KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

camelot1001

Just one present I wasn't keen on - some reindeer socks that look quite small, I'll keep them to re-gift to my DGD next year.

The groaning cupboard has been relieved of it's presents so have lots of room left there. I'm determined to clear out again and send a bag for life to the charity shop every month.

luxor4t

Please do not doubt the sincerity of my thanks when I received these items, I know that they were kindly meant and I know that thought counts most. But, I am now worried for my mother and that does not spark any kind of joy at all.

Item 1 : a large tub of chocolates. I cannot eat chocolate due to my grumbly gall bladder, and I thought my mother knew that. She has been giving me lots of advice etc over the last few weeks.

Item 2: a folk-style father Xmas designed to sit on a shelf, with dangly bead legs and a large hole in his tunic that would be absolutely obvious to the staff handling it in the shop . I am upset to think that the shop assistant passed it off on an elderly customer - it would not have been a cheap item. Mum was so pleased with it!

I can give the chocolates to the foodbank, I can cover the hole with a 'rustic ' patch ( and add a few more to blend in) but helping my independent mother won't be so easy.

Slinky

Received a large canvas print from SIL which we're going to struggle to find a home for. We've downsized and had to get rid of some of our previous artwork. When it arrived via a courier I assumed (I don't know why) that it was portrait in format, but it turned out it was landscape, so the one place it could have gone possibly, it won't fit. I said to OH that we may have to swap it occasionally with another picture (when family visit.....). TBH it wouldn't be my choice, which is unfortunate as we normally share similar taste in artwork with the giver, but just not this one. I think it'll end up shoved behind a wardrobe most of the time (if I'm lucky). Oh dear.


Spent some time in the garden today putting some horse !!!!! down over the rhubarb crowns. OH did a lot of weeding in the area too. I chopped back some of the overgrown bushes in a border, which was easier to get to as some of the plants have died back a bit. Spotted some rodent holes in the ground, so will have to drag out the other two traps again. Dug out a load of brambles, so progress is being made. Wheelie bin is nearly full.


I offered some glasses free on Facebook and somebody is coming to collect them tomorrow, so a bit more going out the door.

Slinky

Well my much loved leather sofa went today to a charity furniture store. Is it silly to be sad to see a sofa go? It cost a lot of money at a time when I didn't earn much and I didn't really want to part with it, but we don't have enough room for 3 and OH wanted to keep his 2 that match. So off it went. I just hope it helps somebody who really needs it.

pavlovs_dog

I'm back and I'm a woman on a mission for 2020!

I've made a start in the study today. My first project is digitising recipes I have ripped out of magazines. I have a file full of them, yet never look at them as the internet is always my first port of call when I want food inspiration.

I have decided to make my own online recipe book using evernote. I am pasting from the online versions to mitigate against pages being taken offline. I can ever add images for visual effect. Evernote's search function should make it really easy to find what I'm looking for, and I can access recipes via my phone or tablet when I'm cooking. Those I can't find online can either be scanned in or substituted with equivalent recipes.

Slinky

We've been plagued for the past couple of weeks with some small moths that appear in the evening in our lounge or garden room. About half the size of a clothes moth. We've put mothballs in some of the clothes cupboards, closely examined a sofa, driven ourselves round the twist. Finally today I've discovered the little sods are coming out of a packet of dried mushrooms we bought back from Italy a few months ago. This has been despatched to the bin, the cupboard has been emptied and the contents examined for signs of problems. Have sprayed moth killer inside the cupboard and the adjoining one also. Have taken all the labels off the tins as we spotted some creepy crawlies coming out from behind one on a bottle of vinegar. Deep joy, such fun. Hopefully we can get on top of this now. It's really wierd how we were seeing them in the lounge, coming out from behind a sofa as it's a very long way from the kitchen cupboard. There's a very small hole through the wall behind the boiler where a TV aerial used to go through, can only think they were getting through there but it's odd we weren't seeing more in the kitchen.

kboss2010

Been feeling like cr*p with MH issues today (I hate Xmas & New Year) so decided to get up & kondo my living room while watching tv all day.

Bookshelf contents halved, 2 junk drawers in the desk emptied, one alcove cupboard cleared, 2 huge junk boxes emptied & all the dead plants binned (a lot of my houseplants didn't survive us going away over Xmas/the dark Northern winter light).

I now have 4 bags for the charity shop, 2 recycling bags & a box I need stored.

Tomorrow I'll do the spare room, my wardrobe & the storage cupboard.

GreyQueen

Had a bit of a sort-out at the parental homestead (by special request, I wasn't angling for any work). As mentioned previously, it could be described as a target-rich environment.:rotfl:


Out - two worn out towels for ragging, some clothes and books for donation, some metal misc for the recycling centre (we did a dump run on NYE) and a cloth shoulderbag which was worn out and was dismantled for the zips and straps and the rest to ragging.


A worn-out sweater was pulled out for re-use and a separate stash of yarn wound off its cones for handknitting. Towels and spare drinking glasses were withdrawn from the surplus stored in the loft and brought into use.


Oh, and Mum further thinned the knitting pattern stash. Ones for handknit toys and ones of interest to the vintage crowd will be donated. So-so ones ripped out of magazines back in the day have been recycled. We also found that some very ordinary women's magazines from 2007 had ended up in a mag holder with the good craft magazines and they have now been recycled.


Plenty more could have been done, but it would be a full time job fr months, it isn't my Stuff, and I meddle on visits when invited to do so. Just got to get the donation bags off the premises, between working for a living, back at it today.


Have a good day, lovely peeps, and mind your backs if lifting.

camelot1001

Sorted all the christmas decs, a bagful for the charity shop. I bought new mugs for the kitchen so the old ones are also destined for the chazza.

Realised over the hols that I have far too many glasses but there are none I really want to get rid of so they will be staying.

Various other bits and bobs in the charity bag, will try to get them out of the door at the weekend.

Slinky

Having thought more about our moths issue, I don't want to inadvertantly be the cause of introducing a species of destructive moths into the country, so I've fished the plastic bag back out of the bin, put it in a plastic box and shoved it in the freezer until the binmen take the black bin next week. I'll double bag it then. Our black waste goes for incineration, so hopefully that'll be the end of them. There aren't currently any rodents occupying the freezer.