KonMari 2020 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying

Rowan9

Posted on prepping thread as well but want to say I’m glad you’re ok GreyQueen. Please keep posting. You have such a lot of Kon Marie and prepping knowledge + a good dollop of fun and common sense!

PollyWollyDoodle

Good to hear from you GreyQueen. And yes, I concur with your comment about long haired cats. You would think the darn thing would be bald from the amount of fur I clean up on a daily basis, but no ... 

Slinky

We had a short haired cat that was a fur factory. We had to groom astonishing amounts of fur from him or he would get bunged up with fur balls. I wouldn't have thought it possible to get so much fur off a short haired cat if it wasn't for seeing it myself.

GreyQueen

PollyWollyDoodle said:

Good to hear from you GreyQueen. And yes, I concur with your comment about long haired cats. You would think the darn thing would be bald from the amount of fur I clean up on a daily basis, but no ... 

  Wild Thing seems to be a heinz- Maine Coon. She looks exactly like one but is far too small, not quite 4 kg. Her littermate (RIP) seemed to be a heinz-Burmese. Cats have interesting amorous lives, do they not? WT sheds and sheds and sheds, I really cannot comprehend how she has any fur left, it's all over the place. She sometimes gets dreadlocks on her tummy fur which have to be discreetly removed with the scissors.

camelot1001

Great to 'see' you Greyqueen, glad you're safe and well.

I was given a bagful of rhubarb by a neighbour, they don't like it. I don't like it either but it makes good jam! I also got another bagful from the allotment today so 20 jars of jam have been made, some rhubarb and giner and some rhubarb and orange. Thank goodness I could buy sugar!

The allotment is already to go, onions in but I'm waiting for seeds to sprout and grow before I can do anything else. I usually buy tomato plants but there aren't any to be found and the seeds I've sewn haven't germinated yet. Could be a sparse growing year.

GreyQueen

Nice to 'see' you, too, Camelot!

Re tomatoes, I don't normally bother with them on the allotments, but have decided to make a sheltered bed behind the gable end of the shed, which is a sun-trap. Several nearby plotholders have done the same with their sheds and the tommies work quite well with a sort-of shelter. Only, I didn't think of this soon enough to buy seeds.

What I've done is save tommie seeds from shop-bought tomatoes. It's easy enough to rinse the jelly off them in a sieve and then put them to dry on a piece of kitchen roll on a plate. I've done this before, with cherry toms from Morrison's, and they were very successful and I don't see why this lot shouldn't work but I only planted them two days ago, so it's a bit early to tell. Might be worth a try?

I'm also scrabbling around in the nooks and crannies of the shed to see what pkts of seed are still wholly or partially loaded. I guess most of us have some unused seeds, possibly in or out of date? A lottie pal was mentioning she couldn't get beetroot, I has a spare pkt, so elastic-banded them to a stick and threw them into her allotment, which is two down from mine (we are all being careful to observe social distancing up there).

If you contact everyone you know, you might be able to set up an informal seed swop? Socially-distanced, of course!

I was slightly embarrassed a couple of months ago, when I realised I had far more potting compost than I realised, but am pleased about it now. Because of not having a car, I tend to ask the rellies to bring sacks of it to me, and had obvs overdone it somewhat in 2018 and 2019, lol.

Tell ya, by the end of this season, I shall have a far better grip on stock levels in the lottie shed. I also have Premature Spiders. Was having a rummage in there at the weekend and disturbed two humungous spiders, the caliber normally seen in the autumn. We gave each other the horrors and they ran away.

VJsmum

Hello all
My own kondoing has stalled a little as my deadline for thesis submission approaches (2 weeks today, thanks for asking
Kondoing by the children is happening re their clothes, but i'm blowed if i know what to do with them?  THey are currently piled up in the spare room.  I guess it's a case of shoving it in the loft for now.

I have knodoed some old seeds into potting compost - some are doing ok others not so much, but at least i know and it gets rid one way or another.

Give me a couple of weeks and i'll be going through this house like a dose of salts - i think OH and the kids are rather dreading me finishing!

Siebrie

DD2 managed to drop two glasses within one hour. It's a good thing I never pay a penny for glasses, all are inherited, given to me, or scrounged from my former employer (legally! They were leftovers from a trial, offered to all employees. I took them after they had been at Reception for a week and no-one else wanted them. Some are Villeroy&Boch glasses at €14 rrp each).
Two more books to the donation stack. In my old house, when I was still a bachelor, I had some old books with linen covers and lovely imprints on display. I don't think that that will ever happen in the house I share with my husband, and I tried reading them to see if that would spark joy, but I couldn't get past the first few pages, so they will be donated.
Last night, I showed husband where I would like him to do some digging for the vegetables I plan to grow. He wasn't too happy, but is willing to do it.

short_bird

GQ, re the tomatoes. There was a very successful tomato plant in one of the plant beds on the way to New Street Station; I think someone had dropped part of their lunchtime repast. Given it's a sunny spot, the plant grew really well. 

GreyQueen

short_bird said:

GQ, re the tomatoes. There was a very successful tomato plant in one of the plant beds on the way to New Street Station; I think someone had dropped part of their lunchtime repast. Given it's a sunny spot, the plant grew really well. 

A few years ago, a plotholder had to discreetly have a word with another plotholder about a self-sown plant which was growing happily on his plot, which was right beside the road. The man whose plot it was used to take a relative's aviary sweepings to add to his compost bin. On the way up the plot, some had fallen and he was growing a big, handsome hemp plant!

I planted FrankenSquash a few days ago and today (cue fanfare) is the first sign of life as the curled-over stem is starting to break the compost in two of the pots. Just goes to show that the top of a high level grille is a good place to incubate seeds.