KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

gentlepurr

Thanks for the new thread! I've lurked now and again on the old thread, knowing all the while that i have a desperate need to get my head round it. I sort of feel as if i'm sliding down a slippery slope into HOARDERSHIP, and this year i have also added the contents of my dads house (hes gone into a home), bits of my father in laws house, and have accepted all of ds's Uni stuff back, even though he now lives away i still have "stuff" of his waiting for him to settle somewhere a bit more permanent. Sometimes i sit at night and wonder why the ceiling doesnt cave in on me !

I do try and clear stuff out, I sell a fair bit on the local fb pages and in the local papers (free to advertise under £100) but then get frustrated because i feel like im clearing my stuff out to make way for everyone elses junk, which really is all down to me being daft enough to let it enter my house in the first place......

My biggest demon though, is the internet. Total addict, and if only i didnt spend so much time on here i would have far more time to make inroads into everything else, - which is the main reason for lurking and not posting. So, how do you steel yourself away from here?? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: ive never managed to do that :rotfl::rotfl:

Anyway, all tips welcome!

gp xx

jinny

Pollyw
I agree I ain't putting all of my scissors in one place.
Especially my dressmaking shears!

jinny

Gentlepurr
I'm so sorry you seem a bit overwhelmed to say the least.
I have stored someone's stuff while they got settled. I have to say I didn't mind at first but it started to stress me out a lot. I had to say I was having work done to get them to shift it . Blow me if they didn't just tell me to just dump it! Too soft for my own good I was. I don't know what to say to help you except that it all has to go at some point for your peace of mind .
Some lovely person on here will be along to help.

jackieb

drusilla wrote: »

Jackieb, have you had a look at the categories list that greent posted? I keep revisiting it. For me clothes was the biggest issue because they all take up so much space. They are all done now though. I have a small chest of drawers and a small double wardrobe- neither are full.

Next I did towels. I had so many but never had enough as kids carpeted their rooms with them. Now the towels are reduced they have to hand them in for washing or they will have to dry themselves with a face cloth.

When the big stuff is done it feels much easier to get the little stuff together. I agree with the others though about your knicker drawer.. My underwear drawer was 2 wide deep drawers stuffed full. Full of stuff I never wore. Now it's cleared I have 1 small drawer which is great. I can find what I need straight away.
Hope this helps.
Good luck.

Not yet, but I will. Thanks

I don't even have a knicker drawer due to lack of room in my bedroom (small room, big bed!) We only have a wall of 3 built in wardrobes and mine has shelves in one half of my wardrobe, but i'm sure I can rustle up a plastic basket to keep them in on the shelf. That's a perk of being a disorganised person with good intentions - we usually have loads of plastic boxes, baskets, etc :rotfl:

I can't even open my wardrobe doors all the way because we got a sleigh bed and didn't take into account that the head and foot of the bed added about 10 inches to the length of the bed lol

Slinky

I've thought about getting involved with KonMarie in the past but done nothing about it until now. Have just ordered the book from Amzon (along with another book to make up the free delivery which somewhat misses the point of KM I think - oh dear), so will have to have a good go at this once it arrives. Got to do something, there's carp all over this house, when I moved here 21 years ago I had the contents of the back of my car...


I work from home so that doesn't help that I've got the business stuff here too.


We will probably move from here at some point, not particularly soon, but the thought of trying to wade through the piles of 'stuff' to be able to do that fills me with horror.


We've got far too much 'may come in handy' which rarely does.

grunnie

jinny wrote: »

Pollyw
I agree I ain't putting all of my scissors in one place.
Especially my dressmaking shears!

I don't keep all my scissors in one place either but to Km them to begin I put them all on my kitchen table( I had a lot of scissors ) and sorted out the ones I wanted to keep. My hairdressing scissors and hair thinning scissors were in the first aid box:o and my dressmaking ones and pinking scissors were nowhere near my sewing box. I now also keep 3 pairs in my cutlery drawer and 2 in the bureaux. The rest about a dozen went to a charity shop.
Thanks for the new thread and a Happy New Year to all.
For all new km hopefuls I found it easiest to start with bras- just chuck the ones that you hate and the ones that don't fit and you are left with the ones you love - then move on the pants and socks. When they are all folded as Marie K says the little boxes you put them in stay neat and tidy forever. :T

Charis

GreyQueen wrote: »

Many thanks to greentiger for my Latin translation, now into the sigline.

Dear Grey Queen, you sig may be more deep and meaningful than you know. I managed with some difficulty to look it up on Go Ogle Translate and after trying to convince me it had detected Romanian, it gave the translation from Latin to English as

'I have overcome the root'.

GreyQueen

Charis wrote: »

Dear Grey Queen, you sig may be more deep and meaningful than you know. I managed with some difficulty to look it up on Go Ogle Translate and after trying to convince me it had detected Romanian, it gave the translation from Latin to English as

'I have overcome the root'.

:j OMG, that is seriously WOO!

Overcoming the root, indeed. We need to root out the unnecessary Stuff hampering us leading full and rewarding lives. Speaking of which, I shall only be a few mins online before going off to root out some more truck and clutter.

AimingForBetter

Happy New Year everyone

Will be back on the KM wagon next week, this is the year we will catch up on sorting, thanking and disposing, decorating and generally making the home and garden loved and welcoming so it can help us feel the same.

Love to all.

mavvymoo

Happy New year Konditoites

Well the cleaning I did yesterday turned into yet another KM session with the pictures I had in the spare room waiting to hang in the perfect place at some point:)

Decided they no longer brought me any kind of joy so they are off to the chazzer all 7 :eek: of them.Some of them were quite expensive so think that was why I was hanging on to them But as we have said before that money has gone and I hope I will learn from it and someone else gets great pleasure out of them

As I doubt the Chazzers are open today they are now lurking in DH car :rotfl:as they had to go out.

Also in his car is the CD player that I only had there for when I was decorating I know I know The 2 speakers that went with it and another full bin bag of odds and s*ds mainly clothes with a few other bits thrown in for good measure

So another car boot load from someone who is fully kondoed.Or thinks she is :rotfl:

That is why you are never fully kondoed as you grow out of things that you once loved and your taste changes and you really need to embrace it and move on

I accept I am no longer the person I once was I am older and hopefully wiser.

I need less want less and what I do want has to be perfect for me at that point in my life.

Mav x

Forgot to say the pictures in the hallway and bathroom have both got to go as well. Which will be done today. I dont find the hooks left in the wall joyful to look at either. But beginning to think that is the better option :-)