KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

camelot1001

Hope the weather cheers up for you GQ, would be good to get the CR rug washed and dried. No thunder storms here but it's a bit drizzly. I have a couple of bedroom rugs to be washed but they will have to wait a while yet.

Just put away my winter clothes, some for the CS, the summer ones have been ironed and hung up, so glad I put the shabby ones out last year, saved a lot of sorting.

DD moved from her flat earlier in the year, it's being rented out and she has moved in with her BF, she had 2 spare quilts and 8 pillows that ended up here. I've labelled and bagged them, when I change from summer to winter I always end up trying to get a KS quilt into a double cover, why didn't I think of labelling the bags before now?

Karmacat

We finally had some thunder last night, long, long rolls of it - plus some rain, which might make digging up brambles easier today all kondoing is good kondoing

One classic kondo I've started ... cat ornaments. I opened up every box they're stashed in _pale_ there were 6 of varying sizes, now there are 5, I got rid of the very tiniest. And there are also 9 (again, some very tiny, less than an inch in height) that I've decided I just don't like. I already have 7 out on display, in various rooms, and there's no way I'm taking them all out, unless I have something dustproof to put them in, though a display case for the little ones needs hanging on the wall.

I packed them really carefully as well (7 years ago ) it's going to be a nightmare to pack them up again, but they really do spark a lot of joy. They've just got to go to the back of the queue for now.

GreyQueen

I've been banned from washing CR as Abstract isn't yet dry. Still damp (is wool) and taking longer than I thought to dry. It's out on the patio over a clothes airer.

I've also been banned from the loft, boo hiss!

Have just had Mum trim the back of my hair with the clippers (I scissor cut the rest myself) and washed it. Will now have a sort-out in the box-room which is where the spare bed and this pooter and half Kid Bruv's book stock lives.

It's a tiny room anyway but not helped by having to serve a multitude of purposes.

Onwards! Good luck with the brambles, Karmakat.

grunnie

karmakat I had loads of cat ornaments and they sat along my windowsills until my granddaughters took a fancy to them and they went off home with them all. Now they sit along the tops of their radiator covers and look better there than when I had them.
GQ tell your mum I said you had to go into the loft as we all love your adventures.:j

BettiePage

I'm on a roll. Four big blue Ikea bags sat waiting to go to the CS when it opens tomorrow.
I'm finding that the more I do, the easier it's becoming. Even my DH is in awe!
I'm feeling liberated!

GreyQueen

grunnie wrote: »

karmakat I had loads of cat ornaments and they sat along my windowsills until my granddaughters took a fancy to them and they went off home with them all. Now they sit along the tops of their radiator covers and look better there than when I had them.
GQ tell your mum I said you had to go into the loft as we all love your adventures.:j

Ssshhh! I can't tell her that, she doesn't know I'm 'talking' to you lot.

I still think I should be allowed to inventory in the loft, the Yarn Mountain needs work, I like to have things in boxes or bags with labels on, it appeals to my tiny mind.

After all, what's the point of owning Stuff if you don't know you own it?

There are a lot of duplicate items in this household, duplicates caused by repeatedly buying the same thing because of having lost the first version, or having had earlier versions buried and lost to view for so long that no one even remembered that they owned them in the first place.

An Incomplete List if Duplicates From the Parental Home - feel free to supply your own addendums;

1. Scissors. Sewing shears, embroidery scissors, paper scissors, all steel scissors, scissors with plastic handles, heirloom scissors, paper scissors, folding scissors, hair-dressing scissors, pinking shears.......... without any effort I could think of 50+ pairs of scissors in this household, I supect the total might breach three figures, could even be 150+

2. Tape measures; cloth, plastic, retractable, steel, imperial, metric solo, metric & imperial together. Probably about 50 of.

2. Tape dispensors;Sellotape, scotch tape, parcel tape, all-steel industrical models, big heavy plastic office models, small disposable plastic ones which come free with the tape........... 20+

3. Writing implements; coloured pencils left over from the 1970s childhood years, pens acquired randomly, pens acqiired purposefully. The Sharpies. Mum came to these late in life but loves 'em. The whiteboard markers (doesn't currently and never has had a whiteboard), chalks (ditto blackboards), the bic biros, the papermates, the papermate refills, the chisel headed marker pens, the bullet headed marker pens - there are certainly enough pens and pencils here to tool up a reasonably-sized school. And that's with me confiscating all pencils I find which are half-length or shorter and using them up at work.1,000+

4. The cutlery; the everyday stuff, the 3 sets of fancy canteens of cutlery (mixture of family gifts and long-service gifts from employer), the random cutlery got from the supermarket with points in the 1970s, the stuff which was grandma's (the good stuff and the everyday stuff), ditto from Nan's, the original and carpy 1960s cutlery, random bits of cutlery in steel, and in plastic and even bamboo, the old EPNS which no one likes using because it needs cleaning........... aieee! There's got to be thousands of individual eating irons in this household.

One day, all this will be for me and Kid Bruv to sort out. :eek::eek::eek:

loocyloo

DD has emptied her wardrobe and drawers and deposited a huge amount of 'stuff' she doesn't want in my room!


This has been bagged up and is ready to go to the CS tomorrow. Some has been kept for assorted smaller children we know, and another box of bits for the next school/church fair! but all will be moved on within a week or so!


I seem to permanently have a CS bag/box in the corner of the bedroom :0)


She wanted to go into the loft and sort through the couple of boxes of stuff she has up there - but we can't get the hatch open, so need to wait for DH to get home!

Karmacat

Scissors and tape measures, GQ, I'm with you! So, so many in the parental home! I couldn't get any of them disposed of, and recently, on one of the probate trips, I found a gorgeous steel tape measure in my dad's old kit; my brother didn't want it, he'd just bought a longer one from Wilko, so I claimed this one I have 3 pairs of new-to-me scissors too, including hair cutting ones.

GreyQueen

We took (at my suggestion) a 2 lb jam-jar in case the aluminium vase on the grandparents' grave was no longer there. It was a good guess as the top was there but someone had offski'd with the vase. It fitted neatly into the hole made for the proper vase. One fewer jar in the pantry.

Today, I also took a small glass spritzer bottle of cologne which came from my Nan's bathroom windowsill and has been sitting on the kitchen windowsill here since last October. It'd gone off, I had to take to top off with pliers to get the sprtizer bit out, rinsed and in the recycling bin (the glass bit, rest is non-recyclable).

Have just help with ironing (mime a spitting guesture offside) and Dad will put the kettle on. If I can get away with it, I shall take the contents of the kitchen drawer (several hundred eating irons) thru into the sitting-room and have a sort out.

My lovely Mum has a fear of Insufficiency which is the direct cause of Excess Inventory in all categories. Excess Inventory leads to more Excess as you buy things you already have because you cannot find them (pace scissors and measuring tapes).

Oh, and there are the special left-handed scissors for Kid Bruv the Southpaw, among others. Big scissors, small scissors, fancy scissors and plain scissors, it never ends.......

Fen1

Multiples have occasionally been useful in Chez Fen. The 'silver' cutlery in daily use in our previous residences, sans dishwasher, had to be quickly retired in our current abode, avec dishwasher. The un-lovely plastic-handled set we received as an engagement present ( sitting in the cupboard for a decade plus) suddenly became useful.
However, I still have the three-ish odd assorted canteens of silver-ish cutlery. They're nicer than the modern set, and we have a lot more, should we need to entertain the 5, 000.

But do I really need to keep the pieces that have lost bits of their silver-ish coating?

On a similar theme, has anyone sold china through the china selling companies? It's been asked before, but I have the memory of a particularly rusty sieve.