KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

mrs-moneypenny

Lollyfin, I've never had a tumble dryer even when the five kids were little we managed by using airing rack and radiators. Don't have a dishwasher either (sorry I lie that's Dh but he has minimal running costs does a good job and is very easy on the eye so he's staying)

wort

Thanks grey queen, clothes are my worst category and although they are all sorted and behind doors , I'm itching to clear more.
I definitely have stopped buying and even looking at clothes the same way, but it brings me joy to wear nice clothes. I suppose part of the problem is wanting a choice when going out or meeting friends but that doesn't happen all the time.
I have a uniform for work and when at home it tends to be joggers and tops so I'm warm and comfy wether cleaning or sitting !
All holiday clothes are in box under bed, and dresses for night in wardrobe with coats.7 dresses for 14 nights!!
Lollyfin I don't have a dryer ,I get what I can outside if it's dry, then finish on airer in spare room. Years ago I had a washer / dryer and even then it barely was used as I always worried about the cost as it seemed to run for hours!!!!
Tibawo my loft is empty except for my Xmas wrapping paper and a clock which belonged to dh before I met him and no longer works, but is too heavy for me to lug out of there !! It feels great having nothing up there wish I could say the same about the garage :rotfl:

Siebrie

I have kondoed 2 mice from my attic :j

dragonette

Lollyfin - I have a washer/dryer, I don't use the dryer cycles often but I love having the option

Wort - I'm also trying to get rid of a single wardrobe, lending it to my flatmate so though it's now empty, he needs to clear floor space for it!

I'm getting a very strong pull to re-kondo my clothes. Everytime my illness retreats for a bit, I dive into reducing belongings enjoying being able to

Floss

Siebrie wrote: »

I have kondoed 2 mice from my attic :j

Yay!!! Well done! Was it peanut butter that tempted them in the end? :beer::T

Siebrie

Floss wrote: »

Yay!!! Well done! Was it peanut butter that tempted them in the end? :beer::T

The peanut butter sure tempted them, and they ate all the peanut butter in the 5 traps, but the traps did not 'spring'. In the end I stuck a piece of cheese firmly on the needle in the humane trap, and that has caught both mice.


Now I need to clear and clean the attic, because mice are incontinent creatures, and leave a trail of poo and pee behind them.....

Slinky

Ikea boss - 'We've probably hit peak stuff'

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/18/weve-hit-peak-home-furnishings-says-ikea-boss-consumerism

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2016/jan/18/peak-curtains-ikea-sustainability-home-furnishings-repair-recycle

chezmck

Hi all. Delighted to see a new thread. I bought the book and followed some of last years thread. I got half way through the book and had made some great inroads with tip, charity, giving to friends etc when ..... oops I Kondoed the old man early December. So will have to start again from the beginning with book, tho house is stunningly more tidy and ordered than I'd dreamt of.

mrs-moneypenny

Thanks for those links slinky. I think we came to realise a while ago wD etched "peak stuff" less is more than enough is definately my mantra now.

I've been really enjoying crafting over the weekend because I know everything I'm making is leaving the house to benefit a good cause and now when we watch DVDs I am almost more pleased when Dh says afterwards 'think that was a one watch don't you' which means it will be passed on to a friend work colleague or the CS.

Still got loads to kondo but it's definately bringing me joy to see it leaving.

GreyQueen

Slinky wrote: »

Ikea boss - 'We've probably hit peak stuff'

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/18/weve-hit-peak-home-furnishings-says-ikea-boss-consumerism

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2016/jan/18/peak-curtains-ikea-sustainability-home-furnishings-repair-recycle

Interesting, thank you for those links.

It's long been known to the head-shrinkers that, once you've achieved a certain, relatively-modest degree of comfort, ease and choice, More Stuff doesn't equal More Happiness. Just the reverse.

The ancients called this ennui, a feeling of being bored and mentally tired because of having nothing interesting to do.

I was once of a trip of a lifetime and did something I'd always wanted to do; a trip in a hot air balloon. At silly o'clock. Was back from trip at 08.00 am. What do you do with the rest of a day which started with ballooning up to 7,000 feet at dawn? Nothing else is going to come close to that level of excitement. So I had half a day of ennui before I snapped out of it. A salutory lesson.

Imagine how boring life would be if you could do whatever you wanted, money no object, whenever you wanted. How bored you'd get, and how quickly.

Consumerism is a bit like that. I once owned as single pair of shoes. One of them let in the rain. The deep deep joy when I could afford to replace them with a pair of shoes which didn't leak is still clear, thirty years on.

I wouldn't have been twice as joyous with two new pairs of leak-proof shoes, nor ten times as joyous with ten new pairs. I was dry-shod even in the rain, and that was Enough.

Confession time; I have never ever bought a pair of new curtains in my entire life, nor has my mother before me. Curtains last infinately longer than our fads and fashions, and my luverly N e x t curtains were a cinch and cost under a fiver at a bootsale. Will probably last me another twenty years or so............:rotfl: