The KonMarie method

Bigjenny

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I have used them a couple of times and found them excellent.

you can put in the weight of the metals you have and it will give you a price.

There is also a thread on MSE about them https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2084905

tommyk

Good evening I have been following the thread with much interest, and thought it time to call in and say hello.I have been folding, samosaing, sorting out and generally tidying, like lots of others im enjoying a little more space, and a few nicely tidied drawers.Hubs is a bit of a hoarder so our home will never be completley clutter free, Im fine with this as a good compromise at the moment is getting rid of the too large dining table and getting a smaller one, im very pleased about this as our dining space is tiny, with not enough room for table,chairs, plus diners!! Also, I now have a large empty chest in the spare room, perfect to house ironing, and coathangers waiting for said ironing

somerandom

I've just done about 45 mins of kondoing on my out of season clothes. Can't believe how easy it makes the decision making. I've reduced my summer clothes from a small & a large suitcase to just the one small suitcase with room to spare!! A bin liner full of clothes for CS plus a lot "good label" items to sell later in the year.

allybee101

Meames - I wonder if they've started to fabricate drawer-bottom supports because people have too much stuff these days?

Of course I suspect the main reason is that the materials used to make the furniture are of a lesser quality, but even so I have noticed that the big blue and yellow store have changed one of their key bedroom brands over the years in a small way.
I have some of their bedroom furniture (M8lm) and when I moved home I replaced a tallboy chest of 6 drawers (2009) with a 3 drawer chest of drawers (2013) that would fit under the window in my new home. During the construction process I noticed that the little plastic stoppers (that iQueen linked) which supported the long drawers on the 2009 version were replaced with long metal struts that span the width of the drawer.

The tallboy went to a friend who needed to replace an identical piece where the drawers bottoms were completely gone (it had been through several moves and a damp house).
When my washing finishes airing I'm looking forward to kondo-ing it into the drawers and hopefully freeing up some space in them.

allybee101

Very excited that I've just been able to reserve the book at the library. Last time I tried it appears it wasn't possible as the book was in transit between two libraries.
It's not on my list, and I've seen that another book on living lightly is now ready to collect. Happy days!

PixieDust

Ooooooooh, I have just successfully samosad a pair of opaque tights.

Toe to toe, fold gusset in half or, in my case thirds (being large of bottom). Fold toes to waistband. Start samosaing from the waistband end......et voila!!!!!

lostinrates

allybee101 wrote: »

Meames - I wonder if they've started to fabricate drawer-bottom supports because people have too much stuff these days?

Our drawers here are mainly solid wood. I'm guessing if we showed the modern blue and yellow and the like drawers to the makers of our furniture many years ago they'd chuckle and say ' but that won't hold the weight of your winter komono over summer ' Its sad that today we see 35 years as a good innings for a chest of drawers when we have better understanding how important resources are, and how the one thing machines cannot replace is real craftsman ship.

I'm not saying I could afford to have handmade furniture through out my house either, fwiw, I'm just saying its an interesting situation we have got our selves in to.

Our so.ution, my husbands and mine, has been to furnish with hand me downs second hands and unwanted of friends and family, but I things only as we can afford it. I've had some compliments on Mse when I've posted pictures of various things.

What I do know is that what I store in as much as what I store, brings me joy. I like it to suit my taste. If possible, where things are new I'd like them to give economic benefit to my economy and to be environmentally well sourced. If you like the way it looks and it works for you to use my theory is you are more likely to want to handle it and put stuff in it!

GreyQueen

Well said, LiR.

I am relaxedly shopping for a replacement for a melamine c-of-d. Was in various secondhand stores on Saturday and was very taken by some Georgian pieces. One chest-on-chest was half the size of my bedroom and taller than I am (and that's nearly 6 ft). Totally unsuitable but very handsome.

But there are many handsome pieces of furniture out there which were going strong when you grandaddy was a twinkle in his daddy's eye and which will see you and your heirs good service.

I'm no fan of IK!A furniture, and other stuff of the same ilk, I think it's throwing money and resources down the pan.

greenbee

'brown' furniture is currently out of fashion GQ, so you may find you can pick up something suitable and attractive at no more than the price of a melamine coated bit of MDF... good luck with your hunting!

Most of my furniture (and flooring...), is like LIR's other people's cast offs or handed down. I love that I have my grandfather's bureau, my godmother's dining table, my grandmother's bed, my great-grandmother's rug amongst other things.

Although I have realised that the two CoDs that I use have very shallow drawers... the one in the spare room, is of course, the one with deep drawers, but changing them round won't work. Vertical folding doesn't work for everything in these drawers, but even doing some (and some rolling where appropriate), and thinking about what goes with what, has helped free up space, and hopefully make things easier to find.

meames_2

Funnily enough. In a charity shop the other day looking for a replacement, there was the white version of the aneboda chest of drawers (mine was birch and painted a couple of years ago). They wanted £30 , and a couple of the drawes were a bit sticky, with delivery it was £40. More than I paid originally!