KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

kboss2010

What better way to spend a public holiday Monday than kondoing the whole flat?! So tired of living in the ever-accumulating clutter so I!!!8217;m done.
Wish me luck, folks!

GreyQueen

kboss2010 wrote: »

What better way to spend a public holiday Monday than kondoing the whole flat?! So tired of living in the ever-accumulating clutter so I!!!8217;m done.
Wish me luck, folks!

:beer: Brilliant idea. Have a good day and remember to take regular rests and brew-ups/ small libations to keep you going.

It's already 25c out there (at 10 am!) and I've popped to the shop for some essential food supplies and am packing up to head to the lotties. I shall be doing some work and some socialising.

I am also going to take three of the thicker items of clothing which I laundered this morning as they'll dry up there in a couple of hours but take 1-2 days indoors here. Two of the three bits are nightwear, mismatched jammie tops and bottoms which are on constant rotation with a view to wearing them up and reducing the nightwear inventory. I want them dry because I intend to be wearing them again tonight.

Might seem a bit eccentric but when has that ever stopped me?!

PWD, I had the two builders bags -which were screwed up and damp and mucky - hanging up on the fence yester, and close examination revealed one had several places where the plastic 'fabric' had given way and that is now in the bin. The other is sound and being kept for now. There is also a builders bag outside which the previous plotholder was using as a compost bin. It's chock full of mainly rooty unpromising stuff and I've been adding nasty roots to the top of it as I cleared the top of Plot2. I may well make a well of compost in the top, along with some manure, and plant the pumpkin plant a pal is rearing for me in their greenhouse. If nothing else, it'll use a bit of unusable space and make the ugly bag a bit more interesting.

Plot2 kondoing continues apace, with me re-visting the subterranean plastic bin bag stash which I mattocked up with great disgust a few weeks ago. Now the weather is dry, it's less loathesome to deal with, although my revulsion for plastic knows no bounds.:(

Righty, quick cuppa, then packing my toys and heading out for the day. Have a great time, whatever you're doing. GQ xx

Karmacat

kboss, GQ, have a good day, both of you

The universe is definitely telling me to kondo more - I *was* going to go to a boot sale this morning (one a year in walking distance, run by the Rotarians). A couple of stalls sell plants, a couple of stalls sell DVDs 3 for £1. But other places sell plants, and I don't need any more DVDs - stoppp! the universe is saying. So I have

I brought back lots of broken oyster shells from my little caravan holibob (my sister drove, I didn't have to carry them). I can usefully swoosh them up to help the garden soil.

Siebrie

On Friday I went to the WI Pop-up shop and, with the help of both dds, bought 8 items. I had donated about 20, so it's some sort of win .


The items I donated came from me, a colleague, and a friend, though, so not all from my own closet. Some items I donated I had bought at the pop-up shop last year, and worn a few times, but did not want to keep them .


DD2 had a very enjoyable 7th birthday party on Sunday; she threw the party with a school friend, and together they invited 10 classmates. The party was at the friend's house/garden, his parents fired up the bbq and filled some swimming pools/boats/shells (anything that could hold water) and we let the kids play. Hardly any programme, and hardly any costs, and hardly any stress!

Slinky

3 visits to the garden centre in 2 days! Went yesterday and chose new pots for our bay tree and olive tree. We also needed some topsoil but ran out of time (we had lunch booked). OH remarked on the time it took to choose, I pointed out it was longer than the time I spent looking round the house we bought last year to retire to eventually!


Today the bay tree was moved, after we'd been back to the GC to get the topsoil.We had to break the old pot to get it out in the end, so the plan now is that the lilac tree (finally confirmed to be a proper lilac lilac) will go into the other new pot temporarily as we think it'll be easier to get the lilac out of that pot rather than risking breaking the pot the olive is currently in and then having to buy another pot. If we line the new pot with plastic we think we should be able to remove it fairly easily. Eventually the olive will go in the second pot. Really pleased with the way the bay is looking, it wasn't upright in the previous pot which was a tad annoying!


However, we're not going to move the lilac into the pot until the winter, so the pot is currently cluttering up the back of the shed. We also bought some troughs to move some daffs into ready for moving with us. We bought 2 yesterday, decided we needed a 3rd but forgot to buy it on the topsoil trip, so I had to go back again. Walked it the 3rd time as it's very local. Again, the troughs have gone into the shed whilst we wait for the daffs to die back a bit more.


Have spent today in the garden tidying, weeding, trimming. Did some of the front garden yesterday but the ba$tard soil has baked like a brick already. Dug out an old hebe that wasn't doing very well. Has left a large gap but we won't fill it until after we get back from holiday so we don't have to worry so much about watering.


Have tried layering a clematis we'd like to have in our new home but can't really dig out the existing one as it's right against a wall. Suspect this will not be successful but we'll give it a go and hope for the best.

GreyQueen

Ooof, six hours on the allotment, heavy work interspersed with sitting in the shade with my book (and a pal who visited) and had a lovely time. Such superb weather.

Convo with pal has managed to re-home to him one of the things leftover from the previous plotholder and another item (the decent builders bag) may be required by someone he knows who is presently on holiday. We will have that convo with them once they're back in Blighty, and I can try freecycling it if they're not interested.

This means that a large container of horrible clutter has been reduced to three managable items, one being a smallish bag of mesh etc which I am certain to use myself.

Have been clod-busting in The Prairie (aka Plot2) where one could lose a shortarrised bison in the long grass atm. I'm digging the wretched stuff up as fast as I can, and finding lots of glass, pottery, bits of metal and plastic underground. Plastic-plastic-plastic, how I hateth thee............:rotfl:

I also found a pond. About the size of a puddle and emerging bashfully from the grass. It has a brick and a clump of something (duckweed?) and some insects in it. I shall observe closely to see if any proper pondiness is going on. Probably going to leave it, it's in a bit of a daft place, but I guess I can landscape it - I have five spare bricks already and am sure to dig some more up soon.

maryb

when we took on our allotment the previous plot holder had had lots of grand ideas. One of which involved a pond. However he only got as far as digging the outline which left a trench about six inches wide and six inches deep then planting some rushes in one corner

Add two years of neglect and the now hidden trench became a perfect potential ankle breaker. However the rushes had become absolutely immoveable. It took a solid week (because it was too exhausting to do for too long)for two of us working with a mattock AND a crowbar to lever out the roots

Elona_2

I have spent most of the day kondoing my insides -eek!!!

I was fine till after middle dd and bf set off after breakfast , having unpacked a big toolbox for me and moving a swing seat outside. I had a bit of a cough and then suddenly had to rush to the bathroom and have spent the day only a few yards from the loo. Have ordered some soft drinks to arrive tomorrow morning and made do with water as I can't keep anything down,

I am worried that the home made lasagnes might have upset my tummy so will remove them from the freezer and chuck them out just in case.

I had planned to sit in the garden with a book and do a bit of garage tidying but had to settle for putting my feet up and feeling sorry for myself.

Hugs to all

GreyQueen

:eek: Definately not doing rushes, then!

A lottie pal has given me some dahlia bulbs. I need to find a home for them so they may be planted winsomely in a clump near the puddle. I can also put some more marigolds around there, I have many many of the calendulas free-ranging on Plot1 and it would be a fast bit of trowel-work to move some of them.

I also dug up a squashed plastic bottle which was full of soil, which I sloshed out under the tap. Too manky for the recycling, I reckon, may have to go into the landfill bin.

Plot2 will not be in full fettle until 2019 but I am having fun dragging it, kicking and screaming, back from the green hell which it had been allowed to degenerate into.

I shall go back up there tomorrow after w*rk, can't wait.:j

GreyQueen

Elona wrote: »

I have spent most of the day kondoing my insides -eek!!!

I was fine till after middle dd and bf set off after breakfast , having unpacked a big toolbox for me and moving a swing seat outside. I had a bit of a cough and then suddenly had to rush to the bathroom and have spent the day only a few yards from the loo. Have ordered some soft drinks to arrive tomorrow morning and made do with water as I can't keep anything down,

I am worried that the home made lasagnes might have upset my tummy so will remove them from the freezer and chuck them out just in case.

I had planned to sit in the garden with a book and do a bit of garage tidying but had to settle for putting my feet up and feeling sorry for myself.

Hugs to all

Sorry to hear that you've not been well and hope tomorrow is better.

I wouldn't be in too much of a rush to blame the lasagnes, tho. I know from working with the food safety team that they need to take a 14 day food history if there is a confirmed diagnosis of food poisoning, because what caused the symptoms could be that long ago.

Most of us, if we toss our cookies, tend to blame something eaten in the last few hours/ the last day, and about the same if the other end of the alimentary canal is involved, but you could have encountered a bug many many days prior to your lasagne-dining. HTH.