KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

I kondo'd my cleaner after I put three new loo brushes out in the bathrooms/loo before she came, and only one was wet after she'd been. It doesn't take much to swish round a loo and bung in some bleach afterall.

I used her as she'd been cleaning for a couple of other people in my street for years so I thought she must be pretty good, but either she did a better job for them than
for me, or they have lower standards.

I should be kondoing a load of soft toys at the weekend. I've been waiting on my local animal charity having a fete where I know they appealed for toys last year. Better that some child loves them than they sit around gathering dust for even more years. Had a debate with myself about some Beanie Babies, as apparently some of them were limited edition, but I can't remember which ones. I'm sure there's nothing tremendously valuable and even if there is, I'll never get around to realising the money from them, so let somebody else find the joy.

Tea_Lady wrote: »

Lots of the cheap and tinny ones have gone to the tip. The small engraving from each are glued in a small photo frame so he can look at them.

That's a good idea

I've never been into anything that would give me a trophy though I have a lot of science fiction memorabilia :j I've been letting go of a lot of that too, though.

One trophy I do have - every Head Girl at my school was given a replica of the head girl's badge - I've still got mine and I *think* its solid silver, I can't quite read the imprint on the back, it looks like hallmarks - I'll get it tested one fine day.

I *did* kondo a solid silver ornament, which I loathed, but it was African silver, no hallmarking, so I sold it to an opportunist at a street market on the south coast. That process was quite interesting in itself!

Real Life : uuuurgh!!!! No kondoing

Trophies: as a child I won trophies for something I took part in and they were various sizes always displayed on top of the piano and as they were sliver always need cleaning Winning the trophies also meant there were medals and certificates involved - I still have the medals in a box but the certificates long since gone. As we live where local and and national comps - individual and group - are part of growing up - Eisteddfod so DDs have grown up winning medals etc for sports art music etc and we have MANY - TOO MANY !! I have persuaded the DDs to part with all the plastic tut trophies and just keep those that mean something and we have lots of photos to back up all the 'wins':)

Cleaner: I had a cleaner once. Just gone back to work after maternity leave and a friend who appeared to be 'struggling' offered to clean twice a week. She did a wonderful job and it suited us - I had no idea how she could get everything so clean neat and tidy!! After about 3 months I came home to a note saying she was off to Greece for 3 weeks and wouldnt be cleaning again - it transpired that she wasnt so hard up after all and I had paid for her holiday :mad: never spoke to her again and never had a cleaner again

Have just done a chazzer run with a trolley of Stuff, some of which came from the parental home last Weds. Such a good feeling to off-load that which has become unnecessary and to know that it'll get back into circulation and raise money for a good cause.

Am continuing to kondo me and, if I lose another pound or so, I will go from being obese to merely fat - bring it!:rotfl:

Have been Out the past two evenings, and am weary, plus the flat is in a bit of a state, so will stay in tonight and rest. I may tidy. Or I may watch one of my freebie DVD movies, got a stash of the kind you get off newspapers which I brought up from my parents' place.

Some chazzers here get around not being able to sell them (officially) by putting them out in a basket for a suggested donation, which is very affordable. Spoke to Mum and she'd told me that it was such rubbish on TV they'd watched one of the video mountain and now that can be donated - they have a hybrid player which can take VCR and DVD and there are some charity shops in their town which still take videos, not all do these days.

Loving reading about all your hard-work and breakthroughs, and boggling at the cleaner anecdotes.:D

Triker wrote: »

As the clutter clears, head space is revealed.

:T This is the essence of it. Well put.

As I was spending some sunny early May days rootling around in the BCofD, I reflected at the time that there are many better ways of spending glorious days.

Not intending a pity party as this is how I elected to spend that time, no one forced me or guilted me into it. It even has a self-serving component; one day, all this will be my inheritance, so whatever can be sorted now is less work further down the line.

But how much time over a lifetime is spent doing tip-runs when you could have been picnicking, checking out storage solutions instead of chucking out items (responsibly, of course)?

This evening, I've spent some time doing something very fiddly with small Stuff from the BCofD to turn it into readily saleable items for the chazzer. Nearly 100 of the little blighters which should be an easy money-maker for the charity and get some useful items out into the world.

I have to keep reminding myself whenever I am tempted to hang on to useful things in excess quantities to probable usage, that useful isn't the same as used and that good things can die in storage and be rendered useless. That hanging onto excess out of greed and/ or insecurity isn't a responsible way to live.

And now I've done it, I shall award myself a cuppa and two squares of lovely high-cocoa dark chocolate. Because, to paraphrase the shampoo floggers, I'm worth it.:rotfl: