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  • Welcome to our second Marie Kondo video: the part where we go through books...

  • Or not - mainly not.

  • We're moving house and it is getting out of control.

  • You don't need to have seen the first video to enjoy this one, but I'll leave a link in the description.

  • If you don't know already- because you don't watch Netflix, read newspapers, magazines,

  • use Twitter, Instagram, or have access to the internet...

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  • It's variable. Pick wisely; don't send your bank details to anyone.

  • Marie Kondo and her method of tidying up, known as KonMari,

  • is the latest craze to sweep the interwebs and bleed into our real lives.

  • I explained more about Marie's methods in video one, but to break it down:

  • throw lots of stuff away, keep stuff that makes you happy, neatly arrange it.

  • Rather than go room by room, she encourages that you take all of one type of item

  • and put it in one place,

  • and then go through it.

  • Again, throwing a lot of stuff out.

  • In video one, we did clothes and gave away ten bags of things.

  • Category 2 is meant to be books, but...

  • J: But we did our books.

  • Huh...

  • C: Yeah... Well, I mean we did them in the sense that we got--

  • C: To be fair, we could probably go through them again.

  • J: I mean, we've not got down to the Marie Kondo 30.

  • C: What's that?

  • J: She only likes to have 30 books--

  • C: Ooooh... J: In her house.

  • C: No, yeah. J: It was the whole like internet drama because people were like:

  • J: [angrily] 'How dare you tell me to give up my books?! Arghh!'

  • J: But she didn't say that. She just said she likes to have thirty.

  • C: OK. It takes me a long time to just read one book, so... I've kept all the books that I like.

  • C: It's like am I actually gonna read them again? Like why do we keep them?

  • J: So, instead...we could look at other areas, like...

  • [Bells jingling] J: I could do the Christmas decorations!

  • [Bells jingling] J: In the special boxes that I bought for them, because I really, really want to put them in there! [Bells jingling]

  • C: Yeah, we could do, like, that. They're in the loft, so we could just start sorting out the loft.

  • J: Indeed.

  • C: I'm a little bit scared about that. J: The loft is a place of terror, let's be honest.

  • Ooooh, that's not sarcasm.

  • It's genuinely terrifying up there.

  • [Intense music]

  • [Intense music intensifies]

  • [Record scratch]

  • J: We've put a lot of things up there. C: Yeah.

  • C: I mean, to the point that our ceiling feels like it might, at any point, fall in on our head.

  • C: The whole point is that we need to clear it, and organise it, and then it'll be...safe and tidy!

  • J: I, uh...yes.

  • Told you so. Since there isn't exactly a lot of space, we were left with the question of...how to sort things.

  • J: So, there are two modes of thinking. We don't have a lot of floor space up here.

  • J: So, either, we gather items of every category - which is the Marie Kondo way, I know

  • - and we take them downstairs and look at them there.

  • J: Ooor, we just go with everything we can reach

  • [Claudia laughs]

  • J: In this bit of floor space.

  • J: But! That's not really the Marie Kondo way and I don't know that we'll actually...

  • J: sort things if we did that.

  • C: I feel like we just need, like, a box to put things in.

  • C: At the moment, we haven't even got anywhere to put stuff.

  • J: Well, no, yeah, OK, so...

  • C: Also, the whole issue is that we're stuck in a loft, so I can't, like, pass things down.

  • C: I need to at least put it into a box, and then be able to then pass the boxes down.

  • [Bells jingling] J: If we collect all the Christmas things...

  • J: and take them down, and then we can sort them.

  • C: And then maybe I just put things into a bin bag that, like, we don't want.

  • C: And then we can sort them out downstairs. J: Yeah!

  • J: We can do this. We can do this. It's going to be OK.

  • J: I promise you, it's going to be OK; we're gonna make it out!

  • J: Or we'll just live in the loft from now on. Hi.

  • J: We'll just live here, aaand we will work purely by live streaming from here. Please bring food.

  • [Claudia laughs]

  • [Kissing noises]

  • Honestly, I just really, really wanted to sort the Christmas decorations into the cool storage boxes that I bought specifically for the purpose!

  • J: Less dangerous slash terrifying, that's what we're going for... in terms of cleaning our loft.

  • (Spooky, old-style music)

  • Why did we think this was achievable in one day? Why did we stray from Marie's path?

  • By the way, we're thinking of doing a house tour before we go.

  • Once we've...sorted that out, so...

  • I'm going to include a question card! *Snaps fingers*

  • So you can tell me if you fancy watching that.

  • C: Yeah, loft conversions are really popular these days.

  • C: But y'know, you gotta think, where are you gonna put all your stuff?

  • J: Yes, that's the main issue(!)

  • C: I think actually the main issue, and the whole point of Marie Kondo, is you shouldn't have that much stuff.

  • J: No, indeed!

  • C: To shove into our attic. J: We shouldn't have so much stuff!

  • J: Why do we have so much stuff? It's very distressing.

  • C: If it's in your attic, you're not using it daily.

  • C: The only things you should keep in the attic are...

  • C: Rotation of clothes. J: Yeah.

  • C: But, to be honest, we shouldn't have that many clothes that we have to put a rotational amount.

  • C: Yeah, winter coats. J: I put them up there in winter--summer.

  • C: Yeah, yeah. OK. And like hats and gloves and things could just be up there,

  • C: 'cause they don't need to be in your closet through summer.

  • C: And the other thing is, like, suitcases.

  • J: Well currently there's an extra bed up there.

  • [Dismissively] C: Yeeeeah.

  • J: Because we own three beds and have two bedrooms. C: But that's 'cause we know we're gonna, like, move to a bigger house.

  • C: So we needed--we need the extra beds.

  • J: Yeah, yeah. Er, Christmas decorations.

  • C: Yeah. J: Christmas-related things.

  • C: Well, to be honest, I think the only things really, though, that should be up there are:

  • C: Christmas decoration--like, things that are seasonal. So clothes, and Christmas decorations.

  • J: Yeah. C: Aaaand...suitcases.

  • J: That's all you want in our loft?

  • C: That's what should be up there, really. J: Oh, yeah, that's totally gonna happen(!)

  • J: Let's see.

  • (Japanese music)

  • We may have overreached ourselves,

  • [bells jingling] but at least I got to do the Christmas boxes!

  • [Instrumental 'Deck the Halls']

  • C: How you getting on, Tills?

  • J: [Laughing] Yeah! C: She's a little bit--she's like, 'where's the space?!'

  • C: [Silly voice] But no, there's no space any moreeee!

  • J: I think they may have started panicking that we're moving.

  • (Continuation of 'Deck the Halls']

  • You should know: that box is my dream come true. I wish every box looked like that box!

  • If you're a company that makes boxes with tiny organised compartments and you're looking for someone to really appreciate them,

  • send some my way!

  • My mother's probably laughing watching this, because that box is my childhood dreams come true.

  • Also, yes, I have five boxes of Christmas things.

  • I really like Christmas. I'm already planning this year's vlogmas, and it's only March. Send help.

  • No, actual help.

  • My back hurts so much. I'm so tireeeed.

  • I'm surrounded by boxeees.

  • Ugh!

  • C: It's OK. We'll just, uh...just call it a day, won't we?

  • J: I think so.

  • J: I just wanted to get it all done.

  • C: I know.

  • J: [Unintelligible] C: Come on.

  • Soooooo...

  • [Slurping sounds]

  • We may have taken on a bit too much.

  • Good morning.

  • We may have rather...run before we can walk

  • deciding that instead of the second Marie Kondo-approved thing of just doing books,

  • we were gonna do the entire loft!

  • I--

  • We are not reasonable people, clearly! Moving, carrying stuff...

  • It's not what this body is made for.

  • Then I just continued to do boxes of stuff.

  • Good plan. Good plan.

  • But: quite good, managed to get the Christmas box...es and bags of Christmas stuff down

  • to, I think, four boxes now.

  • Which are packed quite neatly, and quite nicely.

  • We started a craft box.

  • We've gone through all of the art stuff that was in the loft, and then the art draw that was here.

  • But we've not yet done the art stuff that's in the studio downstairs, or...

  • the craft stuff in the second bedroom upstairs.

  • We have a lot of art-related things.

  • And now, today, Claudia is about to go off to badminton.

  • And I'm gonna keep on keeping on.

  • I'm taking some painkillers.

  • So...we'll get there.

  • [Japanese music resumes]

  • So on the plus side, we did follow Marie's advice:

  • put all of one type of thing in one place, like the Christmas boxes and the craft box.

  • On the negative side:

  • Why didn't we listen to you, Marie?!

  • Why did we think it was a good idea to go through the whole attic? Aah!

  • Fortunately, with Claudia gone, I could then calm myself by making sticky labels,

  • and doing my favourite part of tidying: caring way too much about sorting every little scrap of paper,

  • whilst ignoring the bigger items.

  • [Japanese music resumes]

  • If you're wondering why I own fifty different notebooks at a time,

  • it's because I've spent my entire life writing stories and carrying around ideas with me, that I will one day publish,

  • and it will all have been worth it!

  • This should probably have gone into part three: Paper.

  • But... Marie, why did we stray from your path?

  • The evening then consisted of bringing down yet more things we had left in the loft and attempting to go through them all.

  • Claudia found her Glastonbury light

  • [Dance music]

  • Why? ...Apparently, this is for sitting in your tent and raving.

  • [Dance music continues]

  • I would know that if I'd ever been a raver, but...

  • And we were like, "Oh, we could keep it!. You just don't know, we could use it for filming or something?"

  • I mean, we have like special filming lights that are LEDs,

  • but who knows when you need a rave light?

  • And then we remembered: no, Marie Kondo. We need to Marie Kondo this.

  • Does it bring me joy? No.

  • It may bring me an epileptic fit, but it does not bring me joy.

  • [Japanese music resumes]

  • And how did the tale end?

  • Well, can't quite give you the very satisfying 'before and after'

  • of the clothes video, because my house currently looks like this:

  • But I can give you this!

  • Before: [Intense music]

  • Recycling pile

  • Donation pile

  • Aaand loft.

  • [Japanese music resumes]

  • It's a work in progress.

  • [Philosophically] Like...we are all works in progress.

  • Let me know in the comments what you think of the job we've done so far.

  • And make sure you subscribe to see the next video in the series where we... [doorbell rings]

  • sort out the mess.

  • Oh, dear Lord.

  • Also, we then realised there are actually seven boxes of books in the loft.

  • And yet more scattered around the house.

  • So... [Despairingly] Why didn't we listen to you, Marie?!

  • [Japanese music resumes]

Hello, lovely people!

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