KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

MMF007

Re-tidied the third cupboard. I think the new arrangement of shelf and basket will make it so easy to keep straight and it does look smart. Makes me want to leave the cupboard door open so I can admire it :rotfl:

kondo a few hours making 3 crumbles and 14 pots of jam. Damson jam with stones that needed removing! Shoulders tired due to scooping stones out but at least the fruit is out of the freezer. One crumble is for a client, so that will be frozen till I hand it over next week.

Have to decide on a couple of items of clothing to pack for a long weekend. There is a big variety of things on the agenda so it is not so easy to choose a minimal amount of suitable clothing and footwear - footwear being the biggest problem, requirements being outdoors casual, outdoors rugged, indoors casual, indoors smart . . . And the smart indoors ones are not broken injyet. Doh.
And there's the toally unpredictable westher to contend with!

Right, off to do some domestic admin and then parcel up some new potatoes from this county to send to my homesick dad.

GreyQueen

Can you see the glow of virtue across the interwebs? I have finally got around to sorting out my fridge and everything in there is clean and tidy. Still gloomy, as sorting hasn't got as far as sorting out a new bulb for it, but I've done enough shopping for a while, can't abide the habit.

Have decided another little basket or two will help me corral the many items of a vegetablish nature which I use in my daily salads, the idea that I can just lift out one or two baskets and get the door shut quckly.

I'd like to be able to admire my fridge but mustn't keep opening it as I need to get it back down to temperature. But I do exactly the same things with kondo'd cupboards and drawers.

monnagran

My name is not really monnagran, it's Joy - of "Spark" fame, and I am a blue and yellow shed addict. Most of my home ranges from antique to Swedish by way of hand-me-downs, past purchases, rescued tarted up junk, (I think 'upcycled'is the posh name for it) and stuff that should have been thrown out years ago. I call it eclectic, my friends have other terms.

Talking of tarted-up junk, I passed a shop the other day that dealt in it I looked at various items with eye-watering price tags attached and imagined my grandmother sniffing at it and opining that it would be all right given a coat of paint and some decent handles.
Shabby Chic would have appalled her. She didn't do shabby.

Which reminds me, Silvasava, I was amused by your dedication to using up your cotton reels. I have a drawer full. Not only mine but those inherited from my mother and I'm pretty sure that some of hers were inherited from HER mother, my grandmother. As my grandmother would be 140 years old by now I think I must have some antique cotton reels.

Now. There's posh.

x

silvasava

GQ my last fridge had two salad baskets side by side and I used to store greens in one and reds in the other. When it gave up the ghost my new(ish) one has one very large basket and I hate it!! Everything has to be piled up on top of each other and it irritates the hell out of me - especially as there's no practical way of dividing it.
Mona - I've I herited my mother's sewing equipment but only my grandmothers button box - which added to mine and mums made a huge tinful of buttons - far too many to use in my lifetime! After being picked over the remainder have been donated to my lovely local hospice craft shop. I'm still working through the cottons

Floss

monnagran wrote: »

My name is not really monnagran, it's Joy - of "Spark" fame, and I am a blue and yellow shed addict. Most of my home ranges from antique to Swedish by way of hand-me-downs, past purchases, rescued tarted up junk, (I think 'upcycled'is the posh name for it) and stuff that should have been thrown out years ago. I call it eclectic, my friends have other terms.

Talking of tarted-up junk, I passed a shop the other day that dealt in it I looked at various items with eye-watering price tags attached and imagined my grandmother sniffing at it and opining that it would be all right given a coat of paint and some decent handles.
Shabby Chic would have appalled her. She didn't do shabby.

Which reminds me, Silvasava, I was amused by your dedication to using up your cotton reels. I have a drawer full. Not only mine but those inherited from my mother and I'm pretty sure that some of hers were inherited from HER mother, my grandmother. As my grandmother would be 140 years old by now I think I must have some antique cotton reels.

Now. There's posh.

x

Our home is furnished with a variety of furniture acquired from various sources - inherited; bought with real money including from the blue & yellow shed; council tip shop (spare room furniture); donated and left by a ex (an Ercol glass topped coffee table hidden from DS2's keen eyes!)

And I too have antique cotton reels, darning wool and several different shades of silk for repairing those pesky runs in ones stockings!

silvasava

Floss - I've got a selection of stocking silks on a fan shaped card, a bakelite pin box and a selection of suspender repair kits!!! Somehow I think it may be a while before they get used.

MMF007

But...... do all these [STRIKE]useless[/STRIKE] nostalgic items spark joy? And would you feel as much joy if you released most of the sewing items, keeping only the ones you really love?

I was gifted several large boxes of buttons and spent a few hours sorting out the few dozen that I thought were fab and that I would use. The rest, like others have done, I gave to a local charity for their craft group.

Knit_Witch

*cough* just to say that the silk stocking repair kits and Bakelite stuff could be worth cash if sold to say 1940's enthusiasts!

Floss

The items I have hold memories of my grandmas, my mum & DH's mum, others are unusual colours. I don't have a historical button box as I filtered my mums sewing box contents in 2005, which held her mums & MiLs too. DH's mums sewing tin was filtered & incorporated in early 2016.

camelot1001

I thought I was doing well using up sewing threads that were my Mums then my friend's Mum died and I was given all her reels - do they not know I am trying so hard to get rid of such things!

Going back to vans at the tip, when I hired a van for DD moving we had lots of cardboard packaging to take, I went armed with chocolate biscuits and cakes and they told me they couldn't see me!