KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Siebrie

Out: 1 hole with a bit of sock around it

Karmacat

I'm currently staying at my recurrent catsitting home-from-home, and once again it really shocks me how people I love (these are close family) will use half a bottle of produce and leave it there, unused, seemingly forever. It really jams things up.

luxor4t

https://konmari.com/konmari-shop/


"My tidying method isn’t about getting rid of things – it’s about heightening your sensitivity to what brings you joy. Once you’ve completed your tidying, there is room to welcome meaningful objects, people and experiences into your life."

Oh dear :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

"Meaningful objects" appears to be a synonym for "expensive tat".


You can imagine the fun the journalists had thinking up headlines

Siebrie

I saw! How can she decide that whatever brings her joy, will also bring others joy? Isn't part of her philosophy that her method is a very self-centered exercise?

maddiemay

For most of this year my trips to the CS have been with items from my mother's home as she is now in residential care and left a 3 bedroom family house with loads of stuff in, not a hoarder, but had not turfed out all the things she no longer needed as she aged and became less mobile.

Now that is done I have begun on my own home, it will take quite a while as I have health and fatigue problems, but am managing to ship out some every week:)

Siebrie

Well done, Maddiemay! As long as things keep moving out, it's going in the right direction.

I've mentioned it before, but when my Aunt and Uncle decided to move house, it took them more than a year to sort through their stuff, and that was with help from a daughter and my parents. My parents (81 and 76 at the time) did most of the physical shifting. My father was given permission to try and sell stuff, and he really tried, but their most prized possessions were worth sod-all, unfortunately.

They had 2 antique cupboards (1 with a serving area, 1 with a bench in front), an antique desk, two antique footstools/benches, and they did not make the €20 threshold at auction The large furniture ended up at the dump, because not even the charity shops wanted to try and shift it.

GreyQueen

Some undies have developed religious sensibilites and are heading to the rag bag. Plus a knit top I was wearing today, which came from a chazzer for 50p, has turned out to be a bit of a nuisance. However, I love the colour and texture, so intend to cut it up and use it as fabric for a project or two, I'm thinking a hat and scarf, mebbe.

littlegreenparrot

I had slowed right down with this, but made good progress over the last couple of weeks.

Sent a parcel to brother and his girlfriend who have just moved, included quite a fancy scented candle that has been lurking for a couple of years. I didn't like the smell, but she is very happy.

Also passed on a couple of tops I wasn't getting on with to mum. She kept one, the other didn't suit. That went on to the daughter of a family friend. She has autism, cannot work and requires constant care. This makes things very hard financially for them.
B was delighted, she gets a pretty new thing, and it is no longer cluttering up my drawers.

It is lovely when you can pass on some joy.

maddiemay

8 paperback books lined up for donation to CS this morning, all bought and read by me/OH in the last couple of months. I do request books from the library, but sometimes am too impatient to wait for them to come from other branches and buy from CS etc. Hopefully one to collect from library soon will enable another 11 or so in the series to be read and released (Inspector Banks series).

greent

Lots of random items still leaving here - mainly small in size, though. DS3 had a good sort out of toys and books (always a good thing to do before Xmas! ) and I got rid of some old games from ds1's room (some to cs if in good condition and with all pieces, the rest to bin/ recycling) A big box of books has also gone to cs. Some gift sets have been donated to the schools for xmas fairs and I found another to donate to my nans care home for their fair. Couple of small things also sold on flebay and some clothes recycled.

More out than in = a win