KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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I am back and re-vitalised been thinking about kondo and why I am doing it and appreciate that it is to keep the energy flow in my home. I took a short list with me as I called into sainsburys on the way back and I walked past everything not on my list. It is about keeping myself restrained from buying anything which might need to be kondo`ed in a year

Had a look into my dried food stores just now and need muesli, so will make my own as I have all the ingredients and slowly those stores will reduce. My food stores are very much on my list, need to use tins as a matter of course ie actively choosing them. I won`t be doing the full kondo on any foods for quite a while but I will, eventually and they will release a lot of space

Pattern categorising this afternoon and will stick a list on the inside of a door, see at a glance what I have. Definitely some reading, once past the natural 2 pm nap feeling as I cannot keep awake then, if reading

It might be dull outside but I am back to my normal self, got chatting with a stranger, a man and later with another stranger, a 91 year old woman, who kept saying to enjoy things while you can. Tomorrow I plan to go a bit further afield via car and then bus, market day so parking will be busy, hence the bus . Will be writing my to-do list tonight

elona

I have just arranged for neighbour's female gardener to come on Friday morning and sort me out by doing weeding and hedge cutting etc as well as planting up a raised bed in the back garden.

Really pleased I have got something arranged but when I was in my dressing gown as had decided to have a lie in as sneezing and coughing.

Middle dd was due to arrive back from South America tonight and stay over with me but the blizzards over there have cancelled flights so it looks as if it will be tomorrow teatime instead. I have ordered an online grocery shop to be delivered here tomorrow afternoon and will do a tidy up, hoover and mop tomorrow.

kittie

I am so pleased you are getting out and talking to people :j

Good luck with the trip tomorrow.

oldtractor

kondoed the underwear and sock draws both mine and Dh's. so satisfying. all tidy folded and neat. then I did the bedding chest. did a pile of ironing and put away lovingly. love this thread.

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hope you shake the lurgy off Elona

oldtractor, the underwear and sock areas were my first ever kondo exercies, it was over two years ago and there is nothing going to make them messy again, they just remain so neat, all I do is take things out and put clean ones back

Today`s kondo is finished, all my patterns, about 30 years worth, so many nice patterns and I mean `so many` about 4 foot high worth in full boxes, only three duplicates and only one binned. Best of all they are in numbered boxes and I have written the full lists in a book, referring to box numbers

Been a nice day, nothing too strenuous but made muesli, a casserole and a cake, all designed to make life easier

Siebrie

A colleague has been told to sit at my desk and replace me on Wednesdays, when I am on parental leave. She has refused to do so, so far, claiming my desk is too messy. True, it has a few piles of documents, but it is part of her task to help me clear them. Anyway, my boss has now insisted that she sit at my desk, and today my colleague begged me to clear my desk before she came. I put everything in a cupboard I will take it out one at a time from Thursday, and finish processing them. It is contracts we have signed, and each contract takes about two hours to process (scanning, copying, filling in several databases, informing people, making the binder). I can't kondo them, but having them in their proper place will help.

GreyQueen

Evening all.

A ne'er-do-well who used to hang around my neighbourhood once excused his absence for a while by telling SuperGran that he'd been camping in Cornwall.

He was too dim to realise that his court case and sentence of one month at Her Majesty's Pleasure had been reported in the local rag. Since then, the phrase has been an in-joke between ourselves.

Am going to be joyously ragging a pair of trousers when they come through the wash. They're completely worn up, gone to holes, and I was tempted to keep them for decorating but talked myself out of it.

I don't do that much decorating and am not a particularly mucky puppy when I am doing it, so don't need to have a dedicated decorating wardrobe.

I shall still have a bit of a wibble when I do so, but I'm working on new habits and aiming to be less of a Might Be Useful hoarder.

camelot1001

I've been moving back into the newly decorated office today, nice to start afresh. The desk drawers have all been cleared and only the essentials put in the new desk. I found 5 boxes of staples that have now been put back in the main cupboard. It felt good to take control and have it all tidy.

I was still in the mood when I got home so culled 7 cardigans that have passed their best, some for the CS and some for the rag bag.

Siebrie

I'd been wondering what to do with dds' schoolbags and my workbags, when it suddenly dawned on me that they can be hung from the children's coat pegs, so I've told dds what to do and they agree that it's a good solution. Now to persuade dh that he is an adult and that his coats go on the adults' coat rack....

Dd2 came home from her ballet performance with a nice box of candy. The candy was gone within the hour, and I have confiscated the box for keeping all our remote controls in.

MMF007

Phew, art class went well, no need to kondo today's sketch :rotfl:

Small bag of random items to CS. Fridge-bottom veg used in HM soup. Shoe box purloined from DH for new acrylic paints I am sure it is tempting to buy lots of pretty paints, brushes, etc and some people in my class have wheely trollies full :eek: but i am determined to keep to the basics, at least for now! Sketch pad, brushes and cheap canvass boards in good sized picnic bag that cost £4 from CS ages ago, paints in shoe box. While I can't kondo fold them I have got them neatly sorted rather than jumbled up :rotfl:

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I think I will just kondo, or transform, another great mound of polar fleece today, it sits on my bucket chair in my sewing room and glares at me to move it. Zip is ordered, so I think I will have a nice relaxing quiet day today, I`ll prep the fabric for another dressing gown and I will look at making zipped vest tops with the leftovers from both fleeces, good for the allotment. I don`t need to get out, am quite happy to do this non-strenuous hobbycraft and to do some allotment planning later. The dressing gown I made earlier is fab, I am wearing it every day

I have another bulky pile of fabric in a cupboard, thick sherpa-type with raised stripes. Might be enough for a top but later. I keep having to move it, so it could do with a kondo but I won`t get rid as I would regret it

So far so good, it is nice to be in this stage of tweaking around the edges