As I've posted before, I've become a big fan of the KonMari method of decluttering as outlined in the book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. So far I've gone through clothes, and books, and papers, and I'm on to the miscellaneous. But here's the problem. The bins of clothes still sit in our entryway because the money-minded trying-to-pay-off-debt part of me wants to sell them rather than donate them. We took some books to a used bookstore for credit, but the ones they … [Read more...]
Kon Mari: Paper Edition
It has been awhile since my last KonMari update. In theory, the next category - papers - is not a difficult one for me. But bit by little bit, I did have a few trouble areas that crept back into being clutter. First up: magazines. I've let most of my subscriptions lapse as they ran out (and thankfully I haven't paid for a magazine in years - these are all freebie ones I've found posted on deals sites!), but I still get a few. I do enjoy reading them, but I've gotten … [Read more...]
Kon Mari: Books Edition
I previously KonMari'd my cookbooks, and my digital files on my Kindle, but I spent part of the afternoon today going through the books. Here's a close-up of the before: Aside from the mess Elizabeth made on the floor, since she's at that lovely pull-all-the-books-off-the-shelf stage, we had too many. I went through the kids' books first, and split them into categories. Curious George Clifford Pinkalicious Lego Superheroes Miscellaneous Keep Board Books Immediate Get Rid … [Read more...]
Kon Mari Clothing, Part 2
So way back in August, I posted about reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and starting with my clothes (pictured above). And then that same week Jesse went through his clothes, and I went through the kids clothes a week or two later. That was great! But then those clothes that we no longer wanted just sat there. And sat there. And now, it's October. They need to go. First, I cut up some stained old shirts to use for rags. The smaller ones are more of a … [Read more...]
My First Attempt At Kon Mari: My Clothing
Last week, I read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. This is one of the first times I've actually read what I would consider a "trendy" book while it's still trendy, by the way. I usually don't get to them until a few years later... I decided to give some of the KonMari organizing principles a try. You organize by category, and one of the key things is to gather everything from that category in one spot. The first area to tackle is clothing. So I gathered all of my … [Read more...]