There are a couple of styles of decluttering, including the originals I used to watch, i.e., hoarders. In this style, you create three piles of throw, sell or keep.
There are many people, like our dear Yam, whose spiritual journey means neither her mind or her space is cluttered. I admire her. I know I clutter, from my days teaching I never threw anything out as we used toilet paper rolls for crafts, and you never know. I retired in 2007. I finally got rid of my teaching materials I kept for years. I just deleted my teaching and book blogs. It was time.
Marie Kondo is a hoot. She's been on all the talk shows for her #1 New York Times best-selling book, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up." First you give thanks to your space. Then you purge your clothes, then your books, papers, and miscellaneous treasures, thanking them for their service. The question is, "Do they give you joy?" The key feature is not to go room-by-room, as many advocate, attacking them one at a time. Kondo advocated that you declutter by category. She has an interesting style for putting shirts in drawers.
Now, I can see this in Japan. Our kids did an Around the World Tour and rented an AirBnB apartment there for a week. It was SO small. You have to do this: be conscious of clutter in small spaces. Condo living is different.Gained two dresser drawers worth of space by folding this way. #mykonmari pic.twitter.com/QQnRllvw2H— Traci (@mstraciwheeler) January 19, 2019
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| Osaka, hostel The beds fold up for the daytime. |
The Tokyo AirBnB stove had never been used, the kids thought, and the oven didn't fit anything much larger than Caitlin's passport!
They are all wonderful protocols. I've been working to clean up. I've lacked a certain amount of motivation. It's true that we gardeners and naturalists exploit summer for outdoor play, especially with the recent freeze/thaw and snowstorms. I should have been doing indoor work, but...
I did really well in the basement. We won't be having Gramma Camp for awhile, perhaps until summer. I figured it was a good time to reorganize. We had time around Christmas with all 4 of our granddaughters, the younger two were here for a visit, there was a bit of chaos left.There are reasons this retired teacher has three antique school desks! Izzy loves playing school.
(You'll note those 6 boxes of books beside the piano, all my books that remain unsold. I've been using them, sans covers, for kindling.)
It's a quirky living room. How many people have a caterpillar in their living room? The cats, over the years, have loved it.
It took me 18 years to change the living room around, but then I lobbied 6 years for a new carpet! My chair used to be in front of the window, but now I can face it and still watch the birds.
Books are Kondo's big deal. We love our books, but do pass them on to the library for their book sales.
How about you? Do you have an urge to purge?!ha-ha, someone decluttered their house of Marie Kondo #valuevillage pic.twitter.com/DgyBX2GcpJ— Michael Winter (@michaelwinter34) February 16, 2019
8 comments:
Oh Marie Kondo. I've read her book, watched one show. It's always harder to purge when there's adequate space for everything. As far as books, no way. I've already given away hundreds of books and the hundreds that are remaining will go with us to our new home when we sell our farm and move this year. Thanks for stopping in at Cranberry Morning!
I let go of the last of my teaching resources last year. That included all the primary boojs, games and activities as the grandkids have outgrown them. I’m slowly working on the back basement, or glory hole. One of these days it will be done. What a process
I'm working on it. I've got my clothing down to one small cupboard and a wheelie bin.
I've been doing well with the books. Took the fiction books to the used book store. I do wish I could whittle down my history books, but as a genealogist, I find there are always times I need to consult one.
The kitchen cupboards now......oh boy..........
I read a book a good while ago about being tidy and decluttering. Not for me, I tend to gather "STUFF" but since moving, have been a lot more diligent and the local OP shop has benefitted so much.Even Hugh has donated a lot.But I do draw the line at having socks folded together rather than one top turned over the other. Something to do with " Let your clothes breathe in the drawers"!! How is your weather? Cold here, almost a ground frost.
Hari om
Decluttering is the best of all catharses! YAM xx
I am not a minimalist, but I have no trouble purging when I get tired of stuff. Then I start collecting something new that catches my eye. Right now I am into containers for small succulent plants.
I just put never used placemats and pot holders in the fabric recyle bin. The pattern got old.
I'm going to have to look at my shirt drawers and see about doing it that way.
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