KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

WeeMidgie

Siebrie, good point and once they have handed over the flat keys, I'll be taking it up with them, along with the data security issue.

I took my little Pembroke table which I had in the kitchen, and an electric fire to the local auction house today. I loved them both, but they are too big for the new abode. So they've gone off to make someone else happy, and earn me a few pounds. I acquired the table from there 6 years ago, so it'll be interesting to see what its price level will be.

GreyQueen

:eek: By golly, this money transfer business seems to be treated far too casually. Would worry me sick if I was ever in a position to buy/sell a house or flat. Sometimes, being a pauper has its advantages.

Hope your table and fire net you a few squid. I do admire how organised your pre-moving has been.

greenbee, they're not even sown yet, but I might just do that one of these days. I think it will be a Talking Point. As in, what's that bliddy wumman doing NOW?!

Was on the lotties last night waging war against Big Grass on Plot2. I have tried several people I know with horses to get them to loan me a nag to eat it all, but people are surprisingly reluctant to help me with this mission, really can't see the problem. All I need them to do is truck their nag across the region and stand there holding it so it only grazes on the shaggy bits. So, have been cutting lovely lush grass down with a sickle and piling it up, and then mattocking.

Can't do too many minutes of that at a time, so have also been clearing more carp from Plot2, sorting it into the following:

1. Defiantely useless and non-reyclable inorganic trash.
2. Useless but recyclable but needs washing (misc plastics)
3. Recyclable at the tip - random bits of metal.
4. Possibly re-usable tools which need re-hafting x 3.
5. Two builders bags - what could I use these for??
6. Some useful stuff (few flowerpots and a seed tray).

Percentage wise, No 1 is about 60%. I brought a bin-bag of that down last night for the communal bins, didn't have capacity to bring the milk bottles also, but they'll do tonight.

I am helping in the juntique shop this morning. With paperwork and banking. It's a target-rich environment and I may be allowed to play with the costume jewellery displays as a reward. Oh, and chocolate was also promised.......... :rotfl:

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Can't do too many minutes of that at a time,

sensible woman GQ I get carried away and end up regretting it

3 more drought plants ordered today for a long narrow raised bed up on tier 3. I darent divide the 5 remaining, they survived winter but need a boost not a divide. I want to kondo my last full bag of JI 2 and will have to take one small bucket at a time up those two sets of steps, first got to remove seeded weedlets up there. That will be job for today and moving soil over 2 days

Kondo is all in the garden just now and I am so thankful for what I did last year. Small troughs are now emptied of early tulips and pelargoniums are arriving on wednesday. I can handle small troughs for them and will fill with compost later today. I have just prepared one tall trumpet pot, plenty of width at the top. 2/3 filled with empty plastic milk bottles and lastly a polystyrene square, rounded the corners and weed fabric on top of that and just enough compost to keep 5 pelargoniums happy in autumn I will remove the pelargoniums and replace a little compost and plant some shorter normal tulips

All those pots and troughs last year, before kondo, they were far too hard to handle and water. Loving it this year

GreyQueen

I've learned the hard way, kittie. My instinct is to go at life like a bull at a gate, as we say in the sticks, but I've learned that pacing and varying tasks between heavy and very light work is more productive in the longer run. Less likely to injure muscles and strain tendons by stopping after a certain amount of time or a certain (very modest) area of work. I like to keep a little in the tank.

Your garden sounds lovely.

Some of the unwanted things on the allotment will be moved in about a month when I will have a hire car for another purpose and intend to run some errands before I take it back. It'll be 12 months since my last hire vehicle and I like to get good value for my £££. I do find that not having a car causes one to be efficient; my chief thoughts when planning are logistics. Can I get there from here? Can I get back? Can I move X on my pushbike? Can X be dismantled for moving? Should X be left in the skip where I spotted it?:rotfl:

ETA; a successful experimundo just completed. There was an 8 inch flowerpot among the carp yesterday which had been squashed so that its top was touching in an ellipse, not actually round any more, rendering it useless. Otherwise a good flowerpot and a size I have a use for. I have immersed it in a bucket of the hottest tap water for 5 mins, with something inside to stop it floating up, and was able to squash the softened plastic back into a flowerpot shape so it'll go back up there later and have beans planted in it for the cold frame. Pleasing.

WeeMidgie

You're so right the stress of transferring money, GQ. I double, triple and quadruple checked the bank account details, as did the two bank managers who did the online work, then printed out the transaction and asked me to check everything again. Nevertheless, I still heaved a huge sigh of relief when I got confirmation from the solicitor that it had arrived safely in their client account. Committing one's life savings to cyberspace is a scary thing!

Today's task is filling boxes and I need to go and look at a second hand mini fridge later this afternoon. This will tide me over until a neighbour in the new abode is at the stage of kondoing her entire very modern kitchen, including fridge freezer. It was all going to be taken to the recycling centre, but is now moving into my flat, in due course. Our kitchens have exactly the same layout.

It's a win win for everyone, and saves a perfectly good kitchen from getting dumped. I would have lived with the very elderly kitchen in my place, but given the chance, I wasn't going to look this gift horse in the mouth!

Floss

Wee Midgie conveyancing transactions have been done that way for several years now - its only recently that it is more commonly known.

maryb

Been making the house as sanitary as possible in preparation for DH's return from hospital - don't want him getting an infection in his wound. It's amazing how ruthlessly you can kondo if you ask yourself will this make it harder to keep the place clean easily. It's also amazing how much went that way - housewifery is obviously not my thing!

Pooky

I've kondod any remaining energy I had and laid the base for the shed at the allotment, a friend of ours came to help with fencing too which was a godsend. DH managed 2 nasty tumbles so he was delegated to "man in charge of the drinks and biscuits".

I found a baby slowworm hiding under my spade so rehomed him to a more suitable shady spot out the way, then found a full sized slowworm with a manky tail, he was very wriggly so I left him alone to wander off...then a rather large frog popped up out of the water tank so I made him a more substantial bridge to get himself in and out.

Another 2 books have been finished this week and have started a new bag for CS, there's a pair of jeans that won't stay up and a pair of shoes that keep slipping off that can join them too.

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wishing you all the best maryb, I read about what you have both been through

Good kondo today, only garden stuff but now in its right place ie troughs and pots. One book to go out, conn igulden, I could not take any more of these war of the roses battles, only part read but enough. I am reading on kindle just now but does anyone know if kindle is ok to read in bed ie does it affect sleep?

One bottle of tonic and a small amount of sipsmith gin also gone

maryb

Thanks Kittie. Kindle should be OK to read in bed because it has a different type of screen to Ipads and I don't think it emits blue light