KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

VJsmum

Watched this yesterday. Very funny - the life changing magic of not giving a F*** - obviously contains strong language. i read the article she wrote last year on the same point and it kind of is life changing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwRzjFQa_Og

Siebrie

I'm fed up with designer clothes being labelled as 'delicate'. No, it isn't delicate, it's just really bad quality! They are trying to get away with the thinnest thread and the loosest weave.


Half a pile of mending done, some items I decided it was the last time I would mend them; next time, they are for the ragbag. Good, I like the feeling of having made the most out of anything.


Our local government gives out trays of plants in bloom every year; all you have to do is register beforehand, and then you get a letter to come pick them up, which I did yesterday. 8 Lovely plants which I'll plant out this weekend.

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fridge and freezer kondo is ongoing, just had to put some green stuff in my compost bin, including half my prepared and blanched green beans from the freezer. New runner plants will be producing in a blink of an eye

I try and go through my fridge every week, I have a tall fridge and a tall freezer, both used to the max. Got fresh new produce coming this afternoon from local producers and I always try to get space organised beforehand. I am pretty good at not wasting any food but sometimes I just don`t feel like stuffing my face with lettuce. I kondoed half a tin of baked beans too, rinsed well and they are in the compost, all destined for my allotment hotbin, no room for cold bins, so I have one hotbin, which churns out good compost very quickly

Hand on head, I just remembered that all the flower plugs I ordered are coming today. When they arrive it is definitely tail wagging dog time. I am glad no rain is due today and that my trays and pots are handy

BettiePage

Anyone else practically on first name terms with the local Charity Shops after discarding so much 'stuff' or just us?

BettiePage

Right, have a date for getting the keys for the new place so we now have 5 weeks to get it together!

GreyQueen

BettiePage wrote: »

Right, have a date for getting the keys for the new place so we now have 5 weeks to get it together!

No pressure, then! Good luck with that.

BettiePage wrote: »

Anyone else practically on first name terms with the local Charity Shops after discarding so much 'stuff' or just us?

Yup, at one time half the housewares & bric a brac on one local chazzer's shelves was donated by moi, mainly stuff from my Nan's place but some of mine along with it. I was going in on a daily basis..... :rotfl:

A kind colleague has given me two plants, one a pumpkin and one a squash, grown in their polytunnel. Plus a woodlouse, but I suspect the latter was an unintended passenger. I shall be taking them to the lottie this evening but they'll have to go into the cold frame until the weather is a bit warmer and they can be hardened off.

The 'new' dress was a hit. It is a good quality fabric and sturdy construction, one of the reasons why it would have been unacceptable to me to let it go for ragging.

Re Next's clothes, hmm, haven't bothered with them for a couple of years, went into their sale and had a poke around and quickly realised that all I could see was a bunch of miserable rags which I wouldn't accept as freebies, never mind pay even a reduced price for........! Good grief, I've seen and passed on better items at jumble sales.

Much of what is offered for sale is blown together out of third rate fabrics, sewn with inferior threads, buttons barely hanging in there, seams unfinished, dyes poorly-fixed and designed to have 'hanger appeal' which means it looks rubbish on human-shaped humans.

Pah! I'll contunue charity-shopping where you can see how things have washed and worn and any egregious faults have mostly revealed themselves.

If clothing retailers want to stay in biz above the cheapy-cheap fast fashion level, they'll need to cater to the age cohorts which have the most money to spend (demographically, the 50-plus woman). At the moment, they don't seem to know how to make well-designed stylish clothes from reasonable cloth which a person might actually see herself wearing.

rant over

Igamogam

BettiePage wrote: »

Anyone else practically on first name terms with the local Charity Shops after discarding so much 'stuff' or just us?

My local CS has a pile of labels with my GA bar code on all ready:rotfl: Last time I went in they even remarked that the number of drop offs (mine) seems to be dropping. Not sure if they were relieved or disappointed!

silvasava

Totally agree GQ - my mum used to say they were made with a hot needle and burning thread! No seam allowances, all overlocked and my pet hate - striped fabrics that are mismatched - grrr.
My DGD regularly brings me clothes she has bought to be repaired because of shoddy stitching. Last week she turned up at the front door 'cos her work trousers had split (yet again) so I zig zagged ALL the seams for her!

GreyQueen

And one usually has to re-sew all the buttons on a brand-new garment as they're tacked on by a rubbish machine with a thread left hanging from the centre, in most cases. Also, one sometimes ends up sewing the buttonholes by hand as well, they're so poorly finished.

It's pretty un-joyous shopping for clothes in the new stores, I find, if you know a decent fabric and how to construct a garment, as I and a fair few others do know.

And don't even get me started on the garbage which is being passed off as furniture these days! :mad:

silvasava

Oh GQ - sometimes I think we are sisters from a different mother!