KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Karmacat

Congratulatios, WeeMidgie! Lovely news



I'm kind of kondoing - using up white paint to help set my living room to rights.

Siebrie

It was my birthday yesterday, for which we had a small family celebration. DD1 gave me a nice bracelet, DD2 gave me a specialty tea, husband promised me a weekend away (probably Paris), my parents wanted to give me a bottle of perfume. All lovely gifts, that require no dusting, hardly any storing, no maintenance, and will disappear in due time .

We went shopping for the perfume, but didn't find any I liked in the small village next to where I live. I will look in my hometown around christmas, when we are staying with my parents.

Wednesday2000

I'm taking the bag to the charity shop today.:)

My husband had a clear out of his wardrobe. He actually got rid of lots of stuff!:cool:

camelot1001

I put all DDs things she had left here (moved out 3 years ago) into a pile and she sorted through it last weekend.

Riding boots rehomed to a family at school who keep horses and the rest to the CS. She only kept a ski jacket and a couple of books.

I feel like that's such an achievement!

Siebrie

I had a spare container, what to do!?!? The container used to be the downstairs loo bin, but the lid broke and I threw it away. Solution: the bin is now the container for old glass for the monthly collection (we don't have very much old glass). The plastic crate that held the glass is now cleaned and holds the car maintenance items (wax and such). The garage is now a bit neater .

maddiemay

One very heavy bag of books and not needed clothes dropped into CS, 2 books returned to the library. Sadly the next book that I needed in the series I am reading not in the library system, so resorted to an e-bay buy, but it will go the CS as soon as I have read it.

Several knitting UFOs have been gathered together and I am hopeful that I will get them finished in the coming weeks so that I can investigate my lovely stash of yarns and perhaps begin a new sweater or jacket for myself guilt free:o

GreyQueen

My brother has told me to expect a book in a new series by what he knows is one of my favourite authors. \\i don't know the title but I've read none of the new series, so it'll be good. I have told him that when I've read the novel, he can immediately have it to add to his inventory (he's a professional online bookseller).


This might raise eyebrows but it isn't being ungrateful. I read anything from 120-160 books each year, my home is miniscule, and I have nowehere to keep books that I 'might want to read again one day' just on the off-chance. I don't often re-read novels and this is a best-selling author, so there is a high-probability that it would be finable if I did.


I'm happy because I shall read it and thoroughly enjoy it over the Christmas holiday and it won't even come back to my flat with me. And Kid Bruv can probably re-sell it and some other reader can have the pleasure and maybe they'll e-bay it or chazzer it and another reader will enjoy it, and so on.


Belated Happy Birthday, Siebrie!

Siebrie

Thank you, everyone, for the birthday wishes.

Yesterday, my Mum sorted through dds' play corner, and came out with two empty decorative canisters. One now holds my make up, the other holds hair accessories, and the 8-drawer 8kea cabinet is a bit more empty. Two more drawers to relocate stuff from, and the cabinet can go!

silvasava

Oh GQ - I dread DH finding another author or genre that he likes - he keeps ALL his books - nearly everything Bernard Cornwell has written, Anne McCaffey, Lee Child - drives me up the wall. He will read and re-read so that's his excuse. I read far more and faster but once read it's gone! I rarely re-read a book. I did suggest a Kindle but that fell on stony ground & tbh I only use mine on holiday.

greenbee

At least he re-reads them silva

I had to go to the garden centre to get vouchers as a gift - it sells second hand books in aid of the air ambulance, so I've now got the rest of the day sorted doing none of the things that need doing.

Donation to the nightshelter is going either this afternoon or tomorrow, so am checking what else I can add. Having checked their website, they want DVDs and cutlery, so have found a whole lot of DVDs and washed my old plastic-handled cutlery I was given when I moved into my first house. I now have stainless steel that my dad gave me when he packed up his holiday cottage about 7 years ago and if I need more I have some not very nice silver plate that came from my godmother when I was 10.

Once that lot has been dropped off I'll start loading up for another CS drop off. I have lots of pots for houseplants that I don't use. I may keep a couple in case things change when the kitchen is finally finished, but the bulk of them can go.

Today's books will go to the CS when they've read, unless any of the are particularly interesting.