KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

lessonlearned

Hi. The great Kondo has begun........

Yesterday the YMCA took away two sideboards, a coffee table, a Welsh dresser, one of those Ikea wooden storage cubes, and a box of books.

I have just loaded the car with a broken oiled filled radiator and broken electric blanket for the recycling centre and a small wooden armchair for the YMCA. It is very pretty but uncomfortable so doesn't spark joy. They will go tomorrow, With hopefully a couple of bags.

A quick cup of tea, mop the kitchen floor and then make a start decluttering my bedroom.

Im on a roll.

This is the year I finally get a grip. Lol.

greent

I'm also using things now - I have been using years-old bars of soap and had some lovely semi-posh smellies for Xmas (more than I'd pay myself) - I put them in a drawer to use 'at some future point' - and then thought that if I died next week the Xmas gift would remain unused in favour of some boring old soap - so now have matching body polish/ shower gel/ body crème/ body spray being used - I can return to using the boring soap stash once the lovely stuff has been used up!

Various random items have left here in the last week - several items of clothing too worn for repair were collected for council rag-recycling today, a book with missing pages also went into recycling. A dozen and a half books were sold as a bundle on Faceb00k. I gave my mum a tupperwhere type pot which didn't match any of my others and was the exact size she wanted - win:win :T

Tfoz

I've watched a couple of the Netflix episodes and just finished my clothes. Oh my days what a task! My OH came in just as I'd piled them all up, think he was more overwhelmed than me! I wasn't to hot on the idea of thanking clothes as you got rid but it's actually allowed me to get rid of a couple of things I've been holding on to for years (but will never fit in or wear)

Siebrie

I had been given pins with one diamond and with two diamonds for 5 years and 10 years of service to the company. I sent an email to ask if they wanted to buy them back, but they don't, so off to the jeweller's it is Probably around Easter, when we visit my parents again.

PollyWollyDoodle

I’m Kondoing the bathroom (and most of my savings!) next week, so today I emptied the bathroom cabinet. Now, bear in mind this was ‘done’ within the last three years or so ... I have just thrown out some OTC items with ‘use by’ 2009!

I think you could chart my medical history with the various OTC skin creams, pain relief and digestive treatments I’ve collected. Most of them have been used a few times and then weren’t needed any more or didn’t help.

Thank you, MK - I am not replacing the medicine cabinet. I don’t need it, and it will give me a little bit more space in my tiny bathroom.

Karmacat

Siebrie wrote: »

I had been given pins with one diamond and with two diamonds for 5 years and 10 years of service to the company. I sent an email to ask if they wanted to buy them back, but they don't, so off to the jeweller's it is Probably around Easter, when we visit my parents again.

That must feel so good!

Siebrie

It does!

To the ragbag: husband's sweater with a midfront hole, dd's underpants, 1 sock.

I have mended several pairs of tights again, so they will be fine for another few wears.

Dd1 came home with a decoration made from 1kea pencils (yeah....). I have put them in a baggy, and collected any stray 1kea pencils we have in the pencil drawer. The baggy is now on the shelf over the coats, where we keep stuff that needs to be returned to people or passed on.

That shelf also houses the plastic and lidded shoe polish box, and a cardboard box with rain suits. I'm really pleased with the box containing the rain gear, as that stuff is slippery and does not stack properly.

Thinking about that shelf: it has the picknick blanket and husband's caps (5 or 6), and a white metal medicine cupboard, about 30x30cm.... we don't use it and I can't see myself using it in any near future. I should see if I can sell it, but posting stuff to a website is still a frog for me.

silvasava

Seibrie - I worked for a company that did a similar thing with various items to mark years of service. Apparently it was a source of pride in the US but over here we'd rather have had the value as a bonus as they pay wasn't that brilliant! One of my colleagues qualified for a gold watch which was supposed to be suitably engraved. She's quite savvy so had the jeweller put a small engraved plaque in the box instead as engraving the watch would have devalued it!

mto

I read the book a year or so ago, and have just binge watched the Netflix series and am finally motivated. I know I'm not at this stage yet, but just wondering where people get boxes to organize small things like makeup, pens, batteries etc, the cheaper the better, but preferably not plastic. Thanks.

Siebrie

silvasava wrote: »

Seibrie - I worked for a company that did a similar thing with various items to mark years of service. Apparently it was a source of pride in the US but over here we'd rather have had the value as a bonus as they pay wasn't that brilliant! One of my colleagues qualified for a gold watch which was supposed to be suitably engraved. She's quite savvy so had the jeweller put a small engraved plaque in the box instead as engraving the watch would have devalued it!

That's very smart of your colleague.

Apart from the pin, we also received a bonus, in vouchers. Standard, these vouchers were for an upmarket warehouse (Inno) but I had a chat with the HR person and found out that she physically went there to buy them, so I asked if I could have them from a different shop. I could, and had vouchers from a drugstore (similar to B00ts) and a lower priced warehouse (hema).