The KonMarie method

GreyQueen

jinny wrote: »

GQ
I think my body is doing someghing similar its called age lol

Tell me about it!

If my body were a car, I'd have it off to the garage for a new set of shock absorbers (knees), plus getting my paintwork 't- cut' to brighten up my surfaces and a through valeting.

Since I am human *, I may just have to limit myself to wearing one of those pine tree air fresheners as an earring. :rotfl:


* allegedly.

jinny

Loads of laughs on here
the best medicine
I have a friend who has a vintage mini the same age as me
now its looking good with a bit of refurbishment and tlc

lostinrates

Pinkdebster wrote: »

I think I hoard clothes because I'm "saving them for best". I once had a really good job that needed a good wardrobe - then I got sick and had to get rid of them. I am now virtually housebound at what I consider to be still a young age. I'm reliant on a tube to feed me after the removal of my stomach so I've lost a lot of weight and had to rethink my entire wardrobe. As I still love clothes, I still buy them......a lot. But then, because I'm just stuck indoors so much, I don't see the point in 'dressing up' and end up in leggings and a top or something similar. Having kondoed my wardrobe, I'm determined to change this........

This is me in reverse. I put on weight rather than lost it. I too am fairly stuck at home because of health, in my thirties. Been at home on and off, for ten years. I don't want to throw clothes I have memories in, ( I have clothes rather than photos) but they are boxed and in the attic.

Also I'm hopeful all the time that I will get well and that my life will change and the clothes I love I will wear again and make new memories in. If I'm well again I don't want to waste precious energy shopping! NO, I'm getting out to enjoy life......having got my boxes of clothes out.

Frogletina

GreyQueen wrote: »

Books are getting their pages 'suntanned' and 'foxed' and their glued spines are giving up the ghost. Plastic carrier bags are slowly confetti-ising in the placcy bag corner. Shoe polish is drying out, lotions are emulsifying and turning rank, rust and mould are growing on things in neglected corners, foistiness of all kinds is creeping in...........not to mention nasty little things on many legs which are trying to get a living in our homes and eyeing up our woolie-pullies, best rugs etc.

Shoes are cracking, their composite soles are turning into breadcrumbs, their linings are curling up, our vinyl handbag has developed psoriasis (or something similar) and sometimes it seems that entropy is busy dragging everything you own back to its component elements right before your eyes.

I'm glad I've started now, otherwise I could have ended up like Miss Haversham with the descriptions you have shown!

frogletina

greentiger

Hi all, I’ve been lurking awhile now. I have done a wee bit, but there’s a lot to get going on. Need to get head in gear (and OH).

Islandmaid, the bedroom transformation is fantastic (and I see kitty likes it too). That’s what’s encouraged me to post – my bedroom is pretty much in the same state. It is full of stuff from the other rooms (which are ok, but do need kondoing some more) from when we did the decorating there. I’m determined not to be shuffling boxes round the house when I get on to decorating our room.

Jinny, how about a special file for stuff like birth certificates and important warranties, that are not really year by year. We have 25 year warranties for some building work and I wouldn’t fancy 25 ring binders! I’d need to get more in!

Oh a swan samosa, there’s an idea – but only for the royal family, I think.

GreyQueen

Heh!

Most of my belongings have been pre-owned by someone else, so I'm usually uncertain of how old they are, and sudden self-destructs have been known to happen. The vinyl shoulderbag was particularly memorable.

Clear someone's house after they've died and I can pretty much guarantee the following dialogues will be had;

1. What the HELL was he/she THINKING to have kept this c*ap?!

2. OMG, I would rather have not known that about them, pass the Acme Mind Bleach. Get it on the bonfire quick before the grandkids see it. And we will never mention it again, not even when drunk, OK?

3. Izzat a dead mouse? Izzit? OMG, it moooooveeed, wahh!

4. What's that smell in the back bedroom?

5. Bliddy hell, some of these toiletries date back to the 1970s!

6. We're going to need a bigger skip. Much bigger. Several more times.

7. What do you mean, the charity shops won't take it?

8. Dammit, if they weren't dead already, I'd wring their ruddy neck myself for leaving this revolting mess for us to clear up.

9. Y'know, I've wanted that picture/ ornament/ piece of jewellery for years but now it's mine to take, it's really not that nice, is it?

10. What do you mean, he wanted to be cremated?!

Number 10 happened IRL when one of my great uncles was being planted alongside the rest of the family in the village churchyard. If the beggar wanted to be the first person in our family to be cremated, he should have written it into his will, and the rellie who pipped up with that comment as the coffin was being lowered into the grave could have usefully spoken a fortnight earlier or forever held their peace.

Tell ya, more than madeira cake was being cut at the funeral tea.

Islandmaid

GREYQUEEN - You have a real talent for words .

Thanks for the positive feedback on the bedroom, we,re really proud of it and its only taken 4 years LOL

Like many of us have said, its a real revelation to be able to open doors and drawers and find exactly what you need without it being like some Krypton Factor challenge

DH has now got the bug and his drawers are looking fab too....

Can,t wait to get my mitts on the new kitchen, we,ve got rid of loads already to CS if decent, tip if not - very cathartic.....

VfM4meplse

Welcome greentiger, the world of ditching useless carp awaits

Dipping back into the thread after a few days of being offline - this decluttering has somehow created time and given me a real sense of purpose! I got back today having worn my outfit for help a day....decided that I could wear it tomorrow as well so it seemed silly to thank it and fold it up again. Yet I couldn't leave it piled up on the ironing board either - the clutter element just didn't sit comfortably (that's something I didn't ever think I'd say!) - so I hung it up neatly from a door hook. Which will of course save me from having to iron it tomorrow. Am still loving using up my odds and sods and recycling the packaging.

GreyQueen wrote: »

7. To display your social status. So that waitpersons will expect more of a tip, sales assistants will suck up to you for more of a commission, tradesmen will jack up their fee because they think you're loaded, and muggers will gravitate towards you. And so that you can be looked down as a parvenu by serious money and status, which is wearing Grandpa's tweed jacket and has its arris hanging out of cords which are older than some countries.

Your whole post is brilliant GQ, but this part resonated with me in particular. I'm now making much better use of my wardrobe (today wore a blouse that hadn't seen the light of day for years, was always a bit on the tight side but somehow now fits like a dream ) and it is like having a whole new wardrobe! I was walking down Marylebone High Street today (not in particularly expensive, but smart clothes) and was stopped by every chugger in town as I made my way to my favourite chazza

jinny

Frogletina wrote: »

I'm glad I've started now, otherwise I could have ended up like Miss Haversham with the descriptions you have shown!

frogletina

I have an image of you sitting there now in a wedding dress
Like miss haversham

I wonder if my rude lady at the cafe still had her dress...tragic
thought. Lots of women do keep their wedding dresses
I'm afraid I threw mine over a cliff....don't ask!!!

Great post GQ as usual
Aye I've been to a few send offs like that in my time.

Floss

Jinny, I'm asking!! I need to know how come it went over a cliff??