KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

oceanspirit

Clutterfree, hope your move has gone well this week and good luck to Sweetpea for yours next week.

Tealady woo to the woo!

Silva Sava, lovely of you to clean neighbour's drive. Very OS and good to avoid chemical use where possible.

Missed the chat yesterday about OS principles and KM. They do seem to clash but like many others I'm using up some older things such as teatowels and undies. Tibawo's post resonated with me in that the KM method really comes into its own in thinking properly about purchases and persuading Justin to let go.

More shredding done on Wednesday and 2 more books taken back to their owner. Yesterday gardener helped with first section of shed. Recycling bin which was emptied yesterday morning is now full, OH's car boot now full of scrap metal and broken electrical goods etc to take to tip and the CS box has a few more things in it.

Siebrie

Half of the drive has been cleared of weeds. It'll make the neighbours happy, too, because she runs a business from home and regularly has people visiting.
This weekend DH and I are off to Paris! He bought a G.roupon for €52 for 2 p 2 nights next to La Defense. SIL is childminding this weekend, and I'm really looking forward to a weekend away, and to show DH Paris. He has really come round to doing touristy things. He's African, grew up very poor (as in: not sure if there would be breakfast), and to him, visiting another city would mean visiting someone you (vaguely) know there, and staying with that person the whole time. He is slowly coming round to going somewhere just for the fun of it, to admire architecture, try the local dishes, enjoy nature. Always on a budget (due to his background), and I'm happy with that.

PollyWollyDoodle

Welcome, RedPanda - sounds as if you have a big task, and yes it's the thought that someone else will have to clear my house one day that spurs me on. Like you, I have no children - I have lovely nieces to whom I'm very close, and I can picture the howls of laughter as they sort through my stuff. 'What on earth did she keep that for?' And 'oh my gawd .... '!

The reason that I've kept this up where previous declutter attempts have failed is that it gathers momentum. The more you do, the more sensitive your 'spark joy' antennae become, I find decisions are much faster now than when I started. I'm still a terminal clutterer but like others, I've stopped bringing stuff into the house. I also find that if I open a cupboard or drawer and it's got untidy - rarely these days - it niggles me, until I have to do something about it.

Two bags to the CS later today - clothes, books and the bag itself in one case - all stuff that survived the first pass of Kondoing but on a second pass, they didn't make the grade.

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Welcome to the newbies and hope everyone is as well as can be


Went roller skating with dd2 and family yesterday, thought I'd remembered it well and was doing ok for an hour then fell backwards and gave myself a headache and a nasty gash so ended up down casualty getting my head stitched. After last weeks fall an now this I'm almost dreading what my third injury will be.
Dr told me I'm on three days take it easy so will be doing minimal as my head still feels weird.
Stay safe all

Tea_Lady

Hi to all
Redpanda16 you have a big job on your hands. Good luck to you.
Clutterfree and sweetpea67 hope the moves go smoothly.
Charly27 woo is wonderful isn't it.


Mav
Didn't have to go to the station a chauffeur driven car collected meand put me on the right train, so it seems.
Just back from having my Japanese t-set valued. I'll give you all a bit of background on this.
It was a wedding present to my Grandmother for her wedding in 1918. She died in child birth having my Mum. The t-set was put in a china cabinet by my step Grandmother and was washed once a year and put back. It was supposed to come to my Mum when she got married for reasons unknown to anyone living she refused to let it go. It did come to my mum when S. Grandmother died and you guessed it back it went into a display cabinet. I was bequeathed this valuable t-set when my Mum died 15 years ago and I too put it on display. Well today it has been valued at (drum- roll) diddly squat.
It was made for the mass market and is worth about the same as a supermarket t-set.
I thought I would be upset, before MK I would have been. Now I can laugh about it. I'm thinking about making xmas presents out of it for the family, A cup and saucer with t-bags and cookies in it or maybe made into candles. I will use the tea pot as a vase.
Now I will have a welsh dresser with nothing to display on the top bit.
Oh Hum
Tealady.

MMF007

Congrats to those that have DH on board. The KM magic by osmosis!
I had my daily fix, reading this thread, about 20 mins ago but had only read a few of the new posts when I was called to the drinks cupboard...no, the sun wasn't over the yard arm, I was just urged to kondo it!
I did that and drinks glasses as one of my first categories (oh, what does that say about me??), last summer. Something just sparked in me just now and I revisted it. We hardly drink alcohol but have suff in for visitors. I realised that I had been dusting 5 bottles that sat beside the cupboard because there was no room for them inside! That's not right on so many levels!
So, virtual friends, I dashed across our tiny LR, flung ooen the cupboard, extracted bottles, wondered why I had not got rid of the dregs of Grand Marnier etc sooner and set to the task. Have no fear, they were not consumed! I went through a phase of thinking it would be nice to make cocktails, a while ago, bought a few bottles but the phase passed ( a G&T is less bother to make and far nicer than sickly cocktails ).

Result: booze now all in the cupboard. No dusting, no clutter, less like I have a drink problem!!

Want to add agreement to what others have said about the change in mindset with KM magic. Indeed, when shopping it makes you very concious of what you can really get joy from and what you may be picking up just because it seems like a bargain or it might, in the distant future, Come-in Andy !

So for me, I have a rule about these guys - Justin is going and Andy is not coming in, OK?

DH just txt to say he's on his way home and I don't leave for work until 2.15 so the mugs may get done. It will mean I can take any released ones to CS this afto, on way home from work! Oh, gone are the days when a free afternoon would invite something quite different to doing out the cupboards :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I 'd better go before I lower the tone!

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Igamogam

MMF007 wrote: »

Come-in Andy !


M

Love that :rotfl::rotfl:

hebwood

Mrs Mp - just take it easy, that sounded nasty. Hope you feel much better soon.



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lucy_lemon

I need to crack on with some serious KMing! We found out a couple of days ago that we will be moving in 4 weeks to Bristol (currently in N Wales!) We don't yet have anywhere to live, and I'm stressing! If anyone has any tips for moving and KMing at the same time, I'd be grateful.

MMF007

Be careful MrsMP, you'll be on the At Risk register at Social Services if there's any more incidents! Hope you feel better soon x.

Well, mugs have been done! :j DH rehomed one as a pen pot and gave up 2. He hauled out 2 to bring into daily use. He wants to keep all 6 denby mugs that match our only crockery. I was hoping to let 2 go..... I kept 2 large mugs and have thanked 5 very pretty ones and am releasing them. I thought, like Tealady, that I could use them as presents but I did that last year! They are packed up to go to CS this afto, BEFORE I CHANGE MY MIND! We now have 10 mugs rather than 18.

Right, off to work.
M