The KonMarie method

Biker*Chick

springdreams wrote: »

Good evening fellow konverts

I have successfully kondoed the contents of one floor to ceiling bookshelf - two left to go ...

Anyone want to be the G on the alphabet thread?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5181314

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So you intro'ed me to the elites and now I have to get my head around 'kondoing' ??!!! :eek: :rotfl:

I obviously have MUCH to learn springdreams - serves me right for spending the past year or so exclusively in the comping forum. I've missed SO much :rotfl:

ETA: OK, I've read the OP's post and a few after it...will have to check out this Kon Marie method thingy then

freyasmum

Clutterfree wrote: »

Ladies, ladies I'm not planning on going anywhere for a good while yet! :rotfl:

I'm hoping by that time I will have a lovely daughter-in-law or granddaughter to give it to!

I have a daughter, and I'm quite lovely. Just sayin... :A

springdreams

tibawo wrote: »

Like a few people on here my kitchen is small so want to use my storage wisely. Whilst washing up today, I was looking at the bottle/wine storage at either side of my oven. Whilst I do store cordial in some slots the others remain empty.

I tried to fit in the thin tub with samosa bags in and it fits perfectly. Only snag is the tub it bright pink! This means I can use these slots more wisely. However, the colour of the tub will not bring me joy! Has anyone any ideas.

Either to smarten these ones or some similar size. Roughly wine bottle size. My kitchen is beech/black with bits of purple.

Officially I borrowed these pink ones from my craft stall stuff and they will have to be returned at some point.

I am finding the Amazon trade in hard. Games not used, so no joy yet my old me keeps saying but that cost x and they are only going to give me so little for it. How do people get past this?

This is the same problem I have been having. However, I have tried ways of turning the items back into cash - eBay, car boots, cash for clothes etc., and have realised that all of these, other than the cash for clothes, take a lot of hard work and time. And all you get back from all the various methods is a few pennies as eBay fees take a huge chunk of anything you make from there, cash for clothes only pay 50p per kilogram (I was paid £14 for 7 black bin bags stuffed to the gills with clothes) and people who buy from car boots only want to pay pennies for things.

At the end of the day, as another poster said, the money is already spent. You will never get back what you paid or anywhere near what you paid. So unless you want to spend your time ebaying or carbooting for pennies, and getting disheartened because all you are getting is just pennies, just give the stuff to the chazzer. That is what I am going to do from now on.

p.s. could you use a pringles tube for the carrier bags? One of the flavours has a purple tube iirc.

springdreams

Biker*Chick wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek:

So you intro'ed me to the elites and now I have to get my head around 'kondoing' ??!!! :eek: :rotfl:

I obviously have MUCH to learn springdreams - serves me right for spending the past year or so exclusively in the comping forum. I've missed SO much :rotfl:

ETA: OK, I've read the OP's post and a few after it...will have to check out this Kon Marie method thingy then

Welcome Biker*Chick - I'm sure you will find this thread as entertaining and helpful as the elite thread, although this one is admittedly easier to get to grips with

Biker*Chick

springdreams wrote: »

Welcome Biker*Chick - I'm sure you will find this thread as entertaining and helpful as the elite thread, although this one is admittedly easier to get to grips with

Thanks springdreams :A I'm sure I will - and it's lovely to get others' perspectives about shifting stuff you simply don't use or need.

I've all but stopped flea-baying too because of the extortionate fees, and is it worth all the time and hassle anyway? :cool:

Thanks all - I'll keep dipping in here that's for sure :T x

iQueen

Time to put in a reminder for Newbies, I think!

iQueen

Time to put in a reminder for Newbies, I think!

The best way to store carrier bags: checkout 'folding plastic bags' on Google or YouTube. We call it samosa-ing, in kondo-speak.

Checkout 'folding fitted sheets' on YouTube, for the way to fold them perfectly. Some of us have found that storing a matching duvet cover and the remaining pillowcase/s, inside one p/case, keeps the set together and it can be 'filed' on edge in the airing-cupboard.

Checkout how to 'burrito' a duvet cover on YouTube, for the quickest, low-energy change of cover!

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GreyQueen

Morning all.

I think the issue about value vs decluttering is a hard one to face. Because none of us like to feel that we've made unwise decisions in the past, that we've been wasteful of our resources etc. I guess that being on a low income puts me more towards the majority here than being part of a minority, and I certainly struggle with those emotions, too.

:mad: We paid GOOD MONEY for this stuff and, dammit janet, it OWES us and we need to collect on that value, somehow, anyhow.

My take on it is that 20% of most things was the VAT, which was a state-mandated gouge, not part of the intrinsic value of the item at all. Most of the rest of the chunk of the price represents various mark-ups for profit; the manufacturer, the distributor, the retailer. Very little of the price represents the actual cost of making something, its raw materials, the slkill in putting it together.

That doens't mean I feel we should, as individuals, treat things lightly. Just because you can buy a teeshirt for £1.99 doesn't mean that the Aral Sea isn't disappearing because the rivers which fed it are being diverted to irrigate cotton fields. Or that many many people, just as important and lovable as ourselves, aren't living miserable lives in factories and sweatshops to feed our appetite for consumer goods. That's all going on, for sure.

Rather, I think we need to look hard at what we value. Rich or poor, you can't buy more lifetime, you can only use it wisely. Someone known to a friend of mine was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was a very rich man, and he offered his doctors a million pounds to save him but they knew they couldn't and didn't even try to take his money. He was dead within weeks of diagnosis.

Don Aslett, the Freedom from Clutter guy, wrote about this. About how, if you worked out the amount of time and effort you spent to sell your discards, you'd be working for pennies an hour. If someone offered you a job at 50p-£1 an hour, what would you do? Exactly!

Sometimes, like MK writes in her book, the lesson an item was meant to teach us is that we don't need that item in our lives. So, it's served its purpose and can now be released to serve someone else.

rosie383

I haven't been kondoing as such, but I am absolutely refusing to bring anything to our new house that we neither want nor need. I have made some inroads. Most of my stuff is done. It's amazing how easily I am letting go of things. For example books: I love my Bill Bryson's which have followed me around for years, dog-eared and well read. This time I have thanked and donated them. If I feel the need to revisit them,I can get them easily from the library or a car boot for 20p.
More difficult is dh. He keeps so much stuff. I am slowly, very, very slowly getting rid of some of his stuff. He did clearout a big cupboard with tools and things yesterday. His view was that it was no bother to take with us. I had previously sorted all his electrical/computer type things into proper storage boxes, before KM came along. Because they were all neatly in boxes, he figured we could keep it all. Asked me for another box. I flatly refused and explained(very patiently,I promise!) that he did not need to keep 23 scart leads, or chargers for things we no longer even need. There is a long way to go with his stuff, and I haven't even started on his double-stuffed to the gills-wardrobe!!!
Once he had sorted his cupboard,he no longer needed the extra storage box and even gave me two empty ones back and the bins are full! Yay!

Eventually even he agreed that lifting 10 boxes of tools etc, was better than 30!

GreyQueen what a lovely, thought-provoking post. Thank you for making it more clear for us. Have a good day everyone.

tibawo

Thanks to the people who have given me suggestions for my wine rack and to help me with my conscience of paying good money for something and finding it hard to let it go. I think one post was quite frank BUT it was ironically just what I needed!

I can see why it takes a while to properly KD now. As you know we are decorating dd bedroom and I am making her go through her tubs of random items. She was good working with me on a keep, maybe and no pile. Bits of lego etc got back where they belong. She made me laugh as she had 3 juggling balls and put one in each pile!

Been putting CDs onto iTunes as I do other things and have now found a box for Amazon stuff.

Leak on car done but car battery still needs sorting. Just got to get the old man to understand that the mechanic may be able to get hold of one for cheaper by about a tenner but I would have to give up some work which because of a zero hours contract would mean I would be thirty pounds minimum out of pocket! Hopefully can do this morning and then I can finally get rid of the carp and start to see how much I have done!