KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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Garage is finished, completely pre-packed what I could pack and this week only thrown out one small cardboard box, I can`t thank enough whoever started this thread . I would never have thought of kondo, its a brilliant method, albeit adapted to my own ways. Two rooms and garage completely done pre-packed, ready to move and still looking like a lived-in home. I cannot believe what I have achieved I have to pinch myself


18 large boxes fully labelled and a full garage/workshop inventory done ie I know where everything is. Some beyond fantastic boxes came today, they are wonderful and very strong and could allow a padlock. They were a pleasure to use, I bought green and blue and they stack beautifully

http://www.bigdug.co.uk/storage-boxes-containers-c363/euro-containers-c418/bigdug-tote-boxes-p16604

I now have 5 large empty plastic boxes/crates with lids, residing there until I need to actually go. They will be for the outbuilding, I have to leave that until last minute. Now comeon fate, I need that home, not one of the three potentials all by a brook or stream, I am not that daft

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I need to work on my bread flours. I have peasant flours made with old grains and pea and bean flour, they make quite a flat but tasty bread, no good in the bm, but fine to let spread and to eat like trenchers. Not yet for this flour, I have to work on the ryes and hi fibre wholemeals and one of the best breads I make is a rye/wholemeal in my panny bm, which I have not kondo`ed. What I will do, when I have freezer space, is make several of these loaves, to slice with my andrew james slicer. Good healthy bread and with substance to it, I love it and it isnt an instant sugar hit as is white bread. Then I will put panny back to bed, covered, in the outbuilding

GreyQueen

I am in the unusual position of having freezer space atm and am taking advantage of it by freezing my freshly-laundered woollens (in placcy bags). If there are any moth larvae in there, I don't intend them to prosper in the few months for which these items will be stored.

Dad's been having further turfings-out of his clothes and three pairs of trousers have left. Mum also remarked that the drawers full of tops and trousers which I kondo-folded about two years ago are still untouched...... like a lot of us, she's dressing off the top of the pile and not using a fraction of what she owns.

I'm counting the hours until The Item leaves Plot2, can't wait to see the back of it..............

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Lots of work today but not kindo related unless you count picking from the allotment and processing. I like to go to bed with an aim so tomorrow, I want to be doing notebooks, I have lots, all over the place and have started to gather them together. I think I will divide into unused as in enough pages to make them useful sometime, fairly full which I will need to go through a page at a time, then transfer info and destroy. Part used, good for scrap notes and the very useful dedicated to a single topic, like gardening, spinning with samples, house move etc


I know I should also do paperwork but that is the one most daunting thing for me, makes me realise that I should get papers together for tax return, always gives me a sinking feeling

Pooky

I kondod my remaining energy and finished laying some paving slabs at the allotment, now have a lovely area outside of the shed to sit.

A garage tidy yesterday filled the wheelie bin (2 large items to go to the tip too) and I now feel happy with what's left in there. A few bits are destined for the allotment in the next few weeks too which will free up a bit more space. An old pine monks bench was being used as storage in there but I've given it a good brush off and will bring it into the garden next week for a sand and a paint and it will come into the conservatory and be put back into use.

DD2 will be moving home in 2 weeks time so a lot of stuff will be coming back into the house but I've already been to her flat and helped her kondo all the stuff she doesn't need to bring home. Everything will have a place and her room is empty and waiting. I feel quite organised.

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:eek: I found 22 notebooks downstairs, gathered them together and they are taking up significant amount of space on a table. Some of them are good solid books with nice backs and some of these are old, from my tk max llantrisant spending days . Tactile and nice, I would like to keep them. Thinking ahead to when I start, I may label some of them, not my password/money/account details book. I am quite looking forward to getting these done and am surprised at the volume when stacked.

greenbee

Notebooks can be a problem kitty. I need to go through mine and remove the used pages I no longer need, write up the work stuff that is in full notebooks, and start rationalising a bit. I seem to have 3 or 4 work ones on the go plus a lot of half used ones, so using up the half-used ones for work would be a good idea before starting any new ones!

carrielovesfanta

All of the stuff that came from mother in laws has finally gone! I can't believe the different it's made to the back corner of the dining room.


I'm so happy!

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yes greenbee they were a problem, so easy to scribble down what seems to be important at the time but I have finished, started with all the notebooks, big and small, now finished and it took 2 solid but quite pleasant hours. I have been using the shreddar a lot and the worms will be well fed.

Basically, I made labels for 4 nice books, 1st was allotment and I transferred all my important stuff in there but left out all the waffle. The ABCD rotations are in and so is the fertilising plan. Then I have brief rotations from 2014 onwards with 2019 in pencil. I wanted it to be neat so managed to re-start my fountain pen, reminds me to keep it at hand as it needs to be used

Book 2 is labelled feng shui and house and garden design. Basically new house stuff. Book 3 recipes, I started that in 1990. Book 3 inventory, which I started when I started pre-packing my house. I shall keep that book going because it will be so useful for insurance etc. I have a book 5, not labelled as it contains secret info, banks, passwords etc and is in a secret place

I got rid of the small notebooks and kept the large A4 books, having torn written sheets off, the those books are now in their own space for whenever. All the unwritten sheets from small books are now in a lovely shallow metal box with lid close by me, I shall put a pencil in there


I haven`t touched my sewing, knitting/spinning and carving notebooks as all that stuff is now put away. It was a good exercise and cleared my mind as well as spaces around me

GreyQueen

Went carbooting with the hipster toyboy this morning and got several bits and bobs for the allotment and the flat, planned purchases, all useful stuff. Also had a big laugh and bought strawberries, yum.

Got the new things right through the washing up water/ up to the plot and straight into service, rather than leaving them sitting on the floor for days, which has been my habit on too many previous occasions.

Dug up the second buried planter on Plot2, inherited from the previous incumbent. This one is plastic and was badly-damaged before being buried, so I offski'd with it to the tip on my way home.

I did think about just putting it to one side, but decided that it's not usable, not wanted, not attractive and not staying one minute longer than necessary.

Also removed a lot more trash and one plastic bottle of plant food, dug up on Plot2 which was rinsed and drained last week and is now in the recycling bin.

Tomorrow, I need to be up at the plots before 7 am to move The Item to the place from which the council will be collecting it, it cannot go out tonight for various reasons relating to the kind of Item it is. Since I'm back working office hours tomorrow, it will have to be a case of rolling out of bed, throwing some clothes on and pedalling up there very early.

Plot2 is coming along gangbusters with a big section in process of being cleared. Very pleased with the progress in the past seven days.