Simply..finite, isn't it?

29/3/2017

There must be an end to this Kondoing lark, surely! After all the amount of stuff I have is finite, and I am being very careful about not accumulating more.

Has anyone out there actually got to the end of it?

This wet day it is some old files of garden designs. Yesterday it was hundreds of slides. The miscellaneous and sentimental categories seem to have combined....

I watched a very moving programme about grief on iPlayer. Rio Ferdinand is a brave man.

Someone described grief as 'love with nowhere to go'.

Later - I sought more wisdom from Marie Kondo's Spark Joy. She asks Are you enjoying your tidying festival? And yes, I am really. I'd just forgotten to notice I was actually enjoying it! She also adds Even if you fail, don't worry. Your house won't blow up.

Phew.

9 Comments

cathy

29/3/2017 05:31:45 pm

I can get to the end of my minimalizing & be content...for awhile. Even though I haven't brought much back into the house, I almost always get the urge to start again. Things I thought I had to keep no long give me that feeling. I think it's a vicious cycle! I'm afraid for me, it will never truly end.

Freda

30/3/2017 03:21:24 am

Well, life is nothing if not change so it's perhaps no surprise. Is it worth it for those times of contentment Cathy? I hope so!

Madeleine Lawrence

30/3/2017 01:49:04 am

I am still failing miserably on the paper piles Freda. More paper just seems to come into the house and I don't deal with it quickly enough. I run my own business from home, have teenagers, mortgage and car - all of those seem to generate paper!

One blessing that came out of our house fire was that a huge amount of paperwork was stored in the part of the house that caught fire - now I don't have to deal with it! (always got to look for the silver lining :-)

Madeleine.x

Freda

30/3/2017 03:24:22 am

I am so impressed Madeleine that you can look at it that way! It also encourages me to just get rid of the 'doubtful' pile knowing that you survived the loss of all those papers. Thank you.

Madeleine Lawrence

30/3/2017 01:31:37 pm

Freda, it was a real gift not to have to sort through those archive boxes and say yes or no to each bit of paper. The miracle is, the really crucial bits of paper - birth certificates etc... were not in those archive boxes. A lot of it was tax stuff, but given the circumstances it is not a problem that I've lost them. The real pity is that it was the new part of the house I'd already renovated which burnt down, not the shabby old part!

As a good friend was saying yesterday, we need some sort of maintenance system for our desks and paperwork. My recent conclusion is that I need a PA!

Madeleine.x

Julia

31/3/2017 06:10:25 am

I totally agree that kondoing is an evolving process...and luckily for us it is! Just think if we did it once, and never again developed a new interest, a new level of letting go, or a new way to look at life. I think for me, it will be an annual process....or even more often...for me, much much worse, would be not being able to let go of stuff....that would be a real prison.

Freda

1/4/2017 05:45:18 am

I think once I have reached my 'click point' (and I can see it coming!) then it will be an annual thing for me too - heaven.

cath

31/3/2017 03:21:21 pm

At times it feels like a privilege to have much of our stuff packed in boxes just now. It has been very helpful in experiencing how it is to do without a lot of things.

Now that we can start to think about unpacking in a week or so I am sure it also will help me decide what I want back and what not. I already know it will be a slow one box at the time process as I know an opportunity on this scale won't present itself soon again. And that's a relief too.

Freda

1/4/2017 05:48:04 am

So glad your project is reaching a conclusion Cath. I've had the bedrooms decorated - another great opportunity to live with less - more soon! As you so rightly say we are lucky to have stuff to sort and sift!

Simply..finite, isn't it?

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