KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

carrielovesfanta

VJsmum wrote: »

Yep, me too. Dropping off DS at uni in inner city Liverpool at the weekend i felt very odd - almost every other woman in the city, of whatever age, had dressed as though they were going to Ascot. Surely there can't have been that many weddings / race meetings on? Even other mums i saw in halls were 'dolled up to the nines'.

VJsmum - I left the home counties for uni at Liverpool. I hope your DS is as happy here as I am. I feel in love with the city at first sight and never left (I am 12 years graduated!), and married a scouser


Liverpool ladies like to be dressed up. It's a real thing here. Make up is... interesting. Brows are dark and pencilled, hair is big and full of extensions, clothes are bright. It's a real look. Not my thing to be perfectly honest, and people can be very rude about the scouse look. However, those ladies are always 10/10 for effort!

greent

Just back from dropping DD at uni for year 2 - so the house, garage & kitchen (freezer, fridge and pantry shelves especially!) are all emptier! SO much stuff!! It was good to see that the garden had finished being cleared (was waist- chest height in grass, weeds , bindweed and brambles at the start of the holidays - OH cleared around half back in mid-Aug and that has been maintained and the rest cleared since by someone else) meaning the shared washing line can be used

MMF007

The KM magic continues here! Putting away a jacket in the wardrobe made me think to check on some bulky fleeces and jumpers in a drawer. Well, 1 is now hung in wardrobe, 1 in the wash, 1 replaced in drawer as it wouldn't benefit from a hanger, and, ta-da, FOUR are now in CS bag.
A gardening fleece (full of holes from bonfiring*) is now is the bin.
* hope GQ approves of this verb

Am about to tackle a bag of photos that I dug out last weekend for DH to do.....
speaking of whom, I labelled the file where I filed his bank statements because simply telling him which file by reference to colour will just result in him asking me which colour it was again, everytime he needs it! :rotfl:

GreyQueen

Bonfiring is an excellent verb.

I will (dryness permitting) be bagging some of the dried-out weeds in paper spud sacks and secreting them in my shed until October (site has a burn ban until then) so they don't get wet again.

Getting things reduced by flame is very satisfying, lottie will look a bit of a mess until this is done. I have also taken a second tranche of firewood to pal's woodpile yestereve, so the dustbin which has been storing it in the dry is half empty now.

The big tub of Autumn Gold wood preservative is almost empty, dunno if finishing the shed treatment will get it all gone or it'll take one more go after this one, but it's great to see the beginning of the end of ths 'orrible colour. Can't wait til I've used it all, washed up the container and taken it for recycling.

PollyWollyDoodle

Some years ago I did calligraphy, and really enjoyed it, so when I Kondoed the craft-and-hobbies komono my portfolio case and toolbox of kit passed the cut. Recently I've signed up for a calligraphy class, so time to dust off (quite literally) the kit.

I was astonished to realise that it was 1995 when I last did this! I've moved three times since then, and while I'm glad I kept some of the kit, not surprisingly after 22 years the ink has all dried up, tubes of gouache paint solidified and some of the nibs are rusty. Some of the work I did is a useful reminder of techniques but a lot is just practice that I didn't need to keep. I could have used some of the stuff - or given them to someone - or just thrown them out before moving. So while in this case, keeping it was a good move there's still a lesson about going through perishable supplies and not just keeping everything indiscriminately.

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

Can I really do that? it would be such a massive weight off my shoulders. Could I do that with eg a very heavy teak root bench right up on the top tier, it looks weathered and is on a corner and looks good, Omg I hope so because removing these big plants would be a huge huge nightmare and is already entering my thoughts at night time

I bet they've eyed those up and thought "wish they'd leave those for free....."

Siebrie

Quick trip to the tip this afternoon: all the small bits and pieces that were lying next to our house are now gone. You know, those pieces that never seem to make the trip worthwhile, like 2 lightbulbs, 2 hulahoops, a planter....

We had a leisurely morning, I ran two loads of laundry and linedried them, dds went to a birthday party, I did some grocery shopping and the tiprun, and then we all went to the local zoo in time for the birds of prey show. Dd1 treated us to icecream from her pocket money! This is a girl who cannot choose, and cannot share, so I'm really pleased.

catshark88

So much progress!
Well done all. :T:T

Magic of tidying is now available as an audiobook. Just saying...

Karmacat

carrielovesfanta wrote: »

VJsmum - I left the home counties for uni at Liverpool. I hope your DS is as happy here as I am. I feel in love with the city at first sight and never left (I am 12 years graduated!), and married a scouser

Liverpool ladies like to be dressed up. It's a real thing here. Make up is... interesting. Brows are dark and pencilled, hair is big and full of extensions, clothes are bright. It's a real look. Not my thing to be perfectly honest, and people can be very rude about the scouse look. However, those ladies are always 10/10 for effort!

:j:j:j I'm sort of an ex-scouser (moved away 40 years ago) and never really did the look, but I love Liverpool dearly this is great to read, carrie

GreyQueen wrote: »

Getting things reduced by flame is very satisfying, lottie will look a bit of a mess until this is done.

I love it too :j and I caught it from you :rotfl:

I also have lots of snippings from the neighbour's box hedge that were leaning five feet into my garden; underneath the green was bare dead twiglets, and they've dried out to the extent that I can crush them, with gardening gloves on, and put the resulting stuff thats just a couple of inches long, straight onto the ground to act as additional mulch. Win-win.

My sister's coming round tomorrow to take my ex-sofa and ex-cushions to the tip. I've realised I can also get rid of some very old, very stained summer duvets and bring into use some that I was "saving". Justin has an awful lot to answer for.

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carrielovesfanta

Karmacat wrote: »

:j:j:j I'm sort of an ex-scouser (moved away 40 years ago) and never really did the look, but I love Liverpool dearly this is great to read, carrie Save

No such thing as an ex-scouser - just a lapsed one

To be fair, I have become a token wool now by moving from the city centre to "over the water"