The KonMarie method

iQueen

iTwin, I think there are a few household jobs that have your 'ironing effect' - mind-numbing to do but the joy at the end is reward enough! :j

I'm glad you had a good time with your family. It reminded me of when I took my children on 4 night Sun holidays - in term-time, what a carp mother! :rotfl:

I used to save pennies and 2ps, beforehand, then on the day we left, after packing the car and cleaning the caravan, we would hit the arcade, to round off the holiday. I'd divide the coppers between us (about £2 each) and we'd just go mad! Never went on machines anywhere else, and only for that hour on holiday! Great fun!

BTW, I can see that skip becoming more real by the day. I'm currently saving up, to send a taxi for you! :rotfl:

I have to agree about '30 minute bursts' for paperwork, Clutterfree. Unlike other categories, it is almost impossible to break into small sub-categories, if it is disorganised, in bags/boxes, floor/tables etc. Even doing a pile at a time doesn't bring much joy, because all the keep stuff has to stay around until the storage requirement can be gauged. It must be the most mind-numbing category of all, with little pay-off until it is finished. I suppose the joy at the end might also be greater than most categories too. I hope!

Well done. Igamogam! All that lovely food from your garden. Still got to find my garden, but need to break the back/reach the tipping point, in the house, while it's warm enough to work in it. I'll have to rely on a quite a few reasonable days through the winter to get the garden sorted out.

Blue Doggy: I know how you feel about paperwork. All my life, my greatest fear is that I will be 'accused of something' and be unable to prove my innocence! So, I've held on to almost everything, which has proved hugely useful in the current legal Stuff that's going on (Civil, not Ciriminal! ) Also, I'm an historian... keeper of the family archive...:o

Really, must go to bed now! No, I'm not even going to check for more posts, while I've been writing this!

mavvymoo

Had a thought 1st September tommorow where has the Summer gone:eek:Its shocking where the time goes if only we could Kondo like time

iTwin we only hit the arcades about twice a year so we do the same 2ps saved up and we go mad We do have a great time and its worth every penny

You would get on so well with my 82 year old friend She used to pack her 4 kids in an old camper van and go to Ireland for 8 weeks at a time. :)She was a single parent as well and think it was very unusal in the early 60s for a single women to do this. With very little money and nothing planned ahead. She was so before her time I think and the stories she can tell are amazing. She has photos of these times and I love looking at them.

The Bank Holiday here is washed out the rain is coming down like stair rods (as my Mum would have said) and the lane outside looks like a river :eek: Feel so sorry for all those camping when I drove past a couple of sites yesterday they were chock a block bet they wont be later


We need to start cutting logs for the woodburner I think. we have loads to cut and should have started before really but another of those jobs where you think 'Oh we have got plenty of time'


So plans out of the window today due to the rain so will have to see what we get up to instead.

Mav x

chaliepud

Yep, a wash out here too mavvymoo. Think it will be an indoor day for us, once I have adventured out with the dogs that is, they don't give two hoots that it's piddling down!

I have pulled out all the board games today to sort through (15!), no doubt we will end up playing some which will help us decide which ones give us joy. We have three different Monopolys, I'm sure we must be able to whittle those down, but I refuse to play all of them in one day! :eek:

I am also hoping to kondo the airing cupboard but it may be better to wait for another day, will see how the day goes...

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Not everyone's cuppa I know but Im having a joyful morning listening to Elvis V Beatles on radio2. I admit I do like Elvis.
Being dragged away from radio now to watch monuments men with DH and DS2 bank holiday family time. Doing cross stitch while I watch so lazy day.

Hope all are well and enjoy the rather soggy bank holiday.

tibawo

Just caught up with thread. My latest inspiration from my fellow converts is a decorative candle from Africa. Absolutely gorgeous and bought while I was working there before I had kids so over fifteen years old. Been stuffed in the candle box for the last few years as I did not want to spoil it! Well I lit it last night! Don't know what the wick was made of but flame was huge!

Well best get on with the general tidy and get up to date with 'job list' ... Need to pack for our mini trip to Alton towers as well.

katsu

I found the book a bit disappointing at first as it was less practical and structured than I wanted. I expected folding diagrams etc.

I keep going back and reading it and the more I do, the more I get from it. So if you thought 'I'd that it? ' do reflect on it and keep thinking.

I haven't found clothes the easiest starting category and I still find clothes I can release, just not as satisfyingly many as I did initially. It is still nice to get rid of things though. Very little that we've released had been missed and when talking to friends about how they must hang onto the item of tat given from Aunt S but no longer needed or never used, I really want them to get it too and understand that the item might be wanted by someone if they just release it, and stops them being held back by it.

I've also found nearly all our nice things that we don't need aren't worth that much on ebay. Quite sobering really.

Anyone got any ideas what to do with a still boxed silver cruet set from our wedding - other than donate it to a CS?

Igamogam

tibawo wrote: »

My latest inspiration from my fellow converts is a decorative candle from Africa.

How strange is that...this morning I came across candle brought back from Africa as a gift from DD1 after one of her trips there. Its been in the shed in a box for about 7 years. I have brought it into the house now with 'I would have burned the rose sculpted candle' in mind and will be lit when we are back into the candle burning season - tends to be the depths of winter here as we often have power cuts:D

I suggested to OH that we have a shed clear out - his workshop I meant - hasnt gone down too well so far as I think he thought I meant my shed.....trtied to explaon that all that is there now has been assigned - back to work. CS. Sell at a charity sale I am involved with in Oct ( when he will be away for 2 weeks fulfilling a life long ambition.....................) Ho hum.

Sunny day here BTW

iQueen

mavvymoo wrote: »

Had a thought 1st September tommorow where has the Summer gone:eek:Its shocking where the time goes if only we could Kondo like time

iTwin we only hit the arcades about twice a year so we do the same 2ps saved up and we go mad We do have a great time and its worth every penny

You would get on so well with my 82 year old friend She used to pack her 4 kids in an old camper van and go to Ireland for 8 weeks at a time. :)She was a single parent as well and think it was very unusal in the early 60s for a single women to do this. With very little money and nothing planned ahead. She was so before her time I think and the stories she can tell are amazing. She has photos of these times and I love looking at them.

The Bank Holiday here is washed out the rain is coming down like stair rods (as my Mum would have said) and the lane outside looks like a river :eek: Feel so sorry for all those camping when I drove past a couple of sites yesterday they were chock a block bet they wont be later


We need to start cutting logs for the woodburner I think. we have loads to cut and should have started before really but another of those jobs where you think 'Oh we have got plenty of time'


So plans out of the window today due to the rain so will have to see what we get up to instead.

Mav x

iTwin, we are kondoing Time, every second! The best reason for making each one count, joyfully! :rotfl:

We loved 'doing' the arcade, once a year. As a special treat, I think it combatted any gambling addiction.

Your friend sounds cool!

Her life in the 60s was not so unusual. The 60s gave rise to another Bohemian era, with the hippies, free love, youth-power and flowers in our hair! Peace n Love, man! I wore a stinking ankle-length Afghan coat! In the 80s, I swapped it for a white one. :rotfl: Wonderful times!

My Mum used to say 'stair rods', too. I love nice real stair rods, but they are dirt traps!

I used to enjoy camping, even in the rain - family fun in a tent! Once our tent started leaking! Luckily, the next day was fine, so we bought some water-proffing stuff and painted it onto the tent! We were 'between' houses for 2 weeks! In summer, thank goodness! :rotfl:

A wood-burner is on my Wish List, so cosy and efficient.

Ha ha! Charliepud, our board games are in the Room of Doom, so no chance of doing them yet!

I remember one summer, my now-kondoed bestie and I sat in the summer-house, playing Monopoly every day! It was just like national politics - continuous loans to and from the bank between whichever 'party' was in power! :rotfl: There was a lesson in that game.

I'd be hard-pressed to decide between Elvis and The Beatles, mrs-moneypenny!

tibawo, my DD1 had to wall sconces installed in one of her homes, with church candles mounted on them... the smoke wrecked the newly decorated ceiling! An expensive decor statement! :rotfl:

katsu: You could use the cruet? A bit of quirky bling, for daily living?

I agree about The Bible - it does make increasing sense, as we get further on.

Igamogam: Power cuts - don't we just love'em? 49.5 hours here in Feb last years. Not sure I can face sandwiches and Ribena, easily, again! :rotfl:Actually, I think I may have one of those lovely carved candles, with loopy bits... somewhere!

Good luck, with DH's workshop! May still need more 'encouragement'? :rotfl:

Further south than you, Igamogam, (I think), it rained here in the night, a few blue patches of sky showing, and the sun is truggling to get through. No! It has just made it! :j

Have a joyful BH, Konverts!

VJsmum

Was that with or without shoes, IQueen?

And what's this about a spinning wheel? You never mentioned that in the five hours we were yakking? I would love to be able to do that.

Am mourning the end of the hols today - and painting tables. A rucksack has been kondoed because the frame was poking through the canvas - there was a time that would have gone in a cupboard "just in case"

Igamogam

iQueen wrote: »

iTwin,

My Mum used to say 'stair rods', too. I love nice real stair rods, but they are dirt traps!


I'd be hard-pressed to decide between Elvis and The Beatles, mrs-moneypenny

Konodoed the brass stair rods that came form my grandparents house around about 15 years ago when we cleared it out - took them to the scarp yard to be weighed in:D

Beatles for me - Elvis not my thing;)

VJsmum wrote: »

A rucksack has been kondoed because the frame was poking through the canvas - there was a time that would have gone in a cupboard "just in case"

We have managed to kondo an old folding camping chair for same reason - frame poking through.............we looked at last year and put it away again JIC. Gone now:j