KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

kboss2010

Hi folks it’s been a while!

This holiday Monday I’ve been kondoing my kitchen cupboard contents & re-arranging what I have left & it feels like a breakthrough!!! I can *finally* get all of the stuff off my kitchen counters & into a cupboard & tidied up my re-usable bag mountain to 2 bags for the car & a bag of plastic bags for the recycling!

Hope everyone else is having a fab kondo day too!

Siebrie

Instead of decluttering husband's nightstand, I ended up decluttering my own We both have kea modules for nightstands, 2 cubbyholes each with doors, that I used to have in my study as part of a library when I lived on my own yeeeeaaaars ago. The cubbyholes have had many uses ever since, they have even been in the kitchen for a bit. I like multipurpose nice-looking storage

Husband bought shoes last week, which came in a nice sturdy navy blue shiny box. I like the box better than the shoes :rotfl: That box is now in the garage with all sorts of rope and washing line.

GreyQueen

I love a good shoe box (or, even better, a boot box) for storing like-with-like small articles in larger spaces, such as on a shelf in my teeny-tiny hall cupboard.


Have started the next chazzer donation bag with a stack of vinyl singles in cardboard covers which were sticking out of the flap of the big communal recycling bin. They still had their price stickers on from a charity shop chain (6 x 0 .99p - what a waste of whomever's money ).


Only the cardboard sleeve is actually recyclable, of course, so I removed them and they will go into a different charity from the one whose stickers they bear.


Among the things donated this weekend were three of those little rubbery doo-dads which you put over the ends of knitting needles to stop your stitches sliding off the end. I had five, I now have two. I bought precisely none of them, they were donations from the mothership - I shudder to think how many of these she has acquired over 60 + years of knitting. One day, when she has cast off for the final time, I guess I will be finding out.


I kept two of them (one red, one blue) because I can knit. Just about, quite simple things. I have no real interest in knitting, only a few pairs of needles and have given all but a couple of balls of yarn away. But, you know, I might knit, and might have two lots of knitting on the go simultaneously, and then might need two of these rubber bungs to stop the stitches falling off the ends of the needles........


:idea: But, hey! I could stuff the needles into the ball of wool, or put the needles together and wrap a few turns of wool tightly around them. Both are simple ways of stopping the Stitch Slip Problem - in the event of me knitting, which I may/ may not do. EVER.



I've talked myself into adding them to the next donation bag, something I will do in a few minutes. I have also donated several tape measures, the vinyl kind. Again, I have never ever bought these, I think my mother must have snuck them into my life. The question is, how many tape measures does one need to feel secure?


One? But what happens when you lose it? Or the print wears off the end? Or it breaks? Why is the prospect so scary?


I mean, it's not like I don't have a couple of plastic rulers and at least two retractable steel rules in the tool bag (plus the one in the allotment shed). I'm unlikely to run out of the ability to measure things, plus I can do a lot of sewing etc by eye - 1.5 cm seam allowance, anyone? Very guessable.:rotfl:


:o:o Thank you for your patience when I'm thinking and typing and working it all out in my head. :o:o

GreyQueen

The two rubber bungs retrieved from where I saw them yesterday (in bank bag in the fabric box) and are now in the donation bag. As is the row counter doo-dad which was in with them and somehow completely forgotten since I saw it yesterday.


I also retrieved and added the smallish wooden embroidery hoop which I haven't used since Methusalah were a lad. Yes, I could use it, but it's not probably, especially given the fun and games of threading a needle whilst wearing varifocals........ :rotfl:It's gone into the bag as well, I shall have a think about what else I can add as I go about my daily life.


Now, I really must get off my pooter, do a couple of things and head off to Bedfordshire*. Work calls tomorrow.


* I once spent part of a Sunday in Bedford (were were touring, these things can happen even in the best-ordered of lives).


Sooo, Bedford on a sunny Sunday morning, about 30 years ago. No food to be had so we had to darken the door of McBarstewards. I was like a rabbit in the headlights, looking at all this carp, and tried to get a breakfast. It was about three nano-seconds past breakfast o'clock, which mean that the macminions couldn't serve me. Even though the 'restaurant' was empty apart from me and my three companions in crime.


I nearly had a bit of a moment, and settled for a cup of (allegedly) tea and some raised eyebrows. Have never darkened the door of that chain since - damn you, Bedford, damn you!!

silvasava

GQ - made me remember my grandad saying 'up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire,' lol. Hmm I am the possessor of a number of tape measures - fabric ones I've had since god was born, a number of various steel ones courtesy of DH and I bought a 2 metre fabric one recently.....and the teeny tiny retractable one that lives in my handbag - time for a cull methinks.

Siebrie

I have just one vinyl tape measure, and it's mainly used to teach dds that a cm becomes unreliable if they play tug-of-war or Indians with it

greent

Today's efforts have so far yielded the following:
* 2 items added to pending foodbank donation (DS3's school harvest festival is early next month and they always collect for the foodbank)
* a whole bag for life full of kids' clothes and shoes (decent stuff like N*xt and C1arks all in good nick) and a couple of toys for CS
* a small bag of random stuff offered to the local shoebox appeal collection (airline toothbrushes/ sealed combs and hairbrushes/ airline socks/ sheets of stickers/ McD toys still in bags etc)
* 4 dressing up outfits listed on Fb00k (2 are Hallowe'en, so will hopefully go)
* 4 items listed on flebay (all new and possible ideal Xmas things)
* a pile of boys clothes to go through and put in bundles of age sizes and then list on fb00k, maybe later tonight
* some small bits recycled

Not a bad start! I have a pile of books to go through and check on Z1ffit later, too.
x

ETA: a dvd added to CS bag and a pile of books scanned for Z1ffit - will take the accepted ones to the appropriate shop later in the week :T

PollyWollyDoodle

Today I had the chimney swept - well overdue, I'm ashamed to say I can't remember when it was last done. In preparation I cleaned the wood burning stove and scrubbed the hearth, my goodness it was dusty ... clearly wafting the vacuum cleaner around that area is not sufficient. I managed to Kondo several spiders, unintentionally- I don't mind spiders. About half the associated clutter (old newspapers, firelighters which I never use, ornaments I don't particularly like) has gone, it all looks lovely and tidy. Now I need to clean the rest of the floor to match

I usually rearrange the room in winter so that the sofa faces the fire, thereby leaving the radiator clear. I'm not quite ready for that yet, it's a glorious sunny day today- I'm putting it off as long as I can.

silvasava

Polly - I'm just about to change over to my 'winter' arrangement for my sitting room. It just means changing the hearth rug, cushions and throw's and like you re-arranging the furniture round the wood burner but it can wait 'till next week

Siebrie

The left hand drawer of the tv stand called me.... Do you guys recognise that? Sometimes a place or a type of item pops into your brain, and although it may be smarter, make more sense, others are trying to persuade you to do other stuff,.... life cannot continue until 'the call' has been answered.

This drawer was filled with dvd cases, dvds, batteries, 3d glasses, wii remotes, lots of cables, sim cards, ipad repair kit, and dust bunnies Husband not really willing to help, until I gave him the sim cards and he found two that he had been looking for. The joy and energy carried him through sorting the dvds and cables. About half of the contents have been thrown out / recycled. Then I quickly emptied the right hand drawer and could also throw away half.

I am now sitting on the sofa, watching the bbc, and it seems as if the tv stand is smiling