KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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choose wisely I thing you have found some real treasure there! If you are looking to get rid, consider looking online for guidance on prices for the Take That, Sindy & Barbie stuff and the typewriter ( or maybe offer that to your local Blind Society?)

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Get thee behind me, satin!

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I'm looking forward to having a sort out, and hopefully a selling session this weekend. I don't mean I won't get round to posting stuff online, I mean someone has to want it:D

catshark88

You're all doing brilliantly.

I've still got the drawer of chaos, our office cupboard and the electric cable biscuit tin of despair to do, but then I think I will be done.

Happy weekends of Kondoing everyone.:j

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PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

This is such a change from the days when an impending visitor would mean a huge tidying-up (mostly involving moving stuff into my bedroom) and urgent cleaning tasks. It feels effortless, I'll run the vacuum round and make the bed, job done!

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hehe that was me a few months ago. My two beds are made up so anyone would stay with no warning. I used to scurry around like a blue bottomed fly

CW I enjoyed reading your list it brought back memories

I saw the builders programme on tv, three sets of builders competing to do a small job. The last one was a tiny walk in space and it was transformed into a little hidey hole containing storage cubes, a hanging shelf and a pull out desk, all hidden behind a moving set of shelves. Genius

MMF007

The table has been delivered to its new home. It looks very nice and will give years of service.

I also offered my auntie 2cushions - you know, the ones I no longer need to boost me up to the old table:rotfl: I put them on the sofa in their new home and was delighted to see they are the perfect colour for their new location.

A strong laundry bag was rehomed during this trip, too. It had been given to me by a kind person who bought it for me because they thought it would be useful. I had no use for it, being fully equiped with a folding laundry basket that tucks away between table and bookcase out of sight
It has hung round for a while because DH hates parting with things that were gifts. I whisked it away and then told him the recipient had specifically asked where to get one and so I offered ours (my fingers were crossed as i told this white lie )

I also invested in one of those really strong bags that you vacuum the air out of, to store a summer duvet. I shall take a look through other bulky items to see if a few more things can be 'reduced'.
This has freed up a small cupboard and the walking boots can go in there. It is like a game of tetris in a small house but I am gradually improving the storage, as well as removing the unwanted!

Oh, and I kondo'd £180 on new tyres for my car Making lots of shorter journeys in my role as a home help is not the ideal way to treat a car but at least I got the tyres replaced before the winter weather. I actually researched which tyres should wear better before I made my selection, so hoping they last well.

ETA - Kittie I love the rug!

choose_wisely

If you will forgive me,this morning I am testing my memory again from last week with the contents of the weekend case, much of which went straight to the bin/recycle:

Handwritten notifications of 'O' and 'A' level results (1969 and 1971)

Single BW photograph of me from photobooth 1971, year identified by the beautiful leather coat I was wearing

P60s from the first 2 full years I was working 1972/3 and 1973/4 that showed the massive increase from my starting salary of £584 a year and during which I earned the princely sum of £900 and £940 (well they did have DO NOT DESTROY on them) and a certificate of graduated pension earned

Bank statement from closure of my account to open a joint account on marriage. This was the first big financial error I made as I have continued to pay all the bills from my salary and now occupational pension (don't get state pension until this time next year) while he has at least two separate accounts.

Various jewellery boxes including
Two heart shaped, one for engagement ring together with 1 year insurance document and receipt (1973) and one from wedding ring (1974)

Box for Rotary watch with 1 year warranty certificate (1973) Watch is still in jewellery box on dressing table

Thin plastic box inexplicably inscribed 'Ratners, Jewellers of repute'

Plastic items given at our wedding, a boot, a wishbone, 2 horseshoes, one with a lucky black cat attached, a separate black cat, no rolling pin though

My 'something blue' garter

Wedding gift cards, I didn't have the main cards as we inadvertently left them at the reception venue and didn't get back to collect them, and guess what, I havent missed them in all these years

Pack of postcards from Rome school trip 1969

An envelope containing a single Green Shield stamp

Unused pack of 6 children's bithday cards (Studio cards 21p per pack)

A 35mm slide viewer

Two hairdryers without plugs, from the days when you removed the plug from old appliances to put on their replacements

Accessories for those dryers and some from their long gone replacements

Three hairbrushes

And for the really emotional stuff:

Letters from my husband before we were married and also some from previous boyfriends. Several are from someone after we split up and I know he wasn't happy about it at the time. I have recently met up with him and we occasionally meet for coffee. I can't decide whether to read them before I bin them. Perhaps I should post this bit in the Marriage and relationship section.

tibawo

After KDing a Saturday morning club at the beginning of the year, DD1 is now doing GCSE PE and wants to keep her netball skills up so she can get a good grade. She is by no means the next England player but wants to do well. So the only training nearby that doesn't clash with everything else we do is, you've guessed it, a Saturday morning!


I know I moan as it messes up my routine but I am glad she is thinking ahead. However, it is also at a sixth form centre and one of them places where it is a waste of time for me to come home just for the 30 mins before I set off back to collect her. With this in mind I have decided to 'take' some small KD with me. E.g. I've put all the pens drawer stuff in a bag and will sit going through it!


If you've any other ideas for small things I can do in future weeks then I am open to offers... not really too keen to do things like my undies drawer though as in a public place!!

oceanspirit

OH is very happy with the idea of sorting holiday photos whilst on holiday!
Went through lots of other photos last night and tore in half those going so couldn't change my mind. Some I'd set to one side have been torn in half this morning and now an empty box can go into recycling.

MrsPorridge

Thanks all for the tips on the photos am going to make a start on them today - weather is horrible - although am going to the cinema to see Paddington 2 later - with no kids in tow. When I told them in the office yesterday they were horrified that an "old girl" would go to the cinema to see Paddington! That's one of the things about getting older (still the right side of 60), if I want to do something then I just go and do it It brings such joy!

All these posts are terrific and really keep me going on the tidying and KMing - thank you.

MMF007

MrsPorridge wrote: »

Thanks all for the tips on the photos am going to make a start on them today - weather is horrible - although am going to the cinema to see Paddington 2 later - with no kids in tow. When I told them in the office yesterday they were horrified that an "old girl" would go to the cinema to see Paddington! That's one of the things about getting older (still the right side of 60), if I want to do something then I just go and do it It brings such joy!

All these posts are terrific and really keep me going on the tidying and KMing - thank you.

Oh, you are so right, MrsP. I don't care what other people think when I make sandcastles on the beach or reveal just how poor my hand-eye coordination is when I go 10-pin bowling / play mini golf! So long as i am enjoying myself and no-one is in danger I have fun if I want to