The KonMarie method

mrs-moneypenny

We have lived in this house over 30 years and the stuff has been built up slowly over that time by Us And our 5 children, I therefore know for a fact it's It going to get kondoed overnight. I see each little area I clear as a success and it keeps me motivated to move on to other areas.

Knit_Witch

Floss wrote: »

I know that we are opted out of the "open" register, the sellable bit, and we have had personalised mail to both of us. Only election staff, candidates, political parties & peeps in elected roles like councillors or sitting MP can use the "full register".

I am waiting to see if they come round to ask if we will be voting on the 7th - the answer is NO (we already voted by post :rotfl:)

PollyWollyDoodle

Dustykitten wrote: »

For those who are further along the road than me how do you stop despair from setting in?

Clothes done (mine but boys and DH do their own and are not too bad)
Books done (mine, need to encourage other family members)

Paperwork next but I can't help looking around, thinking about the full loft, garage and shed and thinking OMG this is going to take so long, will it ever end.

That's how I felt after paperwork, and I think that's why she recommends doing things in a certain order. When I feel defeated I go and open the underwear drawer to remind myself that this WORKS. I do think that there's a 'Tetris' stage though where you seem to have every single thing in the house on the kitchen table/spare room bed and nothing fits anywhere. Keep going, because there will come a point (usually after several trips to the chazzer) when it starts to work. I hope so anyway as I'm still at Stage 2!

Floss

Knit_Witch wrote: »

I am waiting to see if they come round to ask if we will be voting on the 7th - the answer is NO (we already voted by post :rotfl:)

They will know you have postal votes, as one of our letters advised us to use our postal votes for them!!

GreyQueen

Dustykitten wrote: »

For those who are further along the road than me how do you stop despair from setting in?

Clothes done (mine but boys and DH do their own and are not too bad)
Books done (mine, need to encourage other family members)

Paperwork next but I can't help looking around, thinking about the full loft, garage and shed and thinking OMG this is going to take so long, will it ever end.

I think a lot of decluttering gets halted because of that feeling of overwhelm but that it needs to be recognised as just a feeling, not an absolute fact which can't be surmounted.

Unless you have a very unusual lifestyle, your Stuff was not delivered a tipper-truckful at a time. It probably came in little by little, a bag here, a box there. Logically, it can go out the same way.

Say you have an area such a a loft, a shed, a garage, which presents as a great solid mass of Stuff. I have seen these IRL, you lift the door and the place is rammed floor to roof, it's solid. What can a person do?

The only way I can see if that you get hold of the items nearest the loft hatch or the door and you remove and then process them. Then the next ones and the next ones. Eventually, you reach the floor/ ceiling/ rear wall of the space. If you keep at it, there's no way you don't get it done, that garage isn't the length of a football pitch, even the biggest domestic shed isn't the size of an I!EA barn.

If some of the retrieved items are keepers but need to be re-instated in a more orderly fashion, you may have to designate another area of the home as a temporary staging area whilst you get to the bottom of the area to be decluttered.

The process of having your home at sixes-and-sevens isn't a bundle of laughs and I'm not going to insult anyone by pretending it is. But, when you start to see space opening up, when the seemingly endless lot of chazzer and dump runs finally tails off, the exhilaration is unbeatable.

Keep your pecker up, my dear, and we will root for you or commiserate with you, whatever you need at that moment.

Dustykitten

Thanks for all your tips.

GQ the loft is not that bad and I know where everything is up ther, it is ordered into sections, there is just stuff we don't need. Alot of stuff we don't need!

I have taken all the books to the charity book shop and DS3 has discarded most of the others, I'll add those to the current CS box.

I think it was a lack of a plan after paperwork, it seems just like everything else next, so I have written a list of areas, linen, china, vases, garden tools etc so that it feels more manageable. That means that I can concentrate mainly on the house first but that anything which is in the other locations will not get missed (the loft however is being left until after house sentimental. I don't want to give up before the living space is done).

So tomorrow if I have time or if not on the weekend the hard stuff starts - paperwork.

Clutterfree

You are all doing so well. :T

Progress is slow here but at least I'm managing to do a few bits after being in bed for 2 weeks.

I'm not ready to do paperwork yet but I do have a question.
I am trying to discard any irrelevant papers as soon as they come into the house rather than add to the amount that I already have.

Now today in the post I received a catalogue statement. The starting balance was nil, as was the ending balance - there were no orders or payments on it. Usually I'd put it in the ever growing pile to file never
However, today I thought do I actually need to keep it? It doesn't show any transactions so do I really need it? Now if I'd made a payment, then I'd keep it as proof.
What do you think?
Should I destroy it?
I'm thinking I should, but this whole concept is alien to me so what would you do?
Thanks!

GreyQueen

A couple of years back, I got tired of receiving and filing statements from several savings accounts with not-a-lot in them busily earning next-to-no interest. So I decluttered the accounts by closing them, thus no more statement angst.

Is it worth considering that you could declutter your cataglogue account? I appeciate that it might be a keeper for various reasons, just thought I'd throw the suggestion out there for consideration.

I've often found that rather than try to organise something, it's easier to shed it altogether. HTH.

PollyWollyDoodle

Dustykitten, this helped me enormously:

Buffythedebtslayer wrote: »

http://jershaanddup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/konmari-checklist1.pdf


thought you ladies might find this useful


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Helps to break down the vast and unending categories after clothing and books!

Knit_Witch

Floss wrote: »

They will know you have postal votes, as one of our letters advised us to use our postal votes for them!!

We had postal votes last time and they still came round!