KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

greenbee

Wednesday - I've been using up handcream dregs recently!

Silvasava - hope you can get rid of your radiator. I have trouble getting takers on freegle/freecycle here (wasn't a problem where I was before!) and currently have an ancient greenhouse that would be great for an allotment (needs new seals and clips, and possibly a couple of panes of glass) that I can't shift. Annoyingly it will have to go to the tip. Lack of interest in anything second hand locally is one reason why we destroyed the bed. Still, hopefully I'll get a bit of firewood out of it!

Lots more stuff binned, recycled and earmarked for the CS today... Need to have another go at kids' books and toys. They're too old for some of them, and don't spend as much time here now they're at school. I can use the space for other things. Like setting up my sewing machine!

VJsmum

Still reading along but not kondoing too much of late. Sorry about your uncle Sieberie.

I did take a load of rags to the preserved railway the other day - they use them to oil the engines and then become fire lighters.. i quite like the idea of my old t shirts going in the firebox.

Am going to kondo some freezer contents and cupboard stuff to restock with some winter / Brexit stocks...

GreyQueen

Relatively quiet on the kondo-ing front here but I have done some re-organisation which is making my life both easier and more aesthetically pleasing.

You may recall that I evicted the six-cubbyhole thing from the kitchen counter and replaced it with a hanging rack to hold my tea caddies? That remains very successful and the extra few inches of countertop to do food prep on is a daily joy.

Well, the cubbyhole thing is very simple, clean lines and is pretend -beech. I now have it on the back of the small table in the sittingroom (which is beside the computer desk) and am using some of its cubbies to corral certain items which usually lurk on the tabletop. I am also able to put another couple of things on top of it. These items are things I am using daily and there is no 'away' to put them, so I am very pleased that the vertical storage mode is enabling me to have them handy without sacrificing precious, usable tabletop.

Righty, off to catch up with some reading (if anyone wants me, I shall be in AD 66.;)

daisy_1571

Gq glad you are moving things around to better use - I thought your hanging rack sounded ingenious. If it's how I imagine, I have a couple used in their right-way-up format but now, if I need to, I can reverse them at a moment's notice so thank you.

I always kinda imagine you in a bit of a gypsy caravan/barge type environment having to make best use of all your inches and vertical is the way to go (as long as it doesn't make you feel closed in of course).

Isn't it a fabulous moment when you can make use of an item you already own in a new place or previously un-thought of way (bet our Scandinavian brethren have a word for that). Simple pleasures.

Daisy xx

Siebrie

With the ragbags and the donation bag gone, I had a bit of space to rummage around in in the attic. I managed to get to my sound system! It is now in the kitchen, where I will set it up today. I'm sooo happy!

In the attic I have rearranged the camping gear that husband had put there all higgledy-piggledy (oh, English language, how I love thee, let me count the ways :rotfl:), and now that is more easily accessible and easier to get out.

All my summer clothes are in a small suitcase in the attic, and a new donation bag (a large blue ikeabag) is set up and already contains a pair of dd2's thick tights.

Now that I am home fulltime, I make a list of three things I want to accomplish that day, on top of normal housekeeping. If I make one I am already happy, and usually, just starting on the first one sees me through accomplishing all, and sometimes more.

eta: music system up snd running!

silvasava

Seibrie - I am now imagining you boogie-ing around the house to your sound system - go girl!!

Siebrie

Sivasava, add 'singing on the top of my voice' and you are spot on!

GreyQueen

:T Sounds like you're making excellent use of your unplanned sabbatical, Siebrie (pun intended).;)


Daisy, yes, that trick with those hanging racks on 4 cupbooks is a handy one, feel quite chuffed with myself. I wouldn't want to trust it with breakables but for things that bounce, it's a good option.


I also had another brainwave at the same time which I haven't enacted, which would be to stretch a length of curtainwire between two cuphooks on the underside of a cupboard and thread a kitchen roll through it for a handy dispenser which took up almost no space.


Been trying to post my recyclables into the communal recyc bins (these have a letterbox type opening) but all ours are full. We have some external works going on at these flats which means that several of our bins have been rendered temporarily inaccessible, so we're all using the ones we can get at, hence the crush. Never mind, first world problem, hey?;)

silvasava

GQ - I've hung a kitchen roll on the boat with a similar method - a bungee cord. Roll now sits very nicely and conveniently underneath the platerack. Like you I play Tetris and have to consider how often an item will be used to decide where it's home will be.

GreyQueen

Yeah, I am always up for gathering new tips, if you have any you'd like to share. I didn't bother with the kitchen roll thing as it's not a product I buy, am just coming onto the last of the 4-pack of rolls Mum insisted I take at the start of the year, not planning to buy any more.


My washing up bowl made an attempt to escape yestereve and crashed down onto the floor and a big bit of edge broke off. It has been in constant service for 13 years so I will forgive it. The identical one, unused, is over in Mum's attic. She doesn't know why she has it, where she got it bur it's mine to claim and I will do so at Xmas, the other one can limp on until then. We both have stainless steel sinks but her one is bigger than mine and she favours a bigger plastic bowl, so it's a mystery why she ever acquired that blue Ad dis one.


If you ask Mum where some random object in her house came from, she's liable to say 'pass'! It's shopping without due care and attention, not a shoplifting habit btw.:rotfl:


In my family, old washing up bowls have a semi-retirement in sheds where they are used for a few weeks each spring as runner bean seedbeds, as slugs and snails tent to scarf the beans if sown in open ground. That will be the fate of mine.