KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Siebrie

Dinner tonight was freezer buffet including the last of the fish fingers, last of the ikeya veggie balls, last of the small meatballs, bottom of the fridge green beans, half a pot of applesauce, last sweet potato. For dessert the girls made fancy shapes out of some pieces of icing, and then ate them. The blocks of icing were bought when we were in the UK in Feb, and have a bbd of August; I see many cupcakes in our future

Two 15-minute sessions removing the weeds from the lawn today. Also, looking for a new bike! I have located a chain of bicycle stores, and actually went to one. They did not have the one I wanted, but have ordered it in for me to try out next Friday. It is about GBP500 above streeeetched budget, though, and I'm thinking I'm being a wimp going for an electric bike; probably a good normal bike will be fine. I'm in good health and have always cycled everywhere until I moved to Belgium almost ten years ago. I've even moved house on my bike

Dds' wardrobe is falling apart; it was all we could afford in a rush three years ago, but it's neither nice nor sturdy. hmmm, I have a nice Chinese-y cupboard in the garage that is sturdy and would look good, but has no hanging space; let me sleep on it for a bit....

PollyWollyDoodle

Slinky, I have trouble with plants too! Someone gave me an aloe vera last year. I didn't ask for it and I don't think it's attractive, it was one they'd grown so it's not even in a fancy pot. Why has it lived on my kitchen windowsill for a year? Because I can't bring myself to throw out a living plant!

I left it outside last autumn, sneakily thinking that Mother Nature might do the deed for me, and a friend (not the one who gave it to me) helpfully said 'you'd better bring this in before we get a frost'. Grrr! I don't know why I find this so hard to do.

short_bird

“We didn’t do towels but people kept coming in asking for them,” Cooke explains. “It enables them to wash. You can’t get much more intimate than that"
Is there a clothes bank in your area??

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/11/britain-clothes-banks-poverty-sharewear

greenbee

Siebrie wrote: »

Dds' wardrobe is falling apart; it was all we could afford in a rush three years ago, but it's neither nice nor sturdy. hmmm, I have a nice Chinese-y cupboard in the garage that is sturdy and would look good, but has no hanging space; let me sleep on it for a bit....

It should be fairly straightforward to take the shelves out and put a hanging rail in.

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siebre, keep the top shelf, you will need a side to side shelf for cupboard strength. You should be able to get a dowel and two dowel hangers to screw into the underneath of the top shelf. Depends on the height of course but maybe you can also leave a bottom shelf for shoes

depends on the width but you might need a central support as well
https://www.ironmongerydirect.co.uk/product/centre-hanging-bracket-19mm-white-283353

and
https://www.ironmongerydirect.co.uk/product/tube-end-socket-pack-25mm-brushed-nickel-472377

MMF007

Aaaaggghhh, kondo'd a tooth Well fractured it in 2 places and it has had a very temp repair until it can be 'dealt with'. Likely prognosis is extraction, as prob too little will be left for reconstruction. It is upper incisor so I may pay A LOT for implant, or else it will be a false tooth for me. This has made me feel really old, a false tooth ......

OK, end of moan!

Packed for our week away in record time, lifted pile of tshirts from drawer straight into case. Same with trousers, 2 cardi's, and undies
I admit to buying a new washbag (to cheer me up today!). I had been looking for one for a while and found just the design while mopsing round this afto. Old one is already in the bin (too degraded to put in CS).

PollyWollyDoodle

Ouch MMF007 - I feel your pain! After a root canal, an apicectomy and a post-and-crown, when the crown kept coming off my dentist advised that the root had fractured and extraction was the only option. Like yours, it was an incisor. It made me feel really old

Because it was a front tooth - and my job then and now involved a lot of public speaking - I had an implant, but it was eye-wateringly expensive, no holiday that year and not much of anything else! However it's been brilliant, I would do it again if I could afford it (not so easy now I'm self employed) and if I needed another tooth adjacent to it, I could have it fitted to the same implant. I did have to wear a 'plate' for six months while the extraction healed up, not a pleasant experience.

Sorry - bit off topic, by all means PM me if you've got any questions. Back on Kondo, I opened the bathroom cabinet today to get something and immediately spotted three items that I know I'll never use up. Why did they make it through the first round? Dunno, but they're gone now!

greenbee

I have an implant too - premolar, so the peg was dropped straight into th hole left by the root and I didn't have to let it heal and have a new hole drilled. Cut the process by about 3 months compared to a molar.

GreyQueen

:j Just tried on a FF@ce dress (chazzer find a while back) which has been too tight for my porkier self and it now fits! So pleased I had to share.

I had thought about kondo-ing this dress a few months back and had taken it down off the rail and laundered it again so's it'd be freshened for donation. At which point I discovered a previously unnoticed L-shaped tear, centre back on the skirt bit, which had been hidden by the fabric (needlecord) and the overprinting on said fabric.

I didn't feel ripped off as I'd got it from the Everything 50p chazzer but I was in a quandary as I thought it'd be ragged if it went for donation and it was only lightly-used apart from that amd had many thousands of useful and pleasing wearable hours ahead of it.

I decided to mend it with a small patch of fusible interfacing inside and some stitching through from the outside. Last time I tried it on, one deep breath would have seen the poppers up the front burst open most embarrassingly but just tried it now and it fits. Will be wearing it and enjoying a 'new' wardrobe item.

Righty, will be waiting in for a plumber (was joking with the guy, this'll be the fourth visit, that we'll soon be exchanging Xmas cards) and then off to work. Kondo-ing continuing at the lottie shed in time fragments, it's amazing how effective the grab-the-nearest-bit-of-tott-and-remove-it stratagem is as a decluttering method.

Have a great day, one and all. GQ x

ETA; plumbers been and gone, drains jetted. I've learned some fascinating things about what's found in drains and sewers, over the years these guys have found; severed limbs, mattresses, wallets, jewellery, an escaped prisoner............ !

oceanspirit

GQ, that's great news. Always good to have a new wardrobe item, especially when you are shrinking into them - great motivation.

Still haven't managed to remove my spare tyre; instead it has increased to a breakers yard full. Can't wait to shrink into my lovely clothes however need all the life stress to abate first.

Another moan coming about the quality of newer clothing - bought a dress last spring (£55), wore it once for about 3-4 hours and popped it back into the wardrobe. Wore it again this week for a full day and it is bobbling up already. Not even washed yet so dreading what it'll look like when done.

Saw in the news a few weeks ago that the top bod at Next was saying clothing sales were down in his view because younger people were spending more in pubs and restaurants. He didn't mention older people being fed up with poor quality.

Some more sorting and letting go yesterday. OH needs to store some of his things here and it's a small space so am under pressure to get more 'stuff' out.