Konmari tips8/16/2023 ![]() You can do all your medications in an hour one day, for instance. Lots of komono groups are more manageable than books clothes, and papers. It will be great.ĭefinitely read the second book. This should go FAST if you have a lot of obvious discards. That visual, that physical heaviness, is a part of the process, making it easier to let go and not amassing junk going forward. There may be absolute shock and overwhelm at the sheer volume of some categories. Go by category, get everything in a pile, and take the items one by one. That cracks me up and sounds like it would take forever. I don't think there's a separate pre konmari decluttering process that's needed. I think basic run through putting things away is the only prep needed. Since you have a dumpster, I'm betting it'll be very satisfying to dump all the expired pantry food! There's no reason you can't create your own list by order of what you think should be sorted first, then next, and last. The komono category is the biggest and is often highly individual. For you that could be where you stow boxes marked by category for later sorting. Then with the closet cleared out, there was room to stow moving boxes. I.e., get the bulldozer out and empty out that hall closet, so many items were stuffed in there in the back and forgotten. In our pre-move declutter, I found it most helpful to tackle anything behind a door first. So many nooks and crannies that could be forgotten. Similarly, there's no sense sorting the obvious trash and piling it up waiting for that category to come around! Just toss it now. Paper category is early on I wouldn't hesitate to toss the pen caps if you encounter them while tackling paper. If your clutter is bad enough you have no usable space to easily sort, I'd go ahead and clear one out first.ĭoes it make sense to do a sweep first and get rid of obvious trash (pen caps, twist ties, old receipts)? We used our dining room as our sorting station: the table was perfect for this purpose, and saved my back. Similarly, when it came to something like cleaning supplies, or toiletries, yep, all that was scattered everywhere, so running around collecting it all to make a big pile to sort made sense. However, since we didn't have a garage or an attic, tools and other items you'd keep in a garage were scattered everywhere- so we found it much more useful to hunt for, gather and pile then sort those items. Same with the dining room, and linen closet. In our case, kitchen stuff was all in the kitchen, so yes tackling that category was essentially tackling by room - there was no need to run around the house locating kitchen items that weren't in the kitchen. ![]() When we decluttered before a move, we did more of a modified Konmari process initially, then a more formal and careful konmari process post-move. ![]() Is your stuff already generally organized (even if there's just too much?) By that I mean, is all the komono in the garage the type of items you would store in the garage? And there are no garage-type-items stuffed in closets inside the home? Similarly is all your kitchen stuff in the kitchen, or is some of it spread out elsewhere? The idea of doing it for a room seems easier than doing a whole house
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