KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Slinky

This morning I finally got around to cleaning my stairs for the first time since we moved in 3 weeks ago. They are 1960s open tread uncarpeted wooden stairs so needed a wash down. I did the steps, then started on the bannisters. OMG, what I thought had been a dark grain turned out to be years worth of grease from people's hands.......... The worst part was at the top where the bannister is about 1.5 inches from the wall, so you can't see the outside face. An old flannel I was using went black. Yeeuch.


I got my peg bag in town, smaller than I'd have liked ideally, but it means I've had a peg audit. I have decided to get rid of a load of them.... and it's the wooden ones which are going. I've had problems in the past with wooden pegs staining clothing if the washing gets caught out in the rain, hence I don't tend to use the wooden ones my OH bought before we met. I'm pretty certain the volume of plastic ones I have will last the rest of my life, so have bagged up the rest and offered them free on Facebook. The old peg bag went with the rubbish today.


Got talking outside to one of our new neighbours and he let me look around their formerly identical house to see the changes they have made. I'm now wondering whether we should change the ideas we had for ours.......

silvasava

Slinky - its very interesting to see other peoples ideas for the houses with the same layouts as yours., especially if they've ideas you can pinch!
One of the side runners in my new oven hadn't been welded properly. I rang up & they sent an engineer to fit a new one (full marks for prompt response) however when he arrived they'd given him the right hand one not the left but he got one sent in the post to me the next day & had showed me how it fitted (really easy) BUT - he left the right handed one with me as a 'spare' - I've never needed a spare shelf support in 60 odd years of cooking so it will be added to the scrap mans pile along with the defunct one.

Igamogam

Another large bin bag to CS...slow and steady wins the race! I dropped off a load of children's things - books toys games - mainly things I am not going to use in work anymore and not going to sell. Then I noticed as I was leaving the shop seems to have 'removed its children's section ( I often pick up oddments for work) Now I ma wondering if they are doing away with kids stuff....must ask next time I am passing. Don't want to be dropping stuff off they are not going to use!

PollyWollyDoodle

Yet again, I am grateful for having discovered the life changing magic of Marie Kondo. When my niece unexpectedly rang me last night, to say she was stuck in London because of the power failures, and could she possibly have a bed for the night, everything was ready. The bed was clear (not buried under bags and boxes of stuff), the spare duvet cover and pillowcase were all in the airing cupboard tucked inside another pillowcase, and it took me 10 minutes to make the bed and have a quick swipe round the bathroom.

Now, she has known me all her life, and wouldn't be bothered by my former housekeeping standards, but it did feel good to be able to have everything ready without a big rush, I even knew where the spare toothbrushes were. I still have work to do, despite having begun this process some years ago now, but it is true that the areas that are organised stay tidy.

Siebrie

:T :j :T :j :T :j

Karmacat

Polly, thats really something, good for you

camelot1001

Brilliant Polly!

GreyQueen

:j:T Most excellent, PWD, how wonderful to be able to host your neice at no notice without stress or aggravation.


Tomorrow I am having half a carload of Stuff (discards from the last sorting out at the parental homestead) brought up and I will be feeding them into the chazzer over the coming week or two. There will be a temporary muddle, but I tell myself it is all in a good cause.

Siebrie

It was a strange week:
- my husband left for a month to visit relatives in Africa
- my Aunt died and was buried. She was diagnosed with dementia 7 years ago, but probably suffered already 10 years before that. She was highly intelligent and managed to hide it for a long time.
- the journey there and back took 5.5 and 7 hours instead of the normal 2x3.5.
- dd2's teacher got married and invited her whole class to Mass
- I have a job starting 2 September, for 90%. Pay is 25% less than my last job, but stress is 75% less I feel like I'm moaning when I say that I don't really want to go back to work.... I like being at home, supporting dds through primary school, doing housework. Husband makes enough for us to live of, but not for any extras, and we have a home renovation coming up for which we probably will need a new mortgage, so I need a job for us to qualify. After that, it won't matter anymore

PollyWollyDoodle

Congratulations on the new job Siebrie, I remember when you left your last job. I can understand why you'd rather be at home but if the stress is 75% less than the last one, it sounds good to me! You'll soon get into a routine again, and once the renovations are done maybe you'll want to carry on.