The KonMarie method

GreyQueen

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

I had a moment this afternoon when I felt really fed up and thought why did I start this? Then it occurred to me that if I do it properly I will never ever have to sort out my airing cupboard again. That thought kept me going!

This is my thought, too. KM isn't just about decluttering, it's about changing the way you think, so that there will be effectively a joyfulness filter between you and future acquistions, and that less stuff overall, and more approrpiate stuff will come in. Plus my airing cupboard is now a place which I peep at, alongside the underwear drawer, to top up my joyfulness quotient.

But I do know what people mean about the paperwork, there was a bit when doing the pension stuff where I had things all over the shop and had a bit of a moment and felt like going out and leaving it for the rest of the day. I persevered, and am glad I stuck with it.

:eek: OMG, Igamogam, hope they soon get you sorted out and you're not in too much pain.

Clutterfree, thank you, am well on the mend, but still feeling a bit under the weather. Easing back into what passes for normal life, chez GQ.

I'm drinking the first tea of the day and waiting to see which way the weather jumps, as it's a bit ambigious atm, and I do want to go to the allotment for a couple of hours at some point today. The rain really brought the weeds along nicely, don't you find?

Clutterfree

Igamogam wrote: »

Was planning a full on productive KM weekend but ended up in hospital on Friday night and am still here...........Under observation and may well have my gall bladder KM'd next week!!!!!!!!

Hugs Igamogam. I had my gallbladder removed 15 years ago.
Gallstone pain is like no other so I totally empathise.

mavvymoo

Igamogam wrote: »

Was planning a full on productive KM weekend but ended up in hospital on Friday night and am still here...........Under observation and may well have my gall bladder KM'd next week!!!!!!!!

Igamogam Wishing you well hope all goes ok and yes that is taking KM to a whole different level
Well done Dusty kitten on the new job

Not a lot of action here but on the hit list for later is the freezer and maybe a couple of cupboards.
Going to my first bootsale of the year :eek: Bad news for me who buys everything in sight But my new mantra is NOT to buy anything unless I can sell it for a profit or I Love it and it brings me joy. So a big test for me but I really do not want more random stuff in the house even if I have now got empty places to shove it :rotfl:

The sofas look lovely and the room looks twice the size it did as this one is about half the size of the old one.

No clutter anywhere and even DH is putting everything back in its place

Mav x

PollyWollyDoodle

Ouch Igamogam, hope that you're soon feeling better.

Paperwork nearly made me give up the whole process so I'm relieved to hear that others have found it hard as well. It wasn't so much the decision-making as the sheer volume of it and the emotions that some of it provoked.

I really need to get on but the garden is waving long green tendrils at me, GreyQueen you sum it up perfectly - the rain has indeed brought the weeds on nicely! :rotfl:

greent

((hugs)) Igamogam x

GreyQueen

Enjoy your boot sale, mavvymoo.

I love a bootsale, or I used to love them. Went to my first of 2015 with great anticipation at Easter and felt totally disinterested. Yes, there were specific things I would have bought, had I seen them, such as books not in the library by particular authors, but many things weren't needed.

I guess a lot of it is about already having a well-equipped household. If you have enough pots, pans, towels etc, why would you need more? And not having children means I don't have the constant churn of age-appropriate toys and clothing moving in and out of my life.

I'll be visiting family for the Bank Hol later this month and would normally have tied it in with a boot sale. Now, I think I won't and will go walking in the woods with my Dad instead. My parents are in their seventies, pretty healthy and definately compos mentis. These things won't last indefinately, and time spent together is more joyful to me than going shopping.

VJsmum

Update: DD Kondoed half the cuddlies :T. I didn't think any would go..

She did it exactly the right way, I said "tip them all on the floor, pick up each one and really think about whether you want to keep it, or we could let them go somewhere where someone will appreciate them more". She was starting to get twitchy and said "you are going to make me get rid of them aren't you?" I promised I wouldn't, but just wanted her to think about them rather than merely shove them all back in a tub.

Half have gone! And about 5 are "I don't want them, but I don't want to get rid of them". They can probably live in the spare room.

She is 19 nearly, and has hoarding tendencies, so I should like to introduce the whole "giving joy" concept rather than keep, keep, keep.

She also is happy to let some big childish things go (when I became a wo(man), I put away childish things... :cool:) a dolls house, a cruise ship toy that will bring such joy to someone else.

Shoes for her today.

On the downside she wants her new room bright red on a captain America theme :rotfl: so maybe not quite putting away childish things.:D

Off to paint a ceiling..

in_need_of_direction

That's a lot further than I've managed with my dd, vjsmum. I wish she would just start rather than stick permanently in defensive mode.

cpt574

Hi, hope no one minds me joining in. I read the book a few months ago and have been doing pretty well, but decided yesterday that I really needed to go back to the beginning and make sure each category I have already tacked is complete before moving on because some things have been niggling me. Even though I thought I had done clothes I still managed to remove two bin bags full yesterday! Today is books and I am struggling, about 90% of them are cookery books, and I love the way they all look on the shelves, and in many ways get great pleasure from them, BUT I feel guilty and not completely happy with them. I feel on the one hand because they fit in the shelves ok and look great and in some ways make me happy I should just keep them, and on the other hand know they make me feel guilty because I want to cook more but I dont, also my OH really doesn't like them. Much so I know some of it is that I am rebelling by keeping them:embarasse hope someone can help guide me because I would love to finish this today, thanks

tibawo

Congrats to those who have got a jobs and hugs to those feeling under the weather or in hospital. Led hear trying to motivate myself by reading what you are all up to!

I have dd party today,it has been a full on weekend, so much so I have not even washed the school uniforms yet... Eek!

My KD mission is at a stand still at the mo due to dd bed coming, after failing to come when they said , they then just turned up with a mattress and no frame. So I still can't sort her room so her stuff is still in mine!

However I can still pre kondo bits just lying there as I straighten up!