The KonMarie method

Igamogam

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

I did feel sorry for the person she was on the phone to as it wasn't their idea to change the route but they got Mrs angrys full rant!

Good! A feisty octogenarian:T

mrs-moneypenny

Juliebunny, a couple of my children's accounts got labeled dormant as they hadn't used them in a while, I just had to take ID down to re activate them. Not sure how long they can go untouched before getting dormant status

Igamogam

I have done what I said I wouldnt..................picked up, folded and put away OHs clothes:mad: but it was a comment this morning about not having room to put his things away insinuating I had all the space. Now if he looked he would find that a good third of my clothes have now gone. So to prove my point I have managed to put all of his things away and notice the T shirt draw is how I left when I 'kondo filed' them a few months ago:eek: He must have over 50 in various states of decay. He is gong to have to face this soon, and sort his clothes out. I am hoping the KM magic will rub off........Oh look a porcine squadron overhead *sigh*.

Not sure what I am tackling this evening - maybe more books.........

yellowbear

Had an urge to go through the bedroom again.

Another 6(!) bags for the charity shop, a bag of paper/card and a bag of plastics for recycling.

Husband offered to help and promptly spent 2 hours kondoing the cricket on tv while I sorted. Useless article.

Found heaps of washing too.

mavvymoo

Hello all
Im back from my personal shopping trip :rotfl:
I enjoyed the coffee and free scone very nice it was too. :)Enjoyed reading the free magazines But didnt like one item of clothing she picked for me
In my head I knew exactly what I wanted and it was not anywhere in the store:rotfl: She kept saying that looks lovely and I kept saying Nah it doesnt bring me joy So I brought nothing there at all

But I did get what I wanted 4 new bras and knicker sets £150 spent :eek: But as I only go once a year that was ok and they all brought me joy and did a good job

2 x new pairs of jeans 1 x Black and 1 x very dark Blue both levis fitted like a dream and sparked joy

4 x T shirts 1x steel blue 1 x silver grey 1 x Charcoal Grey and 1 x Charcoal Black all lovely all on sale and all my base colour

But best of all passed 1 chazzer and was drawn in (you know me) And across the shop I spotted it A stunning silver Grey cardi with a cable knit type finish with fab mother of pearl pretty buttons in Cashmere :eek: Made by Toast (mega money) for £4.95 :eek::eek: I was so happy with it and I love it. It was worth the drive and the try on of 20 pairs of jeans :mad: Just to find it

Very hard shopping with an image consultants voice ringing in your ears and Marie sitting on your shoulder :rotfl:

But it is great as you can pass by 90% of the clothes without even being side tracked to look at it


But very pleased with my day and didnt bother me driving Didnt wear Red as decided this morning I didnt want everyone to talk to me :rotfl: Mardy old cow that I am

Mav x

Edited to say the funniest thing was that my Bank went in to a state of melt down and thought my card had been stolen as I was spending in new shops most likely and that never happens. So had to go though dealing with that as well ;-)

MMF007

Been absent for a while, RL took over! Mavymoo and bunbun2 you made me squeal with recognition about DH getting stuff out of exiting bags / trying to hang onto stuff 'because Auntie Vi bought us that as a wedding present'.

We rarely argue and never row but I have turned the air blue after spending a day sorting through items we haven't ever liked or used, putting them in bag for CS, only for DH to delve through it ALL, pulling out items and asking why are you getting rid of this? I have threatened divorce if he ever does it again.

Perhaps I should make it clear that I wouldn't liberate anything he had bought for himself, or of genuine sentimental value for him but hideous ornaments and BROKEN pencil cases...... they gotta go!

I am still struggling with the room of doom. I have extracted items as I have done categories but much in there has not yet been covered and I am frustrated by the numerous different things, the volume and the fact that I know it will be harder to Kondo some of it. Soooo, while I am screaming at DH, I need to listen up myself, I think. Back to basics, if it doesn't spark joy, it can be set free and someone else can have the pleasure when they choose it from CS. Yes, I paid good money for some of the stuff but I will get far more pleasure from the space and the weight being lifted, and the noise being gone, if I LET IT GO.

See, even just writing about it makes me shout!!

so, onwards and upwards. Wish me luck as I have almost a day and a half to devote to regaining my sanity ( which reminds me.... I love the sig, 'teetering on the edge' - is it Bossymoo's?)

Been loving catching up and feel deprived that not had time to add my two-pennies worth. One day I'll tell you about our wedding, and my school uniform, and the accidents that befell my brother and I. Oh, I can't resist this one...


when my brother was about 3 and I was 8, we found a lump hammer lying round in the garden (like you do). Now, we had a traditional rubbish bin outside by the backdoor and it had a rubber lid. Well, i discovered that hitting the lid with the hammer gave a very satisfying bounce so I did this for a few mintues (we didn't have many toys).

My little brother came to investigate and stood opposite me for a good view. I was getting confident with it now and really belted the lid with the hammer. The force of the bounce snatched it out of my hand and it hit my brother right between the eyes.

You hopefully will have realised that he came to no lasting damage 'cos I wouldn't be gleefully writing this if he had, (he had a really tough skull!!) but
blimey was I terrified of what i'd done. To this day he regularly tells people that I hit him on the head with a hammer when he was 3 yo. It works wonders for my hard-as-nails image (not).

M

bunbun2

Thanks for all the positive posts about my summer colours crisis. I think I will go for deeper blues rather than pale. I had a look through my coats and found some jackets, coats and a poncho perfect for my new layering look:j

OH and I kondoed the glasses cabinet and 3 big boxes of glasses and ornaments are now in the car ready to go to the CS tomorrow. A couple of bin bags went in the bin too. MMF007 even OH found very few things to keep and when I wasn't sure he said "does it bring you joy?":rotfl:

I had a collection of dolls (the ones that come from different countries) which have all gone:j

Mav glad you had a good day :T

Igamogam

bunbun2 wrote: »

I had a collection of dolls (the ones that come from different countries) which have all gone:j

It must have been the day to get rid of the costume doll...............I too had a collection.A once large collection of dolls from all over the world were much depleted from a weeding out over 30 years ago:eek: They were brought back from my parents travels and as a child I really cherished them and had them displayed - I loved the exoticness of their costumes................. came across the dozen or so left in a box and I really thought as I took the lid off 'I am going to struggle here' but I was amazed that I just picked each one up, remembered where each had come from and carefully put them in a bag for the CS. DD2 saw and asked about them. She had never seen them:eek: So I told her the back story on each one and still felt no ties or temptation to keep one back..............think I maybe heading towards a cure:rotfl:

A weekend of more kondoing although I feel the need to temper it with something else otherwise I will begin to resent it :cool:

GreyQueen

Enjoying my pre-breakfast cuppa and morning chortle at the kondoesque doings of you all.

Yesterday was a long day for a weakling like myself with ME and I was in my bed by 8.40 pm. Folks came up, brother hit the secondhand bookshops and chazzers for a few hours and our parents went with me to the allotment.

Dad and I dug up the potato crop, which was very lame, Mum picked and podded broad beans, which were excellent. We squabbled good-naturedly at exactly what point a courgette becomes a marrow (they have taken a 6lb 'gette home with them, I have two 4 lb ones here for use and we won't mention the m-word, if you please.:p)

Trigger's Fences now has 5 leftover used fenceposts from the re-fencing at their home incorporated into them, plus we unfurled the chickenwire roll and it was enough to do over a third of one side. This involved removing a small amount of other fencing material, which came from my late Grandad's shed after he died, and which will now be discarded.

I felt a bit guilty about that. Grandad would have been 100 this month, apart from the fact that he died at 83. He was much-loved but I told myself my love of my Grandad isn't in this bit of plastic fencing. I am not throwing anything emotional away if I get rid of this.

It's just Stuff which he happened to own for a while in his lifetime and which I happened to own for a while in mine. And it will exit on the next dump run, if I can't find anyone else who'd want it (doubtful).

And I am soooo glad that I won't have to move that darned chickenwire roll from A-B around the plot ever again.

:j Oh, and I discovered that I have tree bumblebees nesting in my (presently unused) cold frame. Thrilled to bits.

mavvymoo

Grey Queen lucky you to have the nest of bumblebees. I would keep it to yourself otherwise those Bee plates,trays.mugs, and random china carp will start to arrive Trust me I know these things :rotfl:

MMF your story brought a memory flooding back with your story
When my son was about 8 years old.He was out playing with a load of his friends in our cul de sac. I hadnt seen them for a little while so nipped out to see where they were.(they were not allowed to go far) Heard them round the back on some waste ground. Went round and to my horror they had found a circular saw blade(as you do );) with the biggest teeth you have ever seen :eek: And were throwing at each other like a frisbee :eek::eek: How no one lost their head I will never know :mad: But no one even had a scratch on them.

Unlike the time my Brother stabbed me in the arm with a pencil and I still have the lump of lead in my arm


Loving how everyone is getting on so well Another binbag is going to those 50/50 shops today to try and get a bit of my money back from my shopping trip and the rest is off to the chazzer

Found a charity who takes bras to send to Africa so will go though them again at some point and send them their. I hate seeing them go to waste as they are so expensive but have dropped a couple of cup sizes so will do the women out their more good than they will do me

Have a lovely weekend everyone with what ever you are doing

Mav x