The KonMarie method

mrs-moneypenny

Friend came yesterday which was in itself joyful, but as well as her presents she took the two pot dolls ( one she'd actually given dd1years ago and one I'd made, which I dressed for her in the outfit I wore at my christening- she is my best friend and very worth it and the items will bring her joy. I mentioned I was letting a couple of my childhood dolls go, they have cataracts and look old, turns out her mum loves dolls as much as she does and as well as restoring old coach built prays she does dolls, so she has been given my two (woo as it saves them from the tip run)
Dh has suggested as it is raining we go through the video boxes on the drive and kondo some!!!!! This is indeed woo and a huge milestone for him to suggest.
In the words of arnie"I'll be back!"

Have a joyful day all

Ps read too late the advice re ood food colouring, but thanks iqueen I'll remember that info for future use

iQueen

dragonette wrote: »

Polly thank you, sadly I don't have a dishwasher. My kitchen has so little space the the freezer is in the hallway. I did consider the washing machine but was a bit concerned that all the movement would damage them. I'll just need to be patient.

I am preferring the clearer unit tops, will wait a little longer before buying more storage tho, feels v odd to buying furniture as I already have loads.

Will be a gentle day for me again. I will kondo something today, it's almost addictive lol

I always washed the children's Lego in a mesh bag in the washing machine! Do it in reasonable batches, each time you put a normal clothes wash on. Didn't harm the machine at all, or Lego.

GrannyKate

Determined to have an at home day although DH is twitchy. Very pleased with week 1 of my grocery challenge this month as spent less than£30. We did have a lovely expensive evening out but that was planned as they only visit once a year.

Kondoed some confidential work papers from a contract job - only kept about 6 sheets of paper as others all on computer anyway. All shredded as Monday is paper collection day. Also kondoed both freezers and made new lists of contents. Identified items to defrost for weekend meals, items at top of freezer to use up. Only threw some unjoyful ice pops away and some French beans that taste horrible. Big freezer now seems only half full so room to put Christmas things and any good YS bargains. I also know what I have got.
Home made soup and rolls kondoed for lunch.

GreyQueen

I think I have turned a corner on my kondo journey.

Picture this;

I'm performing a perfectly innocent errand out to the communal recycling bins to find the the fairies have left a small table rudely fashioned from pallets which I could use on the allotment.

The internal diaglogue goes like this;

GQ as was: Ooooooo!!!!!!! Look, a free thing I could use on my allotment! Gotta take that up there.

KMGQ: what would you use it for?

GQas was; I don't know. I'll think of something. I could stand things on it.

KMGQ: you didn't even want it, or something like it, until you saw it just now. You don't know what you'll do with it, leave it there.

GQas was B-b-b it's a perfectly good thing going free.

KMGQ ; Be logical. You'd have to balance it across the bike carrier and walk the bike 1.25 miles up to the allotment. And you don't even know why you want it. It'll clutter the lottie - you already have a folding table in the shed. And you'll eventually have to either take it to the tip or burn it. You could avoid all this hassle by just pretending you never saw it in the first place.

So, you see, I pre-kondo'd something which could have come into my life if I wasn't careful.:rotfl:

Minimise-to-Maximise

Busy today but just time to post my mins

Day 7

1. Assortment of sad looking semi deflated balloons left over from a party - popped and binned
2. Very old notebook containing costings for our wedding and details of a decade old car prang - r/c
3. Instruction booklets for iPhone and laptop
4. Various old business cards
5. Few pieces of old paperwork - not ready to kondo that category yet- r/c
6. A few old postcards of places i don't remember visiting - r/c
7. Homemade wizard wand - decorative bits binned, bamboo stick will be used to support a plant next spring

VJsmum

Well done GQ, I saw two chairs today in a chazzer for a pound each.

I could have those and paint them, they'd be as good as new.

My house has 27 seats in it already - three / four people live there. The chairs are still in the chazzer

My bread maker has died - it owes me nowt as I have had it for about 20 years. (What is it with all he bread making threads atm?). Question is - do I replace it, though I haven't used it much of late. Or do I go with the hand made option ands relish mor space?

I am thinking the latter - and also thinking that if I take it to the tip tomorrow, what else can I take at the same time

greenbee

VJsMum - don't replace the BM automatically. See how you get on with making bread without it. If you find you need it you can replace, but at least you'll know you made the decision based on a genuine need.

I need to get over my jet lag and do stuff.

jinny

Well done on the kondo resistance all
I was asked by a friend recently who is decluttering
In line with the MK method. Well kinda is
If I wanted a breadmaker I always wanted one years ago
I said no thanks. I do alright by hand and got my method
down pat. I'm not saying I wasn't tempted but thought what all of you would have said on here. The kondo police ha ha.
I don't have the room for it really it would have had to be put away
Each time in the big cubby.

GreyQueen

I make my own bread and do it by hand, using stuff already on the premises for other purposes, like the oven, the bowl, the baking sheet.

A couple of years ago, a friend had a chance to get me a perfectly good as-new BM from a jumbly, and dropped it off at my flat whilst I was at work (she has my key).

Came home to find something the size of a foot-stool squatting in the middle of my floor. There was no mortal way I could keep it, it would have had to live on that same floor. I freegled it to someone who was happy to take it off my hands as theirs had died.

Besides, I can always tell breadmaker bread from oven-baked bread, it has a subtly less-pleasant flavour. I'd suggest VJsMum lives without hers for a month or two to see if she really wants another one. Oftentimes, we have something because we have it, and we replace it because we had one and we never sit down and assess whether we really need/ want it.

Have been gardening in the rain this morning and came home and went straight into the bathroom to wash my soaking hair. Used up the last of the shampoo and am now shampoo-less and not a bit stressed about it.

What a turn around from this spring when the prospect of running out of shampoo left me sweating with nerves. I can wash my hair with the bubble-bath leftover from Xmas 2014 and might well just do that.

On my way back from the lottie with my ruckie full of veggies, I was passing a supermarket and thought about going in 'to get a few bits' - as you do. Then I considered the time, midday-ish on a Saturday. And the state of the carpark - chocka - and thought that there was no urgent need for any bits that I couldn't do without.

Nothing was worth spending 15 mins in the store, of which 10 would be queueing to pay. And I walked home in the rain along the river, admiring the multi-coloured and multi-shaped variety of leaves swirling in graceful wavy lines downriver in the current, and considered the many random beauties of the world.

:j Even grey November days where it's raining non-stop have their moments of pure beauty, if you but stop to admire them.

Blue_Doggy

Well done, GQ and VJsMum for resisting the siren allure of random furniture :T:T:T

It's now three weeks since my breadmaker died, and in spite of my best intentions I haven't actually made bread by hand (I know how to, and used to do it regularly, but life changed and a breadmaker was welcomed and often used on a "dough only" programme before baking in the oven).

I've been buying bread - some good, some not - and even running out and resorting to making breakfast scones. So I shall buy another breadmaker.

Min's Game

Day 7:
1 - 2 lists
2 - catalogue
3 - magazine
4 - torn dog toy (not a favourite and not worth mending)
5 - non-working biro
6 - 2 library books (returned to library)
7 - reading group book returned