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... to Marie Kondo the crap out of this pile?

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thatorchidmoment · 23/04/2016 11:50

DD has a sport session in a local school. She doesn't want me leaving her there, so I'm spending a chunk of my Saturday looking at this! Surely the school kids would be grateful if I just... folded everything Kondo-style and stacked it all neatly in the perfectly good storage unit behind the vast pile of abandoned stuff?!

... to Marie Kondo the crap out of this pile?
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pippistrelle · 23/04/2016 11:56

It might be Art.

I don't think I'd be able to resist. Messy gits. At the very least it needs a passive aggressive note.

thatorchidmoment · 23/04/2016 12:05

If it's Art, standards have slipped since My Day .
The only thing stopping me is the fact that we are near the front entrance with lots of people wandering past and I would look like a loon folding things into neat rectangles and stacking them on end. Plus I have my two younger DC to watch.

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TiredOfSleep · 23/04/2016 12:08

I tidied the leaflet rack at my local job centre the other day when I was waiting to be seen. I'd be so tempted too!

WhispersOfWickedness · 23/04/2016 12:09

Do it! I couldn't resist Blush

thatorchidmoment · 23/04/2016 12:15

I'm now looking shiftily around to see if I could just grab one jumper without being spotted. Too much traffic so far.

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Sothatsflatwhite · 23/04/2016 12:17

Definitely do it and get younger DCs to help!

Schwabischeweihnachtskanne · 23/04/2016 12:18

Do it with confidence and people walking past will assume you are meant to be doing it.

thatorchidmoment · 23/04/2016 12:20

Flatwhite I totally would, but they are 3 and 9 months. There are also 3 other parents fossilising waiting in the same area. I need to sit on my hands to stop spreading the life changing magic!

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thatorchidmoment · 23/04/2016 12:23

Schwabi I wish I had that kind of chutzpah. There are now a couple of kids of high school age sitting beside me who probably go to school here, and have their phones out. I fear my mugshot would be disseminated by them as a crazy lady.

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thatorchidmoment · 23/04/2016 12:24

DS 3 is starting a tantrum. Do I intervene, or hope he clears the area with his meltdown?

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liinyo · 23/04/2016 12:28

I am totally not an MK person but I want to see the after photo of this. Don't be shy.

thatorchidmoment · 23/04/2016 12:37

I might have to work up to it. I'll have many Saturdays to gaze upon the view.

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thatorchidmoment · 23/04/2016 12:40

I may have done something Blush

... to Marie Kondo the crap out of this pile?
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PPie10 · 23/04/2016 12:40

Please do it. I need to see it all tidied and put away Smile

pippistrelle · 23/04/2016 13:11

Lovely job, OP. Changing the world one messy shelf at a time.

Inspired by you, I tidied the chewing gum when I was waiting in the queue at the newsagents.

rumbleinthrjungle · 23/04/2016 13:24

Ooooh!! I want pictures when it's done. That's art that is.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 23/04/2016 13:30

Put one item in each and every pigeonhole. Preferably in colour order.
Take photos!

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 23/04/2016 13:31

Do it this week and report back next week

thatorchidmoment · 23/04/2016 13:55

Breakfast: there are definitely too many items for just one in each doocot. This is not my DD's school, so I can only vandalise tidy once a week at most. I know it goes against the sacred principles of KonMari to do things a little at a time. Plus, I wonder if the school has cctv!?
Also, I had a whiff of Teenage Boy when I picked up a jacket Envy (

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LumpySpacedPrincess · 23/04/2016 16:00

I love the idea of guerilla Kondoing!!!!!!!

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 23/04/2016 16:45

Guerrilla Kondoing!

What about creeping into Benetton and refolding the jumpers to stand up on the end?

thatorchidmoment · 23/04/2016 17:05

Guerrilla Kondo-ing is definitely a political movement I could get behind. I fear I only managed to tidy about ten items before I chickened out.

YY to rearranging stock in sloppy shop displays! Gap makes my teeth itch, and don't get me started on Zara.

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AlisonWunderland · 23/04/2016 17:23

Marks and Spencer could do with some Kondo ninjas.
Take every skirt from Per Una, and Autograph, and Classic and Dunno What and PUT ALL THE SKIRTS TOGETHER FFS!

thatorchidmoment · 23/04/2016 17:37

Right Kondo ninjas, I have two words for you:

Sports. Direct.

That is all.

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FlyingElbows · 23/04/2016 17:43

I do it in our local Home Bargains. To be fair my daughter works there and I do the flannels to amuse her and let her know I've been in! There's something very satisfying about stealth Kodo-ing.

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