Kondoing this and kondoing that - thread 4 for Marie Kondo's lifechanging magic with tidying. All welcome!

[TheSporkforeatingkyriarchy]

Here's thread 4 for all the KonMario converts, wannabes, and guests to the magic!

Thread 3

Wow the thread is nearly full and I can't keep up with all the posting/kondoing that everyone's doing!

Tomorrow, in an effort to streamline my kitchen cupboards, I am going to have a year old packet of cous cous..trying to use up the stuff I don't buy on a regular basis. But yes it is going that slowly that I'm excited about kondoing cous cous

ItIsn'tJustAPhase - I love the idea of fudge magnets - in fact I'm wondering if I might be one! It somehow just finds its way into my mouth!

Difficult day here - no real Kondoing but on the plus side I have survived!

Wow the thread is nearly full and I can't keep up with all the posting/kondoing that everyone's doing!

Tomorrow, in an effort to streamline my kitchen cupboards, I am going to have a year old packet of cous cous..trying to use up the stuff I don't buy on a regular basis. But yes it is going that slowly that I'm excited about kondoing cous cous

Sadly no fudge magnets. Only fridge magnets!

I definitly don't have 37 items of clothing either but will strive to resolve that

Ugh, baby waking earlier each day (5.30 weds, 5.15 yday, 4.45 today - ) is sapping my energy/enthusiasm for Kondoing... but at least the stuff I have listed on ebay is selling bit by bit - so as long as I keep on top of p&p then things are leaving the house.

Also I had to empty my 'present' cupboard, (that was a mass of clutter because I'd added to it as I found presents stored elsewhere as other areas were MKed) looking for a small Lego set I'd sold, so thats 1 job ticked off as its now repacked neatly. Now I need to make sure I look in the cupboard and use up the presents instead of buying other things instead!

I can't keep up with the thread! Sounds like you are all doing really well, I need to get back on it. It occurred to me last night that things I kept because they are useful eg potato peeler but that don't work very well bring rage not joy so they will be replaced asap.
Hermione that's good advice about getting trousers altered, I am going to look out for a local dressmaker.

Fudge magnets!

Mmmm... Fudge...

TheSpork I completely relate to your comment about DP. When I'm Kondoing, DP generally starts tidying or washing up; and he's very appreciative of how tidy the house is becoming BUT any time I ask his opinion about an item in common (eg DCs' dinner plates; kitchen utensils) DH always says 'we can't throw/give them away'.

I'm struggling with it because the kitchen is shared territory iyswim but he is completely resistant to Kondoing it. So far I've only managed a food cupboard and the messy kitchen drawer. I think I'm going to have to pack items away for a few months and see if he notices, then Kondo accordingly.

JKSLtd, MIL and BIL both have this guest bed and I can confirm that it's pretty comfy.

This morning, DH said
"I want to do to my drawers what you've done to yours" . I have said nothing about having done mine, but it appears the Kondo effect is contagious.

I have another two small bags for the charity shop, plus an enormous serving bowl that we only ever use if we have guests AND we're serving Eton Mess - it's too big for anything else, but was a present. I am struggling with guilt about ditching a few unwanted Christmas presents, so have decided to display them ostentatiously in front of the givers until Easter, and then "have a rearrange" ie Charity shop run.

Gertrude - do you think if you so clearly love the unwanted presents then you'll get more of them next year?

woollyjumpers the chucking out is great, but IME the folding is the really life changing bit. It is a more efficient use of space (I got 3 drawers into 2 even after discarding stuff), and you can see everything you've got in one go. I have fewer clothes now but wear everything I have because nothing is languishing at the bottom of a pile.

But if you hang around these threads long enough you'll be Konverted

woolly in my experience we buy books don't take everything. Mainly things they will get a good price for. So not good for v low value. They need to make a profit.

I would have suggested charity shop, as they can sit on shelf until a buyer comes, unlike at a jumble sale where windows of opportunity is limited iyswim. Not sure where else after that.

If pressed on where something is I'm trying to perfect the self deprecating shrug, oh you know how chaotic life is I'm not exactly sure at the moment.
Which isn't a lie

Thanks for the bed links. I've had a good look and although I really like that JL one (would get that myself) I think they'd be better off with 2 singles that zip together. The trundles don't look like they work brilliantly as a double and id be worried about dh sleeping on some of them I've seen. I don't like the metal frame daybeds - PIL have one. Despite the bed being big and comfy the metal walls around the head end were not nice.

So I was looking at a site divan something that has v reasonably priced zip togethers that make 6 ft beds. Hopefully that'll point her in the right direction. Though I know she won't want to order online. So a physical shop tip would be good?

leeloo DH's family all have rather, um, esoteric taste, and make a point of never asking what we want for presents. The komodo keeps arriving regardless, so I prefer to make a vague attempt at sparing their feelings.

Had a nc recently, but I'm still here!

Today was supposed to be my first 'proper' Kondoing day after the Christmas break, free of children and caught up on work stuff but, I woke with a migraine!

I have took my special tablets, which enabled me to do the school run and supermarket on the way home, but it can feel it again, I so desperately want to sleep, but the last few kitchen drawers are calling - I am soooo cross!

At least putting the shopping away is easy now, I won't say it makes me joyful, but it brings joy that I am not shuffling and wedging things in!

Very impressed with the furniture Kondoing, not sure that I could do it.

Does anyone get a bit anxious about parts that still need to be done, a sort of wanting to get on with it, bit dreading it? I feel like that about my books and also some shelves in the ensuite which have towels and toiletries all over them, I know I will feel great when they are done, but seem to be putting it off for stone unfathomable reason.

Swimming (I used to be Just Keep Swimming ) - I can totally relate. Mil has take dd out, the boys are at school, fil can sort himself out. And I'm not going to visit dh today (they are) so I should really be getting back on the wagon.
I'm currently back in bed with the 2 cats!

I must get up and do something.

Don't tempt me Jks,?the cat is up on the bed waiting!

I have instead, pulled myself together, taken two 'other' tablets that won't react with the earlier ones, put a load of washing in - I like everyone else am short on knickers!, put the shopping away, made a coffee and am just about to attempt the last two drawers of my otherwise tidyish (a few bits of junk have infiltrated kitchen.

Get up JKS!!! You will regret that wasted time later and be thinking 'what have I actually done today?!' Then again, if it brings you joy..........

Hope you feel better soon Swimming!

I'm anxious over certain areas, especially as the other areas get done so it's starting to feel like I can't avoid doing them much longer. Today's dreaded project of under the storage area/play area (which as a real pain to get under and quite frustrating seeing so many things having been dropped and kicked under there) has been on my mind for ages and while it wasn't as painful as I feared thanks to little helpers, iAnotht's a few more boxes into the table room to be sorted and it was a bit gross in places and most of all it felt frustrating as it's mostly not mine - it's a million tiny toy and wrappers that those little helpers unhelpfully dropped or kicked under there. I'm taking a break & will box some more things for sorting later when I feel better.

Another source of frustration is the self pity party my brain keeps trying to bring in and feeling like I'm the only one who cares at all if this all gets clean. I know it's not true and I know that even if it just benefits me it will be good, but when I cleaned under the storage area and saw toys and cups and such had been shoved in the centre bit that I'd already cleaned out so should have nothing but storage in it, it as very draining and disheartening for me. Trying to perk myself up a bit now with a bit of reading and catching up with all of you guys .

woolly MK reckons that in the space taken to hang 10 items of clothing, you can store 20-40 folded items. In most cases air cannot circulate because wardrobes are over stuffed with hangers! She's also a big fan of the process of folding, unlike shoving something on a hanger you have to lay your hands on an item to fold it properly - I've already chucked a couple of things that on folding properly I found to have holes, stains etc that I'd not noticed before .

Spork that does sound demoralising. It's really difficult for DC to learn to be tidy if there aren't systems in place to help them I.e. Not too much stuff in the first place, clear places for different things to go, and clear routines for tidying stuff away. The Kondoing will help with this though it might not seem like it at the moment!

Not sure I'll get much done today, busy day at work plus extra marking for GCSE mocks.
Tomorrow will be a good day though, am also doing January Cure which is working well in conjunction with this. They focus on different things but are complementary (Jan Cure also about hous itself and fixing things that are broken, moving furniture around etc)

Have Kondoed a lot of xmas sweets to the staff room at work, can't keep eating like this!

Emergency new thread here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/good_housekeeping/2277726-Become-a-Konvert-in-2015-Kondo-thread-5-All-welcome

Realised I was about to fill this one and thought I'd do the honours!