KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Fen1

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tibawo

Well, despite wearing gloves my finger nails are filthy. I spent an hour up and the allotment this morning and just done another hour and half with the girls. The latter journey was a more sedate one but we are making progress kondoing the weeds and junk left from the previous tenant.


Not done much KDin the house but been moving things as passing and TBH it is looking better but the girls bedroom are terrible!

iamsalt

Another car load packed and in the storage very kindly being provided by the in laws, I am sure the house looks just as full as it did before. I did manage to fill a bag with bits for the CS , but it's only my things I am doing that for. OH has said he would prefer all his stuff packed. I am not sure he realises how much is still to be done, and we don't have a date yet for the move but I really want to get as much done as possible in advance.

No need to water the garden today after the rain last night.

Back to work tomorrow, bit of a shame I don't feel more rested despite naps most days this weekend.

BettiePage

BettiePage wrote: »

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!

Been thinking today as there are a quite a few unworn things in those bags. There must be around £1k of stuff in those bags and I'm probably underestimating. Well, not worth £1k any more, but that's how much I must have spent and that's not counting all the stuff thats gone already either.

What a waste! :mad::(

Hopefully my next house will remain clutter free and I can save the money instead? Any tips on maintenance?

Eta: I think that's why I kept so much of it, because of what it cost me. I wanted my 'moneys worth'.

GoingToDoIt

Wort I hope your hubby is doing ok.
Betty I sell a lot on the bay of e, yes it is a bit of a faff but I feel like I get something back against the initial outlay. I make sure I have a morning off coming up, then set all of my auctions to end three days before that. Yes it's a faff parcelling everything up but then again I like the money! I recently sold two items for a quid more than I paid for them

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Sorry I've not been in for ages, I've lapsed a little but we did do a big CS drop last weekend so a few binbags full left the house.
I hope everyone is well.

Siebrie

Not much kondoing going on at the moment, I'm in the garden as much as I can, enjoying the sunshine and the flowers, pottering about with seedlings (I don't really mind if they don't come to anything, I just like to fiddle with earth, pots, and green things ).

A moment when previous kondoing came to the rescue: I had taken a large number of summer clothes from the attic for dd2 to try on, and dd1 was complaining there was nothing for her and she had nothing to wear. It only took 2 minutes to locate dd1's last year's summer clothes in the attic, and some of them still fit, so she's happy.

BettiePage

Going, we rarely sell on the bay these days due to time wasters and con artists unfortunately. We also have to be out of this house by the end of June so in this instance I'm sucking it up to just get it all out of the house asap!
I just hope when we move next time there will be a lot less to chuck out!

maryb

DD2 sat her last final today so three years' worth of her 'stuff' will soon be returning homewards. We will get rid of as much as possible up there before she comes home but the clothes, the makeup, the horror:eek:

Still it'll be nice to have my baby back. She'll probably live at home for the first year till she gets her act together to get a flat with a friend but that doesn't mean the 'stuff' will go, I suspect. None of it sparks any joy in me I have to say but I won't be allowed to get rid of anything.

Fingers crossed she gets a good enough result - she was really worried about today's paper so I was sending up lots of prayers to St Joseph of Cupertino (patron saint of exams - nothing to do with the HQ of Apple:D). Looks like he came through and she was able to answer all the questions though she ran out of time. So she is resolved to have a nice time for the next three weeks solid!!

VJsmum

maryb wrote: »

DD2 sat her last final today so three years' worth of her 'stuff' will soon be returning homewards. We will get rid of as much as possible up there before she comes home but the clothes, the makeup, the horror:eek:

Still it'll be nice to have my baby back. She'll probably live at home for the first year till she gets her act together to get a flat with a friend but that doesn't mean the 'stuff' will go, I suspect. None of it sparks any joy in me I have to say but I won't be allowed to get rid of anything.

Fingers crossed she gets a good enough result - she was really worried about today's paper so I was sending up lots of prayers to St Joseph of Cupertino (patron saint of exams - nothing to do with the HQ of Apple:D). Looks like he came through and she was able to answer all the questions though she ran out of time. So she is resolved to have a nice time for the next three weeks solid!!

I feel your pain. My DD is due to finish her final assessment this week (performance degree so no exams). She has her flat until the end of August but then it will all come home. Her room at home is already full :eek: there are books, DVDs and video /computer games, vinyl figures, artwork, bed, bookcases, desk and chest of drawers, cosplay outfits and so it goes on.........