The KonMarie method

Igamogam

oceanspirit wrote: »

I am picking up single items in other parts of my home when I spot them and sending them on their way if they are no longer loved or needed. So, progress is being made after all!

I am prone to a bit of kondo 'swoop and swipe' Works for me as I dont need to deliberate and can send single items on their way very easily this way:D

Clutterfree

Lara wrote: »

I carried on with "the" task today after reading half of the book last night. Two large recycle bags to CS again. Mostly clothes this time and dare I say it most with tags on! I am not going to buy to fit into anymore!

Have a bag to go to M&S swoop bin tomorrow.

I'm not sure I like the idea of the towels being rolled and stood up. I don't think mine will do that as I always buy sheet size towels :-/. Still the airing cupboard where they are stored is towards the bottom of the list to do.

Back to reading the book ready for tomorrow's "workout".:T

Well done!
I know I was ashamed at the items that still had tags on which I bought because they were "bargains"!

What's a swoop bin please?

My towels are bath sheets and I tried rolling them but that didn't give me joy, so now they are folded the Anthea Turner way (with one extra fold in half at the end) and stood upright.

Anthea's methods starts at about 1:07...

http://youtu.be/gF9Fog_NZdg

GreyQueen

Morning all.

I was kondo-ing in my bed this morning, suddenly had a LBM about something I saw when getting something else out of a drawer yesterday and now have the kernel of the next chazzer donation bag.

For those who have grabby household members, may I suggest rolling towels and stacking them horizontally? Simply fold each towel, regardless of size, lengthwise, then roll it up into a tube then stack it like logs.

It's not unattractive inside a cupboard and it's virtually impossible for even the most careless person to disarrange the other towels by grabbing a rolled one anywhere out of the stack. I insitigated this at the parental home a few years ago, after Mum had set me loose on the linen cupboard, and the system holds up to rough usage and I haven't had to re-do it. She was sceptical about it at first, but it does work.

This morning, after a leisurely brekky, I shall be re-loading my airing cupboard which has finally dried out after the flood. It would have been do-able last weekend but I was out of town visiting family and haven't had the energy to tackle it since. I intend to be ruthless about re-organisation and if anything doesn't meet the cut, it ain't going back in. Several items got decluttered already, but there are a few more which could go, once I have had time to consider them.

Righty, this ain't getting the baby a bonnet, must eat something and get at it. Have a happy kondo saturday, lovely peeps.

june89

Clutterfree wrote: »

Well done!
I know I was ashamed at the items that still had tags on which I bought because they were "bargains"!

What's a swoop bin please?

My towels are bath sheets and I tried rolling them but that didn't give me joy, so now they are folded the Anthea Turner way (with one extra fold in half at the end) and stood upright.

Anthea's methods starts at about 1:07...

http://youtu.be/gF9Fog_NZdg

Along those lines, I use the Martha Stewart method of folding fitted sheets. They make me so happy to look at, especially when I hear so many people say they simply can't be folded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-a2FR1iwqg

Debsnewbudget

There is a competition to win our leaders book
Check out the Lakeland facebook page
Then if you win (instead of me ) please Kondo the book to me after you have read it :rotfl:

Picklepot

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

On drawer in the under the stairs unit freed by proper folding of carrier bags. Also, can anyone suggest what to do with the strong paper bags given as carrier bags?

My fortnightly recycling collection will take shredded paper if its 'contained' within a paper bag . I have also used the strong big bags that potatoes come in and the waxy bags that my dried dog food comes in. Its worth asking you local collection service.

Busymumofthreeplusdog

3 large bags of soft toys left the premises 30 mins ago! It took a bit of doing, especially youngest DS, but I used the Toy Story argument that toys were meant to be played with not just sat on a shelf and by taking them to charity shop another child could have the joy of them. Seemed to work.

iQueen

Igamogam wrote: »

I am prone to a bit of kondo 'swoop and swipe' Works for me as I dont need to deliberate and can send single items on their way very easily this way:D

I love kondoing by 'swoop and swipe'! It's not as efficient as doing a whole category, but I get a spark of joy to have done something! Also, there's a childish thrill in taking some junk by surprise, as it sits there smirking! :rotfl:

Debsnewbudget wrote: »

There is a competition to win our leaders book
Check out the Lakeland facebook page
Then if you win (instead of me ) please Kondo the book to me after you have read it :rotfl:

Got the book, so no competition from me! Hope you win!

I shall be keeping my book, because I have realised that MK's method can be applied to other areas of my life, besides household clutter - primarily, uncluttering my mind, changing/kondoing some less than joyful relationships, sorting out my unfulfilled ambitions, and planning a joyful life. :j Oh, and de-cluttering my garden!

mamaninie

I received a letter yesterday saying that my gift aided donations for the local hospice charity shop had raised £106 :j:j:j And to spare my blushes I've been dropping bags at another 3 or 4 different cs on the high street, so I will be awaiting my gift aid letters from them with bated breath.

Its a double sided gift - one for the charities and one for my tax return :money: :rotfl:

And in other Kondoing news - I've been doing the washable nappies - since the smallest person is now happily using the toilet, I've got them all out to sell - managed to get rid of a good few, but still have (several) sets still remaining :eek: and in true Kondo fashion, they weren't all just in use in the bathroom, oh no, I had ones in the loft that I'd used for my eldest and decided I didn't like, other ones that I bought subsequently with no. 1 or 2 and then lent to someone else - (still waiting for those back ) and other ones that no. 3 had grown out of and had been shoved in the bottom of the wardrobe. Some had made it to the for sale pile in my NCT nearly new sale box, but hadn't sold. And then I found the swimming nappies in the pile of swimming stuff under the utility room sink!!!!!!

Anything that doesn't sell over the next month are going to be parcelled up to go to the Cloth Bank which sends parcels of washable nappies to families in financial or otherwise crisis.

Lara

Our charity shops don't take soft toys . The RSPCA shop quickly took the vet bed new pieces and the dog bed quilt and cover though. Haven't done much today but at least all sorted items have gone to CS. I'm a hoarder I've decided as always saying "keep that just in case". I am now beginning to realise what a stupid sentence! Lol