The KonMarie method

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PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

I think mine does, I'm not sure -but people sometimes use them for craft projects etc so it's worth donating them I think.

Thank you.

silvasava

Woo Hoo igamogam! What a wonderful Kondo
1 sheet kondoed to a Pirate shirt (turned out very well too!) Also managed to use up an elastic oddment for frilly cuffs and a piece of leftover satin lining for a sash.
Ive been struggling with the Kondo ethos with regard to my sewing stash. I have culled a load of fabric I know I will never get round to using but I still have quite a few JIC bits that I've been using and glad they escaped the cull. I need to have a think
Looking forward to your loft adventures QQ - do you think it wise to do it over Halloween weekend? You never know what's lurking in one of those cases :eek::eek:

maria3104

Congratulations igamogam. I am very jealous. Whoop whoop to you.

dragonette

Grats Imag that's fabulous

Well I ran out of steam about 2.30 today. Now at a friend's house for dinner and relaxed cuddles.

Little kondo progress - have arranged to return a ladderback chair to my mum, it is a v low seat so I had made a parcel of cushions to raise the height. From that parcel I have binned one cushion and one cover, the extra pad has been put in one I want to keep. So one extra on the sofa and one sitting upright in a storage space so the carved slate that sits there has a background to contrast against.

Did a re-tidy of tupperware, this is a frequent occurrence. Hope everyone has/has had a good day

greent

dragonette wrote: »

Did a re-tidy of tupperware, this is a frequent occurrence. Hope everyone has/has had a good day

Same happens here - I'm sure it must have a party in the cupboard when the door's closed - I'm sure I don't leave it in that state!

Blue_Doggy

Evening, All!

Well I'm still catching up on the postings for Min's Game, so here are another 4 days' worth:

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Day 24
1 notes about the book discussed at reading group in September
2 estimate from fence repair man (not taken up)
3 - 5 3 books in deplorable condition recycled
6 - 11 6 books to CS
12 - 21 10 political biographies sold to fellow members of history study group (money raised to go to charity)
22 & 23 2 old newspapers
24 old magazine

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Day 25
1 several pages of notes from desk notebook (no longer needed as already actioned)

*Now starts the attack on the Utility Room alias Dumping Ground U*

2 - 4 3 used-up laundry liquid bottles - swilled out and the dregs combined into 4th bottle (useful for mopping the kitchen floor)
5 - 7 3 part-used bottles of carpet shampoo (at least 11 years old)
8 foam garden kneeler, very old and disintegrating
9 decorative metal plant pot holder - to CS
10 - 11 jar of short pieces of garden string (kept to be knotted together to make usable longer pieces: "waste not, want not") - jar recycled
12 - 14 3 old newspapers
15 - 19 5 old tins (forgotten overflow from recycling basket)
20 - 22 3 assorted old part-used bottles of garden chemicals
23 mega-gi-mungous spider - liberated to far end of garden
24 jar that was used to capture spider straight into recycling
25 OOD jar of paprika (? cat deterrent?))

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Day 26
1 -10 The 10 worst (= most holey) cleaning rags from rag drawer
11-20 10 (at least) pairs of dead tights - kept for garden tiers, but I have more than enough
21 - 23 3 plastic milk bottles which were used as pot-plant water carriers in the summer
24 - 26 3 hair rollers (used as tubes to contain pot-plant support sticks)

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Day 27
1 3 dog biscuits - very stale
2 1 pair gardening gloves - more hole than glove
3 several more short pieces of string
4 6 screws of odd sizes
5 large, ancient and ugly tin box - I have sooooo many nicer ones
6 another old newspaper
7 the remains of several broken wooden clothes pegs
8 old lidless jam jar (no jam!)
9 several jam jar lids - none of which fits item 8
10 4 short (pocket-size!) offcuts of wood
11 envelope containing ancient unnamed dried-up seeds
12 - 16 5 packets of seeds dated 1995
17 the very fancy fabric throwing handle loop from a dog's ball - the loop was pulled out and the ball was destroyed 18 months ago
18 1 puppy toy (puppy is now nearly 4)
19 - 20 2 pairs dead rubber gloves
21 a lidless teapot (very ugly) once used as a plant pot waterer
22 a dead torch
23 4 dead batteries from dead torch
24 small flowerpot containing a selection of prettily striped empty snail shells (put n garden)
25 -27 3 gardeny posters, about butterflies, birds, and weeds

None of this clutter is worth keeping until its categories turn up, so many thanks to Min's game for providing a focus for progressing with the clear-up. Obviously there are some things (like the 3 pairs of secateurs) which do have valid categories, and will be held over until the categorisation is done (I know there are at least 2 more pairs of secateurs somewhere, probably in the garage :rotfl:).

Finding these little bitty bits of junk and dealing with them is very useful as it can be done in little bitty bits of time, and when exhaustion strikes can be left and walked away from without worry.

Happy Kondo-ing, everyone! Have fun in that loft, GQ!

Mrs_E_3

Big well done igamogam I can't wait to be saying the same one day

GreyQueen

greent wrote: »

Same happens here - I'm sure it must have a party in the cupboard when the door's closed - I'm sure I don't leave it in that state!

Lol, I thought it was just me that this happened to. Even after rigourous culling, they still get higgledy-piggeldy. I reckon the Lock&Locks go breakdancing in there.

Got back to the family homestead just before supper and had some visiting time then when to excavate 'my' bed. This is a cabin bed in a tiny 3rd bedroom of a three-bedroom house. Holds a single bed, a small pooter desk where I am now and a c-of-d. And that is it rammed full. Oh, and the 3 x 18 pks of t.p.:rotfl:

And the bed, being waist-high and not in use unless yours truly is visiting, is an all-too-convenient place to stash stuff. I have had to de-stash it so's I'll be able to go to bed tonight, and process towards re-use/ donation some loft items. Esp the mystery pinned dress and the wool embroidery project. Dress is de-pinned and the pins have been given to me to stock the dwindling supplies at my homestead, the fabric will be added to my modest stash and the wool from thep roject is to go to pal (already offered and accepted).

The underneath of the sideboard in their living room is empty of Stuff for the first time in living memory. Two jigsaws are heading jumble-wards tomoz, as is a Scrabble turntable and some other bits and bobs.

The Loft is a few feet above my head. I will not be free to go a-roamin' in the gloamin' until after we return from Nan's tomorrow (mid-aft) so it will be a short day. Can't wait to get up there.:j

Have been regaling the folks of how quickly some of the previous loft stuff went on Freegle (12 mins is the record) and the bizarre and outwardly worthless things which people have competed to take off my hands. Being in the city centre means that there is a bigger audience for any potential offers, too.

A fancy embroidered tablecloth (one of my masterworks from decades ago) has been discussed. It was heaved up into the light during the Great Knitmaster Accessories Hunt last week and was found to have become stained in storage. It laundered up fine but is too big for the household now, not used, and at risk of dying in storage.

I've said I'm not attached to it and we could donate it so money can go to a good cause, and we're both happy with that.

I will be sure to update you on the random stuff being barfed up out of the loft.

Keep up the good work, lovely peeps.

MMF007

Yipee, Igamogam, well done you!! :j

thanks Jinny for the great advice on sorting paperwork and disposal of same. I did not find that category too hard. It has never really been allowed to get out of hand (well not madly out of hand, anyway ).

I did deal with my kondo-ing of the file contents and one pile that had built up pretty much as you outlined, picked through and extracted every item relating to one particular topic. Once I had seperated everything that way I could easily dispense with the surplus in each bundle and then file what was left in the dedicated 'pocket' in date order. Easy !

Have just packed for a few days with the parents (pretty sure I won't find GQ there when I arrive but if I do I reckon we'll have a ball liberating randomly juxtaposed komono). Packing didn't take long, as expected, now drawers are decidedly orderly

The real revelation has been just how much calmer I have been in the run-up to the journey. I usually get stressed about just how much I have to do before we go away, fitting in paid work, lots of chores of various kinds, some neighbourly good deeds :A , and what seems like millions of other things.

This week, although it has been action packed and full of time-constrianed events I made a list
so I could actually SEE what I had to do (and so I didn't have to remember it all) and when I looked it over it seemed very do-able. By the time I'd finished my 13 hour day yester (paid work, neighbour-helping, hair kondo-ing, shopping and birthday pressie delivering) I was tired but cetain I could get today's stuff done - which I have

wish me luck for tomorrow morning while I chase my tail again, then it's off to the parents for a few days helping them.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

M

ETA - I am taking THE BOOK with me to re-read. I think it's time .

GreyQueen

Good luck at your parents' place. I'm the nutjob with the headtorch and the wicked grin, if you bump into my spiritual echo somewhere behind a joist. Lofts are no doubt somewhat like the Unseen University's library and all join together on a metaphysical level. It's the only possible explanation for a loft containing items which the house's occupants have never ever seen before; they've sloshed through L-space from someone else's above-ceiling storage.

Toddling off for the night, have been up since 5 am and was back from my allotment by 8 am, so about ready to stop. Besides, need to unfold some of the blanket stash which lives on the bed in this room, neatly folded under the bedspread.

What, you thought that going to bed in a hoarded house was easy......?:rotfl: