The KonMarie method

GreyQueen

Lol. a Tiffany bracelet on Freecycle, what does the woman think, other people are daft?!

Off to workski for a few hours, but have wound on a donated coned yarn into balls and the cardboard cone is going into the recycling bin in a few seconds - yay. Have a superb joyful day, folks, I intend to.:D

silvasava

Haha - I bought aa small pair of silver earrings in Turkey. They had a design embossed on them that on very close inspection said Tiffany. The guy I bought them from said 'they're not real you know' - my friend said they were so small if anyone was close enough to read them they wouldn't be looking at my earrings - what did she mean??:whistle:

mrs-moneypenny

Me again.
the cheek of the Tiffany request, some people just have too much front! I get annoyed by the aggressive ways people want items I've offered on there so tend to wait till I've had a few requests and pick the most seemingly genuine asker. Someone actually posted on our local freecycle that they wanted manners as so few people seemed to be using them.

Mins game
Day 26
1. Shoebox full of old receipts invoices etc - shredded/recycled
2. Several old instruction manuals - recycled
3. Welcome pack from when dd1 started local primary (she's 30 soon) - recycled
4. Welcome pack from when dd1 started local high school (my 5th will leave there next year) recycled
5. School hymn book from when I was at high school don't think school even use them any more? - CS
6. Scratched DVD - binned
7. Watched Sweeney Todd DVD last night - CS
8. Packaging stuff from toy box - binned/recycled
9. Baby nappy box - dd2 taking to partners mums
10. Set broken solar fairy lights - binned
11. Small dream/dust catcher - CS
12. Giant decorative paper clip broken - binned
13. Selection of tatty old hair bands/clips - binned
14. Perfumed candle - used up
15. 2 knitted scarves - CS
16. Knitted snood - CS
17. Knitted cape/shawl -CS
18. Unjoyful jumper - CS
19. Charity bangle (can't see or remember what charity) - binned
20. Pair flashing skull kite lights that don't flash any more - binned
21. Huge old rusty bulldog clip - binned
22. 23 non working or unjoyful pens - binned
23. 8 pencils - binned under the if you haven't got a point by the third attempt at sharpening out you go rule.
24. Door stop/ wedge bought never used - CS
25. Sink plug never used bought wrong size in error years ago - CS
26. Very ood packs of flower/veg seeds - binned.

I'm about up to date now so need to start foraging again. Still not finding this too difficult which goes to show how much excess I still have.

Can't remember who liked the ukulele listed earlier but don't worry there are still 5 in the house two proper ones and three utterlybutterly ones that me Dh and ds2 made at a workshop befor playing in the utterlybutterly ukulele band! Mine may yet make it onto a future list.
Off to do some tidying now

Have a joyful day all

Igamogam

GreyQueen wrote: »

At a fundamental level, we already know how to declutter. We're not infants; we can pick things up, put them in bags and boxes and get rid of them. What we need to know is why we have emotional resistance to doing so, how we got to the position of excess in the first place and how we can avoid back-sliding again.

Thank you GQ...........as always condensing it so well

I'm finding freegling positively joyous these past few days; stuff is leaving the premises shortly after arriving from Mum and Dad's, even though it's very random stuff, not the most covetable by a long shot. Items which, if chazzered would, I suspect, risk being binned rather than make it out to the shop floor. But that was what the whole freecycle/ freegle thing was about, wasn't it, avoiding stuff going to landfill.

I love Fr**gle too. Have got rid of lots of stuff that way and always the recipients are very grateful:)

Not much been going on here. RL been a bit of a priority. Today I feel I can get back on the KM treadmill - hmmmm sounds like its a chore....well yes its becoming that now and I am resenting all my 'lets keep that just in case/its useful/I can sell it/it has a memory stupid attitude to stuff'!! Also a 'chore because parts of the house are now keeping beautifully tidy ( although DD2 and I think it may have something to do with OH away on his trip of a life time - a notorious none put awayer it seems:eek:) and I want to enjoy the house now. A chore because its lovely and sunny outside and I want to enjoy that too. Anyway a trip to CS today and recycle centre............on it goes!

uk_american

A beautiful sunny day in my corner of Essex, laundry in and on a coffee break.

I've used the free sites over the past two years but ours has a tendency to descend into arguments so I tend to avoid these days. It often comes back to 'need vs want' so people asking for 'a girls pram, am desperate' and someone comes back with 'if you're so desperate than won't any pram colour be ok?' Sheesh, all the drama.

I love reading all the mins lists, stuff just keeps coming, doesn't it?

Mav, sounds like a big decision, good thing KM gives you a clear mindset for it.

I mentioned that ebay person that didn't pay, she sent a msg, she had been away, could she pick up on Sunday. It was supposed to be between 7-8, then it became 9 and at 10 I was beginning to wonder. 10.30 PM found me carrying a heavy box of Pyrex down to the local bp as she couldn't find the address.

Her husband shifted space in the boot of their little car, as well the back seat was filled. They were over from Liverpool spending all day picking up ebay purchases and I was their last stop.

With a glint in her eye she asks, 'do you have any more to sell?'

I did actually as another lot on ebay had not sold. She has just been starting out in collecting she says and she just loves it. So 10.30 at night, I have a energetic little pensioner trudging up my 4 flights of stairs to my flat to buy more vintage Pyrex.

To be honest I was just going to run it down to the charity shop but am trying to dole out one carrier bag at a time to them as it's just a little shop. So we easily came to a price and off she gleefully pranced off into the night with another box of Pyrex.

I thought, oh my goodness, their little car stuffed to the gills, by the time she gets back to Liverpool it's going to be after 2 AM. My mind is baffled.

Although seeing her happiness, I was pleased with letting it all go.

In a moment of irony, I realized that what she paid me (to take away my dust producing carp) was 1 cent more than what I had paid for a new pair of trainers earlier in the day, something that is giving me joy, to be getting in shape, having worn out the last pair.

Hope everyone else is into a joyful, productive Monday.

missyrichards

Oops, just kondoed a jar of something all over my kitchen floor.:o That was unplanned decluttering into the bin.:D

I used up another tube of free hair conditioner and will use the free plastic gloves to clean the bathroom. I don't mind accepting free stuff if I will use them at some point.

It's a lovely day here, my pets are sunning themselves outside in the garden. It's alright for some.:p

PollyWollyDoodle

She drove from Liverpool to Essex to buy vintage Pyrex??? Sheesh. The lengths we'll go to for our 'collections' - that's a habit I'm delighted to have Kondoed.

Re Freegle: I discard any replies that don't include the word 'please', and I give preference to ones that give a credible reason for wanting the item. I've had a fairly good experience, sadly there's always a few who let you down.

GreyQueen

Heh, I have part of the Ancestral Pyrex, bits of my late Grandma's stuff which went to Mum and then Mum passed to me when I set up my own home. I wouldn't describe them as a collection, though. And I wouldn't drive across town to get more, never mind across the country.

Got two more things out for freegle collection and another thing due to go out tomorrow, when all three have gone I think I shall be all freegled-out for a while. I just leave them an outdoor hidey-hole and tell the freeglers where to find them and go about my business. Works for low value/ worthless stuff such as I'm giving away.

Counting down the days until I can get in the parental loft and start spreading order among the chaos. Will be Sunday for the first full-on day, might be able to do a little on Sat pm, after we're all back from visiting Nan. She's pretty tidy so probably no scope for kondo-ing there, so I might offer to clean the brasses.

That loft is calling to me, lovely peeps, it needs my bossiness. I might measure the cubic volume or weigh or list the discards, if that would entertain some of you. I am hoping something of extreme eccentricity will come to light, but I suspect there will be more mundanity than otherwise.

I guess the 'po will have to stay - wouldn't want the neighbours to say that we're so poor we hadn't even got a pot to p--- in.:rotfl:

choose_wisely

I did drive from Liverpool to Newark to collect a wardrobe from ebay, (needed to match a discontinued style after a bedroom reshuffle) and during my 25,000 miles driving this year I did pass through Essex several times, but I promise that I did not collect any pyrex on the way.

The lady in question could have had mine, but then she might have it as I sent it to a charity shop. There is a shop near me that sells vintage kitchenware, perhaps it wasn't for her personal collection.

PS. love the comment about the 'po, a phrase my mother used to say.

PollyWollyDoodle

Yes please GreyQueen, we'd all like to be with you in that loft I think but absent that pleasure, please let us know how much you clear and give a hint of the weird and wonderful archaeological discoveries!