KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Floss

I'm going to tackle my study today, I have some college work to do but the room is very cluttered so want to clear out some of the fiing cabinet to make space to store stuff in. It's an opportunity while DH is busy working so won't be bothering me!

GreyQueen

Dropped in on the [STRIKE]junk shop[/STRIKE] err very-reasonably-priced-antiquish-emporium and had a chat with the pal who remarked that I'd left my pictures on the chair in one of the upstairs (stock) rooms.

Since I'd done no such thing and was baffled, I nipped up there to see what he meant and, sure enough, there were two framed prints on a chair.

Went down and told him they weren't mine, I'd found them in the back stock room a few weeks prior - it has a slightly leaky roof - and moved them for their own safety.

Pal maintains they're not his and that he's never seen them before in his life............ :rotfl:

greenbee

Just out of interest, how much stock has your pal shifted since you started 'helping' there, and how much are his profits up?

Seeing as he must have written off the cost of much of this stuff YEARS ago, he should be doing well (and will soon be able to rent out the space that's been freed up to half a dozen families...)

GreyQueen

I get mates' rates on anything I want (and some things are free for asking) and the fun of playing among some of the most interesting clutter you could find in a lifetime of kondo-ing.

As for living in the bits of the building which aren't the shop-floor, well, let's just say that you'd have to be pretty desperate to even try it and I'm sure dickens would have found the conditions recognisably victorian.

MMF007

Kondo'd a happy couple of hours visiting the tudor manor house where we got married 18 years ago

Real kondo-ing was a lot of recycling and several bits to CS (3 books, one pair of (too-big ) trousers, an umbrella and a table cloth).

I still need to go through my craft stash, although it is confined to just one crate! I think it could be better sorted for ease of finding required item. My art stuff is in one canvas bag and one heavy-duty plastic box and is nicely sorted.

I also have my eye on a rather unruly drawer for kondo-ing while DH is working on Sunday

greenbee

GQ will be jealous - today's kondoing has consisted of getting the fire basket out in the garden and burning bits of old fence post, dried out tree roots and trellis. There's still quite a bit more to go, but I'll save that for tomorrow.

Floss

MMF007 wrote: »

...Real kondo-ing was a lot of recycling and several bits to CS (3 books, one pair of (too-big ) trousers, an umbrella and a table cloth). ...

Was that a black compact umbrella coz I've misplaced mine?! But have to say I've not been down south of Shrewsbury for over 18 months

MMF007

Oh Floss, I'm in Cheshire so it might have been related to your missing one :rotfl:

DH has just mentioned wallpapering to me, as in, 'do you think it's time you papered the hall?'

Well as it happens I did recently re-discover the 2 rolls I bought, er, sometime ago, for the hall ! Funnily enough i fancy doing the bedroom papering first, that has been up longest. We have an old cottage with 'character' walls, you know, the ones that are all wonky :rotfl: so wallpaper is a good idea for a nice finish, so long as i use lining paper underneath. So I have my work cut out.

Won't be tackling any of it for a few weeks, far too busy and what with some long distance UK travel and my dratted tooth in between work, it may well be mid-july. At least i know where all the decorating equipment is neatly stored :rotfl:

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

GQ will be jealous - today's kondoing has consisted of getting the fire basket out in the garden and burning bits of old fence post, dried out tree roots and trellis. There's still quite a bit more to go, but I'll save that for tomorrow.

Too damned right I'm jealous, I am saving burnables up at the allotment for when the burn-ban comes off on 1st October. I save them in a paper spud sack in my shed, plus there will be things like broad bean haulms later, which are left to dry it situ, then bundled into sheaves tied with natural twine and burned like that.

Potash is a valuable resourse. The new couple at what was Nan's bungalow are veggie gardeners, too, and they will have a very fertile patch of potash where we had those mahoosive bonfires. I'm so glad that I went through the ashes with the proverbial fine-toothed comb and removed all bits of metal etc (these were added to the stuff taken to the scrappie by another neighbour, who got a few shillings from what he sold and deserved it because he had to take his trailer on a 20-mile round trip).

Today's plans involve jaunting around at two different venues with a dear pal, and may even involve some 'ins' in respect of craft materials, but I can live with that. GQ & Co, on the lamm somewhere in ye olde engerland.

Be afraid. Be very very afraid.:D

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A touch of kondo yesterday after much too warm at night this week. I googled cool bed sheets and have learnt that high thread count is not good as is too warm and best is low count cotton percale as it is long single ply strands of cotton. I had a feeling about my high count sheets, so many in store `just in case` They have gone, every last one of them. Yes they were good cotton but far too good, 800 count. So now I have 200 count percale, ks flat sheets on a single bed, will do fine for now, I could cut and sew but no need as they tuck in. Topped with one cotton honeycomb blanket and temperature was perfect

Bed linen store now has three types of fabric for my bed. Percale cotton, silk, warm cozee fleece. Yes I treated myself to silk and they are lovely in spring and autumn but again far too warm in summer heat. I always wanted to sleep in silk and have done it but will not renew when they are worn out and wear out they will

Airing cupboard and other places are asking to be re-kondoed, I`ll call it kondo stage two but they will have to wait as I am pacing myself with the allotment in charge