The KonMarie method

ali-t

i have a week off next week so am going for phase 2. I did phase one last month and love the results but I don't feel that my house is as cleansed as it could be so time for the next round. Hopefully that will unearth more for the charity shop and more for selling.

I have tied my kondoing into the sell £1000 in 2015 challenge and have sold nearly £700 worth of stuff which is amazing - peace, tranquility and cold hard cash to keep me happy!

YORKSHIRELASS

Despite being on holiday today I woke up at 6am and thought, ooh I will just get up and have a look through that box of papers before I have to do anything else. Now that is sad.

Great to see everyone is making so much progress. I am jealous of anyone who has got time off to really forge ahead.

I have other things going on over the weekend so wont get much more done, back to it next week though!

supersaver1000

Me too Yorkshire Lass, I've been in the spare room folding my fabrics. I think I have to kiss goodbye to the huge bag of wool I've collected but never done anything with.

I went and stood in the living room earlier and can feel the peace starting to come. I love working towards that feeling rather than just trying to get everything clean, tidy, immaculate if you know what I mean.

And Ali-t I agree completely its a [strike]double[/strike] triple win (peace, tranquility and cold hard cash)

Happy Friday everybody.

mrssnowy_2

GreyQueen wrote: »

Polly, have you come across the term SABLE? Stands for Stash Acquired Beyond Lifetime Expectancy.

Oh heck ,that really resonates and polly's 'reach beyond her grasp',all that and WIP and UFO.

My logic was that I would have things to do when I retire and I couldn't afford to buy stuff, but think I should have retired at 55 not now at 65!
Even if I complete 3 items each week there will still be a hefty amount left.
I should have learned by now.

A friend and fellow crafter died 5 years ago ,and her daughter asked me to help sort some of Mums stash-there was so much.
I had her sewing machine,which I do use a lot, after recycling mine.
There were so many different crafts, neatly boxed and labelled most had to go to CS,all very neat and tidy.
The wool and material were passed on and mostly up-cycled into items for sale in aid of local charities.

The upside was that a few of us have formed a craft group and are now doing a very slow-kondo through our own stashes,but the craft cupboard in our meeting room now needs a great big kondo.
Is this all a vicious cycle? (spell check on my typo of vicious ,alternative word was luscious-hee hee.)

Because of all that is going on with me and mine at the moment random kondoing is happening,though technically I think it should be called chucking out tat.1 bag of paperwork,1 big bag to CS .

Little and often whilst I am still off work-it will ge done.

Sorry about the ramble,have a good day all.

mrss

GrannyKate

Have only done a few categories so far but it was amazing how easy it was to pack for a short break with GS5. So few clothes to choose from and all together in right place. Done in 5 minutes.

DH slowly coming on board and has done garage, CDs and DVDs as well as his clothes.

Lost 21/83 lbs - long way to go but it is good to dispose of clothes which are too big.

Hoping the weather is not too bad in Norfolk for the weekend. Saturday looks as though it will be nice.

It is the photos, paperwork and my mum's stuff that are going to be the real challenge methinks.

GreyQueen

There's a cartoon in one of Don Aslett's decluttering books of two polar explorer types standing beside a huge chunk of ice with an indistinct object frozen inside and saying something like Hans, I think it's an unfinished project. :rotfl:

I think anyone who makes stuff is inclined to have UFOs around. We start things in a whirl of enthusiam, and then lose our way in the sloggy bits in the middle of the project. If we can get past that, the momentum of seeing the end in sight carries us the rest of the way. But, oftentimes, we find that we don't enjoy the project as much as we thought we would, or we don't have time for it, or we find something we like doing more, or the old eyesight or hands aren't up to it..........

The way I sort UFOs is to imagine I have a magic wand and can instantly finish that project ta dah!!!!! OK, now it's done, do I want it? If the answer is not on your nelly/ maybe/ ummm......? it indicates to me that I'm never going to finish it and can let it go.

Mum was once working with a lady who had to clear out her own Mum's house after she passed away. Apart for all the upset, there was the happy thought in her mind that once they got up into her late Mum's loft, there would be the yarn stash to inherit (she was herself a keen knitter). She was so shocked to discover that her mother had timed her SABLE perfectly - she'd knitted it all up before she went!

Fridays are a non-paid-job day so I'm easing into the day and then going up to my allotment. I'm intending to plant things, weed things, clip things (my grass path) and also remove some items from the shed. It's pretty good in there but there are always random things which seem to breed up there adnd require sorting/ removing/ recycling. Allotment gardening is apt to be a messy process, but I have all my clutter contained in the shed, so the plot overall looks tidy.

Have a happy kondo-day, folks.

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Everyone is so motivated and doing brilliantly, group hug and pats on the backs all round.
Suddenly realised its a colleagues fund raiser for cancer next month, I can't go to the actual event so wanted to do something for the raffle. Came across a bag of wool in my stash I bought it at the car boot a couple of summers ago. 34 of those balls that came with the art of crochet magazine, my thought is if I can get them all crocheted up I can make her a blanket. Hopefully it will mean a bag of wool all gone and something for a good cause, it will however slow down my actual ok doing for a couple of weeks as every spare moment will be doing this.
It also mean another starte project, but at least his one has a deadline and a use

Dustykitten

Morning all

I can't believe I've got to Friday and not done the kondoing with DS3 so that needs to be slotted in today and Sunday, not many categories so shouldn't take long. I also must get the DR paperwork finished during those days. With most of the sorted stuff having now left the house I feel ready to create the next pile.

mavvymoo

GrannyKate wrote: »

Hoping the weather is not too bad in Norfolk for the weekend. Saturday looks as though it will be nice.

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Oh GrannyKate I am in Norfolk and just checked the weather and its the same so maybe you are coming to my neck of the woods I hope you have a lovely weekend and well done on the weight loss it is a fab feeling discarding all those too big clothes


iQueen I do agree with you (like always) I am getting there its now about just easing in to the new life and spending more time enjoying the simple joys of life. I also find I am not worrying so much about the things or people I cant change. Just let it go over my head a lot more than I did if that makes sense

I do understand you all about those unfinished projects I remember years ago being the same with about 20 things on the go and never completing any of them. I found it made me so down just looking at all the 'stuff'' that I knew I would never use in my lifetime It was all Kondo'd before Marie was even born :rotfl:

I missed a trick here I could have been the first Marie Kondo I always knew that clutter affected me in a really big way.

But as we know it always built up again when your back was turned :rotfl:So it was a treadmill as it was never done the kondo way.

So I am very glad that Marie beat me to the bookshelves

Right enough ramblings from me. Start decorating the bedroom today as the house is still tidy and clean so havent got to tackle that first so straight to it me thinks

Mav x

luxor4t

Another SABLE hand in the air .... the other one is clinging to a cross stitch cover kit. I'm on my third since Monday.


I sew for a charity and have just (literally) inherited part of a dedicated needlewoman's stash of magazines, which will be used to benefit the group.


Sadly, in one of the magazines there was a Christmas picture , beautifully stitched and begging to be finished. After I have done the mini cards, it is next on my list so that her family can enjoy it. ( I need to do the cards first to get used to forming the crosses in the way she did as mine normally go the other way!)


After that, I shall be tackling Mount UFO ... since MK I don't have Mount Ironmore to worry about