KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Igamogam

Today has been sorting through some accumulated paperwork whilst watching Winter Olympics Good excuse to stay in and keep warm - snowing here:) and get rid of loads of paper on log burner! Found some very old photos from a school trip to French Alps.....no idea who were in the pics so they went up in smoke too:j Have got a bag full of unused notebooks,pens and other bits of office stuff which we have multiples of, that I will take to CS next time I visit The Town.

silvasava

Nasty day here too so I spent most of it in the kitchen doing some batch baking. Did take a break to sort out some gloves for DH and ended up kondoing some gloves, hats and scarves. I'm accumulating a bag for a charity event on Easter Monday - anything unsold then will go to various local CS so a win win.

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Waking up early was not in my plan for today, quite excited about the next stage in the garage but the aches woke me so I can see an afternoon nap today. I woke up with the consolidation plan in my head and being aware from another poster about potential `disappearances` via removals. Every box will just be numbered and the contents listed in a notebook, not on the box as some of the stuff is expensive. The boxes are `really useful` boxes, bought lots from bigdug many years ago and almost all are 18litre boxes, a perfect size to hold lots, yet manageable to carry. I might in the days before moving, roll clingfilm around for safeguarding eg a simple diamond sharpening stone could be well over £50 and easy to take from a labelled box. I might even get to line a few boxes with newspaper or brown paper, to hide contents.

Consolidation, finishing emptying high shelves, unscrewing various hooks and recording is todays plan, I think there will be some stuff to kondo. I like the fact that the chrome shelving is now lower, the ideal would be a double garage, so that I can permanently store lower, it has a bigger footprint but is much easier to manage. Doing the kondo on the garage is helping me decide what I need in my future workspace

Siebrie

Dds have halfterm, and dh and I are taking turns working from home. It is not ideal, but needs must. The local childcare filled up very quickly and my parents were needed at home, where Mums sister and brotherinlaw are moving from a 4 floor, 6 bed house to a 1 bed apartment. Luckily, there is no rush to sell the house, and they started sorting 6 months ago already.
Today is my parental leave day and I am taking dds swimming and to the library. We are having a pasta sauce from the freezer for dinner, dh will have some African sauce a friend made him, also from the freezer. Project Empty The Freezer is coming along nicely!

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I have finished for the day, started very early with 3 layers on, hat and gloves. All boxes dealt with, most wall hangers and fixtures are off the wall, things moved around and so far am very pleased. Anything I might need is handy but I have done the background clearing. I will keep making progress as I still want to move tool things into garage from shed, like pyrography (wood burning) coping saws, drills etc and to do that, I must be straighter first. I will eventually reach a stage when I can get removals in to just empty the garage as is and put into the new garage

I found several carving items that I had `misplaced` and got rid of pre-carving drawings and part carved works belonging to hubby. I could not have done that last year. The car with back seats down is full and I will have to ask the men to help me offload as most of the wood is heavy. Garage is not kondoed down to the bare bone yet, stuff like the special lime render, in case any cracks appear but this is very real progress and I am looking forward to lunch and then a nap

Karmacat

I've been doing more of the scanning - documents I want to keep, but don't want cluttering up the place, plus my mum's artwork from her teenage evacuee years, which will be split between the three of us.

Fen1

Am I being paranoid or am I being paranoid? ( Well, I know the little voices are talking to me, but that's a different matter.)

I read a wide range of national and local newspapers online, and the DM has picked up on quite a few points we've raised on here. Marie herself ( not exactly a secret!), but also issues such as Swedish Death Cleaning. It might just be that we are ahead of the trend, or en vogue, or whatever. Or, it might be that weird mental quirk where you notice things that are newly important, such as noticing how many other cars are the same as your newly acquired vehicle.

GreyQueen

It must be something in the air, Fen1!

I've been doing some electronic kondo-ing, basically deleted hundreds of irrelevant emails and sorted a few of the keepers, mostly related to utility accounts, into folders. I've unsubscribed from a mailing list and done a few little bits and bobs online.

I'm giving serious consideration to kondo-ing my computer which is a 16.5 y.o desktop and whose capacitors will blow one of these days and destroy the motherboard. The question is, do I wait until the crisis, then replace, or do I replace first and 'move into' a new PC in an orderly manner? I am trending towards the latter.

Meantime, I'm going thru my bookmarks list (mahoosive) and checking them out. Some of them do not link to valid sites any more, so are easy to lose. Others may be wanted on the journey. I intend to end up with a much reduced list.

I have My Documents backed up on a removable drive, and my operating system backed up onto a spare hard drive, still running on XP but will need to have a more modern one eventually.

I flipping hate buying electonics, I really do.:o

maryb

Grey Queen I'm sure your computer whizz friend will advise you but just for info, my laptop looked as if it was destined to be thrown out of the window a year or two ago, it was so slow, always freezing and reinstalling Windows didn't help.

As a last resort I added extra RAM and swapped out the hard drive for a solid state drive. It wasn't very expensive because I did it myself, buying the bits from Mr Memory online. WOW!! it made such a difference and it's still super fast a year later.

But with some newer laptops, they have made them so you can't physically upgrade them. Which means, of course, planned obsolescence. Something to bear in mind when you choose your next pooter

GreyQueen

Thanks, maryb, I won't be buying a laptop, will be getting another desktop. I detest usinglaptops and they seem far too flimsy; I have no need for mobile computing plus my neighbourhood is very rough and a laptop would be sure to go walkabout if I'm burgled.

Whereas no one sane would even try to tackle this putty-coloured behemoth - the monitor weighs 21 kg.

Kid Bruv was at his friendly neighbourhood IT person's home today and is having a new desktop PC built and will be re-using the orginal monitor. Quote is £400 which includes Win 10 and a set-up fee to get the data off the old and onto the new - is his online biz pooter. Thought that a good price.

One school I know of is having PCs rebuilt inside old casings, so they don't look like new ones in event of a break-in. What a world we live in!:rotfl: