KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Slinky

GreyQueen wrote: »

Currently AWOL in my tiny flat; eating knife (gone several years),


Perhaps they'll rematerialise in their own good time.....:rotfl:

I lived in our house before meeting my now husband. I moved away to be with him then we moved back here when he changed jobs. The house was rented out whilst we were away. We then had an extension built. When clearing a border in the garden I discovered a knife from my dining set buried in the soil. It had obviously been there several years as we'd bought another set in the time we were away. I came to the conclusion that it probably got thrown out with the washing up water when I was watering plants with it. I never noticed I was a knife short!


Could your knife have gone out with veg peelings or something like that?

GreyQueen

After I'd checked under each and every appliance, in case it had fallen floorwards and skittered underneath, I did actually sieve the contents of the compost dalek at my allotment, ultimate destination for the peelings. A spatula did once spend a brief sojourn therein.


Nope, wasn't there, either. It's only a boring stainless steel knife, but I just cannot figure how it escaped!:rotfl:

Slinky

We lost a memory stick once, with ensuing panic as it held a lot of data for bank logins etc. Came to the conclusion it got caught up in the Sunday papers and went out with the recycling.

ivyleaf

When DD1 was a baby I absent-mindedly threw several teaspoons away after feeding her

Luxor Glad your scissors turned up!

carrie I hope your crochet hook will too.

Igamogam

GreyQueen wrote: »

I did actually sieve the contents of the compost dalek at my allotment, ultimate destination for the peelings. A spatula did once spend a brief sojourn therein.

Oh so may knives, peelers, spoons and spatulas I have lost in the compost....in fact it got the point where I that was where I went first to look! Much better now we have a counter top peelings etc caddy thingy. At least if I threw it in there I would see it when it was tipped into the big compost bin. The plastic handles stuff seemed to survive but the wooden stuff never really fared well - except a fabulous apple corer I got from my grandmothers which has a lovely apple wood handle - that did survive

Leather gardening gloves too......

DD2 is clearing out her student house to move back at the end of June. Well she and BF will be here until Oct then off on a 6 month placement in "paradise". Called in on her way to work and dropped off some clothes for CS and sorted out some boxes of stuff - GSCE NOTES:eek: which has FINALLY gone in the recycling. She has strict instructions she need to be ruthless......:rotfl:

Siebrie

The Mastermind game fell, and all those little pins fell into two toyboxes; guess what ai will be doing tonight

luxor4t

Siebrie wrote: »

The Mastermind game fell, and all those little pins fell into two toyboxes; guess what ai will be doing tonight

I was forever picking up the bits from the Mastermind game :mad:
I think the shape of the box made it easier for it to fall open, especially as the cardboard wasn't very firm. The kids didn't enjoy playing it (sooooooo many squabbles) so I was delighted to send it to the CS .... wrapped in clingfilm to keep it together!

Siebrie

I sorted through those boxes, and found that the ironing beads had also fallen down them. Big sort through; the play kitchen stuff is in its own box again, My Little Pony stuff in its own box, Playmobil and Littlest Pet Shop as well, Barbie accessories back with the dolls.... some leftover accessories from other sets were thrown out, and some pieces of fabric that the girls had tried to make dolls' clothes with, went into the ragbag. It's time to put at least one of those boxes with all these tiny parts needs to be stored in the attic for a few months!

DigForVictory

ivyleaf wrote: »

When DD1 was a baby I absent-mindedly threw several teaspoons away after feeding her

My parents managed to get down to two teaspoons total before they deiced to watch what I did with my spoon after my breakfast egg. Clutching it, I climbed out of my highchair, crawled across the kitchen floor & posted it through a hole in the side of the dishwasher.
My awed parents seized me & a screwdriver & removed the relevant side panel & lo. Teaspoons. Lots. Many somewhat eggy.

It's definitely a thing to put things away - my lads would tidily put their anywayupcups on the bin. Not quite realising the swingbin lid would disappear it. I stopped counting how many we lost, and focused on how many I saved. (Champion week 261. At about a fiver a pop, some with handles & some the tumbler format, all with those relative-sanity-saving lids. A decade later we still had an anywayup tumbler as a toothbrush holder!)

Umar_Zamir

Yeh I had similiar issue, had to use moth balls and clean down before storing all my items.