KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

PollyWollyDoodle

I find that process helpful, too Kittie! I'm sure I need to revisit coats again, that's one I find particularly hard for some reason, possibly connected with memories of always having hand-me-down coats as a child?

Spoke to my lovely niece last night about my birthday weekend which I'll be spending with my sister, her mum. How would I like to do an escape room experience? I'd absolutely love it, thanks very much - I've been dying to do one but few of my friends are interested, so that's my birthday present sorted. No wrapping, storage or need to dust it in future, we'll have a great afternoon and make some memories.

Slinky

OMG


Every time I've been in the shower at the new house, I look at the pair of curtains and think I must get a replacement pair in case we need them after the tenants have been in. And when I get downstairs, I forget or forget the brand. Today I finally remembered to look.


OMG. They're a brand called Keuco. Our's is a wet room with a self draining floor and all these fancy Keuco fittings.


Found a shower curtain, we'd need two.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keuco-14946000140-Shower-Curtain-Maxxi/dp/B005E7OI34/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1508515607&sr=8-8&keywords=keuco+shower+curtain


£239.41 each! How is that even possible? Can you imagine a tenant being happy with us wanting to deduct £480 from their deposit if they were damaged or mouldy?


Yet another trip to the big orange shop and two at £5 each purchased as replacements. We'll put the posh ones in our box in the garage for us to use when we move in.

daisy_1571

:eek:That's unbelievable slinky, and i think it says you will have 3%shrinkage after you get them which in my view makes them even dearer :rotfl:

I wonder what it does that makes it worth that ? I'm just so gratefull 'labels' don't bother me or appear on my radar at all (so please don't come flashing some name at me expecting me to be impressed cos I likely won't have heard of them, I almost dropped a shirt in tkmaxxxxxx the other day when I saw it was £96 !!! £96 for a shirt :eek: but apparently it was ted baker. Who ? And why does he make really expensive shirts ??? :rotfl:) and I'd be so happy with the £5 shower curtains


Daisy xxx

PollyWollyDoodle

:rotfl: unbelievable - do they turn the shower on for you and wipe down the tiles afterwards or something? I'd want something special for that price!

I will admit to a little frisson of excitement when I find something with a 'label' in a CS. I still won't buy it unless I love it, though. And don't get me started on the way many brands advertise themselves with prominent logos on the garment - if I'd just paid £96 for a shirt (in your dreams!) why would I also want to give them free advertising every time I wear it?

greenbee

Slinky - why not ebay the shower curtains for £150 each? Keep a bit back so you can spend £10 on new ones every year or so, and spend the rest on other things you need to do in the house (and maybe a nice bottle of wine as a reward for your hard work!).

minnie2

So went to visit my mum today took my study books.....thought i could crack on while kids played with grandma and grandad but i found myself tidying up the toys!!!! Now i know marie said about her own study problem in her own clutter but i was at my mums and they dont like me tidying up they said they do it when kids go coz theres no point while they are there.what does this mean?!!!

VJsmum

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

:rotfl: unbelievable - do they turn the shower on for you and wipe down the tiles afterwards or something? I'd want something special for that price!

I will admit to a little frisson of excitement when I find something with a 'label' in a CS. I still won't buy it unless I love it, though. And don't get me started on the way many brands advertise themselves with prominent logos on the garment - if I'd just paid £96 for a shirt (in your dreams!) why would I also want to give them free advertising every time I wear it?

Oh, same. i detest shops that have massive logos on their tops. The worst one, i find, is h011ister. A detestable shop at the best of times (dark, and LOUD), but then you pay the earth for an ordinary sweatshirt that advertises that you've paid the earth for it....

So, DD's room is nearly finished. I think she will be moving in on Monday...

Also, OH and I have been looking at our office - it was wrecked when the drains problem hit. We haven't sorted it yet as we are waiting for the soil vent pipe to be replaced, but I want to take the opportunity to make it somewhere we really want to be. To that end, I have persuaded OH to get rid of the Mahoosive desk he paid £30 for about 15 years ago and replace it with something smaller, use a left over chest of drawers (from the bedroom makeovers) to hide a load of the stuff that has to be in there (some camping equipment and tools) and some CD's. i think it will make the space less of a "storage room with desk" into "an office with furniture". It is a major victory

MMF007

Oh VJsMum, that all sounds fabulous. Well done :T

DH just asked where the gift paper and tags were *now*. I whizzed upstairs, opened the neat craft box, lifted a basket up and asked which colour paper/tags he wanted. Took milliseconds :rotfl:

Inspired by some of your xmas gift wishes I have bought some tulip bulbs to plant for a friend

Only recycling has left today but I have plans for tomorrow because DH will be at a football match

GreyQueen

minnie2 wrote: »

So went to visit my mum today took my study books.....thought i could crack on while kids played with grandma and grandad but i found myself tidying up the toys!!!! Now i know marie said about her own study problem in her own clutter but i was at my mums and they dont like me tidying up they said they do it when kids go coz theres no point while they are there.what does this mean?!!!

I think they're kindly trying to save your energy and nerves by not wanting you to waste them on an unproductive activity; i.e. trying to tidy around actively-playing children.

Imagine if you were in the middle of a baking marathon and someone came into your kitchen and started tidying the scales, pans, spoons and bowls away into cupboards before you'd finished............. no point to it, is there?

Sometimes, friends and relations can see us more clearly than we can see ourselves, and can try to ease our way.

Spent quite a bit of time yesterday at the pal's juntique shop. Ostensibly, I was looking for 'the weigher' which I have never seen but is apparently some kind of electronic scales. It is about 'so big', pal sketched a size with his hands and has a plug. Other than that, no clue exactly what I was looking for.

OK, I'm up for a game. I had the three upstairs rooms to search, plus the back kitchen and the cellar - the shop is in a small victorian house. Not a huuuuge amount of space but it's surprising how many things he has managed to ram in there in the past 50 years.

I found the till from before the till-he-has-now under a table upstairs. No idea why a defunct till needs to be kept. I also found, in the same area, two empty bottles of champers and a pair of used black fishnet tights. I asked my pal if there was anything he'd like to tell me but he denied all knowledge of these items...........:rotfl:

Tights are in the bin now, bottles are in a recycling bank.

Moving on, I thought I'd hit paydirt by finding an electrical something approx 2ft square under a vinyl cover in the corner of the room. As it was hard to access, and I didn't want to drag it out unnecessesarily, I asked him to check it out; it is a microfiche reader!!!!!!!!!

Anyone under about 35 probably has no clue what one of these things is, I haven't even seen one for 30 years myself, used to use one in the public library very occasionally.

So, still no sign of 'the weigher' but the possible hiding places are being dwindled down. I'd be prepared to swear an oath that it isn't in the back kitchen or the front room upstairs. I have one more area of the middle room upstairs to check out. That leaves the cellar to eliminate and the small back upstairs room above the kitchen, the one with the roof leak. I really hope 'the weigher' hasn't been kept in there as it's likely to be useless if it was; pulled out a drawer in a metal cabinet there recently and found it to be full of water!

I have found a variety of things-with-plugs; two defunct fan heaters and one working one (in addition to the working one in the shop-floor area), a dead till, a microfiche reader (mebbe dead), the jewellery cleaner, two desk fans (one dead, one alive) and an electric carving knife.

I have also found; two rusty bayonets, some crystals, a soviet flag and a huge union jack flag, a WW2 army jacket, a WW1 helmet, a 19th century french sword, two pretend-marble busts of dead roman dudes and (get this) a chunk of 9ct gold with a scrap value north of £200!!!!!!!!!!!!

My pal was horrified that the gold was in the cellar and has no clue how it got down there in a box best described as Misc Carp. I did try to suggest that finders-keepers might apply but apparently that's not on.

Other than that, I disturbed several spiders, a lot of dust, some woodlice and saw some snail-trails on stuff up the dead-end of the kitchen behind the sink unit.

I didn't achieve my goal but I did have big fun and he bought me lunch.

tibawo

We were hoping to go pumpkin picking today but storm Brian has put that plan to rest. Grandad will brunt the blame of this due to it being his namesake! We'd never done it before and it was our one free morning before Halloween. I did point out that it was way cheaper to get one from Asda but we agreed it was the experience that was the attraction. I may try and grow one on the allotment next year.


This means that we can get on with the chores and I get to KD some money at the launderette. I prefer this to having it hanging around the house as it can be put away rather than [knowing my two] hanging around!


Also read that I can use the guinea pig waste on the allotment so will take some up. DD has found out that she can do gardening as part of a course she is doing and has asked if she can have a small area and would I buy the veggies off her after. I said sure, after she had paid the rent for her area!!