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

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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?!

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.

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.

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!

Do it! I couldn't resist

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

Definitely do it and get younger DCs to help!

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

I may have done something

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

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.

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

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

Do it this week and report back next week

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 (

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

Guerrilla Kondoing!

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

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.

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!

Right Kondo ninjas, I have two words for you:

Sports. Direct.

That is all.

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.