front windowboxes for £3.00 and they look lovely and healthy. Just waiting for this wind to ease so I can get some planting done.

VJsmum

Aaaaaand - I'm done :T

Five and a half hours :eek: Though I did stop to make soup, have breakfast and then lunch and did a load of washing as well as conversing with DS. Usually the house takes 4 hours so i reckon that's about right. Everything does have a place and is now in that place...

It'll stay like it for an hour or so :rotfl:

Time for a cuppa

MMF007

The local 'Marie-go-round' has repositioned more Stuff!
A large, multi tiered cake tin has gone from one house (ex-occupant now in a care home) to the house of an avid baker
A lovely but very heavy winter coat is now at CS.
A pretty basket is on its way to sil who does floristry.

I did buy one thing today..... some stem ginger to go in the HM maramlade. Hopefully it will be extra delicious

Recycling sorted and in respective resceptacles (will be taken on Friday morning but unfortunately I seem to have quite a lot to go ).

Work today was its usual unpredictable self. Apart from cleaning for folk I have booked an electrician, ordered a replacement brush head for an upright vac (I'll fit it next week), found a lost cardy (owner was super anxious because it has been mislaid before. She thanked me for 'rescuing her again' :rotfl:) and taken a mini hoard of OOD meds to pharmacy for disposal. All in a day's work, as they say

Right, time to prep veg while DH has a nap :rotfl:

maryb

Just wanted to warn people don't use Oven Pride on anodised aluminium. It says it in very small print somewhere on the packet. It will ruin the finish leaving a peeling mess. I ruined an expensive Mermaid roasting tin that way

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What a messy day!! Thanks for the oven tin help, I`ll follow it up

I went to put air into my tyres this morning and long story to short story, I was concentrating on the couple before me, who had had problems and silly me put in the wrong psi, wrong by a lot. I didn`t realise, because I could not see the machine, it sucked air out of each tyre. Then I was tootling along the lanes to post an urgent letter, when the sensors in my car started flashing and told me to check my tyres. I drove home, abandoning the post office, drove as slowly and carefully as I could. Checked my tyre pressures with my trusty metal gauge, thank heavens not kondoed. My pressures were all down by 1/3. Tried what I thought was an old car pump but it wasn`t. Tootled 6 miles back to sainsbury and fixed it.

That set the tone for the rest of the day, crazy snacks and not a proper meal. Parcels coming at me, a plumber coming tomorrow and a utility room to thoroughly clean. One of those days when the house looked as though a bomb had hit it

oh yes, I have ordered a 12v tyre inflator from amazon. I`ll be doing my tyres at home, from cold, in future

maryb, I looked in youtube last night and they said that

Charis

kittie wrote: »

What a messy day!! Thanks for the oven tin help, I`ll follow it up

I have ordered a 12v tyre inflator from amazon. I`ll be doing my tyres at home, from cold, in future

Kittie, I have one of those which runs from the car battery. It is fine, but it took a while for me to realise that you have to a) Have the electrics switched on at the ignition, but engine not running and b) Overfill each tyre to allow for the escaping air as you fumble with the fiddly screw on connection to take it off, losing air as you go. Before those minor adjustments I was emitting more hot air than the pump .

I bought a digital pressure checker too and eventually realised that both need to be set to PSI or bar (or Kpa) for them to be easily cross checked. I was usd to psi but now do both in bar as they seem to be bigger units, so less worry about getting it spot on.

Because I live in a rural area with the potential for rolling down a hill or being trapped in flood water, or isolated at night waiting for the RAC, I also treated myself to one of these emergency beacons. It lives under my driving seat with a clean old teatowel for window demisting. I haven't yet needed it and the batteries are as strong as ever. I've had it for almost three years.

silvasava

Charis - what a wise and sensible idea to have an emergency beacon especially in rural areas. I have a box in my boot with jump leads, jack, blanket, tow rope and a pair of heavy gloves but I'm in a suburb and could phone DH or DS's if I were in trouble. I do subscribe to the ethos of 'Hope for the best but prepare for the worst'

PollyWollyDoodle

I always feel a bit of a failure because I don't have a cleaning routine so I'm quite relieved to hear that others also do it in ad 'ad hoc' way. It depends on whether I've got visitors/how much use a room is getting/what my plans are. The kitchen is messy at the moment but I'm determined to finish a sewing project, no point cleaning up till that's done.

Kittie I always do my tyres at home with one of those plug-in ones, before I bought that couple of years ago I used to do them with a foot pump, it didn't take long. I've been driving for 32 years and I am still too scared to use the ones at the garage! :rotfl: