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SEEMS LIKE KONMARI was all the rage in 2016. I hadn't heard of it because I didn't watch much TV nor did I read about it on the internet. Where the heck was I? Babysitting, daughter got married, Mother- in-law on her death bed, a devastating house fire and a dad that did die after suffering 11 days after a stroke. I was emotionally spent. Period. No Konmari for me.
SO I can say I did not hear about KONMARI. 2017 wasn't much better. Too busy recovering from house fire and another parent died. GRIEF. Buying a house and getting items for living were on the horizon as 675 boxes from of our belongings from being cleaned at Service Master came back to us. Hello. No space for so many boxes. We had to store them at a storage unit as the cottage we were living in was way too small to handle these boxes. We bought a house.
Truthfully, I did not know what KONMARI was until 2020. Looking back I remember our realtor talking about saying goodbye to items. Hold the item and see if it brings you joy or not. Take a picture. I had no idea she was talking about KONMARI METHOD.
Now in 2021, our t-shirts are KONMARIed in the drawer. I have some more t-shirts to do. Do I like this method? I'm getting use to it, but just in the t-shirt arena. Not ready to hold each item and see if I have a spark for it that brings me joy. COMMON SENSE decluttering is going on. Spiritually, emotionally and physically I am there.
Stream lining our interior. This is why the bedrooms were shuffled this past week. In the Master Bedroom, the simple task of switching the highboy with the dresser so a Henredon chair would fit in the room was an easy step except for the splinter in my foot. That was more difficult than switching the furniture about. They slid so well.
An antique chair that was in the Bedroom was carried down the stairs and now rest peacefully in the Living room by the fireplace. Back to the other bedrooms. The Henredon chairs had to be moved out of the way so a antique cedar chest was shuffled down the hall into a new place where the chairs were. Time era related furniture in the same room looks so much better. BUT FIRST storage boxes in the hallway needed shuffled elsewhere to make a clear path. These puppies are still needing gone through and relocated elsewhere. Pencil it in for next week.
With the cedar chest leaving the Victorian room, I shuffled the washstand across the room where the cedar chest used to be opening up the window beside the bed. The victorian sofa was moved making room for the victorian dresser to slide across the room over in a different corner where the sofa was and the sofa went where the dresser was. More boxes need dealt with. sigh. Deep breath. The dolls that were on the sofa went onto the bed until I cleared out an area in a different closet. I moved the dolls yesterday into a different room's closet. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Then we went to town.
This morning the two oscalating fans were taken apart to clean away a couple years worth of Kansas dust. They look better and will run better. More efficient.
Today, I want to refold my t-shirts the Konmari way. I can do this as I sit. Another drawer being better organized. Casual tops and blue jeans in the laundry. TIS SATURDAY And I hope to get more stuff dealt with in the bedrooms. Heavens, it's always something. The less somethings I have to deal with the better. Here's when decluttering is needed.
The snowmen decoration where put away today into a storage box to hide for another year. HONESTLY, I was READY for them to go. The real snow and bitter cold has made me want an early SPRING. I will need to locate my door wreaths and get them out.
KONMARI...a great way to get tidy when dealing with clothing and the interior of ones HOME. I like the way it looks when finished. Hope I can continue being neater.
BLESSINGS to you.
HOME LIFE IS FOR ME,
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