The KonMarie method

YORKSHIRELASS

Well I am learning so much along this journey! I find that I have peaks and troughs, days like today when I just dont want to stop and other days when I dont want to be bothered and it all feels completely overwhelming.

I am also finding that empty drawers/boxes make me a bit twitchy - I woke up at 7am thinking about what might go in the drawer in the living room lamp table!!! How sad is that.

I think I am done for today, the trouble is I get so absorbed in Kondoing that I forget the normal housework. I am not even sure if I made our bed this morning!!!

june89

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

Well I am learning so much along this journey! I find that I have peaks and troughs, days like today when I just dont want to stop and other days when I dont want to be bothered and it all feels completely overwhelming.

I am also finding that empty drawers/boxes make me a bit twitchy - I woke up at 7am thinking about what might go in the drawer in the living room lamp table!!! How sad is that.

I think I am done for today, the trouble is I get so absorbed in Kondoing that I forget the normal housework. I am not even sure if I made our bed this morning!!!

I did this when I first emptied our bookcase. It was a beautiful piece that matched the rest of our furniture in our lounge, so first thought was to refill it with joyful ornaments. Then I realised that having NO ornaments is what made me joyful, so I ended up Kondoing it!

Thankfully the lamp tables have no drawers. And I only have one lamp, come to think of it. So the other table might be on the hit list soon.

System

The alarm clock in our bedroom has gone to the great skip in the sky. In all fairness it had seen better days, the clock face was not easy to see and the alarm went off when it wanted to rather than when hubby needed it to so for the past few months hubby has been using his phone as an alarm and looks at his watch instead of the clock.... The clock wont be replaced.

An old camera has been liberated too. The picture quality on our phones is better.

Susan1962

Kondoing has ground to a halt recently due to RL but at least the wardrobe and drawers have stayed neat and easy to manage.
Have bought some clothes and shoes today BUT they fill gaps in the wardrobe to make outfits and they all spark joy"

PollyWollyDoodle

I think it's normal to go in fits and starts, real life gets in the way sometimes. I have had a week with little actually Kondoing, but instead I have been reducing my fabric stash by making some things for a fair next week. I'm quite proud of this because I have a bad habit of acquiring stuff and then not wanting to actually use it. My mindset has definitely changed.

sallyA I have floor to ceiling wardrobes, the shelf at the top was deliberately sized to fit four large plastic crates. They have handbags, hats, photos and .... oh dear, I clearly need to check the fourth one! I think it's personal papers/mementos, stuff that's at the end of the list for sorting. The point is that I can reach them with fingertips to pull them out, and they are light enough for me to lift above my head to replace them. Whatever you put in them needs to not be too heavy therefore, but this system has worked really well for me.

GreyQueen

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

Has anyone figured out an effective way to store coats? Mine take up so much space and endanger the rail in the wardrobe.

I send them to the chazzer, as they have more space than I do. It's working out well for me.

I think the trouble with coats is having so many of them.

1. The coat you wear all the time.
2. The waterproof.
3. The old not-quite-waterproof-anymore.
4. The dog-walking coat.
5. The shabby gardening/ chicken hut cleaning coat.
6. The tatty coat worn to the carboot sale/ jumbly/ auction so you look poor and get a good deal.
7. The decent coat you don't wear cos it's long and not good in the car.
8. The very decent coat for wintertime funerals.
9. The evening coat, for those rare trips out somewhere posh.
10. The very thick coat only suitable for blizzards.
11. The coat inherited when someone died, because it's as-new (they never wore it either).
12. The coat which makes you look like Michelin Wo(man).
13. The very fashionable coat from 5 years ago, which looks very dated.
14. The fun-fur which causes an unfunny amount of sweating.
15. The coat with your former employer's logo all over it.

Each coat also has an understudy, the previous holder of that coat-position in your life. This is why coat pegs in halls and wardrobe space are like strata - your school duffel coat from the 1970s is possibly somewhere under there.

My parental home has a narrowish hall suffering from deep-vein coat-thrombosis. Only coats on the upper layers ever get used and they have no idea what lurks beneath*. I'd love to have a rummage there, given a free rein.

* possibly a lost civilisation, perhaps from the Andes. Worshipping the winged serpant god QuezaCoatl.**

** my neighbours are smoking pot again and it's coming in through the windows.:rotfl:

bunbun2

I have done a bit of kondoing in the spare room today and have a couple of boxes for the CS. The kondoing will have to wait for a bit though as we have MIL, SIL and BIL coming to stay next week end so I have to concentrate on the cleaning this week. Of course if I come across anything for the CS it will go...

Sally I hate wearing coats, I find them very restrictive

Maddie I am looking for a feather/ down coat for when I do my lunchtime duties

bossymoo

Hahaha wondered if you were "on something" greyqueen lol

Is al entirely true though

supersaver1000

GreyQueen wrote: »

I send them to the chazzer, as they have more space than I do. It's working out well for me.

I think the trouble with coats is having so many of them.

1. The coat you wear all the time.
2. The waterproof.
3. The old not-quite-waterproof-anymore.
4. The dog-walking coat.
5. The shabby gardening/ chicken hut cleaning coat.
6. The tatty coat worn to the carboot sale/ jumbly/ auction so you look poor and get a good deal.
7. The decent coat you don't wear cos it's long and not good in the car.
8. The very decent coat for wintertime funerals.
9. The evening coat, for those rare trips out somewhere posh.
10. The very thick coat only suitable for blizzards.
11. The coat inherited when someone died, because it's as-new (they never wore it either).
12. The coat which makes you look like Michelin Wo(man).
13. The very fashionable coat from 5 years ago, which looks very dated.
14. The fun-fur which causes an unfunny amount of sweating.
15. The coat with your former employer's logo all over it.

Each coat also has an understudy, the previous holder of that coat-position in your life. This is why coat pegs in halls and wardrobe space are like strata - your school duffel coat from the 1970s is possibly somewhere under there.

My parental home has a narrowish hall suffering from deep-vein coat-thrombosis. Only coats on the upper layers ever get used and they have no idea what lurks beneath*. I'd love to have a rummage there, given a free rein.

* possibly a lost civilisation, perhaps from the Andes. Worshipping the winged serpant god QuezaCoatl.**

** my neighbours are smoking pot again and it's coming in through the windows.:rotfl:

Very true :rotfl::rotfl: (about the coats, can't comment on your neighbours) . I've ditched most of my coats, except for three joyful ones, and one of those is a number 10 which is not good considering the hot flushes I suffer from time to time

Thanks for making me laugh :rotfl:

Igamogam

drusilla wrote: »

You could just enjoy knowing that you have reduced your possessions so much that you have empty spaces. We don't have to fill spaces just because they are there.

Cant wait for the spaces to re appear:D