The KonMarie method

bossymoo

I've had all my clothes out - not finished yet but I've given myself some chuckles with my clothing choices:D
I tried on a couple of things that I knew I wasn't keeping, just for a giggle. Puffed sleeves are soooo not me :rotfl:
So I have a laundry basket full to go with the bags and shoes in the morning, then I will continue.

supersaver1000

Best wishes from me GQ xx

susan1962 I have just gone through it and I sympathise. I've got a book called something like 'natural highs' about how to eat for lifting your mood/gaining energy. It does get better, but I'm still having trouble sleeping (as you can see) x

just_the_two_of_us

Oh dear - I could have posted at 3.32 as well!! Pleased with myself as I have actually started the paperwork! It will be a very long haul as I have ours and lots of DS's as well - all of which needs filing properly. we are off to see him this weekend so mine will have to wait until Monday.


The benefit of doing the small amount that I have completed - is more motivation to complete other tasks - so I cannot wait to continue.


Hugs where needed - and thanks I am about to make appt to get two " age lumps" checked out!

GreyQueen

Hell, Susan, I have two-thirds of a job (and ME) but still struggle with household stuff. Place is a pit atm. Sometimes it's having no fuel left in your personal tank as much as having not enough hours in the day. But maintenance is sometimes as good as it gets, so don't beat yourself up if that's all you can do for a while. At least it isn't getting worse!

I haven't been browsing the chazzers for a fortnight and, since most of my stuff originates therein, this has both saved time and prevented Stuff entering the home. I don't feel the benefit in my wallet as have just dropped £250 on varifocals, but it would have been worse if I'd been frittering.

Still, if you think about the time commitment to go shopping, you can gain a bit of life by avoiding it whenever possible. A lot of cleaning/ tidying/ decluttering can be accomplished in half an hour, I find.

Thank you all so much for your good wishes for my Mum. It means a lot. My late Grandma used to admonish Mum as a girl 'not to borrow trouble' and to 'cross that bridge when you come to it'. My own warped sense of humour is to twist that to 'we'll dynamite that bridge when we come to it'. I find a bit of RIGGGHHHHTTTTTTTT!!! jaw-setting, backbone-firming attitude can take you a long way. And chocolate, of course.

MMF007

Right, here goes..... I wrote a post a few days ago but somehow it never made it (probably timed out due to having to correct poor typing on mobile :mad:).

Having read the latest news from you fellow Konverts, firstly best wishes to the 2 Queens. My mum was diagnosed with Myeloma last year and has had successful chemo for 6 months. She tolerated well but had a few rough weeks once she came off it, is recovering nicely now. Not a cure, can't be done, but she has good quality of life in remission. We think the whole thing was triggered by emense stress of looking after my poorly dad. Like many of you on here our family are resilient and luckily we can usually extract some humour from most crises. Dad has multiple problems including the start of vascular dementia. When he recently decided he wanted a cheap tablet computer we immediately named his Mr T Hudl version ' Dad's Mudl'. It's just how we cope. I know it's serious and don't want to offend anyone going through similar experience, but Dad is the same, if you don't laugh you'd spend all day crying.

Now, more on the KM joys - started the week gently (with regard to KM anyway
, was mad busy with other stuff!!), fitting in a quick go at komono the other day. I bagged up 5 ornaments that i'd been given years ago, never really liked, have no place to be properly located and were in the box-room gathering dust (not too much dust, I'm not that bad at keeping house ). Checked online and found the most 'valuable' was worth about £15. Took them to CS yesterday. I did indeed feel good to set them free.

so, on the back of this small achievement I decided to tackle first major group of clothing. Have done 'smalls', as an easy win, and did coats, another easy win, but facing a lots of clothes that no longer fit as they should and are generally hideous in colour or style, was the most daunting category for me.

Slight cheat, please forgive me KM Purists , i did not get all my tops out at one time. For me, the sensible way to tackle the issue (because it is an issue, isn't it?), was to get out the things I have not looked at for AGES. It worked for me. A large charity bag full and, here's the thing, DH came home and voluntarily added a coat of his to the bag. You may recall i have trouble getting him to let things go so that is a big step (just the model boat, lots of footie programmes and assorted other carp for him part with now:rotfl:...).

I felt good for having bitten the bullet and started clothing. I still get frustrated about there being so much to do and RL getting in my way so progress is slower than i hoped, far slower, but at least there is progress:A

oh, and having to wait in to accept delivery for DH (not happy that more 'stuff' being brought in to the mix ), I decided to take a bit of time looking at car insurance quotes, even though the renewal price seemed reasonable. I saved £30, which helps. On a roll, I rang mobile phone Co and negotiated £5.50/month off that too, saving £66 for the year, and was only on a cheap tariff to start with!.

So, the rough with smooth this week. Best wishes to all Konverts whatever you need them for.

Am definitely in full KM mode today, have set aside a few hours before doing a
mini roast dinner for hard-working owner of aforesaid model boat and other clutter. You have to love em, eh??

M

System

Ive got a scrap metal merchant coming some time today to collect my old defunct washer and my sons old pc (well tower case really cause the innards have been stripped).

Ive just patrolled the garden for any more scrap metal... ive collected quite a pile. We might be able to get round the sides of the big shed now to kill the weeds.

MMF007

GreyQueen wrote: »

. My own warped sense of humour is to twist that to 'we'll dynamite that bridge when we come to it'.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That's it !!! I love it. May I adopt that as my favourite phrase GreyQueen???

I find a bit of RIGGGHHHHTTTTTTTT!!! jaw-setting, backbone-firming attitude can take you a long way. And chocolate, of course.

:D:D Couldn't agree more! :beer:

chins up everyone, we can tackle the world today!

Sorry, messed up the quote bit, but you know what I mean?!

M

GreyQueen

Adopt away, my dear, I would be proud if a GQ-ism escaped my immediate orbit into your's.

I do find some people give up too easily when faced with something like an overgrown garden (or allotment) for example. I cleared a very overgrown garden - so overgrown, that I only discovered it existed on two levels with steps down by falling down them - in three evenings armed with only a kitchen knife and a box of matches. The knife to cut down the shrubs and the matches to light the bonfire which reduced the biomass to ashes.

I tell myself that human beans have cleared continent-spanning forests with only hand tools, so what's a few square meters of ground to a tool-using, fire-bearing species like wot we are.

judi, well done on your scrap haul. Parents had their CH system finished last week and their gardens front and back are a bit junky atm. There's an asbestos water tank in the front yard, awaiting a specialist asbestos waste contractor to pick up, and a miscellany of metal inc a copper water tank in back garden, being tidied up for a run to the place which buys metals. I joked at the weekend that it looked like Steptoe's yard.

I've dragged no end of random bits of metal off and from underground on my allotment in the past few years. Think my best harvest has been bent and rusty nails, lol.

mavvymoo

Grey Queen With the yurt party as long you go with some flowers in your hair that would be fine for me :rotfl:Have a great time.

DH is at his posh spa hotel while he gets to grips with his new job. It has been paid for by his company (thank god or it would have been 'The Dunroamin BB' :rotfl:At £25 a night had we paid.I am well jel I cant stay but did give me a joyful moment as he was woken up by the peacocks that stoll round the grounds at 5.30am Is that bad of me ? :rotfl:

I still totally disagree with not reading the book before you start.For newbies starting I think you should have a copy of this book. I think you get a lot from it even if you think you havent.
I never googled anything on MK before or after I read the book.The only thing I read was the shopping trip thingy and that was well after I was fully kondo'd.

I feel this process /journey has worked for me and I have lost a lot of baggage along the way both in my house and in my head.and I have never had that with the many many declutters I have had over the years.I was never a hoarder which I never knew if that made it harder or easier for me. As the stuff I had had already escaped about 6 declutters so I must have thought it brought me joy as it was still in my home.But the amount of stuff that didnt bring me joy was a real shocker for me.

So if you are thinking about starting MK get the book its not a lot of money to invest even if you get nothing out of it (which I doubt)
and it may just change your life for the better


Mav x

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Well done to everyone we are all doing really well and achieving a great deal.
Hugs and good wishes to all who need them, wether it's struggling over a certain stage of kondoing, worrying about a loved one, a health issue or any other concern.
Today's plan is busy busy busy. I've catch up on cleaning washing and ironing, followed by a bit of volunteering, some paid stuff a quick bit of decluttering followed by a major gardening session at mils. So not a lot of time for kondoing really but if I can get all this done this week, I can koncentrate on kondoing again for the next couple of weeks.