KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

PollyWollyDoodle

Anyone watching 'A life stripped bare' on Channel 4? A bit extreme -- everything they own is removed, including clothes, and they get one item back each day. I don't why get why they have to be naked, but it's an interesting concept.

GreyQueen

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

Anyone watching 'A life stripped bare' on Channel 4? A bit extreme -- everything they own is removed, including clothes, and they get one item back each day. I don't why get why they have to be naked, but it's an interesting concept.

I saw a newspaper article about that (don't have a telly) and thought it was interesting but the nudity was a bit gratitutious.

A more elegant version would be to have filmed a packing party a la The Minimalists; pack everything you own and unpack each item as and when you need it and not before. But this wouldn't have the power to suck in the prurient, would it?:rotfl:

Have been at work and allotmenteering. I have hacked 3 chard plants which were over 7 ft tall off at the base and piled them up in a heap. Sounds like nothing much but it was a bit of a number. Don't know if you'd count that as kondo-ing when I've only moved them a few meters and still have to dig out the roots, tho.

Bought a 20p book today on way home from work and have already started reading it, so that will be off into the donation bag withing days.

:T :beer::T mavvy, wow oh wow, what a fantastic thing you've got going there, more power to your elbow.

lessonlearned

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

Anyone watching 'A life stripped bare' on Channel 4? A bit extreme -- everything they own is removed, including clothes, and they get one item back each day. I don't why get why they have to be naked, but it's an interesting concept.

Just watching it. It was very interesting to see just how embarrassed they all were - laughing to try and cover their embarrassment. The fiat sharers stayed in their own rooms at first too shy to face each other. When they did finally manage to sit in the same room they still kept their hands covering their modesty.

If you'll pardon the pun .....very revealing about attitudes to nudity.

Oddly enough it hasnt been purient at all. The camera work has been discrete without being coy.

Needless to say the first item they chose to retrieve has been some form of body covering.

So far a very interesting programme.

MMF007

I finally got round to hemming a pair of trousers and now they bring joy rather than annoyance

kondo'd a pile of ironing. I rarely iron but DH had some shirts and trousers that he needs for the weekend and as he is working long hours I did them (he usually does his own ).

Whilst setting up the ironing board I realised that I could bettter use the very limited space in our single-sized back bedrroom / study / craft studio if I installed my Balans chair ( which was a very trendy 18th birthday present a very long time ago!), and removed the dining chair I have in there - have sorted that out but now have nowhere for the spare dining chair. I want to release it to local chairty that provides furniture for people moving into rented accommodation but DH will take some pursuading before he will let it go... ...

right, off to do some mending so a couple more items of clothing can come back into play!

M
PS - well done Mavvy, really great results from the clothing sale :T :T :T

Charis

GreyQueen wrote: »

I have hacked 3 chard plants which were over 7 ft tall off at the base and piled them up in a heap. Sounds like nothing much but it was a bit of a number.

I saw the stage version of that once. Except it was a beanstalk and had a giant at the top. I think you were supposed to climb it and kill a giant, then you get a bag of gold. :j Awww, never mind.:rotfl:

milasavesmoney

Two wooden boxes to be recycled into nesting boxes for Wiggle and Wobble the Grandchickens. These went home with DD1 and family (after our fabulous 4th of July weekend) along with 3 cake pans, two aluminum bowls (spelled the American way ) for the DGD's sand castle making paraphernalia, 4 glass pie plates, 6 glass luncheon plates and a large brass framed mirror.

Feels good!

VJsmum

i'm losing it chums.....

DD and her stuff arriving home have properly discombobulated me.. Lor' but she is a messy child

She also eats differently to us, so we have additional food items around the place....

Definitely not waving but drowning....

Slinky

I too watched a life stripped bare or whatever it was called. I felt sorry for the poor girl on her own when she legged it down the street naked to her storage container. At least the other participants had a bit of safety in numbers when venturing into the outside world. It was interesting that she said the further she got into the exercise, the less joy she was getting from the items she was chosing to get back out of the container.

All of them had a fairly significant clearout of 'stuff' at the end of the exercise as they realised they could do without so much of it and be happier as a result.

An interesting programme, worth watching on catchup if you missed it.

PollyWollyDoodle

It did make me reflect - what would I prioritise if I could only have one thing a day? Would I want everything back, would I remember what I had after three weeks?

They seemed to be people with a lot of possessions, Heidi had 32 bikinis and I'm sure one of the other girls had more than 120 pairs of knickers. Still not convinced that taking all their clothes and putting the storage unit some distance away was really necessary! It is worth watching though, and it changed them all by the end.

Siebrie

I had a wonderful day today! It was my parental leave day, and my parents are still here. So, we slept in, had a leisurely breakfast, prepped a picknick, drove to a new-to-us forest, picknicked, walked in the lovely forest, drove back home. Then, I took my dds swimming and they did really well, we played tig for half an hour, eldest dd dove for items even without her goggles (she was afraid of water until last year), youngest paddled along and did the last ten minutes without any floating devices. And when we came home dh had prepared a bbq! AND my parents bought new swimsuits for €3,50 and €30. They decided they will leave on Friday and spend the weekend halfway my place and theirs, and visit the area Mum worked for a few years, and some family members; the hotel they have a grou.pon voucher for has a pool.
After the bbq I played badminton with my Mum; I really hope I will be as fit as she is when I am eighty!

Not a kondoing day, but as the result of kondoing, we have time to do nice things, I can afford to work only four days per week.