![]() But it was glorious, and the warm and fuzzy feelings I get from my super tidy and organized bathroom every morning have kept me going. I should have waited for the Miscellaneous category where bathrooms fall. I’ll admit that I felt a little guilty doing this, and I still feel guilty, haha. I mean, I cheated. ![]() So in an effort to pocket some “accomplishment energy,” I decided to first tackle a very, very small project– the main bathroom–and then stop and fully commit to the categories. ) But I kind of needed to get my controlling ways out of my system before submitting to and adopting someone else’s ideas. Kondo argues that if you declutter in her order, that you’ll be far better prepared and equipped to tackle the categories that pull on your heartstrings when you get to them.Īll of that said, I really wanted to commit to the KonMari Method, and by forgoing the whole category thing made it the “Kelly Method,” which had proven to be ineffective. It was also the only way I’d ever cleaned and tidied before!ītw, I covered this in my first KonMari post, but Kondo pushes you to organize, declutter and discard in this categorical order: Clothing, Books, Papers, Miscellaneous (Kitchen, Bathrooms, Garage, Kids’ Stuff, etc.), and then Sentimental Items. The reason behind this is simple: if you do it by room, you’ll likely find yourself getting distracted, and suddenly hours have passed and you’ve gotten very little accomplished, all because you found an old photo album and got sucked in. Without all that, I feared that I’d lose steam. I desperately wanted to go room by room because I was after an immediate sense of accomplishment and some noticeable, drastic results. The first category–and where everyone should start, according to Kondo–is clothing.Ĭommitting to tidying category by categoryīefore I started the clean-out, I was pretty opposed to the category idea. If you’re familiar with Marie Kondo and her best-selling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (or the new Netflix series on it!), you probably know that the author places great importance on tidying and cleaning out in a categorial order instead of by going room by room. ![]() Last week, I shared some background on the KonMari Method and why, exactly, Mitch and I have committed ourselves to a full home clean-out in the first quarter of 2019. Obviously this isn’t a Pinterest-worthy closet, but hey: this is real life! □
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