KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Karmacat

I was travelling by train yesterday - and I was really cold! Virgin Trains have their air conditioning set on high, for sure. We had a lovely breeze up north, but down south here it's airless, as GQ says, and hotter too with no breeze. I haven't been out to the back garden yet, but things don't look too bad from the kitchen window. Kondo-wise, the most important thing is that I've almost unpacked, so the case can be put away

GreyQueen

Karmacat wrote: »

I was travelling by train yesterday - and I was really cold! Virgin Trains have their air conditioning set on high, for sure. We had a lovely breeze up north, but down south here it's airless, as GQ says, and hotter too with no breeze. I haven't been out to the back garden yet, but things don't look too bad from the kitchen window. Kondo-wise, the most important thing is that I've almost unpacked, so the case can be put away

Count yourself fortunate, my hipster toyboy and his pal were stuck on a Virgin train last year with broken-down aircon (and a broken-down train for some of the time). They'd paid a LOT of money for their tickets and didn't even get a seat and the train was full of poorly people due to the heat including vomiting children. Dee-light-ful - NOT!


I was on the lottie at 07.45 this morning and came away 3 hours later when it was becoming too hot to think never mind work. Already 25c. Needed to get home and showered as meeting a rellie at 1 pm for a bite of luncheon, she's up the city doing some shopping as lives about an hour away. Should be a laugh.


Last night I was rummaging in the six little wicker drawers in the bathroom where I keep my toiletries. It was a frustrating experience and I ended up chucking everything into my small round linen basket, found the item then bethought myself that this lot needs a good sort out before it all goes back. I have these, except when I bought mine a few years ago, about the same price got me an extra 2-drawer-high stack with the 4-drawer stack; http://www.argos.co.uk/product/8335708



Y'know, I consider myself a low-maintenance woman, but I was shocked at the quantity of stuff. OK, some if it is empty containers, like a couple of plastic bottles to decant liquids in for holibobs, plus a soap dish, but I was still pretty horrified. Post-luncheon, I shall turf that lot out on the floor and sort it out.



Nice indoor project for a scorching afto, then prolly over to a pal in the evening. I do love Sundays!

carrielovesfanta

Another little bag of kibble to the cs at the weekend.
One item was a handbag that was still brand new (unwanted gift) I have been trying to sell it for 18 months but apparently everyone finds it as vile as I do!


I have a rag bag that needs to go now I have identified a rag bin (my old go-to one was removed).


I'm also thinking of freegling the steam cleaner that I inherited from OH's gran. I've never even used it and I suspect that I won't. Does anyone have a steam cleaner? Am I missing out on a fab trick here?


I also need to drop a few ball of crochet cotton to a friend. Need to check when she's in.

Wednesday2000

I haven't been on here for a while.:wave:

I have fallen off the KM wagon!

I just went through my wardrobe and chest of drawers to have a tidy up and I seem to have accumulated lots more stuff over the past few months!:eek:

I have been enjoying the football and the tennis (and not enjoying this hot weather!) but in the next couple of weeks I am going to make up a bag, or a few bags, of stuff to go off the charity shop.

I want to get right back on track.:)

short_bird

Lovely article from today's Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jul/08/moving-house-means-sifting-through-broken-toys-and-masses-of-memories

GreyQueen

OK, so I have upended the laundry basket which is holding the contents of the 6 small bathroom drawers onto the floor in the sitting room and have aligned the contents in rows.


Toothpaste; 13 full-sized tubes, one part-used. One travel-sized tube. 8 combs, some with broken teeth. Three sachets of shampoo (could've done with them on holiday, I thought, then I remembered that they're beggars to open without scissors and how often do I have scissors with me in the shower?! Anwser - not often, even at home and never on the holibobs).


A few items of sanpro (I am going thru menopause and have had one cycle in the past 20 months). Some disposable razors, enough for several years' worth of leg-shaving. Two spare unused crystal deodorants, the first one I've ever bought is still going strong after 2 years and 7 months..........


Going to put the sanpro away in bedroom drawer in case of need. Have also decided to empty the sachets into a mini-travel shampoo bottle, on the grounds that I'm more likely to be able to use that.


I've unwrapped 3 mini travel soaps which I will use next (I have a couple of mini soaps in mini plastic containers for use on the go). Will be putting the two dozen unused, still on their card but perished ponytail bands into the textile recycling. It's probably nearly 10 years since I had anything other than short hair and I have no plans to grow it again and they're perished, fgs.


Also found two iterations of the same personal grooming tool, the defunct one and the non-defunct one. Have removed the batteries from the old one and then it can go.


I will be vacuuming the woven basketry drawer units and the area underneath them before putting it all back. I am also considering if some other way of storing my Stuff is more suitable, once there is less stuff to store.


Truckin' on.

Slinky

I've just had a clearout of old files from the desktop of my older pc. The new monitor is up and running, and being larger, the digital clutter was easier to see. There were lots of jpgs, opened each before deciding to ditch or keep. Came across one photo of OH and I in a wine bar on holiday in Greece. I was wearing exactly the same vest top I'm currently wearing! It doesn't get a lot of use unfortunately, especially not in this country, probably a couple of years since I've worn it at home. Photo was taken in 2007. I think it has a good few years more wear in it yet.


We've had a good clean in our sunroom today. We had ants getting in a couple of weeks ago, so we've dragged everything out, cleaned the room, gone round all the edges with some translucent sealant, hopefully that will stop the blighters getting in again.

GreyQueen

Well done, Slinky.


Someone who knows about these things told me that if you have files saved to your desktop, as opposed to saved to somewhere else with a shortcut on the desktop, if you backup the files to a usb stick or similar, the desktop files don't back up. :eek:


Have got the last ergs of the fullsize shampoo bottle plus the three sachets into one of the travel bottles and placed it handily in the bathroom to be used next. Not saving until next holibobs as this stuff has been sitting around for a while already and is best used.


I have picked several pounds of currants of the lottie and have been laboriously stripping them off the stems for freezing, although I did have SG around visiting with me some of the time. Have also had a bit of lunch with my rellie and a sit in the sun chatting about this and that.


Righty, need to go eat something and get the last of the currants into the freezer and try to turn this squalor pit into a respectable home before the workweek starts again tomorrow.:o

grunnie

GQ freezing currants. I lay them out on trays freeze them and then destalk them. Easy and quick to do with a fork when they are frozen then they are bagged. As they have been frozen flat they don't clump together when bagged.

GreyQueen

grunnie wrote: »

GQ freezing currants. I lay them out on trays freeze them and then destalk them. Easy and quick to do with a fork when they are frozen then they are bagged. As they have been frozen flat they don't clump together when bagged.

Oh pants, I wish I'd known that a few hours ago, shall bear it in mind for next time, tho.


Mimd you, m mini freezer would have to be empty to take a tray, so that wouldn't have worked too well, anyway. But thank you for the tip, I shall use it next time.