KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

daisy_1571

Glad you had a great time away siebre, did oh and kids do as you thought or did they spend time together?

I signed up to a free Netflix and watched the kondo progs. I thought without having read the books it might not have made a lot of sense? Enjoyable enough though. I then watched early Still Game episodes which was great as I'd forgotten the plots so heehawed away to myself whilst sewing. Then today I sewed whilst keeping an eye on 'consumed' v interesting to see the progress families made, and then to see the 3 months later footage and judge who had actually changed their ways. Reminded me a bit of our programme from years ago Life Laundry where she gleefully put things "in the crusher" still a saying in our house !

Made me want to chuck stuff again but I have too much sewing to do. Thursday afternoon I should have time Would be interesting to see the contents of your whole house in a warehouse. I've tried to picture mine but its hard visualising volume.

Daisy xx

VJsmum

Smalls for all also take decent but used bras and unopened pants, for girls in Africa

http://www.smallsforall.org

I am gently keeping the clutter down, but have little to no big kondoing left. Photos and a tiny bit of paperwork maybe..

I have put a sweatshirt aside for the ragbin, the cuffs are terribly frayed. I take rags to my local preserved steam railway for engine cleaning and subsequent lighting. I'll have a hunt round before I go for any others...

People turned up unexpectedly on Sunday - we had twenty minutes notice - but, rather than a mad panic, I just had to put a few things in a cupboard and we were good to go :T. This is a massive achievement from a few years ago

Keep going all, it is worth it...

maddiemay

It has been very quiet on the KM front here, but managed to get together a batch of household items for the local furniture charity.
3 items of electrical kitchen aids, a large earthenware cider jug and a free standing towel rail which has been replaced by a bigger and more sturdy one.

A few items for the CS rag bag and a book have also gone.

On looking for instruction booklets for the above I found my old recipe notebook and a folder with lots of recipes cut out from papers/magazines or handwritten by me or friends, I spent a lovely couple of hours going through them, not quite finished, but a big pile for paper recycling today and lots transcribed into my latest notebook.

A kitchen cupboard also benefited from being reorganised, makes me feel a lot more positive after a few weeks of being poorly from a bug and worried about family members with health problems.

klew356

Mrs Hinch has started this, with the folding of clothes, so no doubt there will be an influx of interest!

Slinky

A couple of weeks back sparking joy was mentioned by Kirsty on Love it or List It, so she's obviously read it too.


Will charity shops be able to cope though?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-46949722

Slinky

Have now copied the 'disposal' list greent posted a couple of pages back into the first posting.

silvasava

Slinky when I took my collection of China to a CS they refused it as they'd been inundated! The lady was very apologetic but said she thought everyone had been clearing out after Christmas. I did manage to pass it on to the next one though as we are well served for CS in my area.
Not kondoing today but the sun has come out so I've some cyclamen to plant and some gladioli bulbs to sort and plant & will do some general tidying in the garden.

PollyWollyDoodle

VJsmum wrote: »

People turned up unexpectedly on Sunday - we had twenty minutes notice - but, rather than a mad panic, I just had to put a few things in a cupboard and we were good to go :T. This is a massive achievement from a few years ago

Keep going all, it is worth it...

Isn't it, though! It's easy to forget how untidy my house was, and it's not exactly perfect now, but it is such a change from the way I used to live.

I've just been looking through photo albums to find a particular pic, now I recall these as being a really difficult category to Kondo when I did them. Today I glanced at pictures of cats I have owned and loved, holidays I have been on, and pictures of my ex-husband (I've been divorced for more than 25 years) and thought why? why on earth have I kept these?

Nobody but me ever looks at them; nobody else would know who most of the people (or cats!) were; and in fact some of them make me feel sad. Time for another round of Kondo, I think!

Siebrie

Would you know, I was, rather surprisingly, a bit depressed after I was fired. Things I have done for the last 11 years in December and January (questionnaires and reports, so many reports) pop into my head, with al, the associated stress, and then the realisation that there is no need for stress anymore.

I still haven't found a good rhythm for my days, but I suddenly felt as if I would enjoy making our wedding picture book. I even bought a nice book in York, in Paperesque (I think it was called - lovely, mainly Asian, paper). I will hunt for all our photos this week, and pick the 50 best ones and put them in the book. The other pictures I will just throw out. Our wedding was only 11 years ago

Igamogam

Karmacat wrote: »

A neighbour who pays for a green bin (£65 a year round me, also for 25 collections and on top of CT) has lent me his bin for 3 consecutive collections now, he doesn't have anything in his tiny garden that needs doing. But he taught me a great lesson: I now use a big branch - three feet long, maybe four inches in diameter - to mash the waste down. It can look like it's two thirds full, but if you mash it, like you're threshing corn or something, it collapses to at most half the amount, you can get *so* much more in!

We get in ours and jump up and down:j Reduces the volume to about a third. Also cut up stuff very small helps. OH is convinced our in must be the heaviest in the village!