KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

camelot1001

Big king sized bed in DS2s room has gone to friends, the nearly new quilt covers and pillow cases have gone to DS1. The room has been decorated and a toddler bed is in there for DGS(bought from Gumtree and painted) and a single mattress - I'll get a single bed from the big blue and yellow shed next time friends visit - for DGD.

Lots of work but when the DGC visited last week they spent most of their time playing in the new room rather than spreading their toys all over the living room, better for the clear up when they left!

Karmacat

Woo hoo ... 7 bags finally left for the charity shop yesterday, courtesy of my sister, who brought along two of her own plus a big poster. The cassette/ radio/ CD player didn't leave after all, as I realise I need it to transcribe a tape I made of letters between my grandparents. Local charity shop van, hopefully more reliable than the others, should be turning up tomorrow for the sofa and the CD rack. I've also been kondoing branches and tendrils of ivy still, to my neighbour's green bin.

janejamie

Siebrie wrote: »

An indication of how stressed I was, and how that kept me from lifting up my head and looking around me: I have been home for five months now, and only last week realised that I could actually go sightseeing! Belgium has so many lovely villages, cities, parks, musea, which I never had time to visit (husband does not see the point, so that's like pulling a dead horse; once we've been and are on our way back, he will call all his friends and gloat... . I don't always have energy for that).

My cousin used to live in Brussels with similar aged boys to ours, so we've done some of the tourist stuff together. We loved the Train Museum (as much for the architecture and history), the national museum has amazing galleries and again architecture, but I saw in the papers recently that the Royal Gardens are open for a few weeks only at this time of year which would be really interesting to visit.

Enjoy your exploring!

GreyQueen

I'm allotment kondo-ing at the moment. I took on a second, half-sise plot beside my existing plot 13 months ago and had a mahoosive clear out of the carp left on it by a series of careless previous incumbents, including burning a lot of rotten wood, but then things slowed down.


I'm progressively working my way through a pile of fiddly bits, sorting out things which are recyclable, including metal bits and some plastic bottles, some bits which are re-usable like old flowerpots and the detritus which is only fit for landfilling. Each time I go up there with the bicycle, I discipline myself to bring some Stuff back to sort out.


Latest outs are about a pound of broken glass, fished out from underground, washed and in the recycling bin. It feels good. :j

maddiemay

It has been quiet on the MC front here, been spending available energy on the weeds in the garden and indoor days on baking and batch cooking meals. 3 large black bags, mainly rag, from mum's to the CS in town, some bedding will go to the kennels that they support and the manager is very canny and goes through all the bags even when marked as rag, and often finds things that she knows are saleable. They sell things that are not "as new", but perfectly respectable with plenty of wear which are snapped up by the less well off for work clothes etc, all at much lower prices than the national CS shops which are expensive in this quite well off area.

Off to visit my BFF in nearby town today, so 1 bag ready for the wild animal charity shop there that we both like to support.

silvasava

When I started Kondoing a few years ago the first thing I sorted was the knicker drawer - still in beautiful order. I sorted according to age to use them up first and have just noticed a pair that the cotton gusset has a small hole. Nothing remarkable in a pair of pants ( could repair it TBH!) But..... These were expensive at the time, Berlei (sp) and I've just realised I've had them over 20 years! Now do I repair to extend their life a little longer or send them to ragging and use the stash of much newer ones that are certainly not as good quality.........oh the decisions lol

Pooky

Had a revisit of each area over the past month or so with the aim of getting the house ready to sell. 14 banana boxes and several big holdalls of stuff ready to go to a bootfair (when the weather perks up) and it takes 5 minutes to whizz through the house doing a damp dust and hoover each morning.

We're now under offer and have found our next home which is a couple of rooms less than we have now so still more to go! Packing will be a doddle as it will just be each cupboard/drawer into a box and unpacking the other end will be just as simple.

ivyleaf

carrielovesfanta wrote: »

I swear I actually saw this happen in front of my very eyes. My brother and I were playing with a soft bouncy ball, approx the size of a tennis ball. It bounced on the living room floor, hit the gas fire (which was off) and vanished. Never to be found. Not even when the fire was serviced.

Technically quantum theory does allow c-space to exist...

carrie I read of something similar on another forum. The poster was sitting in front of the TV and was just about to unwrap a Curly-Wurly bar when someone she detested appeared on screen. She threw the Curly-Wurly at the TV in irritation. It hit the screen and seemed to fall to the floor but when she went over to pick it up it had disappeared! Like your ball, it never turned up.

luxor4t

GreyQueen wrote: »

....I've riffed on the concept of C-space, a metaphysical concept.....which is why you will find things in your keeping which you have never ever seen before, and lose things which will never be seen again. It's a wrinkle in space-time (or summat ).

My embroidery scissors have disappeared and although I am glad of the chance to re-visit and re-kondo, I have exhausted all the likely locations, the possible locations and am now onto the unlikely or even impossible ..... which is why DH looked startled as I checked the shower rack this morning. C-space is definitely a thing!

Wednesday2000

It's making me laugh with these disappearing stories. :rotfl:

I always call my Jack Russell whenever I drop anything and she finds it for me straight away.:D

When I got my other dog I noticed he kept chewing something in his mouth, they were nails that had obviously dropped to the floor over the years and I had never found them!:eek:

There were about 8 of them that I found him chewing. I vacuum everyday so I have no idea where they went! He found them all for me.:o