The KonMarie method

GreyQueen

Dustykitten, watch the cricket and do some gardening.

The cricket because it's fun and the gardening because it's fun and also it's the time of year when gardens can easily get away from you if neglected, and that just leads to more overwhelm down the line. I'd let everything else go hang in the good weather.

I've been playing on my garden which is a 300 sq meter allotment. D'you know how many weeds can grow on that amount of ground?! But I'm enjoying myself out there showing them cold steel. The strawbs and the blackcurrants are in flower and my courgettes (in pots) have come up, so there's good things coming my way.

Went to bed at 8.30 pm last night as was tired and have spent 10.5 hrs in bed, mostly asleep, and feel much better as a result.

Today, I shall kondo some more weeds, sow seeds and may do a dump run from the lottie to the tip with some green waste on the pushbike. I have some very nasty weeds on the lottie, like horsetail, and you don't want to be adding that your home composting systems.

Oh, and I finished the big bottle of shampoo yesterday, which PB was fretting about running out of before Bank Holiday weekend. Rational Brain though it would last well into May and was right. I shall get a quiet satisfaction from putting that bottle into the recycling bin later today.

Onwards!

cpt574

Wow jelly baby what a brilliant day! That is going to be a great start, your bedroom will be amazing with less stuff and new furniture and will inspire you to make all the rooms just as nice. I am itching to do more today but also feel in need of a weekend! The last couple have disappeared in a blur of necessary stuff and kondoing. Will maybe pick a couple of easy categories from my komono list.
Did manage to go to the cinema last night with my son, i bought an unlimited card with the intention of starting to do more things I enjoy, it has been a tricky year and now the house is starting to come together I want to start doing more fun stuff. And not just viewing a day out shopping as the only enjoyable thing to do! It was never that much fun, will have to be more creative and think of things I will actually enjoy!

Dustykitten

Good morning and thank you all for your input.

Please don't think cricket is a one off, I'll be watching DS3 in school matches Monday and Thursday (said he could not play Wednesday) and every Saturday/Sunday for the entire summer.

I have a plan to do a bit of all 4!

I need to sort out DS1's bank account stuff with him.
I want to get the table clear so we can all eat together some of the time over the weekend
I shall plant out everything that needs to be done as the ground is softer after the rain and remove the FMKs from the veg and fruit patches
I shall watch some of the cricket but not all 6-7 hours of it, only 10 minutes drive away so can go back and forth

I shall delegate some hoovering and mopping to DH and see if DS2 will take a revision break to help me for an hour in the garden.

Oh and for breaks I shall go through the pile of magazines having a flick through and then putting in a pile for leaving the house.

Dustykitten

Jellybaby - wow, just wow. Very well done for making great inroads, you'll love it when it's done.

Blue_Doggy

Jellybaby - your getting rid of unjoyous furniture rings a bell with me. My bedroom has a hideous (but "oh so useful") built-in wardrobe which I've been wanting to get rid of for the last 25 years in favour of the freestanding one which belongs with my suite.

Thanks to Kondo I hope to be able to rip it out when I refurbish that room (which since a burglary has been mostly abandoned and gone from ebay sales stock room via dumping ground to room of doom).

I'm just trying to make my mind up to kondoing some weeds etc in the garden tomorrow (I'm out with the dogs today). The only drawback is that I get really enthusiastic help from my younger dog who is an enthusiastic weeder and pruner with his own set of pruning tools but no idea of the difference between a weed and a wanted plant :rotfl: .

I also need to Kondo several million (feels like ) plastic plant pots - what does everyone do with these? They're all washed but I have enough to last me for several lifetimes even if I throw out the slightly damaged ones.

in_need_of_direction

Lady at a local car boot who sells plants gets my empty pots

GreyQueen

I've successfully freegled an excess of plastic flowerpots. Good time of year to offer them, I would think.

mavvymoo

Well done Jellybaby I am impressed with your Kondo-ing.

All my plastic plantpots I gave to a lady who selling plants at the end of her drive. Maybe you have someone like this near you. Also our recycling center has a box for pots so think they must go somewhere to be re used.
I have also seen posts on my local Facebook selling page for people wanting pots.

Good luck in Kondo-ing a few

Going to do some more cleaning today as I have nothing left to Kondo Until I re-visit clothes which I am planning for next week.
Everytime I walk into the lounge I love it It looks so bright and clean and empty of any Komono :rotfl:It gives me a thrill everytime.
I am also doing jobs when I see them and putting everything away in its right place straight away. Rather than it hanging around for days or weeks.

Cleaned all the windows and washed all the blinds in the whole house yesterday like a mad women.All back up and looking so much better and fresher. Windows wide open now I am sure the house is thanking me for it :rotfl:

Good luck with what ever you decide to do over the weekend but make sure you enjoy it what ever it is


Mav x

snoozer

Hi,


I stalled on books - we have so many full bookcases and the thought of handling every book put me off (not to mention that I genuinely love many of them). I had a cull a few years ago after realising that books I'd been keeping in case DD or DS ever wanted them would never be read by them. I even got rid of my father's Tarzan books. I also now have a policy when reading that unless I really love a book it immediately goes in the CS pile and not on a shelf and that's helped.


The thought of collecting all the books together was really daunting but then I realised I didn't have to do that - I'm not comparing them against each other, just deciding if I love them individually so I am going to tackle a bookcase at a time, it will mean they all get a thorough dusting as well so I need to hunt out a clean paintbrush, much the best way for dusting books.

Dustykitten

Music to my ears:

"Mum what's the best way to fold a hoodie" DS1 (21), not a word had been said, I was next door in DS3's room with him hoovering, dusting and kondoing. It really is magic.