The KonMarie method

Baileysonice

Jumping in very late to the party

Well its taken me a week nearly to read the thread from start to finish and I am finally starting to dip my toe into this. I bought the book for my Kindle and am about half way through. I haven't done much yet and her estimate of 6 months I feel will be about right but a start is a start.

So far I have samosed my carrier bags although I have cheated a bit as you are supposed to do all of one category and I know there is a very large bin bag full of carriers in the garage which I can't face at the moment. May just bite the bullet and fling them I think. I can safely say that a carrier bag has never given me any joy but they do serve a purpose with our October ban coming this year.

I have also Kondoed my large collection of cookbooks and put 15 on freecycle. Someone is picking them up this afternoon which is great as I know if I had the chance I would go through them all again and put most back. Hopefully they will get some joy from them

Was hoping to tackle the clothes but have lost a bit of my mojo thanks to a thumping hangover so that will have to wait. I am determined to drag out my plastic tub box though and work through that today so at least one thing will be ticked off.

Loving your posts everyone and I will get there

GreyQueen

Hello and welcome, Baileysonice.

If you don't want the excess carrier bags, there are charity shops, particularly the smaller ones which aren't part of the main chain chazzers who would be pleased to have them. I gave an excess away a few weeks ago.

Baileysonice

GreyQueen wrote: »

Hello and welcome, Baileysonice.

If you don't want the excess carrier bags, there are charity shops, particularly the smaller ones which aren't part of the main chain chazzers who would be pleased to have them. I gave an excess away a few weeks ago.

Good idea thanks greyqueen. I did think about starting a business in October undercutting the shops by selling them for 4p but thats another story :rotfl:

jinny

The October carrier bag law is the deadline
Some shops have started to charge for them.
Morrisons are starting soon I was told today.

jinny

Some folks will just pay the 5p for bags thinking well it's only 5p!
But it adds up to 5p per week = £2.60 per year.
Better in your pocket eh?

There's never been free bags the companies just add the cost to the goods

Baileysonice

jinny wrote: »

Some folks will just pay the 5p for bags thinking well it's only 5p!
But it adds up to 5p per week = £2.60 per year.
Better in your pocket eh?

There's never been free bags the companies just add the cost to the goods

Bet they don't take it back off again though

I use Mr A delivery and they send an amazing amount of bags. Not sure how that will work post Oct but there is no way I am paying 5p for just about everything I buy.

On reflection the bag in the garage is staying and I will just have to crack on with the samosering

cydney65

Thank you for the messages of support...have downed some meds and have cracked on. I do need to ring my specialist nurse tomorrow though.

So went through two boxes of tools/decorating stuff. How much dried out polyfilla does one girl need?! I found that some water from the old leaky boiler had got in and a lot of the tools had rusted completely. Threw away three bags of tat and filled a dustbin liner of nice, mostly unused decorating stuff. This I will give to our handyman-I'm sure he will love it.

After kondoing the tools I was left with a large storage box free Yay! It has been washed and dried and is now waiting to be filled with Xmas lights. While tidying I found a box full of old paperwork, family photos and drawings the kids did at nursery school. I'm not ready to face this yet but hopefully I can condense it down so it can be stored in the loft at some point.

A quick break and then back to sorting.

CydneyX

lostinrates

emmilou wrote: »

Shoes and scarves done but I am struggling with how to arrange shoes and boots back in the wardrobe nicely they still fill the bottom of it and can't fit my handbags in now I use the clear shoe boxes but I totally get what MK means about stacking boxes being a problem, my scarves are on one of those special scarf coat hanger thingies, but I don't like it as it's too bulky

I'm having problems pasting more than one link, it wipes my post if I do. Apart from my knickers all my 'cod ' storage is three of these

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40289103/

And two of their bigger brothers .

The smaller ones had shoe box sized drawers available to buy. I don't have a full compliment of drawers, but ip have a fair few. ( which they were still made in the pattern mine are in because, you've guessed it, they are roughly shoe boxed sized. Tbh I've found the little ones a bit fiddly often in the past, but the vertical folding really suits them, now the bigger ones , which I have always found a great size, are a bit too large or not large enough.....I cannot get all my jumpers in one or two of them, nor fold them so they stand up, similarly tops cannot be made stand up I find in a larger 'hole' so they are vertically folded just like a horizontal pile but flipped...relying on each other for structure. I'm not sure if the do drawers for these.


The small ones have been amazing for silk scarves, etc I haven't tackled what we call 'winter goods' yet.


Sorry realise this is a longwinded answer to, one of these small hang things might help for some people's issues like scarves, but be wary of the big ones.

jinny

http://youtu.be/JERkjfouNhw
Here's a diy tut for storage boxes
I just use quid shop double sided tape to stick paper or fabric
And o would perhaps just fold the lid flaps inside and stick down

If they are sturdy you could put them sideways and on top of each other

Boxes that crisps. Come in are really sturdy

drusilla

:rotfl:Just watching 'Your Home in their Hands'. I wonder what KonMarie would make of all the teapots.


The poor woman who lives in the house as inherited her husbands first wife's collection of crockery and teapots. OMG.