The KonMarie method

bunbun2

greent sorry to hear about your loss

greenbee

I removed the loose cover from a chair that sat in my bedroom at my parents' house for decades to discover that the rather ordinary small upholstered chair is, in fact, a stunning victorian button-backed chair. I'm leaving the cover off, as the calico will do until I can afford to get it reupholstered in something more appropriate.

I've had visitors this weekend, so had to sort out some of the chaos that has ensued from trying to stay one step ahead of the builders.

Spare room looks lovely - I've swapped the curtains I loved but thought wouldn't fit in my bedroom (they do... I just never bothered trying) with the ones that were in my bedroom and looked temporary. They look perfect there. I just need to get the radiator replaced (with a MUCH smaller one) and moved to a more sensible position. And to re-home the bookcase. (OK, so I also need to get some more electrical sockets put in, decided whether to replace the floorboards or just tidy them up - there's been a lot of shrinkage as well as damage from plumbers and electricians and alarm installers, then redecorate, but that's all a little way off).

My bedroom now has one less piece of furniture in it (side table brought downstairs and put in the hall, hall table moved to dining room as a sideboard, rickety old utility desk that was in the dining room put in garage), and the fan has been moved back to the garage too. That, plus changing the curtains, taking the chair cover off and moving a couple of pieces of furniture around has made a huge difference, and given me a clearer idea about how I want the room to look when finished.

The friend who was over today also had some good ideas about other furniture moves - at some point I'm going to move the kids' room back to where I'd originally planned it (currently full of junk). I didn't do it, as I was sleeping in there for the first 6 months after I moved in!

A friend is collecting for a charity pop-up shop at the moment, so I'm going to take full advantage and give her as much as I can! She may find a few chairs heading her way...

Things are slowly circulating round the house, and I know it will be some time before I'm done, but they are starting to make more sense.

I do need a LOT more light fittings and lights though!

VJsmum

bunbun2 wrote: »

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...

Ok isn't good enough - it has to be perfect. Most of my 9 items of knitwear Kondoed this morning were bought from charity shops because they were ok.

I read that you should aim for POWER buying - Purchase Only When Everything's Right. Sounds a good philosophy to me.

On the way back from Memphis the musical - it blew me away....

Mara_uk7

Lurker and avid reader here ... You guys are amazing ! Ive been clearing out clothes this weekend, 2 bags ready for the cs so far .. More once the bally washing dries ! BUT .. My happy moment came when I put 36 take away containers in the recycling ! I love to batch cook and freeze .. So Ive kept 6 .. But 42 in total ? ? I have real tupperware type stuff !

gallygirl

I'm about to move shortly (hopefully!) and the house we are buying has been left fully furnished including everything - glasses, linen etc (we're in Spain, current owner back in UK in care home). We'll be renting out our current place so will need to amalgamate stuff from both houses then decide what we are keeping, what is going in current house for rental and what is going. Looking forward to it but want to get started . They have left a lot of stuff :eek:.

Have reorganised my handbags - had kondo'd them before moving out here. Tried to put one in the other but they are all similar sized. I do have some 'spare' which I need to make decisions on - more suitable for UK really. In the meantime I've emptied them all out . Eight packs of tissues, around 30 plasters, 20 bubble packs of painkillers, 10 nail files etc. . Now have a little Tupperware container that (just) fits in the end of the shelf the bags are on - pack of tissues, coin bag with selection of plasters, painkillers, lipstick, nail file, insect bite thingy & mossie spray etc, all ready to to get put into current bag on a daily basis :T. Rest of stuff put back in their respective homes .

mavvymoo

Morning konverts
Forgot to say yesterday only remembered when clearing out my handbag I am now the proud owner of 2 Chicken Tea light holders :laugh: My Dad had got them for me. Noticed them when I went round to hang the curtains and thought I had managed to get away before he remembered.But he called me back :rotfl:So they will be hidden on my bookshelf where this type of stuff goes for a resting period Before they are re-homed to another Chicken fancier

Meeting up with DSS1 for lunch in the City before he goes back to Uni in Liverpool so looking forward to that. Will also see if I can find a really Joyful handbag while I am there as mine really has seen better days. So will have a nose round T*max and see if any can spark joy. (Will avoid Essex Girl White)

Got loads done yesterday as the rain cleared and it was a lovely day so Chickens cleaned out and all tidy and raked, water and food containers scubbed and 3 hours later they were done :mad: They do have a big area and do love digging holes everywhere. also squeezing out of the smallest gap in the fence is another favorite trick

So better get on with my day

Mav x

VJsmum

And Marie has worked her magic again.....

On the "less stuff, not more storage" thing, I have been attempting to get rid of a set of shelving in our office. Took remaining stuff off (some needs to find a home but i am hoping that i can persuade OH to discard a few things to enable that) and was about to dismantle shelves.

Ping! Marie popped into my head - why don't you put that shelf unit in the utility (a laughable description really) room? so dragged it through the house - it now houses wellies and other boots on one shelf, recycling box on another, all the laundry gubbins (Ooh, I thought, I need a basket - spied the pile of kondoed baskets, perfect!) on another and some stuff that was in office - and just hanging around the conservatory - on the top. :T It is amazing - i keep going out there to admire it. This is on more or less the footprint that the recycling box alone took up.

in this process, for Mins game day 13 - so far i have discarded

1 spiderman jigsaw (I hope, it's DDs but i think she will let it go)
2. 1 set of 3 (!) plastic casters for a drawer unit we no longer have
3. a set of CDs of conference papers i can find online
4. a pot of batteries i was going to recycle but which are now leaking
5. a pack of fluorescent guy ropes (hmm, should i be getting shot of these?)
6. a pile of those little net laundry bags you put your washing tabs in - i gave up those years ago and won't go back.
7. A pair of "too big for me, too small for everyone else" walking boots to the chazzer

In the words of the Golden Arches advert - I'm lovin it.

Smoosh

Morning! Sounds like everyone's doing great :T

Yesterday was a long day but we finally found a basket unit thingy that I liked and was suitable and even better my parents were kind enough to buy it as a birthday present The old one we had has been moved next to my dressing table and now holds all my nail and hair things with perfumes on top.

10 bags got taken to the CS yesterday :T

All of my makeup has been organised (lots thrown away) and is now neatly in my dressing table drawer, it feels so good to have it all in one place! Jewellery has also been sorted, lots of broken bits thrown away, lots in the CS bag. I found all my earrings which I've been hoarding since they were first pierced (13 years ago ), probably over 100 pairs got binned as they were all plasticy cheap ones and I never change the earrings I wear, which are ones OH bought me. I kept 3 pairs which are sentimental and that I still love and they have been moved to my jewellery box.

I seem to have lost a ring that an ex boyfriend bought me, which is really annoying me as it would've been nice to try and sell it. Although it is motivating me to stop wanting to live with so much clutter and disoragnisation as it just shows I never know where anything is!

Hope everyone has a good day!

Goodintentions

Good afternoon

Slow progress here, RL keeps getting in the way and I have lost my 'oomph' . Everything seems to take so long!

Today I have washed out the many bottles of conditioner that my DD seems to have an issue with using up! :mad: I was trying to use them up, but why should I use the the joyless dregs that no one else will use?! I have got rid now and the bottles are in the recycling.

I need to sort out the piles of komono that have settled in my bedroom. We have a leaky roof which in torrential rain leaks through the ceiling in my bedroom (long story, and I think a legal procedure is needed ), and the other day I thought I had ruined a large box of photos that was on the floor under the deluge! Luckily it survived, and is now on the other side of the room. I should crack on with it, but I also need to pop over to my mums and also do some shopping. Feeling a bit overwhelmed, and don't know where to start - so I don't! Sorry for the moan - I will pull myself together and give myself a kick up the you-know-what!!

Well done everyone on your progress. And big hugs and condolences to greent and knit witch x

peaceandfreedom

Hi everyone - just popping in to say how much I am enjoying the chat and ideas on here, as always, while doing little myself.

However, I have come up with a random target to declutter 100 items from the house in September. So I think I will re-read The Book and get started .