Kondo thread 10

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Just noticed the old thread was full, so hope no one minds me starting the new one

With clothes, if it's an item I know is likely to sell for a good price I ebay them, if they don't sell in the first 7 days I don't relist them, they go straight to charity. Before I'd stick everything on ebay, now there might be 4 or 5 items from a whole bin bag, so I am improving...

Right, ladies, I have a day to kondo my DD' and my clothes.
Let me see if I remember correctly:
Everything in a heap.
I touch each and every one of them and see if they spark joy.
If they're not, out they go ( might FB them).
Folding.
The wardrobe: the longest on the left, the shortest on the right (does this work if the wardrobe opens from left to right too?

What am I missing?

Embarassingly I need to clear a path to the chest of drawers in the loft bedroom before I can start Kondoing my clothes. The stuff in there was "unneeded for now" due to me being 6 months pregnant when we moved into our house and was too small or sports related so I need to see if any of it sparks joy rather than just ditching it.

DDs clothes are easy. If they fit they spark joy because she won't have to go naked if we have 2 explosive days in a row! Some suit better than others but anything that works sparks joy at the moment. Will also keep the too small stuff in case a second is possible in the future!

Not many of my oldest daughter's clothes spark joy for me. She has so much stuff bought for her, which I would never have chosen ungrateful she's six, and knows what sparks joy for herself, I suppose. She's at school though and I've just hauled out all of her stuff and put it in piles all over the room! What to do? Keep stuff I know she absolutely loves, even if I dont, and get rid of the stuff she's indifferent to? So hard.

Hi everyone!
I've missed quite a few of the Kondo threads but am almost back in the zone...I'm there mentally but just need some free time to get on with actual discarding!!
I am about to have replacement units in my kitchen. The new layout is going to free up an alcove which I'd like to turn into a pantry-type cupboard. The space is approx 60cm X 60cm X 200cm (a touch bigger than a fridge freezer).
Any Kondo-style fittings suggestions? I want to store my cylinder vacuum and IKEA highchairs in there (preferably with the legs on because they're used almost daily by childminded children). At the moment, I'm thinking swallowish shelves around the three walls with a space in the middle for the vacuum and highchairs.
Also, my George foreman machine avoided last year's cull because paninis/toasties made in it are lush. However, I'm now wondering if I can do them another way. I don't like doing them under the grill...I like that the GF squashes them. I have a bakestone and wondering if there's something I can put on top to squash the sandwich down.

Hi all, I know I'm really late to Kondo-ing but have just decided to start. My main problem is that sooo much stuff isn't just mine, so how do you deal with those things? I can sort out DD's stuff (she's 2) but DH and the boys tend to hoard things and I don't feel it's my place to start chucking stuff that doesn't belong to me.

Zippidy would your 6 yr old DD be old enough to help pick out clothes that bring her joy?

Even if she's not, I'd be inclined to keep stuff you know she absolutely loves, regardless of how you feel about it.

I kondo'd DDs (4) clothes with her.
She was very good at sorting things that she knows don't fit her and she also discarded a few things that bring me joy but she really doesn't like because they are woollen, which she finds spicy! (she means spiky I think )
We are both happy with what we have left and I know that when she gets herself dressed we'll both be happy with what she chooses.
it is possible I might have discarded the minion xmas jumper without her seeing

Thanks, stitches; yes, she is old enough, but loves everything! 😄 I have kept ev everything that I know she loves but have a big pile of stuff that no longer fits, and am going to go through sub categories with her at the weekend (eg denim jeggings, of which she has loads!)

Think my children definitely have my hoarderish tendencies 😔

zippidy at 6 she should def be involved- you might be surprised by what she easily discards, if not this time, next time you and she go through it together.
And the same for sugar- I really believe the stuff MK writes about just kondoing your own stuff, and seeing what happens. I think someone else disappearing your stuff makes you want to hold onto it for dear life! One of the things kondoing gives you is a calm confidence in your own judgement, which I think is part of the amazing lack of regret thing. Only you know what you love, and there is purity to that. I think kondoing with kids should be done in the same spirit as helping a friend Kondo. Trust their judgement, and they will live up to that, if not immediately, then very soon. I thought my son was too young at 2.5 but he really isn't- he makes considered decisions, and doesn't regret them. But if I try to just disappear stuff, then we get into big fights and grief.

Hello Kondo vipers!

May I just call in to gloat say that I have just finished paperwork?

It is now all contained within one Really Useful filing box, leaving me with one spare Really Useful filing box, a spare set of 4 plastic drawers, two box files and two lever arch files (binned) and at least two empty drawers around the house.

Paperwork is my least favourite thing, the thing that really builds up and makes a mess in our house. I am ridiculously pleased with myself .

Wuthering and Witchscat thanks for that. I don't have an ebay account but a friend does so I might see if she would put it on for me and split the proceeds if there are any. As car boots are the exact opposite of spark joy for me I will donate to charity if there are no takers.

Oh lord don't car boot it! (Unless it genuinely does spark joy!) I used to wait until I had several car fulls of crap donations but recently I've been taking stuff as soon as I have it even if it's just one bag or box. It's great to get it out of the house immediately

I wouldn't dream of "disappearing" any of her clothes without her agreement! just the endless tiny bits of plastic party bag tat that won't be missed

Zippidy plastic party tat rarely makes it into the house.
I figured with the xmas jumper she might have forgotten about it by next year...
Unfortunately she still vividly remembers a girl with the same unusual name as her who she met at the park and shared sweets with three years ago when she was 18 months old.
She's going to remember the jumper isn't she!

One a different note how many of you, in your kitchen storage, decant things like rice, pasta, cereal into jars?
I love the look of it and I seem to have a substantial collection of jars but I don't know how practical it really is, and if they're just going to be in a cupboard should I bother?

I use airtight tubs for our cereal because the kids seem incapable of closing boxes, but that's it so far...

I'm so motivated that I went out in HAIL to clothes bank some binbags! I'm doing coats in the morning, which will be odd as there's only one I can honestly say I love and it's slightly too small for me right now. If I really am committed to this, I'll probably be saying goodbye to over a dozen coats...

Think how tidy your cost cupboard will be!

I kondo'd our coat cupboard at the weekend - it's so lovely and organised!

That does look lovely!!

I have a variety of kinetic jars I decant stuff into, I much prefer the look of that to scrappy plastic packets which I've torn when opening (every time)

I have everything in mismatched glass jars which seal properly, just because we get food moths if not, and it's all open shelves in our kitchen, so plastic bags look especially delightful... I don't think I'd bother if we had cupboards and no pests. DP definitely wouldn't!

zippidy and wotheting sorry for being pious! I was thinking aloud, partly. Heaven defend us all from plastic tat!!! We are only just reaching party bag age, I don't know I'm born...

LEVITICUS tell me you hearts greatest desire and I will ensure you can have it.

My OH is the hoarder. We have papers going back 47 years. I do not think He has every thrown out any papers since the day we married. He has a great fat file called Car Stuff. We have not owned a car for 5 years but it has records of every car we have owned.

I have been slowly and subtle working on him regarding other things but the paperwork is his security blanket. In another attempt I read out your post.
I have almost fainted at his response.

I think it's time I got rid of all of our stuff in the wardrobes. I never even said WTF there is no OUR. I just said Ok.

Just to clarify, the 'stuff In our wardrobes' he means, is not clothes. The wardrobes are fitted wardrobes in the spare room, floor to ceiling, 8 feet wide, crammed with papers.

Coats were simple in the end. I now have a little jacket to sell, two coats and two blazers in the clothes bank bag, and three coats for my friend who runs charity bazaars. There was one I'd been holding onto for ages because it's beautiful but the itchy felty material it's made from brings my neck out in a rash. It's actually such a relief to see it go!

Tonight - socks. Should be an easy one.