KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Karmacat

Thanks for popping in, wort, I'm so glad to hear you feel supported and loved.

I have a very little KM win to report, thanks to my policy, adopted from GQ's work, of hiding away some of my surplus clothes (socks, I'm looking at you) and using up what I have available to me. Socks that were running thin at the heel, and now have holes in the toes. Out! Two pairs it's terrible that I wore them this ragged, but I'm glad I did. They can be released into the wild now

Siebrie

I do that with pens: I have one by the calendar that I use all the time for writing whenever and whatever I have to, all the other pens are with dds' colouring material. Once in a while I will collect most pens that still look decent and donate them to some good cause (usually dh's relatives in Africa).

hebwood

So sorry to hear your news wort, take care.


Been away for a while - Scotland - was not so hot there and had a lovely time. Here, Hampshire, its been so hot since we came back cannot do anything, in cooler periods trying to catch up in the garden. (thought - do you EVER catch up in the garden?)!


With a long term health condition getting worse recently REALLY brings home how much KMing is needed!


Take care everyone. H.

shanks77

So sorry for your loss Wort my thoughts are with you and yours xx

loocyloo

Dear Wort, thinking of you at this time. take care. xxx

greent

Sorry to hear your sad news, wort xx

iamsalt

Catching up and wanted to say my thoughts are with you wort. X

MMF007

Well I am at the parental home. When I was last here the pantry, a lovely walk-in pantry!, was carrying sensible stocks. This visit reveals that mum seems to be expecting a seige. There are 8 or 10 lots of most things. Now I know they are some considerable distance from anything other than a corner shop but this still seems a bit excessive.
The main problem is that they are constantly using stuff that is past its best before date, while the latest stock sits there going out of date because there is rather too much of it.....

I have not mentioned it because I think mum buys extra in case they cannot get to the sm for a while (health problems abound). It is a graphic lesson to me though, not to over-stock.

We have managed to kondo quite a few tree branches, to lift the gloom at the edge of the drive! Some lovely beech trees and a couple of sycamores carrying a lot of foliage have been pruned and it looks better.
Tomorrow we'll do the hedge (weather permitting). This involves a few hairy moments collecting the cuttings on the side of a road which i) has no footpath, and ii) has logging wagons thundering past at regular intervals. I shall wear a fetching hi vis jacket and position the wheelbarrow, adorned with another hi vis jacket, up stream of the work to try and deflect said wagons

silvasava

South East Hampshire finally has some rain!!! Slow on the kondoing front at the moment as the garden has been producing at a rate of knots, still the neighbours are happy with the excess!
Some paperwork cleared away and either filed or shredded but like a lot of you there is still lots to go. I've sorted DH folder for his car - Mot paperwork, log book, insurance, service bills and parts etc and done the same for mine - all neat and tidy and in order. Hoping I can break the back of it this week.
MMF - that sounds quite hairy - please be very very careful!

GreyQueen

Evening all.

Been doing some minor allotment shed kondo-ing over the weekend and some small stuff at the flat. Just pawed through a shopping bag of Misc Kipple and have re-homed its varied contents in a sensible place pending using it up.

Whilst watching tiny house videoes, so inspiring.

Guys, steady as you go, but I will be at the parental home on Sunday. Just for that day, so probably (almost certainly) won't be getting anything decluttered but you never know.

It has rained here for several hours so I didn't need to go water the allotment and the waterbutts up there will be getting topped up nicely as were half-empty after what felt like a lengthy dry spell.

Karmakat, pleased to hear that my tip of concentrating wear & tear on only a few items of each category has been helpful. I'm well on my way to wearing out another pillowcase by making it the sole one in use, washing and drying it and back on the bed the same night.

Oh, and one thing I did with an A5 hardcover notebook which was too big for my handbag and thus kept being left at home; removed all the unused pages and recycled the cardboard cover. The loose pages were clipped together in batches of about 20 with a couple of staples and are being used up as very portable mini-notebooks. Works well.

Like many of us, I suspect, I have too regularly listened to the siren song of new notebooks when I should have been looking at and using up ones I already had. No more! Before I buy anything in the stationery line, I am going to check that I don't already have something similar which will do the same job.

Gosh, just realised that I can now touch-type and am pretty fast, something which I must have self-mastered due to work pressure without even realising that I was learning it. Bonus!:rotfl: