The KonMarie method

VJsmum

mavvymoo wrote: »

Yes also Pigs and Frogs to add to the list also forgot plates which I had one on my kitchen wall in the 80s By the time I moved in 2001 I had amassed about 150 :mad: All gifts from family and friends
Would much rather stamps than a shelf full of Buddhas or a wall full of plates (mostly with cats and kittens on :eek:)


Happy kondoing everyone

Mav x

150:eek:

My MiL used to live in a lovely, massive, Victorian house. She had a thing for Royal Copenhaagen plates and got one every year for Christmas. She now lives in a two bed shelters bungalow and all these masses of plates have nowhere to go . She keeps trying to foist them onto me and I am resisting.

However OH got guilt tripped into accepting a dozen mini plates. They are lovely things but I don't want them and I saw them today in the walk in bedroom cupboard. She is coming tomorrow so I am going to ask her to let them go. I am going to gilt trip her back "oh it's such a shame to have them just festering in the cupboard, wouldn't it be nice to let someone else enjoy them and raise some money for the hospice?" :rotfl:

Now, dressing gowns. I found two - mine and his - neither gets worn, neither has a belt (lost) - worth donating? Or not?

bunbun2

Success:j

As I was suiting at the dining room table I was looking in the glasses cabinet. The conversation with OH

Me: we hardly use any of the glasses in there, we might as well get rid. We use the 'posh' ones sometimes but never the plain ones

OH: That's true, sounds a good idea

Me: we don't use the coffee sets either

OH: they were wedding presents

Me: just cos we don't keep them doesn't mean we care less about the people who gave them to use or were ungrateful

OH: OK

Result:T Plus OH can't even remember who gave us the coffee sets:rotfl:

Ds1 said why are you getting rid of loads of stuff. I said cos if we don't you will have to. He said well you can get rid of all my things I made at school:)

PollyWollyDoodle

My goodness, you're all doing so well! glasses (drinking, not wearing) are next on my list. I have about fifteen wine glasses, not all matching; I love having people round but my kitchen can't seat more than eight people, maybe ten at a pinch so I'm never going to need them all.

Can I add bees to the list, please? I started keeping bees about five years ago. I now have bee tea towels, necklaces, candle-holder, a bee ring (I never wear rings), several honey pots, some nicer than others, and a big fluffy bumble bee that buzzes when you press it! Actually that does spark joy. The other things don't!

mrs-moneypenny

Thought of another collectable bells and not sure if pigs have been mentioned?
My mum has both and mil has bells. (Lord help me)
My mum actually told us to stop buying her either and pointed out we would only get them back if we persisted in giving her them. She pointed out what a pain they all are to dust. Mils are in a glass cabinet so don't get dusted, I think she's forgotten they are even there as its behind her chair.

Watched another DVD tonight that is being released on to someone else. It was ok but not a keeper.

Night all

Igamogam

Bit more kondoing today - general stuff that has accumulated in bedside cabinet drawers - it just came about because I was thinking about something that I knew was in the bottom drawer and for the life of me couldn't give my self a reason to keep any more - so it, and a load of other carp, now in CS bag. Found in drawer my DDs hospital baby tags - showed DD2 and she expressed a desire to keep hers along with a couple of other things ( notes to Pegi - the Tooth Fairy when she forgot to take a tooth away and of course Pegi's answer!!!) So if a suitable keepsake box doesn't 'make itself known ' by the end of this project I will buy one:D I will mention to DD1 too and see what she wants to do with hers.

I did however manage to get rid of some true bits of rubbish that have gone straight into the bin ans also some others bits and pieces I honestly thought I couldn't part with but they held no joy so have been put into the CS bag:)

Feel likes it has been a bit slow today - maybe because its been dealing with more emotional stuff............. anyway one drawer now completely empty and I K-swiped a Nigella book off the shelf as I was passing.........dont think I have ever looked at it and she was beginning to annoy me:rotfl:

skeeter93

mavvymoo wrote: »

Would much rather stamps than a shelf full of Buddhas or a wall full of plates (mostly with cats and kittens on :eek:)

Reminds me of the scene from Harry Potter - Dolores Umbridge has an office filled with kitty plates all meowing... :eek:

GreyQueen

drusilla wrote: »

During the process I sorted his socks with days of the week on. I am now a little worried as TUESDAY is nowhere to be seen! GreyQueen has Gary got them?

Hopefully, even without his 40 pairs of socks OH should be ok for a while - as long as he keeps his drawers tidy!!

:eek: Oh, this is a bit woo!.

Here I am, online for the first time since yesterday morning, and catching with the thread, laughing and nodding along with all the categories of gift-carp when, for no reason, socks-with-days-of-the-week came into mind and seconds later there's this post!

I was thinking about a convo I had with my pooter guy 2-3 years ago, who I've known for years. As part of a rambling convo, he admitted he'd got a pack of days-of-the-week socks as a gift. And, when one half of a pair disappeared or died, the other somehow suffered a mishap at the same time. Natually, I mean, not that he kondo'd them.

I've never owned day socks (did once have a pair of bedsocks, boom boom! sorry ) but I have several pairs of black socks which have a coloured cuff, or have coloured toes and heels. My ambition, when these have all died a natural death, is to have a couple of multipacks of identical black socks.

This is part of my pursuit of simplicity. I don't find fiddling around with clothes joyful. I don't like clothes shopping, choosing, maintenance, accessorising. I find the clothes I'm drawn to have very simple lines and mostly are plain colours. I wanna get dressed and not think about what I'm wearing for the rest of the day.

A few months ago, I kondo'd a beautiful jade green silk shirt from East. I'd been given it in a bag of cast-offs from someone else's wardrobe declutter. The gift was in the spirit of all this stuff is going to be donated but it there's anything in there you'd like...........

Anyway, gorgeous colour, mandarin collar (love these, suit these) and fancy fabric knot buttons. Could I get this buttoned up? Could I heck! I'm blessed not to have my dexterity impaired by arthritis or similar, but these were impossible. I couldn't believe putting a blouse on would take 5 + minutes and was I almost screaming in frustration.I considered buying some matching buttons and changing them over (nothing suitable in stock) when I had a LBM; the unique selling point of this blouse, what made it really attractive, was these knot buttons. I already have a jade green silk blouse which is a nearly-identical shade, but with a conventional shirt collar. I seldom wear it, as my lifestyle is rather prosaic. I don't need to have another fancy silk blouse. Let it go.

Which is why it went to the chazzer. I ended up keeping nowt from that bag of cast-offs, as it happened. There were lots of things in there which I could have worn, and would have accepted at one point. But they weren't quite right for my lifestyle, didn't do me any particular favours or were awkward to launder. So I didn't keep them.

Today will be very busy with family coming over and lots of stuff being done and some Stuff leaving and some Stuff arriving. They are bringing me the cast-off fenceposts and birdtable from their back garden, which are going to be put up on my allotment. And we're going to take the roll of cast-off chicken wire, which has been floating around on my allotment for years, always getting in the way, and incorporating it into my plot's fenceline.

I have 2 x 33m fences, and almost no money. The fence is a bit like Trigger's Broom, in that posts and other elements are added to it, as and when they come available or a post rots away and falls. They are the same fences since 2008, but constantly changing, IYSWIM.

Hey, it's an allotment, not an entry into the Chelsea Flar Show. :rotfl:

just_the_two_of_us

Morning everyone - thank you for my daily smile!!


Whoever has Royal Copenhagen plates - perhaps worth asking a local auction house if worth auctioning them as could be worth something? - if not local charity shop would probably be delighted to receive! At my shift in CR shop yesterday we had so many donations - think people round here must be kondoing too!!


My kondoing has stalled somewhat with DH off work but we are getting things done that have needed doing for ages so that's kondoing really!


The wedding present conundrum - when I reduced the number of our ornaments a year ago I took photos of all the wedding presents before I bid them good bye. No-one needs 4 beautiful cut crystal bud vases do they?


Have a good day everyone. x

PollyWollyDoodle

The weird thing is that since I Kondoed the sock drawer, I don't have any odd socks. Now you might think that as someone living alone, doing only my own washing, there's no reason to ever have odd socks but the Sock Monster (who lives somewhere in the washing machine) has previously orphaned any number of hosiery items. Somehow, everything is staying in pairs now.

GQ beware, my black socks drive me mad because it's so hard to get exact pairs after washing - this may not bother you, but I can't bear having one sock that's longer/tighter/thicker than the other, unless you buy totally identical socks they are liable to get muddled! Maybe that's just me though.

greent

Igamogam wrote: »

I have to fess up to collecting some thing of which I have probably 1000's stamps:rotfl::rotfl: Its something I started as a 6 year old and I slowly built it up over many years. Pretty much stopped when my own kids came along ( they showed no interest whatsoever at the appropriate age:rotfl:) and then I started on FDCs. I have lots of albums but also a large storage box with loose stamps all in smaller boxes waiting to be placed in various albums - its something I will do when I have finished the Kondo journey as they will not be got rid of - actually some are valuable and they are the only named item on our house insurance:rotfl: I started the collection as my parents worked all over the world and the letters I got from them always had beautiful stamps on which I kept, rather than the letters! The collection doesn't take up a lot of room and doesn't need dusting!

I collected stamps, FDC and old and foreign notes and coins. None of my children are interested and the teenagers think it's 'sad' Decided that's a 'past' me and no need to hang onto any of it. Sold all of my notes on ebay (mainly individually and then the last batch which remained unsold all as one) - got a good few hundred £ for them. Sold some FDC individually on there too but have stamp albums, loose stamps, remaining FDC and coins (except any British ones, which I've kept for the children to see) ready to go to the local antiques centre, where I've been in contact with a stamp and coin dealer there - just need to take it there on a day when the main man is there, as opposed to just one of his staff.