KONDO Thread 9

[Iqueen]

Kondo your Home and your Life. Live the JOY!

So have done it!! 2 big bags to the charity shop ( thats only from one and a half wardrobes!!,
Shoesand boots also done but still have the jeans etc to do at bottom of 2nd wardrobe) but feeling so much better about having space ( and lots of spare hangers) I was ruthless but still ended up rescuing a Laura Ashley shirt and a Boden tunic before handing bag over.

I have kept some nice summer stuff Ireally love thats only a little too small...

T shirt, bra and knickers drawers next ( but not today ) . I also have too much fitness gear (but the loved 'small' clothes pile should be an incentive to get that stuff out and restart couch to 5k and exercise classes again )

prettyness Im going to get itl , Kindle or paperback do you think ?

I got paperback because if I want to find something again it's much easier than on kindle imo

Yeah I have little sticky tabs in my paperback version to find important pages!

Definitely read - the whole thing makes sense when done by category, each category done in one go

I feel like my kondoing has slowed down a bit. I have now done all my clothes (my beautifully ordered drawers and wardrobe are really bringing me joy), but would like to get what I can of the DCs clothes done as well.

I'm going to leave the actual garments to them to do when and if they feel moved to do them but think that I could get them to make decisions on footwear, hats, gloves etc without too much difficulty, so we're slowly working through that.

There are a couple of boxes with wheels on under my bed with their Winter accessories in which we need to go through, but footwear is more or less done. One of the shoe shops near us takes second hand shoes, but I was reluctant to take a whole binbag in (especially when I don't shop there!), so just got rid of a carrier bag's worth today.

I have about 5 bin bags ready for the charity shop, but due to ferrying children about have failed to take them today.

I have 5 binbags of old school uniform but can't get rid of that till the new term.

I'll be ready to do books soon but my local charity shop has specifically said they don't want books as they already have lots so I'm not quite sure where to take them. I may have to look further afield.

I'm slightly reluctant to do more sorting until I've got more of the discards out of the house.

Sometimes libraries take old books if they're in ok condition.

www.anybook.biz/help-your-library.php

If you are happy to donate your books you can help your local library.
Anybook will collect free of charge.

These are really good for underwear if you have ikea wardrobes. www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S39011074/

I've been using them for almost 10 years. Before DCs I always wore matching underwear, and each compartment can hold a bra and corresponding pants.

Hello, can I join in?

I've read this thread and have watched loads of MK videos on YouTube, I think I'm going to love this!

I already did a big clothes declutter in May and chucked out half my wardrobe, but there are still loads of clothes I have that I just feel so 'meh' about, so I guess they need to go!

I also have a fair bit of weight to lose and I will not chuck out 'joyful' smaller clothes, I have some of those vacuum storage bags that I will store the special clothes by size in, label the bags and put them away to try on in six months. Sound ok?

I'm struggling with categories, it would seem easier to do "by cupboard/room" but I know this is not the system! I have things like DIY tools, are they just kimono? Everything now seems to be kimono! I did so well with clothes, books, DVD and lots of kitchen equipment. Even toys. But now stalled.

Komono is much too big a category - chez Honu it's much more than half the contents of the house!

Create your own categories - we have had success with 'Jigsaw puzzles', 'Computer hardware' (masses went then), 'Electrical leads', 'Old teaching resources' to name but a few.

Thanks for the book suggestions Changeling and JKS, I will look into those.

Does anyone have any good ideas on how to store necklaces? Mine are all in a box, but keep getting tangled.

I now have 5 bin-bag charity bags ready to go (though having never driven new large car, I'm too frit to try to get to the charity shop which requires ace parking skills... even before trying to stop any small children running away or the car being nicked while going back and forth.)
Two bags for trip up North in a couple weeks, to be given to certain people.

Large bag of food has been Freecycled successfully, so kitchen cupboards are free of stuff we just aren't going to eat.

Greymalkin - welcome, and sounds fine if you're sure you really like all the smaller clothes, especially if you have space to shove them out of the way for now.

Now, what's the chances of getting the kids to do a "treasure hunt" to match up all the bits of nice puzzles/games/toys that are distributed all over the house...?

Fun - I have put hooks on the inside of my wardrobe doors for necklaces. Works a treat.

Thanks Honu. I suspect Marie doesn't have a DIY cupboard at all! (Never mind a jigsaw one!)

Just dropped off 5 bin bags of clothes, bags and shoes with a neighbour who works at a local charity shop. Joy!

Another new convert here. I bought the book months ago but have only started implementing it over the last few weeks and I'm totally hooked.

So far I have done my clothes, ds2's clothes, the outgrown baby clothes, and Dh has even done his clothes (with my help).

I work full-time and have 2 dcs so it wont happen over night but I've found that it actually takes less time than you think.

I love looking at my organised wardrobe and drawers and am actually starting to see improvements in small corners of the house.

Last night I did my books (dh's are another story) and discarded so much more than I would have previously, simply by deciding which to keep rather than which to discard.

It's slightly easier for me, I suppose, as my db owns a secondhand bookshop, so I'm happy to help him out.

I saw an ad looking for old costume jewelry and beads etc for a youth art project so that prompted me to kondo my jewelry at the weekend and I now have a bag to donate.

I know it sounds nuts but now that I've started the process, it feels as though opportunities to get rid of stuff are presenting themselves.

Marie definitely doesn't have a diy cupboard, or children, though, and she might not approve of the set of painting clothes I kept (they are folded, though).

Painting clothes kept here too!

Hello VeryThing and Buffy, fingers crossed KonMari can get us sorted.

Question for those more experienced at sorting clothes - what do you classify as 'hanging clothes'? I was thinking dresses and button down shirts as otherwise they would be full of creases...

And do you really make an enormous heap of all your clothes before starting? I've actually empty all drawers, wardrobe, coat pegs, laundry baskets etc I'm worried that if I do this it will create chaos as I won't have long enough to sort it all. I have images of the cats making a nest in it, or DS playing in the clothes heap!

My hanging clothes are pretty much all dresses! If I had shirts I expect they'd be there too.

I made a mahoosive pile of clothes. It was great. Also bought home to me the scale of the problem, quite literally

My hanging clothes were almost all dresses, some skirts, shirts and, because I had room in my wardrobe after all the discarding, coats and jackets.

I think, ideally, it's best to pull all the clothes out as once you see how many you have you're really motivated to prune them. However if you can't do this then do all your tops, then all your trousers, all your "hanging clothes" etc. there is an approved Konmari order but I can't remember it.

There was also the motivation that if it's not in the pile, it goes- forced me to dig out cardis discarded on the back seat of the car etc. Oh, cardis were hanging clothes as well!

That's great, thanks all. I did my sock/underwear drawer today - it's now half empty and beautifully folded.

I have a child free day tomorrow, so will start in Ernest on the wardrobe...

Greymalkin was that capitalisation accidental or deliberate? I have visions of poor Ernest trapped in your wardrobe awaiting your wicked plans for tomorrow!