The KonMarie method

Frogletina

I nearly bought 2 bottles of ginger ale yesterday as it was cheaper to buy two. Then I realised that I would be spending another 65p to save 35p, and I really only wanted the one.

I have too many bottles of shampoo. I only buy them when on offer, but do not need the amount that I have. Because I have so much I do use it quite liberally, so I guess I'm not really making much saving.

My toiletries are, like I guess most people's, a mix of things I have bought and things bought for me. I hate throwing any away, but some are languishing in my bedroom so I think it's time to do another sort through.

I've also got lots of dishwasher tablets and that broke over a year ago and I've not repaired or replaced it yet! It's on the list - the one in my head.

VJsmum

Min's game day #27 continued

15 as detailed above
1 x 4 spiderman plastic cups left over from DDs birthday over a year ago. 4 is no good to anyone
1 x terracotta garden pot - cracked beyond all help
1 small pack gummed labels - so old the gum has gone. I have never bought gummed labels and suspect they were bought when OH was still single - over 27 years ago
1 bulldog clip
1 pack photo paper - any printed photos have been done through outside agents (I.e boots,) not at home
2 more remotes (WT actual F - that must be about 10 now)
1 x plug for a blackberry - no one has a blackberry
1 further set of headphones
1 further ipod box
1 set of instructions for something we no longer have
2 lightbulbs for christmas tree lights we no longer have
2 more random leads - still packaged up

30 items today - the office desk is the gift that keeps on giving

sistercas

Re bin collections, we have 3 wheelie bins: black for general non recyclable waste and food , blue for tins, plastic bottles and glass , a blue box for paper and card and a green bin for garden waste , which costs me 50 odd pounds a year , having said that we have a large garden with hedges and lawn so is needed . The council used to provide a free pick up if you purchased green bags from the local library but stopped this when lib dems got in .

My 2 girls go through way more conditioner than shampoo, they both have long thick hair which they wash every day. I have short hair and use a little shampoo , never needed conditioner

Hell1

Hello fellow Konodoites!


To introduce myself....


I have been following this thread from the beginning, I have kondoed and folded and sorted and charity shopped. My house was always minimalist, until you opened the cupboards, but now all my cupboards are sorted and folded and they stay neat! !!! I am a folder/roller extraordinaire having you tubed all methods of tidying, and have introduced a number of friends/relatives into the kondo lifestyle.


I have been enjoying all your kondo journeys, but felt compelled to post on the toiletries discussion.


If you have any unused toiletries that you don't want, please please donate them to your local food bank. I volunteer in my local one and any donated toiletries get snapped up. - if its a choice between rent and food, rent gets paid. - Similarly if its a choice between bits of food and toiletries, food gets bought.


So please help yourselves on your kondo journeys by donation any toiletries you have lying around that you don't want or will never use.


Happy Kondoing, everyone!


Hell

Blue_Doggy

Haven't done a great deal recently as a Mystery Pain set itself up in one of my legs, which required a lot of painkillers to enable me to stagger about - nothing very exotic (drugwise) but made me feel a bit groggy. Seem to be getting over it now, so Kondo'd a nearly-dead geranium from the bathroom windowledge - once upon a time it was joyful, but no more. Washed its pot and saucer ready for something joyfuller.

Re bins - we have two wheelies and a bag:
- black wheelie for general rubbish including food waste
- green wheelie for recyclables (tins, plastic bottles, paper and card)
- green bag of inadequate size for garden waste (collected free so "mustn't grumble").

Glass is not collected from the house, it has to go to a bottle bank - several in the village or remember to take it to a supermarket (embarassing on the bus :rotfl: )

The council don't collect much plastic, it has to go in general waste.

The hardware shop in the village takes batteries, and so does the supermarket.

I've dug out my lovely big round wicker basket (which used to give rise to much ridicule) ready to add to the shopping bags next month. I remember when groceries from the corner shop were put into paper bags, one bag per item-type more or less, including biscuits (sold loose from big tins) and eggs (no egg boxes). Definitely no plastic bags. Forward to the Past!

Siebrie

2 years ago I was given 3 moving boxes full of (un)assorted hotel amenities. Slippers, shampoos, earbuds, shoe polish kits; you name it, it was there. I first sorted them like with like, then decided per categorie whether it was useful to us. The unuseful stuff went to charity/foodbank/guests. The useful stuff was pit in fitting boxes (lidded icecream tubs proved ideal). I am now working through the stash. Dds have half African hair and use one hotel conditioner bottle per wash, so that stash is diminishing quickly. Every other wash we use only conditioner, no shampoo.

GreyQueen

Evening all.

Welcome aboard, Hell1. Excellent idea about the toiletries. If anyone has unused toiletries in good nick, your nearest women's refuge might be glad of them - worth enquiring?

Was just getting a few more handfuls of weeds to add to my Ikeya blue bags to take to the tip on the way from the allotment when my hand clasped on a tangle of very strong wire, which some kind person has obviously lobbed over the fence into my plot at some recent point. It was invisible among the stems of the sunflowers.

I chucked it to one side on autopilot, to deal with later, then had a LBM. It's not re-usable, I am going to the tip anyway, I can just tuck it under the bungee cord and have it out of there. 10 mins after finding it for the first time, it was in the metal section of the tip.:T

Been kondoing weeds and horsetail roots (bliddy things, plot is infested with it) and have got everything up there looking rather fine, if I say so myself. And I just did. Probably won't be up there until the weekend now, when I plan to burn, baby, burn.

Have kondo'd something from the freezer for my supper and will be running up some batch cooking this evening, between grooving to some toons and hanging out online.

Hokay, bread rolls next on the To Do list. Onwards!

dragonette

In the spirit of Kondo (or at least, not buying things for a single use ), the sellotape test was unsuccessful. Instead of buying tape to make an even coloured stripe, I will do some coloured dots free-hand. It will individual and 'artisanal' - oh how i hate that word for basic things!

GreyQueen

Had a laff with Mum on the phone this evening.

She'd been accusing me of decluttering her book, the one I'd given her to read after I'd finished with it, when I was over there earlier this month. Because I'd taken a carrier bagful of discarded books to the charity shop. I am using the executive I in this instance; I organised them and made Dad do it (yes, you parents of grown daughters, I am a bossy mare, I own it).

So, for the intervening three weeks, I was insisting I hadn't done it and even offering to find her another secondhand copy of the same title, and she using the loss of the book as a reason for having to be careful about decluttering.

And egg on face today, because it was where it has been all this time, right beside her armchair under a pile of mixed clutter, came to light when searching for something else.:rotfl:

Have got the yarn ensconced in the wicker ali baba basket from the tip and it looks very fine standing up the corner of my sitting-room. And much more orderly and, when the washload finishes tonight, I can use my washing basket for the purpose it was intended for, for the first time in about 2 months, yippee.

PollyWollyDoodle

Morning, all. I am hoping to make a bit of a breakthrough on some stubborn areas of Komono this week, I have lacked focus recently and maybe I need a quick refresher from the Book.

Thought for the day: abundance without attachment