The KonMarie method

GreyQueen

iQueen wrote: »

Thanks for the link again, Jinny.

I landed on the video of her re-vamped kitchen... :eek: Bad move. I'm green with envy! No hope of ever having such a fabulous kitchen.

I shall just do the best I can with my 1950s 6ft x 9ft. At least I don't have all those glass-fronted cabinets to clean! :rotfl:

6 ft x 9 ft! And still she's not happy. I've got a 6 x 6 ft 1970s kitchen, a vision in white melamine. Open a cupboard door and it comes out into the middle of the room.

Still, I can stand in the middle of it and reach everything I need without moving my feet...........:rotfl:

clippy_girl

I have just started reading the first few pagesof the thread and debating whether to buy the book! I'm going to go do my pants and bras drawer 1st then toiletries as I'm moving stuff to my new dressing table which has less drawers. Then will make a start on clothes!

greent

I have a pair of brown candle holders shaped rather like wine glasses - received as a Xmas gift about 5 years ago and displayed on my landing ever since from a sense of obligation - I never liked them. I walked past them today and finally felt able to let them go. They have been washed and wrapped and labelled fragile and placed in my latest CS donation bag:T

jinny

GreyQueen wrote: »

6 ft x 9 ft! And still she's not happy. I've got a 6 x 6 ft 1970s kitchen, a vision in white melamine. Open a cupboard door and it comes out into the middle of the room.

Still, I can stand in the middle of it and reach everything I need without moving my feet...........:rotfl:

Ha ha me too
tiny kitchen, tiny bathroom no room or money to extend either
I have to step outside to change my mind! Lol
with a 25ft living room huge bedrooms and fair size dining room. Top floor flat no lift just stairs.
Was built in 1950 same age as me. Like me too big in some areas and not big enough in others.:rotfl:
Not complaining its a roof over my head

GreyQueen

jinny wrote: »

I have to step outside to change my mind! Lol;)

I am so stealing that line!

I quip that I'm not having spiders in here unless they pay rent.

Still, it may be (well, is) a doll's house size flat, but there are advantages;

1. You can take one 2.5 litre can of paint, put 2 coats on all the walls, and still have a third of the can left. This is economical!

2. If you wake up in the middle of the night thinking you have an intruder, you know its a nightmare; there's no way anyone could get in here without waking me and nowhere for them to hide.

3. It's bang in the centre of an ancient city with many historical buildings and things of interest to see and do.

4. You can pretend to be really badass just by telling people the name of your block - it's got a reputation clean across the region.

5. Anyone who'd burgle you is probably already a neighbour and they don't p--- on their own doorsteps. Well, they would if they thought you had anything worth nicking, but there are richer pickings in better places not too far away, so they don't burgle you.

jinny

That's really funny GQ sounds like around here!
I have some 'interesting' neighbours but they are ok really
Put it this way...you don't need a telly. It's the beauty of living on the top floor.

Aaleigha

I love coming to this thread some has always posted something to make me smile

today I have done two huge jobs but not in the true Kondo style
I have done my linen cupboard and my larder - so I have done areas rather than than a category of things - but both housed all the things relevant

so all towels rolled
all bedding sorted - 4 sets of winter all folded in one pillow case and 4 sets of summer in a similar fashion
all fleecy blankets rolled - there is now room in the airing cupboard to store my ironing board and iron - so from now on I will iron there and pop things in for a 24 hour period before putting away

then the larder out came everything into boxes rather than spread out
shelves were allocated and then things put away
the under shelves space has been totally repurposed so happy about that
a lot achieved today

all the old teatowels have gone to husbands work place for rags and all the new ones (hid at back of larder) are now in the wash to freshen and will be rolled and put away once dried

anotheruser

A really good thread.

I used to fold my jumpers in one way but found when I got new drawers, I had to fold them another way to fit in efficiently. I'll have to check out the quoted way of folding as it makes more sense to be able to see all my clothes!

Although I'm not sure of the "if it doesn't give you joy, throw it". I have a load of hoarding things in the loft to do with my line of work, that hopefully will be worth a lot of money in the future... something I can give to the grandchildren and that. It doesn't give me joy, but then out of sight out of mind and I have the space to leave it up there so I don't see it as a problem.
In the main body of the home though, I agree!

GreyQueen

jinny wrote: »

That's really funny GQ sounds like around here!
I have some 'interesting' neighbours but they are ok really
Put it this way...you don't need a telly. It's the beauty of living on the top floor.

I'm on the groundfloor, which makes it interesting. Usually something bat$h*t crazy going on at least once a week. When I come back after an absence of a day or three, one of the first things I do it call SuperGran over on the far side of the block for all the gossip.

Tell ya, if you could televise the public areas of this block and the car park around it, you'd have the makings of a very interesting fly-on-the-wall documentary.

Don't have a telly and don't miss it one little bit.

ali-t

I started reading the book today and a, surprised there are no pictures. O would have liked to see it in action as inspiration - this thread has given me more ideas about kondoing than the book has. I'm off work soon for a week so will go kondo crazy then.