Baby clothes = sentimental clothes If you are a parent, I bet you remember the first time you bought an outfit for your first baby. I held off letting myself buy anything until we had our 20-week ultrasound, where we got the thumbs up that everything looked good, and also found out that we were […]
Tag: tidying
Paper done, sort of
How are you doing? Yeah, same. I started ‘Paper’ back in April, and here we are almost July, and I think I’ve sorted through most of them. Maybe. It’s tough to tell. This house is getting crazy (in many senses of the word) and it’s hard to know if there’s more to uncover. Our home […]
Starting with many piles of clothes
You’ve seen the Netflix show by now. You start tidying in your closet, and the first step is to put all of the clothing that you own in a big pile on your bed and stare at it, open-mouthed, until you declare that you’ll never let this happen again. And if you’ve read Kondo’s books, […]
A date with paper
Starting category 3 The date is set, we’re starting paper tonight. There’s only 5 categories, so starting a new one feels like a big deal. And each time I get nervous and excited. Will I be able to let enough go, or is this going to feel like wasted time? Will I get rid of […]
A night of a thousand plastic spoons
I finally read Marie Kondo’s book in January 2020 and decided that this was the year that I would declutter our things. I don’t commit unless I can follow through, and I knew this was a BIG project, so I was taking it head on. Which meant no more excuses Three small children and a […]