The KonMarie method

dragonette

GQ excellent news! Fingers crossed it's a lasting change

lollyfin Oh yes, indeed in regretting my bday and ppl buying things for pressies - I'm very content with what I have

Jo4 I hope you get your results this week, and that everything is fine. How have you been doing? yay for getting the CS bags gone, and reminding me I have some to go too

GreyQueen

MMF007 wrote: »

GQ can you work your magic on my mum, please?? :rotfl:

Had a realisation today when my friend gave me a belated birthday present.... i was dreading it! All i could think was 'oh no, something else to find a home for'. I admit that my b/day cards drove me mad, messing up the window sill, and although tradition has it that they stay up for a week, they only lasted 3 days! Luckily for me my friend is very thoughful and gave me vouchers i can happily use when the time is right

It's only taken 40 years to get my Mum to this point (I am 51). I don't think I have 40 years left to work on yours..........:p

I've been dreading birthdays and Christmasses for years, in respect of presents. I don't have that many relatives I exchange gift with but one of them is a particular bugbear who has given me some very straaange (bad strange, not good strange) stuff over the years.

One year, she asked me ahead of time what I wanted for my Xmas and was told 'manure' (I have an allotment, I really really wanted manure) and she gave me a cosmetic set. Which I would never have used, and which I donated immediately. Why bother asking? And why, when she sees me several times a year, had she not noticed that I never ever wear any makeup whatsoever? The following year she gave me some cash and I spent it on manure............:rotfl:

Jo4, fingers crossed that your results come back soon and in the negative.

I've been put off shopping for a long time, due to a combination of several factors such as not much money, very little space and, chiefly, the realisation that the 'fun' of shopping is the acquistion and the thrill is over as soon as you get something home in 90% of cases.

I hang out on the zerowastehome website, looking at pictures of Bea Johnson's home. Which is white and mostly empty. I covet it. BJ, I am stalking your house. We're thousands of miles apart, you and your family are quite safe, just thought I ought to mention it.............:rotfl:

I've come to realise that the things which appeal to me most are the spaces between things. I like those empty bits a lot. I'd like more and bigger ones, too, I'm getting greedy like that.

GrannyKate

Yes Lollyfin this has stopped me buying things. As things have their own space I know when that is full so don't get anymore until used up. If that makes sense. Still get bargains when I see them but more discerning I think.
Here at DS home things very sparse as they prepare to move - I will behave myself and not Kondo things.
We did visit the dreaded I**A yesterday - a planned visit whilst passing store on motorway to get kitchen stools. The ones we have are really heavy and do not bring joy. Only purchased a couple of small extras - some hooks to go with shelving I have in utility room, drawer inserts for DH's man cave and a couple of bits for DCs. DD was delighted to discover I was going there as it meant she didn't have to.
Need to Kondo some children out of their beds for school.

GrannyKate

Greyqueen - I agree about space. I keep admiring the 4 foot of shelving space in the study and feel no urge to put anything there permanently. It has become a temporary home for things that need doing and leaves the surface of the desk free to actually use. I am also doing well at keeping dining room table clear of anything except the occasional vase of flowers.

jinny

Watched obsessive compulsive cleaners
I think this week was the best programme in the series.
The two messies had problems that were deep rooted and triggered
The hoarding obsessions.
The lady who who had brain damage due to an accident
Wasn't really dirty just overwhelmed with stuff.
The lady who was a poet had been forced to wear her late mothers clothes at age 13
Bless them
My own mother who was left an orphan as a child like a lot of families in the 1920s. She remembers family members on the day of her mothers funeral clearing out the cuboards of stuff.
Leaving her and her older sister without much.
That made me think perhaps that why she hoarded stuff.

jinny

GQ will have a look at the zerowastehome website
I have serious minimalist white home envy too

GreyQueen

jinny wrote: »

GQ will have a look at the zerowastehome website
I have serious white home envy too

You'll enjoy it, I'm sure. Her book, which I've had out from the library before, is very good. She's frank and funny about how she used to be (acquistive barbie blonde fashionista with gel nails and megawatt diamond ring) and how and why she changed.

I don't believe I can be zerowaste, but I am already lo-waste and aiming to be lower still. I am regularly astonished by callers at my council job, trying to work out how the hell other singleton households are overfilling a 240 litre refuse wheelie bin every fortnight. My family (3 adults 2 cats) produces one black sack's worth per fortnight. Which is a half-full wheelie bin.

PollyWollyDoodle

lollyfin, yes, I was already fairly frugal and good at not buying stuff I didn't need anyway, but I'm definitely even more cautious now - where's it going to go? is my first thought! it doesn't extend to food though, still got a bit of a hoarding problem there, especially the freezer. It's on my list to tackle.

GQ my family do lists for Christmas and birthdays. I've said that this year I'd rather have experiences - meal out, tickets to something or a day out somewhere. However the list also includes bare rooted roses, some craft items that I know I'll use and some consumables (fairly expensive bath stuff that I wouldn't buy myself). Hopefully I'll only get stuff I'll use and want.

mavvymoo

Morning Everyone Hugs to everyone who needs them and I hope the results are good Jo4.

GQ wow you must be thrilled at your Mum and Dads progress and I cant wait to hear about the randomness of whats uncovered in the loft of doom :rotfl:

My house is nearly all White with not much in it Everyone says it looks like a holiday home.
Which is great as thats what I think it will be

Been on Rightm*ve for the last couple of days and have found some very joyful exciting propeties so need to make some calls today as there is a few things I need to know

One which lends its self to being that pure White empty palace some of us dream of :rotfl:Looking at it I cant see one area for storage it has no kitchen or bathroom or flooring so a right blank canvas.
But with KM I can see what it could be like and it would be amazing.

But not getting hopes up yet as I do need my head to rule my heart on this one and find out all the details I need to find out So will be doing that now.

I also dont buy half as much as I used to as I only have a certain amount of hangers so something in means something out I look at the filed drawers and think no if anything else goes in there it will ruin it so I dont


Mav x

iQueen

I am just trying to catch up on the posts here.

Has anyone else noticed how stupid the filters are becoming on here!

Filters never work efficiently - they censor more useful information than the stuff they want to 'protect us' from!

How ridiculous - now we can't use any words that contain A and double S! We can't even have innocent converations now!

MSE - you are censoring Free Speech to a really SILLY extent.