KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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good luck with hip results GQ.

About time cbd was sold in pharmacies ie cheap enough and good enough. I have a very small bottle, take it less than once a month as it costs such a lot but it chases the hip pains away. Devil and deep blue sea, star jumps or pounding steps for bone density or don`t do anything and get crumbly bomes

It was nice just being able to take clothes and a warm body warmer out of the wardrobe yesterday, this is my way forward and I am dividing sections with a multiple skirt/trouser hanger. It is working for me

Yes me too with `friends`, some people only get in touch with notebook in hand, I am ye olde woman in the woods to them. I can rely on my sisters, brothers and two good friends who are also my neighbours. I remember splitting from a horse riding partner, 18 years ago, she was so energy-draining. Then she hit the roof when I split, really lost it, I could then see her mental problems and was glad to be out. She also left a trail of empty gin bottles when she went for walks. I was utterly fed up of being her one-sided prop

Wednesday2000

I've just been watching a 20 minute documentary on YouTube and thought people on here might be interested. It's called A Cluttered Life: Middle-Class Abundance. I couldn't believe the amount of toys the kids had in the houses!

I decided I am going to eat down some of my store cupboard as we don't eat things like soup in the summer. It will free up some more space for dried pasta as I like to make cold pasta salads in warmer weather.

It was so nice to get those 2 bin bags of clothes out of the house. I have rearranged the clothes left in my wardrobe and it looks very spacious now.:)

Igamogam

kittie wrote: »

Podiatrist said fitflops are bad for my feet as are crocs, which he called devils footwear.

Oh no I love my Crocs and shame to say, not in a very KM fashion I have multiple pairs but each bring me joy so I guess that is allowed:D I wear mine from 1st April to 30th September everyday without fail - this is the time I go without socks whatever the weather:eek: And when I can get away with it I wear them for work too:) I guess as I dont have problems with my feet then maybe thats why I find them very easy and comfortable to wear. Wonder why so many health professionals wear them??Especially surgeons and theatre staff :huh:

Slow on the declutter front this last week - back to work after 2 weeks off so not much time or inclination. OH however has put a pile of his books to one side for redistribution - I am going to take to CS next time I am passing.

greent

4 of my listings on fleabay sold yesterdayand all have been paid for. All are for breakables, so as well as the 4 listings (way more than 4 items, as includes a set of 8 cups and saucers for 1 listing, for example) I am also getting rid of 3 large boxes to pack them in (2 things sold to 1 buyer) and HEAPS of packaging - lots of bubble wrap/ air pillows/ polystyrene stuff/ paper - all recycled from things we've had (mainly recent kitchen purchases/ the new shower enclosure) - great to get rid of the packaging as much as the items - I've been saving it (and the large boxes) forselling the breakables, but it takes up quite a lot of room (esp the polystyrene(?) large lumps of stuff)

wort

I love my fitflops , the podiatrist/physiotherapist told me they were excellent for my feet, as they mean my toes don't bend it's a roll motion, I have 2 neuromas on my left foot and a deformed sesamoid bone in my right foot. I live in them in summer in winter I have to wear specially made insoles in my shoes. Otherwise my feet are agony.

GreyQueen

Morning all, been a bit MIA due to being either at work or at the allotment. Or asleep, which kinda inhibits my posting style.

Yesterday, I popped into the juntique shop and found my dear pal in a paperwork muddle, which I proceeded to sort out a bit, finding a medal in the middle of it, which I just laid to one side (finding extremely random items among paperwork on his desk being the norm not the exception, you see).

A few minutes later, he pounced on it with a cry of joy.

Pal; Where did you find that?!
GQ; In the paperwork.
Pal. ???
GQ *points to the in-tray* it was between the bills.
Pal: I've been looking for that for days.
GQ: (Pal has gone silent and is looking thoughtful). What?
Pal; Someone wanted to buy it but I couldn't find it and now I can't remember which person wanted it...........

:rotfl:This kind of interaction is very usual with my pal, and my ability to find things is the reason he keeps trying to poach me from my current employer.

Plot2 Diaries.

Was up there yestereve, having not been on site since Sunday. Got the mattock out and advanced on the horrible couch grass tussocks with a grim face. Feeling a bit tired (mattocking is heavy work) so decided to do only a few minutes' worth and to concentrate on taking out the biggest tussocks. By getting the biggest ones out, the ones which stand about 18-24 inches tall, I get the feeling of progress, and morale is an important part of plot-clearance.

Sooo, I swung the mattock into the base of the biggest tussock, expecting to take several swipes to sever its roots before it would move, and it started to shift after one stroke. The second stroke revealed the reason why; the horrible slither of steel on plastic.

Short version is, I have a row of tussocks of couch grass which are growing on a row of black bin sacks (semi-disintegrated now) where the previous tenant had bagged couch grass tussocks and piled them on the boundary. I expect their ears were burning last night as I was cursing them sideways-to-Sunday.

After that, and pulling the plastic away, I got the hump and took my mattock up to the berm at the top of the plot, and continued the work there, until I hit metal, which was still at least a foot underground. Much excavation revealed a bit of sheet metal, white on one side, which appears to be the flank of a washing machine.

Why-oh-why this was ever on an allotment, and why it ended up two feet underground (I have reduced the berm's orginal height considerably to get to the level I was working at last night) is something we shall never know.

I shall be back there later today. There may be updates. If you're good.

Slinky

I'm astonished at the incompetence of some people who would bother to have an allotment. If you know bog-all about gardening and have no skill, why would you pay to do it?

silvasava

GQ - you must get your strength from the spinach you grow
Only a small couple of out's today - a part bag of terracotta marbles for DS1 plant pots and a bright blue Ikeeya doormat for his front step.
Hope everyone has a good day and gets to enjoy some sunshine

GreyQueen

Slinky wrote: »

I'm astonished at the incompetence of some people who would bother to have an allotment. If you know bog-all about gardening and have no skill, why would you pay to do it?

You and me both. It's not like you acquire an allotment by accident, is it? I perfectly understand that some people buy houses which have gardens and they'd be perfectly happy to astroturf/ pave the lot. I think of them as being ungrateful bu88ers, but I understand the POV.

But taking on an allotment and not working it/ littering it with non-bio trash? Nope, not getting that. I have ranted many a time on this site about my desire to force-feed the green waffle rubber carpet underlay that some numptie carpetted my first plot with, to them. It'd be a cleaner death than they deserve, frankly.

Was describing last night's events to an allotmentering pal who was saucer-eyed and said he hoped there wasn't the rest of the washer down there! Ye gods, I hope so too, particularly because you can do interesting things with the drums and I don't want to be tempted to keep one if I find one.:rotfl:

:j Visited the juntique shop; the person who'd asked for the lost-but-found medal came in and bought it today. £180! Thank goodness I found it.

I have decluttered £2 at the bookies' on SeeYouAtMidnight for the National. Hope he completes the race uninjured. Anyone else having a flutter?

Karmacat

Good lord, GQ, how amazing! Between the bags of couch grass, the wm, and the medal ... you're reversing entropy all on your own :j:j:j it's very impressive!

Trying to think what I've done myself, to merit posting on the KM thread Well, I *have* tidied up my medical supplies to a splendiferous point :rotfl: I've had a lot of stuff come in from my mum - lovely crepe bandages, tubular bandages, the odd set of tablets of codeine plus three million disposable gloves. Things are now in only 3 containers, and not spread out over the whole house ... every time something gets tidy and stays tidy, it means I can find it in the future, yes? Please say yes