KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

iamsalt

I too am horrified at the poor quality of clothes, I hardly spend on them at all, and try to make things last, but I have noticed fabrics getting thinner, so I won't still be wearing them 20 years later like I am with some items (bought from cheap shop like new lo0k in the 90s). I love my jeans which I spent more on, and they have been back to the makers for repair and they did a lovely job, I love their ethos of doing one thing well and repairs for life, it even helps that I feel like a million dollars when weAring them.

Still trying to kondo 2 houses at speed alongside full time work, I am really enjoying my new job, but it does make it challenging to get things done until I settle into a new rhythm. My OH isn't quite as ready to kondo stuff before moving so a lot will be moved with us, but I am making an effort with mine.

oh dear GQ you started me on furniture....I won't buy modern furniture, I have lots of 30s and 50s stuff, all hand me downs and all still sturdy. I am not fond of melamine and I like woods even if they don't match! I have commissioned a wardrobe from a carpenter as a special piece that I will enjoy every day, as my OHs melamine wardrobe is on its last legs and I can get rid of it in a couple of weeks when my new one arrives. To me it's a sensible investment in something I will enjoy for years.

VJsmum

I once took a pair of DDs school shoes back as they'd fallen apart after 2 weeks to be told that she wasn't "supposed to walk in them".

I kid you not....

iamsalt

VJsmum wrote: »

I once took a pair of DDs school shoes back as they'd fallen apart after 2 weeks to be told that she wasn't "supposed to walk in them".

I kid you not....

Oh my goodness, how ridiculous!

GreyQueen

silvasava wrote: »

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

I've always wanted a big sister.

Decided not to go to the lottie this evening as I have my flat at sixes-and-sevens and am busy sorting stuff in my bedroom. Which is a tiny bit bigger than the bog-standard double bed in it. Other than that, it has a small alcove with a hanging rail just below ceiling height, a shabitat trolley below holding some boxes and bags, and a white melamine COD with the sewing machine and the sock baskets on top.

I did mention being SABLE'd for socks, didn't I?

My bedroom has to hold a number of things which cannot be reliably left in the shed (very real burglary risk, have been done over before); tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, kelly kettle, bow and arrows......... these are tucked in random places in nooks and crannies.

As well as clothes and my file box of important papers and the wally-trolley which has nowhere else to stand.

Had a LBM concerning one of those A-frame over the bath clothes airers. I'm sure you've seen these generic metal covered with white plastic items.

My one was 50p from a chazzer and had lost the clips that hold the top half of the A-frame together; I was using some elasticated cord instead. This item stands at the foot of my bed, in the 8 inch gap before the wall, and serves the same function as normal people ascribe to ye trustee bedroom chair. Because the space is the bedroom is so confined, and two of the outside wall are on the river side of the flat, I don't like to have very much at all there or mould sets up housekeeping.

So, what I did was removed the elastic bands and overlapped one half of the airer with the other, to make a kind of ladder, which will enable me to air in-use clothes better and see what I've got. Shoot me if you think I'm a durdy mare, but I don't wash outer wear after one use, so things can be waiting to re-appear on my back. And now they will wait with more style.

I used white electical tape to hold the sides together although most of the weight of the upper half is supported by having its feet resting over one of the rails of the lower half.

Feeling pretty pleased with my ingenuity, proving that there is always room for improvement in one's 'umble abode.

Oh, and I've found out how to play CDs on the pooter again - click things at random until something happens worked for me. Gotta watch it tho as the pooter has a mega speaker system hooked into it and I could easily deafen half the neighbourhood if I wanted to be a PITA.

Shortie

I think my chickens Kondo'd my onions and potatoes

My son let them out yesterday morning and no-one put them back away. I only ever let them out half a day at a time otherwise they get bored of the usual scratching places and start attacking plants and the veg beds

They were out the whole day while I was in work and I came back to mass destruction.

My potatoes and Oca have no top growth any more, and my lovely tall onions are now about 2-3 ins tall :mad:

Any growers on here know... should I life the onions now and be done with them? I'm worried they'll now 'waste' the bulb trying to regrow the missing tops

The potatoes and Oca.... well I'm just hoping they'll resprout as it's early season for them still

Advice welcomed

GreyQueen

I'd leave them in situ, shortie. The spuds will re-grow for sure and I think the onions will, too.

I have some home-grown onions from the previous year and have them in my kitchen. Their tops sprout constantly and I use them as cut-and-come-again onions. I think that the onion sets will generate fresh leaves if you leave them (the bulb will be too tiny to be worth lifting at this time of year, anyway).

Overall, you may have smaller onions than they would have been, but it mightn't make too much difference. HTH.

BettiePage

GreyQueen wrote: »

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My bedroom has to hold a number of things ........ <cut> bow and arrows......... <cut>
PITA.

Dare I ask????

GreyQueen

BettiePage wrote: »

Dare I ask????

Archery is a hobby of mine - I have a longbow and 12 arrows in my bedroom.

Slinky

Do you take the bow and arrows on your bike GQ? I'm trying to visualise what that may look like?!

GreyQueen

Slinky wrote: »

Do you take the bow and arrows on your bike GQ? I'm trying to visualise what that may look like?!

I have one of these; http://www.kgarchery.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=23_22&product_id=399

Except that I have the one for a right-handed archer (wasn't a pic on the site) which means that the ledge to support the arrow is on the left - the ambi version has ledges both sides. It's 64 inches long and lives in a cloth sleeve. The arrows are just over 3 ft long, wooden with steel tips and feathers - dyed turkey feathers, mine are yellow and black, but you can get all sorts. They live in a black plastic carry tube like artists use to carry rolled up papers.

I wouldn't risk biking with the longbow, I walk with it in one hand and the carrytube slung across my back on its strap. Never been stopped by the polis but plenty of people assume the sleeved longbow is a fishing rod or even a pool cue, by the comments I get.