Kondo thread 8

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New thread for Kondo addicts.

Sorry I can't do all the links that were on the top of thread 7.

Well, talking of dps and getting them on board; last night we spent a happy few hours sorting our bedroom!! Three bin bags of stuff to go in my parents bin (they're away), and two for charity/to give to relatives. Woo hoo! He's also agreed to have a proper sort out of his part of the wardrobe!

I've been working on the building site/garden. The playhouses has been reassembled and dcs are very happy. I'm trying to fill some rubble sacks with wood (for neighbour's wood burner), some with probable rubbish that's ugly, and some with definite rubbish (two added to wheelie bin). Have chipped cement of nearly half the pile of bricks and stacked them neatly.

Exhausted already! My main achievement today is convincing MrNC that even if he does need to go to Ikea this week, he doesn't need to go today. We end up going to the bloody place every couple years and vowing never to go again. He only wants to get some door handles as the place he ordered some from have sent us the wrong size for the second time. They only sell two sizes!

The next two days will be interesting as have to squeeze contents of spare room into the rest of the house so lodger can move in. That includes the filing cabinet...

Shootpeppapig Smash books are good, you can buy pockets for stuff you'd rather not stick down, or there is pocket in the back, and the pages are lovely looking, comes with pen and glue. I like to stick all sorts of paraphernalia in mine... can get them at hobbycraft. Else I put on other thread - cards you can hole punch and put on to ring binders if you don't mind holes in them! else you could make a book out of them by stringing them in the middle? (i haven't found a tutorial but there must be a way, maybe binding yourself with needle and thread?)

cards mini album - nice way of decorating it nicely and putting ring in it

prettymess Some of what MK advises, do sound suspiciously 'woo'.

I couldn't see me thanking items - just seemed ridiculous. That is, until I decided to part with a really emotional item. I hum-ed and ha-ed for a week, although it was worn out, useless and not at all beautiful. Finally, I binned it, but I did say thank you to it, out loud, for the happiness it had given me.

Thanking it, had the psychological effect of giving myself permission to part with it, without the sadness of loss.

So, I now thank everything that has brought me past happiness, leaving me happy memories.

Checking in here as I've ordered the book after lurking on these threads. I'm not normally found on the good house keeping boards as I'm a slattern but I'm interested in this as I'm trying to stay organised and uncluttered in a new ish house.

I do find myself not throwing stuff out for silly reasons. Mostly related to who bought it for me etc. So I'm interested in techniques to get over that.

hi and welcome!

I'm a new convert! Downloaded the audio book to listen to whilst commuting, I've got about a quarter of the way through it so far. I'm studying Toyota Lean Management on a course at work so this book this in really well!

I have managed to do all my clothes, all DH's clothes and some of teenage DD1's this weekend and have filled 6 bin bags for recycling plus two for charity. My drawers are now a thing of beauty thanks to YouTube. I've got this week off work so I'm hoping to make some serious progress...

I'm fairly over your festival of tidiness this week, Knapp
I've just got tomorrow at home to get as far as I can with the papers and Komodno...

Hi KnappShappeyShipwright - just had to post to admire your username! I'm a biiig fan.

The plastic toy workbench from the garden left today. The water table left yesterday.
Trying to offload the old trike but no luck so far. May put it out the front with a free sign on and see what happens.

The little tikes cube and rocking horse are due to be collected next week maybe.
That should reduce the amount of crap on the garden especially when Dh wants to mow the lawn.

Hello, thought I'd check in. I read regularly though post less often. This thread has been hugely helpful for maintaining momentum.

Someone asked whether to gather together categories as found for later kondoing. I have found this useful. If its obviously out just get rid, as you say. But the categories approach is helpful in stopping it from being overwhelming, keeping you focussed and not haphazard, and not allowing you to ignore anything. The difficult to decide or categorise items become more and more obvious. Those things I spent my previous life moving round and round because they didn't have an obvious home. They stick out more and more until you have to decide. No more avoidance/denial!

My hallway is actually becoming visible! I took more stuff out to the bin the other day and said to DH that it was becoming clearer. He is a bit "meh" about it but I can definitely see a start to an end.
I am going to run the Hoover around upstairs when I finish my night shift before I go to bed. I may also strip underneath DDs bed as I keep running out of time for that. DS is at a sleep over so can't do anything with him until possibly Wednesday but the little monster spilled Blackcurrant juice all over his new mattress/ bed, sheets, duvet and pillows yesterday (?Sunday?) and didn't tell anyone so I found it at 14:10 when we were frantically trying to reassemble the little grot bags bedroom as we were going out and due at MiL's at 14:00.
I actually ranted at him properly in front of his friend about how I was going to get rid of all of his consoles as I keep putting them away and had left him for 1 night and he had EVERY SINGLE DRAWER AND EVERY SINGLE GAME OUT on his floor. Plus the wet bed, plus a load of sweets. I pointed out to him that every time I have to stop what I'm doing, something else doesn't get done and asked him how he felt not being able to sit I. The front room as the ironing is spreading.
Think it may have dawned on him that he needs to buck his ideas up a bit.
Really want to get some ironing done tomorrow. It's doing my head in!

Gibble- how old is your Ds? It must be so frustrating to have inconsiderate kids/teens it's bad enough with little ones and a messy dp who's not exactly setting the best example...

I have it in my head that we need to be completely kondoed while our kids are still very young... Then maybe I have half a chance of controlling the mess when they're teens?! Argh!

In my experience (grandmother here - demonstrating sucking eggs!) not many items need ironing today. Most have some man-made content, making them easy-care.

If clean items are folded carefully when they have dried, they stay crease-free, especially those in knitted fabrics - tee shirts, underwear, school uniform etc.

If the laundry has been dried and jumbled in a basket, (ie creased), it can be uncreased, usually, by tumble drying with a clean, damp tea towel, and folded immediately it finiishes.

I hardly ever have to iron anything. I gave up buying clothes that needed it, over 30 years ago. Five children! Hubby ironed his own shirts.

Zippidydoodah I heartily agree!

I think it's important that parents, even SAHMs, are not treated as everyone else's servant. We have to differentiate between caring for our families or slaving for them.

Just kondoed a big chunk of my mortgage this morning. I was rich for a week!

IQueen, I wish! Even when ironed, my clothes don't look pressed :(. Got straight out of the dryer and folded they crease, even as I take brand new jeans from the dryer after first wash, they have a permanent crease down the legs. I don't overload the machines and was at 40, TD on low heat.
DS is 11. DD is 13. I swear they go along behind me purposely emptying stuff out. It certainly feels like they are doing it to spite me!
I'm off to sleep now as DH has put DD's mattress back on her bed and I need to build strength to shift it and attack the mess.
I went into the loft a couple of days ago, Lordy!

Iqueen, managed to kondo mine completely 2 years ago. It's lovely not having to pay one. It means I can afford to go out and buy what we need when we need it (like clothes and ikea furniture ).

Gibble1, bad luck with the children, and the ironing!

Great for you to be mortgage-free. I still have to deal with a shortfall next year.

We're going to be mortgage free for a couple of weeks before taking on a new one for our new house. Glad to know it feels nice!

Flagging with the motivation side of things at the moment so if anyone has any clever tricks to help me find out again please share! Usually reading all of your progress is enough but I guess tiredness is winning right now.

Having a date for our move would help too but we only find out two weeks before.

GrouchyKiwi

First, catch up on your sleep - you can't be efficient if you're knackered!

If you can't get motivated for proper (fast) kondoing, just discard stuff that is definitely not movinging into your new place.

Try to find places/boxes/drawers/cupboards where doomed junk may be hiding. No point at all in giving unwanted stuff an expensive ride to your new home.

Those black bags stacking up in the hall will should your motivation a boost!

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Look! Looooook at my beautiful sock drawer

Ooh beautiful, Bertie!

Thanks for the ideas, iqueen. Getting more sleep is contingent on the baby playing ball which she absolutely isn't right now!

Thanks for the welcome - I haven't got as far as I would've liked today as I ended up being taxi driver for assorted children. So far, 10 bin bags of clothes for charity or ragging (including the giant teddy that was won at a raffle & no one wanted) and three boxes of books. Can't wait to get back to it later!

Hi everyone, I think I missed nearly an entire thread. Between work and bugs, Kondoing has been nonexistent here. However I'm determined to get back on track. Our kitchen table has disappeared under a mound of ironing so I need to unearth it.
On the plus side, DH has finally got into a routine for ironing his shirts and removing them from the sitting room - hurrah! After all my moaning about it on previous threads, it just suddenly happened.
DS' room is still tidy. In fact the teacher had asked his class to tidy their bedrooms as a random act of kindness and he said he didn't need to do it because his room is always tidy. Praise be to MK as that wasn't the case before we started this process