The KonMarie method

Igamogam

Knit_Witch wrote: »

I think you mean Tracklement - oddments basically!

Definitely tranklements in this household..........came from my Yorkshire born grandmother

Kondoing on hold here other than the odd swoop and swipe......dont get the time during the week. Long weekend ahead so hopeful to get some more sustained kondoing done............only 20 weeks left to get the place I want to be in terms of clutter freedom:D

Dustykitten

Morning all

IF KM thinks tidying changes your life then having a first babe takes life to an entirely new level. I guess the question is though how much of all that stuff we had did we really need. I never did understand why my neighbour had a machine into which she fed dirty nappies and it wrapped them likes sausages, yuck!

Upstairs is quite a mess mid kondoing, not moving on until that lot is cleared this evening. Itching to start on books, I think I'll find magazines more difficult.

Off to the big yellow warehouse with a friend today, I shall not purchase loads of cr*p I don't need.

Igamogam

Dustykitten wrote: »

Morning all
I never did understand why my neighbour had a machine into which she fed dirty nappies and it wrapped them likes sausages, yuck!

I have always thought that was a tranklement too far too:D

iQueen

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Morning all
Some more books threw themselves onto the Cs pile yesterday so I have another bag added to the things to take at the weekend.
Just been round mils and kondoed a load of weeds and overgrowth from her back garden.

Any chance you can pop round and kondo the brambles and hedge in my FRONT garden?

Just finished reading a thriller that I bought in the 1970s. Wish I had read it then - I would have enjoyed it. Reading it now, was a mistaken challenge. The author was very present (his photo on the back, didn't help - thin moustache!) The plot was (now) transparently ridiculous, and the characters misogynistically stereo-typical. The female agent was completely incompetent and finally settled for a role she could probably manage - a wife! :rotfl:

I won't make that mistake again. Can't decide whether to put in the CS pile or the recycling sack!

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Re what others have said about new doors opening once you start kondoing, after years in the same job, I have randomly been offered extra hours doing a slightly different job as well at the same place, couldn't believe it when it happened, everything just seems to be falling into place. I know I have less time now but it is infinitely more rewarding and I'm enjoying life so much more and do feel more interesting and fulfilled.
Easily pleased I know - I now have two part time jobs and I'm up at the top of the happiness tree. But it's whatever floats your own personal boat isn't it.

Congratulations on getting to the Sheer Happiness Level! I'm there too! It makes me realise that JOY has been missing from my life for some time - I'm hanging on to it like Grim Death! :dance:

Isn't it strange how happiness seems to affect things well outside of our control? :T

Oh, forgot to say: I kondoed the 2-hour Woman's Hour Election Debate on Radio 4! Only 15 minutes to go, then I can turn on the radio again!

VJsmum

So what is tranklement and what is Komono???:p

I have started in the office - we had a little 8 draw unit from the swedish furniture place. In it was assorted keys that may or may not be for windows in this house that we have lived in for 17 years; a set of dominoes; a broken watch that may or may not be worth good money; a carriage key for a preserved railway carriage; 2 guitar strings and some post its. 8 drawer storage unit has gone.

There were 2 box files with DS's maths work - his GCSE is in 3 weeks and he has other maths stuff to revise. Gone.

We have two printers in here - neither of which work at the moment. Though one is more likely to than the other.

I was contemplating getting DS a bookcase from swedish furniture place until I spotted one behind the telly. It has a load of games for a playstation we no longer have,2 ornaments which could go elsewhere (possibly the chazzer); and a load of kids books that could go in their rooms - or the chazzer. Bookcase will fit very nicely into DS new room when it's decorated - and he can Kondo his books to fit it.

You don't see till you look, do you?

Floss

iQueen wrote: »

...Just finished reading a thriller that I bought in the 1970s. Wish I had read it then - I would have enjoyed it. Reading it now, was a mistaken challenge. The author was very present (his photo on the back, didn't help - thin moustache!) The plot was (now) transparently ridiculous, and the characters misogynistically stereo-typical. The female agent was completely incompetent and finally settled for a role she could probably manage - a wife! :rotfl:

I won't make that mistake again. Can't decide whether to put in the CS pile or the recycling sack!...

Was it so bad that some might think it good?!

iQueen

Floss wrote: »

Was it so bad that some might think it good?!

Ha ha! Only a curmudgeonly ancient male codger, who has not realised that spying is now highly sophisticated and technological today. And that women are competent, thinking beings! :rotfl:

mrs-moneypenny

iQueen wrote: »

Any chance you can pop round and kondo the brambles and hedge in my garden?


Congratulations on getting to the Sheer Happiness Level! I'm there too! It makes me realise that JOY has been missing from my life for some time - I'm hanging on to it like Grim Death! :dance:

Isn't it strange how happiness seems to affect things well outside of our control? :T

I'd happily kondo your brambles if you lived near, I love that sort of gardening it gives a huge sense of job satisfaction.

RE. sheer happiness level can I recommend the art of brilliance by Andy cope and Andy Whittaker, if you google them there is plenty to read online but books are available. For the past several years they have come to our local high school and spent time motivating the students and then have an evening presentation for the parents.
One of the things I take from this each year is the way society is so wrapped up in destination addiction.
I can be happy on Friday if I can make it through the week. I can be happy on holiday if I can make it through the next couple of months. I'll be happy when I retire in a few years, etc etc. we are so wrapped up in future plans that we dprive ourselves of the opputinity to be happy and savour each day as it comes.
Depressingly he said this time the average person lives 4,000 weeks if you actively despise Monday's you are basically writing off a 7th of your life to misery!
Also he mentions that mass media has increased the exposure and power of celebrity by saying that "an epidemic of affluenza is sweeping through the English speaking world - an obsessive, envious keeping up with the joneses- that make us twice as prone to depression, anxiety and addictions than people in other developed nations. And now we are affecting the rest of the world with this virulent virus."
We are all too focused to being busy rather than happy.
I have just been on their website and printed off an 18 pager to read titled flourishing in the work place it won't be clutter as once I've read it it will go to work with DH. Well worth looking at along side KM stuff

I'm off to work now, 'see' you later

gallygirl

iQueen wrote: »

Can't decide whether to put in the CS pile or the recycling sack!

Don't wish it on anyone else if you don't think it will bring them joy. In the recycling with it . In the same way I did with 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' - got 1/3 way through, wished he'd taken a gun to his mother as well and dropped it in the rubbish bag on a Ryanair flight :T.

iQueen

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

I'd happily kondo your brambles if you lived near, I love that sort of gardening it gives a huge sense of job satisfaction.

RE. sheer happiness level can I recommend the art of brilliance by Andy cope and Andy Whittaker, if you google them there is plenty to read online but books are available. For the past several years they have come to our local high school and spent time motivating the students and then have an evening presentation for the parents.
One of the things I take from this each year is the way society is so wrapped up in destination addiction.
I can be happy on Friday if I can make it through the week. I can be happy on holiday if I can make it through the next couple of months. I'll be happy when I retire in a few years, etc etc. we are so wrapped up in future plans that we dprive ourselves of the opputinity to be happy and savour each day as it comes.
Depressingly he said this time the average person lives 4,000 weeks if you actively despise Monday's you are basically writing off a 7th of your life to misery!
Also he mentions that mass media has increased the exposure and power of celebrity by saying that "an epidemic of affluenza is sweeping through the English speaking world - an obsessive, envious keeping up with the joneses- that make us twice as prone to depression, anxiety and addictions than people in other developed nations. And now we are affecting the rest of the world with this virulent virus."
We are all too focused to being busy rather than happy.
I have just been on their website and printed off an 18 pager to read titled flourishing in the work place it won't be clutter as once I've read it it will go to work with DH. Well worth looking at along side KM stuff

I'm off to work now, 'see' you later

In some ways I have been very lucky. I was born into a world where 'ordinary' people didn't, generally, have aspirations beyond are gular job and a basic, comfortable home. I followed the pattern and cheerfully meandered through life.

Looking back, I've been very happy most of the time, despite some painful events and some very hard times.

It's only in the past few years that I have realised that acquisition has become the major driver in life for most people. From educational tests and certificates, to 'careers', to property, and through to pensions.

More recently, I recognised that contentment in the present is the most important goal for genuine happiness.

Unfortunately, I see too many people I know, driving towards material goals. Some of the middle-aged ones are wondering why their careers (which they apparently 'love') and their wealth still leave them dissatisfied and miserable.

I shall look look up the two Andys, and see what they have to say.

As for 'motivating students', as a retired teacher of secondary age students, I am convinced that children are born motivated to learn: they learn whatever they need (and when they need it,) during infancy. From then on, they are demotivated by being force-fed 'training for work'.

Anyway, let's continue kondoing our lives!

(The brambles are in Wales, and you'd be welcome... but the house is still in Kondo Khaos. On the other hand, the underwear drawers, wardrobes, and airing cupboard are a joy to behold!) :j