The KonMarie method

GreyQueen

I was so tired that the partying students didn't keep me from the Land of Nod. I'm trying not to let the occasional rowdiness of the students stress me, telling myself that they're only youngsters and they'll be gone any day now.............. of course, being so exhausted tends to help you sleep anyway.

Mav, 'faded bluebell' sounds gorgeous. I like all colours but only like living with the warmer side of the spectrum. You'd hate my gaff, it's all warm earthy tones.:rotfl:

Spent a couple of pyjama hours this morning finishing my book, which was a real page-turner. Have immediately added it to the donation bag. It's not likely to disappear into the hoard if I don't act on it immediately, unlike stuff in the cluttered family home, but I like to be decisive.

Weather's a bit ropy atm and so am I, so am debating having an at-home day pottering about and gdoing some batch cooking for the week ahead, rather than go to the allotment. Although I only did a couple of hours yesterday, it left me pretty whacked out (ME is an un-joyful illness, have failed to declutter that in 30 years, boo hiss!).

Actually, thinking out loud has helped me make up my mind; I'll stay at home, probably visit with a friend for a cuppa late afternoon, and will call that sufficient exercise. Gotta have enough mojo for the work-week, after all.

greenbee

mavvymoo - the running gear sounds like a great idea. Although if you're not going to wash it daily you might want to invest in an airtight laundry bin
I've just had a whole lot of running and yoga kit donated by a friend I visited on my last work trip to New York (I'm SO pleased I had taken a vast suitcase with me - mostly because I was taking stuff over for the friend in question). I've lost weight and she has too, so I now fit into her old stuff... it means I now have lighter weight stuff for when it's warm (I suspect mostly this will be used when travelling), plus it reduces the washing workload. I'm about to be ruthless with the old stuff...

luxor4t

The spare bedrooms have been talking to me about changes that will make them, and me, happier .... now that's something you can't normally say without getting strange looks :rotfl:


So, today I shall be mainly moving pictures, mirrors and the things we are storing for our children (mostly Kondo'd by the owner already) ..... and DH is going to help me.


Fun will be had

VJsmum

So yesterday I went to the FA Cup Final watching Aston villa kondo four goals to arsenal :rotfl:

At the stadium they gave us flags which once I would have brought home as a souvenir but I left it there. we spent a night in a hotel and I was packing to leave and thought whether I should take a small body lotion but could visualise the stash in the drawer at home so left it there.

It is small but it is progress.

Visiting dad today so no kondo opportunities except for some marking on the train

iQueen

Wore myself out yesterday, and was woken at 2 am by someone tooting outside my window, while dropping off a neighbour!

Yesterday, I found 2 sacks of clothes, for the chazzer... from a couple of years ago, that 'needed to go', but have never manged to leave the house! :eek: The upside is, I think my swimsuit is in one of them - a friend and I have arranged to start swimming regularly but I couldn't find it, so fingers crossed. Plenty of clothes for the jumble sale now!

It just goes to show how 'blind' we become to clutter. I have a small box of komono that I had sorted out for the chazzer last year. It is sitting in the living room; I see it every day! So that can now go to the jumble sale, too!

Sat and kondoed all my lesson plans, this morning. It's TRUE - I feel so much lighter, recognising that I will never need them again! :T

Bit peeved, now my mojo's back in top form: 3 medical appointments this week. Each kondo at least half a day, with travelling, (and tire me out). :mad: Also, my old car is having it's MOT. (Ooops, can feel the BP rising!) So, can't see much time/energy for kondoing. I shall have to make some more 'appointments' - for small kondoes, in between! :rotfl:

Still :dance:

iQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

So yesterday I went to the FA Cup Final watching Aston villa kondo four goals to arsenal :rotfl:

At the stadium they gave us flags which once I would have brought home as a souvenir but I left it there. we spent a night in a hotel and I was packing to leave and thought whether I should take a small body lotion but could visualise the stash in the drawer at home so left it there.

It is small but it is progress.

Visiting dad today so no kondo opportunities except for some marking on the train

Once this becomes automatic, you will never have to kondo a drawerful again! Tiny habits, make BIG differences to our lives - after all, it was tiny bad habits that got us here! :rotfl:

Piece of flap-jack (no carbs... I'm lying!) and a coffee, then I'm up to the Boxroom of Doom, again. :j

GreyQueen

Nice work, VJsMum. Last time I was in a hotel, I just left the freebie mini-toiletries untouched. I had my own, and it was less wasteful to leave the minis for the next person than use/ take them and have the hotel restock the room, causing more wasteful mini plastic bottles to be manufactured.

You hear of people who are, or live with, frequent travellers who end up with drawers and drawers of mini soaps and lotions.

I also left a small rubber humanoid at a training session a few years ago (we'd been given one each, gawdknows why). The mannikin's brethren infested that office for years, getting mankier and mankier. I think they were still there when I left that employer. Such wastefulness.

mavvymoo

greenbee wrote: »

mavvymoo - the running gear sounds like a great idea. Although if you're not going to wash it daily you might want to invest in an airtight laundry bin
I've just had a whole lot of running and yoga kit donated by a friend I visited on my last work trip to New York (I'm SO pleased I had taken a vast suitcase with me - mostly because I was taking stuff over for the friend in question). I've lost weight and she has too, so I now fit into her old stuff... it means I now have lighter weight stuff for when it's warm (I suspect mostly this will be used when travelling), plus it reduces the washing workload. I'm about to be ruthless with the old stuff...

:rotfl::rotfl: I refuse to buy a new laundry bin so will carry on as before a binbag and then tipped straight into the machine :rotfl:Great news on the new kit and the bonus of Kondoing stuff to your friend

GQ I do love the earthy colours so your house I am sure would spark joy for me But they just look awful in here so I am a cool colour person in this house

I have a friend who has a very dark cluttered house :eek: Stuff everywhere and has decided to paint her lounge a very dark burgandy red :eek:
With a dark red busy busy busy pattened carpet and all dark brown furniture It looks like one of those old fashioned pubs when you walked in you thought you had walked into a dark cave and it took ages for your eyes to adjust to the darkness

Its honestly shocking ! and that is a bit of an understatment. I always feel low and that Black feeling just washes over me when I go in there. She has started saying you never come to mine I always end up coming to yours Under my breath I am saying 'just the way I like it' :rotfl:

But saying that she doesnt like my house either as it feels too unlived in for her so it takes all sorts and we are still friends she hasnt been kondoed yet;)

So each to their own I suppose !

Oh just remembered she is on MSE but I doubt this thread !

Mav x

GreyQueen

Your mate's place sounds overwhelming. I have walls which are a pale, warm (not lemony) yellow, with the exception of the kitchen, which is sun dried tomato and the bathroom, which is white.

I pretty much like the white-walled aesthetic, but my tiny flat is at the foot of a tower block, and in the shadow of other buildings with limited direct sunlight, so I stick with the warm yellow to cheer it up.

The pinky-red in the kitchen doesn't overwhelm as it's only slightly on view around the white cupboards.

I am finding it hard to spend time in cluttered environments, it's a sensory overload, where even things which are of themselves attractive and interesting can, by having too much other stuff around them, become ugly and 'noisy' and overwhelming. Urrghhh!!!!!!!!!!

Radish72

Have been lurking on this thread since the beginning and love reading everyone posts

I would never have considered myself a hoarder, but I now live with one, and I think his bad habits are rubbing off on me, as the thought of sorting things out feels so overwhelming.

But so far "we" have manged to sort through/shift about 2500 pieces of paper (2400 BF's, 100 mine). Not sure the shredder at work knew what was happening, Still needs another sort through, but is currently contained in the small filing cabinet.

I'm now tackling a wardrobe (in the the spare room) which is stuffed full of bedding, pillows, etc. I'm sure 80% of it can go. The trouble seems to be finding the energy to take it to the charity shop and 4 paper storage container can go

Have also done 2 car loads of stuff to the tip out the garage, mainly our old kitchen that we tried to sell/give away for the last 18 months.

So feeling a bit lighter and planning raids on the under-stairs cupboard and the utility room cupboards in the next few weeks.