This is my ev-e-ry-thing. I know I”m a little late to the game, as Kondo was named one of Time’s most influential people of 2015, but I have drank the kool-aid and am ALL in with her method, her process, and her book. Is thinking about “tidying” as magical make me feel a little silly? Sure. But I cannot stand clutter so this book speaks to me. Full disclosure: I’m a pretty organized person, so I get excited in general about organizing, but I think […]
Eh. Fine.
Remember last year, when everyone you know – and everyone they know – was reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up? I was one of those people. My husband and I really pared down out belongings at a serendipitous time; not a month later we received notice that we had to move, so it was much easier to pack our two-bedroom apartment up with 11 days’ notice after having taken over two carloads of belongings to Goodwill. We continue to tidy following this method, for […]
It Will Change Your Life!!!
I vacillate between a compunction to organize and an amazing ability to be a procrastinating slob. At the moment, I’m leaning more towards the compunction to organize: my condo, my life, my finances, and I thought Marie Kondo’s book might give me some tips. And so I read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (2014). Organizing seems pretty straight forward to me, and began reading wondering how Kondo would have enough to fill a book. How many different […]
Marie Kondo is my hero.
Last January, I devoured Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, but it wasn’t until the summer that I actually got to go through the “program” she advocates. It was life-changing. Really. I said goodbye to clothes that had made me feel beautiful but that no longer fit my no-longer-college-student body. Old knick-knacks that no longer went on display went to Goodwill. It was truly freeing. But I still had questions, particularly about her style of organizing and folding (especially clothes. I don’t have […]