KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

tibawo

yes but.. i bought some new blue tinsel in the sale last year.. 10p bargain. clashed with tree despite my picture of pure perfection! SO not an easy Kondo

Siebrie

Moll wrote: »

im trying to use up as much as possible on the toiletries , i didnt actually get many this christmas which was a dissapointment , as i like practical gifts , although the 4 slice toaster our son bought us would count i suppose as a practical gift , He said last time he called in home , he made himself some toast , and noticed that half of our 4 slice toaster didnt work . and as he likes 4 slices he bought us a new one for Christmas for when HE has his breakfast , Dont you just love men , ( Id have just put 2 lots in the 2 slice bit ?)

I find my toiletries often last me way longer than expected, and I love practical gifts. The non-practical gifts that I would like are outside anyone's budget :rotfl: as I'm allergic to any other metal than gold, and I like proper art/artisanal stuff.

Your son sounds a kind man, but maybe not practical? I like my toast warm, so would have put one lot of two in, and when eating the second one, would have put the second lot in.

alja

It's go motivational reading through all your posts about what you're getting rid of or planning to.


I'll have to watch the Netflix show soon!


I'm unsure about the folding method for clothing too.. I'm yet to fully go through my clothes (however, I've just found 3 clothing items to give to the charity shop this weekend and 2 clothing items that can go in a charity bag as scrap fabric - just from a quick look in one under bed drawer)... but yes, wondering if the folding method does actually crease the clothes too...


I can just imagine me getting ready for a night out, pulling lots of clothes out, trying on 10 different items and then having to fold everything back in again. I think I might stick to hanging and just get rid of as many clothing items as I can.


I'm taking a new notebook and some post-it notes from home to use at work. We're moving offices and I want a fresh notebook, so I thought I might as well use one I've had hanging round here for a while!


It's my OH's mum's birthday next month and I'm doing her a hamper. I've found some B0dy Shop shower gel I haven't used myself yet and also going to give her a brand new (but from the charity shop) B0dy Shop body scrub that I bought for myself but don't really need! It'll help me save pennies as well as some space.


Will definitely see if there's anything else I can get rid of later... I know I have some bits to shred, so I'm just going to get that done now before they hang around forever!

PollyWollyDoodle

Confession - I don't do all the folding. I've got two double wardrobes and they'd be empty if I folded everything; you make it work to fit your space. I hang skirts, trousers and dresses, t-shirts and tops.

I roll cardigans in a drawer, and (this was REALLY life changing!) I roll scarves in a drawer. I love scarves and pashminas and have a lot, and it was a constant problem as to how to store them. I believe that if you do the folding correctly, then things don't crease but I've never really tried it.

I do roll my knickers into neat little parcels though, you'd have to search back on the original thread for various folding methods but this is one I really love. They don't take up much space and it's somehow very satisfying!

greent

I hang trousers, tops, cardigans, dresses, blouses, skirts and jumpers. I fold KM style jeans, tshirts, vest tops, PJs. My knickers are all folded into little parcels (as are OH's boxers), my scarves are rolled. My socks, however, are all still balled

Moll

ive now watched the Marie Kondo episode where the woman had to part with her husbands clothes , That was so sad, I wanted to help her do it

Siebrie

alja wrote: »

I can just imagine me getting ready for a night out, pulling lots of clothes out, trying on 10 different items and then having to fold everything back in again. I think I might stick to hanging!

It may be that you won't have to pull out many clothes, because everything left in your wardrobe will fit you, look good on you and be in good condition You can decide what to wear by just looking in your wardrobe.

greenbee

I fold all a lot of my clothes and put them in drawers. The folding makes them easier to see in the drawers, and because they're all facing up you don't have to keep pulling things out. They don't appear to crease (certainly not t-shirts, jumpers, jeans etc), at least not badly enough to need ironing (in fact I find that by folding this way quite a bit of stuff can avoid ironing). Knickers are all folded and filed too. Socks I still can't get right. Tights are rolled, as are vests, towels and flannels.

Only things that need to hang up are on hangers - dresses, skirts and items too flimsy to fold the size I want them (e.g. silk tops). I'm amazed that it has worked so well - I still keep stuff this way after several years, it packs easily and makes it easy to transfer from suitcase to hotel wardrobe/drawers when travelling (which makes work travel a lot more civilised!).

Slinky

I've got a decorator in painting my office and sunroom ceilings at the moment which means I'm turfed into the lounge with a laptop.


Have kondo'd 12,500 emails this morning, which helps keep my GDPR up to date. I've also shredded 6 boxes worth of paper.

GreyQueen

Baby-stepping into the New Year with a small bag of donations into the chazzer and have finished a book which came from the same chazzer's 50p box just before Christmas. Since things end up in the 50p box after having loitered at a higher price, I choose not to re-donate to the same place but they go to another chazzer. I will be starting a bag which will go to the 'rents later in the year and anything they want to read will be read, and then they'll go to their gift-aid chazzer which is about 45 miles from my environs, and this gets the goodness circulating. The mothership has a steady throughput of books and there is a small pile on a cupboard which leaves every 2-3 weeks.



I find it incredibly liberating to regard myself as a temporary custodian - as opposed to an owner -of certain items and to wing them on their way as soon as they're finished with. As opposed to storing them for months/ years and having periodic mahoosive declutterings. It's a way of living imposed on me by the smallness of my living quarters but I think it would stick if I somehow got to live somewhere bigger.


Christmas saw me mostly without clutter as my nearest and dearest know me well enough to get me consumables and books which can leave when they're read. I did end up with one small consumable (smelly candle in a tin) which would never be used as the perfume in such things makes me feel poorly, so that went out to the chazzer to give someone else the benefit.