KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

littlegreenparrot

I don't have the time or headspace to kondo consistently, but plug away at it.
This weekend has seen some success. Went to tip yesterday with a boot full of cardboard and old engine bits, garden looks much better for it.
Today, had dinner with parents for fathers day. Was able to pass on a gift for relative that I have failed to post for about 6 weeks, they are going to visit next weekend. Cardigan to mum that I haven't worn for 2 years, and wellies to bro's girlfriend. He has been given strict instructions to offer them to her, and pass on to to charity shop if no good.
All of these things had a good home to go to, which I decided on weeks ago. Actually organising them to get out the door though, that's the thing.

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plugging away is key, gets it done in baby steps

I did some plugging yesterday afternoon, read a bit, can`t sit for long, then decided to go through all the mp3s, sansas and ipod. The ipod is staying, got out the bose dock and plugged it together, played it all evening, until poldark. Wonderful room-filling sound. The 6 sensas, were not just mine, I charged all of them and kept 4 with added labels on the back, 2 with different types of music, one with books and one with stuff like hypnosis tracks. They are so tiny that they and the wires all go into one small lock n lock in a drawer

That led to head phones, 4 extremely good sets in the house. I have offered 2 to a dd, I am keeping bose on- ear noise- cancelling and senheisser very comfortable over ear phones and all the extension wires, just in case. I also offered 2 night time sleeping speaker headbands and am keeping one. That released a soft kahanka 11" storage case and I have already labelled that for remotes and fires and tv wires for when I move and will keep unused remotes in it for now. I am about to make labels for all my remotes

No intention of doing kondo yesterday afternoon but this was gentle and easy

Siebrie

I found the hoover charger, in among a box of mixed toys, which indicates that husband is actually the one that made it disappear, because when I and the girls clean up the toys, we put everything in the correct box.


'Mixed toys' indicates rapid clean-up with disregard of pleasure of play. Displeasure of play comes when you can start playing only after sorting through the stuff you don't want to play with at that moment, so you just don't bother and start watching utube.

WeeMidgie

I took a pair of curtains (which moved as a justin to my new home, pending the arrival of blackout curtains) to the Red Cross shop today. I'm not fully unpacked yet, some renovations are happening soon so not all kitchen stuff has been unpacked.

I'm thinking that I'll get the handyman who's doing a bit of the work to make some of the kitchen kickboards easily removable so I can store e.g. empty lock n lock containers in what would otherwise be unused space under the units.

Has anyone done this, if so can you pass on your experience and wisdom re any useful tips, e.g. about shallow pull out trays to access things more easily? Any drawbacks to doing this? All contributions welcome!

GreyQueen

I haven't done this myself (I've always rented) but I do know people who've removed their kickboards to get more space (but not had any carpentry done to make that easier) and also those who've removed kickboards to hunt out vermin.

The area under the units can be a proper little dirt trap, in my experience, and the vermin hunter did find the mice nesting underneath, as he had expected.:(

I like the idea of it but, if I was going to do it, I'd factor in my physical mobility (now and probable levels in the future) as it's a long way down there and back again. Plus, I'd consider having anything on pull-out drawers, perhaps with something like a bigger container/ placcy bag to keep the grime off.

It shames me to say it, living as I do in a tiny space and being a Tetris Grandmistress, but my own experience of looking for ever-more-esoteric spaces to stash things is that out-of-sight all too easily leads to out-of-mind, and things put away often lurk away until they rot.

I'd be tempted to look at decluttering before doing this, but that's just my two'pennorth.

A tradesman who was due to come this evening chanced to see if I was home just now, and a little job is now jobbed, leaviing me free to spin up to the allotmentino to see if The Item has been collected. It should have been but control freakery means that I want to check all is OK. I have also put another smaller item out in a place where fellow-plotholders can access it with a FREE! sign on it, so I hope that has gone/ will be taken soon.

But first, I shall celebrate by toddling off to the chippy for a portion of deep-fried potatoes. Don't judge me, I ate two salads already today with yer akshual vegetables in them........:rotfl:

carrielovesfanta

Has The Item gone??

silvasava

Unexpected out this morning - DH wanted some carpet to use for mats in the car so has been in the loft for the offcuts. All downstairs for him to make his choice and the rest will be going to the tip! Just need to find a local carpet binder now as the one we used to use has retired.

GreyQueen

carrielovesfanta wrote: »

Has The Item gone??

Don't know, I came over all unnecessary yestereve and ended up not going to the plots after all. I shall be going up there about 6 pm and will report to you later. Realised there was no point in stressing if it hadn't been picked up, I had no idea which contractor would have been given the gig and no authority to contact them if I did have a number (The Item is something which was/ is council property and should never ever have been where it was in the first place).

I'm in process of brokering the sale of something of Mum's to a friend/ acquaintance, tentative manoevers thus far, nothing may come of it. If so, it will be easier than advertising it online (not something which will fit in a j iffy bag/ cardboard box).

Sorry to be coy about these things but this is my RL and these things are out there in the public domain (my lottie is totally visible from the public highway, for example) and The Item is a bit obvious.

PollyWollyDoodle

Don't worry GQ, I get hours of entertainment (OK, maybe not hours) from trying to picture what the item is, it's a bit like 'animal, vegetable, mineral' :rotfl: It's large, it used to belong to the council and its in the middle of your lottie. I'm now imagining one of those massive 1980s photocopiers parked in a flower bed .... or maybe it's a nuclear shelter? I've discounted it being a bus, because I think you'd just use that for split-level gardening!

GreyQueen

:j It's gone, it's gone, hurrah, hang out the bunting and blow the trumpets.

The other thing offered as a freebie has also been taken, I hope it serves its new owner well.

PWD, your speculations have had me in stitches............

Have spent two hours weeding the leeklings and some other small things which were in grave danger of being overcome by the more bumptious weed species. Common mallow and fat hen, not to mention bindweed and horsetail, are horribly common on both plots 1 & 2.

Have harvested the first broad beans (autumn-sown ones), some greens for tomorrow's salads (mainly mint and dandelion) and have scoffed some gooseberries from Plot2, a dessert variety. A pleasing inheritance which slightly mitigates the carp I've had to drag off, out and from under that plot.

Swung by supermarket on the way home. OK, they were low on some things but the joyousness of having the place almost to myself makes me think I must always buy groceries at 21.00..........:rotfl: