KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Finally got back into the bathroom cupboard which I have been threatening to tackle for a couple of weeks........Some fitted sheets and single duvet sets to CS .Going to try and sell some Laura Ashley curtains on FB. Couple of mattress covers on fr**gle for pet bedding. Also tackled the meds tool box - we have a plastic fold out tool box that we keep mainly OTC meds in cold remedy etc. Looks like we have had a mouse in it feasting on painkillers:eek: All old meds going to pharmacy for safe disposal. Cleaned out box and now lid closes properly

DD2 is currently 'having a good sort out' in her room. OH has head in sand:o Our Justin has lots of computer bits and pieces and sports equipment which are possibly classed as vintage and Andy often brings home things because it was a bargain...........is it a coincidence that both these characters are male?

MMF007 wrote: »

Well, you know how sometimes you wake up with a notion that seems to have percolated through your brain while it was doing its own thing overnight? This morning my brain relayed the overnight LBM (thank goodness the light didn't wake me :rotfl:!) and it related to my scarf stash.

Thanks to Mavvy I now have a decision about scarves! It will be a two-pronged attack.
1) store the bulky scarves used for winter warmth kondo-folded (I realised this works really well in the smallish drawers I have because rolling seems to bulk them up).
2) release the 'decorative' scarves so they can find a new home and look lovely on someone else. That someone will be better able to wear them elgantly and will probably, if you'll excuse me saying it, have a smaller bust than I do! I am just not built to carry off decorative neck adornments of this sort :rotfl:

So thanks Mavvy, you've helped me out with this Konundrum (did you see what I did there?). :beer::beer:

Glad to be able to help out But you have also helped me I am also big busted so maybe thats why I hate them. I have a friend who is also in the same gang as you and I who always wears them and I always think to myself they do nothing for her at all:o Almost making her look far older than she is and also bigger and frumpy which is worse in my eyes.
As she is the one moving near me I will tell her NOT to bring any with her and do herself a favour and kondo the bl**dy lot of the horrible things

Mav x

mavvymoo wrote: »

Glad to be able to help out But you have also helped me I am also big busted so maybe thats why I hate them. I have a friend who is also in the same gang as you and I who always wears them and I always think to myself they do nothing for her at all:o Almost making her look far older than she is and also bigger and frumpy which is worse in my eyes.
As she is the one moving near me I will tell her NOT to bring any with her and do herself a favour and kondo the bl**dy lot of the horrible things

Mav x

I am not in that gang.

I rock a scarf..... ::rotfl:

Fen1 wrote: »

I'm trying to find the joke about Quetzalcoatl on the original (?) Kondo thread. I think it was one of GQ's.

I should have made a link to it as the mass of coats problem resonates with a fair few people I know.

Wasn't me but I vaguely recall seeing it and thinking it was a clever pun.

I can rock a scarf, being very tall, a bit flat-chested and long-necked. OK, I admit it, I'm actually a giraffe. But I hate things hanging off me, and don't own a single scarf, not even a winter one.

Darlings, I am sitting down for the first point today whilst waiting for a floor to dry. Kondo-mania here. In terms of volume, not a humungous amount of Stuff hiffed out, but it was very complicated.

Firstly, Mum and I went into the Workshop Shed, the big 10 x 12 foot one which I started decluttering earlier in the year. We got out the trestle legs and worktop and retrieved the circular saw from the Bedroom Cupboard of Doom (as was). Mum cut off the damaged ends off one of my chopping boards and then cut off one-third of the width of a shelf which was displaced last summer when the central heating was done.

This was a shelf in the broom cupboard, which is an awkward space opening in from the kitchen but with a sloping ceiling and three-quarter height door due to it being under the stairs. Contains gas and electrity meters, the Henry vacuum, bags of rags and Misc. And had lost its shelving when the gas piping had to be re-done when they switched from a back boiler (this cupboard backs onto the living room fireplace) and over to a combi boiler which is in the airing cupboard upstairs.

Anyway, short version is that the broom cupboard had not been properly re-created after the upheaval of summer 2015 and was wasting a lot of space.

I covered the old knackered 3rd hand plank which was the shelf with sticky-back plastic found the the same cupboard as the handles, balloons, TTT doll etc. Then Mum and I tore the Workshop apart looking for the masonry drill bits and for another shelf bracket and L shaped bracket (found eventually)

The shelf is now up. The Workshop has been substantially tidied and another half-wheelie full of marg tubs and coffee cans ejected. I swear they must breed in there. I also have two 25 kg paper spud sacks on the go, one for wood suitable for Uncle's woodburner, the other containing scrappy bits of metal and non-burnable wood such as ply and composite for the tip, when they go. The tip is on the opposite side of town so they like to make sure they have enough to make it worthwhile.

The Broom Cupboard has had the cleaning supplies lined up neatly on the shelf, including the jam-jar of old toothbrushes for cleaning important little places. I wore a couple of those out when scrubbing tile grout in the shower room in May (or possibly Easter, these Bank Holidays are a bit of a blur).:rotfl:

I can see Mum has been seduced by Mr M*scle, as there are various products in sexy trigger bottles, and the Fl@ash franchise is well-represented, too. There are a couple of Fairies and modest amounts of cream cleanser and other things.

I dragged these bottles out of the undersink cupboard, which is a hellish melange of cleanng products, laundry products and saucepans and cooling dishes. These items are not the best of bedfellows, frankly. I've left the laundry supplies under there as it's right by the washer and the Shelf is now full of cleaning stuff. But I can see tomorrow's gig must be to haul everything outta the undersink cupboard.

Something has leaked under there and dried fetchingly on the white melamine shelving and there are some mystery bottles and packets which need further investigation.

:j I will get this household organised, I will, I WILL.

Hi greenbee, sorry to hear about your poorly head; I get migraine too and had to take some paracetamol just after midday on Friday. Which reminds me, must restock my handbag as those were the last two in there.

Re the fence, one of my lottie neighbours made a rustic vaguely-picket style fence by levering the planks off pallets and nailing them to cross timbers. All repurposed, looked rather good, still up there two years later despite the site being prone to strong winds. Obviously, the bar is set lower for aesthetics on lotties than in gardens.;)

We've also ejected a mop from the broom cupboard - I must add it into the tip bag as it's got a metal handle. Plus, I have put some more nails and hools up inside the shed and got various things which were among the tangle of stuff on surfaces, chiefly saws, hung up on the walls. The Workshop has its walls insulated by wombled polystrene sheeting under wombled sheets of plywood, so you can do this in there.