The KonMarie method

choose_wisely

DH is in charge of the garden, which can at best be described as bird friendly. However on Saturday I went into the front garden as the sun was rising and cut down the shrub that was overhanging the wall at the front. I discovered that the shrub is growing between the bricks and is probably the only reason the wall is still standing:eek:

Anyway, it gave me the first item for the day's list

Mins lists continued:

Day 24 Saturday

1. Garden waste bin full of shrub
2 to 20. Jam jar lids. GD had been using them for a matching game. I went through them and kept only those that fitted the jars i had retained, the square and hexagonal ones.
21. Pair of leather flyflot clogs - CS bag
22. Suede flyflot clogs, past their best - RC
23. Black loafers, circa 1999, RC
24. Pair insoles, foam perished

Day 25 Sunday

Additional items from DD2'S relocation
1. Dehumidifier
2 and 3. Sofa throws which go with her autumnal colour scheme
4. Soft fluffy lounging jacket
5. Warm towelling dressing gown.

Hope the above will help her to keep the on heating lower. At her last place she had only storage heaters that she never got to work, so got halogen and convector heaters. It was a large open plan, two bedrooms, single glazed sash windows, two large open chimneys but no fires and over a shop meant freezing temperatures in the winter so I think she is now over compensating.

6 to11. Tea towels, she asked me where they had gone
12. Pair of running shoes
13. Fluorescent running jacket, dark after work
14. to 24. Candle bulbs from large chandeliers. All replaced but many put back into the boxes and left in the drawer with new ones. All tested and dead ones disposed.
25. Pair of wellingtons

GrannyKate

Have tackled a section of my mother's paperwork today - all her loose recipes and booklets. She was a professional cook. I have kept all her handwritten notes and special recipes in a nice small box repurposed from an earlier Kondo. Other random magazine pages, free pullouts etc have now gone. I will work my way more slowly through the stuff I have kept.

Mins Day 29
1. Cheque paid into my ISA holiday savings
2. Pair socks which I don't like - no idea why I kept them
3. Postcards to RC - stamps to friend for RC
4. Birthday card from September for RC
5. Mobile phone case to CS
6. Metal nail file to RC
7. Metal letter opener to RC
8. Random pens and pencils to CS
9. Strange looking and smelling jar of out of date curd
10. Today's junk mail to RC
11. Set of 6 napkin rings last used about 10 years ago to CS
12. Unsubscribed to more emails
13-16. Instruction/cook books x4 which came with mum's old kitchen stuff
17. Amish cookbook for DGD8
18-19. Odd cookery bookletx 2
20-22. Very OOD pastry found in big freezer x3
23. Old magazine supplements on cooking
24. Recipe folder and blank cards to CS
25. Large pile of miscellaneous bits of paper from mum's cookery stash
26. Another cookery booklet
27. Bandana
28. Portable reading light - used twice in about 10 years to CS
29. Manky plastic drinking bottle to RC

2 days to go. Think I might get Christmas stuff down from loft and sort. Got rid of lots last year but think there is more to go and CS will probably be able to sell it at this time of year.

GreyQueen

Evening all.

I'm enjoying the minslisting and am envious of the people who are managing to find stuff to shed daily.

Small examples of minimising. Came home to three bits of junk mail, one being addressed and two random leaflets. Ripped name and address off the item for shredding and recycled the rest. Didn't even cross the threshold.

Also had a convo with Hoarder Mum who has been stressing this afternoon about the Lost Charity Raffle Tickets. They came several weeks ago and were put somewhere to deal with later and are now lost somewhere indoors. We explored verbally a few of the most probable places and they're not there.

Reassured her that they won't have been binned, they will be somewhere indoors and I will probably be able to find them in the next few days. Did mention that some kind of mail-sorting system might be a good idea, so one isn't always scrabbling among papery detritus for the important stuff.

When I went to my hospital appt yesterday, it was so easy to take out the folder where the appt letters are kept and remove the necessary one (bar code check in as hospital) and then on my return, add next year's letter to the folder. If it's a hospital letter, it's in that folder, most recent at the top. And the folder always lives in the same place. Makes life chilled out and so very very easy.

Loft Attack two sleeps away, peeps. I'm going in!

jinny

Oh I wasn't in anyway disparaged
After I posted my reply I thought I sounded a bit offended tbh lol
I nearly posted another reply to make it sound less iffy
Noooo not at all I think when one types something it can read a bit passive aggressive. I didn't think that of yours and I didn't mean my post to make you feel bi**h slapped!!!!lol
The last six months of my working life
A manager made my life hell with her comments
So rather than turn up at work with boxing gloves
I kondoed the job and retired.
Everyone that knows me knows I'm never huffy
The one thing I love about his thread is the camaraderie
And encouraging everyone
Bless you and sending a hug(((((

Ps their father was a useless male so I was determined to not pass that gene on
Lived on my own for 30years and not regretted it
I said in an earlier post my ironing board is over thirty years old
So more use to me than than useless man I married

I agree with you dragonet
A man in your life but not in your house

dragonette

jinny I didn't think I'd offended you but wanted to make sure.
Tone is incredibly difficult with typed words, and I'd much rather apologise than risk antagonising someone over a simple misunderstanding


Today I have discarded the foam roller head for the paint roller - was horrible - and have decided to CS a canning style jar. I got it at a CS, never found a reasonable use for it so it can go. Spoke to my mum about getting rid of a small wall cabinet (dark wood, poss Edwardian) which is gorgeous and nowhere I've lived had walls good enough to put it up. So its going, and my is getting rid of 2 frames and an oak dining table and they can all go to the local auction house. I suspect they'll sell v cheap and will end up painted by someone. I just want rid of the nagging feeling that its in a sad hibernation while not being used!

mrs-moneypenny

Hope the raffle tix turn up GQ, I'm really looking forward to the randomness of any attic finds you will be listing for us

grunnie

I KMed my papers ages ago and found a system that works for me. My OH has started on his papers ( he is very very disorganised and spends hours trying to find one paper) Today he kept handing me papers to keep "as I will be able to find them quicker when he needs them ":rotfl:
Had decided ages ago I would be organised this Christmas and today I finished my Christmas shopping. l didn't need to buy cards or wrapping paper as had checked what was left over from last year so only had a few gifts to buy which I bought today.:T

GreyQueen

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Hope the raffle tix turn up GQ, I'm really looking forward to the randomness of any attic finds you will be listing for us

The Polis are busily decluttering my neighbourhood as we speak, we're three crackheads short of a riot at the moment. They're welcome to them.:rotfl:

I'm getting itchy fingers about getting into that loft. It calls to me, it does, it calls. I shall be sure to itemise the Stuff, it won't be terribly amusing but it will be quite random. I've already been told that The Yarn Mountain has to stay and that's the lion's share of it by volume, if not by weight.

There's a severe amount of SABLE yarn, but if I can aid the ridding of the other random carp up there, I shall not stress it about that.

Contents which I'd like to get rid of; most of the suitcase archive (there's one from Mum's pre-marriage days fer cryin' out loud), the dress form, the sunlounger, the pram bag, the dalek-on-a-stand 1970s hairdyer and other things too numerous to mention.

ETA; have found two envelopes in the stash which fit the Xmas cards, so they'll be given out this Crimble. The half-card can go into recycling, I have too many suchlike saved for bookmarks already.

Blue_Doggy

Gosh! I didn't realise it was 9 days ago that I last posted here:eek:.

Many thanks to everyone who was so supportive and made such kind suggestions when I was melting down over my missing credit card bill. :A:A:A

I found it, with a note on it saying I'd paid it :T which was confirmed a couple of days later when the new one arrived with a line saying "Paid". Phew!!

As was only to be expected, rootling around in the piling system caused an avalanche of paper, pens, paperclips and other random stationery items which had accumulated. Which all had to be sorted out.

Then I Kondo'ed a couple of days reading the book for the Reading Group meeting, and had a gate and some rotted fencing replaced.

Now I've just about caught up with the action here, and for your delectation (GQ especially), here are a few more of my Mins-games days:


Day 19
4 magazines
8 envelopes
7 magazine inserts

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Day 20
1 delivery card left by courier who didn't ring the bell
2 catalogues
2 items of junk mail
shoeboxful of cash receipts
5 magazines
torn dog toy
decorative plaque
old brooch in the shape of a frog
1 item of junk mail
3 flyers from local hot-food-delivery firms
1 item of furniture sold on fleabay
last weekend's newspaper

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Day 21
1 the dogs' biscuit tin squashed by accident (must be the power of my HM spinach soup )
2 - 3 bottles of branded fizzy pop (bought in case of visitors who like it)
4 very dead rose from vase
5 bag full of glass jars & bottles
6 - 10 5 (of 6) old flowerpots found under plants when pruned (the 6th pot turned out to be Toad Hall, so was left where it was with young toad-in-residence)
11-13 3 bags of compost
14-16 3 emptied compost bags
17 free newspaper
18 - 21 4 items of junk mail

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Day 22
1 box of glass jars & bottles
2 dead cactus
3 pack of lily-of-the-valley roots (bought spring 2014 - now in border "sink or swim")
4 bag of bark mulch (bought 2012) spread on border
5 empty bark bag
6 stump of dead Xmas tree
7 - 11 5 violet plants (from around stump, now in border)
12 dead ivy plant
13 soil from ivy tub spread on border
14 prunings of jasmine
15 prunings of clematis
16 prunings of pyracantha
17 - 18 2 bags of topsoil - spread on border
19 - 20 empty topsoil bags
21 several spiders of varying sizes, plus webs
22 rotten gate (now replaced)

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Day 23
1 rotten fence panel (replaced)
2 rotten trellis (replaced)
3 - 5 junk mail (did not even enter the house!)
6 bootload of garden prunings (HWRC)
7 rotten wooden planter ((HWRC)
8 load of rotten garden wood (HWRC)
9 large broken plastic pot (HWRC)
10 - 12 3 bags of bulbs (in ex-Xmas tree and ex-ivy tubs)
13 - 15 3 bags of compost (in ex-Xmas tree and ex-ivy tubs) (not the same as day 21's)
16-18 3 empty compost bags (not the same as day 21's)
19 - 20 2 fuchsia cuttings (in ex-Xmas tree and ex-ivy tubs)
21 - 23 the "running lists" on which I'd been recording the Min's activity (which themselves were written on the backs of old freezer-contents lists)

To be continued, but not today (you'll be glad to hear :rotfl: )

greenbee

GQ - we can feel your itching over the internet (exposure to loft insulation can do that)*

Clearly the yarn mountain has to stay, but I'm sure it would make sense to sort it, so it is more accessible.... Besides, your Mum will need to check it for mouse/moth/etc damage.

And I'm betting that sorting (by colour/type/size/whatever) will result in some discards or donations.

I'm away for work again shortly, but look forward to reading about your adventures when I make it to my soulless but minimalist hotel room...


*(BTW if you dispose of too much stuff the loft may need more insulation added)