KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Slinky

Yay, my book turned up last night. Have read about a third already. Going to have to face the music of taking some significant action at some point....

jinny

Slinky wrote: »

Yay, my book turned up last night. Have read about a third already. Going to have to face the music of taking some significant action at some point....

Well done! you won't regret it. Yes it's hard work causes a mess at first but....
Here's Looking forward to a lighter you and yours.
Watch your energy (and finances soar)

GreyQueen

Good morning, fight fans, how is everybody today?

First day back at the coalface yesterday and boy, was it busy! I also ran an errand after work and took another Thing to the chazzer.

And in the evening, went around to visit a pal for a couple of hours and took two more smallish things for her (knitting machine 'ponents).

All in all, the clutter brought back from the parental home last Sunday is steadily dwindling. But doesn't hefting Stuff around get old, quickly? And isn't it enough to make you want to never, ever acquire anything again, so you don't have to repeat this aggravation?!

Got to go to work again today, and will be passing an M&S later this afternoon, so plan to nip in with the Xmas cards of mine and the folks' for the tree charity. Could just chuck them in the recycling bin but prefer to go for this W00dland Trust thingy. And have already made last year's cards into enough gift-tags to see me sorted into the mid-2020s.

I do find the KM mindset sensitises me to clutter and its negative consequences. So many things seem to be in homes and offices just because they're there and no one has had the authority/ motivation to get them back out again. And we just shuffle around it, stub our toes on it and get irritated by it.

Then we die, or the business ceases, and it all ends up in a skip one day. Crazy crazy world.:rotfl:

mavvymoo

Jinny That is one thing I can do now.I can say NO I never could before and always ended up agreeing to do what ever it was as I couldnt think up an excuse quick enough.

If I am asked to go somewhere/do something I dont want to do. I say NO Thank you and they will always say 'Oh why's that ? and then I always say 'I dont want to' :rotfl:
Then it all goes a bit quiet and then they say OK. Just let me know if you change your mind. Which I never do.
I never make excuses now as it never really works:(

Once you have done it a couple of times its really easy.I am never rude but always firm in the way I say it.

Mav x

Good luck in the next lunch request

jinny

Humorous cheery post as usual GQ have a great day or as we used to say at work wishing you an 'average' day.
I worked in a gov office and boy they get busy after the bank hols.

Thanks Mav that's really helpful.
I don't drink so I can use that to excuse myself if invited to
Soirees where I know it will get rowdy and potentially lairy
My extended family alone can't have a drink without a threat of a punch up!
Yes even at a funeral!!! Someone even got lifted!
I told peeps years ago I wasn't sending birthday cards or any cards including Xmas
That went down like a lead balloon at first but I had the courage then. Ghe upshot is I don't receive many now so that's a bonus.

GrannyKate

I still have paper and photos to do properly although lots of paper has been sorted and I have a filing system in place. The problem with much stuff is the emotional connections rather than any need to have it. I agree with earlier posters that you have to let things from the past go - you cannot change them now or all the baggage which went with them. The best thing about MK is the well being you find once things have gone. We spent a lot to time and money making garden suitable for increasing age (both late 60s) and need to do same for home. Where is the point in a cupboard of Justin Case stuff when you forget what's in there and can't get down on your knees to see it or get it out.
Small people today so not much KM likely to happen and some current paperwork to get on with.

GreyQueen

jinny wrote: »

Humorous cheery post as usual GQ have a great day or as we used to say at work wishing you an 'average' day.
I worked in a gov office and boy they get busy after the bank hols.

Tell me about it! People don't pay attention to the changed refuse/ recycling calendars which are heavily publicised in the weeks running up to Xmas (and sitting up there on the website) and clog the lines calling us to complain their bin wasn't emptied on the usual day.

Still, mustn't grumble too much, it keeps me in a job and off the streets for several hours a day (although cuts into my kondo-ing time). Not to mention my reading, crafting and hanging-out-with-mates time.:cool:

Onwards!

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Dh took the outdoor lights and signs down last night someverything is now neatly stashed away in the attic and/or shed.
Watched bronson on DVD last night it was truly strange! Thankfully Dh has taken it to work today to give to a friend with instructions to pass it on and not return it to us. Noticed a nice wire storage basket sitting on the bookcase so thats in the CS bag
It's my first day back at work today so going to tidy rather than kondo to ease back in for the new year but come next week I'll be back in job sharing routine proper so will renew my kondoing efforts and I will get the house in order this year.

GQ just read your above post re bin collection days, ours is Friday so would have been Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Common sense surely dictated that it would have been changed even if w hadn't had a council leaflet in full glorious colour informing us of the fact. We had an interim collection on the Tuesday in the middle and will have a double collection this week. No problem at all except for the fact hardly anyone bothered to put stuff out midway till the bin lorry had rumbled through cue frantic rushing out with bags which are now still sitting at drive ends causing an increase in fox activity at nighttime. We put mils rubbish out for her as she struggles with mobility so had done hers and ours, but while she was round New Year's Day she was complaining about the lazy binmen leaving rubbish piled in the streets as she's noticed it on the journey over. No mil it's not lazy binmen it's people who don't bother reading the information they are given!

VJsmum

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

Procrastinator, I was always the sort of person who would start 'clearing up' and find I'd made a bigger mess than before I started. And it's true there is a stage in KM where you'll have stuff that needs a permanent home but hasn't found it yet, BUT this method really does work for me where others have failed. Start with some areas where you already know you have storage, like clothes, and you'll feel the urge to carry on.

I came across this article today - it's not all about the socks! :rotfl:

Love this

Especially the

1 decide what not to give a F**k. About
2 don't give a f**k about it.

Strangely, I instantly thought of Mavvy when I read it :rotfl:

It's not about being selfish, there's many things I don't want to do but give a F about (entertaining the MiL, cleaning the bathroom) but care enough to know that I feel bad if I don't.

1, 3, 7, 9 and 10 resonate - so halfway there :T

mrs-moneypenny

Just read the article, made me laugh as well. Thank you for posting the link.