The KonMarie method

somerandom

Lara Some toys go well on eBay - like anything it's worth looking in the completed listings to see what sort of prices they are attracting. I imagine the Asterix toys would be popular. I quite often save toys to sell a few weeks before Christmas - they fetch good prices then.

Lara

somerandom wrote: »

Lara Some toys go well on eBay - like anything it's worth looking in the completed listings to see what sort of prices they are attracting. I imagine the Asterix toys would be popular. I quite often save toys to sell a few weeks before Christmas - they fetch good prices then.

Thank you. Shall have a look at completed listings :T.

mavvymoo

Grey Queen You were 100% right about the bootsale.I really found it dull and really wanted to get home to kondo :rotfl:the freezer.

I did spend £2 on a lovely cardy which I did really like not sure I loved it but half way there ! and that was the total spend.

Came home and joy of joys did do the freezer all sorted out kondo standing on end where it could be done

Stopped at recyling on the way home and rehomed some speakers and other bits.

Off to pack some E*ay sales now (more gone) and not replace anything.

Only thing I have missed so far is the dogs lead had two and kondo'd the wrong one and now have the one left with the broken end But it will do the job

Mav x

Craftyscholar

iQueen wrote: »

From what you say about cooking and your cookbooks, it sounds to me that you are keeping most of yours for some unconscious reason (apart from rebellion!)

You like the look of them... but you hardly use them. Are they a signal to people that you are a 'wonderful cook' or that you want/ed to be? Do they represent an aspiration that you can't be bothered to actually pursue? Some of my books are just that, or they represent what I used to be.

Ask yourself searching questions, and answer them honestly.

I was the same about my library... they were visual proof that I am intelligent and educated! But, I already know that, and I don't need to prove it. If other people cannot recognise what I am - that's their problem!

HTH

Ouch!
Not cookery books, but still dead centre bullseye.:rotfl:
Actually two bullseyes with the reference to 'used to be'.
Think I need to have a serious look at my bookshelves and a serious think about myself and where/who/what I want to be.

dreamywings1

Ive been doing this for a few weeks now and ive already cleared my home of 32 bin bags of stuff! Its fab

choose_wisely

I can't believe it is so long since I posted here, although I read several times a day. A lot has happened.

Two weeks ago I enlisted reluctant help from my husband to remove some rubbish from the garage as he was complaining that there was no room to get in to sort it. There was a lot of old wood and metal that was easy to decide about, and once that had gone to the recycling centre we were able to empty and dispose of one of the fridge freezers that were out there.

It felt so good to do this. I managed to do a bit more indoors for a couple of days (not much on Tuesdays and Thursdays as I have my 2 year old granddaughter) then on the Thursday afternoon I noticed a mark on the wall above the tall cupboard in the alcove. As suspected it was water dripping down. Cue frantic cash to the airing cupboard immediately above it, and although it was wet on the floor we could not see where it was coming from, so then had to go into the dark recesses of one of the as yet unkondoed areas of the loft and move a massive amount of stuff including boxes upon boxes of photographs.

The hot water tank in the airing had sprung a leak and has now been replaced with a taller one which has required the removal of the shelf that held the towels. The cupboard downstairs has been emptied, dried out, and only its rightful contents replaced. The corner of the loft has not yet been dealt with, but some of the stuff that had to be moved has come down and been sorted. A boot load has gone to the recycling centre (5 old frying pans anyone?) and four boxes are waiting to go to the charity shop.

Lessons learned:

Carry on with the kondo ASAP
Never let stuff get in the way of essential services again

The decision to discard stuff is, however, now becoming easier out of necessity.

allybee101

Well I've spent most of my day off today so far sleeping or sitting down reading MSE and watching yootoobe videos. I was involved in the running of a convention this weekend that meant I was busy from Thursday evening til yesterday afternoon. My feet are still sore (despite flat shoes!). I might have to leave kondoing for later in the week when I can move again!

Igamogam

Still stuck in hospital:( I am planning what is going to be KM'd next........its keeping the little grey cells active if nothing else. I don't feel ill and not in any pain so am champing the bit to get home. Not going to do anything silly but I thought paperwork as that I tend to spread out on floor/ table and won't involve anything strenuous

Blue_Doggy

I'm impressed by the wonderful work that's been a-doing here.

Have been doing little bits of kondo in fits and starts - had to give up on the books as the clutter in front of the shelves means I can't actually get to them . So yesterday morning I cleared a shelf in the bathroom cupboard - started while the bath was running - found some unbelievable stuff in there which got kondo-ed straightaway. An old shampoo of my late Mum's (at least 11 years old), and my temporary denture :eek: together with the crown it replaced 20 years ago :eek::eek::eek:.
Repacked the "dressings plasters and bandages" into one box (recycled biscuit tin) holding the items in smaller boxes (recycled cotton-bud boxes).

Spent this morning going into an emotional pulp sorting my Mum's greetings cards, I think she'd kept every one they'd received since the 1950s (needed to make sure there was no personal information on them first). Most are now in the recycling bin, which gets emptied on Wednesday and I have another empty archive box.

Also went through three boxes of papers which went into the spare room at Christmas in the interests of reducing the clutter in the living-room. Now reduced to one half-box :j .

I'm sure that all this paper breeds like wire coat-hangers when not supervised .

Craftyscholar

cpt574 wrote: »

I have decided to sell quite a few books on Amazon with the knowledge that if they don't sell in a month or so I will give them away, have sorted out £24 to trade in with Amazon, and am still going, maybe 50 books still on the floor, and about 10 carrier bags full ready to go!

I wondered about using Amazon trade-in for some of my books, but I wasn't sure about getting them boxed up and sent off.
Books are heavy if I have to get them parcelled up and carried to the post office.