The KonMarie method

imho

I bought a small Lazy Susan on Amazon but bought a bigger one from a jumble sale for £1 so now have 2 in the tins/jar cupboard.
I have now bought this for scaves and belts from Amazon LINK
I didnt want to knot my scarves round a hanger plus had no where to hang belts so this does the both and its only £3.68 delivered. When it arrives the wardrobe will be organised.Half done the garage but its so cold in there i am going to sort that out in the summer.But i am so enjoying clearing out all the stuff i dont really need or want. The house is so easier to keep clean and tidy now plus i have found things i didnt even know i owned !

LolaLemon

pondskater wrote: »

. I don't want to croak and leave a big mess of stuff for some other poor devil to clear up.

I have to say that is my fear, and im only 32. It has been a fear of mine since i got my first house. And i fear f leaving all my crap for my son or parents to have to go through. So gradually i have been clearing out, but i have soo much stuff and all over the place that it is never ending.
I was directed here via mortgagefreein3's blog and the book is possibly one i had came accross when checking out instagram and # project 333 and a book kept being tagged too, that sound very similar and is on my list of books to get this year, i may bump it to the top of my list now.
Ive read page 1 and now page 39, sorry if im just jumping in... off now to spend a day or two reading all the rest of this thread. (and subscribing)

maryb

Kittie, I have a narrow floor unit of about 500cm wide and that is perfect for storing all my baking sheets etc on their side - which has the added advantage i can get things out one at a time. The small shelf above holds my hand mixer and hand blender. The other thing I find really useful is these
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00177249/

I use them for rolls of clingwrap and baking tray liners, it stops them rolling around an unrolling

Hope this helps

Islandmaid

Hi all,

I am getting increasingly frustrated not being able to continue with my Kondo journey, i,ve hit a roadblock, thatbis the house being refurbed.

I,m chuffed to little bits that its finally being done (4 yrs of saving) and our bedroom and ensuite are done and kondo,d to within a inch of their life, and looking spiffing.

Downside - been without a kitchen for 10 days and 'spare room' looks like its been invaded by organised squatters.

I,ve booked next week off work to (hopefully) get it straight - just want the house to be workman and brick dust free - its everywhere......

Keep up the good work and loving your reports x

lilahloo

kittie wrote: »

Has anyone got innovative ideas for kitchen storage? I am getting my last kitchen this summer and am trying to make it future proof hence all base units will be drawers of various depths and all overhead units will have repositionable shelves. Baking tins and trays will be in drawers unless a better idea comes forth. Help, I am open to anything, bearing in mind that this new kitchen has to swallow a lot of stuff that I love, so am keeping. U shaped kitchen, one row each side and sink below window

New see through storage boxes for the wardrobe floor arrive today, I know strictly not KM but I cannot find a better way of using the wardrobe floor space. I am also future proofing and stuff will come down from a high shelf, leaving that shelf for some (rarely used) holiday luggage. Doh, getting older is limiting

Think about vertical storage for chopping boards, baking trays etc.

Craftyscholar

pondskater wrote: »

I don't want to croak and leave a big mess of stuff for some other poor devil to clear up.

That is what is pushing me to start sorting things out. My stuff and stuff I inherited.
I was an only child and so were Mum and Dad and I have no children, so there is no-one to pass things down to.
Dad died in 1970 and Mum in 1986. I'm never going to forget them, but keeping things just because they were theirs is just daft.

Mind you, seriously looking at what you have, but no longer need/use can be a nasty shock, especially when you think how much money you spent over the years.

cazmanian_minx

My mother has now finished the book and although she hasn't actually got started yet, she has begun apologising to her socks every time she opens the drawer for still being in a stretched state - it's a good start

GreyQueen

Hi kittie, one of my pals has something in his fitted kitchen which I've always thought was excellent; a really really big but relatively shallow cutlery drawer. This drawer is the width and depth of a double unit and is situated just under the counter top. It runs in and out like a dream.

I was thinking that a section of kitchen (don't know how much space you have to play with) with 2-3 very wide but shallow drawers could be brilliant. You could have cutlery and utentsils in the top one, baking sheets in another and teatowels etc in another still. Not to go too far towards the floor due to that causing excessive bending which may well be less easier than in younger years. And how about base units with deep basket-drawers, have seen them about 18 deep, so that the contents come towards you, rather than having deep cupboards where you have to bend or squat down and r e a c h.

I do admire you for thinking it through and working towards a plan which will make life easier. Not everyone has the opportunity or resources to do so, but plenty of people do, and just don't consider it.

Feeling totally rubbish atm, cramped and achy and bleugh, so just hanging out at the homestead tonight instead of going to archery class, just not up to it. Unfortunately, this will mean one not-large thing which I was going to take with me and hope to bump into X who was going to buy it off me won't go this week but we should be able to sort it next week.

I feel slightly bereft as have had to return my library copy of the book today, there was someone else waiting for it. She recommends that you part with her book as well, and I love to think of liberated copies of the book being out in the world and changing lives.

In thinking about decluttering, I have thought on a couple of evening bags which made the cut last time, although I knew it was irrational. I don't have an evening-bag-requiring lifestyle and, even if I did, I could easily find one in the chazzer which I like better than these, or even run up one from the fabric on the premises. So they shall be released, which will be 3 bags out in one donation bag, yippee.

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

Hi kittie, one of my pals has something in his fitted kitchen which I've always thought was excellent; a really really big but relatively shallow cutlery drawer. This drawer is the width and depth of a double unit and is situated just under the counter top. It runs in and out like a dream.

My parents have done this - they have two shallow drawers, one on top of the other, and there's a chopping board that fits neatly into the top of one of them to give you an extra bit of surface to put things down on.

Pull-out baskets are good too.

I feel rubbish as well GQ. Unexpected sort throat making it difficult to speak/swallow. I need to dose it up with chillies and spend the evening in front of the fire and pottering rather than going off to my exercise class. (Which is annoying, as I missed last week too).

GreyQueen

We can sort-of potter together, communally across the interwebulator. I am so wishing to be out the other side of the blinking menopause, I am so over this whole business, 38 years and counting, you don't get that for murder, for pete's sake............grrr!

I've just let my answerphone call-screen someone, think it's some kind of opinion poll. They tried earlier today when I was out at work. I'm too tired and ratty to be civil to strangers this aft.

Righty, get some food on, wumman cannot live on chocolate alon; trust me, I've tried it.:rotfl: