KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

short_bird wrote: »

Used for stopping ladders in tights?
Bought for her as a present?
I'm curious now...

:rotfl:

I just asked her. She bought it to mark the four sections of the chuck on her wood lathe 1, 2, 3 and 4, as they have to be put on the lathe in exact order, and nail polish stays on the metal easily.

Never would have guessed that it million years, hey?! :rotfl:

daisy_1571 wrote: »

GQ- the top of your folks' dressing table sounds like so many surfaces and drawers in my houses over the years,
stuff saved for dealing with later (and Justin and andy) ,
stuff that we want but has no proper home so gets laid down,
keyrings and other give-away type kibble that that we don't really want but are sorta useful but no one else is likely to want so we can't throw it away, we can't give it away, it's not valuable to try to sell but we don't want to 'waste' it so we keep it 'for now',
etc etc so it just piles up then seems even more wasteful when it's a whole bag of such stuff to get rid of.

Well done on helping them, it's really sooooo much easier when it's someone else's stuff, we seem to have a filter on when looking at our own homes

Daisy xx

Are we related?!

So many things fall into the MBUs (might be usefuls, in our family parlance) or are needed by that beggar, Justin. I blame a lot of it on coming from poor country families, where you kept everything for potential re-purposing. I mean, everyone needs old meat skewers to make into latches for the chicken coop, old bits of leather belts to make into hinges for various things, and every washer, screw, nut and bolt that ever crosses your path.

Mind you, I'm a chip of the old block. Have just been cadging in the workshop shed, among the twenty million old tubs and tins and bits of wood between the lathe, the band-saw, the pillar drill and more vises than the Vice Squad, and have been allowed to take away a quantity of nuts and bolts salvaged from the old recliner which was dismantled and taken to the tip last autumn.

I want them for odd bodging jobs on the lottie...... :rotfl:We were looking for the Rough Barstweard file, which is the name of an actual tool, not a joke or insult, but we couldn't find it.:D

daisy_1571

MBUs love it, I cud open a shop with MBUs. But I won't cos I'd only end up needing more stock then worry about selling anything in case the purchaser would dispose of it inappropriately at the end of its life.

Related ? Could be ...I'm 5 foot 2and a half so we might be twins (bagsy be a Scottish Danny devito lol) ??? And all of the above sounds like my granda who could knock up almost anything out of a flattened empty baked beans can, a random mix of 3 pre-used rusty bent screws and nails, some offcuts of wood and a large dash of optimism

MMF007

Twins - we have friends in the caribbean (very handy in winter!) and Mr Local, as I will call him, shares the exact birthday with my DH. Mr Local parades round whenever we see him, arm in arm with his UK twin, telling everyone they meet that they are twins, born within 2 hours of each other.
My DH is white (sort blue-ish white in winter!), 5'11". Mr Local is a person of colour, 6'4" of pure muscle. They both love the fun because for an instant innocent new acquiantances don't quite know what to say, then they all laugh and inevitably chant 'brothers from another mother'. :rotfl:

Deedee73

Good afternoon Kondoers, I am a serial restarter, I never finish the whole lot, and as such, seem to end up back at the start again(glad I'm not alone there, I've had a good catch up on the thread since 2005! lol was it really that long ago?)
anyhoo, this Bank holiday weekend was spent making a dent in the garage, which ahad been stuffed with DM's things from her house after she left this mortal coil..... emotional but I was ready to let it all go, there was no way I was going to sell it, so it all was separated and recycled. this as led to m ere opening the Spark Joy book,
I intend to create a mini orgnizing/decluttering business soon so now is as good a time as any.... I've just bagged a load of "wannabe gorgeous clothes" knowing that it isnt about other people thinking im gorgeous, it's about me being happy and feeling lovely,
man I threw a LOT! Will sit with the book and work out my next area, Like one of the others I too feel that because the family are not on board, things dont get set, so I am ony doing my things,
and that means my cosmetics/jewellery drawers are next.

I am also going to discard/recycle all the bits Ive been meaning to EBAY/FB sell..... it's clogging my jam! lol

GreyQueen

Aahh, on the home stretch of my break-let at the family home. The Courgette Bake was better second time around; said courgette was actually a marrow by the time I picked it and provided enough vegetable for two tray-bake style dishes. The first was rather too watery but the second was re-heated at the top of a 200 oven and crisped up nicely and was much appreciated.

To a so-so cook such as myself, this was very gratifying. My reward is to leave another [STRIKE]courge[/STRIKE] err marrow with them for another day. :rotfl:

Dad expressed pleasure that the Tinned Pie Filling Mountain has now been reduced to a single can, from a high of over twenty specimens and the freezer as well as the cake tins are full of home-baking.

I am now going to samosa fold a lot of carrier bags whilst watching the Nooze. I may be gone for some time.

short_bird

GreyQueen wrote: »

I just asked her. She bought it to mark the four sections of the chuck on her wood lathe 1, 2, 3 and 4, as they have to be put on the lathe in exact order, and nail polish stays on the metal easily.

Never would have guessed that it million years, hey?! :rotfl:

Superb!! I'll mentally file that Justin Case.

grunnie

I keep a bottle of nailvarnish to paint over the screws in my glasses after I have tightened them.:j

GreyQueen

grunnie wrote: »

I keep a bottle of nailvarnish to paint over the screws in my glasses after I have tightened them.:j

Excellent advice. As is to re-sew your buttons then put a dab of clear nail varnish over the threads to stop them coming off easily.

elona

I just put a charity bag outside to be collected in the morning with shoes that youngest does not want.

I also managed to find someone local who has a licence to deal with waste and he will come round on Friday to look at the things that need to go to the tip like cans of paint, off cuts of carpet, laminate etc. There is stuff both in the outside garage and integral garage which I am desperate to get rid of but don't have the strength to move by myself.

PollyWollyDoodle

I use nail polish to mark the size on the bottom of my baking tins (although be warned, it flakes off eventually if you do a lot of baking!). I've yet to find a marker pen that works for this.