The KonMarie method

Fen1

Am just wondering if anyone has yarn-bombed their shoe boxes? I think a fair few of us are in Blue Peter mode, sticky-back plastic-ing boxes with wrapping paper/wallpaper/fabric remnants.
Making covers for our ever-so-useful-but-darn-ugly-boxes might be a way of using up odd bits of wool.
Or is that a bit too much into crinoline-lady-toilet-cover territory?


No one ever said that an MKd house had to be stylish, just joyous.

wort

Well managed to kondo 2 and half hours rejigging the material on the folding frame :eek: it was raining when I started and is now glorious sunshine, hubby called to the Chinese for tea :j so haven't had to cook
I wanted to go to asda to print some photos,from a wedding in may! Will try tomorrow.
The sun is prompting me to go out in the garden,to see what can be done! May check how wet it is;)

Picklepot

mavvymoo wrote: »

Hi it was me and one of my better ideas

I get the Brown paper takeaway bags.Or you can reuse gift bags if you can get people to save them for you.
You put your carp Or anything really into the bags and staple the top with a raffle ticket on and run it like a tombola. They pick a ticket out and they win the bag with that number on. If you have bigger items just put a ticket on and put them on the stall both trash (old pictures, Billy the bass, Carp ornaments, and treasure donated bottles of wine, gift sets anything that looks quite good really.

You have got to have people running the stall that will have a right laugh and you must get them to open them on the stall.You will get a big crowd and everyone will want to win something funny

Make sure that when you set the stall out do it in number order as you will be too busy to search for the right number(mistake I made 1st time) We made £200 this year and sold everything

Great way to kondo loads of carp or raid the bric a brac stall on the event before

I did 50 girls bags (green tickets)
50 Boys (Blue tickets)
100 adults (white tickets)
All the kids bags have nice things in bubbles,pens pencils, colouring books and star prices of what ever you get donated

Hope this makes sense but it goes down really well and a great time is had by everyone

Mav x

Mav that is brilliant thank you and it will help with my plan...


I consider myself at ''pre kondo '' phase and thank you all very much for the advice when I posted a few weeks ago about where to start.


I have to say the book didn't inspire me as much as this thread has done. My pre kondo work has involved..


1.Contacting people who I have their belongings to say I will be returning them or if they do not want said item, to let them know I will be passing them on. I used to have friends that like to pass things on because they didnt want to make a decision on them now I thank them very much and ask them if I cant find a use for it do they mind me passing it on, if they hesitate I don't accept.


2.Finding a CS that takes electricals and that will collect so that once I start the big clear out I will not be in the problem I have had in the past with stuff in boxes and bags in transit waiting to to be moved out


3. Getting rid of items in above category and being stern with myself that realistically I wont ebay/sell/or car boot if I was going to these items wouldn't stay in my garage forgotten about.So I am getting rid of these bags and boxes now they are almost a category in themselves before I start on clothes category. They are all heading to local CS.


4. The reason for the query to Mav is that I know of a cat show that is raising for rescues in october and I think the trash and treasure tombolo will be an opportunity to get rid of some unwanted gifts etc.

Sally_A

I did so well at the start, but have lost focus...really need to get my anti excess venomous ruthless streak again.

I still liked my attempt of 3kg of crap a day = 1 tonne in a year.

Onwards and upwards!!!

ivyleaf

greent - So sorry to hear your news. Would the Motability dealer not come and collect the car, rather than you have to return it and be stuck there?

carolbee - If your coat has buttons rather than a zip, could you buy some really joyful ones to give it a "lift"?

PollyWollyDoodle

GreyQueen wrote: »

Makes you realise that Clutter and Stuff is comprised of a lot of very minor decisions about pretty minor and small objects and pieces of paper.

Hear, hear - that is a fundamental truth. Throwing out big things is relatively easy - it's the small stuff that I find myself piling up and moving round and round in circles because I just can't decide.

GreyQueen

ivyleaf wrote: »

greent - So sorry to hear your news. Would the Motability dealer not come and collect the car, rather than you have to return it and be stuck there?

carolbee - If your coat has buttons rather than a zip, could you buy some really joyful ones to give it a "lift"?

Ooooh, I just had a memory-flash of some very joyful buttons I purchased to do up a coat I used to own in the 1980s. They were little replicas of vinyl records, about an inch in diameter, with different colours of plastic in the middle of the black vinyl. I had a red, yellow, green and a blue record. Utterly joyful. A bit of a rootle in a chazzer (often there is a button tin, if you ask) or even a ££ in the haberdashery dept might give you something joyful.

:eek: Just been talking to the parents. Chance convo with one of their neighbours who rents out their house reveals that their tenant has burgered-off and left them with a Mr Trebus situation. Rent is needed to pay mortage, house cannot be re-let until it is de-hoarded, expensive and insanitary hoarding conditions to be dealt with first. Those poor beggars..........

MMF007

Kondo success meets DH kondo failure.

HELP, he has undone all my good work this morning :mad:

while defrosting the freezer this morning I happily re - kondo'd a kitchen cupbbard i first did ages ago. It is true that it is good to re-visit during the ongoing process, isn't it? So, off to CS will go 4 x 1950's style dessert coupes. Into bin went 2 x very OOD jellies. Rounded up and Re-organised packets of snacks into various punnets. Moved sttff round into better format for easy access and logical when looking for similar thjngs, etc. It felt good.

then, before putting the freezer drawers back I weeded old stuff with a bit of freezer burn (very little but some leftovers and few bits of veg), filed packets for easy viewing, coralled all bags of stock into one drawer, same for other similar items that had skmehow roamed.
Very pleased with myself.

during this industrious time we had a massive cloud burst and I also had do some vigouous mopping as water flooded, and i mean flooded, under the kitchen
door.

Sat down for lunch at 2.30, one moment before DH arrived home, having gone food shopping on his own, 'so I could get on with the jobs' :rotfl:
Does that happen to anyone else, you work your socks off for ages but they think you've done nowt cos you take the weight off just as they appear??

anyway, he comes in with so many shopping bags i thought maybe he was arranging a party (it's my birthday soon).

i could not believe my eyes. There were 10 packs of ready rice and 8 jars of sauce, gawd knows how many packets of snacks, beer, frozen chips and 4 litres of fresh fruit juice, plus numerous other things 'because they were on offer'. There look like a years' worth of stuff and no, there is no party planned.
I simply don't know where to store it all, there isn't room.

I nearly cried.

I have refused to try and stuff in the nearly full cupboards and have tasked himwith finding homes for the stuff. Talk about a rush of blood to the head.

he's GROUNDED :mad::mad::mad:

i am going for a lie down in a darkened room..... I may be some time.

M

A_Frayed_Knot

I have one item in one of my "spare" rooms that needs moving out, and then that room will be finished.

I keep going back in to admire it - gives me such pleasure, of course a different story in my other "spare" room where I have gathered the next "lots" of kondoing - will start that tomorrow.


That's two rooms plus bathroom looking respectable now - lets see if I can make headway with the next one.


Still loving this, still feeling, peace and calm.

bunbun2

Everyone was out this afternoon so I decided to make a start on the spare room aka the dumping ground! Most of it belongs to the boys so I have put a good amount of it on my bed and they can sort it into keep and get rid. They will have to do it after tea or I won't be able to go to bed and that won't go down well:) I will send OH up with them to encourage them!

I saw a gorgeous grey cashmere cardigan in the CS this morning but it was bigger than I would usually get so I left it. Now I am thinking big and baggy would look OK and I should have bought it...