KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

lessonlearned

Round 3 (or maybe it's Round 4, I've lost track) starts today.......

carrielovesfanta

Hey folks

I'm still catching up with the thread but some shifting has happened chez Fanta.

Some Christmas gifts gone. And only VERY joy sparking ones received so far! We still have my side of the family to go.

My microwave kondoed itself and so a new one is coming in a couple of days. We use it a lot so I don't want to give it up. Also a very joy sparking replacement for the little shelf unit in the kitchen appeared in my life so the little shelf can go to the tip along with the microwave.

There is a small bag of assorted charity shop bits. Including a small game that OH was given by one of his pupils. We played 3 rounds and found it to be incredibly boring, so off it went. I also added a weird bowl lid thing that the mum had bought me last year and that was never used. I swear that every time I take a bag, I start a new one the same day :cool:

Icey77

Have I missed GQ's tales from the Homestead?

I saw a very timely message our local FB page for men's shoes, coats and other clothes that someone was going to take to Crisis at Christmas so I managed to chivy my husband to going through the dumping ground at the bottom of the ball cupboard and we released 4 pairs of shoes, 4 jackets\coats and I also pulled out a pile of toiletries that he no longer used or likes

I also returned a Zimmer frame that we had borrowed for my Oma over Christmas. That was accompanied by a bottle of prosecco as thanks

Lots out today that I wasn't expecting to go but happy they did.

iamsalt

Not been kondoing but reading while renovating our home, we are now living there and i have loved living with just the basics for the last 16 months while everything has been in boxes or packed away.
I am now in a incredibly lucky position where i can be selective in what moves in with us, and i am being pretty ruthless, we have one box filled for the CS already.
I shall be following some of the kondo ways, but also considering a box at a time in order to create the home i really want to live in.

S x

WeeMidgie

Hoping GQ and her family are all well and that it's simply technical issues preventing her from posting from the Homestead.

lessonlearned

lessonlearned wrote: »

Round 3 (or maybe it's Round 4, I've lost track) starts today.......

Made a start yesterday. One black bin liner for the chazza, handbags, a hat, a couple of pashminas. Sorted my jewellery and make up.....not sure if I'll get much done today. But it's a start.

GreyQueen

WeeMidgie wrote: »

Hoping GQ and her family are all well and that it's simply technical issues preventing her from posting from the Homestead.

:o It's more a case of not having done any kondo-ing, my lovelies.

I came over all unecessary and have spent some lazy days eating and reading and sleeping a lot. I have been into the loft today and returned the bag of wrapping paper rolls. Most of the gifts were wrapped back at home from pre-loved paper and a few things were wrapped here from new paper. One roll was finsished (each roll is encased in a leg of a pair of tights with a label describing the pattern and whether it has been started or not). I've been concentrating on finishing up started rolls and one of them has now gone.

When up the loft, I fetched down a small element of Yarn Mountain, a lovely sea green boucle-ish mohair yarn, for Mum to make into my next jumper. It was a mixture of 50g balls still in their ball bands (Rowan yarn) and some handwound balls of pulled out stuff, 905g in total, plenty to make a plain sweater for me. Mum doesn't recognise it, even though it is her own yarn - would have been a chazzer or bootsale buy, probably from about 20+ years ago.

The pair of elderly trainers which I keep at the homestead for walking in the woods had their last outing on Xmas day and have now parted body and sole and a far too ratty to be worth glueing back together. They shall go for recycling via Red X - they can take worn out shoes, bags and belts as well as clothing.

:p:p Oh, and I broke a cereal bowl early today, it didn't bounce off the kitchen floor which is vinyl over concrete. Funny that. It is one of a common design, Mum has a few of them sourced from booters. I shall find its identical replacement easily enough.

I read my brilliant Xmas book from Kid Bruv and finished it this morning. I bought two novels with me, from the chazzer's 50p box. I will definately finish one and leave it here to go to their chazzer and perhaps even get the second one finished.

Oh, and parental moggie Wild Thing popped into the back yard just as we were settling down for Xmas dinner and caught a mouse. They live under the shed and pop out for the leavings dropped from the bird feeders. WT has a few from time to time, she's about 14 y.o. but can shift when she wants to.;);)

GreyQueen

Ahh, finding my mojo. Went into the linen cupboard, which is a narrow floor-to-ceiling cupboard on the landing here. Contains mainly towels, most of the bedlinen is in the divan drawers under the 'rents bed.

Muvver was insisting that the household was nearly out of flannels which I found hard to believe as this household hasn't knowingly run out of anything textile-ish in about 40 odd years. We did do a mass cull of the worn out stuff the other year but my recollection was of a few flannels. I was horrified that she'd reported buying two new flannels and was even asking me to keep my eyes out for good ones.

Well, I found a small stashette of five lightly-used flannels at the very top of the linen cupboard, keeping company with the Xmas oven gloves (bit late to bring those out now) and a few other bits and bobs. They have been brought into line-of-sight and the soap stash and the toothbrush & paste stash positioned more optimally.

The household is good for tea towels, towel towels, dishcloths and oven gloves/ mitts/ potholders for the foreseeable future.

We are about to break for Tea and half-price Fox's fancy biscuits. I scored the latter in a Sainsbugs this am when I was training pater in the advanced Art of Shopping. The amount of times I've told him Eyes Down for Bargains.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

PollyWollyDoodle

Sorry to hear you've not been feeling quite the thing, GQ - I hope you were still able to have a good Christmas, it sounds as if you needed a break. Kondoing can wait, your fan-club will be waiting eagerly for the next visit to GQHQ.

GreyQueen

:):) Aww bless you. I run on fumes a lot of the time and when I stop for a breather, I slow to a standstill. The family are looking after me well and I have a wee trip out to a pal's place tomorrow for a few hours.

I'm borrowing Dad's car - he offered. Nighty-night.