KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Pooky

My house looks like some sort of storage yard at the moment, everything for doing a bootsale tomorrow is currently sitting in my hall and living room, can't wait for it to go!

The allotment looks even worse with us being offered more pallets (fence is done but I felt we needed some reserves) and someone offered us 3 sides of a shed which I'm going to use to build a covered seating area attached to our main shed (not that we have one until 1st June). We also got chatting to a plot neighbour who works for a small brewery and he gave us a huge sack of spent brewing malt, smells amazing (from a distance).

I put a top on yesterday which felt like I had someone's tent on so that was removed and washed and will be ready to add to the bootsale pile later, 2.5 stone lost since Christmas and with all the exercise on the allotment I've lost lots of inches (no idea how many but I can see it and my clothes certainally show it).

PollyWollyDoodle

Wow, well done Pooky. I'm going the other way, got some summer trousers out and they're worryingly tight all down to me, I know.

Friends are doing a boot sale next weekend and as one of them has a really tiny car, I've offered to help even though I don't have much to sell ... or so I thought. It's amazing how much suddenly appears once you start looking, I've already filled a box with stuff - a china herb pot, some books, ornaments ... I'm going through every Kondo category quickly to see what I can spare, not expecting to make a fortune but it would be good to have a few extra quid this month.

Karmacat

Congratulations, WeeMidgie! Did you sleep last night? And how much space have you got, I can't quite remember, sorry.

WeeMidgie

Hi KC, I've gone down from a 2 bedroom house to a 1 bedroom ground floor flat with a patio and landscaped communal gardens wrapped round the entire block of flats. It was built 20 years ago, and is in a neighborhood of traditional Scottish sandstone houses with gardens, with a Lidls and a post office five minutes walk away.

My flat faces into a residential side road, with a view of rear gardens and more distantly, trees in a nearby park. So far, very peaceful, but also a few people passing along on foot every now and then. I'm on a corner, and the living room side window faces west catching the afternoon and evening sun.

Despite boxes waiting to be unpacked, it feels like home already. I'm resting over the weekend, and not pushing the envelope. I think there's a few of us on MSE who have good reasons to pace ourselves and rest when we need to.

PS Yes to sleep!! Out like a light, and had two more hours sleep than normal. Lovely to wake up and realise it's all happened! xxx

Karmacat

Thanks WeeMidgie. I'm glad it feels good.



And you're dead right about the numbers of us needing to pace ourselves.

Slinky

Had a lovely morning, went to do a quick supermarket shop, then to the jewellers where OH paid a goodly sum of money for my new ring. Have decided to go to a K with all 3 rings, jeweller confirmed they will do this with cutting and inserting another piece of gold. If the engagement ring is too small they could go up a half size again by heating and stretching. I've left my wedding ring with them to shape the eternity ring to, the engagement ring will go to them in 3 weeks to be resized, should get them all back in 6.


Then home to watch the Royal wedding. We had a little picnic and bottle of Prosecco to celebrate, not only for the couple but for ourselves as it's our wedding anniversary. Am now feeling slightly tipsy. We're off out later for a meal, will probably need to be slid into the taxi!


So glad everything went well for the wedding, must have been a nightmare for security etc, but showed what Britain does better than anybody else in the world. Hopefully a great advert for our tourism businesses.

Karmacat

Happy Anniversary Slinky!


I watched the wedding too, I felt odd doing it, but enjoyed it and as you say, it was a brilliant tourism advert :rotfl:

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congratulations weemidgie, you are an inspiration and so is GQ. Maybe it will make me sit back and take stock, maybe to try and find more to kondo. We only ever had 3 or 4 bedroom houses, the full family home had 4 bedrooms, study double garage, loft, large garden. We moved (downsized) to 3 bed townhouse with a study. Faced south and I loved going upstairs to the living room, like walking up to a peaceful cloud. It only had a patio, shared many acres but the path around went past the patios, so no privacy. That plus management problems ensured we moved. That town house was perfect, study, sunny large kitchen and large washroom on the ground floor. Stairs were wide enough for stairlifts.However mix a group of 43 households together and problems can arise, owners and tenants


It would be easy to kondo if I didn`t have hobbies but then again the carving hobby means that I can do stuff with tools but it all takes room, particularly the workbench and big electric tools.



Gosh yes the wedding, I was never going to go to the village party so I pottered and was more and more drawn to my tv. Enjoyed it a lot, it was beautiful and made me proud to be British

GoingToDoIt

Am writing a list in lieu of getting going today, due to tiredness (all day at a wedding party with associated small people, cake, pimms, catching up with friends and sitting in the sun and having to answer the question -why cant we go to the wedding though? I want to see the princess- from said small people)
So my Kondo all needs a revisitand luckily its bank holiday next weekend so the ideal time to revisit.
Clothes have gone a bit bonkers since recent holiday meant purchasing a lot of hot weather outfits, swimming things etc. Its a good time to revisit all clothes.
Meal planning and spending are also on the list, the kitchen cupboards need a stock check, I was appalled to find two packets which were well past their date the other day.
I recently bought a basket thing designed to hang under a kitchen shelf to give extra space, I actually hung it under the cupboard and put my tea caddies in it so they lie flat horizontally and I just pull the lid off to get tea. A small change but the counter top is less cluttered and it saves a little bit of movement. The caddies are glass, unhelpfully sized and shaped, and heavy, I think Id like to replace them. They looked nice when purchased a decade ago but have proved to be impractical ever since, really! Its only when Kondo-ing these things that I think properly about what would make a good replacement, rather than impulse purchasing a replacement which may not be ideal.

GreyQueen

Be afraid, be very afraid, I am back at Shoebox Towers after 26 hrs with the 'rents.

Was a busy little bee but still found time to sit out in their back yard and have nice chats, with the cats mugging us for affection. The wee beggars love it when their people are out of doors at this time of year, bless.

What was done? Hmm, a bit of darning I took with me and did on Saturday evening, then I made up my bed and stripped and re-made Mum & Dad's bed, rang their bedlinen thru the wash before bedtime and had it on the line before 07.00 and ironed by 11.30 am.:D

Mum is swopping one of her sheets for one of mine, I've fetched hers over here and my one will swopsie back again in a fortnight. I also took the net curtains and sewed them there, before removing the ones which came out of last week's wash with new religious convictions.

New ones up, and lovely, old ones in the ragbag. And what a ragbag it is, has almost filled the wally-trolley on the way back. Dad has, according to Mum, been decluttering his clothes and now has - steady! - empty space in some of his drawers!!:eek:

Mum was also discussing selling the various large pieces of woodworking equipment in her workshop shed (main thing, the lathe) and the allied hand-tools such as chisels etc etc. She can no longer do this hobby and no one else has the interest or aptitude. One or two hurdles need to be overcome first (workshop shed is currently off its sockets' electrical supply) and will need a tidy up before strangers can be invited in.

kittie, I don't know if your expertise would extend in this direction, but is there anywhere better than the 'bay for selling lightly-used woodturning tools?

Righty, time for a browlette around the interwebulator. GQ xx