Konmari: Gardening Supplies

Woohoo! We’re getting close to the end of Komono. Gardening supplies was a quick little category and took about 5 minutes. Here’s everything I collected. I left out the plants themselves and the compost, partly reasoning that neither are really ‘gardening supplies’, but mostly just being too lazy to lift them all into one place. There Read More…

Konmari: Electronics

Oh boy. I had to declutter the electronics. This was a joint category, so Mike had to be there for it and thus it took a lot of scheduling; and the sight of a pile of cables just makes my heart wither. Good me, I pulled out the vacuum cleaner even though of course I Read More…

Zero Waste in the Kitchen Update

I’ve been KonMari’ing so much lately that I haven’t written as much about some of my other topics, including my zero waste project. But that still continues, and I’d like to share how things are going in the kitchen specifically. My goal, overall, was to eliminate food packaging as much as possible in favour of using Read More…

Konmari: Decor

My next category to tidy up was decor, which included both everyday items in our house and seasonal decorations which are packed away. For everyday decor, I went around the house grabbing everything that seemed to fit the category. This included candles, vases and figurines, magnets on the fridge, clocks, house plants, and pictures on Read More…

Konmari: Baby Clothes and Diapers

The time is here. I finally tidied the baby clothes, and included cloth diapers as well. Once upon a time, I was pregnant and we moved across the Atlantic. In a largely empty apartment, while we waited for our things to ship, I exercised my desire to organise and decorate in the baby’s bedroom closet. I Read More…