KONDO Thread 9

[Iqueen]

Kondo your Home and your Life. Live the JOY!

Hello. I am new to Kondo-ing! Tried a bit of folding earlier. My tshirts are very floppy. Does this mean I just need to fold smaller?

Ticket, either fold smaller or hang. Some materials just don't stand up very well. (Viscose, silk, fine wool, ...)

ticket try the MK youtube vids for folding, I do a sort of fold in three then a roll and some I hang up if I think that is better

Help please fellow Kondo-ers!

Today I moved on to 'nightwear'. I've sorted out according to the usual principles and have managed to get rid of one black bag (yes...I had a lot!) which will now go to charity or for clothes recycling depending on its state.

The question I have is that I'm now ready to fold and put the remaining nightwear back into the drawer but not sure where to start with such a mixed drawer....my nightwear is made up of:

• PJ bottoms
• PJ tops
• Little silky nighties

I also store gym gear on the other side of the (large) drawer so this consists of:

• gym bottoms
• gym tops without sleeves
• jackets/hoodies that I wear at the gym
• sports bras

How would you organise this drawer?

Hello! I read the book and am going to get started.

One question first - is it vital to work through stuff in the recommended order? The book says clothes first, but the chest of drawers in my room has been buried behind a book mountain. There's nowhere else to put the books where they won't be massively in the way.

Am I going to mess kondo-ing all up if I do books first?

Stumblymonkey you definitely need dividers! I found larger shoeboxes worked well for this kind of stuff. So pj tops and bottoms on left. Then I'd have box in front with silky nighties and 1 behind with sports bras. Then either gym jackets/tops/bottoms from front to back, or in separate boxes - depending how many you have. Any help? :)

Leeloo...I think you're probably right. I can't use dividers as the drawer is too large.

Sadly I don't have any spare boxes...I might have to buy some of the IKEA (or similar) cloth boxes to use.

Well, you could just give it a go without boxes and see how everything holds up? Maybe nighties in front of pjs so they all hold upright and sports bras in front of other sportswear?

stitches I'm new here too. I have had to declutter more than clothes in order to get space to start kondo-ing. So I'm treating it as a preliminary. I have done my knicker drawer though. Also when I was cooking dinner tonight I had a little blast at the junk cupboard just to pass time.

Did some book decluttering tonight after the kids were tucked up in bed. I don't have a room big enough to put every book in the house on the floor, so I've just started with a sub-category of "fiction books I've already read" - most of which are in alphabetical order in bookcases downstairs - a shelf at a time.

There's a bootful of books to go to the charity shop already, and still lots of untouched shelves to go through. Hopefully this will make some room for any keepers from the book mountain in the bedroom.

I love books too. I used to love looking at my full bookshelf. I'm down to about 15 now.

I have 6 sacks for the charity shop, plus someone is collecting a sack of bedding that the shop won't sell but would be a shame just to go for rags. All my ex-lodger's stuff, though, not mine. I've sold a couple items on eBay, but mostly decorating atm.

My local supermarket is always giving away wine boxes, which cut down a bit might make good toy storage for dd, as all her actual storage crates keep being used as beds for cuddly toys.

How much can I Kondo tomorrow for a charity shop trip on Thursday?! The paperwork is starting to reduce to sensible size - do I really need records of how much pensions funds were each year, or just the latest statement?

15 books altogether?

I don't think I'm quite ready for that yet!

Yes 15 books. I do miss my packed looking shelves but I am overall happier having less 'stuff' in the house.
citrus can you photograph documents you are in two minds about?

Still loving Kondoing but I'm hopeless at doing it in the right order and to my shame I must confess I am starting to look a bit more location than category.

Still trying to do category as much as poss and tick bits off on the KonMari checklist linked earlier in the thread, but I can't do paperwork until I tackle the shed with DH, where it is all in boxes in a "to burn" pile. So I suppose we have sort of gone through it already, but I want to recheck everything before it gets burnt because we have lost our marriage certificate and a birth certificate!

Other than that I think everyone in the household is enjoying the declutter process and I'm learning to say no to unwanted gifts. Firmly.

Hi all. I'm about to give this a shot. Is there a view on whether its better to buy the ebook or the book. Will Kondoing mean I just have to give the book away after Ive read it anyway?!

Stumbly: advise don't buy anything yet. Just put them in the drawer in sections (what I did). Then as the next areas were done I found solutions that fixed the issues. Plus I also decided I wanted certain things in different places to what I thought originally.

Redhat: I have the real book because I wanted my husband to read it afterwards. Some like being able to quickly refer back to sections, which is maybe easier with pages. However ebook is more in the spirit of the thing!

Illness here so decluttering paused after books and papers completed (well 99%).
Loft has space in it. Garage has hope and the storage facility quotes have all been declined! 2 car loads to recycling centre / tip. 2 car loads to charity. 1 car load to mil new flat.
£143 made on eBay this month!

Need to get back in the zone and finish papers (gift wrap and cards and packaging) and then I must do toiletries.
Finding the UK Facebook page very helpful.

Just posting because I've fallen off the thread. Looks like we are going to have to start a new one soon though anyway!

I am considering doing grownups books this weekend.

We have so so many.

We have got rid of several boxes before but we've never done the 'put them AAAALLLin one place and do it' thing. Now my husband has read Kondo I am more confident we will really do it this time.

Many, many of our books are in the converted loft which is shelved out. There is not room up there to spread them all out, so I think realistically we have to take down two flights of stairs. I suspect the prospect of lugging them back up will help decision making considerably.

I'm already scared. I suspect doing it in one go will be enter for us than doing it by category though.

Spotted today. Thought it might amuse you.

Thanks nan0...sounds like a good idea. For now I have just folded and put back without using any dividers.

So far I've done socks/tights, underwear, gym clothes and nightwear.

I've done books but I still have quite a lot left so think I may have to re-do them at some point further down the line....

Next category will be tops and skirts I think.

Allgunsblazing: We gave that book to MIL as a christmas present with the Kondo book on top of it (so you would see it first) as a joke; the Kondo book was for us ;) She LOLed ;)

Right...have a day off today. Have lazed around this morning but will definitely be getting my Kondo on this afternoon!

Planning on doing tops, skirts and trousers...dresses will need to be a seperate category as I have so many!

My problem is that I have a lot of smaller size clothes (14) which I'm aiming to get back into (currently size 18). My size 14s include a lot of lovely things like LK Bennett.....get rid or not?

Hold the smaller clothes and see- do they bring you joy, really? Or do they impart a sense of dissatisfaction at being too small, frustration at not fitting etc? If they truly spark joy and hope rather than a dispiriting sense of failure (which too-small clothes do for me) then keep- otherwise, donate.