KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Sounds great silvasava. I went out on my friends!!!8217; boat on Saturday, was delighted to see that the sheet bags that I sweated over last year are still in place, and the outboard motor cover. We had a brilliant day - just a gentle sail up the river and back but it was perfect weather and stress free.

Kitties I!!!8217;m slightly envious - silk sheets sound so luxurious - but I think I!!!8217;d be worried about damaging them, the cat likes to jump on the bed to wake me up and I have a feeling they wouldn!!!8217;t wear well!

Does anyone else here suffer with an imp on their shoulder who, when you have replaced an everyday item with something you like better, whispers that you better keep the old one because?

Last week I found a very nice stainless steel mirror finish teapot for £2.99 in a chazzer. It is nicer than the one I have been using; a fraction bigger (this was an issue), spout shape is a better pourer, plus it is more attractive and would have been a more expensive one new (better quality, nicer design).

Soooo, I bring it into service, clean the other one up and what happens? I put it in a high kitchen cupboard and keep it because?

Because I might need to make tea for 6+ people at once (three's a crowd in the microflat) and will need two teapots? Because I might simultaneously want one pot of black tea and one of green tea? Because I might break a strong stainless steel teapot and then I'll be REALLY sorry I gave the old one away? Because stainless steel teapots are rare and costly items and I'll never see another, will I?!

Craziness. I shall check if it is required at the parental homestead and, if not, off to the chazzer it goes.

OK, teapot going to the 'rents later this month, along with the net curtains which I'm altering to fit her windows. These were bought a number of years ago when I moved into this flat and was imagining 4 netted windows and one glazed door net. Didn't need a fraction of that as went to different coverings but for one window, so most of the netting was totally unused but stashed in the airing cupboard. Mum wanted to know if I remembered what I'd paid for them as she wanted to give me some money (her wants, not mine, she's insisting). Being a financial nerd, it took me about 20 seconds to find the account page for the month and year and I bought this fabric half price for £24.22 and she's insisting on my having half that. It's fine by me as I'll be having a trip in the next few weeks and I shall turn that money into something experiential (museum entry, most likely).

Hello all coming out of lurkdom to say “hi”. :j I was lent the book ‘The Joy of Less’ at Easter by a friend. Interesting read. I have been on a use up mission with toiletries and cleaners and alongside KM, animal friendly and zero waste only coming into the house.
A visit to CS left me waving goodbye to a scrapbook, card stock, a blouse my sister gave me, a French-style loo roll holder thing (what possessed me to think I lived in a chateau) and two ceramic bonsai dishes minus the trees (killed them years ago).
GQ it’s reassuring to hear your teapot dilemmas :rotfl:None of us are immune to Justin’s charms it seems.
So I confess - 4 paperbacks to MIL in hospital, two books in (only one a keeper). Love to all.

Lovely to 'see' you again, Charly27. I sometimes feel that I ought to have the shoulders of an American football linebacker, there are so many imps jostling for position up there to whisper in my shell-likes.

Yesterday, I gave away some flowerbulbs which someone had decluttered to me (they just appeared on my allotment, I found out after the event what they were and who'd given them). They weren't something I particularly wanted, although I could have found a niche for them in the 450 m sq of allotments but, as serendipity sometimes provides, an acquaintance starting a community garden project on a shoestring chatted to me about gardening and was delighted to have them.

This feels good, the acquaintance is a good person trying to do good work with negligble resources and the bulbs will be growing somewhere there is not a lot of beauty at present and I can always walk over a couple of streets next year and see them flowering. Plus many other people will get the pleasure, too.

A bit of online research yestereve revealed that the £12 Mum is insisting on giving me for the nets will pay for a joint ticket for two great museums on my trip, so that will be an absence of some clutter, a win for Mum and some happy memories for moi.

Today's cunning plan will involve a couple of hours at the juntique shop helping my pal out with some stuff. He's incredibly knowledgeable about his stock but very disorganised about other matters. I get to boss paperwork about and drag strange things out of cobwebby corners and ask what they are.

I could tidy up at home, but home isn't such a target-rich environment and doesn't offer things like Napoleonic War bayonets among the clutter...........:rotfl:

ETA; Well done, Pooky! I'm told I sound like Charlotte Green, the radio 4 newsreader, if that helps your imagination, lol.

GQ

How I wish you had a Napoleonic bayonet when the "lovely person" rattled your door last night.

Wondering innocently why I have the voice of Jonesy in Dad's Army in my head saying "They don't like it up em sir!"

Finally feeling a bit better so managed to get several loads of washing done and dried yesterday and will spend this morning tidying all of it away and assembling the ottoman that just arrived to be stored in the conservatory.

Someone has offered to take the coat hangers to the recycling centre on Thursday so I want to sort them out and keep maybe twenty for using to air clothes outside etc. then put the ones to get rid off into a big bin bag out of the way.

Meeting a dd in York later so will make sure I have a bite to eat before I go and pace myself as I get wobbly in the heat.