The KonMarie method

Milocat - very sad that you took the trouble to talk about it all well beforehand, and it was completely ignored. I've nothing to add to what silvasava said, sounds great - except to definitely do what's right for your own little family, you tried to include FiL in a great new idea and he didn't want to - his choice, so his consequences.

Hope you sleep well!

PollyWollyDoodle wrote: »

I'm itching to take down the decorations - I want my tidy house back!

Glad it's not just me then! We always take them down quite early due to bday in early Jan but this year there is a full week before go back to work and I could blitz the house if things were not dangling in artful fashions!

:eek: I'm feeling a bit put-upon by life atm as the Clutter at the parental home has been fighting back!

Late yesterday afternoon, a drop-leaf on a wall unit (which has been dropped open for months due to excess clutter in the hatch it serves) gave me a nasty contusion right down the centre of my forehead.

And if that wasn't bad enough, a couple of hours later I was innocently minding my own business sitting in an armchair knitting, when a load of stuff slid off the sideboard above my head and landed on me!!!

Fortunately, it was mainly stationery items and neither I nor they were injured but I've never had a set square in my cleavage before.....:rotfl:

The Clutter knows that I have it in for it and it's getting some strikes in early. This morning I have sorted out a holdall full of socks. I threw this down out of the loft at the beginning of Sept and it made it as far as the Sargasso Sea (parental bedroom) where it was becalmed. Is now sorted into socks for various members of the household inc for me to take home and use. Fate of holdall yet to be determined.

Mum has also declared that we need to sort out the off-room (area off the kitchen) which is a hell-hole and I have decided we will do this after lunch, as it will render the kitchen itself inaccessible whilst we're pulling stuff about. We've already found two Xmas puds we didn't know we had (BB Sept 2015, one was eaten yesterday, no one is poorly yet).

No injuries were sustained in sock-triage, but heaven knows what will happen in the off-room. Am wondering if I should don a cycle helmet as a precautionary measure, as already have one wound on the bonce.

Keep on kondo-ing, lovely peeps, but for goodness sake be more careful than me, some of these things have to power to wound. I look a trifle odd with a 3 inch scrape down the middle of my forehead.

Well, a trifle odder than usual, anyroad.:p

Musical toy boxes........

I used to bag excess toys up and put them away for a few months, introducing a few new ones each school holiday.

In the end my FIL did come round to the idea of "less is more" but my parents never did. Instead of showering them with excess gifts would your FIL consider a special savings account......my FIL did this so that by the time my boys went to college there was a nice little nest egg for them.

I have saved a nice sturdy cardboard box to take some things to the auction house. It's time to make a start on my mother's vast collection of porcelain and China, along with some of my "treasures".

Time to get serious........;)

Hi to all well it's all over for another year...thank goodness
Don't get me wrong I love the actual day and Xmas eve is magical.
However the build up turns me into a grinch alright.
I like the idea of a college fund for kids might suggest that to my niece. Her ex mil goes over the top with her grandkids. They don't love her any more for it. She is very much involved in the kids lives more than ever really she should concentrate on just supporting them.

GQ your post made me laugh I've never had a set square in my cleavage either. I have had an iguanas tail tuck in there once tho!
Embarrassing it was as it was in front of the vicar! (It's a long story)
Perhaps you are developing into a kind of Harry Potter of the Kondoing world complete with a forehead scar. The dark lord of clutter is lurking. Expecto Patronum!