Last week I started writing about my decluttering journey, which began with Marie Kondo’s tv series “Tidying Up” and will continue with her books and other organizational-guru authors. If you have not yet read Part One of this mini-series, go here.
As I said in my last post, I didn’t exactly have the greatest method for cleaning my room. What teenager does? Over the years I did improve and would be mad-organized at work, yet my home still tended towards organized chaos instead. The older I got the tidier I got, but it wasn’t until I saw Marie Kondo’s show that I was inspired to actually deal with all my possessions. We are never really taught how to tidy up, but only see our parents’ example (though they definitely knew better than me). Yet seeing your mom vacuum doesn’t really help you understand how to declutter and that is what I needed. Continue reading “My Bookish Life: Marie Kondo and Me – part 2”