KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

silvasava

So sorry for you and your family Charly .

The comments on handbags have made me take a look at mine. I'm a shoe girl but I do have more bags than I need! A chappie in our local market sells Kiplng style bags and I've got a couple and one from TKM and a small Clark's one. They are all in vibrant colours so I can spot them quickly! The market ones and the TKM one all go in the washing machine now and again and come up like new. I've a couple of beaded shoulder bags I bought in Italy over 40 years ago - great for evenings and they've never gone out of style. There's 2 large 'fashion' handbags that I hav'n't used for the last few years so they will go. Thanks for making me honk about how I use them and whether they were worth keeping - a little more Kondo!

wort

Thinking of you Charly, I will pray for you and your family. X

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Charly, a candle lit for the dear departed souls, now at peace with no more worldly worries. Sorry for your loss

GQ watch your BNS like a hawk. My bramleys, same storage conditions as usual, cool, dark, slatted wooden shelves. They are rotting and normally store well until december. I am having to process them all now and have thrown too many out. Its the warmer humid temperatures day and night

Upsy_Staffordshire

Charly27 - so sorry for your loss, thoughts are with you and your family.

Slinky - we are about to exchange contracts, so I have also been writing a note for our new owners this week. I've been struggling to find a helpful list anywhere of what to include. So far I've written info about bin dates, local amenities, doctor surgery recommendations, names of neighbours and I will be including alarm details and central heating instructions. I've also got all of the manuals etc for all appliances ready to hand over. If there is anything anyone thinks I'm missing, please let me know!

Still hoping to finish clearing our garage out this weekend. I was hoping we could make a start today but we will see if we have time, as other things have cropped up.

I do love handbags, and like to invest in ones that I really love and will use for a few years. My current one is the perfect size and grey, so it goes with everything. It's a few years old now and still going strong! I also have a smaller navy crossbody for evenings/wedding etc, a small black crossbody I used to take to work everyday and a small silvery clutch that my Mum bought me for my wedding, so it's very special. I think I may also have another dressy clutch, but I haven't used it for ages so I'm not sure if it's still in my wardrobe!

General_Grant

Just wondered whether anyone here can help me locate a website I discovered about 5 years ago but I cannot now locate.

It had pictures of a room becoming more and more cluttered, probably on a scale from 1 to 10. That is the room was very minimalist in the first picture and gradually more and more things were added until it was absolutely full (boxes .piled high, etc). It may also have done this for various rooms (sitting room, bedroom, kitchen).

It was a way of classifying the level of clutter/hoarding.

Does anyone recall such a website?

greenbee

Sorry for your loss Charly. We're coming up to my dad's anniversary, which is going to be hard, but my mum is doing well. Like Kittie, she's been doing a lot of sorting out and clearing. My dad had a lot of stuff that is no longer needed.

I've been slowly sorting and clearing in preparation for the builders (no idea when they are turning up yet. In theory next week, but they haven't confirmed).

My brother is currently dismantling a greenhouse which we hope to relocate over here - I'm looking forward to having somewhere to keep all my gardening stuff that's currently cluttering up the garage.

I've managed to use up nearly all the half-used hotel toiletries and dregs of shower gel. The unused hotel bits are in a bag with some old towels to go to the homeless hostel at some point. I did acquire some new hotel toiletries yesterday from a work trip, but they were far too lovely to leave behind and I'd only used a tiny bit!

It's a fairly nice day today, so I've been mowing and am doing some tidying in the garden and thinking about what I need to do in preparation for next year. I have lots of bulbs to plant, but also need to order some things to plant as bare roots over the winter as well.

Given the high winds that are forecast, I think I might want to cut a few things back as well.

catshark88

So sorry for your loss Charley.

MMF007

Chores done in town were quite a success.
Kondo'd all our old pound coins into bank.
Spent £3 MnS voucher on a skirt and a pair of knickers, just had to pay 18p, .yep total for both items was £3.18. The skirt exactly matches a jumper I have and is lovely autumn cclours. The knickers are a sort of eau de Nil colour that I guess was not that popular but they are pretty.
Spent another MnS voucher on some treats in the foodhall. This is my way of sticking to low carb diet, some more expensive items now and again, to celebrate a weight loss (makes more sense than buying choccies for a treat, in the circs :rotfl:).
Found a gorgeous framed tapestry in CS which a friend will love at xmas.
Also at CS I bought 4 egg cosies in an owl design that I shall pair with pretty teaspoons and some individually wrapped teabags and a pack of nice HM bickies as gifts for my clients at xmas

So some things came into the house, but only on a temp basis and all were well priced and several had clearly helped someone declutter!

Just having crab salad for lunch then shall do some joyful tidying

Slinky

Sorry for your loss Charly.

Upsy we've also collected some takeaway menus for our tenants, plus local magazines and a copy of Yellow Pages in case they need local services. I haven't mentioned anything about schools or doctors/dentists as we have no knowledge to recommend but you could if you can.

GoingToDoIt

Charly27 thinking of you at this time.

I reached my 2 year moneysaver badge...so I'm not yet two years into MK but it's hard to remember the time BK (before Kondo) :rotfl:
if I'm really honest this place is quite often a tip with stuff dumped all over the place, it's not a perfect palace but it IS easier to manage. I've been doing some "little jobs" such as replacing the loo seat, painting the grouting white again in the bathroom etc and I'm sure this comes from having the time and space to think about what needs doing...to really be able to "see" what needs doing, and getting round to doing it. :A

My rag bag is due again for emptying which I will do this weekend. There is a clothes recycle at the mosque up the road, so I tend to send my rags up there to be recycled sharpish, they don't get reused by me. I have a lot of tights I get through (as us 6 day-a-week tights wearers do) I would never have bothered recycling them if I didn't have a ragbag, such a waste when you think about how many must get binned.:(
I have three fully paid off credit cards, they have been finely sliced and distributed to public bins across the city on my travels. I also checked my junk mail box and hit "unsubscribe" on about 15 "newsletters" I.e. I once bought a product 5 years ago, so now I get "special offers" updates that I don't need or want. It's good to Kondo things that steal space in our digital and mental space too:beer: