The KonMarie method

lessonlearned

jinny wrote: »

I can see reading through the threads
That this Kondoing is throwing up lots of
issues and people are emerging through purging and sorting from being stuck.
I've had lots of aha moments reading the book and these posts.
An epiphany if that's not a too strong word.
Maybe we are sorting out more than stuff.
Right! Slobbing about at the weekend over -
Time to get back to Kondoing!

This is so true, dealing with my husband's illness and death has made me start putting my affairs in order. I want it done and dusted and then I can relax and get on with living to the max.

Edited to add

Epiphany is exactly the right word. I need to buy myself a house this year.

I am going to buy a small one, a perfect little jewel which will be immaculately furnished with a few simple pieces, light and airy with no clutter or mess.

I shall live light and free........

Igamogam

This looks useful

grunnie

I had to clear my mum's house when she moved into a home but had to keep loads of her stuff in case she asked for it ( which she did). She also came up for visits meals etc and checked up where I had put her stuff. In the clearing out I found my dad's clothes and he died in 1975 and my brownie uniform and every piece of school work and toy and bookof mine. She had a huge house and when she couldn't get up the stairs she sent one of her carers upstairs with abag of stuff. This also happened with my aunt when she needed her flat cleared when she went into a home. It was very difficult trying to sort her clothes. I would open a drawer ( she was very tidy) and say which of these gloves would you keep with you. I gave up eventually and just stored everything with me and when she asked I just delivered them. Who needs 40+ pairs of gloves or 19 white cardigans. I promised myself that my family wouldn't have to do that for me as it was so difficult to do.

PixieDust

Another charity bag started this morning. Still from the bedroom.....so much stuff gone, I can't believe there's anything left but the evidence would suggest otherwise. I have unearthed long lost things that I swear I searched high and low for at times. I have an empty shelf and two empty baskets in the bedroom and the wardrobe doors shut for the first time in a year. I am a happy konvert.

skeeter93

I finally have the book and have started reading. My clothes drawers are still folded so that's good. I wanted to stand up the tea towels the same way as the clothes, but I see people are rolling them? Also, about bath towels, if you roll them, will they stay on the shelf properly?

TudorRose

Just having a quick cup of coffee and catching up.

I've sorted the bed linen & put each set away using the pillowcase storing method. I don't have an airing cupboard but keep linen & towels in a small pine tallboy. The line etc is in the cupboard and the 3 drawers house underwear etc.
I have also rolled all the towels and everything is definately easier to see and extract when needed than when in piles.
I have decided that I do not need a spare duvet set for the single bed as it never gets used so that will be off to a cs and 3 spare mismatched hand towels can go to my son for use where he works.

When my Mum died I decided to buy an item of nice jewellery to remeber her by. I set myself a budget then I thought why don't I get something made from some of her jewellery.
I had a pendant made which was set with the diamonds from her engagement ring and another pendant which incorporated the stone from another ring which my Dad bought her when I was a child & I remembered us going to London to buy. I still had money left over from my budget so I bought a nice pair of diamond studs.
Both of the original rings were very special to Mum and if I hadn't had them remade into something else they would never have seen the light of day again and would have remained in a drawer never to be looked at again. Now I have something I can use and they will pass to my daughter who will have a reminder of her Nana.
Off now to have a look at my wardrobe now. Don't expect to find too much to chuck as I have reduced my clothing a lot in the last few years but I can think of two skirts that need to go.

lostinrates

grunnie wrote: »

I had to clear my mum's house when she moved into a home but had to keep loads of her stuff in case she asked for it ( which she did). She also came up for visits meals etc and checked up where I had put her stuff. In the clearing out I found my dad's clothes and he died in 1975 and my brownie uniform and every piece of school work and toy and bookof mine. She had a huge house and when she couldn't get up the stairs she sent one of her carers upstairs with abag of stuff. This also happened with my aunt when she needed her flat cleared when she went into a home. It was very difficult trying to sort her clothes. I would open a drawer ( she was very tidy) and say which of these gloves would you keep with you. I gave up eventually and just stored everything with me and when she asked I just delivered them. Who needs 40+ pairs of gloves or 19 white cardigans. I promised myself that my family wouldn't have to do that for me as it was so difficult to do.

When I met my now husband his family all had his deceased mothers stuff still hanging in wardrobes and stuff as if she were alive. Some of her clothes went to the dry cleaners because they always had twice a year:eek:. I suggested this was no good and my DH and sil agreed, and I discovered it was not just my late mil's stuff, but her parents stuff too, that SHE had hoarded. Things like her mothers underwear.

I feel I have been dehoarding other people's stuff for years. . Frankly I've had enough of it. DH is really awkward about throwing things away having inherited this tendency , and I'm no minimalist, but I find my self binning stuff I'd rather keep just to make room.

Edit: my parents are both not light on stuff either, we have some of their stuff here ( like the story in the kondo book where the daughter sends stuff home to mother, well.....I'm mother! ) but I'm aware in the future there is going to be lots to sort through.

MummyRivett

jinny wrote: »

I've posted this on many laundry threads
But it works
White laundry in washer
Add 4 tablespoons of bi carb of soda
In the drum with the laundry
Then use usual dose of washing detergent
in drawer or Drum
Glug of white vinegar NOT BROWN in the fab conditioner drawer
NO fabric conditioner and never use coloured fab con it tints your clothes you can't smell the vinegar when dry or put drops of essention oil in with vinegar but not nessasary
It brings my white sheets up brilliant
I soaked a stained delicate white silk cami top in bicarb
Last week then delicate wash in washer
Stain gone

Love this, I've added it to the pintrest board.

TudorRose

Had a quick look in my wardrobe and found 9 items of unloved clothing which along with duvet set has now gone to a cs. Decided against chucking any other clothes at the moment as the majority are summer clothes and I am losing weight at the moment so I'll reasess their usefulness nearer the summer. Anyway it's better than not getting rid of anything.
I've also been to the tip & recycled some cardboard boxes.
Having told you on here about the jewellery I had made from my Mum's rings, I went and got one of the pendants out and have put it on for the first time in a while so that's good.
Keep up the good work everybody. Our homes will be better organised & 'lighter' without unwanted & unused stuff and others will be benefiting from what we donate to friends, family & chairity.

phizzimum

I've samosa-ed all my plastic bags! i sorted them by size, so that the ones too small for the kitchen bin are now in the bathroom cupboard.
Ones with holes have been chucked, sturdy ones in with my bags for life for shopping.

I love the way the kondomari method seems to actually create space