KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

tattycath

When I first started reading the book I immediately starting sorting my clothes out...unfortunately, instead of getting them all out as in the book, I just ones in my room, completely forgot about the ones in the wash basket, the washing machine, the dryer etc etc so now I have to do them all again as I have far too many and because I have so many, it no longer gives me joy-looking through for something to wear.
I'm seriously thinking of sorting out a capsule wardrobe and seeing if that is a better way. Anyone else done that? If so, how are you finding it?
My main problems are that my daughter buys lots of clothes and she always looks great. When she sorts them out to get rid of them, I tell her to put the ones she no longer wants, on my bed...and then I keep some of them for me! I'm also impulsive, so if I see something I like, it brings me joy at the time of purchase...then after a short while the novelty wears off! I hope I'm not a lost cause!

counting_stars

wort wrote: »

Hi counting -stars ,many of us have been through all categories but still find more to do !!!!! Komono for me now tends to be those areas that get things dumped usually by dh! A drawer in the kitchen cupboard that he pushes things in.

Hi Wort

I've been managing to get OH on board and so she shifted a bin bag worth of her own paperwork today. We filled another charity shop bag with her books!! and my unsold items. I managed another with kitchen bits and some drawers. I have cleared some more pictures and ornaments and also let go of a load of wood saved for diy. OH even happily let me throw out the kit for mounting her tv on the wall and I found her new camera box in the bin. Both things would have been kept before and there was no hesitation from her.

So total for the week so far is 4 charity bin bags, 3 bin bin bags and a pile of frames\ wood.

In my to do pile I have a bag of dvds I am going to try and trade in and another small carrier bag with some new bits to sell. I sold another bag on g.tree so £55 up from the kondoing so far! Even better is the fact I'm letting go of anything unsold or unsorted at the end of each week. Maybe not moneysaving but good for charity.

I have now redone the kitchen, dvds, books, clothes and jewellery this week. Took me under an hour to redo as so little stuff. Half way through ornaments and then only cables, craft bits and memory box to go.

Good luck everyone with keeping up the motivation!

lollyfin

Tattycath I used to be the same with my daughter and ended up with loads of stuff, I used to have a 4 door wardrobe. Now I have one full sized drawer, bed side unit and 2 feet of hanging space and that's it for clothes but because I love everything I actually have more choice now. I work a one in one out system so if I'm ever tempted to buy anything I know I will have to get rid of something I really like, it's amazing how that cuts down on my spending as there's not much I am prepared to part with.

GreyQueen

lollyfin wrote: »

Tattycath I used to be the same with my daughter and ended up with loads of stuff, I used to have a 4 door wardrobe. Now I have one full sized drawer, bed side unit and 2 feet of hanging space and that's it for clothes but because I love everything I actually have more choice now. I work a one in one out system so if I'm ever tempted to buy anything I know I will have to get rid of something I really like, it's amazing how that cuts down on my spending as there's not much I am prepared to part with.

It's very much the same in my very small flat. It's amazing how the thought of having to give up an item you really like stops you buying the chance-met item which has caught your fancy.

Many thanks for your kind wishes about Mum, the good-heartedness of the old style boards never fails to lift my spirits.

We talk daily on the phone and I visit every few weeks - we're about an hour's travel apart but I have to use public transport. I'm planning to visit next weekend.

Mum's been discussing the contents of the woodshed, one of their three backyard sheds. She's decided some of the project wood saved for wood-turning will go to a relative as she can no longer use the lathe. The lathe is a bit like the elephant in the room, which I haven't mentioned, nor has she. It's large and expensive piece of hobby equipment bought for use in retirement. As is often the case, everyday life took up the biggest section of each day and months went past without it being used and now she can't use it.:(

I shan't discuss the lathe unless she brings it up, because it must be a sad thought. It will eventually have to go, of course, it's not something which could ever fit into my life and no one else in the family wants to use it.

I feel as if the key log in the logjam of clutter at the parental home may just have shifted. Dad's pretty minimialistic and always has been, Mum's the hoarder, but things are starting to move up there............

Such a shame that it's taken until her seventies and a devastating diagnosis but life is as it is, not as we would wish it to be.

Apart from our own clutter, of course, that we can take responsibility for, and should.

grunnie

GQ one of my friends was diagnosed with Parkinsons way back in 2001 and she is managing in her own home. She has lots of gadgets to help her. I think the most helpful is a drier in the roof to dry her after she has a shower sort of like the hand driers you get in public loos. A heated loo seat with a spray for after is just a few I had never heard of before. Different pill combos need to be tried too.


I think my neighbour over the back wall is KMing as he is burning loads and loads of paper with burning bits of paper and clouds of smoke coming over to me. My ears are still ringing after I asked him why he couldn't recycle it like everyone else and could he not light a fire so near my holly tree. :mad:

tibawo

Lots of hugs and thoughts with to all my KD friends who needs them. I am one of those people who can't always find the words to express my thoughts but rest assured it does not mean I am not thinking of you as you travel along life's twisting and turning path.

You can tell it is Friday at our house by just looking at what has gathered on tables, floor in front of TV etc. I am trying to train the girls to put things away but I think part of it is they see one of my KD projects and think I have just dumped my stuff too when in fact I am chipping away at it.

No extra things are planned for the weekend so I am hoping to make a dent. I am toying with the idea of moving the dryer to my room. Eventually I would like one of them Lakeland heaters that you fold flat but have other priorities at the moment!

GreyQueen

Thanks, pet.

Mum was remarking last night that she's really glad that they had their house altered about twenty years ago; groundfloor one room extension with shower-room/WC off. It was intended as a hobby room with half-an-eye on the inlaws' needs in case they had to come and live with us.

At least now they have the peace of mind that if the stairs ever become difficult, they can re-arrange the living accomodation and turn the extension room into a bedroom - it even has its own door onto the patio.

You can see that door from the outside, from indoors it's hidden behind a ceiling-high pile of boxes.......:rotfl:

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Hugs GQ and anyone else who needs them.
Did some cleaning for mil this week she is getting increasingly frail and frustrated by things. There are things she can't do and things she just can't be bothered to do. Certain cleaning tasks fall into the can't be bothered to do but then she gets annoyed with the mess and cross with me for not being available 24/7. I am really enjoying my extra hours at work but she seems to now resent me doing them and has started saying to Dh but I might need her. My extra hours aren't permanent but I will enjoy them for me as long as I get offered them. I will fit the cleaning shopping and chaperoning to Drs and hospital around them so it's not like I'm being totally selfish. I think the thing that irks me slightly is my own parents who are split up are miles away and I don't see them as much but mil never even asks about them and huffs if we dare mention we've visited. Weve stopped telling her when we do see them so visits feel clandestine. Which is silly. Sorry bit of a rant there normal optimistic service will be resumed ASAP.
My mum is alone but a very sprightly healthy 70+ year old, my dad has altzimers which is starting to be increasingly noticeable my step mum keeps hinting I should see him more as his memory is getting worse.

Have a lovely day all and I hope something brings you joy in it.

I'm taking the beards I crocheted last night to school they should bring some joy and amusement to the day.

Slinky

Crocheted beards? A photo is required surely!

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

Mum was remarking last night that she's really glad that they had their house altered about twenty years ago; groundfloor one room extension with shower-room/WC off. It was intended as a hobby room with half-an-eye on the inlaws' needs in case they had to come and live with us.

At least now they have the peace of mind that if the stairs ever become difficult, they can re-arrange the living accomodation ...

This is what my mum's done. They had a ground floor shower room installed when my dad became ill, and eventually they converted the dining room into a hospital room, with a proper hospital bed loaned by the NHS. The privately funded stairlift was taken out, my dad couldn't use it any more.

Nowadays, we talk about the situation for my mum: [STRIKE]if [/STRIKE] when she needs more help than we can give her right now, she'll have the dining room as her bedroom, she's got the shower room downstairs, and I'll have the upstairs - bedroom, plus bedroom converted to living, plus the original bathroom. Of course, getting her to tell us what she needs is another matter she went to A&E a few weeks ago, and didn't tell any of us until she got home.