The KonMarie method

mavvymoo

pennystretcher wrote: »

:j I'd love to have worktops like that in my kitchen. (less the mouse ) Have already kondoed kitchen before, maybe need to do that again... I have less cupboard space than in my previous place, so struggling a bit..

pennystretcher Maybe you need a mouse As the kitchen looks so much better without the toaster and the crumbs it made So I will now say thank you to the mouse who made his or her home in the toaster

I did do my kitchen a few times to get it to where it is now. So you have still got time to get it to how you want.


Well 2 tons of sand shovelled by my fair hands into the chicken area Its so much better than it was no mud in sight

The Chickens didnt think so and 2 refused point blank to walk on it and spent the night up a tree sulking :rotfl:Glaring at me when I tried to get them down and couldnt as they just went higher and higher.They were both fine and in the morning got down and tried to walk around the edge so they avoided the sand as much as possible.
It really made me laugh and no one would believe Chickens could be so stubbon but honest they can be right divas :rotfl:They are fine now and decided that if they wanted to eat and drink they would just have to brave it


Pouring with rain here and so dull
so think I will kondo the ironing I know some dont like that word :rotfl:and neither do I much


Mav x

Karmacat

Such lovely energy around this - I mean, decluttering is always lifting in the end, but with Kondo, its very consciously part of the process. Maybe thats what makes it so different ....

Thank you all.

The patio is almost completely kondoed now - my sister helped me on Saturday, we took two frames of double glazing to the tip, along with a bit of other stuff - the patio is suddenly larger again. And I've realised I can freegle the two panels of trellis work that I don't need, and I have a space to put it so whoever goes for it can collect it and not have to ring the bell. That makes me happy its sturdy, and someone else will be happy to have it.

GreyQueen

Morning all.

VJsMum, I was wincing when you posted that you found an additional 18 photo albums and chuckling about the crimes against hair-styling and fashion. I am also guilty of several of those...........:rotfl:

I feel a re-visit to the albums coming on. I had a major cull the other day, but stalled out when my decision-making muscle got fatigued. I have realised that MK is right, you really do need to take them out of their albums. If you don't, it's just too easy to page through them and keep them all.

I have pix from holidays which feature people who are no longer in my life, often as a result of unhappy circumstances. Seeing us together in XXXXXXX doesn't bring me joy, it brings me unhappiness. I shall post those ones through the shredder gleefully.:D

I think a lot of the reason we take pix is somehow evidence. As in, evidence that we have travelled, that we have mates (look! here we all are at

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, grinning, I am popular!) that we did X or went to Y.

But really, how often have you been chatting to someone about your holiday to X and they sneered AK-shully, I don't believe you ever went to X, you're just lying!

And did you cry AHA! That's where you're wrong, see, here's some pictures of me at X! And the beermats and postcards! And the ticket stubs, the luggage labels from my suitcase and..... and......

And in the age of photoshop, what is photographic evidence worth, anyway? If it amuses you, you can insert the celebrity of your choice into a pic with you and show it to the gullible.:rotfl:

Ultimately, if we don't care about our own photos, or the gems are loitering among the dross, we aren't getting the benefit from what we do have. And, as VJsMum pointed out, our nearest and dearest might jettison the gems alongside the dross in a hurry at some later point.

I did post a handful of pix which meant nothing to me but featured friends-of-a-friend to her, and got a lovely letter back, she was so thrilled. And a pix of my great-grands has been copied and shared around the family - I got to meet two women who share that set of ggds with me, who hadn't got even one picture of them, so they were very happy to have that for their family history project.

missyrichards

I have collected up a bag for textile recycling. It's nearly a whole bin bag full.

I saw a blog today that might interest some of you.:)
1womanwalking

GreyQueen

That's a really interesting blog. She's even read The Book:

http://1womanwalking.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/book-review-life-changing-magic-of.html

mavvymoo

Mmm Was going to Kondo the Ironing but all I could think about was this poem




Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better,
To paint a picture or write a letter,
Bake a cake or plant a seed,
Ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, but there's not much time,
With rivers to swim and mountains to climb,
Music to hear and books to read,
Friends to cherish and life to lead.

Dust if you must, but the world's out there
With the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair,
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain.
This day will not come 'round again.

Dust if you must, but bear in mind,
Old age will come and it's not always kind.
And when you go and go you must,
You, yourself, will make more dust.


And went and spent some quality time with a friend over coffee instead Much better way of kondoing the day

Mav x

mrs-moneypenny

I love at poem Mavvy, thank you for posting it. I was going to iron but DD2 popped round with DGS so I had coffee and cuddles instead.

lollyfin

Thanks for that mavvy it made me remember when we were all swimming in a river in the summer, loved it

silvasava

Lovely Mavvy - my quote is ' You can write in the Dust but please don't date it!' there's always something better to do than the dusting;)

PollyWollyDoodle

Great poem. Thanks for the blog link, GQ.

You're right about the photos - close your eyes and think of the happiest times of your life. Picture the place, the people and the things you were doing. You don't need a photo to remind you of that, do you?

I'm grateful for the photos of my great-grandparents - I'd have no idea what they looked like otherwise. They probably only had one or two photos in their entire lifetime - no wonder they were preserved carefully. Up until about the 1940s, there are probably fewer than thirty photos of my mum, because cameras were expensive, not many people owned one and so on. I've now got 4000+ photos on my computer covering the last ten years ... yet were still treating them as if they are rare and precious items.

My next task is to Kondo photos out on display, I have a lot in frames and in collages and I mostly love them but they're due for an overhaul.