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: Advice and Encouragement for Getting Started
A reader recently expressed a desire to start the KonMari process, but was concerned about the practicalities of getting it done with small children in the house and a backlog of other work. It made me think back to when I began, and I realised that I had also had many concerns about beginning. Now 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: Medicines and Vitamins, and Puzzles and Games
Boom! I cleared two small categories in one day: our medicines and vitamins, and our collection of games and puzzles. Medicines and vitamins suffered, like a few other categories, from being kept in four different locations: the master bathroom, second bathroom, the fridge, and a high cabinet in the kitchen. So I gathered them all 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…
Konmari: Travel Supplies
So, I meant to report on my cleaning up of baby clothes. I did actually do the baby clothes – but I don’t have a good photo and the baby herself is sleeping in the room I need to photograph. So instead you get an account of how I tidied up our travel supplies. First, Read More…
Konmari: Cleaning and Laundry Supplies
Time to clean out the cleaning supplies! First I got out my cleaning supplies from the five different locations where they are stored… This was an interesting exercise because it revealed to me that I’m actually very happy with my cleaning products. Weird, huh? In the last few years, and particularly since moving when I Read More…
Konmari: Tools and Stationery
These two KonMari categories, hardware/tools and stationery, seem similar to me because they are both equipment. They probably seem more akin because we have always stored them in the same cupboard: come to think of it, both in our previous flat and here. Let’s start with tools. For me this includes actual tools, like hammers, screwdrivers, Read More…