KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

silvasava

Wort - I am the same as you with my knuckle being somewhat larger than the joint. I wear my wedding ring, engagement ring and eternity ring in that order (wedding ring first) my eternity ring is slightly smaller than the other two so acts as a 'keeper' but they do twist round - just live with it!
Kondoed two concrete planters yesterday - contents planted in the garden now just need to find homes for them - DS1 politely declined!! will try Freecycle

Slinky

NaughtySpot wrote: »

Grooves in skin definitely fill out over time, but I would say it takes months (too tight rings when pregnant here, and couldn’t get them back on a few months later), why not just get the eternity ring and see how you get on? The best answer is probably not to wear any for a couple of months and let it all settle, it that a possibility for you?

Thanks for this. I will probably be without my rings for several weeks as they will both be left with the jewellers while the new one is made and the others are altered. The eternity ring needs to be shaped to fit next to my wedding ring, which is shaped to fit next to the engagement ring. I'm happy for both of them to go up to a K I think, just not sure whether to go to K 1/2 with the engagement ring. Don't really want to have to get it altered twice. It's £70 a go and obviously each time they cut it is bound to make it weaker, plus the cut will be very close to the hallmark and I imagine they won't be keen to keep messing about with it there.


Decisions, decisions.

grunnie

They only cut a ring to make it smaller usually no charge as they keep the tiny bit that's removed. They don't cut the ring to make it bigger they put it on a thing which stretches it. The cost to send it away will include insurance in case it gets lost and that puts up the price.

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It was interesting to read about the rings. In 2013 I tried to take my wedding ring off as it was a bit sore underneath the ring, I could not shift it, used all sorts of ways, washing up liquid, fine thread the lot. I started to panic and of course the more I tried the more my finger swelled up. Visions then of the blood stopping flowing in my finger. One last try and I put my finger into a bowl of ice cold water, then used washing up liquid and pulled so hard that my finger could have come off, it was very scary and painful, it did come off and has not been back on since. It was so frightening and been on permanently for 43 years The groove lasted a year and in 2015 after hubbie died, I went to have the ring made bigger and wore it for a while but my finger got smaller, so I took the ring off. If I need to wear a ring on that finger than I have a special gold ring that I had made as a memorial. I wear it when house viewing or for special times.

Back to MK and thank goodness for all the work I did in the past. This morning I quickly turned the garage back into a usable workshop, albeit tidier and my outbuilding is also tidied but only took an hour. I had little faith in myself this morning, thought it would take 2 days, it actually took 3 hours. I have very little to get rid off as a result, just ood food and alfalfa sprouting seeds that I have had for 6 years

Slinky

grunnie wrote: »

They only cut a ring to make it smaller usually no charge as they keep the tiny bit that's removed. They don't cut the ring to make it bigger they put it on a thing which stretches it. The cost to send it away will include insurance in case it gets lost and that puts up the price.

My understanding from what they said is that it will be cut. Certainly the wedding ring which has been made a little larger before was cut. Some rings can be stretched, it depends on the ring style. Both my wedding ring and engagement ring have stones in so I can't see how they could stretch, particularly the wedding ring, without it affecting the setting of the stones to make them loose. The jeweller himself mentioned the position of the hallmark.

Siebrie

My parents are here for 10 days to help out while dh is abroad for a month, lovely! They like doing chores and deep cleans (really, there own home is very well-kept), although my father is a bit frustrated now, because the chores he tried to do at our home didn't work out: the toilet flush mechanism is still dripping water, the toilet door lock doesn't want to come out to be replaced, and my bicycle's front wheel tyre is still deflating and we have tried three times to find the hole. We're now looking for alternative solutions.


In the meantime, we made a trip to the tip with an old top mattress, a wardrobe door that fell off and cannot be reattached (dds claim innocence and it is a cheap wardrobe...), old and discoloured hard plastic toys, a crate full of glass bottles and pots that was not collected 3 months in a row (I asked the tip guardian if I maybe offered them in the wrong type of box, but he said it was fine and will lodge a complaint on my behalf), a dysfunctional vacuum cleaner, some cardboard. The house feels so much better and cleaner!


I put a large bag full of rags in my parents' car, for them to dispose of in their hometown.

WeeMidgie

Full marks to my phone and internet provider, the connection went live this afternoon, the day after I moved to my new home. :T It's been great to catch up with everyone's KM and other news.

I'm so tired it's not true, but very happy with my new home. Anyone who's reading this prior to moving home, or is thinking about it, every bit of kondoing you do in advance pays off big time, and saves you physical and mental energy. Like GQ, I have a fatigue issue at the best of times, so last minute pressure is not for me. Hence 3 rounds of KM in the eighteen months leading up to the move.

It streamlines and speeds up the whole moving process no end - no decision making to do re "shall I keep/donate/discard", just popping things in boxes which you already know you need or want and spark joy.:j

Thank you, KM and all on this thread! I couldn't have done it without you. :A

GreyQueen

:T Congratulations on a sucessful move, WeeMidgie!

I've moved a fair few times in my adult life and the less you have, the less stressful an already stressful time is.

I moved into my present home with three days' notice and went from a flat with a big bedroom and three walk-in cupboards (larders, really) and a big understair storage area into this pint-pot.

It was hell, the furniture for the LR wasn't right and I was so so shattered; I actually went to my parents' place for a couple of weekends as I couldn't rest in the muddle (was also working) and was getting myself into a state of collapse.

Got there in the end, but it could have been so much better done.

WeeMidgie

It's a whole different ball game when you work. I retired last year, and I'm so thankful to have no work pressure on top of the move. And you had only 3 days notice, GQ! With so little notice, it was going to take its toll. Thank goodness you took yourself over to family at the weekends to get some nurturing and rest.

GreyQueen

Yeah, I was working, had just committed to a work-related demanding training course and then, after a decade on the council list, up popped this flat. Very pleased and relieved to be out of the scuzzier end of the private rented sector but I spent several weeks being so busy I was in danger of meeting myself coming the other way!

Bearing in mind something Mum said almost casually a couple of nights ago (about really struggling to get upstairs now) I suspect a major reconfiguration of the parental home may be happening in the next weeks/ months.

Due to prudence 20 + years ago, there is a g/floor extension including a shower-room/ WC and this means we can turn the current usage (home office/hobby room/ book warehouse) into a double bedroom and move some of the stuff in it upstairs. I don't think it can all go, books are heavy and the weight is currently on a concrete floor as opposed to floorboards as it would be upstairs.

The logistics will be horrendous but nothing on a par with having to move house. The 'rents moved nearly 50 years ago and still Mum goes a bit pale around the gills remembering the horrors of that move.

Me being me, I'm already starting to plan. The best solution, imo, would be for Mum and Dad to check into a B & B for a couple of nights whilst Kid Bruv and I shifted stuff around. We have form; I once sneaked into their house and redecorated their bedroom when they were away for a week, with Kid Bruv as my chief accomplice and furniture wrangler.

Tell ya, the parental moggies would be most put out by the changes, they like their little world just fine how it is........:rotfl: