KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

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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...

I have a phobia about the Others but I try not to be a squealing girlie, it doesn't fit with being a strapping great wench in Doc Martens...........

Holibobs for you tomorrow, if I've remembered correctly? Have a lovely time and tell us the edited low/ highlights afterwards, please.

Been busy today, part of which was spent in the juntique shop. I have seldom seen one of the Others in there, dead or alive but my pal did tell me a shopkeeper joke.

Customer walks in; How much do you want for the wasp?
Shopkeeper; I don't sell wasps.
Customer: Well, you've got a dead one in your window!
(if shopkeeper was my pal, the retort would be something along the lines of): That'll be £10 per wasp or you can have two for £25. Plus buyer's premium and VAT.:rotfl:

Last night, I was heaving bags of yarn etc (lots of etcetera) off my bed and found, just before I climbed into the bed, a GOLFBALL.*

Which was a what the flip?! moment, to be sure, until I remembered that I'd had a golf ball once to do some foot exercises. How it got among the yarn is anybody's guess, but I suppose one sphere is drawn to another........

Fore!

* I'm keeping the golf ball because it Might Be Useful.

oceanspirit

Sorry I've been missing for a while. Bit the bullet and arranged for some help at home which has gone well but coming to an end next week as the money from savings which has been funding it runs out.

Have been able to concentrate on getting home repairs/improvements done so now at last have curtains in my bedroom (only waited 11 years for a pole to be put up!) and the cement is quietly drying on the newly laid patio. Still have a broken shower to attend to along with some other niggly things, but at least the bulk of the list has been done.

Kondo-wise have been focussing on papers. The mountain is now a hill and feels so much less of a burden. Have also allowed myself some time to write to pals both via snail mail and email which has felt so good. Still have a few of those to do but will spark much joy when it happens.

The middle aged blob around the middle has finally started shrinking as the comfort eating has ceased. Am concerned that once the help stops that could become an issue again. The joyfulness is that I now have choice in my wardrobe instead of just two pairs of jeans and some baggy tracksuits. Am wearing better quality clothes daily at home now which helps the mood enormously.

The patio man found something very interesting going around in his cement mixer. A plastic giraffe! He said it could only have come from the big bag of builders sand which has been on my driveway for 8 years :huh:.

Have cleaned it up and it will go to a giraffe loving pal.

Scrap metal has gone from the garden as a scrap man came along the road a few weeks ago, still have some old concrete to go and will probably share a skip with OH in a few weeks time as he has loads too. The shed is full of kindling now that the wood pile has been dismantled and cut up.

An old photo album has been binned and there is another to be taken apart. They were sticky boards with a plastic film to put over the photos once stuck on the boards, however the sticky has gone horrid with age and just seeped everywhere. Not sure if I can rescue the photos but will have a go over the weekend.

Have started reading the thread from where I left off but will take some time to fully catch up as I need to continue with reducing my paper reading pile.

Sayschezza

Ocean try drawing dental floss down behind the photos to detach them from the sticky stuff.

Siebrie

"Mess is the physical representation of untaken decisions" - source unknown

It's a lovely evening and I am outside enjoying the soft temperature and admiring all the work I did today: planting out courgette, calendula, peas, nasturtiums. Removing buckets full of weeds, neatening the borders, rehoming snails and slugs to the compost bin.

Husband has cleaned house and car. We had agreed to go to visit a city about an hour's drive away, but husband slept in, then called friends and family for about two hours, and it wasn't until 13.30 that he was ready to go. For me, that was way too late, I was already taking my anger out on the garden.

Then, unexpectedly for me but not for him, a friend of his turns up with wife and two kids. I know the wife, and we get along fine. She told me that she has been at home with a burnout since March, and that two of her friends (we are all European, married to African men) are also at home with the same. Our lives are pretty much at the same stage: in a relationship for about 10 years, small children, fulltime jobs with career options, European-African couple, owning/renovating houses, spouse travelling to home country every other or third year for a month.

Tonight, I am pondering ways to avoid burnout, to keep only things that bring me joy in my life, like the garden, and an afternoon all by myself, somewhere else than at my home. I crave new views!

Igamogam

Have not been around for a while.......not even keeping up to date with dairies or thread:o Just been full on getting on with RL - having a family get together, getting my shoulder fixed finally,enjoying the garden and the weather,mindfulness training,making plans and formulate ideas for the future.......However, have kept the faith and there has been a net flow of 'stuff' out the door through all the usual channels - Eb*y,CS Fr**cycle, recycling and FB selling pages very little into that large landfill bucket on wheels:j All money from sold items is going directly to reduce the debt - sooner that is down the sooner I can retire:j Every £ is a step closer IMO:D I even have over £40 on my N*ctar card from stuff donated to Oxf*m that has sold.......

Good to see lots of people still 'at it' Too many pages to go back and pick from where I left off so I hope all the regulars are all 'hail and hearty':D

A_Frayed_Knot

Good Morning,

Got up this morning and couldn't wait to get started, have tried before then work and time gets in the way, so hopefully with summer being here I can keep up the momentum.

So, so far this morning have cleared out 5 drawers This now gives me space - 1 drawer empty, and 2 half full (cause Im a full glass girl)

Removed 3 woolly jumpers, 1 sarong, 1 beachdress, 1 pr woolly socks, 3(?) gloves, 2 prs tights, 3 pop socks, 1 brand new roll of sticky stuff to remove fluff (no longer have the roll insert) 1 bottle perfume empty and 1 pair of old specs.


An added bonus is I knew I had some euros left over from holiday and been putting the brand new £10 and £5 so counted them and have over 200 euros and over £100 brand new notes


More to come


and can't wait to get started on (what I call my) daily wardrobe - everyday wear and uniform/shoes/boots/handbags etc, and I have my bedding on the top shelf - which I have in mind to move once I have cleared out my towels which are in a set of deep drawers

A_Frayed_Knot

A few more things - a pair of knicks, 2 bras, container to keep contact lenses - do not wear them (?), a bag (strap burst last week and was going to try and get it fixed) - no need, as have just been through my wardrobe . . .

now have more out of my wardrobe than in :rotfl:going is - 1 raincoat, 4 more handbags, 2 brollys, 1 T shirt and a fleece (that was kept for gardening/painting, 2 pairs of boots (I could swear one was leaking, only discovered when had to walk to work in that snow we had, but could have been cause snow so deep it was going inside from the top of them, next day had to change to my knee length boots as snow was so deep.

2 pairs of shoes brand new and 4 scarfs brand new, so they will be listed. One blood pressure monitor almost brand new but not working as batteries leaked will have to be replaced as monitoring often as have dangerously high bp with nothing working, except when asleep when it is mostly almost normal.


Not finished on wardrobe yet . . .

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:huh: you know when it hits you, about giving something away that you wished you never had


Today I felt like a snack and am trying to empty things, so a kilner jar of unpretty plum puree came out of the understairs store. It was sealed so well that I had to puncture the inner lid to get it off. Mirabelle plums it was, I remember when someone gave us a big bag full. Little bowl and some hm ice cream and I was in heaven, it was gorgeous and I wondered how I had managed to get all those stones out. Then I remembered the special mill that I had bought, I never thought I would use it again and it went to cs. I made passata with it, I remember, from all my own grown tomatoes


Sigh, oh well, I cannot justify another one either in cost, space or usage but that does not prevent that little twinge of regret or maybe it is a twinge for past times, when I knew that my preserves would be used. That jar was bottled in 2012 and the taste of plums was like fresh stewed and slightly tangy. Thank goodness I have another 5 in that space. I shall have to ration myself

A_Frayed_Knot

Trousers tried on and 4 pairs away (have to confess kept 1 pair that fitted about 3-4 weeks ago and no longer fit), will be doing something about that.

Getting there but slowly, now have large ironing to do, then will need put away but now have the space to do that.


If, after all that, I have time - I need some sewing done, (hems, bed valance which is ever so slightly too long) and then there is my L/R curtains, which will not even attempt today/tonight, all that will have to wait as smoke was coming from pedal of sewing m/c


Priced new pedal, then spotted a machine exact same as mine complete with pedal at less than the cost of a brand new pedal Can only try it and see if it works

GreyQueen

Ooof, it's hot here and I am taking a breather having just waved my Dad off with a carload of my Stuff which will be temporarily in their keeping until I can arrange a date to go bootsaling. Likely to be in the next 6 weeks but not this coming weekend because I have prior commitments.

Dad was up here by 8.40 am and we were on the lottie by 9am and left at 2.30 pm. Have done lots of stuff (let him loose on Plot2 with the mattock and he has bust up a lot of the turf which I gave a radical haircut on Wednesday). All that remains is the slow process of knocking the earth out of the clods, and forking all the rubbish out of the soil and getting it levelled with the landscaping rake. Up and down like the ocean wave right now, real ankle-breaker territory.

Several things went to the homestead; four IKEYA blue bags of things to be sold, a big bag of yarn to be sold (mixed not-special stuff, mainly cast-off from other people's sortings-out) and a smaller bag of DK for Mum to look through and see if there is anything she wants for her projects. And sold if she doesn't want it.

I've also returned a carrier-bag of DVDs belonging to Kid Bruv which I've had for about 7-8 months. Have discovered a lack of interest in watching movies in recent years, in cinemas or on the pooter/ TV, and have started and stopped most of them after 15 minutes, thinking to myself; life's too short, these aren't as good as my books, I've plenty of more interesting things to do.

Dad dug up a large ceramic planter on Plot2, I knew it was there but not what kind or condition as it was buried up to its rim. Mum will have first refusal if she wants it for her patio, otherwise it's going booting. Planters don't really work on the lotties because I can't commit to keeping them watered and the contents usually fry.

I thought Dad would have forty-fits when he saw that lot, although I will be over there in a few days to sort it all out, but he was surprisingly chilled about it. He's instructed to put some of it on the spare bed and the rest in the shed and I'll deal with it on Thursday.

:jDads rock, don't they?!:j