The KonMarie method

DawnW

I am in the middle of a declutter (though I haven't read the book yet) currently struggling with paperwork and bedding :eek:

I must confess though, that I don't 'get' the plastic bags thing

Mine get stuffed into a fabric sausage thing open at both ends, which hangs in the porch. It doesn't take up much room, and is an ecru colour and not really noticable. If I get too many bags, I recycle them.

What do people do with them once they have been 'samosa-ed'?

GreyQueen

rosyq wrote: »

I Think it affects a lot of people from that generation I know my mum, in her 80s, struggles to get rid of anything that 'might be useful'

I, however, have no such qualms - have just kondoed my hair from shoulder length to short & spiky :eek: Well it was weighing me down! I'm A bit chilly round the ears now :rotfl:

I did this last September and it's so liberating, I just wash it, scruff it over with a towel, and that's that. For someone with very thick hair and zero interest in primping, it's a godsend.

Rainy-days, a friend of Mum's remarried in middle-age and became stepmum to a household of teen males, plus new hubs (her own kids being grown and flown by this point). What she did was have out ONE glass, ONE mug and ONE plate per family member. Others were under lock and key.

It was designed to stop the beggars leaving them all over the house growing mould. Works a treat.

Am excited about my after-work donation run, should be able to get home and dump the work-stuff then head out with the donations before the chazzer closes at 5.30 pm.

I'n not naturally one of life's tidy people, but I cannot express how joyful it is to open kondo'd drawers and be able to see everything I have, all ready to go. Or the satisfaction of taking a few seconds to shake out the duvet and throw it back, rather than do the same thing but have it in a random sprawl. It functions better, too, as the daily 5 second shake keeps the feathers plumped up.

These things which I'm doing, these new habits, aren't onerous or time-consuming. They're just habits, which mean that I don't waste time and precious energy flailing around with Stuff. Which means more time for doing what I value, such as the 30 mins with a cuppa and an engrossing novel this morning.

MK is bonkers about some things, but she's on the money about a lot, isn't she? :rotfl:

System

Never heard of this, but it sounds really good, I will see if I can get the book. Thanks

pondskater_2

GreyQueen wrote: »

..........I'n not naturally one of life's tidy people, but I cannot express how joyful it is to open kondo'd drawers and be able to see everything I have, all ready to go..........

I'm with you 100% GreyQueen. Kondoed the cupboard with all the medicines and painkillers and am utterly ashamed at the amount of out of date stuff and I am talking years out of date! Think I might split it between two chemists or maybe I'll fib and say it came from my ancient hoarder aunts house :rotfl:

115K

I found the description of what she does when she enters her house at the end of the day very interesting as she talks to inanimate objects.:p

I heard a couple of good idea like using boxes that you get in daily life as storage rather than buying new storage boxes.

She also mentioned not saving coins around the house. I think that is a habit that goes back to childhood for me as my parents did that and then I would take them to the bank to change and then keep the money, usually to spend on sweets! I have a box with coppers and 5p coins that I never get around to using so I'm going to start using them up and it also frees up a box for storage lol.

Pinkdebster

Hmm, I can't run with the coins bit. Last year, we made a point of saving all our loose change and also had a pot where we put in all our 50p pieces. Come Christmas, we had almost £150 in them which was a massive help financially. We DO moan whenever we are given a 50p in our shop change but we're used to it now!

115K

Pinkdebster wrote: »

Hmm, I can't run with the coins bit. Last year, we made a point of saving all our loose change and also had a pot where we put in all our 50p pieces. Come Christmas, we had almost £150 in them which was a massive help financially. We DO moan whenever we are given a 50p in our shop change but we're used to it now!

I think she said it was fine if you were collecting coins for a specific purpose but I was just taking the coppers out of my purse and putting them in a box for no reason.:rotfl:

lostinrates

115K wrote: »

I found the description of what she does when she enters her house at the end of the day very interesting as she talks to inanimate objects.:p

I heard a couple of good idea like using boxes that you get in daily life as storage rather than buying new storage boxes.

She also mentioned not saving coins around the house. I think that is a habit that goes back to childhood for me as my parents did that and then I would take them to the bank to change and then keep the money, usually to spend on sweets! I have a box with coppers and 5p coins that I never get around to using so I'm going to start using them up and it also frees up a box for storage lol.

Pinkdebster wrote: »

Hmm, I can't run with the coins bit. Last year, we made a point of saving all our loose change and also had a pot where we put in all our 50p pieces. Come Christmas, we had almost £150 in them which was a massive help financially. We DO moan whenever we are given a 50p in our shop change but we're used to it now!

We laughed at her gender stereotyping here, as in our house it works almost opposite to her suggestion. I once found a three figure amount in dh's small change and since then use it as an advance on the household money. Means I always have change for parking and small expenses.

We now have an agreement that Instead of dumping it and forgetting it he puts it in a box in my daily medicine draw from where we can both use it.

PixieDust

I keep my carrier bags in a sausage and thought I wouldn't bother folding them. However in a stressful moment I needed something to calm me and I thought samosaing bags might do the trick.

To begin with the bag was bulging and full but after folding thet barely take up half the bag. And it was soothing to do

rosie383

DawnW wrote: »

I am in the middle of a declutter (though I haven't read the book yet) currently struggling with paperwork and bedding :eek:

I must confess though, that I don't 'get' the plastic bags thing

Mine get stuffed into a fabric sausage thing open at both ends, which hangs in the porch. It doesn't take up much room, and is an ecru colour and not really noticable. If I get too many bags, I recycle them.

What do people do with them once they have been 'samosa-ed'?

I think people have different reasons for keeping them. I have storage exactly like you but it had been so stuffed that it was a very fat sausage. We will hopefully be moving soon so I have been bagging up in more bags than normal when shopping to use them packing for the move. Since I samosa'd them there is ample room now.