KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

PollyWollyDoodle

Mto one of the things I used was iPhone boxes, that sounds as if I have had loads of phones, I haven’t but I had a couple of spare boxes around. They are a good size for small items. Other people found mushroom cartons were good, plastic of course but it’s a good way to reuse something that would otherwise be thrown away.

maddiemay

I hate it when a favourite mug gets chipped/cracked and cannot be used, I now have several in my bathroom holding brushes, eye pencils, cotton pads toothbrushes etc.

I also reuse mushroom cartons for holding small packets of things like sauce/casserole mixes in my larder cupboards.

mto

I obviously need to start eating more mushrooms :rotfl:

GreyQueen

mto wrote: »

I obviously need to start eating more mushrooms :rotfl:

I'm busily saving them (and a pal is saving hers for me) to use as seed trays in a few months' time.


MK said in her book not to buy storage until you've finished the process and that it'll often turn up items which can be used for storage mid-process. Many of us have found this to be the case.

camelot1001

Seibrie, I love Hema, I always go when I visit DS2 in The Netherlands. I think there's a store in London now and they deliver here in the UK too.

GreyQueen

Just been talking to the 'rents and Mum is powering through the stash of (charity shop sourced) books I gave her, fiction and biography. She's loving them, one is already now in hands of Kid Bruv and he's engrossed and then it will be added to the charity shop donation bag, the one which leaves every month or so.


Love the idea of good things having a multitude of owners rather than being imprisoned in one owner's home, to gather dust and eventually rot until no one wants to bother with them.


Haven't anything to report in the KM front myself, have been rather poorly with flu, but am catching up with my reading.

a_silver_lining

Reinspired by MK programme on Netflix. I've kondo'd twice in the past but never 100% finished.

Went through clothing today with my partner and we have filled two bin bags to the brim. I'm thinking charity shop as I can't see the worth in selling a lot of it. I've put aside four good quality items to try and sell. Cleared about a bin bag worth of recycling, binable clothes and rubbish in general from round the house. I always find myself binning random things when I start to Kondo!

My partner was really on board this time as she has lost weight and can now see clearer what she needs to buy to complete her wardrobe.

I'm going to do books quickly in the morning so we can pop to the charity shop, though this is a category well cleared before and I only have about a bagful of books left.

Anyone else reinspired by the tv show??

PollyWollyDoodle

Yes, although I did a complete Kondo a couple of years ago, iwatching the programme has given me some food for thought. Most of the areas that I did thoroughly have remained tidy, it's the areas I didn't really sort properly that still need some work.

Frogletina

I've been trying to inspire my daughter to declutter her house for a while. She asks me to sort out her paperwork from time to time.

Today she rang me and said she's been watching Marie Kondo on Netflix, and has already got rid of a couple of things. I don't have Netflix so told her to save me some of the episodes to watch when I visit.

Maybe I'll be able to get into the spare room without her having to move things around beforehand!

frogletina

kittydfw2012

Thanks PollyWollyDoodle, glad some of my ramblings made sense to someone at least!

In relation to finding it difficult to let go of things, I too found this really hard as I've had it programmed in to me to be sentimental about almost anything. My mother is extreme on this and I hadn't appreciated how much she passed it on to me until I did Konmari and realised that much of my physical stuff that I wanted to get rid of had actually been given to me by my mother (sometimes as a kind gift but more often because she couldn't bear to throw it away) and that represented a harder emotional issue to face which was that she had burdened me with all kinds of broken mind programming that I had to escape to get happy in my own life (I'm nearly 50 so it's about bl**dy time!).

Facing the difficulty of the stuff you actually have to put in the bin because there's nowhere else for it to go really is part of the process so you learn what's important, what not to bring in to your house and positively, how you really can survive and thrive without those things. Imagine how much stuff will be saved from future landfill by becoming a more conscious consumer.

I think it's also important not to be too hard on yourself for decisions made when you didn't know better. Once you know better, you do better - I think that's one of Oprah's sayings and it's true.

Gosh this is a big ramble but I just used old cardboard boxes, sometimes taking things out of a box to use the box (like the iPhone boxes PollyWollyDoodle mentioned) and also veg boxes - I use Riverford veg box scheme so get quite a few of these to make into storage boxes. I also bought a job lot of plastic food trays for food prepping that have three compartments - used these recently to sort my make up drawer, it looks fab.

Taking a breath now x