The KonMarie method

pollys

Morning Konverts

I was up at 7am and have already kondoed a few items. I'm on a bit of a mission today. I am taking DS to visit a university tomorrow, it will be a long day, so I won't get anything else done.

I've got lots of Komono hanging about. It's making everywhere look a bit untidy, so I need to sort.

Polly

grunnie

There's a yoo toob clip on mumsnet showing how MK folds socks tights knickers and bras :beer:

iQueen

grunnie wrote: »

There's a yoo toob clip on mumsnet showing how MK folds socks tights knickers and bras :beer:

I've been following MN since before Christmas and have read all 6000+ posts on the 7 threads. :eek:

Loads of brilliant tips and enthusiasm on there, despite most posters having young children + partners, and being employed! :shocked:

Also, one poster in Germany, has passed on some additional information, from MK's second book, that has not been translated into English yet.

emmilou

There's a second book??!!! :j:j:j:j:j

rockm87

Just ordered the book, with a gift card that I've had since forever!

115K

I wonder what she has to say in the second book?:D

allybee101

115K wrote: »

I wonder what she has to say in the second book?:D

"Why haven't you finished tidying up?"


I am reading book number 1 - it is a very easy read, I am trying not to read too fast so I don't skim over important things. The concept of doing one group of items at a time is great - I can't wait to get started properly, hopefully on Saturday. I have already mentally kondo'd one top which is going bobbly.
I have a great quote that I found recently which I am trying to live by as I tend to procrastinate unless everything is perfect.

"Do not wait, the time will never be just right. Start, where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
Napoleon Hill

I feel this is very apt right now as I started my decluttering last year, and although it was slow, it was a start. I think that if I was starting to declutter now I would be so overwhelmed by how much more I would have had without my 'head start'. I started with the tools that were available - the MSE forums here and those in my sig, and now by adding the book I am improving my tools. It's an epiphany

Igamogam

115K wrote: »

I wonder what she has to say in the second book?:D

'Get rid of my first book and buy my second and by the end of it you may feel wiser but I will be richer................'
Yes I am that cynical - not of her ideas/methods and theories but of commercialism /consumerism!!

allybee101 wrote: »

"Do not wait, the time will never be just right. Start, where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
Napoleon Hill

Loving that quote - another to add to my collection

iQueen

Igamogam wrote: »

'Get rid of my first book and buy my second and by the end of it you may feel wiser but I will be richer................'
Yes I am that cynical - not of her ideas/methods and theories but of commercialism /consumerism!!

I won't be buying the second book - same cynical reason!

With a shelf full of de-clutter and organising self-help books, I was loath to buy the first MK, since I had stopped unnecessary things coming into my home, some years ago. However, reading about the method persuaded me! It's probably the most life-changing book in my home, since The Female Eunuch!

From the bits of the second book that are on MNet, it's just addressing issues for a wider audience and enlarges, a bit, on topics that she skated over in the first.

ShiftCtrlZ

I haven't heard of this book, I brought the Karen Kingston decluttering one ages ago and hid it from my Mum because she would have mocked me for needing a book to learn how to tidy up!

The folding technique sounds interestung, will have to find out more about it.