KonMari is Finished
Sep. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arnanakAs mentioned in my previous blog, I had several days off in a row and I spent them all following the KonMari method, after listening to Marie KondÅ’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.
How'd I do?
Good in some spots, bad in others. I decluttered a LOT, but even with half as many boxes, I still have no clue where to put those boxes.
I will say, I feel very refreshed now that everything's put away, even if I don't like how it is put away, even if "put away" means a bin is tucked into a corner. I finally feel like I can stop fretting over the house and engage in my hobbies again. For example, I've resumed posting pages to my top surgery comic. August was the month of setting up and transitioning. Finalizing my move by sifting through my belongings and only keeping what I, well, wanted to keep. Buying a fuckload of stuff, including many pieces of misc. household items and an entire fucking CAR... Somehow, I think I'm actually doing pretty fuckin' good, all things considered.
I'd say there's still decluttering to do, but I, like, know how to do it now? I have the ability to decide more clearly? But yeah, I cleared shit OUT. Somehow my pic of all the bags and boxes has become lost media, but whatever. Picture several trashbags and like seven boxes to be taken to Goodwill, not to mention a bag of electronic bits and bobs to recycle.
And, as mentioned, this decluttering has brought on a new issue. I don't know where to put the remainders. Finding homes for the objects as they say. I unfortunately believe the solution is making a few more purchases. I don't exactly own much furniture. Like, a bookshelf sure would mean that my books wouldn't be in a box under the bed, which would mean space under there for something else. Just one dresser means all of the non-hangable clothes need jammed in there, plus dedicating one shelf of it to the fish tank I have laying on top of it, and that fish tank meaning my tiny TV that's lasted me since high school is now in the closet until I wanna take it out and use it for video games...
Oddly I'm a bit repulsed by a lot of organizational tools. Like, the example images for those door hanging organizers. Just buying more things to jam all your stuff into, instead of asking how much of this stuff you should just get rid of. But there certainly is a point sometimes. I just am unsure which pieces would benefit me.
Of course... I also am a bit against buying new things for organizing for a pretty basic, physical reason. I'm on the fourth floor, the top, of this apartment building with steep steps and no elevator. Living in a very small town and chatting with a coworker, she revealed these stairs are damn near infamous. She had a friend move into this building once and she was saying she woulda said no to helping him out if she knew how bad the stairs were. When moving in, every single one of my helpers threw in the towel early. I'm lucky I'm mildly fit... I'm far from active and healthy, but when I average 15k steps a day at work, my baseline stamina is perhaps triple of all my peers. And I still tire so quickly and easily! I think I'm completely allowed to humblebrag here. I feel unfit and I'm still running laps around everyone I know. How do people get things done.
Anyways as cool and epic as I am, those stairs still are a lot and I am not fucking hauling a bookshelf up them. Anything I do bring has better be small and light. Maybe bigger pieces can be saved for when I move out at the end of this lease, find a place closer to the ground (preferred, because I've learned the hard way that heat rises and I'll always be cooking at a higher temp than it is outside) or someplace with an elevator. Then I could do the big shit. Til then I'm thinking door hanging shit and more plastic bins.
Honestly, I don't know what I’m doing for the future in regards to living. I talked to my boss and we decided I’ll go full time in November, giving me a few more weeks of part-time after my top surgery in the first week of October. Two weeks of medical leave after, plus two weeks of light part time work. Then full time. All that to say, sounds like I’ll be sticking with Walmart for the future so I… Suppose I’ll be floating around this area until I figure out my next step? I get free IT classes through Walmart, so at least sticking with that and seeing where that goes. Hanging in the area til I’m either transferred to another store or I get a tech job somewhere. I don't fuckin' know!
While looking for information on apartment organizing I somehow ended up learning about journal and planner organizing and heard about bullet journaling. I think I'll try it for 2026. I'm already quite happy with my diary and planner combo. The planner I have now works quite perfectly for me, it's only downsides being a few extra pages that are useless to me. So it'd be interesting to just, when I need to replace it anyways... Hand draw the aspects that are useful and go from there. Perhaps I've mentioned it, but I've always been a mess of many notebooks and planners and calendars. I think bullet journaling could help me out, consolidate a few of my extras down into one book. We'll see in a few months!
That's about it. The feeling of, like, being Done with the move only really started yesterday. That's when I finally got everything put back and feeling good. So I don't have much development beyond that! But that was a huge amount of development and a shift to more "intentional" (oughh buzzword buzzword) living.
How'd I do?
Good in some spots, bad in others. I decluttered a LOT, but even with half as many boxes, I still have no clue where to put those boxes.
I will say, I feel very refreshed now that everything's put away, even if I don't like how it is put away, even if "put away" means a bin is tucked into a corner. I finally feel like I can stop fretting over the house and engage in my hobbies again. For example, I've resumed posting pages to my top surgery comic. August was the month of setting up and transitioning. Finalizing my move by sifting through my belongings and only keeping what I, well, wanted to keep. Buying a fuckload of stuff, including many pieces of misc. household items and an entire fucking CAR... Somehow, I think I'm actually doing pretty fuckin' good, all things considered.
I'd say there's still decluttering to do, but I, like, know how to do it now? I have the ability to decide more clearly? But yeah, I cleared shit OUT. Somehow my pic of all the bags and boxes has become lost media, but whatever. Picture several trashbags and like seven boxes to be taken to Goodwill, not to mention a bag of electronic bits and bobs to recycle.
And, as mentioned, this decluttering has brought on a new issue. I don't know where to put the remainders. Finding homes for the objects as they say. I unfortunately believe the solution is making a few more purchases. I don't exactly own much furniture. Like, a bookshelf sure would mean that my books wouldn't be in a box under the bed, which would mean space under there for something else. Just one dresser means all of the non-hangable clothes need jammed in there, plus dedicating one shelf of it to the fish tank I have laying on top of it, and that fish tank meaning my tiny TV that's lasted me since high school is now in the closet until I wanna take it out and use it for video games...
Oddly I'm a bit repulsed by a lot of organizational tools. Like, the example images for those door hanging organizers. Just buying more things to jam all your stuff into, instead of asking how much of this stuff you should just get rid of. But there certainly is a point sometimes. I just am unsure which pieces would benefit me.
Of course... I also am a bit against buying new things for organizing for a pretty basic, physical reason. I'm on the fourth floor, the top, of this apartment building with steep steps and no elevator. Living in a very small town and chatting with a coworker, she revealed these stairs are damn near infamous. She had a friend move into this building once and she was saying she woulda said no to helping him out if she knew how bad the stairs were. When moving in, every single one of my helpers threw in the towel early. I'm lucky I'm mildly fit... I'm far from active and healthy, but when I average 15k steps a day at work, my baseline stamina is perhaps triple of all my peers. And I still tire so quickly and easily! I think I'm completely allowed to humblebrag here. I feel unfit and I'm still running laps around everyone I know. How do people get things done.
Anyways as cool and epic as I am, those stairs still are a lot and I am not fucking hauling a bookshelf up them. Anything I do bring has better be small and light. Maybe bigger pieces can be saved for when I move out at the end of this lease, find a place closer to the ground (preferred, because I've learned the hard way that heat rises and I'll always be cooking at a higher temp than it is outside) or someplace with an elevator. Then I could do the big shit. Til then I'm thinking door hanging shit and more plastic bins.
Honestly, I don't know what I’m doing for the future in regards to living. I talked to my boss and we decided I’ll go full time in November, giving me a few more weeks of part-time after my top surgery in the first week of October. Two weeks of medical leave after, plus two weeks of light part time work. Then full time. All that to say, sounds like I’ll be sticking with Walmart for the future so I… Suppose I’ll be floating around this area until I figure out my next step? I get free IT classes through Walmart, so at least sticking with that and seeing where that goes. Hanging in the area til I’m either transferred to another store or I get a tech job somewhere. I don't fuckin' know!
While looking for information on apartment organizing I somehow ended up learning about journal and planner organizing and heard about bullet journaling. I think I'll try it for 2026. I'm already quite happy with my diary and planner combo. The planner I have now works quite perfectly for me, it's only downsides being a few extra pages that are useless to me. So it'd be interesting to just, when I need to replace it anyways... Hand draw the aspects that are useful and go from there. Perhaps I've mentioned it, but I've always been a mess of many notebooks and planners and calendars. I think bullet journaling could help me out, consolidate a few of my extras down into one book. We'll see in a few months!
That's about it. The feeling of, like, being Done with the move only really started yesterday. That's when I finally got everything put back and feeling good. So I don't have much development beyond that! But that was a huge amount of development and a shift to more "intentional" (oughh buzzword buzzword) living.
