The KonMarie method

jinny

Good morning

I too sent a nice card to the whole department when I was working.
I requested by group email for no return cards as I was donating to a local charity. I too got replies with bah humbug on it.
What if if its against someone's religion not to celebrate Xmas in any shape or form ?
They would probably think Xmas has nothing to do with religion.

I was tempted to send a picture back with sheep on it but didn't
They were nice people but followed like sheep.
I too used to get loads of cards despite my request
Some people used to say to me they weren't brave enough to stop the card exchange. Don't get me started on the secret Santa it was fixed anyway same people seemed to get their friends names out of the hat
And more than the amount to spend was obvious.
I used to hate the ceremony of having to gush over the cards each person sent you. "Oh You have chosen beautiful cards this year":(


Oh dear I've started the day a bit negative
I'm going to be positive today nd hope we all have a great day
Lovely people on the thread.

jinny

Grey queen re towels
How is Gary?

GreyQueen

jinny wrote: »

Grey queen re towels
How is Gary?

Like a second-rate actor, GARY is resting. In the airing cupboard. I nearly chose him when I got a fresh towel out yesterday but decided he was too pushy and got a nameless used-to-be-pale-blue-now-murky-faded-no-name towel out instead.

As stage one of the great surface clutter cull, I have swiped the contents of the tabletop onto a tray and have wiped down the joyful plastic tablecloth. It can be drying whilst I am off at work and be ready to use later.

Of the detritus lurking on the top, I have rehomed several pieces of kipple already (hankie into the washer, cut-off tube of handcream with 1-2 more goes in it onto desk, may well be finished up later today) and another couple of things which belong in the kitchen. The papery carp will need more time thatn I can give it as will be putting pooter to bed shortly and getting ready for work ('scuse my French ).

Some other items need a bit of attention (new batteries in headtorch and that goes away, has been sitting up there for 9 days already, shameful). I get annoyed with my personal fallout of litter as, overall. I'm not too messy, but I need to have a think about what I'm doing and why and try to form more useful habits - as an ME sufferer, I have a head like a seive and need to write memos-to-self pretty constantly or nothing would get done.

I have also had a conversation with myself over one of those plastic punnets, the kind with a hinged lid you get grapes in. I have a couple of these deployed as storage but this one was holding something in the fridge and is no longer needed. I have told myself firmly that it isn't needed and that, if I really really want another, I am sure that it will be available, pre-loaded with fruit, at the shops. Will be chucking it into the recycling on way out of the block today.

Have a happy kondo-esque day, lovely peeps.

jinny

How sad Gary the fading star. Perhaps he could appear on a reality TVs programme to restart his career.

I'm a note writer too due to underactive thyroid memory.
Using my phone note app isn't good I just would forget it's on there


I look at the fruit container storage boxes as well and even started a little collection(hoard).
So have to be brave and recycle them now
You're right there's plenty in the shops.

greenbee

Do you have some kind of filing tray on your desk that can be used to hold these works in progress GQ? You can't deal with everything instantly, but at least this way you'd be incentivised to clear the backlog when adding new stuff.

Mind you, my table, coffee table, desk and work desk are probably in a far worse state. I've reclaimed and maintained the utility and kitchen since my last work trip and need to try to deal with the dining and sitting rooms this weekend.

Getting the garage sorted out after the builders left was a huge help. As is the builders not being here and in the way. I'm expecting them back soon...

jinny

Is anyone watching Hugh's war on waste?
There's a thread on the forum talking about it
but there's a bit of a heated discussion going on:(
I found the enormous pile if clothes people put in bins
Astonishing!
Yes underwear:o but if clean charities can use them for recycling
Bravissimo have a bra donation bin in their stores for third world countries
Perhaps put rag recycling into a seperate bag.
I didn't realise chazzers took spare foreign coins as well.

PollyWollyDoodle

Morning all! Sun is shining here - I'd better make the most of it and Kondo some garden jobs.

When I worked in an office I used to make a charity donation - I still received cards, too bad if people want to send them. As our desks had been reduced in size to the minimum compatible with battery chickens there was nowhere to display them anyway.

As I'm now self-employed, I am actually considering sending a few this year for business purposes as I need to keep my name in front of some of my work sources. I still send to distant friends and family, the ones who don't do email or Facebook wouldn't know I was doing a charity donation otherwise! I've cut down hugely though from previous years. Some people in my choir do cards to every member ... we meet every week anyway, I really don't see the point in that!

pukkamum

I read this book earlier this year and it was a light bulb moment for me. I suffer from diverticulitisbwhich is acerbated by stress but I just could not pinpoint where the stress was coming from.
Then I read konmari and realised the state of the house was making me I'll.
On the outside it looked great but behind each cupboard door was a mountain of stuff.
I konmari'd the whole house in a week, I was like a maniac, I didn't sleep the entire week due to my head buzzing with all the clearing i was going to do the next day.
I charity shopped 25 bin bags of clothes 10 bin bags of toys 9 bags of books and did 6 journeys to the tip IN A VAN!
It changed my life, I had 6 pots of 'stuff' around the house, filled with battery's hair clips, bits of lego etc etc etc.
My hardest time came to emotional stuff.
I had a bin bag full of emotional tat, most telling were the three bears, clingy bear, stolen bear and woofett.
I had kept these bears my whole life shoving them in bags, under the bed, in the wardrobe.
Every time I saw them I felt nothing but guilt, I should love them, I'd had them forever but the reality was they were old, battered and most of all unloved.
I said goodbye to them, thanked them for their support when I was small and got rid.
The weight off my shoulders!
So my house is now amazing, a home for everything, no pots filled with stuff no cupboards filled to bursting.
All my clothes and the kids clothes are folded as soon as they come out the dryer, I do it at the table in the kitchen with the radio on and its a highlight of my day, so relaxing, unlike ironing and hanging.
I now wear all my good.clothes, the only things I kept, I look and feel good and can replace a worn or no longer in love with item without the guilt of knowing I have far too many clothes.
Its a revelation!
In fact I now do this professionally, I have helped three families so far and they have all been thrilled!

pennystretcher

Karmacat wrote: »

I had one thought about bath and hand towels, oddly I'm going to start using the same ones as much as possible - until now, I've always tried to wear them out equally, but I've just realised thats not really helpful. I need three hand towels and a bath towel - I might even rearrange the airing cupboard to take account of that!

...if they are going out, PDSA will take them off your hands for animal hospitals..same with old duvets and blankets..

jinny

Well done you Pukkamum:T

Yes this book changes lives
It changed mine.

Interested in you saying you now
Do this professionally. Woah! You can charge a fee for this?
I know it's big business in America judging by all the
tv programmes they make on the subject.
The 'experts' usually have a PhD into the psycology of hoarding.
Usually the clients have a compulsive disorder though.
Well, there's certainly a market for it for general clutter clearing.