KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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last post, honest, its just that I was up early and felt like chatting.

I have just removed at least a dozen items from my en suite, this is my bathroom, includes two electric toothbrush handles which belonged to my husband. Time to let go of the last items. Wrapped soaps and unopened face cleansing pads are in cs trolley, which is now full to bursting and I am going to look like bag lady with layer on layer on top of the trolley. I will never use any of it, so why hang onto it all

This toothbrush handle thing is making me think of a couple of other items, like the hm train on a windowcill. Why am I hanging onto it? because dh made it but I don`t really want it and have something else he made, far nicer and tactile. It will be going this week. It is all a bit at a time, it really is

Siebrie

That's what I'm doing at the moment, too. If I were to gather everything up in one place, I'd be interrupted countless times and would have to explain why certain items are going. I prefer to do a bit at a time, almost by stealth.

Small yet satisfying job for today: arranging my cotton hankies in order from 'new' at the second pile at the back to 'almost-rags' at the top of the pile at the front. I have about 50 now and store them in one of these shoe hangers in my wardrobe (similar to 1kea's Scubb).

Off to kondo a tooth! After about 20 years of no cavities at all, I now have six! Five have been filled over the last few weeks, and today a wisdom tooth will be extracted. At the end of September my last wisdom tooth will be removed at the hospital, because it is growing in to the bone. It's sad to see the last of my wisdom go

Wednesday2000

daisy_1571 wrote: »

The very last piece of paper out of the last folder was rather poignant. Judging by how faded the piece of paper is I have had it for some time. Particularly appropriate on these pages. It's too long to retype here but look it up if you feel so inclined: Take hold of every moment by Anonymous

I just read it, aw, it was poignant.

catshark88 wrote: »

One of the things I learnt on the mortgage free wannabe section was the importance of doing SOMETHING, however small, towards your goal, each day.

I think that decluttering is similar. Yes, the days where you MK a whole type of item/ room and drive it all to the CS/ recycling, are fab. A bit like when you pay a lump off your mortgage or off a debt.

I was thinking something similar yesterday as I was reviewing our savings and our mortgage debt. It's amazing how much progress you can make if you make regular effort.:)

I am going out tomorrow for a massage and I was going to swing by the Sense charity shop and hand over some clothes and a couple of handbags that I don't ever use. I prefer the across body bags now and the bags look brand new so someone will want them.

Not KM really, but I actually bought a new white table for the living room. I put my new silver Buddha on there with a little (fake) plant and some white LED candles and I've been admiring it all today and yesterday. I love the way my home looks now without a lot of clutter.:A

greent

daisy_1571 wrote: »

Silva sava, that's a darn fine idea. He is propped up before me as I type

The very last piece of paper out of the last folder was rather poignant. Judging by how faded the piece of paper is I have had it for some time. Particularly appropriate on these pages. It's too long to retype here but look it up if you feel so inclined: Take hold of every moment by Anonymous

Daisy xx

Copied and pasted - too good not to have on the thread x

A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:
"This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package." He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.
"She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on. Was saving it for a special occasion.

Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:

"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion".
I still think those words changed my life. Now I read more and clean less. I sit on the porch without worrying about anything. I spend more time with my family, and less at work. I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day. I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like it. I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to. The words "Someday..." and "One Day..." are fading away from my dictionary. If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now.
I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.

She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food. It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come. I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters... letters that i wanted to write "One of this days". I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and sons, not times enough at least, how much I love them.

Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives. And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day. Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.

daisy_1571

greent wrote: »

Copied and pasted - too good not to have on the thread x

"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion".[/COLOR]

Thanks greent, I'm usually on a pad thing so I never thought of cooy/paste as I woukd do on a normal computer.

Going to see if I can put the but above into my sig - if you see it there I will have worked out how to do it :cheesy:

Daisy xx

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omg greent, I am glad you posted that and how much that resonated with me

The only thing I can say is that I am trying to wear some good wearable stuff out, so I can wear other things. All of it is nice and future planning like this means that I won`t have to spend much later in life. So I am not throwing out just because of rose coloured emotional glasses

catshark88

Greent, what an incredibly moving post. Thank you for posting it.

Floss

Lovely post:)

Am loving being part of the undercover KM team...my DH has no idea what is leaving or being rehomed:D

whiteguineapig

me too, a good tip i learned here is to put something in a carrier bag in the loft, if no one misses it after 6 months it goes

catshark88

Today I have mk'd 4 more bags of books to the cs and loads of cardboard (packaging) to the recycling bin in town.

I have also Kondoed a load of grass off the lawn and 2 chocolate brioches. Oops.