The KonMarie method

katsu

DH helped me release a coat to the CS yesterday. It did bring me joy when I touched it: buttery soft, perfect colour for me, immaculate condition..I wore it open and DH said it looked lovely on. Then I showed him that if I fastened it up I looked terrible. All bulging and strained. It was so nice that it made it through my last MK cull but I'd been thinking of it and knew I was wrong. We talked about the usefulness of a coat you didn't do up and that someone out there with a different figure could love it like me but also wear it! D offered ideas to try and alter it but it was too big a job and I didn't want to ruin such a lovely coat.

It travelled to the CS yesterday with a bag of other clothes and I hope it finds a happy new life outside a wardrobe!

MMF007

Igamogam, what an excellent thing to do! We also live in a lovely place with country walks right from the door. I try to ensure I devote a few seconds every day to appreciate the beauty and how lucky we are. But....... i too have somehow found I spend less time doing the lovely walks etc. I'll put that on my list of things that bring me joy and make sure to do more of it, heck it's free!!
You are right about spending that little bit of dedicated time relaxing with something you really enjoy.

i too recognise that change from feeling annoyed and, as my DH would say 'ratty', to something much calmer and, I have to say, more determined to make the changes from noisy clutter to joyful :j

iQueen, how lovely that those thoughts of your parental resposibilities bring you so much joy (and I bet you have some howlers to tell about them too!).

Sistercas, I have done the mulling-things-over-from-years-ago thing. It's bad. If you cannot change it what's the point? You beat yourself up for NO REASON. So now when rubbish past events re-surface in my mind I mentally put them in a box and place then outside the backdoor and if they persist (you know, the early hours ones), I take up the latest book I am reading and it distracts me totally.

Greyqueen , you are SO right about the things that really make a positive difference to the joy in our lives and that more is not always more, IYSWIM!! I remember my economics teacher explaining 'marginal benefit' to us (he went one step further than you, if you'll pardon the pun): If you eat one icecream on a hot day you get joy from that, if you have two the second one does not bring quite as much joy, third one less so and the forth probably makes you sick (a dis-
benefit!).

Anyway, enough from me, I have Kondo-ing to do while DH is out of the way!!

M

tibawo

Well, the plant puddle still goes on. Went to door at about seven pm and it was back! So defo not condensation but good suggestion i queen.
Up late today due to party at neighbours and the young lads fighting and shouting in the early hours. I had to yell at them for fighting in my garden and waking girls.
Going to kondo some exam questions now!

june89

Kondo is on hold today as I trapped my finger in the blasted airer this morning, it collapsed as I was trying to move it to better catch the breeze. So it will be out the door as soon as I find a replacement, as the weather is STILL too iffy to be relying on just the rotary given that I can only wash on weekends due to work schedule. Any suggestions? This is what I have now. It doesn't need to be that large a capacity if the rungs are better spaced - they're so tight on this that I only use every second one. But it does hold a LOT of washing in a relatively small footprint. Purchased when I lived in London with no outside space, so that was a definite bonus.

GreyQueen

:)Hi june, I have an airer in this style, although not this exact one. Have had mine about 15 + years, can't recall the brand except that it was something widely available - blue tubular metal with white rubber grips over the rails.

One of these will hold a machine-load of washing and get it dry indoors in less than a day. Mum has two identical to mine, for their three-adult household. They're strong enough to stand out of doors unless it's blowing a hooley, in which case they might tip over.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8505590.htm

I have zero outside space, so my airer gets a lot of use, and shows no sign of being about to die on me; must be about 17-19 years old, I reckon.

in_need_of_direction

Oh June, I'm wincing while thinking about your mishap. Take care.

Igamogam

sistercas wrote: »

However dd2 picked a bag up , now I have dog food ( no dog)
Dishwasher tablets ( no dishwasher ). Concentrated squash ( don't drink it ) plus other stuff and lots of advertising leaflets all of which I need to kondo :cool: oh well

Pass on to your dog owning, dishwasher fan, squash drinking friends neighbours and work colleagues:D

Igamogam

tibawo wrote: »

Well, the plant puddle still goes on. Went to door at about seven pm and it was back! So defo not condensation but good suggestion i queen.

How about moving hanging basket and see if appears again - in the new place or old!!. Or take it down and stand a bucket and see what collects........just a thought.


I am going to do some gardening - sun is out:D Then may well tackle bedroom AGAIN as I fed up of pile in middle of room...AGAIN!!

june89

Igamogam wrote: »

Pass on to your dog owning, dishwasher fan, squash drinking friends neighbours and work colleagues:D

Another option is shelters. I save up all the (unopened, of course) cat food pouches in the flavours that my cat deems not good enough to eat. That's at least one type per mixed box - swear the manufacturers do that on purpose! Anyway, I drop those in to my local CPL whenever I happen to be going that way. They're always very grateful. Sure they wouldn't turn down some squash for the staff kitchen either!

Speaking of the cat... I rearranged our lounge yesterday after the extra furniture was gone and there's now a big empty space right in the middle. She spent most of the day sprawled out there, looking around in wonder. Even she appreciates a less cluttered space! Right by the patio doors too, so she was even happier when the sun briefly peeked out in the afternoon.

Igamogam

june89 wrote: »

Another option is shelters. I save up all the (unopened, of course) cat food pouches in the flavours that my cat deems not good enough to eat. That's at least one type per mixed box - swear the manufacturers do that on purpose! Anyway, I drop those in to my local CPL whenever I happen to be going that way. They're always very grateful. Sure they wouldn't turn down some squash for the staff kitchen either!

My cats would like to move in with you..........eat it or catch your own in this house.............errum just the cats BTW:D

Good idea though