KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

PollyWollyDoodle

I have shopped almost exclusively from chazzers for the last two years, I do agree about the t-shirts Pooky although I've struck lucky once or twice. Apart from their cost, manufacturing new clothes cost a lot in resources and then there's the workers' conditions... However, successful CS shopping does take time,you have to be able to trawl regularly and wait for the right thing to appear. I couldn't manage it when I worked full time.

Interesting concept GQ - not sure I have the dedication to do the calculations but I can make a good guess at whether I've had VFM for my appliances and I always budget for replacement, especially the car.

A friend has recently divorced and as a combination of this and downsizing she has a mortgage free flat. She's also got a good pension and she's still working. I was :eek: when I heard her say the other day that she's taken out a 'small' mortgage to buy a car ... because it's cheaper than the lease repayments on her current one. I despair.

Good to hear about SSAFA - there are a lot of small charities that do unsung good works.

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I had cleaning to do yesterday, honestly it only took minutes, to do the whole living area, that is what kondo is meaning to me at the moment, it is giving me time back and time is far more precious than possessions. A quick vac and a quick flick with a feather duster and I was done

No kondo just now, I am pacing myself, am enjoying the allotment, my baby plants, the garden and cycling. Any more `work` and this contentedness will come crashing down. I think I will save kondo for dreary or cold days in autumn and winter. No point in trying to be superwoman

I sorted the baking trays, they looked better after all my attention but I have bought some amazing, truly amazing, silicone sheets from bakery bits. I overlap them on bigger trays. Yesterday made a big batch of cheese scones, using very soggy dough and also a sd loaf, upturned from the banetton onto a silicone sheet on a peel and then slid onto a stone I have in my oven. I have to say the sheets are a 5* buy. Everything baked perfectly and then the sheets were so easy to wipe afterwards and naturally, stored in the oven. I have la cloche, one round and two oblong, bread bakers, they enable beautiful rustic loaves. However they take storage room in my kitchen. My main oven has moisture, as I have always been a bread baker and can bake conventional ie without drying effects of a fan and yesterday, the first time, I baked a super loaf without the la cloche, using moisture. Now I have to sit tight and will wait several months, before I decide what to do with the stone bakers. I have to try short long loaves first. I insisted on buying the special stone when I had the kichen done, first time used was yesterday, was too worried about sticking

I am doing a rain dance this morning, after coffee. Please please send me rain :dance:, otherwise I will have to water the nematodes with about 20 cans of water. Looks like we will be in a drought here soon. My water storage at home is way below half, I have provision for over 1000 litres for plants and 2500 in a rainwater harvester for toilets and washing :dance:

GreyQueen

Sounds good, kittie.

I'm spending a lovely April morning grubbling around under my kitchen sink; have a very slow-running sink which shares its drainage with all the kitchens above mine. I am beyond OCD when it comes to sink-management and am quite sure that it's nothing I've done, or failed to do, which might have caused it but I'm sure to be blamed and billed for it *sigh*..... being the ground floor flat is a PITA sometimes.

Have cleared out the U-bend, the attachement to the washer (which is plugged to maximise the pressure delivered by the plunger - a WikiHow trick) and have been plunging away happily several times.

Have forced 3 sinkfuls of cold water thru the pipe (after giving it several goes with boiling water and soda crystals yesterday) and no nastiness is coming up and the sink is emptying a tiny smidgeon faster than it was.

Am boiling the kettle for another soda treatment (and a cuppa for me;)) and then will have the U-bend off again and try snaking the pipe once more. After that, it's a professional job, I'm afraid, post BH weekend. I think the problem is in the external drain as there is a very short run of pipe from my sink to the communal waste-water pipe and it's all within the reach of the snake.

After that, I'm calling quits and going to the lottie, life's too short to waste a gorgeous sunny spring day.

On the plus - post-kondo- side, the undersink area is well organised and very easy to clear access to the affected areas, a matter of seconds only, and all the tools and bits and bobs I need for this are at hand.

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I bet the upstairsers have been putting fat down the sink GQ. Some people just don`t care

15 minutes to light rain according to raintoday.co.uk. The mass of rain is missing us again :dance: :dance: :dance: now frantically dancing for rain

GreyQueen

Well, that was a frustrating waste of a morning. Have had the snake down the pipe as far as the communal downpipe and there's no blockages between the sink and it. Pants.

Ach well, the communal drains are being looked-at on Tues, have to hope that will resolve the problem. Meanwhile, am limping along with my slo-mo sink.

Having lunch and will head out to the lottie, fed up with plumbing!

grunnie

PollyWollyDoodle I have friends that do stupid things like that too and tell me in such a way I should be proud of their money saving.
GQ I put a tub of bicarb of soda and a cup of vinegar down each plughole about once a month. It fizzes like mad and then leave for a while and turn on the hot water and voila clean drains.
How is your fridge? The little man who turns on the light in the fridge I can mine Yahoodee might have gone on holiday for a while. ( you didn't shoot him with an arrow did ya? )
I was in Aberdeen yesterday and most of the charity shops shut on a Saturday afternoon and the ones who were open were so expensive that I could have bought the stuff on the sale rail in any big store. We must have been doing too much KMing as nearly all of them had "no intake" signs on the doors. They obviously don't realise that if the stuff was priced cheaper they would sell twice as much.:T

Chieveley

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15 minutes to light rain according to raintoday.co.uk. The mass of rain is missing us again :dance: :dance: :dance: now frantically dancing for rain[/QUOTE]

Joining you in the rain dance here in Chieveley

Slinky

GQ if you are pulling your fridge out, try and locate where there is a junction between the copper and steel pipework. If you can find it and have some suitable grease (silicon ideally, or perhaps Vaseline), cover the joint between the two with a good coat of grease to keep the air off. This is the most vulnerable point where two metals are joined and is generally the point where the fridge will fail. Keep the air away from it and you could prolong the life of your fridge.

GreyQueen

Slinky wrote: »

GQ if you are pulling your fridge out, try and locate where there is a junction between the copper and steel pipework. If you can find it and have some suitable grease (silicon ideally, or perhaps Vaseline), cover the joint between the two with a good coat of grease to keep the air off. This is the most vulnerable point where two metals are joined and is generally the point where the fridge will fail. Keep the air away from it and you could prolong the life of your fridge.

Thanks for that tip, I had no idea there were some many tips and wrinkles to fridges, I shall note them in my little notebook, will deffo look for that joint when I have the fridge out, which will be a few days' hence as am gardening again tomorrow, back at work on Tues and then archery right after work. Haven't got silicone but have got a big jar of vaseline.

Been gardening and came back and re-assembled my kitchen and cleaned draining board and sink after all the shenanigans. The sink seems to be draining a fraction better.

I did do that bicarb & vinegar trick a couple of days ago, and it was fun and frothy but didn't budge anything in this instance. I do soda crystals and a kettleful of boiling water down the plugholes on a regular basis and definately if there's been a greasy washing up sesh (although anything greasy gets wiped out with paper before washing up commences).

I have kondo'd two leatherjackets, several small snails and two small shrinp-pink grubs of a kind not seen before - put 'em on the lottie bird table and Mr(s) Robin self-serves. I also put a slug up there but the robin checked it out and turned up its beak in disgust. I didn't see what kind of veliociraptor snaffled it but it was probably a blackbird as I reckon a gull would have been big enough to notice as I was digging only feet away.

Righty, now time for a cuppa and some YS naughtinesses, nomnomnom.

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Chieveley wrote: »

Joining you in the rain dance here in Chieveley

Chieveley my rainometer says 0.8 mm in the whole day. Arghh. I may as well grow dessert plants