The KonMarie method

PollyWollyDoodle

I swear that as I handed the boxes of mugs and glassware to the chap in the charity shop yesterday, I felt a physical weight lifting off me. I came home, surveyed the empty space where the boxes had been - and immediately started another chazzer bag. I'm still midway through the process so there's going to be many more I think.

Yesterday I did THAT drawer in the kitchen. You know the one. I seem to have keys to several houses (not including the ones I hold for friends for emergencies). I just wish I knew which ones! :rotfl:

GreyQueen

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

I swear that as I handed the boxes of mugs and glassware to the chap in the charity shop yesterday, I felt a physical weight lifting off me. I came home, surveyed the empty space where the boxes had been - and immediately started another chazzer bag. I'm still midway through the process so there's going to be many more I think.

Yesterday I did THAT drawer in the kitchen. You know the one. I seem to have keys to several houses (not including the ones I hold for friends for emergencies). I just wish I knew which ones! :rotfl:

:T I've experienced that. The spring in your step when you walk away from the charity shop having dropped off your bags and boxes.

If people knew how much fun there is to be had from un-shopping, as I call it, the chazzers would disappear under a tsunami of Stuff...........:rotfl:

mavvymoo

iTwin I cant find out much about the Artist so I dont think they are worth that much (Beckham) much :rotfl:I will take them over to the Auction House next week and take it from there I think.I will always pay what they are worth to the Charity as I couldnt live with myself if I didnt.

Also found yesterday a Gold and Opal necklace in a box brand new with a Sydney jewellers stamp really pretty so need to take that somewhere to get an idea of worth.

Also a Royal Doulton figurine 'called images of cats' :rotfl:Plain White and stylish if you like that type of thing selling on E*ay for about £40 secondhand.

So all in all it looks like a nice little haul for funding the goal posts.
I will be so pleased when its over as its such hard work leading up to it.
We dont start until 4pm on Saturday as we have found it works better with people coming in after a day on the beach and days out, Also the change over on Holiday homes as we catch them on their way home.

Weather is looking really good which is always a massive bonus :T


Still got stuff to do so I had better get on with it.But think I will have another cuppa first

Mav x

kazwookie

Morning

More stuff gone.............it works wonder.

Daily stuff sorted

Work calls

maman

GreyQueen wrote: »

:T I've experienced that. The spring in your step when you walk away from the charity shop having dropped off your bags and boxes.

If people knew how much fun there is to be had from un-shopping, as I call it, the chazzers would disappear under a tsunami of Stuff...........:rotfl:

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

I swear that as I handed the boxes of mugs and glassware to the chap in the charity shop yesterday, I felt a physical weight lifting off me. I came home, surveyed the empty space where the boxes had been - and immediately started another chazzer bag. I'm still midway through the process so there's going to be many more I think.

Yesterday I did THAT drawer in the kitchen. You know the one. I seem to have keys to several houses (not including the ones I hold for friends for emergencies). I just wish I knew which ones! :rotfl:

That glorious feeling when you close the door on the car and it's empty and realise there is a bed in the spare room after all:D.


DH is irritating me. Mushroom punnet of necessary komono in hall drawer with a tape measure. He gets it out, uses it and then just tosses it back. No effort to return to its home and he does the same with kitchen roll. Much replacing pointedly and slamming of drawers followed.:mad:


Not much expected today. Just need to clear out last bits from sitting room this evening before painter comes in the morning.


I can hear the bin men coming down the street as I type. Oh bliss!!:rotfl:

iQueen

Eyeore wrote: »

Love love love catching up with this thread!
Just wanted to post an update as I don't post very often but try and keep up with you all! I have been kondoing since March, this is because since coming out of the fog of being poorly for a number of years I had one of those moments where it was like I opened my eyes for the first time and saw my house and thought - blimey who left all this carp here! So I have done little bits as I have gone along, fitting it in around RL, and this way has definitely worked for me. I still have more to do but it is amazing that even if I get back from work very late I will still 'see' something and think - ah I can kondo you! I know it sounds a bit woo but it's like I can breathe again at home. So my advice to anyone starting out or struggling is do keep on with it, it really does work! :j

I am amazed, and eternally thankful, for the 'woo factor' in kondoing! You're right, it's as if it has opened my eyes again. I'm suddenly aware of how wonderful life is, and delight in small pleasures each day. Prior to beginning kondoing, I was in 'God's waiting room', which looked like an old -fashioned, dreary railway waiting-room, with just me sitting there! :eek:

I don't allow anything at all to cloud my happiness now! :dance:

GreyQueen wrote: »

:T I've experienced that. The spring in your step when you walk away from the charity shop having dropped off your bags and boxes.

If people knew how much fun there is to be had from un-shopping, as I call it, the chazzers would disappear under a tsunami of Stuff...........:rotfl:

If the recent post, about a charity not accepting any more wedding dresses, is anything to go by, the tsunami is already happening! And my Sally Anne doesn't accept bric-a-brac any more.:o

When I think about it, is amazing that a little book can have such an incredible affect on the economy... people buying less, and possibly charity shops having to lower their prices to get rid of Stuff? :think:

mavvymoo wrote: »

iTwin I cant find out much about the Artist so I dont think they are worth that much (Beckham) much :rotfl:I will take them over to the Auction House next week and take it from there I think.I will always pay what they are worth to the Charity as I couldnt live with myself if I didnt.

Also found yesterday a Gold and Opal necklace in a box brand new with a Sydney jewellers stamp really pretty so need to take that somewhere to get an idea of worth.

Also a Royal Doulton figurine 'called images of cats' :rotfl:Plain White and stylish if you like that type of thing selling on E*ay for about £40 secondhand.

So all in all it looks like a nice little haul for funding the goal posts.
I will be so pleased when its over as its such hard work leading up to it.
We dont start until 4pm on Saturday as we have found it works better with people coming in after a day on the beach and days out, Also the change over on Holiday homes as we catch them on their way home.

Weather is looking really good which is always a massive bonus :T


Still got stuff to do so I had better get on with it.But think I will have another cuppa first

Mav x

I was joking about the market price, iTwin! Is the artist local to your area? Might enhance the price? Great news about the opal necklace! Some people are superstitious about them bringing unhappiness, but I'm sure there are others who don't think that.

Also, good news about the Doulton! :j

I'm not much into ornaments, but I did treat myself to Sisters by R Doulton for my 50th, plain white. It reminded me of my Dsis and me, when we were small, and wore long nighties that our Mum made for us out of Dayella fabric! Bought her the same for her 50th, too.

I'm dying to hear your report on theTrash or Treasure! :rotfl:

I would like to make a small donation to the goal posts - is there an address?

Hope we get some good weather tomorrow - got DD1 and her DH paying a flying visit. Pouring with rain at the moment, so I shall go and do some chores, and then see what is begging to leave home via the charity bag. :rotfl:

greenbee

iQueen wrote: »

I would like to make a small donation to the goal posts - is there an address? [/URL]

By 'small' do you mean a lorry-load for the 'trash or treasure' stall?

(If so, maybe you could plan a route for it to pick up from everyone else on the thread...)

DawnW

I pulled the expensive black skirt suit that I used to wear for formal work meetings out of the wardrobe this morning. I took early retirement last year, but had kept it for funerals etc

But I have lost weight, so it looked like a sack when I tried it on - so off it went in a bag to the charity shop this morning with a mumsy pink cardigan (an impulse purchase from another charity shop), a top with a neckline I don't like and a book also bought at a CS, which I had read and enjoyed, but don't want to keep.

I am not sure that 'kondo-ing' is a once and for all exercise in quite the way the book seems to suggest. Or why would we keep finding things that need to go from categories that we have already 'done'? Maybe it is more a change of mindset? Or other changes? When I did my clothes, I found it quite a depressing task, as I didn't like the big, baggy clothes which were the only ones that fitted Maybe the act of going through my wardrobe in such a way is what prompted me to make the effort to lose weight? I don't know.

wort

Morning all, I woke this morning as the charity van came to take my 3 bags, dh had popped them out on his way to work which was lucky as the van was really early and I would have been chasing them down the st in my pjs! Not a pretty sight!
My last day today before back to work tomorrow, heard the weather is going to be beautiful (typical)! Great for your fete though Mavvymoo.:T
Can't decide Wether to kondo paperwork or glasses? Glasses are looking favourite but will involve getting some boxes out of the garage that have been there a good few years,from when I tidied cupboards pre kondo!
I always think I'll need them when we have parties but I have never touched them since they went in there!!
Have a wonderful weekend :j

iQueen

wort wrote: »

Morning all, I woke this morning as the charity van came to take my 3 bags, dh had popped them out on his way to work which was lucky as the van was really early and I would have been chasing them down the st in my pjs! Not a pretty sight!
My last day today before back to work tomorrow, heard the weather is going to be beautiful (typical)! Great for your fete though Mavvymoo.:T
Can't decide Wether to kondo paperwork or glasses? Glasses are looking favourite but will involve getting some boxes out of the garage that have been there a good few years,from when I tidied cupboards pre kondo!
I always think I'll need them when we have parties but I have never touched them since they went in there!!
Have a wonderful weekend :j

Glasses can be borrowed/hired for parties/celebrations.

DawnW wrote: »

I pulled the expensive black skirt suit that I used to wear for formal work meetings out of the wardrobe this morning. I took early retirement last year, but had kept it for funerals etc

But I have lost weight, so it looked like a sack when I tried it on - so off it went in a bag to the charity shop this morning with a mumsy pink cardigan (an impulse purchase from another charity shop), a top with a neckline I don't like and a book also bought at a CS, which I had read and enjoyed, but don't want to keep.

I am not sure that 'kondo-ing' is a once and for all exercise in quite the way the book seems to suggest. Or why would we keep finding things that need to go from categories that we have already 'done'? Maybe it is more a change of mindset? Or other changes? When I did my clothes, I found it quite a depressing task, as I didn't like the big, baggy clothes which were the only ones that fitted Maybe the act of going through my wardrobe in such a way is what prompted me to make the effort to lose weight? I don't know.

I'm sure, for myself, that it will be a once-only process, because I don't want to live in this swamp of excess, ever again.

However, I am conscious that it will be necessary to weed regularly - there is no way that we can let Stuff into our homes, without seeing some leave, or we certainly will end up back at Square 1, and a major kondo will definitely be necessary, again (IF we're still fit, and capable of doing it!). :eek:

The current project should be a lesson learned.

greenbee wrote: »

By 'small' do you mean a lorry-load for the 'trash or treasure' stall?

(If so, maybe you could plan a route for it to pick up from everyone else on the thread...)

Well, I had planned a convoy of skips, from the Outer Hebrides, down through England, Wales, and Ireland, collecting Trash n Treasure for mav's project! Then the team could buy Beckham, and a stadium!:rotfl:

It was a serious request. But your comment gave me a good dose of laughing! :j Love it!