The KonMarie method

jinny

Oooh lots of lovely people joining the thread,
its fantastic - welcome all.
I think Kondoing is taking over as Britains new pastime of shopping!

Frogletina - It sure does help to write down your achievements
and by all means use this thread as a check list
I think its like a little pat on your own back.
Especially if like some posters have found, resistance to trying to make life simple for everyone, from the people around them.
Some people dont like change,even if it is for the good of all. They get anxious and worried. We are all different thankfully. However, its a two way street expecting you to live in chaos whilst resisting your efforts to release the stress from the overwhelming stuff.
All the tips and personal accounts on here are so useful.
Well done all.:T

lilahloo

Morning jinny.

Frogletina, I think writing it down on here is a bit like talking a problem over with a friend. You don't necessarily expect them to come up with the solution but by voicing it you immediately feel able to deal with it. Good luck.

jinny

Morning lilahloo well said
and good morning anyone else whos a morning person
Have a great day all

GreyQueen

jinny wrote: »

Morning lilahloo well said
and good moring anyone else whos a morning person
Have a great day all

Morning back at ya.

I've just rolled out of bed, put the kettle on and fired up the 'pooter. I will be awake some point after the ingestion of a pint of tea.

ETA; just caught up the last 2 pages of posts.

kiwisaver, re your liquor, I know that such items are very welcome for tombola prizes at the Church of England church where most of my family do their stuff, as they really add a filip to the ticket buying. Unless dealing with a religion or sect devoted to abstinence, could you try offering it as a prize?

Possibily, you could even sell unopened bottles for less than face value?

lilahloo

Kiwisaver - I think lots of charities who have fayres would be delighted with your booze to use as prizes on their various stalls.

GardenGirl77

Morning everyone,
I haven't had chance to add to the thread for a while but I am following it and catching up where I can. I love reading how everone is getting on and how much help and support is shared.

I have found that the small areas that I have kondoed are staying pretty tidy so I'm really happy and motivated to keep going. I have a question though - I have sushi rolled all socks in the house (4 people = lots of socks) but I find that they often come unravelled once the drawer starts to be emptied. Have others found this? Is it better to fold several times rather than roll?

snoozer

I find folding my socks works well, they're short socks and I fold them twice. They stay in place very well.

GreyQueen

I had a moment yesterday when something MK said in the book, about your home telling you where stuff ought to be stored, came true for me. As I mentioned up-thread, I'd ejected a rolling veg rack from the kitchen, which had meant that those few items lurking on it were homeless. Specifically, a bag of freezer packs, a bowl I use for cleaning chores and the dustpan and brush.

In the last 24 hours, the flat has 'told' me where to keep the bowl and the dustpan (on the floor at the bottom of the water tank cupboard) and I shall sort out the freezer packs and rehome half of them. As my freezer is so tiny, I freeze these to order, rather than having them live in there full-time.

Hmmm, actually, now I come to think of it, do I need freezer packs at all? On the rare occasions I defrost the freezer, it takes minutes and the items are OK in insulated bags. And I don't go on picnics with stuff which needs to the kept cold, and I am anything from 3-5 mins' walk from anywhere I'd buy frozen foods from.................not really necessary in my life, are they?

Sometimes, I think the only reason we have things in our lives in inertia; they're here because they're here.

I came across a concept on a mimimalism blog a couple of years ago called The Lost or Stolen Test. As in, if an item were to be permanantly lost (as opposed to simply misplaced) or stolen, would you bother to replace it?

The answer to that test could be Yes, No or Errrrr.......... It's a good way to think of the importance of these iffy items which have set up housekeeping in your life.

Before arising from my pit of doom this morning, I was thinking about the compost caddies. Council issue, generic lidded things with handles, you've probably seen them. These are the small ones which you are supposed to keep indoors, to decant into the larger outdoor caddy. Or into the communal food waste bin in my case.

I have two of them, one which has never been used. I haven't been pilfering them from neighbours, it's due to a complex history of how the waste collection has been organised in the block of flats where I live. Two different schemes over the years caused the issue of two identical indoor caddies.

Neither of which I use, although I do separate out my food waste (for the allotment). The reason is that I'm a solo household and it takes ages to fill the indoor caddy and, in summer, even a day or so will see it attracting fruit flies. So I keep any food waste in a tupperware in the fridge until I go to the allotment. So have one of them unused in the bike shed (where it drew attention to itself yesterday by falling on my head) and another unused in the allotment shed.

On balance of probabilites, I don't think I will use these and have decided to request that the council come and take them away from me.

Baby steps, but I find containers of all kinds very seductive and difficult to part from, I think I am not alone in this.

ETA Gardengirl, MK's advice is to fold socks not roll them, one fold for anklet socks, two or three for taller socks, four times for knee-highs. She sushi-rolls tights.

sistercas

Islandmaid wrote: »

Simply Red - 'Folding' back the years
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Hahaha. Love it :rotfl::rotfl:

Going to do my wardrobe today, I know there is stuff on the shelf that has been there many a year . I also have a cupboard above the bed that is full of birthday presents ready for the coming year ( acquired via b00ts sale etc ) I need to go through these and sort out what gift is for who and stack them neatly in time order of birthdays .

I sorted a C-O-D the other day and now have a spare drawer :T
I would love to do DHs wardrobe , he is such a hoarder , his wardrobe doors don't quite close due to the carp within . But he hates me near his stuff as he is paranoid I will throw stuff out ( maybe not so paranoid lol as that is my ultimate intention * insert evil face icon )

Just finished my second bucket of tea , I may now have the energy to start kondoing :T

GardenGirl77

Thank you GQ and snoozer - I'll fold them then. I haven't read the book yet, like many other people I have reserved it at the library so it may be 2016 by the time I get to read it :rotfl: