The KonMarie method

GreyQueen

I'm busy making chili con carne. Or I was, it's cooking now.

Quasar, you can't hint about shoe numbers without coming clean; eager and nosy people (OK, me ) wanna know. How many pairs?!

Well done on that big c.s. drop off, Rainy-days. Do you think, post Kondo-ing, houses breathe a sigh of relief and rise a few millimeters on their foundations? I have a droll image of a terrace gossiping together about how their occupants have taken a load off the lofts and floors and they feel soooo much better now.

Have a few things underfoot, as it were, but my workweek is now over and I will have time and energy tomorrow to get some Stuff done, and that may well involve another c.s. bag, depending. I'm reading library books and getting them back as soon as they're finished with. I like it that way as I figure they're community property and the sooner they're back in the library, the sooner they can be enjoyed by someone else.

Plus they aren't taking up space on my premises.

Quasar

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm busy making chili con carne. Or I was, it's cooking now.

Quasar, you can't hint about shoe numbers without coming clean; eager and nosy people (OK, me ) wanna know. How many pairs?!

Well done on that big c.s. drop off, Rainy-days. Do you think, post Kondo-ing, houses breathe a sigh of relief and rise a few millimeters on their foundations? I have a droll image of a terrace gossiping together about how their occupants have taken a load off the lofts and floors and they feel soooo much better now.

Have a few things underfoot, as it were, but my workweek is now over and I will have time and energy tomorrow to get some Stuff done, and that may well involve another c.s. bag, depending. I'm reading library books and getting them back as soon as they're finished with. I like it that way as I figure they're community property and the sooner they're back in the library, the sooner they can be enjoyed by someone else.

Plus they aren't taking up space on my premises.

43 pairs of footwear, GQ :rotfl: All good, mostly bought in Italy.

I need to really go through clothes and shoes (and handbags ) carefully. Some of this stuff I don't wear a great deal, although I am attached to it - this is where I have to be ruthless.

I've taken a largish box and put a sample t-shirts/tops in there, folded as they have always been, then have done the kondo folds. Takes sooo much less space.

bunbun2

marrbett wrote: »

Hi everyone, another lurker who has decided to take the plunge!

We are a family of 6 and the clothes piles are huge, so yesterday I arranged for a clothes collection to come on Fri who will pay me 60p a kilo and I reckon I'll get about £30 from the black bags of unwanted clothes I've found.

My airing cupboard has half the towels left in and I'm taking the unloved ones to our local RSCPA who want them.

I've bags of rags type clothing to offer to the sally army for selling on for whatever they do with rags, but am stumped what to do with some quilted mattress protectors- I've at least 3 single ones...any ideas??

All remaining towels are rolled and stacked . I keep opening the door to show the others!!!
A few more clothes to scoop up today and then its on to the next project. So much fun!:)

is the clothes collection local to you or is it national? I was going to take ours to cash 4 clothes but a) I don't think they pay as much and b) it would get rid of the piles sooner if they were collected rather than waiting for me to take them as cash 4 clothes is on a retail park which gets very busy

I also have a bag of towels and cloths to take to the RSPCA charity shop

Having kondoed and ranger rolled my clothes and towels I now have various piles all over the house. I musr sort them out and dispose of them soon

DawnW

GreyQueen wrote: »

Do you think, post Kondo-ing, houses breathe a sigh of relief and rise a few millimeters on their foundations? I have a droll image of a terrace gossiping together about how their occupants have taken a load off the lofts and floors and they feel soooo much better now.

Well not THIS terrace I removed about 7 boxes full of [STRIKE]carp[/STRIKE] stock from my sales unit today and dragged them up the 2 flights of stairs to the loft. Some will go back in later on, and some is awaiting the car boot season. You have made me feel guilty now, especially as the poor thing was [STRIKE]born[/STRIKE] built in 1905 :rotfl:

Not sure if the gifted kitchen bits and clothes, traded in books and recycled and burnt paperwork I have managed so far is a fair exchange!

GreyQueen

Thank you for satisfying my deplorable curiousity.

But Italian shoes are very lovely, aren't they? My mind boggles at the logistics of keeping 43 pairs, but most sane people have bigger living quarters than I do. I've always considered that there ought to be a Triple-A council tax banding for flats like mine.

I always joke that I have taken up minimalism as a hobby. Or that I hoard mimimalism blog bookmarks on my computer. It's true and so wrong in so many ways..............:rotfl:

DawnW, sorry if I've given you house-guilt, didn't mean to. Perhaps you can talk to the old dear kindly and promise it a nice dose of Senn0kot err decluttering, come the car booty season?

Rainy-Days

Well I can tell you Greyqueen that the car took off up the road quicker after the drop off than during the journey into town!

I kind of think that the house does breathe a sign of relief. I tend to believe in that 'spiritual woo-woo' of a house having energy and good energy and flow in a house makes for a better overall feeling.

When we moved ot this house last year everybody who visited said "gosh what a lovely feeling this house has" and that was one thing I noticed about it when I first came to look around it, that it had a good vibe. The roof joists must feel better for not having to support extra weight up the loft I would have thought. Sure makes things easier to see and also clean. I have not applied the folding method to my drawers because everything in my chest of drawers has always been tidy.

The big thing for me is this "keeping things for best" mallarky which I am 'getting my head' around. I need to re-programme my head for that.

Quasar

GreyQueen wrote: »

Thank you for satisfying my deplorable curiousity.

But Italian shoes are very lovely, aren't they? My mind boggles at the logistics of keeping 43 pairs, but most sane people have bigger living quarters than I do. I've always considered that there ought to be a Triple-A council tax banding for flats like mine.

I always joke that I have taken up minimalism as a hobby. Or that I hoard mimimalism blog bookmarks on my computer. It's true and so wrong in so many ways..............:rotfl:

DawnW, sorry if I've given you house-guilt, didn't mean to. Perhaps you can talk to the old dear kindly and promise it a nice dose of Senn0kot err decluttering, come the car booty season?

I live in a small flat but have managed to extract some storage space by building my own hall cupboard with shelves (not a great job unless the door remains closed ).

I can store easily all I have, but it looks rather crammed, so I want to reduce all the stuff I have - let's face it, some of it I hardly ever wear and only keep "just in case" but the case never comes.

The shoes are lovely yes, and the handbags. I buy them when I go on hols to visit my family, and some are presents from them.

GreyQueen

I think buildings, particularly homes, do very much have a vibe. And they respond to being cared-for.

It's not just the cared-for sense of keeping things clean, or every halfway decent hotel room would have a happy vibe. It's more than that, it's the sense that people like being in there, that they are tending to the house's need for ventilation, for heating, for cleanliness, for maintenance and for occasional refurbishment. That we want our windows to be shiny so we can enjoy the light of day, that we want to be able to relax inside and to welcome others to join us indoors.

Why else would we make homes, all over the planet, from bamboo houses to brick, from wood to hewn stone? Surely it would be more rational to live in dormitories with perhaps a storage unit somewhere for our less-often needed belongings? But we don't live like that and, in most cases, would pity anyone who did.

elona

The tea towel drawer which I had kondoed was somehow looking wrong so I threw out a few which were looking slightly stained etc . changed the way I had folded and rolled them so thinner tea towels were together and so were the thicker more absorbent ones in rows and everything just "looked right".

Emptied small low top drawer of COD in bedroom and threw out a few things, found a couple of plastic empty containers for storage and arranged scarves, gloves, knee highs, ankle highs and tights all in orderly rows.

Still have two deeper drawers in COD to sort out but will do that in the next few days as we spent time with DD at her new house this afternoon and tomorrow is hospital appointment that will take a few hours. Have not used the drawer dividers I bought yet but planned them for underwear, socks and pjs.

marrbett

bunbun2 wrote: »

is the clothes collection local to you or is it national? I was going to take ours to cash 4 clothes but a) I don't think they pay as much and b) it would get rid of the piles sooner if they were collected rather than waiting for me to take them as cash 4 clothes is on a retail park which gets very busy

I also have a bag of towels and cloths to take to the RSPCA charity shop

Having kondoed and ranger rolled my clothes and towels I now have various piles all over the house. I musr sort them out and dispose of them soon

Hi, its called Wardrobe Wonga but it might be local to near where I live I suspect. I'm running around grabbing clothes shouting 'is this necessary, does it bring you joy??' I seriously think they think I'm losing it, but the deadline is tomorrow when the clothes are being collected!!