Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Jan 25, 2019 8:11:17 GMT
I have kept going with the Marie Kondo method of folding since this thread began with two major exceptions. i) Book throwing I could never bring myself to do more than cull books I didn’t really enjoy. This proved the correct decision when our granddaughter was born and FP Minor happily took the baby books I had been keeping and now reads them with his daughter ii) Crafting Her method does not work in my craft room
Biggest successes with Marie Kondo are my sock drawer, knicker drawer and tea towel drawer.
33 came for Christmas & is still with us. I'd forgotten about towels dropped on the bathroom floor, or bedroom floor or even the landing. Murphy's shelf is well & truly reinstated. My sofa cushions are never straight, glasses half full of water and plates are breeding at an alarming rate. My bathroom is blitzed It's a good job I love her isn't it.
I compartmentalised a drawer a few years ago for pants, socks, bras etc. Pants are rolled up, bras are simply double-cupped, socks are stuffed together in pairs and there is a compartment for all the odd socks, never figured out how that happens. None of it is ironed!
I am not perfect but am pretty well organised. The house looks homely, as if we live there, but I do have a place for everything. Sam is chronically untidy although since we re-organised the office, he has been good at keeping it that way and instead of riffling through drawers and boxes, he now has a clipboard hanging up which lists where each type of cable etc., is stored, by shelf and number. I have known him to put his dirty washing on the floor next to the washing basket. He is also terribly absent-minded and is always losing or mislaying things. He is forever leaving things in customer's houses, too. After 30 years together, I don't nag, he has many redeeming features and the occasional loud sigh is now often enough to alert him to the fact that he has started to clutter.
It's a great pity the right of free speech isn't based on the obligation to say something sensible.
I am a thrower and my husband is a pack-rat. If we haven't used or worn something in 2 years, I advise that we should get rid of it. He always thinks we may use it someday.
Oh my gosh, that logic makes me want to gauge my own eyes out in frustration sometimes.
I would enjoy Marie Kondo coming to our apartment and trying to reason with my husband. The whole exchange would be amusing for me. Especially when she explains her ideas about things having feelings, the look on his face with the folding of his socks and underwear.
I’m a bit of a neat freak. I can’t stand seeing clutter. I’ve realised that again this week with having the contents of the spare room everywhere. If it’s in a cupboard or drawer it’s fine. Stacked up everywhere ... no, no, no. And it’s really stressed me out this week. More so than normal but I have had a few other bits going on that won’t have helped.
I don’t need Marie Doodah though. Because I am a neat freak but also because having been burgled I’ve been through every cupboard and drawer now as well lol.
Like Cass though my house is neat but lived in. Well I think it is. Mr Tink says it looks like a show home. Doesn’t stop the Bugga lounging on my sofa though I’ve noticed. 🤣