KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Siebrie

Our tip charges by the length of the car boot (from lock to back seats): length of short measuring stick is no charge, medium measuring stick is €5, long measuring stick is €10, longer than that is sent to the professional garbage disposal plant. Which means that if we take one item in dh's car, we pay €5; if we fill my car up to the brim we pay zilch

OS_QS

have just dropped the wee one off at nursery and have an afternoon to myself to get clearing.


Had a long day travelling the country to attend meetings yesterday, so was a total write off, BUT on Wednesday evening, hubby caught me watching some Kondo vids on the net. there was a programme which MK comes into folks' homes and helps them sort out their stuff. Hubs asked a few questions about it and I chatted to him a bit, and explained that I was trying to follow MK process. gave his cycling gear as an example, for which he said he had seen and thanked me.


Anyways, off I go to bed for my monster day of meetings/ travelling, and I get home very tired to a copy of the MK book :T he had went and looked it up, researched that the second book would be more practical for our situation and bought it for me Have read a few chapters and want to get cracking....

silvasava

But has he sorted his cycling gear OS QS.........................???

OS_QS

well i had sorted it, and he said it was much better, so a win baby steps with him


he seems pretty open to sorting out a heap of other things, so here's hoping its a joint effort. off to finish my clothes category. I know you're not supposed to store clothes, but I have soooo many fitted shirts, and suit sets that are, in all honesty, 2 sizes too small for me post-baby. I'm going to store them and try to lose weight so I can wear them to work in the summer.


My shoes never made it to the charity shop - my sister seen them and has claimed them all!!!

Slinky

Oh dear, I accepted an offered diary yesterday, but fear it will not be as useful as I thought, so will pass onto the CS this afternoon. Also going to the post office with some bras that have been cluttering up the floor in my bedroom for a number of weeks (months!) as I'd mislaid the charity address to send them to for recycling. I kondoed bras last year but these missed the cut. The folding and standing upright in the drawer revealed these ones were continually being passed over as they are tight.

Will also visit the tip with some junk to make space in the garage for business stock arriving on Monday.

GQ, be careful what you wish for, a garage is an attractor of all sorts of !!!!!! you just wouldn't bother having if you didn't have the space. That phrase 'work expands to fit the time available' is also true of 'stuff' and space.

Fen1

GQ, Kittie, Bigjenny, thank you for the advice on racking. I shall peruse the catalogue when I am more awake ( shattered at the moment and can barely type). Just to double check, the blue racking doesn't need screwing into the walls?

P.s. it's Penguin Awareness Day today🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

OS_QS

offering an alternative supplier for freestanding racking - if you have one nearby and are a member, or can go online and the prices include delivery, but we got ours from Costco and they are fab. perfect for all the bulk buying that shopping there encourages...although being a QS by profession means I LOVE getting best value and totting up the max quantities for the best price....much to my husbands annoyance.... "yes we MUST buy the 40 pack of toilet roll as its the same price as 20 in the supermarket!"

karcher

GreyQueen wrote: »

You're not butting in, my lovelie, you're very welcome to join the gang.

Kondo folding is the way of folding clothes so that they stand upright in rows in drawers. The idea that your clothes are ranged vertically so you can see them all at a glance, not stacked in piles, with the underneath items getting crushed and often un-used. Because what we humans can't see and can't reach easily tends to be forgotten.

As to how you do it, not all garments are suitable for this treatment. Very thick things and very filmy, floaty things are better hung. The majority of things can be folded this way.

Knicks; lay flat, fold sides towards centre and roll into a sausage or fold into a little packet. Store upright. Socks, lay flat in pairs, fold once for ordinary, twice for knee-highs, store vertically. Tee-shirts and long sleeved tops, lay flat, fold sides towards middle (think about one-third of the body-width folded inwards and you've got the idea), fold sleeve so lies vertically down the side, and then fold body up into a small packet, which will be halving or thirding it.

Trousers, lie flat, one leg over the other, fold in the projection of the leg towards the crutch seam, then fold once and once again, to form a neat rectangular packet.

All this sounds a lot more complicated than it is. Just use a flat surface like your bed or a table/ ironing board, smooth with your hands as you go, and it's easy and pretty fast. Marie Kondo herself describes garments as having a sweet spot where they want to fold, to make neat little packets which stand upright. Sounds a bit odd but she's right.

There are various YT viddies out there of kondo-folding if you are more a visual person than using a written description. HTH.

ETA; Nearly forgot, some people use things as dividers inside drawers (things like mushroom punnets, shoe boxes etc) to help small things like undies and socks stay tidy.

Thank you GreyQueen:A

It does help, thanks very much for taking the time to explain it to me.

It sounds like a great idea, I may well have a go at it myself this weekend.

:T

Slinky

Drat.......... been to the CS, forgot to take the diary. I will give it to OH to see if anybody where he works wants it.

Bumped into a neighbour who I knew would know about the local Homeless Night Shelter as OH has some things suitable for them. Neighbour said to give them to him and he will pass along, so some more stuff to go soon.

Siebrie

To keep myself on track: tonight I want to kondo ..... errrm...... something - no, not good enough - not SMART - to kondo ... errrmmm.... HA! to measure the laptop table and see if it fits in the guest bedroom. There, my minigoal for tonight!