The KonMarie method

greenbee

Just dropping in between bits of work to see whether GQ has managed to evict anything else from her parents' house

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

Just dropping in between bits of work to see whether GQ has managed to evict anything else from her parents' house

I hustled them to get the two empty paint pots into the bin as today is bin day. Dad also got out the broken glass dome off the cheeseboard and a section of the foam insulation off the water tank (part of the CH replacement done a couple of months ago, the tank has been flogged to the metal recyclers and the insulation material is being snuck out in general refuse a little each fortnight).

Oh, and Dad broke up the garden bench for disposal at the tip, I am priming them for a tip run later this month for the hazardous waste amnesty day.

Tomorrow we're going to Big Market Town for some shopping (chazzer browsing in my case) and then I shall paint the rest of the 7.5 litre tub of paint onto the walls, wash it up and put it out in the recycling.

Mum said to me (of this tub) was I sure I didn't want it up at the allotment shed to keep stuff in? I said no, there are only so many bucket-type things a body needs.

I have loose plans to sneak up on some kipple in various places and see if it needs to leave (or is allowed to leave). We did find an MIA biscuit tin of custard creams. They may have to be decluttered soon.;)

silvasava

GQ - I have this mental picture of your parents in the middle of a Sargasso Sea floating along surrounded by their 'treasures' a bit like the Jumblies - with a long hook to snag anything interesting floating by
You're doing a grand job and as you say slowly slowly.

greenbee

I've got a skip outside GQ - if you were closer I'd offer to share it It's full of my loft insulation and bathroom. Minus the copper pipes that are going to be sold for scrap to offset the cost of the new, and the burnable wood that is waiting for me to de-nail it and saw into sensible lengths.

As I'm having to move stuff round to allow the builders access to various bits of the house I'm carefully considering whether I want to move the stuff out and back, or just out...

Using up the custard creams is a selfless act - you do need to encourage the finishing up of any consumables that take up space. If your mum starts muttering about the tin being useful, invent a colleague in the office who bakes and needs it, fill it up with other odds and ends and take it home with you for onward disposal!

GreyQueen

greenbee, you are a devious person!

Just before we ate, I plucked the box which the iron came off from the teetering piles of Stuff on the wall unit.

Me Can I recycle this?
Mum; That iron is less than a year old.
Me You don't need the box to claim under warranty. I can take the booklet out of the box and put in with the other warranties and break this box down for recycling.
Mum OK.

< am breaking down the box and kid bruv comes by and confiscates it for packaging material for his online sales>

:wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall:

I am now going to make another pass at the wall unit. It is over 6 ft long and there isn't space to park even a coffee mug on it right now. Well, not unless you're prepared to risk the coffee mug being dashed floorwards by an avalanche of Stuff. Magazines are a hazard when interleaved with Misc as they make everything so darned slippery.

Cover me, ladies, I'm going in!:rotfl:

greenbee

I'm sure there's a doctor's surgery or hospital waiting room that would LOVE those magazines GQ... Or you could spill coffee (or paint) on them so that they have to be recycled...

ETA ... are you SURE this is a house and not a tardis? And if you remove something, so something else appear from a parallel universe to fill the space?

mrs-moneypenny

GQ I love the sterling efforts you are making to kondo your parents home.
So far today I've kondoed some paperwork that went with explorers (ds2 has decided he doesn't want to go back) and momentous decision I've decided to call it a day after almost 12 years of being a school governor so all the bags of paperwork that go with that can be turned to the school for safe disposal as some have confidential details on. I enjoyed it but it felt quite liberating getting the email back saying my resignation was a shock but has been accepted.

VJsmum

greenbee wrote: »

ETA ... are you SURE this is a house and not a tardis? And if you remove something, so something else appear from a parallel universe to fill the space?

you jest but that is what is happening in my house. Piles and piles and bootfuls and bootfuls of stuff has left my house and it is still full. I think it's just that it isn't now "full to overflowing".

I had a bit of a LBM re the pan cupboard today. That cupboard "mugs me off" as my DS would say. Everything piled onto everything else. But then i thought that if i put the less - used baking stuff into the now emptier casserole dish and other ovenware cupboard, then there is room for the pans to spread out a bit. The result being that both are still full - but not to overflowing

Bare space is still being aspired to.

dragonette

Came on to try and garner some oooh
ooomph, and have not been disappointed. GQ - 2 steps forward and 1 back is a considerable victory when helping (hopefully this isn't offensive to you!) hoarders. Having lived with one, sometimes it's an achievement getting to touch possessions!
Also a lil jealous of your energy - having a bad fatigue episode atm.

VJ - I have little to no clear space yet, it had felt that I had reached a tipping point but now it's not clear enough now.

Can't remember when I last posted, poss about my aunt having decorative but ancient toiletries. I've managed very little since I got back. Barely been able to leave my bed today, so sitting up and kondo-folding laundry. Even feeding the cats drained me, so any item dealt with is a success today

atypicalblonde

Good evening all,:)

I am a long time lurker, and read this thread daily. You are all very inspiring, I am a very uncluttered person by nature but MK has made me realise that there is still a long way to go.

As part of my job I deal in probate and often have to go through peoples paperwork to work out their affairs - no mean feat in many cases as people have paperwork going back 30 years plus :eek:

My own paperwork is in great order but my loft... Well. I've de-kippled it today of several things, but have hit a brick wall with some items - photo album of mum&dad's wedding (long divorced and I never see him through choice). I know mum doesn't want it and never would wish to look at it again, yet why don't I feel I can bin it? There are also several lovely laura Ashley dresses from when I was a girl, but I know I'll never put DD in them - what to do? I'm an only child and my mum has obviously kept all these things for me to evoke happy memories of my youth, but I don't need any of it. The feelings of guilt are immense but I just don't know what to do with everything, all my old school reports are up there too. DH hasn't got anything from his childhood and he things it's madness to keep it, but I just feel I should. Even though if I fell under a bus tomorrow I know it would all just be skipped without second glance.

Hmm, seems that's I'm some way away from the clear loft policy I wanted to adopt...

Best wishes to you all xx