The KonMarie method

YORKSHIRELASS

Mav you are an inspiration, please keep posting.

Just a thought, if like me you are starting now then we have until Christmas to complete it. It can be hard to find the time to do it. I wish a could take a couple of weeks off work just to kondo!

I should say I started Kondoing in January. I picked cupboards, drawers and areas to tackle rather than category. Eventually I gave up. Now I am starting afresh with a list of categories and new determination.

I saw some lovely shoes on ebay yesterday. It was the thought of the already stuffed shoe cupboard that stopped me bidding.

sistercas

Mav what a wonderful friend you are , you were able to help free her from the house and it's bad memories and allowed her to keep her dignity intact :T

Have kondoed a lot of paperwork today , although the paperwork that is left I need to sort into different files and into date order but I had lost the will to live after I had shredded all the unwanted paper :cool:
Will try and do that tomorrow

jinny

Hi just thought I would pop in to show me face. I havent posted for a while. I have been reading posts though.
Some of you are feeling overwhelmed. I felt like that, the stuff seems to suck the life out of you doesnt it.
Im sure its the dead energy surounding stuff we hardly use.
if that doesnt sound too woo woo.:D
its a bit like some negative people, they just seem to drain the life out of you. Whereas joyful people you want to keep them in your life as friends for life.
It does get better I promise. Just chip away at it it will all go eventually. I used the analogy of a house being built a while ago. I read it somewhere and it helped me.
The Architect designer sees the whole house with windows roof, the finished product in his minds eye.
The builder just sees the pile of bricks and mortar and starts to pile one brick on top of another, stops for a break, does some more then goes home. Then returns to the job and piles one brick on top of another until the house is built.
Thats it. Thats how its done brick by brick with life in between. Mind I have had some builders who have taken a long long time but they got done eventually lol
The summer, if we get one, is around the corner maybe getting our As into Gs so we arent wasting time rifling through drawers looking for stuff, but out of the house enjoying the summer whatever the weather. :j

Dustykitten

Quick question has kondoing made any of you reassess your relationships with people and ask whether or not they bring you joy?

GreyQueen

Dustykitten wrote: »

Quick question has kondoing made any of you reassess your relationships with people and ask whether or not they bring you joy?

Yes and no. Not specifically kondo-ing, because this was before the book existed, and before I read it, but I have drawn away from people in the past because they were dragging me in directions I didn't want to travel.

I don't mean in respect of not supporting a friend in need, just the general feeling that I had accidentally acquired some social contacts at certain places and times who, on reflection, I didn't have much in common with.

Mind you, I've probably been decluttered from other people's lives and was so pleased that I didn't even notice it.

jinny

Yes I have kondoed a toxic person from my life. I dont usually turn my back on people but I couldnt continue calling this person a friend. I tried to just keep them at a distance but in the end i had to just be honest and tell them the friendship was over.

mavvymoo

Dustykitten wrote: »

Quick question has kondoing made any of you reassess your relationships with people and ask whether or not they bring you joy?

Yes it has me But again I do think as the clutter gets Kondo'd your head also clears so you can see things much more in Black and White.

I have never suffered fools and I suffer them even less now :rotfl:

Thanks for posting Dusty with this thought as this is one I am going to have to think about myself

Mav x

Pooky

I've always had a very efficient filing system (those years of office management paid off) but over the past few years it's slipped. DH was trying to take over the paperwork side of stuff as he's not able to work due to disability but he's been overwhelmed by the daily aspect of it and last week I found a huge pile of paperwork he'd been popping in his desk drawer that would be "dealt with soon"....it took less than an hour to sort it, I condensed 4 folders into one and all the stuff that needed destroying was made into a family event last night - we sat in the garden and lit the chiminea, we had a couple of hours burning from it all and sat as a family, enjoying the flames and each others company....a strange thing to get satisfaction from.

Jellybaby

Hi just thought I'd jump in and let you know I'm still alive! Kondoing going slow as I'm back at work but also an emotional few days. Took the courage to finally go through loads of cards (literally hundreds) we received when OH died. They've been bundled in carrier bags in an ottoman in my bedroom for over four years. Having cleared the furniture, it was next on the list.

DS2 and I read through them. He thought I'd lost the plot when I thanked people for sending them as I put them into the recycling box. Wasn't long before he was doing it too:T

Last year I dipped my toe in the dating pond, got very badly bitten by the biggest, fattest, ugliest frog imaginable and I am very pleased to say he was Kondo'ed even before I knew what that meant:rotfl:

This weekend brings slicing up my bedroom carpet and dumping it then travelling a few hundred miles to help DS1 clear his flat and between us bring home five years worth of belongings:eek: He said his books alone 'may' fit in my car:eek::eek:
I love him dearly, so very, very proud of him but I have the most important book he will ever need

Debsnewbudget

not strictly KM but ...
My personal email box was overflowing
Over 7000 and no time to go through and delete
Then I heard a podcast from The Get It Done Guy
And I followed his advice
I set up a folder called archive 21 May 2015 and dumped them all in there
Suddenly my inbox is a pleasure - nothing in it 😄
I am using the opportunity to unsubscribe as the new ones come in
At some point I may go back and look, but as its only taking up 5% of my storage space I might not !

I suddenly feel lighter ...