The KonMarie method

Baileysonice

I let go about 100 coat hangers today :eek::eek::eek:

I have to say I did not thank them all individually as I chucked them in the bin:cool: bad kondo person that I am

tooties

Evening Konverts,

Greyqueen, thanks for the advice regarding the washer.

I haven't been doing any kondoing the last day or two, feeling a little tired and deflated.

I am hoping to get back on the kondo wagon tomorrow.

Keep up the great work everyone

regards

emg

Omg, feeling guilty about all my socks who have been forced into arranged marriages and have chosen to mangle themselves round the back of the drum rather than face another week in the drawer with their partner. It's too sad!

Saver-upper

GreyQueen wrote: »

Mum's pet washing machine mechanic tells us that washers do eat socks, it isn't an urban myth, they can end up around the back of the drum.

I am playing on the Decluttering thread at the moment.There is a waiting list of 18 for the Kondo book in my local library ,so for now I am lurking .But I just had to pipe up and say that GreyQueen is right.

A few years ago a visiting friend of mine said she had to rush home,the washing machine repair man was on the way.
When I saw her a few weeks later I asked how the repairs went.She told me that doing the repairs,the engineer pulled out one of her blouse that she had been looking for for the previous 12 months!It had been wrapped around the drum.

I'll get back in my box...........

allybee101

I thought I'd lost a sock in the wash this evening but it was just caught up in a pair of knickers. Now that there I only have 7 pairs of socks I spot unpaired socks a lot more easily!

Tonight I finally finished kondo-ing my clothes, shoes etc. I couldn't spare the time to do it all in one go so there have been several phases.
Tonight was shoes - 8 pairs out which was more than I thought would go. For the first time in a looooonnnnngggg time my clothes fit into the wardrobe and 4 drawers, with space to spare. The shoes are on a rack. I can't quite believe how neat it looks. The boxes of stored clothes are gone, as are the piles of clothes in the spare room.
I have 3 bin bags and a carrier bag of clothes for the charity shop/ rag bin, and a box of clothes that I'm going to try and sell on Ebay. There are also 2 bags of shoes and a box of stuff for the charity shop - things I'd already put to one side pre-MK.
Planning a charity shop run tomorrow morning before work if I can fit it in.
Books need tackling next but I think that will be Thursday's task.

GreyQueen

See, if a washer can eat a blouse, it's not going to even burp at a few socks. Same man also said the commonest cause for washing machine injury was underwires from bras which work their way out of the bra and go through the holes in the drum. I myself had a washer stop in mid-cycle and make horrible noises (it was a Bank Holiday Weekend, it must have known ) and the cause was a kirby hair grip in the filter. Once removed, all went fine.

alleybee, that's a totally awesome tally of decluttering and organisation - or should I say awe-ganisation? I'm envious. Congratulations!

mirry

This kondoing is so addictive, I've converted 5 people to the cult so far :rotfl:. We spent 3 hours yesterday sorting out the kitchen cupboards. My husband readjusted the shelves to a more organised level so we can store things to our liking, no more items balanced on top of items.

We also purchased lots more lock and lock storage tubs for cereals,dried fruit,flour,pasta,sugar & rice to match our lock and lock bread bin.

Then we moved onto the cupboard with our saucepans stacked on top of each other. We put hooks up on the inner sides of the cupboard to hold the pan lids & colander, neatly out of the way.

Today's plan: Learn how to fold the bed sheets and watch more kondo videos

Tea_Lady

Okay, okay. Now I know you are all Witches, enchantresses or magicians, casting some sort of spell, voodoo or wizardry on me.:rotfl:
There I was minding my own business lurking on the forum as I have for years. Trying to follow the Flylady and failing, stowing away on the good ship Not Buying It. Curtain twitching on the Kondo thread.
Then what happen, it started with my knickers, all neatly rolled and in straight lines, colour coded and looking great, then the socks, again looking so great I had to keep going back and looking at them.
I kept trying to catch up with the thread but it moves along some quickly I can't keep up.
I wasn't going to buy the book no way, that is not the 'Not Buying' it way at all. I was going learn from you good people.
I BOUGHT THE BOOK. Spend a day reading it even though I was suffering from a very nasty sickness bug. Couple of days later still a little weak and wishy washy, the clothes from my wardrobe, drawers, suitcases, boxes and other hiding places are all on my bed. I knew I was looking at an all day job of sorting out. Two hours later the clothes were either neatly folded in my drawers hanging in my wardrobe or in the 6 large charity bags. The wardrobe cleaned and polished to an inch of its life. Shoes, belts and jewellery followed suit. 8 bags of carp out of my life, did I miss any of it? NO.
Paperwork followed a few days later. Boxes, baskets and cupboard fulls of the carp all piled up on the floor.
OH started to get interested, tell me about this kondoing women he says, I did.
Result one waist high pile of old paperwork ready to burn or shred. Life insurance, pensions and other companies that we have being paying into for years all been contacted, what are we paying for and can we retire early? Answers coming soon.
Books and DVD and CD's next on the list, shouldn't be too many there, did a culling not long ago before we moved house.
Thank you all very much for the wake up call. If asked I would have said that I didn't own much stuff as we have moved 3 times in the last 4 years and I thought I had culled it all. WRONG.
I am angry that I have wasted so much well earned cash on rubbish, ashamed that I have so much stuff, I didn't realize how much it was weighing on my mind.
Only done clothes, paperwork and started the books, but already the house feels lighter, fresher and the clear spaces make it open and nicer place to live.
So keep sprinkling the fairy dust or whatever spell you are using on me. I can't believe I have actually started Kondoing and that I love doing tidying, cleaning, polishing, folding and putting things away.
At work (retail evironment) ,i,ve been showing customers how to samosa carrier bags to place in their handbags and cars. All my colleagues are start to do there own homes now. Its Magic.
Knovert here.Sorry its so long.

allybee101

Welcome Tea Lady! Marvellous magic isn't it! Well done on your fabulous kondo -ing.

This morning I picked out my clothes in about 30 seconds because I knew where everything was.No digging through piles to find it, or wondering if it's in the wash.

CKgeordieinlondon

My DH is about to start a new contract which means he will be away Monday - Thursday for a few months.

Of course of I'll miss him but I can't help thinking "Wow I can get down to some serious Kondoing with the house to myself"

Lets keep that between us :whistle: