The KonMarie method

whitesatin

Thinking of where to start next week. Islandmaid, your kitchen photos have inspired me but I am also daunted.

There are only two of us in the house but I have acquired a ridiculous number of cooking/dining items. I have collected for years, even as recently as the beginning of this year when I bought 16 lovely dinner plates from John Lewis. I loved them and they were reduced. I always buy eight of every dining item, harping back to the days when I used to entertain a lot which I don't do as much now. I have a huge dresser in the dining room which is jam packed with stuff. All my kitchen cupboards are crammed (about 15 of them including the adjoining utility room which was the old kitchen). I know that each item fills me with joy - a fact. Really not looking forward to this one.

Igamogam

Islandmaid wrote: »

Bye bye next batch of books.....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2tytrofk7rogeap/2015-02-23%2013.59.07.jpg?dl=0

(Drives me mad that I can,t work out how to post pics:mad:)

They are off to the local Church jumble

That pile of books looks almost like mine! I have kept the Girl Called Jack book but Nigel and Jamie have gone along with some garden design books I was NEVER going to use ( gifts I think so didnt feel I wasted any money!) But I did wonder where my Driving Over Lemons had gone!

GreyQueen

:T Wow, Islandmaid, that is an awesome kitchen makeover, kudos to you, you must feel proud.

soon2bejobless, isn't it amazing how differently we feel about a Kondo'd space? It's magical.

Dispatches from the parental home revealed that as well as a dump run, they entered The Cupboard of Doom and extracted a fax machine (don't ask) and even found its cables, in a small bag labelled fax cables, no less, a habit copied from yours truly) and these are now with BHF.

Although I never allowed the K word to cross my lips when I was at their place the weekend before last, I did kondo some drawers and some kind of kontaigion seems to be spreading from that effect. It's just like the Quantum Weather Butterfly (T. Pratchett, Esq).:D

Yesterday evening I was over-tired, over-caffeined, overwhelmed and irritable and ran amok in my kitchen, all 6 x 6 ft of it culling plastic containers for the recycling. The ones which formerly held ice-cream etc, and left at least one counter clear. I also toddled out twice to the communal recycling bins, just didn't want this stuff a moment longer.

I dream of bare counter-tops gleaming palely in the dawning light of a new day...............

Anyone else find themselves looking at pix or actual clutter homes and wondering what on earth people want all that Stuff for?

jinny

GREY QUEEN

Way back at the beginning of the thread.
I had started my kitchen I put everything not screwed down in my dining room. My kitchen is tiny and like the latest project
The 'Tardis' the cubby of
many things it filled the dining room.
I hadn't realised I already bought the book last year on kindle until I tried to buy it again. Now there's the sign of a pre kondoer not knowing what you have and buying duplicates!
Anyhow the point I'm getting at is that first morning after I replaced severely pared down stuff only in my kitchen. I was like walking into a new home.
All benches clear,no clutter any where.
I just stood in awe of the space. I stood in there to have my morning vat of tea and smiled to myself. This is how I want to feel every day light and planning my day. Not rolling up my sleeves and wading through the overstuffed drawers and cubhoards and not playing jenga or buckaroo with my stuff.
Have a great day everyone whatever you are doing.

GreyQueen

I've decided to donate a stick blender which is seldom used (1-2 a year), and which annoys the heck out of me when it is used. That will go later this week when I have time to go to a chazzer which takes electricals.

In turn, it'll free up most of a small drawer which should enable some stuff currently roosting on the work surface to have a proper home. A double-win, there.

I'm continuing to work my way through the cache of pencils and notepads on the premises by using them at the office, getting rid of one worn-down pencil stub per week, sometimes two.

I want more and more of Less, I'm just greedy like that.

PS - love the story about accidentally trying to buy the book twice.:D

DawnW

That is a great idea Jinny. My kitchen is a nightmare as well, with too many gadgets and baking dishes. If I dumped it all in the dining room, a) it would be difficult to get into the dining room :eek::o, and b) it would give me a chance to give the kitchen a really good clean

It isn't as though I even have a big kitchen

jinny

Dawnw
I'm still sorting through the 'Tardis' boxes in my dining room
It looked like a room from a hoarders programme
I use the room to sit in as it has french windows its a craft room as well
It's a bolt hole for when the footie is on the big screen in living room
So the boys can swear at the referee without me hearing them
So I have to get this cleared soon or the spring and summer will be here.
I don't have the energy some days but feel quite motivated today
I appreciate everyone's posts it's encouraging love this thread.

pondskater_2

Well....drumroll.....I got an email from the library this morning and I can pick the book up at last! That is the longest I have ever had to wait for a library book. I have been quietly kondoing here and there, working from utube and this thread but now I can really join the kondo klub.

M.E.

I took all the contents from one kitchen drawer. They filled my table!
When culled the drawer actually closed.
Next step is to retire the 'thanked' items for another run to the charity place that sells household goods to needy families.:D

rockm87

I cant keep-up with you all!!! busy bees.