The KonMarie method

Blue_Doggy

My Min's Game for today:

1 wooden plant trough which fell apart in my hands
1 broken bucket
2 magazines

Looking forward to using the nicely kondo-folded warmer clothes soon, I keep opening the drawers and seeing them all neatly waiting to be chosen.

GreyQueen

Hi jinny, minsgame is from a website called The Minimalists and the idea is that on the first day you get rid of one item, on the second day two items, the third day three items etc etc.

Tomorrow being the 5th of the month, I shall be looking for 5 items to exit these premises. Gonna be hard, not because I don't have an excess of some categories, but because most of the excess is destined to leave through natural attrition, rather than being culled.

Nevertheless, it's a good exercise and will encourage me to pull and poke around in random corners of the flat, looking for Stuff which can be minsgame'd.

Have just had a bath and decided that I would see what would happen if I put half the hair conditioner sachet (the only one on the premises) into a bathtub. Nothing turrible has befallen me yet, it just softened the hard water somewhat. Will use the other half sachet another time and will then have that off the premises.

***** Minsgame
4th October; 3 headbands (two for textile recycling, one for a long-haired friend) and a sachet of hair conditioner re-purposed as a bath product.

Righty, going to scare the makings of supper out of the fridge. Laters, GQ x

jinny

Thanks GQ
Right mmm I think I will struggle too
Will give it a shot though.

jinny

I'm reminded of a line from the movie 'The Lost Boys'
"Vampires can't come into your home unless you invite them"
So it's the same with stuff I suppose.
Plus sucks the life out of you as well

mavvymoo

I will struggle along with you Jinny and GQ towards the end of the month. But who knows we may find some unjoyful crap hidden in depths of our cupboards.

I have just binned another free mag that came from somewhere called

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Premier man :rotfl:Inside its just like the pictures that you used to get in the Kays book years ago.
It is so funny and if I place an order I get a 25 piece tool kit worth £12.99 So I bet that is quality.Also if you want to order I can give you a code for 30% off

Who knew you could have so much fun playing mins game

Mav x

iQueen

Nice one, jinny! :rotfl:

Thanks to you, GQ, I'm ahead with my mins! I had forgotten the hairband that I recycled, and a lonely treasury tag I binned this afternoon!

I'm keeping a ledger of all the mins stuff! I'm determined to discard the full 490.:eek:

GreyQueen

iQueen wrote: »

Nice one, jinny! :rotfl:

Thanks to you, GQ, I'm ahead with my mins! I had forgotten the hairband that I recycled, and a lonely treasury tag I binned this afternoon!

I'm keeping a ledger of all the mins stuff! I'm determined to discard the full 490.:eek:

I've got a Word document which I'm adding to daily. It's a fun challenge, isn't it? I had already got rid of a headband to the same pal months ago, that one was still in its packaging. Two of the three are stretched-out and knackered and only fit for recycling, the other isn't packaged but appears unworn. Dunno why I kept them, it's two years last month since I had my long hair cut short and I'm loving it and intending to keep it short.

I've now knitted all the bits of unsnarled yarn up, which has them out of the way, and feeling good about that. Would have been easy to bin the lot but the snarl added up to 8 inches aof blanket strip I reused it.

Have made supper out of stuff already on the premises and have caught up with the fridge contents, apart from stuff earmarked for a big pasta-thingy tomorrow night. I am also using the lasagne sheets which I CBA to use as sheets - I broke them up and added them to the pasta-shapes jar and have eaten quite a few of them that way, and will have some more tomorrow. Thanks to this thread, I've been thinking laterally about how to finish up some things, which is great as I can't abide wasting stuff.

Suppose I ought to go wash the dishes. Cover me, ladies, I'm going in(to the kitchen).

maman

I've just realised that the most joyful place in the house is the sitting room which was kondoed completely before the decorators moved in a few weeks back. So it's now freshly painted and everything that's gone back in was carefully chosen and I love it! We're working through the house with decorating so will apply the same technique elsewhere but it will be easier as many areas have been kondoed already.


Not sure how many of you line shelves. I've used paper with varying success. I've tried that plastic roll from Ikea but it only works with shelves that can be weighted down in the corners with jars and things or it curls up. Had a brainwave today and decided that card might be the answer. DD1 had left a cardboard box to be recycled. Very joyful design in red with Emma Bridgewater printed all over. I flattened it and cut to size and lit looks fab. So vegetables that live in there all kondoed (some eaten, some frozen) in advance of my holiday this week and the cupboard looks all neat and tidy:).

3forholidays

Mins game

Day 7
1. Old price list from hairdressers (bin)
2. Instructions for electric toothbrush (bin)

To be continued...

greent

GreyQueen wrote: »

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. I am also using the lasagne sheets which I CBA to use as sheets - I broke them up and added them to the pasta-shapes jar and have eaten quite a few of them that way, and will have some more tomorrow.

I've been cooking up my lasagne sheets and then slicing them up thinly so that they become short tagliatelle - now known as lasagnatelle in this house I, too, can't abide food waste, so try and ensure things are used. Clearly we had a 'thing' for lasagne a few years back, and I'm ploughing my way through several boxes worth of sheets this way! Thankfully, between DS1 and myself (the 2 least fussy members of our 6 human-member household (and 3 furry members)) we can usually manage to eat most things in one form or another Leftovers work especially well for lunches for me, as I'm not really a fan of sandwiches, which is everyone else's default choice at lunchtime


Finally caught up on my ironing tonight - our household stuff has fallen by the wayside whilst we've been dealing with m-I-l's death. We're still clearing her place (we own it, so no huge rush, thankfully, as neither of his siblings are remotely interested in helping deal with any of the paperwork admin or physical clearing of her things ) - tomorrow morning we're there for a couple of hours (off out for a Groupon cream tea for a late lunch) - I'm taking down all the curtains and stripping the spare bed, ready to wash it all. OH is taking up a couple of carpets and taking off some internal doors (we have the new ones in our garage ready to hang - that was already a job for this Winter anyway) and we have a planned CS trip with much of the kitchenalia and remaining knick knacks and some small pieces of furniture. The few items from ours already sorted for CS are also making the trip