KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

I think it may have been mavvymoo who coined the term 'woo' for the observable phenomenon that wonderful things happen when you start releasing your excess.

A lot of us have had anxieties about releasing, fear of want etc, and have found that the opposite is often true; we get more opportunities even money-making opportunities, or the right thing which we were contemplating buying just resurfaces from the hoard or falls into our lap.

The amount of times it happens is truly magical, and I'm the polar opposite of a dippy-hippy droning on about karma, maaaan.:rotfl:

Great work going on in so many lives, it's really cheering to read about it. I love sharing all your stories.

Today, for the first time in about 4 days, it isn't raining. Whee! I am easing into the day and then will go to the allotment. The wetness of the soil will hamper some plans but I should be able to get some stuff done and also plan a side-trip to the HWRC with some small bits and bobs. Only having a pushbike means that I have to piece this kind of job into small sections.

I really love being out of doors so am looking forward to pottering about up there in the sunshine. Much more of this rain and I would have been checking my important little places for moss.:rotfl:

Charly27

Fen1 I've been absent without even lurking since NewYear, you're genius song just hooked me right back in. I only had the book from my local library for the allotted 3 weeks b4 some other person requested it. I've stared Kondo in my own small way and her beautiful book 'SJ' is sitting nearby. I've had to tell myself I don't need to own TLCMOT! Yesterday I took a green vase, (no longer sparked joy as it's colour melted in the dishwasher), a top that didn't fit, and two gift sets unused since Christmas from lovely pupils in a Tatton Park 2013 bag to CS! Hopefully they'll bring joy to someone else and can this count as my 'thank you' , I surely have no time to write letters to them!:eek:

Sandypan

Morning all, sorted out Tupperware cupboard yesterday and kondoed pots without lids and lids without pots!! Also the small mountain of Chinese take away plastic that I've kept previously because it seems a shame to dispose of them, but now I've sorted the cupboard I really don't need them any more!!

GreyQueen

Sandypan wrote: »

Morning all, sorted out Tupperware cupboard yesterday and kondoed pots without lids and lids without pots!! Also the small mountain of Chinese take away plastic that I've kept previously because it seems a shame to dispose of them, but now I've sorted the cupboard I really don't need them any more!!

If you offer them on freegle/ freecycle, you may find takers, otherwise these can go in household recycling bins.

mrs-moneypenny

Morning kondoers
Hope all are well
Loved the song
Capes are bagged day to go to school. I actually used the fabric mil gave me as I think the children wil, be far happier wearing it than anyone being likely to make it into dresses.
Had a quick tidy in our room as some ornaments suddenly started shouting at me they'd be happier in the CS. They have been put in a cupboard for now so I can wash and box them on my day off.
Got some more sewing I can do today to release some fabric from the stash,
Waiting to hear from dd1 who may come for dinner today.

Have a lovley joyful day all

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

I think it may have been mavvymoo who coined the term 'woo' for the observable phenomenon that wonderful things happen when you start releasing your excess.

I'm glad to know who it was ... I think it's a real effect, too, not just our imaginations. Like a motor revving in neutral, someone who's just disappeared into their stuff doesn't go anywhere. But someone who's alive to their surroundings, who lives by choice not habit, is going to have more opportunities and *take* more opportunities, to live the way they want to live

The amount of times it happens is truly magical, and I'm the polar opposite of a dippy-hippy droning on about karma, maaaan.:rotfl:

In the interests of balance, I have to point out that I've made my living for over 25 years by being completely hippy-dippy, this-is-mostly-the-way-they-do-it-in-California but I rebelled from that too, therefore *Karma* cat

Great work going on in so many lives, it's really cheering to read about it. I love sharing all your stories.

Me too. Every item liberated to live with someone else, everything repurposed to have new life in our own households, I love it :j

I really love being out of doors so am looking forward to pottering about up there in the sunshine. Much more of this rain and I would have been checking my important little places for moss.:rotfl:

Also a "me too" here, though without that amount of rain - and the moss mostly stays on the ground Retrieving my tiny decking area from the laurel overgrowing it has been a success - a blackbird was having lots of fun yesterday picking over the newly exposed bits and bobs. Still a lot more to be done, and I may take a saw to the remaining low branches, before I stand on a chair and start to get to the ones still at full overhang, which now start at about 8' in the air its about 20 feet high now :o:o and if I can thin it back, then either I can cut it myself or not get charged too much when I bring in A Man That Can.

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

... some ornaments suddenly started shouting at me they'd be happier in the CS.

I have 3 ornaments out ... and at least 2 boxes under the stairs, where I don't go at all, if I can help it. I need to carry on with the paperwork, but I can't wait till the ornaments start shouting that they can go :j:j:j

Wednesday2000

I had another blitz last night and have thrown out some more stuff and reorganised some more things.

I just cleaned the bathroom and threw away a Lush soap bar that someone bought me as I don't like it, sorry.:o I just have my bottle of bath foam on the bath which does spark joy.

flubberyzing

Good morning all! Hope all are well!
I must say, it's nice to have a bit of sunshine today, especially after yesterday was so miserable!
I'm about to pop out to lunch with my best mate, which should be nice. She's been ill with a stomach hernia for some months, which have played havoc with her appetite, so meals together have been scuppered for a long time. Anyway, she's finally feeling a lot better, so we're having a meal to celebrate!
It's not until 1pm, but I need to nip to the retail park to visit Boots for painkillers and the pound shop for a couple of bits for school.
Tomorrow I will be taking all my cardboard recycling in to school for the children to build models with, so that will be good to get out the house!

Karmacat

Wednesday2000 - I never, ever use Lush, not after using a couple of their products and coming down with the worst skin allergies I'd ever had. The attack lasted over 2 years, and my skin has never been the same, not that it was that great beforehand ...

Karmacat

Karmacat wrote: »

Retrieving my tiny decking area from the laurel overgrowing it has been a success - a blackbird was having lots of fun yesterday picking over the newly exposed bits and bobs. Still a lot more to be done, and I may take a saw to the remaining low branches, before I stand on a chair and start to get to the ones still at full overhang, which now start at about 8' in the air its about 20 feet high now :o:o and if I can thin it back, then either I can cut it myself or not get charged too much when I bring in A Man That Can.

Just come in from doing this :j a huge success - another 3 square feet or so of the decking exposed to the air, several branches cut back, another binbag kondoed immediately to the bin, and the branches are waiting to go into the bbq when I light it eventually.