The KonMarie method

mrs-moneypenny

OMG GQ you are describing my loft!!, we've got five kids and 30+ years of tat stored up there. There is a school desk that Dh made into an ashtray while at high school. I still find idea of encouraging teenage boys to make themselves an ashtray in school during the 70s very strange! There was enough Christmas stuff to trim out the street but I did pass some on to the cs last year. I'm not sure how many bags of clothes and cuddlies are up there. Along with vast amounts of school stuff and toys don't get me started on board games! I will clear it before I become to infirm to use the loft steps and I make everyone a lot more selective of what goes up there now.

Re sewing/knitting machines
1 sewing machine that I've had since we got married, a new home one that I love.
No knitting machines for me, I use needles but do need to kondoing zone of those as they are breeding!

Mil had 4 sewing machines, one that didn't work but was a gift, one that was downright dangerous as the cables were frayed through so Dh cut the plug and cables off before taking it to the tip, one she was saving for best but gave dd2 as she never used it(it is over 35 years old) and the one she now does use as she's stopped sewing.

maman

Blue_Doggy wrote: »

Bathroom: 1 folding chair (which I sit on when drying my feet!)

Why can't you just sit on the loo like the rest of us!:rotfl:

Bigjenny wrote: »

1 Sewing Machine.

I have a good arrangement with half shares in a sewing machine. When DD1 wanted one, mine was old and tension playing up so I part-exed it for her new one. She was living at home at the time. Now she's got her own place it travels between homes as needed. She's got it at the moment as it's school holidays and she's busy but it will return and hopefully not live under a spare chair in the dining room like it usually does!


Not much kondoing done today. I wrapped a present and took the opportunity to sort my box of giftbags/tissue paper and ribbon. Most bags were recycled and not to my taste so they're off to CS.

A_Frayed_Knot

michelefauk wrote: »

Thanks guys, I'm going up now to have a look and maybe make a start, I think all the bin bags of the kids old school work, paintings etc (the eldest 2 are 23 and 21!) are fairly close together so that might be the first cull!

I used to hate/hardly ever went into the loft, then I got a proper loft ladder installed, now its no problem, being in the house alone, worries me slightly, so I always take my mobile phone with me - you never know.

silvasava

I sewing machine bought for me by DH as a replacement about 20 years ago. It's a Husqvarna (basic one) and was used this week to alter a top for DGD. Used to have a knitting machine many years ago but sent to the CS from whence it came was a Japanese make & very good but the instructions were hilarious - apparently it was covered in 'graceful vynyl' wonder what MK would have made of that.

Did manage a bit of MK on paperwork this morning - DH had a boxfile in his wardrobe with all the paperwork after his Mum died. I've sorted it and kept a few bits but all the irrelevant stuff has been shredded. I've suggested to DH that his youngest sister may like to have the small folder that's left & he's OK with that so a bit more released!

mavvymoo

Just an update no news yet on the overall total made at the fete. Sure it will be today as everyone was to knackered yesterday to even think about it.

Its been cold today and I am wearing a Cherry Red Cashmere cardi :rotfl:Which is bringing me joy and warmth and loads of snugglyness (if thats a word ) :rotfl:Will be kondoing my jumpers etc soon

My spareroom is also a room of doom like my iTwin at the moment with all the stuff from the fete The dog is so fed up as he has to lay in the door way as thats as far as he can get :rotfl:And I have to pick my way though the dog first then mounds of binbags,clothes rail a massive kingsize bed quilted throw thing a 'Cook' sign. and goodness knows what else so tommorow I need to make a start on that :mad:

Mav x

Oh no sewing or knitting machine here

GreyQueen

mrs money-penny, with only slight variations, most loft contents are the same. Trouble is, age and health now mean that Mum daren't go into her loft. I'm pushing 51, less bendy than I used to be, but fearless. I go up there and retrieve stuff at her direction but it's not my stuff so I can't get rid.

OK, the two steamer trunks were mine about 35 odd years ago, but they bought them for me, and ownership seemed to have reverted when I suggested selling them. I suspect that the foam in the unused sunlounger will have died in storage. It's in the far side, behind and under a lot of other stuff, so even reaching it to check would be a major effort. I might think of trying, because it it has died, she might allow me to take it out and off to the tip.

There is a severe amount of SABLE yarn up there. And I dread the knitting machines as I don't know how to work them and their parts are dispersed all over, and I won't know which bits belong to which machine, which will make donating them a nightmare. She's been going to get back around to using them since before I left uni. And I'm 51 next month. Not going to be happening in this lifetime, hey?:rotfl:

I'll be spending a few days there next week, maybe we can do some kondo-ing. But she's got Isshews and is very resistant, so anything is resistance + logistics minus health problems, so complicated.

Ach well, I will have to sort it one day, I'm the only one in the family with a shred of organisational ability. Rather help the folks declutter now and enjoy their freedom than do it when grieving, IYSWIM.

A_Frayed_Knot

Judi wrote: »

What would happen if that wicker chair mysteriously disappeared?:D

Must admit, i like having lots of floor space.:o

This reminds me of long ago when I still stayed with my parents, dad worked shifts, so as soon as dad was out the door, mum would start re-arranging the furniture, then dad would arrive back from work enter the bedroom and put working clothes over a chair in the dark (no light on incase mum woke) only to find they fell to the floor - no chair sitting in its usual place - gone to another part of the room altogether.


Once up - he said "I'm sure there was a chair there last night"


So, theory is, if its used - it'll be missed. Sure thing.

PollyWollyDoodle

Blue doggy, I also have lots of lovely embroidered hankies, I was thinking of lavender bags but they're slightly too large when folded in four. I'm still pondering what to do with them!

One overlocker (bought 2nd hand) which I still don't quite know how to use but I'm going to practise this week
One basic JL electric machine which does pretty much everything I want - if I need anything fancy I borrow one of my sister's expensive machines
One hand-crank Frister & Rossman which belonged to my grandmother, was used to make my mum's baby clothes, clothed five children in the 40s, 50s and 60s and on which I learned to sew. Had it serviced a couple of years ago and it goes like a dream, so although it's not often used it brings me untold joy!
No knitting machines. I like my needles.

Blue_Doggy

Floss wrote: »

Blue Doggy I bought a reel of fine lavender ribbon and tied a length around securely & then in a bow, to use up hankies that are too flimsy for day-to-day use &made my mum & grandma's hankies into lavender bags. These now live in my newly-Kondoed drawers
Why not make a wall hanging by sewing them together as if they are patchwork squares?

Thank you for the ideas : I've already made some of the prettiest ones into as many lavender bags as the drawers will hold, and hung some in the wardrobes. You've no idea how generous my Mum's grandchildren were (all four of them!) so there are still oodles :rotfl:

Not sure about wall-hangings, but I might see if I've got a big frame to make some of them into a sort of collage, or even get a box frame so they can be scrunched up (which might use up more) .

Maman Why can't you just sit on the loo like the rest of us!
Nah! not comfy, the lid's curved and cold, and a cushioning towel slides off. My chair has its own cushion, home- and hand-made from an old towel and stuffed with dead tights.

Sewing Machines One sewing machine - Singer, electric, 1960s vintage, which belonged to a friend of my Mum's and was given to me after said friend died (1962) :eek: I don't think I used it very much, certainly not in the last 20 or so years. It sits in the study beside the printer on a computer trolley-table (where else? :rotfl:).

(Don't know how to quote from multiple posts.)

Sally_A

CD's tonight...have emptied the vertical rack that fell over when it got the fancy to. Now by the back door for CS or binning, or a possible bicycle rack for hamsters.

2 layers of CD's now upright on one bookshelf, not in any particular order at the mo. Split the layers by putting some sturdy cardboard (from new dishwasher box, which I would not have had if I hadn't Kondo'd the back/utility room) across the top of the lower level, so they don't all collapse when I take one out, much easier on the eye, I've not sorted them into any particular order yet.....am feeling the stress though...My Wurzels Greatest Hits CD has lost it's case :eek::eek::eek: