The KonMarie method

mavvymoo

She is pretty cool iTwin
I have been thinking (my DH worst nightmare) :rotfl:When I say that you should see his face it really says a lot

I am NOT going to buy anything that I dont 100% need.I know a lot of you on here already have this side of kondoing under control. But I feel I could improve so much in this area. I have 6 shampoos and 6 conditioners all big sizes :eek:All brought as were on offer I need to stop doing this its just crazy.
What is the point of kondoing when I buy too much of everything like that.

I am going back to my frugal ways again as I seem to have slipped back in to not thinking about what I am buying.

So if I say I have brought anything please feel free to slap me round the head May even have to join the masters at the NOT BUYING IT thread

Is anyone else guilty of doing this or am I on my own with my crazy habits

Still raining too much thinking time me thinks

Mav x

I love stair rods but as I have no stairs a bit pointless for me.But saying that I could always buy some JIC I ever move x

GreyQueen

Well, the hall-stairwell-landing project is ongoing, I will be heading back to it in a moment.

I had the 2 x 5 litre cans of white emulsion out and they were lighter than I'd hoped. When I opened the first it had only about an inch of paint in the bottom, all used up now. When I opened the second, it had the same amount but solidified. That's two large containers heading outta here.

Sent the shopbots up to the DIY superstore and they've come back with 7.5 litres of white doolux emulsion for a splendiferous £12 and I am about to ladle some of that into a paint kettle and get cracking again.

The cats are vastly unimpressed with the upheaval but the family is onside now, esp as my clearing the stuff out of the hall caused some MIA items to come to light. Plus a really large thingummy wiv 8 legs and an embarrassingly large amount of fluff.

Some of the items have already been kondo'd by their owners and I have hopes that by the time the hall is reassembled on Thurs, there are a few more things which can go.

It has been absolutely tipping it down since before dawn today, feel so sorry for those who have organised events for the Bank Holiday as just about everything will be a washout.

Dad expressed the opinion that, as parents, if you say to the kids that you're going to the seaside or whatever, you should go, regardless of the weather.

Which explains some of the pix in the family albums from the sixties and seventies of us as kids huddled in our coats on various summertime English beaches. And be-mac'd and dripping on various summertime Welsh and Scottish mountains. Thank gawd we were relatively poor or we could have been really uncomfortable in the Arctic or the Sahara.

It's character-forming, apparently.........:rotfl:

DawnW

Igamogam wrote: »

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

We are funny, aren't we? I have done exactly this kind of thing. Whatever kind of 'just in case' would be solved by a camping chair whose frame is poking through the canvas (potential ouch :eek:)

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

tattycath

Hi everyone, sorry I've been MIA.
Real life got in the way and due to unforeseen circumstances, I had to drop the ball a bit where MSE was concerned. Now adjusting to a new kind of normal and I'm eager to try and continue on the path of decluttering my house and my life once and for all. It won't be easy and I may be missing occasionally, but I am going to try my best to get this house sorted.

Blue_Doggy

iQueen wrote: »

iTwin,

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

:rotfl: I'm a Librarian and Archivist (or was, in a previous incarnation), and I belong to a History study group! Is there any hope? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Blue_Doggy

katsu wrote: »

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

Just to say how much I agree on the sobering nature of this: I've sold some things which were nought but rubbish, while really nice things (which cost ££ when ££ were really ££) languish and are CS'd. I have to tell myself that all my swans are really geese, and that people who can't see that geese are more useful than swans aren't worth worrying about. IYSWIM.

maman

mavvymoo wrote: »

I am NOT going to buy anything that I dont 100% need.I know a lot of you on here already have this side of kondoing under control. But I feel I could improve so much in this area. I have 6 shampoos and 6 conditioners all big sizes :eek:All brought as were on offer I need to stop doing this its just crazy.
What is the point of kondoing when I buy too much of everything like that.

I am going back to my frugal ways again as I seem to have slipped back in to not thinking about what I am buying.

I have a bit of a dilemma between mse and MK here. I finished the last bottle of unjoyful shower gel this morning. All I have left is 2 small (50ml) gift size bottles of Clarins which match my perfume. Now do I buy more joyful shower gel or something functional from the SM and keep joyful stuff 'for best'?

supersaver1000 wrote: »

MK says not to buy anymore storage until you've kondoed and she is so right. I have been using newly freed up containers and even giving them away.

I can see the point but I'm not sure I ever had containers for some things so really thinking hard. I find if I keep manicure bits (hand cream, buffer, emery board, nail oil) by my chair in the sitting room I look after my nails better. Previously they were just scattered over a table top but haven't returned since we decorated. I want something that looks better than a mushroom punnet. Any advice?


Also moved all sewing stuff to a new home with other crafting bits but realise that it'll be a faff to go upstairs to a cupboard every time I need to sew on a button. I used to keep a (joyful) box with basic threads, needles etc in the sitting room on a shelf. What do others do?

Sally_A

Use your Clarins posh stuff NOW! and if you love it that much, put it on your Christmas Pressie list.

FurryBeastOz

I agree with Sally A I've started using my Clarins stuff (Eau Dynamisante - Red) more often, and it always makes me more joyful. A reward for a good work-out. It's Permanent on my Christmas/Birthday list in whatever form. Then I get presents I know I'll love.

greenbee

Good to hear the painting project is going well GQ. Are the other residents kondoing elsewhere while banished from the hall? Maybe a few hints that they should do it before you catch up with them would work

Maman - use the clarins now. And while you are using it up look around for something else joyful. You may find some thing less expensive that you enjoy - but while you're hunting, don't buy large sizes! Alternatively, if that's what you love, buy it, but use it sparingly (after all, the unjoyful stuff seems to last forever, so why shouldn't the joyful stuff if you're careful?)

I've discovered that whenever I'm trying to use stuff up it seems to last forever. I do bring some hotel toiletries home (stuff I particularly like), but not too much as a CBA to drag it around. I tend to take one lot of travel sized stuff with me for the plane/in case I hate what's at the first hotel, then swap it out for whatever is nice along the way. Sometimes I end up with a few odds and ends when I get home (particularly soap, as that goes in my hold baggage and doesn't take up much space), and I use them to help what I buy last longer. It all helps me save (house is a money pit at the moment) but I don't bother about stuff I don't like.