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KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
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When I needed a work diary, I always wanted a particular one. I've just been given a stocking filler present of one of those tear-off a day desk things - it has cats
which makes my heart sing - and I have a posh phone now, so if I'm out and need to note a date, I can do it on the phone and update the jotter thing when I get home. I'm determined to make it work :rotfl: but it will need regular updating :eek:
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I’ve been reading some MK F@cebook pages.
Getting rid of unwanted gifts seems a problem to so many people. They either feel really guilty to let the item go, or try to be so proactive avoiding being given it in the first place, that offence is caused.
I love the bit in the book about a gift having fulfilled its purpose in being given and so it can then be let go."Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." William Morris0 -
Morning all - planning a day in, kondoing some of the marking and starting to sort the bathrooms. My DD works for Lu$h and the house is full of the stuff. She has an interview today for a permanent job there - I am dreading the amount of stuff that will come in if she gets it and new products are introduced :eek:
Most of my christmas pressies were consumable to some extent - reading books, smellies (lu$h, of course), some chocolate has already been given away (god bless my MiL who will insist on buying us quality st. even though she knows we don't like it. I have two new recipe books, but will try to get rid of two to compensate, a bobble hat I wanted, and wine to drink. The only strange present is a SAD light lamp that I am not convinced I need, but I will give it a go..
My DS kondoed the car on boxing day :eek: but fortunately not himself, but I don't think it counts as we will have to get another.
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catshark88 wrote: »I’ve been reading some MK F@cebook pages.
Getting rid of unwanted gifts seems a problem to so many people. They either feel really guilty to let the item go, or try to be so proactive avoiding being given it in the first place, that offence is caused.
I love the bit in the book about a gift having fulfilled its purpose in being given and so it can then be let go.
I saw this. The one thread got quite narky and admins removed comments and then closed it, I think.
If you don't like a gift, that's fine, in my book - do with it what you will with no guilt (donate/ regift/ sell... whatever works). I have one gift which is going (to the foodbank) and 1 which may go to CS (needs some pondering) The others are all either what I asked for/ will use/ are experiences/ are cute. Certainly not worth getting het up about - and definitely not worth getting het up about someone else's gift-receiving experience!!I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soulRepaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NILNet sales 2024: £200 -
I only had a few hours sleep last night and read this thread this morning and then sat down and and nodded off in my wing chair afterwards. When I woke up I thought of something we could get rid of - the plastic dog basket that the dogs never use. It is just taking up space in our limited garden storage boxes.
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Havent been around for a while....RL is such a nuisance when it gets in the way. ! I sort of lost my mo jo when my oldest closest and dearest friend died suddenly in mid October....admitted to hospital diagnosed with multiple cancers and died all in the space of 4 days. At 51 and with 2 children, one still in school she still had a life to lead. It was a shock to us all and has left a huge hole in her family but also in her close circle of friends.
Consequently others thigs have occupied me since then.....I have not slipped back into pre KM days but the pace has slowed greatly and the goals I have set have slipped by having not been met - it is still a net flow of stuff out of the door - CS, Eb*y, recycling, clothes and book weigh-in etc etc but only in small amounts. I saw 2017 as being THE YEAR to finish with all this.......to have the house with a 'manageable' amount of stuff to deal with.....looks like it will be 2018 now! Hasn't been helped with DD1 moving back - well her stuff really as she is off for the winter elsewhere earning money and re-booting her life after she ended a 10 year relationship - she did have to clear out her room of stuff from when she left to go to university but it is now full of what she accumulated whilst she was there and in the intervening years! Knock on effect is that DD2 has had to tackle her accumulations as she had boxed it all up and stored it her sisters room.........not expecting her move back semi permanently!
Anyway life goes on....Christmas is over and I feel now I can tackle some things. First thing is to replace old mobile phone - due for an up grade and I have had a cracked screen for too long. OH got out the box off doomed mobile phones he has kept - I tell you there are historical artefacts in there covering the rise of mobile phone technology - I told him I will taking my old phone to the recycle centre and NOT keeping it for bl**dy Justin ! Cue puzzled look on OH faceBe the change you want to see -with apologies to Gandhi
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn
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Havent been around for a while....RL is such a nuisance when it gets in the way. ! I sort of lost my mo jo when my oldest closest and dearest friend died suddenly in mid October....admitted to hospital diagnosed with multiple cancers and died all in the space of 4 days. At 51 and with 2 children, one still in school she still had a life to lead. It was a shock to us all and has left a huge hole in her family but also in her close circle of friends.
Consequently others thigs have occupied me since then.....I have not slipped back into pre KM days but the pace has slowed greatly and the goals I have set have slipped by having not been met - it is still a net flow of stuff out of the door - CS, Eb*y, recycling, clothes and book weigh-in etc etc but only in small amounts. I saw 2017 as being THE YEAR to finish with all this.......to have the house with a 'manageable' amount of stuff to deal with.....looks like it will be 2018 now! Hasn't been helped with DD1 moving back - well her stuff really as she is off for the winter elsewhere earning money and re-booting her life after she ended a 10 year relationship - she did have to clear out her room of stuff from when she left to go to university but it is now full of what she accumulated whilst she was there and in the intervening years! Knock on effect is that DD2 has had to tackle her accumulations as she had boxed it all up and stored it her sisters room.........not expecting her move back semi permanently!
Anyway life goes on....Christmas is over and I feel now I can tackle some things. First thing is to replace old mobile phone - due for an up grade and I have had a cracked screen for too long. OH got out the box off doomed mobile phones he has kept - I tell you there are historical artefacts in there covering the rise of mobile phone technology - I told him I will taking my old phone to the recycle centre and NOT keeping it for bl**dy Justin ! Cue puzzled look on OH face
Sorry to hear about your friend x
Phones - even with cracked screens - can be sold to recycling places (such as f0nebank) - MSE has a comparison tool where you input your model and it tells you who will give best price - I sent off a batch of old ones when starting KM - including one for which I got all of 2p!! (it was in a parcel with others, or I wouldn't have bothered!) You can also get a little bit extra by going through tcb/ quidc0 first
xI am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soulRepaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NILNet sales 2024: £200 -
Afternoon all.
Online for the first time today, taking five between lunch and doing some alterations on a pair of trousers for Mum.
Dad and I decided we were in need of a bit of exercise and, as we both had business down in the town, walked in with four donation bags of books, clothing, accessories and Misc. A mere drop in the ocean compared with what is left on the premises already bagged, but one mustn't overwhelm the chazzer; I think a fair few people hiff things out over the holiday period.
Re unwanted gifts, I think it's an important part of growing up to be able to recieve unwanted gifts with a pleased expression and not to cause offense to the giver. What one does with the item thereafter is up to you with the proviso (in my opinion) that the original giver isn't likely to get it back on the gift-go-round/ bump into it in a chazzer.
It's rare for a year to pass without at least one, sometimes many, offers of somebody else's discards. I like it that friends and acquaintances think of me like this but I can't take everything I'm offered; home is very small.
My tactic is to say something like; I'd really like it if I had somewhere to put it, but it simply won't fit, but thank you for thinking of me.
Or, if it's something I'm not sure will fit/ suit, I tend to say; It's really nice but I'm not 100% sure it will work out for me, would you be OK if I took it and later re-homed it if necessary?
No one has ever redacted an offer when it's phrased like this, as they know my green warrior anti-waste stance means nothing will be wasted; if not suitable for a chazzer, it'd be dismantled and sent to recycling. It gives me the flexibility to accept something without committing to owning it forever.Whilst Dad and I were out, Mum found an ice-cream tub full of small misc; apostle spoons, sewing detritus, the spare lead pellets for balancing the old skool kitchen scales and other random kipple. She's happily poking through it right now. We have decided that a handful of extremely worn down EPNS forks are going to metal recycling rather than the chazzer, though.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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Finally managed to Kondo OH's unused Masonic apron today. It's shuffled round the house for a few years, and has continued to shuffle about since it was identified for getting rid of.
It finally sold on ebay and was posted todayLBM 11/06/2010: DFD 30/04/2013Total repaid: £10,490.310 -
carrielovesfanta wrote: »Finally managed to Kondo OH's unused Masonic apron today. It's shuffled round the house for a few years, and has continued to shuffle about since it was identified for getting rid of.
It finally sold on ebay and was posted today
That inspired me to have a look at similar items on t'bay (just out of curiosity) - wow! - who knew there was such a market out there for them (both sellers and buyers) - that's what I love about fleabay - a veritable treasure trove
xI am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soulRepaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NILNet sales 2024: £200
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