The KonMarie method

caitybabes

Hi all,

Thanks for all your posts this week, I have been reading along to keep my mind in gear.

Last Saturday we made £45 selling stuff we didn't want on eBay (bulky collection only items, that's all I can be bothered to do on eBay), today I've got one item listedlisted (under desk drawers no longer needed as we don't need the filing cabinet drawer anymore!) which is up to a tenner already so looking forward to that heading out the door soon.

This week I had a milestone mindset moment. Having grown out of my normal everyday and work dresses, I bought two maternity dresses on eBay for a five each. The first one arrived and had a side zip - but tricky to twist with a bump in the way and was a bit tight, plus not something I would have chosen colour wise had I seen it in a charity shop. However, I need clothing so I held on. The second one arrived yesterday and it is both comfortable and beautiful, total joy sparker! Result? I am going to pretend I spent a tenner on the lovely dress and pop the other one in the charity shop guilt free! Pre-Kondo I would have probably held on for a year and then got rid, despite not wearing it.

Success!

jinny

Hi my Dad used to rip up confdential letters then run then under a tap to make a kind of paper mache.

I had a letter from Sue Ryder chazzer to say my latest donations have raised £84. That is purely from komono as I didnt have a lot of clothes pre kondoing. :j

tibawo

Well done caitybabes on the ebay sales. Mine are due to end tomorrow and are up to a grand sum of 15 before fees. I am pleased with this as I will gain my space back from the front room where everything just seems to be in piles at the moment. Hoping to have a car boot next week end to shift other bits. Money is going towards debts as I want to kondo them as they have never brought me any joy!!

Can't wait for dd bed to come as then we can kodo rest of her room. Meanwhile I will continue to random kondo!

iQueen

GreyQueen wrote: »

I did buy two 15 eggs pkts at once recently as they are the only thing I go into a particular shop for, and it's not on my regular route. I was going to be starting on them that day, and they would be eaten well before their BB date.

Eggs last well beyond the BB date, usually at least a month, IME.

Test: Place any suspect egg/s in a bowl of cold water, to cover.

If they lie at the bottom of the bowl, on their sides, they are fine to eat as usual.
If they stand up on end,under the water, use them for baking. If they float put them carefully :eek: in the compost bin, without breaking... they are bad.

oceanspirit wrote: »

I wear the older things because usually they are more comfortable to wear around my home. It's a good point you've made that the nicer things are getting older whilst not being worn. That has made me think.

Ah, this proves MK's point - ALL our clothes should be comfortable and bring us joy!

grunnie

When I had kondoed all the paperwork I had loads of folders and looseleaf whatsits left so put them all to the charity shop. My OH was at a meeting recently and each person got handed 2 empty folders for their paperwork. My OH doesn't keep paperwork from this committee as he does it all on the computer so tried to say he didn't want them. When he got them home I found my initials inside - he had been given the ones I put to the charity :rotfl:shop.

PollyWollyDoodle

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's found paperwork so difficult. It's pretty much done now ... except that I keep finding additional little stashes. And then there's the charity committee paperwork that I haven't even started on yet. I have a tray in the hall for incoming post and in theory nothing leaves there until it's been opened and decided on : Action, File or Bin. That's the theory, anyway!

I had an embarrassing amount of plastic wallets, cardboard files and pockets when I'd finished and I've had a real inner struggle with 'they might come in useful' versus 'you are NEVER going to need that many and they're cheap as chips anyway'. I have put some inside the filing cabinet which is going on Freecycle, and I am giving some to a friend whose daughter is starting GCSEs next year, as she says she would use them (I'm not just passing on the problem, honest!). When I can bring myself to accept that I don't need more than 20 or so spares, the rest will go to the CS.

I shred anything with addresses or names on, just to be safe.

clippy_girl

I bought a shredder but could never be bothered to shred. I usually throw it all in the bottom of my recycling bin, addresses and all :eek:
I sold the shredder but will make an effort to shove stuff in my work bag to shred at work on the massive one (and not leave in my handbag for a month like I do with batteries I recycle at work )

I am still on holiday so just kondo'd two large bits of cheesecake we brought back from the Cheesecake Factory last night :rotfl: Bit embarrassed by our bin as it is also full of cupcake boxes

need to pack and somehow, despite all my clothes being rolled in zip up little bags my case has exploded and has stuff everywhere!

Igamogam

Things slowed down a bit here. Not because I have nothing to do but more a) its cold and miserable b) house project lingering so I cant get on in some areas/categories and c) just a little bit of avoidance techniques creeping back in:D

Thinking of choosing a small chore/project and seeing it through to the end to get my oomph back. Hmmm I have half an hour to fill a bag for CS........a bit of swoop and swipe may just do it!

Pooky

This week I've been like a Kondo whirlwind....well in my mind anyway.

Craft/fabric/wood stash - all gathered together, all sorted, thinned down, repacked and put away into half the space it was taking up - surplus in the garage awaiting being taken to a bootsale.

Kitchen - large corner cupboard and dresser sorted - a large box ready for bootsale, lots of lidless/bottomless tupperwear discarded, forgotten Christmas nibbles found (in the wrong cupboard - but never fear, they'll get eaten), some old china found (I'd forgotten I had it) found the rest of the set in the loft and have listed it on a local FB site and emailed a china buying service - I shall see what offers I get. A few kitchen items listed on local FB site and already sold - they're collecting later today.

Under the kitchen sink got a good go through, lots of nearly empty cleaners/bottles used up and disposed of leaving an empty container that's been disposed of before it fills up again!

I did my wardrobe weeks ago and had a real sort out when I got the summer stuff from the loft (I share a double wardrobe with DH so we only have seasonal stuff in there), but I've found as I open the wardrobe door each morning there's still stuff I'm pushing aside in favour of other items - so I shall need to do a 2nd assault on there this week. I did throw another 2 pairs of shoes away that really aren't fit to be worn, however comfy they are.

The garage was tidied and every single item came out and was checked before it went back in - had an entire car full of stuff for the tip, DD's took it off and disposed of it before I'd put everything else away so it couldn't sneak back in - I couldn't even tell you what was there now.

Why do we hold on to all this stuff!!!??

choose_wisely

I don't feel quite so paranoid about paperwork disposal as I now know I am not alone. As part of my last job I was involved in data protection audits and reported any breaches. It was surprising how many more senior staff failed to appreciate the importance.

As a break from paperwork I ventured into the loft today.

I found a spectrum ZX (circa 1980's) and a laptop (?1993) to go with the three computers in the hall (1998, 1999 and 2006) that have been waiting for over a year to have the hard drives removed before disposal as I know I have work related documents on them.

Perhaps my son will find time to do this now he is home.

Lots of empty boxes to recycle, about 50 books to go and masses of clothes. This is from one tiny corner. At least the opposite corner with the Christmas stuff in was sorted in January.