The KonMarie method

mavvymoo

jinny wrote: »

This thread is amazing. The support is very helpful to newbies made so welcome and encouraged. Wether just dipping toes in MK or feeling overwhelmed. I have finished my MK journey but love the posts still.
One thing has inspired me recently is Mavs post about her mums tree. When my mum passed away. I looked at her favourite shrub, lavender that grew profusely in her garden. I didn't want to dig it up in case it didn't survive. So I took a pic of it in full bloom. It has been in a picture file forgotten on my computermabob for years. I am not a very good photographer but this picture came out lovely quite blurry with a flower head in the foreground and quite arty by accident.
It has occurred to me to make a framed wall hanging or something . It will remind me of my mum. So thanks Mav for the inspiration.
I'm glad your tree is now thriving. Perhaps you could take a pic of a leaf or two and do something like that, so you have a nice reminder.

Ahh jinny Glad I reminded you of the photo it sounds lovely maybe you could get it put on a canvas ? Lovely reminder of your Mum which I am sure will be very joyful in pride of place on a wall

What a great idea about taking a photo of 'Mums tree' as it is doing well now but has been very touch and go over the years.:D I can see it from my kitchen window so does make me feel joyful everyday. But yes photo is needed hopefully it will turn out as well as your 'arty' Mums Lavender

This has got me round to thinking about the problems with FIL now known as 'The silly old fool' :rotfl:I dont care about moving if we have too but what to do with Mums tree ? Do I dig it up and take it and most likely go though the stress of will it live or die ! Or do I do as you did with the Lavender and just leave it to thrive and grow. Think I will take that arty photo Just incase I decide on the second option and wait and see what will be

Glad we are all helping each other move along on this facsinating jouney MK has sent us all on.

Mav x

VJsmum

mavvymoo wrote: »

or leave it to thrive and grow. Think I will take that arty photo Just incase I decide on the second option and wait and see what will be

Glad we are all helping each other move along on this facsinating jouney MK has sent us all on.

Mav x

Leave it to thrive and grow - buy a new one and plant it wherever you go.... If you moved it, and it died it would make you so sad...

I did that when i had a miscarriage many moons ago - we planted a magnolia (as it happened in the spring), and when we moved we planted a new magnolia that is still going strong 17 years later. I know it isn't quite the same, as your mum got you the tree, but it works for me.

Back home from far flung shores now :T and going to the more errm earthy (literally probably) of Glastonbury tomorrow :j so still not too much kondoing but a good lesson in how to live with very little - well except for the millions of food outlets all around.:p

Clutterfree

Morning Konverts and Konewbies!

Forgive me Konverts but I have sinned.

Yesterday I went grocery shopping and on my list was a nail brush to replace the one I had which was past its best.
I wanted a white one because since Kondoing my bathroom I seem to only want white accessories (except for towels - family are way too grubby for those!).

Anyway found the nail brushes and they only had coloured ones. They were "only" one pound so I had an "it'll do" moment and bought a mint green one. :eek: I am so annoyed with myself because it hasn't even been in the bathroom for 24 hours yet and every time I go in the bathroom does it bring me joy? Does it heck! It stands out like a sore thumb and already bugs me!

I should have learnt my lesson by now. Back in my early Kondoing days, after Kondoing the bath towels, I discarded a very thick bath mat and knew I needed a replacement in blue. I wanted a reversible one but the shop I went in no longer did them so I bought a rubber backed one for £5. Why?! Over time I know it will start to break down and there will be bits of it everywhere. Again another "it'll do" moment that I also regret and, as soon as I find a reversible mat, the rubber one is off to the charity shop.

I really hope I've finally had my light bulb moment - no more "it'll do" items - if the shop doesn't have the exact item that I want then anything else will be a waste of money because it will NEVER bring me the joy it should.

Thankfully these were not expensive items but, once I've replaced them, it is £6 spent that was unnecessary. £6 could have bought me a cinema ticket. However, I am not seeing it as £6 wasted, I am seeing it as the price for a lesson learnt!

Have a good day all.
VAT return to do here.

Clutterfree

Mav, I'm no gardening expert, but would it be possible to take a cutting from the tree? Perhaps pop over to the gardening forum and ask. They'd be able to tell you if it's possible and when is the best time to try and how to do it.
That way when you move, you'd still have part of the tree to nurture - it's offspring.

PollyWollyDoodle

Clutter free, when you look at the price of private tuition, £6 isn't much to learn something so important! :rotfl:

We're not all going to get it right first time. The difference now is that you'll buy a white nail brush and throw the green one out, rather than keeping it till it wears out.

silvasava

What a great idea Clutterfree. Years ago a friend of my mum's took some cuttings of a rose that my Dad had bought for her as a Wedding Anniversary present. All the cuttings took & she gave me one when we moved into our house - 40 years ago this year! I still call it Mums Rose although it's Superstar!
I think it's so beautiful that so many of us have plants that remind us of our loved ones.
Have a couple of small curtains to make for a friend today and Dgd's leggings to shorten & then they can be Kondo'd off my dining room table!

iQueen

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

This evening I kondoed a cracked red flowerpot half full of rusty nails that has been sitting at the side of my house for around two years. Why do I keep this stuff?

A few weeks ago, I sorted out a craft box that was in my way, (off piste). Found some small UFOs. The needles had rusted so badly that they disintegrated, when I removed them, and had stained the fabric! How trivial am I? I finished stitching them, which gave me pleasure and satisfaction... then I binned them! :rotfl:

greent wrote: »

Welcome Hollyboll. I use the 'would I pay a removal company to pack this up and move it' scenario for some things - ie: does it mean enough that I'd pay money to take it to a new house? Of more use for low value items to see just how attached to it I am

x

Even unused higher value items are going to be guilt-ridden. So send them on their way.

Igamogam wrote: »

All my fr**gle stuff now collected:) I have large bag to drop off at CS - its in boot ready just in case I get a chance to call in before weekend. I will be unexpectedly on my own for a few days this week - I can kondo sooooo much quicker when on my own:D. 10 weeks left of my declutter project.........dont feel on target at moment. RL getting in the way of building up any momentum but I am not getting disheartened - IT WILL HAPPEN!!

I haven't given myself a deadline, more a target to aim for. Deadlines have always been deadly for me - I leave whatever it is, to The-Night-Before, and then panic! :eek: But this is showing signs of changing. I'm now recognising that dealing with anything, as soon as, brings joy and maintains tranquility! :dance:

iQueen

Clutterfree wrote: »

Forgive me Konverts but I have sinned.

I had an "it'll do" moment and bought a mint green one. :eek: I am so annoyed with myself

I learned a similar lesson pre-kondo! Nailbrush, bathroom, ready for demotion to kitchen. I couldn't get a white one, so thought a 'rustic' wooden one would look nice. LIke you, it irritated me every day! It was demoted to the kitchen, immediately after obtaining a white one, and the previously demoted one was binned!

The wooden one is very sturdy, and stiff enough for 'gardener nails' and is a constant reminder that impulse buys are usually a mistake!:rotfl:

Hollyboll

Wow it's one thing lurking and reading the joy but a whole other level feeling it as part of it - thank you for all messages and thoughts. :j
More later as busy day today (not of kondoing, errands out) but just wanted to pop on about the clothes which are too small.
I KNOW this is not purist MK but a while ago (before i heard of MK) I decided that it really was making me feel much worse every morning opening a cupboard a lot of which I coudln't fit into. So I boxed all that up and whilst it does threaten to spill from top shelf my wardrobe was at least initially a much better happier space ... obvs nothing like the joyful space it will be once I\m doing MK-ing. When I come now to Kondo my clothes I thought about it and decided that for now I'm not doing those smaller things ... for me, I'd slip too easily into the traidtional declutter questions of does it fit / when did I last wear it, and plus it would just be too much both physically and to get through in terms of energy. My plan is to MK what I fit now and live with that and then when I've kondo'd the weight (which I'm properly on the way to doing now) will get the other stuff out and Kondo that, keeping what is joyful and thanking / sending on way what is now too big to make room for it. I LOVE the idea of wrapping up the too small stuff in some joyful paper for when I get to that stage:T

Till later ...

just_the_two_of_us

May I join too please?


Have done my clothes already.


Today I kondo'd a soap dish that has been annoying me as every time I use it I have to wash it! I decided I do not love it - so I've bought soap in a dispenser and the dish is off to the ch shop when I go on Thursday! Long way to go still and have mislaid the MK book my DH bought me for my birthday so will need to find that and see what's next!