KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Poor baby Quoy! has been sick for three weeks with a nasty cold. I think the children are passing around different strains at nursery school. She will start to get a bit better and then come home with a different set of symptoms.

Quoy! told her mom she needed to buy a phone. DD1 ask if she had money to buy it with. She said 'almost' as she has money in her piggyback. The concept of money and spending it on stuff has come at a young age.

At their supermarket they have little children shopping carts. DD1 says it's interesting to see what she will put in her basket. Yesterday was tilapia and a zucchini. Sequoia helped mommy cook them for dinner and said they tasted so good. She also helped make basil, mint lemonade. She says 'Quoy! a good cook'.

Greent I have picked out a light turquoise (rainwashed) for walls, shiplap white for cabinets, white sink and no clue as to counter in the laundry room. I may go tomorrow and pick that out. Turquoise is also popular here right now, but as it has always been very pleasing to me I would say I'm not following trends. And then there is my gorgeous tile that I really love. I'm really pleased so far with my choices and am looking forward to it all coming together. We've lived here 32 yrs and have never done anything to the laundry room. It is very shabby looking. And not the chic kind either! ;)
No clue as to the kitchen though....

As I was boxing up items to get out of the way for tiling, I have been getting rid of stuff. Some to thrift, some to my grown children and some to the landfill. Our little town has had its recycling center go out of business. It has been in operation since 1993 and was run by our CARC Farm. It has given many people jobs over the years. They had a very large piece of equipment break down for the final time and it was just too costly for them to replace it, thus the hard decision. The city is looking for alternatives.

GreyQueen wrote: »

Mila, what is a CARC Farm, please?

Looks like it's a New Mexico version of Remploy, Scope or Mencap with community facilities: http://www.carcinc.org/

Good Morning

Recently got THE book from the library and found it very interesting.

However one area where I really disagree with her is getting rid of user manuals. Trying to locate one for our TV online was a nightmare and I would never not keep them. Must admit my filing of them could be improved though!

Busylizzie wrote: »

Good Morning

Recently got THE book from the library and found it very interesting.

However one area where I really disagree with her is getting rid of user manuals. Trying to locate one for our TV online was a nightmare and I would never not keep them. Must admit my filing of them could be improved though!

Lizzie, I download a PDF of user manuals as soon as I buy a gadget and store it in a folder on my laptop. It's quicker for me than trying to find where the last person to use the paper copy thought would be a good idea to leave it. Increasingly, I find, detailed manuals are only available online, you just get a Quick Start guide in the box

I'm currently kondoing work that landed on my desk due to a colleague being laid off. I have managed to redistribute several of her tasks to other colleagues that she was helping out as she had a bit of spare time. I told them I do not have the spare time, and they have to cope by themselves again.