KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Sayschezza

Read The Borrowers when I was a child. Brilliant book and now when things go missing I know exactly who to blame.

GreyQueen

I loved those books, too, it all made perfect sense to me. Where does Stuff go when it disappear? The fourth dimension? A worm-hole in the space/ time continuum? Down the back of the sofa? Eager minds wanna know.


Have been decluttering weeds on the lottie this evening. Most pleasant way to spend a warm, sunny May eve.

daisy_1571

Karmacat wrote: »

The last kondoing story about the new kitchen. I'd gone up the road to clear my head, when I came back, a neighbour was chatting to two guys who were clearing stuff from "my" hippo bags. They took the old oven, the old hob, another old oven that the builder brought round, and the central light fitting. I thought they were from my builder, and I wanted a word with my neighbour, so I stopped, smiled, chatted, waited.

Later on, my builder came round, and said no, they were "gypsies" (scrap metal guys, yes, no idea about the "gypsies" thing, sounds like so-called casual racism to me, though I confess I couldn't understand a word they said). I don't feel good about the stuff being basically stolen from my property - it belonged to me or my builder, not to them. And I can't believe the waste disposal firm would have scrapped the metal rather than recycling it.

The old oven was huge, underneath a 5 burner hob, and before my builders arrived, I took out the shelves and the supports that slotted into the oven's sides - I've stashed them away, I can see them being pot plant supports, or greenhouse shelving this time next year. There were also two massive oven trays, very shallow - I put those by as well, for something gardening related. Either a plant saucer for several pots, or a bird bath, or a microgreens forest.

We had this too, scruffy old van with 2 guys trying to take our copper boiler from front garden saying "it's ok mate, the householder said we could take it". Saying this to Mr D, otherwise known as "the householder"!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Dont worry karma, these guys would be taking the stuff to the same place as your builder/the hippo people would (and the same place i was taking our copper to) the local scrappy who gives you money and then they recycle it.. These guys dont take metal then dump it somewhere, they want the cash for it.

Daisy xx

luxor4t

GreyQueen wrote: »

I loved those books, too, it all made perfect sense to me. Where does Stuff go when it disappear? The fourth dimension? A worm-hole in the space/ time continuum? Down the back of the sofa?..........

STILL on the embroidery scissor hunt, and I found an old £1 and 10p wedged in the sofa frame. :money:

No scissors, but I'm on the way towards paying for the replacement

silvasava

Managed to offload some of the books to members of the sailing club - if its free they'll have it lol! I was in a CS yesterday and asked if they were taking books and they are so the rest of them have been bagged up tonight for me to deposit there tomorrow. I did pick 2 or 3 to read but they will be donated too as soon as I've read them.

GreyQueen

I'm dropping a small donation bag off after work today, too. Could wait until I have more items but I just want rid, space is pressing here.

Pooky

6 books and 3 puzzles out to the village hall, a handful of DVDs too, all of which were snapped up before I got them on the shelves. Our village hall has a book/puzzle area and you just pop a donation in the pot and take what you like then you can pop them back on the shelf when you're finished with them. Every now and then they drop the whole lot off to charity and it all builds up again, which means you don't end up with the same stuff sitting about for months.

Had another pass through my chest of drawers and 3 pairs of baggy leggings, a few vest tops I'd saved for decorating and some uncomfortable underwear all went in the rag bag and dropped off at the CS.

The garage has now been properly organised for our upcoming move and the few final bits that needed to go were listed on local FB pages yesterday, a couple of bits were free and got snapped up straight away, the rest were sold on and all collected within a few hours. I do love it when it works out like that.

choose_wisely

I am still struggling 5 years into the process. I was making good progress when I think about how much has gone since the start.

Youngest daughter moved back to the area Christmas week and despite selling bedroom furniture, almost new washing machine, a large TV, 2 fridge freezers and dining table a lot of stuff made its way to my house.

She didn't need to take anything other than clothes and personal items to her new home as her partner already had sufficient but did take her bed for the spare room.

I am making some progress but wondering how to get rid of books and especially textbooks, some mine, some hers. I have tried local free sites with limited success for some (probably about 300 gone) but no response at all for many. Charity shops appear overloaded and don't want textbooks. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Siebrie

Choose wisely, your dd is breaking the kondo rule of not storing stuff at your parents'!

It is her stuff, so she should have been the one to get rid. I think you can consider anything she returned or gave to you, yours. Any profit you make selling it, should also be yours

Pooky

If the text books are still current then donate to a school/college/uni maybe?

I have no issues with recycling books too, if no one wants them or they're out of date then at least by recycling them they get another go round in another format.