KonMari 2020 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying

Siebrie

To a friend: baby crib fitted sheets, moltons and waterproof underlays; pram fitted sheets. If she doesn't like or use them, she has been instructed to pass them on.

Rag: dd2 pants, husband longsleeve.

Green bin: 1 whole large orange pumpkin I just never got round to processing it!

I have had a standstill for the last two weeks, feeling very down. Turns out it was just my body before my period, pfffft, I felt awful. Back to my perky self now . I have already washed, tumbled/hung and folded 2 loads of laudnry.

silvasava

Sat at my desk and minimised some of the paper mountain. Lots binned and some bits filed. A cotton kimono of DH that had gone rotten round the back of the neck in the ragbag. I decided it wasnt worth the time and effort repairing it.

Slinky

Managed to get OH to change 2 direct debits from an old credit card to another one which means we can close the account and stop being charged £3 per month.


Neighbour stopped me on the way out this morning, they caught a rat in their aviary last night. They had one a few weeks back, had been killing their canaries. They can't see where they've been getting in, but she was encouraging me to continue with our trapping efforts too.


Gave away 3 unwanted items to a bring and buy sale on Monday, bought a box of chocolates which we have kondoed over the last couple of nights....

VJsmum

Oh dear - none for yesterday...

But today's is the remains of a pack of unicorn breakfast loops, not bought by me and that have been open and uneaten since the summer. Won't be replaced so i'm counting it.

GreyQueen

Smallish bag containing five items off to the chazzer after work, the bag being the sixth item of the donation.

Hazelnutty

Hi all (and hello Karma!)

I've been mainly moving things on through a F@cebook Giveaway Group, including multiple sets of bike pedals I had stored for some reason, a handheld hoover (snapped up a Lidl dyson ripoff so it's one in, one out ) and some loombands. Shifted a few other bits on the work email list. It's hard to predict what sells where so sometimes I've had to move things around before they go.

I have to 'fess up to some online retail therapy this weekend. It's been a really stressful few months with OH in and out of hospital, a house move that's been going so slow with unhelpful estate agents, a school move to organise... So have done a deal with myself to shift as many items as I've bought - all have to be mine, all decent size (no paperclips or old envelopes )

Small collection for the chazzer after a clear-out of my kit drawers and a few other bits. Will be leaving the house next week.

Karmacat

Hazelnutty wrote: »

Hi all (and hello Karma!)

:wave::j Hiya!

I have to 'fess up to some online retail therapy this weekend. It's been a really stressful few months with OH in and out of hospital, a house move that's been going so slow with unhelpful estate agents, a school move to organise... So have done a deal with myself to shift as many items as I've bought - all have to be mine, all decent size (no paperclips or old envelopes )

Small collection for the chazzer after a clear-out of my kit drawers and a few other bits. Will be leaving the house next week.

That sounds like a reasonable adaptation of retail therapy, for the sake of sanity, Hazelnutty, with everything that you've got going on. Hope the move goes well, and that OH is properly on the mend.

Slinky

Espalier apple trees have been sourced and planted, they are sparking joy. We wanted a cooking apple as well as eating, but they didn't have any so we bought a cooker as a normal tree, but with a bit of pruning and work we should be able to train it to how we want it. We need to get some posts so that we can fix the guide wires to something, then we can start that work.


We also took delivery of a garden sculpture we ordered as a joint Christmas present to ourselves. We've put this in a temporary spot to stop it blocking the garage, it will probably be moved when we sort a final garden layout. We want to build an extension so a lot of what we already have will need changing.


OH is checking our water meter as we received an unexpectedly large bill. It could be due to not receiving discount for surface water anymore, but it's worth double checking we don't have a leak. I've just put a second bottle into our downstairs loo cistern. This is still flushing OK despite us now saving 4-5 pints each time with the full bottles. It's an old cistern, we were already saving about 3 pints on the original capacity.
We had a water softener installed a few months ago so we waste some when that's doing a regeneration.


ETA water meter appears to be working fine.

GreyQueen

Another donation bag left the homestead yesterday, and I can peek into a particular cupboard and see where things used to be, and now longer are, and that is pleasing to me.


Been on my allotment for a little while, planted some stuff and fetched a small amount of stuff home for the recycling, only have a pushbike for transport, but slow and steady wins the day.

Hillbilly1

Such a lovely thread to read.

I’m de-cluttering mid-divorce and hopefully pre-house move!

Lots to CS, eBaying and FB marketplace.

Getting into the shopping mindset that if it isn’t 100% what I want/need then I don’t buy it which is very liberating!

Keep up the good work everyone