The KonMarie method

iQueen

Morning Girls! (I think mav's male, Cashmere Donor should be made an honorary Konvert?)

Welcome, to the Newbies/Lurkers,who continue to swell The Kult's ranks. At this rate we can take on the Lab Party! :rotfl:

Thank you PollyWollyDoodle, for the A, B and C. That's exactly the problem. Thanks too, to VJsmum for the support. At present, the only place that is perfectly as I want it, is a narrow shelf, over the stairs, with a white vase, filled with big, (artificial) yellow daisies, and my 'to-be-read and donated' books, neatly lined up. It brings me immense joy every time I come down the stairs! :dance:

I shall have a go at the Boxroom of Doom today.

I'm a slob too, with part worn clothes, maman! I tend to wear my 'house clothes' for a week (apart from knicks).The couple of worn-once items, usually hang, separately, in the wardrobe, to be worn again within a fortnight, before washing. I'm a believer in the sniff-test! And I don't wear a bra, unless I'm going out!

I remember when Monday was the only wash-day, and only 'a person on the bus' very obviously didn't wash/launder often enough! :eek:

As I enjoyed a really wonderful afternoon with DD1 and her hubby, talking and laughing, I was thinking of you, iTwin, and accurately guessed that you were working hard, in gales of laughter! :rotfl: Well done! I hope the total will be close to what you need, and the posh items will bring it even closer! :A

GQ, I don't think it matters where we keep things, so long as it's practical for us, as individuals. I'm 'OCD' about my keys - always in my bag, except for one weekend, many years ago, when I went away for a weekend, and left them in the front door! Now, I keep my spare set in a less accessible part of my bag!

It's all to do with 'organisation', which is a skill I've never really acquired! Now, when I need to use/move/put away something, I always put it in the most glaringly 'wrong' place, so that I can't miss where it is. The number of times I lost my specs, by putting them down on a patterned duvet cover! Now, they go on the the white pillow!

Oh, greenbee, the chairs, the chairs! :eek: Having had an antiques/flea-market business, I have far too many! A pretty orphaned chair is usually so cheap. OMG! I've just counted EIGHT in my LR! And there are more scattered through the house. Why? Why? WHY? I will never need that many chairs!

Just goes to show that 'categories' are a real eye-opener. I shall also be deciding which chairs can be thanked and disposed of today. How crazy! :rotfl:

Picklepot

This is a fabulous thread.I have followed for many months and its is definitely for me and I need to get started.BUT....
I am overwhelmed by the task ahead but mostly fearful although I'm not sure what that is about.Has anyone experienced similar and have any tips or advice as how to deal with that?

iQueen

silvasava wrote: »

Mavvy - what a life lesson! Me & DH sitting in bed with a cuppa both had a bit of a sniffle over this. So glad that you have some lovely things that will be appreciated in more ways than one - bless you x
Part worn clothes - I have a stool in my bathroom ( one with legs on!!!) and I fold my clothes and put them on there for another wearing or two. The bathroom is a good size so they're not in the way and out if sight!
Have a good day all x

Thanks, for that, silvasava! Cracked me up, and set off my day perfectly!

Islandmaid

Picklepot wrote: »

This is a fabulous thread.I have followed for many months and its is definitely for me and I need to get started.BUT....
I am overwhelmed by the task ahead but mostly fearful although I'm not sure what that is about.Has anyone experienced similar and have any tips or advice as how to deal with that?

Pickle pot - don,t be over whelmed, most of us have been doing this for months - it's not 60 minute makeover

When I started, I concentrated on MY clothes and got my big girl knickers on and got real, that although the peacock blue dress IS beautiful, it is also a size 10 and realistically I will never be that size again, and even if I was, I,m 20'years older and it would look daft on me - one for the charity shop - NEXT.... and so it went on.

Still a way to go, today I culled my lounge shelves of tonnes of nik naks - some little things that the kids made when they were small have been tucked away safe, but most is off to the chazza

Good luck - it's really quite cathartic when you get going

iQueen

Picklepot wrote: »

This is a fabulous thread.I have followed for many months and its is definitely for me and I need to get started.BUT....
I am overwhelmed by the task ahead but mostly fearful although I'm not sure what that is about.Has anyone experienced similar and have any tips or advice as how to deal with that?

I was completely overwhelmed... and some. Then I discovered The Book.

First, get the book and read it.

Note the quirkiness - most people think MK is a little 'strange', but cute. Her method of de-cluttering, (or in my case, de-hoarding) approaches the problem from an entirely different, positive, angle, from all the other books and websites! No judgment, negative guilt or excuses. That's why we are all addicts!

It's mind-bending and it works!

By focusing on individual categories of Stuff, rather than a room or area, which is a mess of all sorts, it trains us to think intensely about the things which make us happy. :j

As we work through each category, we train ourselves to recognise what we really need and wish to have in our homes. As we progress, many have noticed a 'woo factor', which arises from our brains tackling unconscious clutter - our brains have to do something when we are not kondoing and asleep! :rotfl:

Try it, you've nothing to lose, and the process takes care of the overwhelm.

You also have a great gang of Konverts on here to support you, make you laugh, and offer tips!

supersaver1000

I started the process with not enough space to store my clothes and nothing to wear

After kondo I have 1 drawer of tops and bottoms, 1 drawer of undies, socks, gym things etc., 1 drawer of make up, jewellery, hair things etc., plus a small rail of hangables with some footwear in boxes underneath. :):):)

And I can wear it all :):):). Well most of it :rotfl: I do have a couple of lovely things that are a squeeze, but they are charity shop bargains and they are encouraging my weight loss rather giving me a guilty feeling.

Thank you Kondoers, this thread has truly changed my life xx:T

ps. Thanks for the tips about worn but not ready for wash clothes - I've created a space at one end of my rail now, it works a treat x

mrs-moneypenny

Mavvy that is so sad. Thank you for using it as a reminder NOT to save stuff for best.
I hope the fete went really well.
Hope everyone on the thread is well and has things around them that bring joy.
I'm in the garden sewing together a card I Im making from some of my wool stash ( still have button ban to knit)
DH is tinkering with an alarm clock we bought at the boot this morning ( tinkering brings him joy) if it works DD wanted an alarm for the kids for when the new term starts, if not the clock part works fine anyway.

Very windy here but still nice.
Round DD1 later with a load of stuff shed asked for, garden canes, work bench and Dumbbells, as well as some pressie bits from holiday (ice cream and cones etc so nothing to cluttering)

Have a lovely Sunday all

tibawo

Picklepot wrote: »

This is a fabulous thread.I have followed for many months and its is definitely for me and I need to get started.BUT....
I am overwhelmed by the task ahead but mostly fearful although I'm not sure what that is about.Has anyone experienced similar and have any tips or advice as how to deal with that?

I agree with you, more so that I have to be in the right stage of mind to go at it. As I look around now there are bits been dumped, 90% of it is the kids but where as it would be just shifted from one room to another, it now can go to its new 'home.'

I am still doing random kd mode so that I make a space where I can properly KD, this is now into its fourth month. However, I can see a huge difference and more importantly my will power of getting rid of things that I 'paid good money' for is getting stronger.

Doing my recent sales on eBay whilst my mum was happy that I had sold my items she was also quite said that she thought 'there were quite a few things you paid a lot for in there, you could have got more.' This tickled me partly because they were things I had got on eBay, mystery shops etc but also that we had got our 'use/joy' from them and they were just taking up space. The old me would have agreed with her but the new me was already eyeing up the next area to to tackle!

Off to tidy now, having a candle party this week, I never normally do this as house is usually so bad with clutter that I am petrified to invite people in. Even when family comes for birthday teas I get so stressed tidying, hiding things in cupboards so that I can pretend I am on top of things. It will actually be nice to have time to make nibbles again.. BIL has already told me I better make extra cake pops for him since it's a girls only thing!!

maman

That's a sad but lovely story mav. I'm sure the cashmere will bring huge joy.


It was a fear of moths that got me thinking too greenbee. At the end of the winter I kondoed my jumpers, washed all the rest and determined that no worn jumpers (those that go next to the skin) would get put away alongside clean ones. I think with the way the summer weather's gone I've had more outfits on the go at any one time than usual. So perhaps my house clothes, a warm weather top and a long sleeved one all worn in the space of 48 hours. That's what got me thinking. I'm not really worried about cotton skirts or jeans but I need to find a home for clean enough tops. Maybe I'll hang those instead of folding then I'll know the difference. Apologies for thinking aloud.:o


Horrid, wet day here so other than cooking a lovely meal later I'll go back to the fabric stash and work through that. DH has promised to clear a cupboard that's full of paperwork from a job he left 15 years ago!!:eek: He's not going to clear it today, just promised. But that's a start!;)

VJsmum

Never had moths in the clothes, but we did get carpet moth a couple of years back:eek:

The spare room had had all sorts of carp in it, as I shifted a disused laptop bag (honestly - why did i keep that. JIC I guess) I thought "what are those grains of rice doing under that?" but realised straight away what it was and, as I hoovered them up, the carpet fibres came with them :eek:

we then had to chuck all that stuff (out of the window rather than through the house), they were everywhere - even in the slats and knotholes of the wooden furniture, it all had to go as we couldn't be sure we'd got all the larvae? pupae? Chest of drawers, wardrobe, quilts and sleeping bags that were all cluttering up that room, old handbags - you gett the picture.

When we cleared DDs room, i was a bit fearful of what we might find in the corners, under the cuddly toy pile etc - but thankfully it was clear.

So, whilst i havent' let anything get so bad again, it is quite a sobering reminder. We couldn't consider the joy of any of it - it just had to be thrown, so better to have the time to consider it all and it's joy giving ability, really, isn't it?