KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen · 13 August 2018 at 7:34PM

Kondo-ing has slowed here due to all the low-hanging fruit being discarded already. I am now very firmly in the use-it-up-and-rag-it mode.

One cleaning rag, itself half an old tea towel, turned out to have developed some interesting holes when hiding under the sink as the cotton is literally giving way. That was laundered and is in the rag-bag. I have also almost put my finger through the kitchen towel, so we will see how well that stands up to laundering but I suspect it is closer to holiness than righteousness.

This towel isn't actually a towel, it's home-made from a piece of towelling. It has a very 1970s floral pattern on it because that is when the piece of towelling was bought.

Mum made it into what can only be described as a changing robe, essentially a tube with an elasticated neck hole for us to pull on when changing into and out of swimming cozzies at the beach. And I mean jolly old baltic english beaches, not the costa del ravers.

It spent a few years in that role and then loitered in drawers until Mum decided she wanted a cloth roller-towel for the pine kitchen towel roll holder (this was the 1980s, it was gingerish pine, forgive us our sins). This didn't work out really well and the towelling (now a loop) went back into a drawer where it lurked until yours truly got a hold of it early in the new millennium and turned it into three hand-towel size towels.

I think the one I have is the last survivor of the three and when it eventually hits the rag-bag, it'll be the end on an era, really.:p

Floss · 13 August 2018 at 8:33PM

GreyQueen wrote: »

...Mum made it into what can only be described as a changing robe, essentially a tube with an elasticated neck hole for us to pull on when changing into and out of swimming cozzies at the beach. And I mean jolly old baltic english beaches, not the costa del ravers...

We had one of those - ours was a deep pink colour, dyed in the twintub along with the wooden tongs

MMF007 · 13 August 2018 at 9:20PM

The weekend's gathering for the CS was dropped off today. I took a client to the opticians and while she was in there I popped along the street to AgeUK and handed in the bag.

I was inspired to seperate the 'too small' clothes into like garments, bagged and labelled with the sizes (the actual sizes not what was on the label !). They can easily be identified when the time comes to select them. They are now neatly folded in a suitcase.

greent · 15 August 2018 at 8:41AM

I used to do nearly new sales (NNS) 3x/ year to get rid of lots of the kids stuff. Haven't done one since 07/17, so have missed 3 in effect. Now that the kids are getting older we have less suitable stuff, so it's not been that much of an impact. At the start of the hols I got all the boxed stuff down from the garage loft and went through it. Some went to CS, I sold quite a lot on fbook and a small amount of clothing went to recycling. I was going to be ruthless with the remainder and do the same with that, just so it's gone. However, having gone through it again yesterday and properly sorted it out, there's the opportunity in there for my kids to recoup a decent amount of money (they get the funds from and toys/ books, I get funds from clothes (and equipment when they were small enough to need it) I've checked and the next sale is only 5 weeks away, so I shall do that one with all of this (pricing it so that as much as possible hopefully sells!) and then revisit what's left. It's a slow exit route for the stuff but there is a definite plan in place. It's a different NNS to the ones I used to do, so will see how it works out. I may do one every 12-18 months whilst we still have stuff (will take that long to accumulate a reasonable amount of suitable stuff, I think) I know/ understand the sunk cost fallacy, but would like my kids to benefit from the opportunity to sell some of this stuff where I can

In the meantime, my stuff is generally exiting via CS/ passing on/ being recycled. I think I can finally see a difference in some areas in the house now! (I'd perhaps be able to see more if it weren't the school hols, so stuff is everywhere!)

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PollyWollyDoodle · 15 August 2018 at 8:47AM

I have had to Kondo my microwave, as it gave up the ghost last week. It was only four years old, which is a bit disappointing. The new one I bought is almost identical. I am now having a bit of a Justin dilemma! The old microwave is going to the tip for recycling of course. The old glass turntable is identical to the new one, should I keep it, just in case I break one?

I am feeling weak, I think I know the answer but I may need some help here!: :rotfl:

Floss · 15 August 2018 at 9:14AM

Polly have you ever broken the turntable before? I've only ever broken 1 in almost 30 years of m/w ownership...

Slinky · 15 August 2018 at 9:31AM

Never broken a microwave turntable, but I know I'd be having the same dilemma if the old one fitted the new.

I think I've got a spare slow cooker pot in the loft. Or it might be the cooking body part I've got, it's one or the other, I can't remember which! See how easy it is to forget what you've got when it's stashed away for Justin! And I only came across that when I was looking for something else, I'd forgotten about it. I suppose a Justin logbook may have some use, if you ever remembered to write/audit it.

greent · 15 August 2018 at 10:12AM

You can often find microwave turntables on flebay, so if you did get rid of the old one, you could perhaps - if ever necessary - get a replacement on t'bay? (Or sell your old one on there in the meantime?)
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VJsmum · 15 August 2018 at 11:11AM

mmmm however...

I find microwave glass plates quite useful for putting food on - i.e setting out cheese and biscuits or cakes on a buffet. I have 3 spare ones

and they don't take much room up as they are stacked one on top of another with something else stored on top.

Am i banished from the thread now...:p:rotfl:

PollyWollyDoodle · 15 August 2018 at 2:40PM

Go and stand in the corner!

Thank you for the voice of reason. No, I have never broken a microwave glass turntable in 30 or more years. I've just had a quick look online, and a new one would be under £30 - I think balancing the likelihood of breaking it against the trouble of storing it, it's not worth it. I don't tend to do large buffets, so it's not worth keeping for that! I have a guilty feeling that the glass turntable for the microwave before this is still lurking in the garage somewhere... out it goes. Thank you for your support, Kondo friends, i'm feeling much better now.

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