KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Wizzbang

I've been enjoying the Netflix TV series; she comes across so much better than in her book where I basically assumed she was a nutter - talking to your stuff, waking up books etc! It is much clearer that it's part of her Shinto background from the TV series.

Anyway, in-case it interests anyone else - Home Bargains have some lovely storage boxes in at the moment. I found them mixed in with the unicorn and mothers day bits. £2.49 for ones with a removable lid and £2.99 for ones with a velcro flap lid. I picked up some pale pink ones with copper metallic spots, but several to choose from and MUCH better priced than T.K. Maxx where they want a min of £7.99-£9.99 for the same size.

carrielovesfanta

Two more things into the cs bag. A road map of Ireland from a road trip we did in 2015, and the Haynes manual for our car, which is being replaced as soon as the new one arrives at the dealership in a couple of weeks.

I was looking around this weekend and realised that my house is pretty much done, but there will always be a small trickle of things in and out.

It's ok to admit on here that I didn't do it totally by the book (Facebook def not a place to admit that :rotfl:) and I'll be honest, it was this thread that first got me interested in KM.

My house was already organised pretty well by category, so I was able to discard by location a lot of the time. I also was lucky in that I didn't need to do a pre-KM declutter as I was reasonably good at discarding things. But oh the things that have left! I can't even remember most of them. I have found that I have so much more time and space now though. I think that the concept of sparking joy really does permeate through into other areas of your life. I changed my working hours so that I had more time at home (working 4 long days instead of 5 normal ones), and I am so contented now in comparison.

Igamogam

Thought the OH was beginning to embrace the need to declutter when he pulled off the bookshelf, in the office, a small case containing user manuals from a car we have not had for 18 months..........wrong!!! He put it back saying that he hadn't realised we had 2 sets.......yes we have 2 SETS of manuals for a car we don't have.......when he is not looking they are both going into recycling!

littlegreenparrot

I find that sometimes the opportunities just present themselves....

DH had to do some DIY in the hall today. To get to it all the coats came off the rack. So the door got fixed, (no more drafts, yay!) and then went through the jackets before they went back up.

Big pile to go, most to big now. They will go out via my parents, Dad is a gardener so benefits from having a few to rotate when they get wet/filthy. Then they can go on to charity. Actually, thinking about it, I'm sure their town has a group that collects for refugees so that would be an ideal destination for them.

Karmacat

I just km'd my first aid kit, and sadly all I could do was put some rolls of plastic bags into the household stash. Still, everything's a lot tidier, and I can actually lay my hands on stuff now

Igamogam

KMd some OOD sultanas and mixed nuts from food stores - gave then to the birds. I am not averse to using OOD food but some really are past it when they are past it IYSWIM....sultanas all dried out and nuts soft....birds grateful


Also found some OOD B*urbon biscuits - only by 10 days .OH said he would eat them - I cant stand them. He confirmed biscuits quickly not nice when just OOD.

Slinky

Visited MIL yesterday and managed to get her to agree we could get rid of a cat/dog scarer box. The bit of kit expired some time ago and went to the bin, heaven knows why she had the box. On a roll I managed to persuade her that she didn't need the 2 vacuum cleaner boxes as the cleaners will never be returned to their boxes and guarantees have expired. There are a load of other empty boxes, but I quit whilst I was ahead. Also found a satellite TV decoder cluttering up the corner of a bedroom, she hasn't had her TV by satellite for about 15 years. That's now cluttering up our garage but will go to the tip next time we go.

iamsalt

Wow, everyone has been busy!
My lovely SiL was here today and while i cooked lunch for the family we managed to sort through 2 more boxes we had brought over from the house we had been living in. Only 7items remain from two ‘medium’ packing boxes, (pretty glass pudding bowls and my dehydrator) everything else is in the charity shop box - 3pictures several sets of glasses, a pair of black out curtains (all mine are already black out ones now), and a small swivel mirror.
I am ff to stay with her this week and i hope to repay the favour. X

a_silver_lining

So!

Checking in to say that as well as 4! filled to the bring bin bags worth of rubbish and recycling, we have cleared 8 bin bags full to the top to the charity shop. I gave up trying to sell any of it.

Relief has been replaced by a realisation that there's more stuff I could let go of. I'm giving myself some time to use things or they are going too. Pretty much done apart from this though, just have a cable box to sort through, some momentoes to put in a picture book and one bag to items to be given to others, repaired, or sold.

Operating a one in, one out policy from now and I'm going to invest in a few things I need and spend more then I usually would to prevent buying twice.

Good luck to everyone else.

Frugal_Freda

RockTheShack wrote: »

Hi folks,

I'm attempting a good konmari clear out / tidy up of my home, a big bag of stuff to go to the charity shop tomorrow but feeling a bit guilty as in the bag is a few bits of pottery my mum made me while on a course a few years ago. Would I be awful to give that away? I feel bad saying it but they don't give me a massive amount of joy knowing they just gather dust on cabinets. I don't think she'd spot that I don't have them, and its basically clutter as one of the items is a duplicate of a kitchen item we already have and it doesn't actually function. I'm justifying on the basis that if i give it to a charity shop someone else might really like it? Am I a terrible person?

If you have a garden you could move the pottery outside and use them as garden ornaments or plant holders. I had some that had been fun to make, were never going to be saleable, but look fine from a distance and will now fall apart in their own time.