KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

brain not working today - can't for the life of me work out what LTS stands for

maryb wrote: »

brain not working today - can't for the life of me work out what LTS stands for

Long Tall Sally!

Joining in after a long absence!

Last year I followed the Kondo method and decided to get rid of just over half my clothes. I haven't regretted this decision at all- it made my wardrobe so much easier to use and, for a while, at least, I felt like I was wearing a greater variety of outfits.

The problem was that I never actually got rid of them. They sat in the attic until we finally got round to doing a boot sale, whereupon they sat in the car because we didn't bring any rails to put them out, and they've sat collecting dust bunnies under the bed ever since waiting for another boot sale.

Well, I decided this afternoon that the boot sale is never going to happen and pulled them all out again. The dust played absolute havoc with my nose, I sneezed so much! And to think we've been sleeping on all of that. I sorted a few things for eBay, some for a rough sleeper I see each morning on my way to work and another bag for things I think a friend may like and then piled all the bags in the car for the chazzer (although that will have to wait until next weekend now). (Edit: and another bag for fabric recycling, stuff I thought no one would want)

I should feel good about it but actually I'm feeling a bit disheartened. That they've been there so long makes me feel really lazy, and I feel bad for having spent so much money on all of it. Plus it just reminds me of how much else I still have and that still needs doing.

I've decided to reward myself with a glass of port anyway! And thought you lovely people could provide some much needed inspiration.

GreyQueen wrote: »

(((enchilada))) I'm sure most of us could tell a similar tale (or three dozen).

If it helps, most of the monetary value disappeared the moment you carried those clothes out of the shop. Seriously.

Unless you're in childrens' sizing, 20% was the VAT gouge, and the grubbyment got it. Then the mere fact that the clothes are now secondhand depreciated the other 80% to almost nothing. Worth pennies on the pound if re-sold. If you can find a buyer.
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So, bearing in mind that the monetary value is almost nil, and has been almost nil since you bought them, what you have is a load of unrecoverable sunk costs. Plus the utility of said garments.
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And you can only use the utility by using them yourself, or realise the utility by allowing someone else to use them, by releasing them from dusty captivity in your home.
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Clothes like this are teachers; they teach us that we don't want those particular styles or colours again. Or, like some of my larger clothes, that I shouldn't have eaten soooo many pies. :o

er, yes, me too! (Not pies though, crisps .
JUST SAY NO ! :rotfl:

GreyQueen wrote: »

I've noticed that every single chazzer's DVD rack seems to contain several copies of certain movies, too. '300' is one of them, as well as the multi-part Bourne movies, The Matrix franchise and the Lord of the Rings movies.

I suppose DaVinci Code was one of the last phenomenally popular book in paper form, closely followed by the Twilight saga. I don't see that many copies of "50 Shades..." maybe because it was supposed to be phenomenally popular on Kindle.

Am working on condensing books, CD's and DVD's at the moment; a donate pile is building up in the kitchen and a "sell" pile to the left of me. Plan is to confine them to a certain space and then, if they stop fitting in that space, then they need culling.

Have found I have a lot less patience with stuff I'm not enjoying: for example, one book I bought from the chazzer on Saturday is going back there today. 20 pages in and I was underwhelmed...