KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Karmacat

Loving the posts over the last 24 hours wisdom, efficiency, planning, we've got it all

GreyQueen

Have un-shopped a bag of donations, two pairs of old prescription glasses to S.Savers (leaving two more as emergency spares, I am a prepper after all, lol), plus several errands.

Ahem, I have come back with two ex-library books. And a pineapple. Strange but true.

Have also been thinking of a few things in my life, including a couple of things which I bought for the allotment and never used, which will be put aside for bootsaling next month or so.

I am tireder than I realised and it is very hot, so I have decided not to go to the allotment until early evening, and spend the time sorting out stuff/ lounging around on the sofa reading. I am on annual leave, after all, might as well enjoy some down time.

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That drained feeling GQ, yes we should all recognise it and do what the body is telling us, dragging one foot after another is a sure sign. I had to stop mid stream yesterday or would have pushed myself beyond what was healthy. A bit of vitality today but not as much as normal, I see an early end in sight to activities today


I just vac packed 3 more bags and all fabrics and waddings are done, those two sacs are in a desk cupboard, a lot crammed into little but I was careful not to overload the second bag. Slipped in easily. Last fabrics went in the underbed size, fabrics for making muslins, child skirts etc. That size fits very neatly into a small in built wardrobe. I am just eyeing up the `slinky` type going out and posher holiday clothes and will do one more bag, jumbo sized ie 27cm tall but the same footprint as underbed size and again it will stack neatly. All space in that wardrobe will then be empty of hanging stuff and I will add half another small wardrobe. That is it for today, anyway my vacuum needs a rest


I am trying to use flours up and found a rye bread recipe that only involved mixing in the mixer. I was surprised, it rose to double its size in 1 hour and was only rye, yeast, water, 1tsp molasses and pinch salt. I like rye anyway so could now hammer through the rye flours. Baking now

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10 minutes baking left and in the baking time, I have just released 43 hangers of clothing plus a very fluffy cozee home snuggly winter cape thing plus a velour dressing gown. I put a quick label on the see through window ie going out, funeral, winter and stopped it at that because it only takes seconds to explore and re-vac. The 3 bags, stacked neatly on the floor in that cupboard, measure 51 cm high and it could take all the other spare bags on top


I have put the vac away, done enough for today but can see so much potential for future storage

Pooky

Have you found a property yet Kittie?

I'm about to go kondo a few cleaning products round the bathroom and kondo the dust bunnies that have started wafting out from under the furniture (the perils of hard flooring). Very muggy here so allotmenteering will be later in the day for me too, we had a lot of rain over night so the weeds will have doubled in size again by then.

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no I haven`t pooky, I have 16 areas on RM alert and am ready and waiting, there are barely 2 alerts a day and none have been suitable, even in the basics. Being on my own now I know from past experience that I need to be as ready as I can be eg taking some things off walls, removing rawlplugs and making good and packing stuff that I will not need for a year makes sense.


I am not kondoing any more cleaning or bathroom products, it seems to happen naturally, albeit quite slowly as in they are being used. I love it when I have an empty bottle and can start on the spare


re the allotment, it was always an old wives tale that whatever is done by june will stand in good stead for summer. I bore that in mind this year and the work is not at all hard just now, hence me diverting my attention to home. Then later on, when the autumn flush happens, I can give the allotment more time again

WeeMidgie

Thanks for the suggestions re keeping the calor gas fire. I could be very glad of it if faced with a power outage in colder months.

I parked it, temporarily I thought, in my hallway, as it takes up too much room in the only cupboard. I think putting a cloth over it, and an ornament on top, and leaving it where it is, will make a virtue out of a necessity. It's not in the way where it is.

Like you, Kitty, I've kept a good stash of materials, in my case tapestry kits and knitting wool. The superb local wool shop closed down last year, but I have enough to keep me happily knitting for years to come. Ditto for tapestries. I bought a few UFO's on the Bay of E some years ago, at very good prices and I'm unlikely to run short... It's very soothing to have something on the go. Just need to fully settle in after the move.

GoingToDoIt

I was fed up with my iKeea washing baskets, they were plastic bags on a criss cross folding frame/legs. They are great but a bit too bulky. I could do with the same sort of thing, strong plastic material with handles, same kind of size, but without the frame so they take up less room and are easier to carry to and from the washer.

Ten minutes later and the bag part has been snipped off the frame- perfect! Two sturdy plastic washing bags

GreyQueen

Well, that was 3.15 hrs in (and out and in again) the allotment shed.

Have disturbed some very large things with eight legs (we tactfully pretended we didn't see each other) and I gingerly removed the corpses of their ancestors. You never know with spiders whether they're dead or alive at the first glance, so I tap them gently to see if they run.

On the outs; two bean wigwams, bought impulsively from Wilko on the sale 2-3 years ago and never used. Plus a wicker trug basket, chazzer find and very comely, just turned out to be suitable for gathering flowers than gathering veggies. I must have been shopping for the fantasy self who wafts around her large flower garden gently snipping flowers to arrange in the drawing-room of her Georgian rectory.......... :rotfl:

Found a bucket with a hole in it (dear Liza, dear Liza) and a few of the row markers have been condemned and added to the second burn-bag ready for the autumn-winter bonfire season.

All in all, looking much better in there, particularly since I got the spare tool clips out and have arranged to have the five things which are always falling over clipped to a baton mounted on the shed wall; broom, hoe, rake, lawn rake and pitchfork.

There is still more to do but I was tiring and losing my mojo and will go up there tomorrow - the hipster toyboy will be popping over for a visit, too (oo-err, missus ).

Karmacat

Enjoy the hipster toyboy, GQ and thank you for being so tactful in your adventures with the others, the ones that you pretended not to see...