KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

greenbee

Slinky wrote: »

I've stuffed old pillows down the back and sides of the hotwater tank in the past - extra free insulation..

Also stops other stuff falling down there and getting lost. Like socks.

Slinky

greenbee wrote: »

Also stops other stuff falling down there and getting lost. Like socks.

Or cats............ ours is a nosy beggar!

Icey77

musogirl295 wrote: »

I was planning on trying to sell baby clothes at an NCT sale but they now have a 10 clothing item limit and I don't think I would make enough to hire a table somewhere so I took the slightly gutwrenching decision to charity shop all of the beautiful barely worn baby things this morning.

Crikey!!! 10 clothing items??!!!
Our branch gives 100 tags with initial registration as a seller and then the opposite to buy a further 100 tags if you want them. I think we have a limit on high value items over £75 but that's it.

We rely on people selling racks and racks of clothing, it's the biggest area of our sale!

Perhaps try another branch close to you? They're not usually that big and one a bit further away could have very different rules. Good luck!!

musogirl295

Icey77 wrote: »

Crikey!!! 10 clothing items??!!!
Our branch gives 100 tags with initial registration as a seller and then the opposite to buy a further 100 tags if you want them. I think we have a limit on high value items over £75 but that's it.

We rely on people selling racks and racks of clothing, it's the biggest area of our sale!

Perhaps try another branch close to you? They're not usually that big and one a bit further away could have very different rules. Good luck!!

I used a different NCT branch with my eldest and there was no limit. How many people only have 10 items of clothing to sell?! and there was a whole list of rules about what they would and would not accept. I ended up taking 3 big bags to the charity shop. A bit disappointing when I think of how much they cost but I donated them just as the shop was starting a kids clothes sales to drive up the sales, so I feel pretty good about that!

Not much kondoing going on here except for getting rid of a dead dishwasher! Electrics tripped last night and it turns out the dishwasher has a pretty bad leak. It's been an expensive year so far!

lessonlearned

A bit more light kondoing in the kitchen today whilst p,aging at being a domestic goddess. Gradually loading up to the car for a tip run in Friday so I'm doing things a bit of sequence at the mom t , just concentrating on the things that I know to be broken Or damaged or just generally beyond the pale.

Not proper MK Style I know but it does help me see the wood for the trees.

maman

greenbee wrote: »

GQ - you can always combine the feathers from two pillows into one, but that won't necessarily make it more supportive.

Personally I have 5 pillows on my bed (two of which spend the night on the floor unless I have a cold, but make reading in bed much more comfortable). I bought a new one recently which is microfibre and fabulously soft but still supportive. I store pillows on the beds rather than put away, but I have housewife pillowcases on the ones I sleep on and harder to iron ones on the ones that are more decorative - that way I know which are the well used ones.

Excuse me coming out of lurkdom to comment on pillows.


Years ago my mother bought us each a triangular (v-shaped)pillow as every time we stayed with her there was a fight to use hers. I know they're a bit granny like and not very glamorous but they're brilliant for sitting up in bed reading.


I'm posting because I saw them for sale in Aldi this week if anyone's interested. I think they were being marketed at nursing mothers.


I wouldn't be without mine and the plan when we decorate the bedroom is to make some really nice covers for them as they're quite difficult to come buy and invariably difficult to take on and off.

GreyQueen

Another vote for the V shaped pillow, Mum has one and Nan enjoyed borrowing it so much when she visited that she was given her own. They are also wonderful when sitting in a large armchair, particularly if you're feeling proper poorly.

Got held up at work and left a ratbag of exhaustion and hunger, not a good mentatity for comparion-shopping for pillows, so I've nixed that for today. Have done research at the department stores' websites so know what I shall be looking at when I do get out there tomorrow.

Find myself thinking Oh no, SHOPPING, I don't want to do SHOPPING. It's not so much the horror of taking the lock off the wallet, it's a matter of having to go into retail establishments. But I want to meet my new pillow in person rather than shop online, so shopping will have to be done. *groan*

Icey77

A year or so ago DH worked a hideous amount of overtime and asked what present he could get me to enjoy some of the fruits of his labours. Immediately I asked for a pillow

He tried out the one I was after in the department store and promptly bought one too tempur pillows, hideously expensive but so very, very comfortable.

Whenever we go away, we always comment that we're looking forward to getting back to our own bed and our own comfy pillows

Siebrie

lessonlearned wrote: »

A bit more light kondoing in the kitchen today whilst p,aging at being a domestic goddess. Gradually loading up to the car for a tip run in Friday so I'm doing things a bit of sequence at the mom t , just concentrating on the things that I know to be broken Or damaged or just generally beyond the pale.

Not proper MK Style I know but it does help me see the wood for the trees.

I don't know... I think ´broken' classifies as a caregory of its own. It can be collected in one place, right? It is clearly defined, and the answer to ´is this joyful,´ is a resounding ´no!'.

springdreams

GreyQueen wrote: »

Another vote for the V shaped pillow, Mum has one and Nan enjoyed borrowing it so much when she visited that she was given her own. They are also wonderful when sitting in a large armchair, particularly if you're feeling proper poorly.

Got held up at work and left a ratbag of exhaustion and hunger, not a good mentatity for comparion-shopping for pillows, so I've nixed that for today. Have done research at the department stores' websites so know what I shall be looking at when I do get out there tomorrow.

Find myself thinking Oh no, SHOPPING, I don't want to do SHOPPING. It's not so much the horror of taking the lock off the wallet, it's a matter of having to go into retail establishments. But I want to meet my new pillow in person rather than shop online, so shopping will have to be done. *groan*

Dunelm Mill have a large selection of pillows to choose from, including Tempur, memory foam, v-pillows, bolster pillows etc.