The KonMarie method

GreyQueen

All the time, fpcat, all the time. I think it's the human condition.

But, looking at the incredible amount you've done recently, I think you're being too harsh on yourself. That's an awful lot of Stuff moved out and rehomed, isn't is? Hardly letting moss grow on you..........:rotfl:

I think it's possible to mentally hit a wall with sorting Stuff. You sort and rehome, sort and rehome and the place is getting torn up and there's things every which way but where they should be.

This thing has to be done before that thing can be done and X has to move before Y can be moved, and X takes two people to lift and they're either unavailable or unwilling to help and then they get given a simple sorting job and can't even do that properly ........ arrrgghhhhh!!!!!

And breathe.

The thing is, it gets there in the end, but the intermediate stages are a damned nuisance. It's enough to make you want to to throw in the towel. Only the linen bin is already full with other unwashed towels and you really can't face adding to the problem.............

Keep the faith, my dear, and keep plugging away at it. If more goes out than comes in, there will have to be order. Make a small oasis of peace in the muddle and retire there with a comforting beverage (ideally not a litre of mother's ruin ) and contemplate the successess.

Rang the folks for a chat (they're retired) this afternoon and couldn't talk to my Dad because he's washing down the doors into the hall prior to redecorating. The redecorating I started by doing the hall is spreading slowly into adjacent areas. Yippee!

Today I have low energy, due to having overdone it yesterday and that time of the month and greyness outside contributing to CBA-ness. I'm working through a few things sporadically, but there's a lot of mess. I need to do a couple of things before another couple of things can happen and then donation can happen....... all the usual.

Keep up the good work, lovely peeps, even when overwhelm threatens to set in.

Fen1

Advice please.

I would like to have my ears re-pierced. I have one set of holes that closed up years ago. Can I have the piercings done through the same holes, or would I have to have new holes?

It is KMing, honestly. I would like to start using my joyful jewellery again. Those pieces that I no longer like can go bye-bye.

tibawo

Fen1 wrote: »

Advice please.

I would like to have my ears re-pierced. I have one set of holes that closed up years ago. Can I have the piercings done through the same holes, or would I have to have new holes?

It is KMing, honestly. I would like to start using my joyful jewellery again. Those pieces that I no longer like can go bye-bye.

A good piercer should be able to tell you this.... I say this because many moons ago I was having mine redone and they said something about they can do it if you can't feel any hard tissue in you ear. Things might have change now though?!

GreyQueen

Fen1 wrote: »

Advice please.

I would like to have my ears re-pierced. I have one set of holes that closed up years ago. Can I have the piercings done through the same holes, or would I have to have new holes?

It is KMing, honestly. I would like to start using my joyful jewellery again. Those pieces that I no longer like can go bye-bye.

You can probably open the holes up again yourself by poking the post of an ear stud through. I've done this several times in the almot 40 years since I had my ears piereced for the first time. Best to swab the earlobe front and back, and the earring with surgical spirit first.

If you don't fancy that, go for proper re-piercing. They will probably want to go a touch off the original hole to avoid scar tissue but can't go too far, or the earrings won't sit in the right part of your lobe and will look odd. HTH.

TROPICAL the towel is having its outing this week, as GARY has been grounded for bad behaviour; I warned him not to try to get talent-scouted, but would he listen, would he heck!

mavvymoo

Evening Everyone

Some great kondoing going on today I am sooo impressed GQ Your Dad washing paintwork down. I think you have really started something there and the knitting machine :eek: Go GQ and her Mum and Dad :T

I went out and picked a shower today and in the shop.I was like no that doesnt bring me joy Think they thought I was a bit mad. But I dont want a shower with stupid things sticking out of it which would be so hard to clean In the end they were saying 'What about this one' oh no you wouldnt like that its got grooves on it :rotfl:Found a nice plain minimal one that fits the bill in the end. So will now wait until the broken is changed with the nice new one.At least its here and waiting for the man of few words plumber to come back

Been cleaning today from the fly lady thread so am getting up to date with that now. I am also side tracked all the time and find other things to do.So I am sure we are all the same when it comes to that sort of stuff

But the good thing is I never need to clear the clutter so can mark that as done straight away :rotfl:


Hope you are all well and iTwin you have found some of those long lost rellies

I started doing my family tree and got a couple of lines back and they all seemed to be in prison or police stations and most of the mens christian names are Golden or Shadrach :eek: D.Hs a couple of lines in and he had one rellie who had been kicked in the head by a horse and died So we both gave up But I do reckon they would be so intresting to look into again (But its so time consuming) isnt it :mad:

On that note so is this :rotfl:

Mav x

maman

GreyQueen wrote: »

The thing is, it gets there in the end, but the intermediate stages are a damned nuisance. It's enough to make you want to to throw in the towel. Only the linen bin is already full with other unwashed towels and you really can't face adding to the problem.............

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


That's why I don't think I could ever pull everything out like MK suggests. I know I couldn't finish it all in one go and I couldn't live with the mess until it was sorted. I managed with craft bits all over the spare bed as I could shut the door on it but I have to work in categories or more likely sub- categories and then find homes for the sorted stuff even if it's temporary.


fpcat, it is much harder when it's not just yourself to consider. So much of the 'stuff' in our home belongs to my DH. He is making an effort at times but it's painfully slow.

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

I keep getting distracted today, I am in the bedroom sorting coat hangers

A year or so ago I kondoed (only I didn't call it that then;)) coat hangers and kept only the joyful, covered ones and wooden ones (except for the skirt ones like clips). Then on winter evenings I covered the wooden ones. It's much better for my clothes and they look good too.


Not much happening her today on the MK front, maybe have an hour or so spare tomorrow.

PollyWollyDoodle

FPcat, you're at the 'Tetris' stage. I remember it well. Now my spare room is empty, it's easy to put CS stuff in there and then load the car up but I recall the point at which I couldn't move in there and felt despair that I'd ever see a result. Push on, you'll reap the rewards very soon.

Today I cleaned the house from top to bottom. I'm sure the more hygienic and houseproud among you will be saying 'And ..?' but pre MK, this would have involved Herculean effort. Moving Stuff so I could clean, clearing floors etc was so much work that I would only clean one room at a time. I can't believe how quick it was today, even moving furniture and doing skirting boards.

GreyQueen

Yeah, I'm pretty chuffed about the parental home changes. Apart from external stuff like the wooden fascia boards and the wooden front door and porch, I don't think Dad has done any decorating since he retired 8 years ago.

He doesn't like decorating very much and, given the clutteriness of their house, it's a beggar to get at anything as prosaic as a wall or a door, but I think seeing me plan and execute a project made him realise it isn't such a horror. Dad taught me to paint as a child but I quickly got better at it than him, largely because I'm more patient. By my mid-teens I was doing 90% of their decorating anyway, and have done odd bits and pieces over the years since.

:cool: Actually, its probably more a case that the newly-white emulsioned walls are making the white paintwork look cream by comparison.

I did have a few convos with Mum re the things which went back on the wall, such as the four ornamental thingies with hooks for keys on them. One is even a wooden cutout shape which says KEYS. They tend to have a few keys on them, to unimportant things, and are attractants to all sorts of random hangable junk and look messy. The important keys are in a key cabinet hidden in another room.

Me Do all four of these need to go back up? Could we leave one off the wall? ( I reckoned three could have exited but didn't want to seem too radical in case heels were dug in).

Mum We need them for the keys.

Me (pushing luck) Do you need to have two clothes brushes up there? And five pairs of nail clippers?

Mum You can take one of the clothes brushes down and put it in the drawer. And some of those nail clippers aren't very good but I don't know which ones, so they better all stay there.

:o These are the kind of conversations you have in a hoarderish house. Next time I'm over there, I shall play with the nail clippers and work out which are the not-very-good ones and see if they can leave. There are many other nail clippers in the house, I have two sets which she gave me and they absence barely made a dent in the inventory.

Can I share a proud kondo-ite moment? Just before the gas engineer who installed my new water tank left on Friday, he realised he needed to have the tank's number on the paperwork, only he should have done this before installing it, as number was now around the side by the wall and not visible. I casually asked if a small mirror would help him see around the edge, and took the only mirror in the flat not screwed to a wall from its place in a bathroom drawer.

Yay, it was exactly where I remembered it was, no fumbling in the 6 drawers to find it. I felt the power of MK flowing through my veins............ :rotfl:

VJsmum

Min's Game day #21
(a pass over the kitchen cupboards)

3 plastic champagne glasses
1 minging shot glass
1 weird shaped vase
1 sort of fondue set (you need to pre melt the chocolate and then use a tea light to keep it melted. Ooh, i guess i can now get rid of the associated forks they can go tomorrow)
2 more cookery books (including the takeaway secret - never used. i think i just don't like that kind of food.)
8 jars of herbs and spices - including 3 of caraway seeds:eek: who the chuff uses caraway seeds?
1 salt pig
1 bottle almond essence (can't bear the smell or taste)
3 small paint brushes - intended for cake decorating but never used.

fpcat

My proud moment was this afternoon when DH couldn't find any matches for the burnfire of personal papers. I told him exactly where they were, but he said they were not there. I wandered into the kitchen, opened the drawer, and while he watched me carefully to make sure I didn't pull a fast one, reached in without looking, and picked up the matches, just where I said and handed them over. His face was priceless, and he was gobsmacked that I had laid my hands on them without a 20 minute search. Just like you GQ, I felt the power... (and a touch of superiority).