"The Life Changing Magic of Tidying" continues to magically change lives (PT 2)

[BeCool]

Come fold your loved clothes, and feel the spark of joy in every object you own (or thereabouts).

Continuing our journey on from the Original thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/good_housekeeping/2178442-The-Life-Changing-Magic-of-Tidying-Marie-Kondo?msgid=50091328#50091328

We're finally getting started tomorrow on the childrens' toys. I know you're supposed to do things in order but toys aren't on the list. I kept putting off clothes because I'm pregnant so I need to make sure I'll have things to wear afterwards until I lose the baby weight. I don't want to be in the position I was in after DS1 where I only had two pairs of trousers and it only took a couple of baby vom episodes to put me in pyjamas for the rest of the day.

Just found this thread and it has given me the incentive to start sorting out my clutter.
Rainy afternoon, so thought I'd start with my wardrobe. Found a jacket that I haven't worn in years , almost put it in the charity shop bag, but then decided to try it on! That was fateful as now I'm thinking that I 'may' wear it.
Please help me to be decisive - I really want to chuck it but now have this niggle that perhaps I may wear it again.
thinking of buying the book - is it worth doing?

Grandmaw the question to ask is does the jacket spark joy in you? Do you love it?

If not, thank it for all it has done for you, and release it to someone else (via the charity shop).

Another way of looking at it is do you want to devote space in your life to something you have not worn in years, simply because you 'may' wear it at some unspecified point in the future? Or would you rather have the clutter free space?

Somebody get me a chair - I have finished books! Reckon I culled about 70% of them, which shocked me (and the charity shop receiving them!). Instead of two double and one single billy bookcases full, plus a single shelf running round the hallway above the door frames - I now just have that hall shelf full.

Well done jam! Books are really difficult to bin.

Grandmaw I'd highly recommend the book. I only started last week and have already seen a significant change both in our home and in me!

I tidied the office kitchen cupboard this week and sorted through the pen drawer and some of them had dried up, so in the bin they went. Jam , well done , I will do books just before we move as I don't want the empty shelves as it will look awful.
I know that most of them will go to the charity shop so am not worried. I think I might leave the loft til the kids can tell ne what they want to keep. I will have to start on the photo books soon.

Grandmaw - I reckon the book is worth the £6.70 it costs to buy on Amazon!
I got one of those bags to fill for charity through my letter box this week and half-filled it ( it was biiig) with work books that got the kondo treatment last week and a few pairs of socks that i never wore did not bring me joy but were OK enough to pass on! Very slow progress, but I think my mindset is shifting re owning "stuff"!
Lobster. If you aren't going to use the album then send it to the chazza! Make sure you have a back-up of the photos on your laptop. You can make a photobook at some later stage if you want or your kids can choose some of the photos and make one for you when you celebrate your 25th anniversary!

NeverFreeze I did a photo book with our wedding photos and I love it :)

Well now I've done the cosmetics! Everything actually fits in the bathroom cupboard. My make up is sorted. I feel like a weight that I didn't even realise was there has been lifted.

YES BeCool I'm exactly the same. I'm like a Kondo bouncer, watching what comes in the house and trying to not let it past the hall table!

Kinder toys are almost instantly chucked unless they are very special. I turned down a free glass in the supermarket that was a freebie with ham as I just knew it would piss me off once I got it home.

Vigilance at all times! Komono is the silent enemy!

I have one of those little chests of drawers in the kitchen where rubber bands, clips for food bags etc should be. As of this afternoon, five drawers contain sensible useful things and the last contains Wierd Bits of Metal and Plastic for MrNC to look at and hopefully chuck but may be vitally important.

Tidied the living room a bit, chucked globs of playdoh/toddler art, started a new charity bag, took photos of a few more things to sell and will list tonight.

I'm not sure how much less stuff I will have, but knowing where useful things are when I need them really is starting to happen! Somewhere there are coat hooks to put on doors so the children can hang more things up...

Letters is pretty much sentimental stuff so needs to be the last thing you do if you need an excuse to stall it?

Havent done anything today but the baby clothes I put on freecycle yesterday have now gone. One less storage bag full of clutter :)

Hubb - good luck with the sleep training! DD slept from 7-6.30 last night!! A miracle - or it felt like it, after a week or more of waking and needing to be laid back down (she's like a jack-in-the-box - when she wakes she stands up!) at 5.45, 6 ,6.10, 6.20am... Now I just need to make sure I go to bed at a reasonable time... speaking of which I must go to bed!

Well done to all making such great Kondo- progress! I've listed about 10 things on ebay and 1 sold already.

I am so of those of you who are nearly finished.

Re. Letters. I think I will keep one or two which make me smile from each person but bin most of them.

I am a bit stuck on a few bits at the moment. I did my jewellery but have a big pile I want to sell and can't work out how to do it. I also have to go through eleventy billion USB sticks to check what is on them before I chuck them.

Hopefully I will do a couple of new categories this weekend, make up and toiletries.

I've stalled a bit and it's very frustrating. We're in the process of swapping the toddlers big bedroom with our small home office and we still need to decorate, get new flooring and a new bed and we have a deadline of the weekend before Christmas... so everything is a bit out of place and it so annoying knowing stuff can't be in its rightfull home until DD's room is finished.

I bought the book a few weeks ago and have kondoed my clothes this morning. Only two bags to go to the charity shop because I had a major clear out earlier this year, but with those gone and with everything folded I now have space to spare in my wardrobe and drawers.
It is also very clear that I need to stop the habit of popping in to Primark when I'm passing by and buying black tights 'just in case'. I'm fairly minimalist and usually reasonably frugal but I have at least a year's worth of black tights to get through before I need to buy any more.

Thank you for that BeCool. Have decided that the jacket brings me no joy and I don,t even think I really like it now , so it's in the charity shop bag!
I've sorted other things - have taken a bag of video tapes to the one remaining charity shop here that still accepts them, but am left with about 35 videos that we recorded off the television. No choice other than to put them in the dustbin although I can recycle the cardboard sleeves. I am dithering over a couple though - Princess Diana's funeral and the TV interview that she did. Worth keeping?
ALittleFaith - will order the book this weekend. think I will need it when I venture into decluttering the loft. There are boxes up there from 30 years ago when we moved into the house- goodness knows what I will unearth!

Grandmaw I bet they are on YouTube! If so then why keep the video?