KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

ooooo that cellar sounds very spooky GQ. Bet you don`t go down there on your own in the dark

Somehow I have managed to start on my very difficult craft room, knitting, spinning, weaving, rope making, pin felting, spindle spinning, health study books, more books, carving gouges, printer, house file, maps, herbals. Arghh, must be the most difficult room in the house and everything is being compounded by the huge volume in empty `really useful` and other good boxes. Its a good way to see the volume of emptiness but the emptiness has structure ie each bit is enclosed in a box, which has volume.

edit: a brainwave, I can store RU boxes containing beautiful blended fibre under my bed :j

Ooh, thanks for the tour GQ!!

Large, I mean LARGE, bag of cardboard to recylcing (DH bought loads of special bulbs, of the plant type, for next Spring which had been packed in boxes, and I had 2 empty boxes to get rid of, and there were the usual leaflets etc).

I may be kondo-ing some brand new knickers back to M&S. I bought a size smaller:D but on opening the pack they seem the same as my old, larger, size
I really wish shops would use the British Standard measurements for clothing sizes so we could confidently select garments knowing they would be the stated size!

Hectic Monday went well but my arms are stiff now! Lots of cleaning, some shopping, and a bit of 'hand holding' for an anxious client who was worried about a simple letter and some simple instructions. I just read through the items, explained that the client was correct in her reading of them, and told her she would be fine dealing with the matter because she was already familiar with the procedure in question. I try to offer a calm outlook

Tomorrow I shall be visiting my friend for coffee in the morning then I have some tidying to do at home I hope there may be some Stuff that I can release

I'm not sure, I was alive before decimalisation but as a young child and not handling money, so have only vague memories of the old coins, although some of them were doing duty as notational 10p and 5p coins in the seventies, if memory serves?. Think there were 240 pennies to the pre-decimal pound, yes? So 3d was 3/ 240 not 3/100? Like millions of households in the UK, we had some of them rattling around in the corners at home, a small handful. I always rather liked those bronze ha'pennies with the sailing ship on them, and the farthings with the cute wren.

Anyway, they go as scrap metal and have done for a long time. Pal is too busy doing (mostly) things far more lucrative than dragging these to a scrappie across the region (the local one won't take them). Scrappies aren't really supposed to melt the coin on the realm and some apparently won't. Others will buy brass thruppenies and pre-decimal ha'pennies and pennies (which are bronze) and melt them down. Because these metals are relatively low value, you need to have them in quantity (and robust suspension on your wagon) to drive around with them. The person who bought them will double his money, minus fuel costs, time and aggravation. Both sides are happy.

Re plated stuff, pal doesn't like trying to sell it. He sells solid silver articles and has had several experiences when Joe Public buys plated articles, clearly labelled as plated (and priced accordingly) and then brings them back complaining they're not proper silver and wanting their money back. He doesn't like being messed around like this and finds it easier to just stick with the solid, hallmarked silver and give the plate to the charity shops.

Glad you enjoyed the virtual tour of The Cellar.

greenbee wrote: »

Sounds like you need to add the plated stuff to your next CS run then GQ! Although I'm a little worried about what he'll do with all this space once you've cleared it out for him...

Junk dealers are a force of nature and nature abhors a vacuum. If there was a space down there, and other junk dealers knew about it, they'd be trying to sub-let it.:rotfl: