KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

luxor4t

Fen1 wrote: »

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What's the spoon thing? I seem to have missed that reference.

If you have limited energy due to chronic medical conditions you are a "spoonie" - you measure your activity level in terms of "spoons". Do too much and you have lost all your spoons so you need to recharge and rest to get them back.

https://thespoontheory.tumblr.com/post/44757754831/faq

I wonder if it originated from Eliot's poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” - "“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

GreyQueen

I've had CFS/ME for 30+ years and refer to 'running out of juice'. I can be cutting along quite nicely and fffttt! all of a sudden it's as if someone's pulled my battery or the fuel tank has run dry.

It isn't just a subjective feeling, it manifests in ways which people can see, such as sudden pallor, my eyes going 'funny', slurred speech, the shakes, losing the ability to control my body temperature.

There's no fix for it, all I can do is to manage it as best I can and if that means putting myself to bed at the same kind of time as a primary school age kiddo, that's what happens.

Been to w*rk and came home again and am very tired, so will be taking it easy for the remainder of today. Have spoken to the folks and Mum had cut off the worn-out cuffs from Dad's fave sweater and re-knitted them from the yarn I found in the loft. He's very pleased and she's happy not to be looking and the unravelling cuffs (she being of a generation where a scruffy hubby reflects badly on the diligence and wifely skills of the spouse).

luxor4t

luxor4t wrote: »

If you have limited energy due to chronic medical conditions you are a "spoonie" - you measure your activity level in terms of "spoons". Do too much and you have lost all your spoons so you need to recharge and rest to get them back......QUOTE]

GreyQueen wrote: »

I've had CFS/ME for 30+ years and refer to 'running out of juice'. I can be cutting along quite nicely and fffttt! all of a sudden it's as if someone's pulled my battery or the fuel tank has run dry.
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There's no fix for it, all I can do is to manage it as best I can and if that means putting myself to bed at the same kind of time as a primary school age kiddo, that's what happens......

I have RA: an hour in town this morning and three hours dozing in my chair this afternoon. I don't use the 'spoon' analogy, I'm afraid I use a far more coarse term....:o

maddiemay

Another one here who, because of chronic illness never has enough spoons to do all the necessary stuff in a week, let alone the pleasurable things, like days out, gardening. Although I do get cross about it, at least I accept that I need to rest and just let stuff go, just wish other folks could "get it" and make allowances sometimes. Whinge over, I am resolutely glass a minimum of half full:D

In this house fiction is read and released, it is not usually a problem finding the book again cheaply if decide to re-read, but we do own a lot of non-fiction. Did a big cull 5 years ago in readiness for house move back to the midlands, and when the shelves get too full we often do a little pruning:D

GreyQueen

Before I got ME (off the back of glandular fever aged 20) my nickname was Tigger, I'm temperamentally into doing all sorts of things, go-go-go.

Alas and alack, my physical state won't accomodate Tiggerishness and the ole brain fog takes its toll as well. So, I reckon, I have to use my brain to spare my back and be devious about accomplishing what I want to do as best I can within the resources I have available.

Which is what everyone has to do, I'm just revving harder to travel at a slower speed.

Which is why KM, minimalism, voluntary simplicity, that whole scene is so appealing to me.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Which is why KM, minimalism, voluntary simplicity, that whole scene is so appealing to me.

LOVE it, really love it. Summed it all up in one sentence. Now I know why I am doing it, not just a fad but to make a new way of life and that gives me more oomph and impetus and makes it so worth while

GoingToDoIt

For sure I will allow the dishes to pile up unwashed when I have low energy, but I do not forgo rolling my knicks! The bathroom wasn't mopped for (mumble mumble perhaps a month) but the tea towels are folded and worn items dumped in the ragbag.

GreyQueen

I've just done most of the dishes. The grill pan can go hang until tomorrow. Or the day after that, depending on the energy levels. The world won't end - at least when I've done this before, it didn't.;)

This evening, I am sewing up a knitting project and listening to a series of TEDx talks on simplicity and minimalism and zero waste. Total inspiration.

In my work, I encounter a lot of folks who are het up about all sorts of things which share a common root; too much stuff. I don't have most of those things in my life so I have far fewer potential options for upset and anxiety.:rotfl:

elona

My two new cases arrived this morning and they really spark joy. I have been admiring that range and pattern for years but could not possibly spend that much - getting them for £100 cheaper each made it much more achievable.

As soon as I unpacked the cardboard box it went out for recycling and has gone by lunchtime which is quite a change for me.

Just as well I did save money as the boiler has been serviced and has been leaking :eek: so paid for new part and arranged for someone to come tomorrow to get the outside condensing pipe up to standard. Why is it whenever you think you have saved then something comes along to scupper it?

At least I am spending on things that are needed and useful - sigh.

Frogletina

I spent Monday afternoon working at my ex-husband's house which is in rather a state, but I am just scratching the surface and cannot do a proper KonMari.

I emptied all of the kitchen cupboards and got him to help clean some of them, also suggesting things to throw that he really did not need.

I'd bought him a new frying pan for Christmas and have just thrown the other two away. He had one small saucepan which was ok, and a very large one unused for years which was totally blackened having been left of the hob for far too long! On his kitchen surfaces were 6 saucepan lids, but the saucepans had been thrown away long ago. I must have got about 6 black sacks filled - including one with about 8 pairs of footwear not used in years.

He's also spent years buying second hand videos, and doesn't want to part with any of them. I then had a brainwave. The pantry has now been emptied of all crockery and glasses (which are now in his kitchen cupboards until most can go to a charity shop) and I have re-purposed all of the pantry shelves to house his videos. He seems to like it - I've still to deal with videos that he's used to record from the TV and I've since been told there are more videos upstairs but that will have to wait until tomorrow when I go back for part 2.

frogletina