KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

silvasava

Oh Slinky - your own sewagse is is bad enough but the prospect of someone elses - shudder!!
I posted a few surplus items for sale on the usual websites - have someone coming round to look at the 3 way coolbox we no longer need. Its in perfect condition as we only used it a few times with our old caravan then when we bought the last one it had a large fridge freezer already fitted. So the coolbox went in the loft for Justin! Its too big to go on the boat and Ive a smaller electric one that is enough. Finally got DH to lug it down so fingers crossed its out the door and a bit of dosh in the kitty.

Slinky

OH has taken a look at the technical data sheet for the sewer valve and isn't so sure it will work for us. I think we'll be having the cover off again for another look. The end of the pipe needs to be square for the device to fit flush up against it and he's not convinced ours is. Oh drat. Nothing we can do easily to change it if it's not square that won't involve digging up the patio, and that's not going to happen.

silvasava

The coolbox went!! so glad as its quite large (40lt) now looking round to see what else can go that DH has kept for Justin (none of his stuff mind you - just 'ours')

Slinky - I've just googled Non Return Sewer Valve and there were quite a few options - the majority of them round as I dont know of anyone with a square pipe!!

https://www.measurit.com/tideflex/sewer-valves

https://www.drainstore.com/pipework-fittings/underground-non-return-valves.

Doh - just realised you meant the position of the pipe not the shape - senior moment, sorry!

GreyQueen

:o:o:o Dunno if I should even mention this, it's a bit embarrassing and might cause cold-feet-I-shouldn't-get-rid-of-X feelings in others but I rang a charity shop manager pal and asked if they'd sold the ethernet cable off the old computer which was among a lot of cables I donated a fortnight ago?


I've got it back on the new pooter, the burgering wi-fi fell over and I couldn't get it back up again. Hooray for Old Skool Computing.


*slinks off to surrender her kondo badge, head hanging in shame*
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

silvasava

No black mark GQ - good intentions and all that

WeeMidgie

Remember I was very kindly given a secondhand oven, hob, wall heater and fridge freezer? The original plan was to recycle the neighbour's kitchen units but they didn't survive being removed, the chipboard carcases were very flimsy. But everything else is now in situ - because finally....sound the trumpets, today the new vinyl got laid in my bijou kitchen (should have been yesterday but the fitters had a huge job on which overran). And the fitter very kindly moved the fridge freezer from the living room, where it has been dominating proceedings for the past two weeks. The living space looks airy and empty now! And the old but serviceable kitchen units have had their doors adjusted, a couple of hinges replaced, and are looking much happier.



I can now kondo the table top fridge I bought off Gumtree and have been using for the past 9 weeks since I moved here, which was good to have except it dripped from the ice box, and needed mopped out and dried every day. I don't think in all conscience that I can sell it on, but will offer it to the local charity hub in case anyone they help needs a stopgap.



Every house move I've done, the kitchen drawers have been different sizes. I left the cutlery tray in my previous house, because it was a perfect fit and wouldn't have fitted anywhere here. Today in B&M I found a cutlery tray which fits the current cutlery drawer, hurrah.



And I'm kondoing some more of the cutlery. I won't ever be feeding more than four people at a time, including myself, so there's no point hanging onto more than I need. Other bits of kitchen gribble which passed previous kondo sweeps are going too - wooden salt spoons, a spare butter knife, 2 cookie cutters and a lemon squeezer which was my mum's. I tried it out recently and it's not that great. My mum died in 1999 - should have tried it out long ago! I can't remember her ever using it, so it holds no sentimental attachment.

GreyQueen

:T Well done, Wee Midgie, must be such a relief to get all that sorted out. A fridge-freezer in your living room isn't a bundle of laughs. I'd rather not have a pushbike filling half of mine, but the storage sheds at my block get done over far too often for my peace of mind.


Have been doing a bit of sorting out, including investigating a shopping bag on the kitchen floor which has (shamefull) been there for several weeks. One of the things inside was a biscuit tin full of grubby bits of excavated glass from the lottie. All now washed, dried and into the bottle bank. Plenty more up there so I must have another go at getting some down and processed back into the materials stream.


I've barely been on my plots for weeks due to excessive heat and haven't seen them since last Sunday. I'm cooking supper and will go up there a bit later on, today is about 10 c cooler than yeserday and there is a rollicking breeze making everything much fresher and more pleasant.

PollyWollyDoodle

I got rid of my lemon squeezer ages ago. I either blitz the whole thing in the food processor (lemonade), squeeze it in my hands (lemon meringue pie) or use Jif or its equivalent!

GreyQueen

I have moved my pondlette from Plot2 (where the previous incumbent had inexplicably stuck it slap-bang in the middle) to the end of Plot1, a transplant of about 20 m as the sparrow flies and it's now only about 2m from the stand tap (aka froggy central).


I bailed out the last two bowlfuls of weedy water, removed 4 bricks from inside and wheelbarrowed the liner around to the other plot with some liquid mud and a bit of water still inside. I was digging it a new hole and offering the liner up to check the fit when I realised I'd moved a frog along with it (it was gently poured out).


Pondlette situated, re-bricked, refilled from the waterbutts and topped up with the two bowls of weedy water. I hope the froggies have found it and will be very happy.


I am also edging it with stones as I find nice ones and have transplanted sections of mint runners around the edge, which will quickly sprout into a nice little screen.


Then I dug through the pond crater on Plot2 and the surrounding areas again. Apart from bindweed roots, I found the following; glass (lots), plastics (lots), a handmade nail, bit of a horseshoe, a chicken thighbone, a clothes peg, what looked like a bit of bamboo but is actually metal (?!), bits of roofing felt, string, carpet underlay, china (misc patterns) and other things too tedious to remember.


And I got soaked to the skin and loved it!! :j

MMF007

Very industrious, GQ :T The frogs will be delighted, too.

Minor kondo of kitchen cupboards, all cleaned out and 2 OOD items chucked (rancid nuts, way past date cooking choc).

Had a LBM re my expensive memory foam pillow. For a while* I have thought that it is too high, ie, I am sort of stretching my neck to rest on it and am not comfy through the night. So this morning I made a small incision and excavated some of the filling (it is in fact filled with little cut up pieces of soft foam). It seems much better, will see how I sleep tonight
*since I lost weight

Kondo'd lots of small packs of leftover veg from the freezer, and some HM chicken stock, into soup - you can tell the weather has cooled off :rotfl:

Now I need to kondo the ice. Freezer defrost is due!

Kondo'd a fair amt of time rearranging some commitments so we can visit in laws to assist with a few jobs only to be told a few minutes ago that in fact they now realise they can't do that date. I shall rearrange the rearrangements and insert a play day with a dear friend while i am at it!