The KonMarie method

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I haven't got a vision yet, I'm just chucking Stuff out. I'll have to think about it.
I would like my home to be clean, airy and welcoming so people feel comfortable when they're here.
Safe and secure for me and DD and always with at least 1 cat!
Room for crafting, relaxing, being myself.

I've been sorting photos again, I have a lot in frames that OH has done for me. I haven't room for everything on my walls, I want to hang quilts too. I Think I'll need a rotating collection iyswim.
Anyway it's been quite draining tonight.

I'm glad everyone's getting on so well, even those of you with less cooperative partners and families seem to be making headway

Night night all

allybee101

GreyQueen wrote: »

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.

I am number 4 in my library queue for the book Alas there are only two copies, one is in transit between branches and the other is awaiting ordering (I wonder if someone got a bit carried away and Kondo'ed the book instead of returning it to the library

Cat_Love

woo!

I started dealing to my stuff kondo style, two weeks ago, did my clothes in a day, and for the first time in my life all my clothes are clean and put away! books sorted and arranged on bookshelf ... by colour! looks great! And got the equivalent of £60 for my unwanted CDs.

Dealing with my stuff is healing for me because it's a gentle way of resolving the past. I feel so much lighter. Amazing!

Cat

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rosyq wrote: »

I haven't got a vision yet, I'm just chucking Stuff out.
Anyway it's been quite draining tonight.
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I think the weather is draining at the moment, dull, damp and energy sucking. I can only do small easy steps on days like these, just a small area at a time and I always try to be finished by lunch time, after which I read or craft. Days usually just evolve with me and I never get up with a rigid plan. No km today as I need to do a basic clean downstairs

My vision: well it is about making life more comfortable for the future and about being surrounded by energy-giving things and not hating anything I see or use. One big aim is to refine my small sewing and crafting room as it is just a storage space at the moment, I can just about get to my overlocker in there. I am not falling over stuff but it is box upon box all around. Small steps with this room as I love everything in there, speaking of which, I have emptied two boxes of spun yarn, almost all now used in a jumper.

I won`t have enough to finish but it is an all round bottom up jumper and the sleeves, fortunately, start with caps. I am ribbing the neck now and will just crochet a couple of rounds on the sleeve caps. It looks perfectly good as a slipover top to keep my torso warm, so I don`t need to concern myself with the sleeves. Phew, it has taken a lot of work and the cables and moss stitch have gobbled up the yarn. Maybe later I will KM another two boxes in there, or some fabric but nothing more. See I cannot keep away from km, it is very satisfying

jinny

Cat_Love wrote: »

woo!

I started dealing to my stuff kondo style, two weeks ago, did my clothes in a day, and for the first time in my life all my clothes are clean and put away! books sorted and arranged on bookshelf ... by colour! looks great! And got the equivalent of £60 for my unwanted CDs.

Dealing with my stuff is healing for me because it's a gentle way of resolving the past. I feel so much lighter. Amazing!

Cat

A very warm welcome to you Catlove
The posters on here are lovely. Yes we have different points of view, but always respectful.
I too have found for the first time in my life. I can be organised by living light. I don't need anything that creates 'noise' in my life wether on show or stacked away in cuboards.
I'm sleeping better now my 'affairs' are in order.
The turning point for me was finally sorting out the paper mountain.
I didnt have a lot of clothes anyway before I started MK
but boy the papers! Im now down to a ring binder for each person for current year and a box file for archival for each person. Plus a ring binder for current year of household bills ect and an archival box file for 6 years of them.
I like a lot of posters are proud of our lines folded clothes in drawers. I have to say I love looking at my rows of ring binders. To each their own eh?
Have a great day all.
I guess we all have our nemisis, our green Kryptonite!

GreyQueen

My vision for my little flat is that everything will have a place to go when I'm not using it, that the surfaces which are meant to be clear so they can be used (floor, sofa, table, kitchen counters) will be clear. That I will honour my possessions by actually using them and, when I have either finished using them, or discovered that they aren't needed, be able to release them with grace and dignity. And that I will be mindful about acquiring more possessions, because they all require attention. And that anyone, official or friendly, can pop in and everything will be orderly.

Oh, and that I will be able to drop my hands on anything I own, within seconds of deciding I want to get it out, without fuss.

Last night, I did a tiny bit of ironing, allowed things to cool off for a while, then *drumroll* thoroughly enjoyed folding/rolling and putting them away. I used to be, prior to KM, majorly resistant to the final stage of the laundry process. The internal dialogue ran like this:

Ugghh, should take the clothes airer down, it's in the way, the stuff is dry. Couple of those things could do with ironing. Can't be arrised to get the iron out for just two things, will pile them up on the side. Not much point in folding that into a drawer, either, might as well just pile it on the side, will be wearing that in two days.......

This, gentle Konverts, is how you get messy piles of clean clothes around the place. And mostly end up dressing straight off the clothes airer, so the same few items are worn all the time and other things lurk unloved and unworn.

The new me put a pair of trousers folded into a drawer in the knowledge that I will probably need them on Thursday *gasp*. And socks and knicks away, even though I will be needing them today. Because they will take seconds to retrieve from their proper places.

I am also thrilled that I know exactly what is in each of my drawers. I did have a system which held for the top drawer (sox and knicks), mostly held for the second drawer (jammies) but fell apart on drawers 3-5, where a miscellany of tops and bottoms muddled together, which meant that I could have to search up to 3 drawers, including rummaging and unfolding various black cotton items to see what they were.

Doesn't happen now. If it's black cotton and it's in lowest drawer, it's the yoga pants and not one of several long-sleeved black tops. Small things, but adding greatly to the efficiency of the household.

Will be at work today (and the flat has 'told' me where to put my workbag when not in use so it's no longer roosting on the floor) and then, if I feel up to it, will kondo some things I have mentally earmarked from some drawers and, if they add up to a bagful, get them down to the chazzer. Someone, somewhere, NEEDS or badly WANTS those items and I need to see that they're available. Plus the Good Cause (a disability charity) always needs funds.

Keep up the good works, lovely peeps.

somerandom

What a treat to wake up to people sharing their vision for their homes. Thanks so much. It's warmed my heart :-). I really like the idea of having a vision for each room so along with my overarching vision I will work on that.


Unlikely to be able to do much in the way of Kondoing today other than get previously Kondo'd things out of the house.


Have a great day everyone.

stardrops42

Well I'm still Kondoing as best I can. We've got no kitchen at the moment and the plasterer is here as I speak! I did manage to get rid of quite a lot of stuff when I emptied the old kitchen and will only put back into the new kitchen things that spark joy:D Done my son's room and it's stayed like that for about a week now!! Believe me that's a miracle! I realised as I was picking all his clothes up off the floor that he doesn't actually have anywhere to put dirty clothes in his room, the laundry basket is in the bathroom and obviously too far away for him to walk:mad: I put a small laundry basket in his room and voila no more clothes on the floor! So simple but just never occurred to me before(just presumed he would make the trip across the landing to the bathroom) and it's true that it's so much easier to be tidy when everything has a place even the dirty laundry in your son's bedroom;)

I've also put all my make-up into separate little containers and placed them into the top drawer of a small COD. I used the plastic containers you get take away food in and they are perfect. One contains face/eye creams etc, one has make-up I wear everyday, one contains make-up which I only use occasionally(going out etc) and another contains lipsticks of which I have lots:p I absolutely love it! So easy to just lift the various containers out of the drawer containing exactly what I need instead of rummaging through make-up bags trying to find what I need every morning before work:D

Justamum

stardrops42 wrote: »

Well I'm still Kondoing as best I can. We've got no kitchen at the moment and the plasterer is here as I speak! I did manage to get rid of quite a lot of stuff when I emptied the old kitchen and will only put back into the new kitchen things that spark joy:D

We were in the same position as you exactly a year ago. Plaster dust over everything, and two weeks trying to cook meals for 5 on a camping stove :eek: We'd only just bought the house and hated the kitchen - the previous owners had made the walls textured with occasionally protruding bricks, the work surfaces were stainless steel held up by bricks!. There were only two tiny cupboards, half of which were unusable as you couldn't reach to the back of them. The oven was an oil-fired range which I couldn't get on with. Luckily there is a lovely walk-in pantry where I keep all the food (I put in a couple of extra shelving units). Now I love my kitchen. Loads of storage, a built in oven, and an induction hob which is so easy to clean. It looks like it was finished only yesterday it's that good.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

That I will honour my possessions by actually using them and, when I have either finished using them, or discovered that they aren't needed, be able to release them with grace and dignity.

That was very emotional for me, as always GQ summed it all up in a few words